GB / US
2019
1hr 49mins
Dir: Bill Condon
Starring: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen
A career con artist meets a wealthy widow online, and then discovers that his plan to steal her fortune has unexpected roadblocks
This Anglo-American crime thriller is based on the 2015 Nicholas Searle novel of the sam name. It features a number of good railway scenes that include shots at Slough station with GWR Class 387 ‘Electrostars’ present, one of which is No.387169. There is also a death scene filmed at the closed Charing Cross Jubilee Line station with a train of 1996-stock arriving into the platform. Finally, there is a scene with Helen Mirren that is filmed outside Teddington station.