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The Fallen Idol location: the ‘embassy’: northeast corner of Belgrave Square

THE FALLEN IDOL filming locations


CREDITS
THE FALLEN IDOL , 1948
dir: Carol Reed

Bobby Henrey
Ralph Richardson
Michele Morgan
Jack Hawkins
Geoffrey Keen

“If Baines didn't kill her, who did ?”

The Embassy, where butler Baines (Ralph Richardson) comes close to being falsely arrested for murder in this adaptation of a Graham Greene short story, The Basement Room, is the headquarters of the St John’s Ambulance organisation at the northeast corner of Belgrave Square, on Wilton and Grosvenor Crescents (tube: Hyde Park Corner).

The maze of narrow mews streets where Baines clandestinely meets with Julie (Michele Morgan), and where young Phillipe (Bobby Henrey) gets lost, have moved seriously upmarket from the pub’n’cafe atmosphere of the movie. They are Belgrave Mews and Kinnerton Street, just to the north of Belgrave Square.

The day out was filmed at Regent’s Park Zoo, at the old refreshment stand in front of the Mappin Terraces.




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FILMING LOCATIONS FOR THE FALLEN IDOL
London
 
TRAVEL


Belgravia: tube: Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly line) The is named after Belgrave Square, an unwelcoming area of barely-distinguishable cream-painted streets and squares of indimidatingly grand houses, most of which bristle with security devices and video surveillance cameras, and sport pompous embassy plaques.

Regent’s Park Zoo
, Outer Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 (tel: 020.7722.3333). Tube: Camden Town, Northern Line.
 
ASSOCIATED FILMS


Other films made around Belgravia include The Million Pound Note, with Gregory Peck, 70s trashfest The Stud, with Joan Collins, and the 1956 film of Around the World in Eighty Days (where Belgrave Square was home to Phileas Fogg).

Regent's Park Zoo was, of course, featured in Withnail and I and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

 

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