BLUEBEARD’S 10 HONEYMOONS

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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.

The wagons in this night shot are clearly of BR origin. The one on the left is a 16T mineral, that on the right, obscured by George Sanders, is a 7-plank open. The white diagonal stripe on the 16T denotes at which end of the wagon the end door is located for unloading.
A Class 4F 0-6-0 trundles slowly through the overgrown yard. This is probably No. 44451 in the yard at Stanmore Village – see next entry.
This is Stanmore Village station, playing host to some French signage. The locomotive is a Fowler Class 4F 0-6-0 and although a feeble attempt has been made to conceal the loco’s smokebox identity, it is No.44451.