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

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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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Outside Temple tube station as alcoholic Keach is piled into an ambulance.

Temple tube, Temple Place, WC2. SJ

Starr and Keach on Marloes Road, W8

Matching windows and frames in the background. SJ

The Devonshire Arms, Marloes Road, W8

On the corner of Stratford Road. SJ

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

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.

Same as above.

And my effort, loaded on the same day as David's. SJ

A kick-about in Hebron Road, W6.

Cleaner wall now. SJ

A number on the door to help pinpoint location.

Now. SJ

Carol White on Carriageway South, Battersea Park, London SW11

Yep, same trees. SJ

Hemmings about to kidnap White at Battersea.

Whatever happened to toy-boating on the the lake? SJ

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

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

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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.

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

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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)

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!

Worth loading again, but not for Keach's cheeks

But for my effort, only seconds behind David's being loaded. SJ

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

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.

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

Oxford Street, W1.

The flagship has enjoyed a revamp. SJ

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

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

Definitely 334-348 Oxford Street, W1.

Scaffolding hides the proof beyond Debenhams looking east down Oxford Street. SJ

Starr and Keach back on Iffley Road.

Now. SJ

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)

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

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

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Cardboard City under Westway.

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.

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

The bullion blag. Fox under threat. Kingsdown Close, W10

New building on the right. SJ

Motorcycle cop about to meet his demise under Westway.

No longer a through road. SJ

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

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

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

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

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