V. I. P.s, The

Date: 1963
Director: Anthony Asquith
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), De Grunwald Productions

Stars: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Maggie Smith, Orson Welles, Rod Taylor, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford
Location(s): Hertfordshire, London

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

A group of Transatlantic passengers, each facing a crisis, are delayed at a fogbound London Airport.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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As the titles appear, some of the cast are introduced . . . . at the family estate, the Duchess of Brighton (Margaret Rutherford) fends off financial hardship. Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. The Tudor stately home appears in many films including ‘The Lair of the White Worm’, ‘St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold’, ‘Batman (1989)’, ‘The Big Sleep’, ‘She’ll Have to Go’ and ‘Horror Hospital’.

I'm rather too close to the main gates on the north side. SJ

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Self-made Australian businessman Les Mangrum (Rod Taylor) faces a hostile bid to take over his tractor company.

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A car conveying film producer Max Buda (Orson Welles) and upcoming star Gloria Gritti arrives at London Airport. Various parts of Heathrow Airport appear in 'Alfie Darling', ‘Three Hats for Lisa’, 'Carry On Cabby', ‘Time Without Pity’, ‘Quest for Love’, ‘I Could Go on Singing’ and many other productions.

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The Cadillac Fleetwood comes to a stand and the two enter Terminal 3 for the flight to New York.

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Commander Millbank (Dennis Price) and Sanders (Richard Wattis) wait for a helicopter bringing more V.I.P.’s to the airport. The statue of Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitton Brown stands in the right background. The statue was unveiled in 1954 and is now located at Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey.

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Actress Frances Andros (Elizabeth Taylor) and her millionaire husband Paul (Richard Burton) are met by the Commander.

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The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III brings the actress and her husband to Terminal 3.

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A meeting between Les Mangrum and his secretary Miss Mead is punctuated by a shot of the Control Tower as fog begins to envelop the airport. The Control Tower at Heathrow Airport which was demolished in 2013.

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Frances Andros her suitor Marc Champselle leave the hotel they have been staying in by taxi.

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The camera pans to follow the cab taking the lovers back to the airport.

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Following their reconciliation, Mr. and Mrs. Andros leave the airport together. Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport, formerly in Middlesex, part of Greater London since 1965.