THE WILD AND THE WILLING

GB
1962
1hr 50mins
Dir: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Virginia Maskell and Paul Rogers

University students form relationships and perform pranks with disastrous consequences all round

This brilliant romantic drama was filmed on location in Lincoln but despite this fact, the station frontage seen in one night shot is thought to be that of Slough in Berkshire. It is masquerading in the film as ‘Kilminster’.

Although not by any means assured, this station is thought by film historians and people ‘in the know’ to be that of Slough