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The Fallen Idol location: the ‘embassy’: northeast corner of Belgrave Square
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THE FALLEN IDOL
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CREDITS
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“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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LOCATIONS FOR THE FALLEN IDOL
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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.
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