Mark, The

Date: 1961
Director: Guy Green
Production Company: Buckman, Raymond Stross Productions

Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda de Banzie, Donald Houston, Paul Rogers, Donald Wolfit, Maurice Denham, Eddie Byrne, Amanda Black
Location(s): County Wicklow, Dublin

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Storyline:

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child attempts to build a new life with help from a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson with uncredited comparison shots by Pat Cleary.

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A Porter holds open the door for Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman) as he leaves Jury's Hotel in the story's Welling. In reality, this is Jury’s Hotel on Dame Street, Dublin 2.

Adjusting his hat, the recently released prisoner walks into the sunlight. Facing Jury’s Hotel at the corner of Dame Street and Anglesea Street which was closed and demolished in the 1970s.

Not much can be said in favour of the replacement building!

A road is crossed. The corner of Anglesea Street and Dame Street in Dublin.

A sign of the times.

Buying a newspaper, Jim asks directions from the Vendor. Pat Cleary found the location, outside the Horse & Tram on Eden Quay beside O'Connell Bridge in Dublin 1 with the entrance to the long demolished Corinthian Cinema to the right. Pat adds "In the 70s the Corinthian reopened as the Odeon and was renamed again in the 80s as the Screen.

The pub, now Meaghers, remains on Eden Quay but the cinema closed in the 90s and was demolished in 2002.

Jim walks into a café and orders a cup of tea. Eden Quay identified by Pat Cleary, just a few doors down from the previous capture.

The café has since become an amusement arcade.

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Carrying his suitcase, the Canadian makes his way to new lodgings on the film's St. Mark's Road.

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Jim steps up to the front door of Gertrude and Arnold Cartwright's house where he takes a room.

After being given a position at Clive Enterprises, Jim visits psychiatrist Dr. Edmund McNally. Located by Pat Cleary, this is St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 looking towards Church Lane to the left and Suffolk Street on the right.

Pat returned to the location.

Following dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, Jim spends a night wandering around town. Pat Cleary recognised the unmistakable silhouette of Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2 looking north over O'Connell Bridge to O'Connell Street in Dublin 1.

The location in daylight.

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Jim turns from a passageway.

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Just ahead, Children are seen playing in a playground.

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Pausing for a moment, Jim continues past the playground.

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Stopping, Jim looks through the fence at a young Girl skipping before moving on.

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A Concierge holds an umbrella over Jim and Ruth Leighton (Maria Schell) as they leave Le Caprice restaurant after an evening out.

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When the rain stops Jim and Ruth get out of her car and walk together.

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Ruth drives Jim home and the pair agree to meet again.

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Retiring to bed, Jim has a disturbing nightmare in which a group of skipping Girls appear. Pearse Square in Dublin 2 with the often seen gas holder at the Alliance & Dublin Gasworks dominating the right background.

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Awake in bed, Jim's recalls the thoughts he had after he split with his girlfriend and the group therapy sessions he attended in prison. The east side of Pearse Square, looking across to the west side with the handball alley in the right background.

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The disturbed young man looks for younger and younger Girls that he didn't see as a threat. Pearse Square on Pearse Street.

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Jim sits on a bench in the playground. Pearse Square, Dublin 2.

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Another glance across at the Girls playing. In the background stand the Georgian Houses of Pearse Square.

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Cole (Harry Baird) asks Jim what he said to the Patricia Elsworth (Josephine Frayne). Pearse Square in Dublin 2.

Akers (Eddie Byrne) asks if he started buying sweets for the Girls. Identified by Derek Cunningham, this is facing northward on Nelson Street, Dublin 7 where the tenements in the distance have been replaced by the Mater Hospital.

This view from Pat Cleary shows the street after 65 years. "A local confirmed that the now graffiti-decorated shuttered shop to the left is in business".

Jim's fellow prisoners cross examine him, discovering that Patricia had asked Doris to walk on ahead. Having grown up in the area, Derek Cunningham recognised this road off Nelson Street as St. Joseph's Parade, which was known to everyone as the Cottages.

Pat Cleary found that the street remains barely untouched by progress other than yellow doubles and one distant parking meter.

Dr. Edmund McNally (Rod Steiger) intervenes in the questioning. Derek Cunningham's find in the previous captures led Pat Cleary to find this reverse view of St. Joseph's Parade with St Joseph's church steeple in the left distance. St. Joseph's church also features in 'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' which was filmed on nearby Blessington Street.

The reverse view now by Pat, with nobody around on a sunny Sunday morning.

Patricia reaches Jim's car. Mountjoy Street, Dublin 7 with St Mary's Place North passing either side of St. Mary’s, the Black Church, in the right background.

Taking this comparison, Pat Cleary explains that "The Black Church" is a deconsecrated former Church of Ireland Chapel of Ease dating from 1830. Legend has it that anyone daring to walk around it anticlockwise three times at the midnight hour will result in a meet with Satan himself.

Jim asserts that Patricia suggested a ride in the car. The Rise near the junction with Stillorgan Road, Mount Merrion in County Dublin located by Pat Cleary.

Pat's comparison shows that road improvements over the years have changed the appearance of this area with the route of Stillorgan Road, now a dual carriageway, slightly further to the east at this point.

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After some distance, Jim stops the car and gets out to be sick.

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The flashback continues with Jim returning Patricia to the street where she lives where he faced an angry Mob and the Police.

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One evening, a Detective stops Jim and asks him to confirm his name.

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The Detective explains that they need to speak with him at the station.

Released after questioning about a severe assault on eleven year old Lois Springer earlier, Jim leaves the station. Pat Cleary explains that these are the steps to the Carnegie Library on Lower George's Street, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin which opened in 1912.

A designated Protected Structure it was closed in 2014 following the construction of a new library closer to the Harbour.

Calling out Jim's former name, Fontaine, Austin (Donald Houston) catches up with him. The corner of Lower George's Street and Library Road in Dun Laoghaire with the old library building to the left located by Pat Cleary.

Facing the same junction.

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Reminding Jim that he covered his trial in London, the tabloid journalist asks about the Springer case. Library Road in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin identified by Pat Cleary.

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The following week, Jim calls on Ruth and the door is opened by her young daughter Jenny.

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As their feelings for each other grow, Jim and Ruth drive to the Lake District.

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The two check into separate rooms at a hotel. A matte shot of a lake featuring a superimposed hotel. Lough Tay in County Wicklow located by Alan Bourke.

Enjoying their time together, the pair visit a waterfall. Powerscourt Waterfall on the River Dargle in the Glensoulan Valley near Enniskerry, County Wicklow. The cascade can also be seen in 'Sword of Sherwood Forest' and 'Excalibur'.

Pat Cleary warns "After a few rainy days, don't get too close without a brolly!"

On the way back to Welling, Jim and Ruth stop off for a drink. The Noggin Inn on Sallynoggin Road in Sallynoggin, County Dublin.

A very colourful major makeover of the premises and a modified name with a space between Sally and Noggin.

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Having bumped into Austin in the bar, the couple return to the car. Outside the Noggin Inn, Sallynoggin. The premises have been rebuilt and are currently called the Sallynoggin Inn.

Appearing at the door to the bar, Austin watches the Hillman Minx drive away. The forecourt of the Noggin Inn, on which a petrol station stands, with houses on Sallynoggin Road in the background.

The petrol station now includes a convenience store in a larger premises.

The camera follows the car as Ruth drives onto the main road. Facing Sallynoggin Road from the front of the Noggin Inn in Sallynoggin, County Dublin.

Fortunately two of the front parking spaces were unoccupied during Pat's visit.

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One evening following dinner, Jim leaves Ruth's house after a day visiting the fair with Jenny where he was seen by Austin.

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After a photograph of Jim and Jenny holding hands appears alongside Austin's newspaper story, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright tell him to leave their house.

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Having lost his job when Andrew Clive reads the article, Jim takes a taxi to Ruth's home.

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Getting out of the cab, Jim is let into the house by a shaken Ruth who tells him that reporters had been calling all night.

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Realising that Ruth was afraid for Jenny in his company, Jim leaves. Also seen in 'Ulysses', Pat Cleary identifies the background as the entrance to the Irish Times building on Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.

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With no home, no job, no girlfriend and visibly numb, Jim walks silently in thought.

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The outcast continues his lonely wander through the streets.

This is St. Mary's Place, Dublin 7 with St. Mary’s church to the top right.

A ground level shot of the widened street from Pat Cleary with construction in progress to the left.

Getting up from the bench were he was sitting, Jim steps wearily into the pouring rain. St. Andrew Street, Dublin 2 with St. Andrew Street Post Office in the background and St. Andrew's church dating from 1861 to the right, located by Pat Cleary.

Taking this view, Pat explains that the church was deconsecrated in 1995 and was used as a tourist office until 2014 but is currently vacant.

Having lost everything he had gained, Jim makes his way to Dr. McNally's office. Pat Cleary recognised St. Andrew Street in Dublin 2, at the junction with Trinity Street, a location featured in 'Ambush in Leopard Street'.

The location now taken by Pat.

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After talking all night with Dr. McNally, morning dawns on another day.

Jim makes his way along the street in another town. Eccles Street, looking south-east towards Dorset Street in Dublin 7 with St. George’s church in the distance. The street also features in 'Ulysses'.

Pat Cleary found that an inconvenient lamp post has sprung up. All buildings on the left were demolished and replaced with the Mater Private Hospital Network.

Opening the door to his new lodgings, Jim finds Ruth waiting inside. The steps to number 64 Eccles Street, Dublin.

Number 64 is now occupied by a Mater Private Hospital Network facility advises Pat Cleary.