GB
1960
1hr 32mins
Dir: William Lee Wilder
Starring: George Sanders and Jean Kent
An impoverished aristocrat kills women for their money
This thriller is set in Paris but of course everybody speaks English and it features a number of British railway scenes! The first takes place in a goods yard at night with a couple of BR open mineral wagons present. A steam locomotive passes, and although we only see the lower three quarters in close up, enough of it can be seen to identify it as an ex-LMS Class 4F 0-6-0. There is another night scene later on that shows 4F 0-6-0 No.44451 drawing into Stanmore Village station. The LNWR station at Stanmore closed to passengers on 15/09/1952 but remained open for freight until 06/07/1964. It is likely to be the case that the 4F in the earlier goods yard scene also used No.44451 at Stanmore. The opening title card of the film gives its name as Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons (without an apostrophe and with the number ten spelled out) which was apparently its original working title.