Painted Smile, The (aka Murder Can Be Deadly)

Jo (Liz Fraser) leads the drunken Tom (Tony Wickert) away from the night club. 201 Upper Thames Street, London EC4. Upper Thames Street has been developed beyond all recognition to allow "now" shots.

The drunken Tom hangs on to a post. Fye Foot Lane as it joins Upper Thames Street. Fye Foot Lane remains in name but essentially as a high walk.

Jo leads him across the road, with a smile on his face. Upper Thames Street and the corner of Broken Wharf, London EC4, a junction that can also be seen in 'Inadmissible Evidence'.

His drunken shouting attracts the attention of a policeman on patrol so they take cover in a doorway. 42 Upper Thames Street, London EC4

They are immediately confronted by Kleinie (Kenneth Griffith)

Jo speeds down the street to open the door to her home where she finds her husband stabbed to death. (45 Upper Thames Street)

Jo persuades Tom to go and fetch his car. Upper Thames Street with Tom exiting from Bread Street Hill.

Jo makes sure that Tom drives off to dispose of Marks body. Upper Thames Street, London (Marples were at No.44)

He drives and exits a roundabout somewhere. Lightened to help identification. If only that signpost was legible. Ron Glenister provides convincing evidence to say that this is what is now called the 'Clockhouse Roundabout' with the car exiting on what would be the A30. The sign likely reading 'A30 Staines [and] Ashford Hospital'.

A three lane dual carriageway, high fence in between and a bus route. See the following Capture, the car pulls into the entrance to Chiswick House.

Tom is able to conveniently come to a halt and runs down a Subway. Alastair Jones may have found the Subway to be the entrance underneath Hogarth Roundabout at Chiswick Square opposite 'The George and Devonshire' Pub looking south west along Burlington Lane.

Ron Glenister identifies Tom exiting the subway near to the entrance to Chiswick House where Hogarth Lane becomes The Great Western Road.

Running to escape the pursuing police he finds himself in a graveyard many miles away. St. Mary Magdelene, Littleton, Shepperton, Surrey. The Church was also seen in 'Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River' and 'The Magnificent Six and ½ - A Good Deed in Time'.

Very little has changed.

Climbing a wall and entering a roof light he finds himself in a bakery where he spends the night and escapes in the morning. Hales Bakery, Sipson Road, West Drayton, Middlesex. The Radisson RED Hotel has been built on the site as established by Ron Glenister.

He flees on foot. Having found the following capture Ron has managed to establish this one too. The junction of Sipson Road (A408) looking north east at its junction with the Bath Road. Whilst not the same railings, railings still exist and provide a good basis for taking a comparative shot.

Having found the railings, Antony Blair discovered that new buildings occupy the same footprint as the houses.

Tom buys a newspaper to find that Marks body has been found in his car and that he is now wanted for murder. Ron Glenister says he found this 'by fluke', but he still had to carry the image in his minds eye for some years to put two and two together, and an entrance to London Airport. Looking east along the Bath Road at its junction with Nene Road that can be seen in the capture going off to the right.

Tom’s friends Roy (David Hemmings and Glynn Ray Smith) set off to find Jo and visit one of the girls they were with that fateful night. Harcourt Street/York Street, London W1.

A change of use.

Glynn pushes open the door to Lucy’s (Grazina Frame) flat.

They have had a new door fitted.

They are followed by a plain clothes detective, (Gerald Sim).

It's unusual to see less traffic in a London scene.

Despite taking money, Lucy does not know Jo’s whereabouts but suggests they try St. Pancras Station as she comes from Bradford. After telephoning Tom, Glyn and Roy hot foot it to the Station. York Street at the corner of Shillibeer Place in W1.

The telephone box remains....it wasn't a prop.

Tom and his girlfriend Mary (Nanette Newman) arrive at St. Pancras. The station stands on Euston Road and also appears in ‘Smashing Time’, ‘The Servant’, ‘The Ladykillers’, ‘Shirley Valentine’, ‘The Fourth Protocol’, ‘McVicar’, ‘The Comedy Man’, ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘A Cry from the Streets’, ‘Wings of Mystery’, ‘Voyage of the Damned’, ‘Richard III’ and ‘Simon and Laura’.

St. Pancras has seen a few changes.

Roy and Glynn race up the stairs to the Station from the street. Looking towards Kings Cross Station.

That helpful signage has been removed.

They look for Tom and Mary closely followed by the plain clothes policeman.

All part of the St. Pancras improvements.

The train for Bradford departs as Tom and Mary arrive at the platform.

A long time since a train stood there.

Roy lets the group know that he has just seen Jo in the station café.

No smell of steam these days.

Jo denies all knowledge of events but as the police start to approach the café the group make a “run for it”. Tom with Jo.

Pity about that sign.

As they start down station approach they are seized by Kleinie’s two henchmen and bungled into a car. St Pancras Station looking along Euston Road.

Now you must park at an angle.

They drive off at speed but included to record the changed background.

But the "Halifax" itself still exists.

Kleinie takes them on a journey so that they “will disappear”. James Russell tells us that this is Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London W4

Replacing James' Jan '20 Google Maps View, this is looking west down Burlington Lane from Great Chertsey Road with the wall of Chiswick House and Gardens on the right. SJ

But as they round the bend an astute policeman recognises the car number. James Russell tells us that this is Great Chertsey Road, Chiswick, London W4

Another Google View to support the location spotted by James.

Tom forces the driver to crash the car, he and Jo escape but Kleinie eventually shoots Jo dead. Recognising part of the route driven along to reach the gravel pit as Nutty Lane and Charlton Lane around a quarter of a mile from Shepperton Studios, Russ Williamson advises that, at the time of filming, there were four Gravel pits off Charlton Lane located either side of the Shepperton to Waterloo railway line. Russ adds that the pits were used in several films as well as television series' and their appearance was constantly changing as the heaps of excavated gravel was processed.