Now Barabbas

Date: 1949
Director: Gordon Parry
Production Company: Anatole de Grunwald, Warner Brothers-First National Productions

Stars: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray, William Hartnell, Beatrice Campbell, Richard Burton
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

A prison drama telling the stories of a variety of prisoners from different backgrounds including saboteurs and petty thieves.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Now Barabbas Was a Robber’

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Children play in a darkened street before one of them chalks "Elsie's Dad is inside again" on a brick wall. Recognised by Steve Randall, this is Moye Street in E2, also seen during ‘Odd Man Out’.

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A car approaches the prison gates bringing Tufnell to await his fate after being sentenced for killing a policeman. An unknown location having the appearance of a set that Steve Randall points out also features in 'Odd Man Out'.

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In flashback, bank clerk Jack Roberts (Ronald Howard) meets with his sweetheart Kitty (Beatrice Campbell) as he explains how he came to be imprisoned to his Cellmates.

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Smith's road to incarceration begins with a visit to a greyhound track. Clapton Stadium on Millfields Road E5.

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As he walks to the cashiers windows to collect his winnings, Smith is arrested whilst passing forged betting tickets. The betting windows at Clapton Stadium in footage taken from 'The Turners of Prospect Road'.

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The hour of Tufnell's execution approaches.

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The film ends with Brown, Medworth, Williams and Foster being released and being transferred as exercise begins. The billowing curtains in one of the windows confirms this as a real location behind the added security spikes.