While I Live
Date: 1947
Director: John Harlow
Production Company: Edward Dryhurst Productions
Stars: Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Carol Raye, Patricia Burke, Sonia Dresdel
Location(s): Cornwall
Region(s): South West
Storyline:
Twenty five years after the death of her sister, a spinster continues to obsess over her demise and is convinced that she has been reincarnated when a young woman who claims to have lost her memory arrives at her house.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
Cornwall, 1922 . . . where composer Olwen Trevelyan) sits looking at the waves as she struggles to complete her latest work. Trebarwith Strand in Cornwall, which also appears in ‘Oscar and Lucinda’ and ‘The Echo Murders’.
- Capture 2
- 'Now' required
The young pianist gets up and returns to the house where her domineering sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel) pressures her to complete the composition. Looking the other way, Gull Rock lies in the Atlantic Ocean to the top left.
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
Becoming agitated and despondent at not being able to finish her tone poem, Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) sleepwalks from the house. A studio set included for completeness.
- Capture 4
- 'Now' required
Hearing her sister moving about, Julia Trevelyan (Sonia Dresdel) follows before finding her at the top of a cliff from where she falls. More of the set at MGM’s Borehamwood studios in Hertfordshire.
- Capture 5
- 09 Apr 2023
On the 25th anniversary of Olwen’s death, Christine Sloan, a land-girl up from London, is given a lift to the pub where she hears that a telegram from her demobbed husband Peter has been delivered to the Trevelyan‘s house. Boscastle in Cornwall with Boscastle Bridge prominent.
Lionel and Cynthia Sear are back on the trail and have ventured to Boscastle to capture this shot for us advising that the bridge is new as it had to be rebuilt after 2004 and 'The Riverside' has gained a considerable extension. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 09 Apr 2023
Christine returns to the village to speak with Sergeant Pearne at the police station. Boscastle with Boscastle Bridge crossing the River Valency to the right.
We know that Lionel and Cynthia like to be exact but this shot, taken from very near Capture 5, shows the view down the B3263 because almost everything has changed or been rebuilt there and the river Valency has been widened so they could not stand where the capture was taken. A large number of cars were swept through this point in 2004. Hard to imagine on a peaceful day like this. (RL)