Never Look Back
Date: 1952
Director: Francis Searle
Production Company: Hammer Films
Stars: Rosamund John, Hugh Sinclair, Guy Middleton
Location(s): Lancashire, London
Region(s): London M-N, North
Storyline:
The career of a newly appointed barrister is threatened by her former boyfriend.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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Late one evening, barrister Nigel Stewart and Anne Maitland K.C. return from the Belvedere Cub where they met old friends Liz and Willie.
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Nigel Stewart (Hugh Sinclair) helps Anne Maitland (Rosamund John) from the taxi.
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Watched from a call box across the road, Nigel returns to the flat after putting the Housekeeper's keys under the window box.
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The morning after Anne's old flame Guy spent the night on her sofa after letting himself into her flat, housekeeper Mrs. Brock (Hélène Burls) arrives for work.
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Guy Ransome (Guy Middleton) leaves a telephone box after Mrs. Brock answers his call. With scenes shot at Mancunian Film's studios on Dickenson Road in Rusholme, Manchester, its not surprising that a Manchester Corporation bus passes along the road in the background as this sequence begins.
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Finding Anne as she makes her way to work, Guy tells her that he had discovered his mistress Peggy dead when returning to her Chelsea flat.
- Capture 7
- 10 Jun 2021
At Victoria station, Nigel waits for Anne to arrive. London's Victoria station seen across Terminus Place in SW1.
More vying for space now. SJ
- Capture 8
- 12 Dec 2022
When he's accused of murdering actress Peggy St. Clair Hopkins, Anne decides to defend Guy in court before learning that Nigel has been appointed to prosecute. The dome of the Central Criminal Court on Old Bailey, London EC4 which can be seen in a number of productions including ‘Eight O'Clock Walk', ‘The Great Defender’, ‘The Spaniard's Curse’, ‘The Blue Lamp’, ‘Hostile Witness’, ‘Three Sundays to Live’, 'Hostile Witness', 'Game for Three Losers', ‘The Long Dark Hall’ and ‘The Paradine Case’.
Lady Justice from street level. SJ
- Capture 9
- 30 Apr 2024
Following Guy's acquittal before the discovery that he did kill Peggy after all, Anne browses a bookstall at Victoria station where Nigel finds her. The concourse of Victoria station, a location that can also be seen in many films including 'Track the Man Down', 'Father Brown', 'London to Brighton' and 'Child in the House'.
Although it's from a lower level, I think about here, taken on the Chatham (eastern side) but now I've posted this I have those nagging doubts. SJ