Mystery Junction
Date: 1951
Director: Michael McCarthy
Production Company: Merton Park Studios
Stars: Sidney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Martin Benson, Patricia Owens
Location(s): Possibly South East
Region(s): South East M-Q
Storyline:
Larry Gordon, well-known crime writer, is on a train journey when a scream is heard. Upon investigation, the guard had been mugged and a man murdered and the passengers are held at a station by a gangster. Another man is arrested but the full story is yet to be discovered.
Additional Information:
Nick Stanbury says, that although he cannot identify the station location shown in the still, it appears to be on the former Southern Railway (and probably an ex-London & South Western Railway station). Although the principal scenes at the Junction were clearly filmed in a rather stagey studio set, those in the guard’s and luggage compartment of the train had a very realistic appearance (with the handbrake column etc prominent) and might have been filmed in a real coach. The guard and stationmaster have Southern Railway cap badges.
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Besides very dark, what could well be stock, footage of a train pulled by what looks like a Bulleid Merchant Navy Class engine, the whole of the film takes place on a set. The only location associated with the film is this B&W still photograph. See also Header Section.