Three Into Two Won’t Go
Date: 1969
Director: Peter Hall
Production Company: Julian Blaustein Productions Ltd., Universal Pictures
Stars: Judy Geeson, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft
Location(s): Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
A sales executive in a loveless marriage begins an affair with a young hitchhiker.
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Steven Howard (Rod Steiger) follows a young hitch-hiker to his car after treating her to a pub lunch.
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- 12 Apr 2019
The sales executive drives hitch-hiker Ella Patterson to a country hotel run by his friend Jack Roberts. This is the Hawley Hotel near Blackwater in Hampshire.
Rob Kingston confirms the location and provides this view, pointing out that the large tree seen behind the hotel is still standing.
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The car is parked and the two enter the hotel. The Hawley Hotel, formerly Hawley Hill House, demolished in the mid 1980s.
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Jack Roberts (Paul Rogers) watches as Howard drives away, leaving Ella in the hotel. Outside the Hawley Hotel in Hawley Green, Blackwater, Hampshire. The location has been redeveloped with housing on Savoy Grove and Waldorf Heights now occupying the site.
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Buildings are seen through the car's window as Howard approaches home. Mark Hastilow directed us to a video in which film maker Walter Lassally explains that a house on Green Hill Road on the Copped Hall Estate in Camberley, Surrey was used for interiors.
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More properties are passed as Howard drives through the new housing estate. Walter Lassally continues that the then unoccupied estate had been built for Qantas airlines but had been abandoned by them.
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Howard nears the home where he lives in a childless marriage with Frances. This is the Copped Hall Estate in Camberley, as Mark Hastilow and Kathy Gibson discovered, which is confirmed by film maker Walter Lassally confirms in a video interview on the Web of Stories web site.
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- 22 Nov 2023
The Ford Zephyr Mark IV slows as Howard reaches his destination. Approaching number 18 Green Hill Road on the Copped Hall Estate in Camberley.
It's had a lot of work done to it over the years. (SR)
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The middle-aged man walks along the drive to the house where his wife is unpacking. Green Hill Road in Camberley, Surrey.
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Afternoon tea is served at a nursing home. Neil Harris informs us that this is is Wardens Lodge, a nursing home that stood at the junction of Dedworth Road, Hatch Lane and Clarence Road in Windsor, Berkshire. Judy Hall spotted her Nan, Ethel Hobbs, sitting to the right on the bench.
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In the gardens of the home, Frances Howard (Claire Bloom) speaks with her mother, Belle (Peggy Ashcroft). Wardens Lodge was demolished and Queen's Court now stands on the site.
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The camera moves to bring more of the grounds into view. Wardens Lodge in Windsor identified by Neil Harris.
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Frances returns home where Howard is mowing the lawn. Kathy Gibson recognised this as the Copped Hall Estate in Camberley.
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After turning up at the Howard's home claiming to be pregnant, Ella Patterson (Judy Geeson) finds Steve in the garden.
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Ella approaches the offices where Howard works. Andrew Radgick recognised the Meteorological Office Headquarters on the roundabout at the corner of Park Road and London Road in Bracknell, Berkshire.
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- 20 Oct 2025
As Frances brings her mother home from the nursing home, Steve Howard drives towards a cinema, appropriately showing 'Le Bonheur'. Ross Vicars advises that this is outside the former Odeon Cinema on Duke Street in Woking, Surrey. The cinema has since been demolished and the area transformed out of all recognition.
Carrying out additional research before venturing to the site of the cinema, Daren Cahillane provides this comparison.