THE HOSTAGE

GB
1956
1hr 20mins
Dir: Harold Huth
Starring: Ron Randall and Mary Parker

A group of South American revolutionaries plan to kidnap the daughter of their President in London

This crime drama features a couple of shots of the entrance to Holborn Underground station, although to the untrained eye this is not readily apparent. There is also a night sequence filmed in Camden with the lights of a train visible passing over a bridge. The film was based on a story written for the BBC Television Service by Alfred Shaughnessy and is sometimes referred to by its original working title of A Place of Execution, though it was never released under this name.

This is the busy scene outside Holborn Underground station on Kingsway
This is the view looking north along Baynes Street in Camden with the lights of a train on the North London Line crossing the road bridge in the background. An identical sequence can be found in Police Dog (1955).