GB
1950
1hr 40mins
Dir: Lance Comfort
Starring: Margaret Johnston and Richard Todd
A woman looks back on her three marriages in flashback format
This drama was based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Francis Brett Young but whereas that was a commerical success, the film was disappointingly poor. It is, however, notable for its particularly fine shots of Aston Rowant station on the Watlington branch with a local train hauled by an ex-GWR 5700-series 0-6-0PT. There is a later studio-bound sequence portraying a railway journey to London that involves a shot of an ex-LMS Class 2P 4-4-0 arriving into Elstree & Borehamwood station followed by a shot of a Thompson L1 Class 2-6-4T arriving into London Marylebone. There is then one final sequence that shows a train arriving into a station as viewed from above, possibly from a footbridge. This is a genuine scene, but only the top three quarters of the locomotive are visible and other than it being a tank loco of some description nothing else can be identified.
