The Wicked Lady, 1945
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visit the film locations
Visit: Norfolk
Visit: Blickling Hall, Blickling, Norfolk (tel: 01263.738030)
Trivia
The sexed-up 1983 remake of The Wicked Lady, by Michael Winner, has a good cast and some interesting locations, but best stick with the original.
The Wicked Lady location: Lady Skelton’s mansion, ‘Maryiot Cells’: Blickling House, Norfolk
Margaret Lockwood is the wicked Lady Skelton, stealing husbands, poisoning aged retainers and moonlighting as a highway robber in this classic full-blooded Gainsborough Pictures romp.
Scandalous in its time for the plunging necklines, scenes had to be reshot for the trembling innocents of the USA. Lady Skelton’s stately pile, ‘Maryiot Cells’, supposedly at ‘Maiden Worthy’ in ‘Buckinghamshire’, is Blickling Hall, northwest of Aylsham in Norfolk.
The redbrick Jacobean mansion is a National Trust property, and the house and garden are open to the public (check ahead for times).
