Rich and Strange [1931 feature film]

In this early Alfred Hitchcock film, Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) has a rather bad journey home on the Central line, achieved with a good mix of footage shot on location and in the studio.The entrance in image 1, and escalator in image 2, for example, are real, as obviously is the platform in images 4 &and 5, which is clearly the eastbound Central line one at "Bank." Close-ups such as in images 3 and 6, though, appear to be in the studio. As seen from the signs in the background, the shot for image 6 was actually reversed for some reason. The actual train interiors, whilst generally consistent with Central line stock at the time, have enough differences in detail to suggest a mock-up, albeit a very good one.

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The London Underground in Films & TV

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