Jassy

Date: 1947
Director: Bernard Knowles
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures

Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh
Location(s): Hertfordshire, Norfolk

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Storyline:

Believed to be as a witch because of her gift of second sight, a young woman vows to help the man who rescues her from the wrath of her accusers.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

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The house Mordelaine passes to Nick Helmar after Christopher Hatton loses the family's country estate during an all night gambling session. Whereas this is a matte of Blickling Hall in Norfolk, the real hall can be seen in 'The Wicked Lady' and 'A Cock and Bull Story'.

Keith Prested visited the Jacobean Stately Home.

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Now homeless, Mr. and Mrs. Hatton and their son Barney move to Green Farm in a nearby village.

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After Jassy is sent to work in service at Mordelaine, her father Tom Woodroofe (John Laurie) hears screams from the smithy where blacksmith Bob Wicks is beating his daughter Lindy. Looking across the duck pond on Stocks Road in Aldbury, Hertfordshire. The village appears in many productions including 'A Warm December', ‘The Dirty Dozen’, 'You Can't Escape', ‘The Shillingbury Blowers’, ‘Inquest’, 'Web of Suspicion' and ‘Stop Press Girl’.

Antony Blair captured an idyllic scene . . . apart from the parked cars.

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Jassy and Miss Dilys Helmar ride into the village from Mordelaine. The West Wing at Blickling Hall off Blickling Road in Blickling, Norfolk.

The long hedge remains in place in Keith Prested's comparison.

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The two Young Women head for Green Farm. Stocks Road at Aldbury in Hertfordshire.

The view now by Antony Blair.

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The following Wednesday, Dilys rides out from Mordelaine for a tryst with Barney. This appears to be a view from the Chiltern Hills to the east of Aldbury with the tower of St. John the Baptist church visible in the right distance.

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Barney arrives at Sir William Fennell's house to find that Miss Helmar has agreed to marry his son Stephen. Moor Park Golf Club at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, a location that can also be seen in 'A Business Affair', Brothers in Law', 'The Hellfire Club', 'Metro-Land' and 'The Vampire Lovers'.

Antony Blair captures the grand building that was built in the 1720s.

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After she and Nick Helmar are married with Mordelaine as her wedding gift, Jassy leaves her husband recovering from a fall to visit Dilys. This driveway at Blickling Hall in Norfolk as seen through a superimposed window.

Keith Prested provides the view through a real window at the hall.

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  • 29 Jul 2025

Jassy arrives at Sir William's house while Lindy administers rat poison to Helmar at Mordelaine. The Club House at Moor Park Golf Club on Batchworth Heath, Rickmansworth.

78 years later, Antony Blair returned to the club house.