The League of Gentlemen location

[stevie boy]

Has this already been covered?? if so let me know where.

Jack Hawkins house in this film, does anyone know where it is/was. Probably been knocked down and flats put up. That scene in the house when Nigel Patrick follows Jack and ends up staying there is priceless. Do not call me OLD DARLING, sorry OLD LOVE!!! If anyone has any info please let me know, thanks

[Wee Sonny MacGregor]

Is it my imagination or was the same house used in "Fortune is a Woman", another Jack Hawkins film?

[Steve Crook]

I don't know about the house, although I suspect a studio set, especially for the interior.

But I can tell you about the portrait of Hyde's wife. He comments "I regret to say the bitch is still going strong."

It's a portrait of Deborah Kerr that was used in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Someone must have found it still lying around in an old studio store room. Although Blimp was made at Denham in 1942/3 and LoG was made at Pinewood in 1959/50. But there must have been some moving of old materials when Denham closed in about 1952.

Steve

[julian_craster]

As Roger Livesey was in both films, perhaps he brought it with him
(from his own collection of memorabilia...)
to show to Bryan Forbes...

[alan gowdy]

Stevie - the house is called St Huberts and it sits in its own large grounds on a rural road just to the east of Gerrards Cross - conveniently close to Pinewood, so it may well have featured in other productions.

[spinalman]

Originally Posted by alan gowdy Stevie - the house is called St Huberts and it sits in its own large grounds on a rural road just to the east of Gerrards Cross - conveniently close to Pinewood, so it may well have featured in other productions.

Hi Alan,

I thought St. Huberts was the name of the district, after a former estate....are you saying the house still exists? Have you got a map reference?

[stevie boy]

thanks for that, has anyone got a photo of it ???
thanks once again

[spinalman]

Originally Posted by stevie boy thanks for that, has anyone got a photo of it ??? thanks once again

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=51.57....5&r=0&src=msl

this is St. Huberts...looks like it could be from memory of the film.

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by spinalman Hi Alan, I thought St. Huberts was the name of the district, after a former estate....are you saying the house still exists? Have you got a map reference?

The MultiMap.com page shows a St Hubert's Close, a St Hubert's Lane and a big building still shown as St Hubert's.

Steve

[stevie boy]

thanks all that is fantastic, is there anyone local who could take a picture and compare it with the film???

[Wee Sonny MacGregor]

A description of the house from South Bucks District Council:

"Circa 1860 and said to have been built as a hunting lodge for the 2nd Earl of
Portrench and, indeed, with a stag in artificial stone over the porch. Stock
brick; stone dressings; slate roof. As asymmetrical in composition as it is
idiosyncratic in style. Much use of dogtooth ornament and lozenge patterning
in raised brickwork. Mostly of 2 storeys but with a 3-storeyed central tower
porch. All windows of ause de panier arch type except those of the 5 left hand
bays and those of the third storey of the tower which are round arched but
have Early English type foliage in the capitals. Attached to the house on the
left, the stable block in similarly idiosyncratic style and a date 1866."

Any architects out there??

[penfold]

Well, your stag over the porch is present and correct....though the shadow of it is more visible than the stag itself in the still....

[alan gowdy]

The stag - though perhaps a tasteless decoration over the entrance - is distinctive and positive proof of the use of the building in the film.

[smudge]

This house, with it's distinctive porch, was certainly used in other films. One of which (IIRC) was ISLAND OF TERROR.

Smudge

[Guybrush Threepwood]

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