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Nearly fifty years on, how strange...

posted 10 years ago by idgreenwood
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I saw this as a double bill with 'The War Game' back in 1966, caught up with it again on DVD today. What a strange place London was! So few people, so little evidently happening, even at that time of morning. Mind you, if it was wintertime or even early spring (notice the bare branches of the trees in the Ann/Brian thread) then it was unfeasibly light, and not obviously very cold. Norman and Judi evidently live on the river, too, in a property which surely today would be beyond their means. And the tree outside their house is in full leaf...

How unrecognisable is Aldgate station (on the 'Inner Circle' line)! The Woolwich Ferry doesn't seem to date much, but where was that colonnade to which they had access and through which they walked? Greenwich? And could you really steal a motor boat that easily in 1965?

Ah well, the film was not about that sort of realism. I'm glad I saw it, both times.

[–] a-rennie 9 years ago

Yes, the colonnade is in Greenwich, now the National Maritime Museum.

A fair number of the river scenes look like they were filmed around Greenwich, Isle of Dogs, and Woolwich. Whereas the more "domestic" scenes (often with trees visible in the background) were done far upriver e.g. Putney, Chiswick(?).

Impressive film. Especially the sexual politics within the marriage.