Squeeze, The
Date: 1977
Director: Michael Apted
Production Company: Martinat, Warner Bros
Stars: Stacy Keach, Freddie Starr, Carol White, David Hemmings, Stephen Boyd, Edward Fox
Location(s): London
Region(s): London R-S
Storyline:
Grim and gritty yarn with alcoholic ex-cop out to find his ex-wife who is kidnapped to ensure a bullion robbery goes to plan: no chance! SJ
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- Capture 1
- 07 Jun 2013

Outside Temple tube station as alcoholic Keach is piled into an ambulance.
Temple tube, Temple Place, WC2. SJ
- Capture 2
- 12 Jun 2013
Starr and Keach on Marloes Road, W8
Matching windows and frames in the background. SJ
- Capture 3
- 12 Jun 2013
The Devonshire Arms, Marloes Road, W8
On the corner of Stratford Road. SJ
- Capture 4
- 02 Aug 2012
Keach's house on Iffley Road, W6: thanks to a-draghi who informed me after a 7 year wait via the imdb site which now lists it: did he/she get there first?
Trees, hedges and walls all serve to confuse. SJ
- Capture 5
- 02 Aug 2012
Keach lives on Iffley Road next to a church close to Hebron Road, W6
Google shot, to be replaced in the future. SJ And zap! A replacement was done in a flash by David Neicho.
- Capture 6
- 02 Aug 2012
Same as above.
And my effort, loaded on the same day as David's. SJ
- Capture 7
- 02 Aug 2012
A kick-about in Hebron Road, W6.
Cleaner wall now. SJ
- Capture 8
- 02 Aug 2012
A number on the door to help pinpoint location.
Now. SJ
- Capture 9
- 25 Nov 2012
Carol White on Carriageway South, Battersea Park, London SW11
Yep, same trees. SJ
- Capture 10
- 25 Nov 2012
Hemmings about to kidnap White at Battersea.
Whatever happened to toy-boating on the the lake? SJ
- Capture 11
- 25 Nov 2012
And there's the mansions on the Prince of Wales Drive to help identify the park.
Taken in November so we can actually see the buildings. SJ
- Capture 12
- 19 Dec 2023
Fox's security firm, for which the kidnappers want information. Neil Rigby provides the location: what was the now long gone Tuborg lager factory, Mandrell Road SW2 5DH. (RL)

The black door is roughly where the entrance to the factory was on the north side of the street. The former building can be seen in former GEV maps pre-2015. SJ
- Capture 13
- 'Now' required
Not easy but not too far from London. Fox in the car. Steve Cook suggests the Fulmer Road bridge over the M40 as it passes through Buckinghamshire.
- Capture 14
- 31 Jul 2012
Starr and Keach outside 223 Westbourne Park Road, W11.
Takes a bit of imagination and the scaffolding doesn't help, but this is the spot on the corner of Powis Terrace. Same shop also seen in Jack & Sarah. SJ
- Capture 15
- 'Now' required
Boyd's gaff: Found by Neil Rigby as standing on the exclusive Fulmer Rise Estate, a mile to the south east of Fulmer, Buckinghamshire because he remembered it also appears in 'The World is Full of Married Men' (1979). (RL)
- Capture 16
- 02 Aug 2012
Keach with only a bottle of spirits to protect his modesty on Hebron Road, W6.
Excellent shot by David Neicho, who kept most of his clothes on.......I believe!
- Capture 17
- 02 Aug 2012
Worth loading again, but not for Keach's cheeks
But for my effort, only seconds behind David's being loaded. SJ
- Capture 18
- 10 Sep 2017
Keach, all cleaned up, at Pier Head, Wapping E1.
1 Wapping Pier Head with thanks to a resident who informed me this Grade II listed row was built in 1811. SJ
- Capture 19
- 09 Sep 2017
Fox on his cruiser with an iconic landmark behind him.
Peter stood as far back as he could as the area where the shot was taken is being rebuilt.
- Capture 20
- 10 Sep 2017
As above.
Extraordinary coincidence as Peter and I must have been on the case on roughly the same day. I think this is further east and taken from the old Port of London entrance at Wapping Pier Head. If I could trespass nearer the Thames, more of Tower Bridge (glimpsed behind the balconies) would come into view. SJ
- Capture 21
- 13 Nov 2014
Oxford Street, W1.
The flagship has enjoyed a revamp. SJ
- Capture 22
- 13 Nov 2014
Keach in Oxford Street. Sacha shoes is currently at 147 Oxford Street, but not then ...

... I was not sure when I posted this but, thanks to Steve's tip (see below), I resized my shot to show the blurred sign of Woodstock Street above the Angus steakhouse at the top left. Next door, O2 now occupies 351 Oxford Street. SJ
- Capture 23
- 13 Nov 2014
Back in 2012 I wrote, "But Debenham's is at 334-348 Oxford Street which is not opposite. Did Sacha move?" ... Steve Serowka kindly answers, "In 1977 Sacha Shoes was at 351 Oxford Street on the corner of Woodstock Street. I worked in the offices above. This is directly opposite Debenhams. The store is now O2 but the old Woodstock Street sign is still there and it appears that there is still a steakhouse next-door."
The new shop front. SJ
- Capture 24
- 13 Nov 2014
Definitely 334-348 Oxford Street, W1.
Scaffolding hides the proof beyond Debenhams looking east down Oxford Street. SJ
- Capture 25
- 02 Aug 2012
Starr and Keach back on Iffley Road.
Now. SJ
- Capture 26
- 22 Apr 2026
Nice aerial shot as Keach and Starr methodically scour the streets. Repeated in the end title credits. The church is the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Trott Street, Battersea SW11. This is looking southwest, probably from a high rise on Surrey Lane.

John Harwood used his drone over the Surrey Lane estate with the church visible on the right. (SJ)
- Capture 27
- 23 Feb 2015
Starr on Bevington Road, W10. The other end of the street appears in ‘Slade in Flame’, ‘Notting Hill’ and ‘Just Like a Woman’.
Looking south: Westway visible in the background. SJ
- Capture 28
- 23 Feb 2015
And there's the Bevington Arms where Keach has sneaked into for a top-up.
An updated photo replacing the one loaded on 31/07/12 and taken several years ago. The pub was converted to flats a long time ago. SJ
- Capture 29
- 'Now' required
Cardboard City under Westway.
- Capture 30
- 15 Dec 2013
Blurred shot of Great Windmill Street in W1. The street features in several productions including 'Time Without Pity', ‘The Small World of Sammy Lee’, ‘The Optimists of Nine Elms’, ‘White Cargo’ and ‘Rag Doll’
A not so blurred shot of the same place now by Peter.
- Capture 31
- 23 Feb 2015
Boyd and White are just about to exit this terrace, no longer standing. New buildings have replaced this on Acklam Road, W10 just north of Westway and almost under it.
Acklam Road looks like this now. SJ
- Capture 32
- 19 Jul 2013
The bullion blag. Fox under threat. Kingsdown Close, W10
New building on the right. SJ
- Capture 33
- 19 Jul 2013
Motorcycle cop about to meet his demise under Westway.
No longer a through road. SJ
- Capture 34
- 19 Jul 2013
And here's the real giveaway to the last two, as there are several arches in front of Westway: that's the Notting Hill Methodist Church, W11, in the background.
Some new housing now obscuring some of the church. SJ
- Capture 35
- 19 Jul 2013
Keach and Boyd's daughter on Freston Road, W10, with the background on Bramley Road now redeveloped. This is further west and is an old location favourite, viz. 'Quadrophenia', 'Sid and Nancy', 'Withnail & I', 'The Lavender Hill Mob', 'Leo the Last', 'Betrayal' et al. See London Movie Guide for more.
All gone. SJ
- Capture 36
- 19 Jul 2013
Boyd outside the Bramley Arms, no longer a pub but at least still standing. The location appears in 'The Blue Lamp', 'Quadrophenia' and 'Sid and Nancy'.
Now. SJ
- Capture 37
- 19 Jul 2013
Looking north up Freston Road.
To the left is where Anova Books used to be, and where I pitched the London Film Location Guide. It helped that they were based in such a rich place for locations. SJ
- Capture 38
- 31 Jul 2012
Starr popping into the Arms to find a now sober Keach.
Note the tall building in the back. Couldn't take it from inside the window as The Bramley Arms is no longer a pub. SJ

