Share Out, The (An Edgar Wallace Mystery)
Date: 1962
Director: Gerard Glaister
Production Company: Merton Park Studios
Stars: Bernard Lee, Alexander Knox, Moira Redmond, William Russell
Location(s): London, Surrey
Region(s): London R-S, South East R-Z
Storyline:
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 12 Dec 2021
After MP Mark Speller is questioned by Detective Superintendent Meredith about being blackmailed to sell his Mayfair property to Colonel Calderwood, Alec Gregory (Jack Rodney) makes his way towards a telephone box. Looking eastward along Meard Street towards Dean Street in W1.
Looking the same way. (PW)
- Capture 2
- 12 Dec 2021
Calderwood's investigator calls the Superintendent to arrange a meeting. The since removed telephone kiosk outside 15 Meard Street. The street features in a number of productions including 'Two Left Feet', 'The Moon Over the Alley', 'Saturday Night Out', 'Man at the Carlton Tower', 'The Hippopotamus' and 'Don't Open till Christmas'.
The shop frontage recalls the telephone kiosk. (PW)
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
That night, Gregory is murdered while stealing papers from the home of Nicholas Britton.
- Capture 4
- 12 Dec 2021
After speaking with the Colonel and his partners Diana Marsh, Monet and Crewe, Detective Superintendent Meredith (Bernard Lee) pays a visit to Michael Stafford. St. Anne’s Court W1 which also makes an appearance in ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’, 'Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman', 'Son of a Stranger', 'Where Strangers Meet' and 'Cover-Girl Killer'
Quite a few changes here. (PW)
- Capture 5
- 12 Dec 2021
Turning a corner brings Meredith to the private enquiry agent's door. St. Anne’s Court in Soho.
This corner has completely disappeared. (PW)
- Capture 6
- 16 Feb 2022
Getting a position as Gregory's replacement, Mike Stafford (William Russell) becomes friendly with Diana Marsh (Moira Redmond) whilst investigating her on Calderwood's orders. The car park of Thames Ditton Marina on Portsmouth Road at Long Ditton in Surrey located by Richard Marum.
Richard visited the marina three times to take satisfactory shots.
- Capture 7
- 16 Feb 2022
Mike and Diana take a stroll where they can talk freely. Identified by Richard Marum, this is the car park at Thames Ditton Marina, upstream from Kingston-upon-Thames.
The same background buildings stand in Richards view.
- Capture 8
- 16 Feb 2022
The pair make their way to the river. Looking towards the marina office and chandlers store at Thames Ditton Marina in Surrey, recognised by Richard Marum.
Richard explains that this is the marina berth entrance on the Thames with the retractable bridge giving access to the moorings to the centre.
- Capture 9
- 16 Feb 2022
Mike follows Diana into the cabin of her boat. Richard Marum found Thames Ditton Marina on Portsmouth Road, Long Ditton in Surrey with the fuelling point in the left background.
The same scene now by Richard who notes that the fuel storage tank vent pipes are all that remain.
- Capture 10
- 'Now' required
After John Crewe is questioned by Meredith about Monet's death, Mike heads to a rendezvous at 35 Cable Yard in Shoreditch.
- Capture 11
- 'Now' required
Mike knocks the door of the East End house where he's arranged to meet with Calderwood and Crewe.
- Capture 12
- 'Now' required
An hour after Mike is let into the house by Crewe, Calderwood arrives.
- Capture 13
- 'Now' required
Getting out of his Aston Martin, Colonel Calderwood (Alexander Knox) walks up to Crewe's front door.
- Capture 14
- 10 Mar 2022
Reporters and Photographers wait outside the Registry Office where Diane and Mike are getting married. The Register Office opposite Norbiton station on Coombe Road in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. Also seen in 'Never Never Murder,' 'We Shall See', 'Confession', 'Evidence in Concrete', 'Inadmissible Evidence' and 'Private Information'.
Aiming for a good position between the cars, Peter Bywaters explains that the Registry Office closed around 2015 and was converted into fourteen flats, but with no external alterations. As a reference to its past the building is now called The Old Registry.
- Capture 15
- 10 Mar 2022
The newspaper Men turn as the Registry Office door opens. The entrance to Kingston upon Thames Register Office. The building also appears in 'Private Information', 'We Shall See', 'The Share Out', 'Evidence in Concrete' and 'The Never Never Murder'
The double doors and their stained glass windows have survived as this view from Peter Bywaters proves.
- Capture 16
- 10 Mar 2022
Lead to a patrol car by Meredith, Mike and Diana are driven away. Facing the junction of Coombe Road and Wolverton Avenue from the Register Office driveway in Kingston upon Thames.
Peter Bywaters advises that the driveway is now a car park for the residents and Norbiton railway station stands to the left.