Tunnel of Fear
Date: 1956
Director: Roy Kellino
Production Company: Four Star Productions
Stars: David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Location(s): Kent, Surrey
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
Helped into a first class compartment for the train journey to London, an elderly man crippled by arthritis is joined by a former associate who he had double-crossed over twenty years earlier.
Additional Information:
Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson
An episode from the filmed US network television series ‘Four Star Playhouse’
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The titles appear as an Announcer introduces the stars. Shot mostly at Republic Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the film uses stock footage taken in the UK to set the scene.
- Capture 2
- 26 Mar 2026
Keeping an eye on the wheelchair bound Sir George Edgerton, Gerald Larkin watches the London train approach the platform. A reversed view of the southern end of the station at Addlestone in Surrey with Station Road crossing the line.
John Harwood took this matching view, reversed of course.
- Capture 3
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A whistle sounds and the train pulls out of the station as Larkin joins Sir George in his compartment. Another reversed image as indicated by the signal, this is the western end of Tonbridge station on Quarry Hill Road, Tonbridge in Kent.
- Capture 4
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On the journey the pair talk until Sir George realises who his companion is, leading Larkin to explain that he will kill his former friend while the train passes through a tunnel that's coming up.
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Reaching daylight, the train leaves the tunnel mentioned by Larkin . . . .