Film locations and novels Earl's Court
kensington mansions, trebovir road
kensington mansions, on north side of trebovir road, mysterious mansion block in roman polanski’s movie repulsion (1965), in sexually repressed carole ledoux (played catherine deneuve) has murderous breakdown. film won silver berlin bear-extraordinary jury prize @ berlin film festival later same year.
part of italian film fumo di londra (internationally released smoke on london , gray flannels, 1966) shot on redcliff gardens. alberto sordi, wrote, directed , starred in film, won david di donatello best actor. soundtrack italian maestro piero piccioni 1 of best known.
64 redcliffe square featured in american werewolf in london (1981). film horror/comedy 2 american tourists in yorkshire attacked werewolf none of locals admit exists. flat in square belongs alex (jenny agutter), pretty young nurse becomes infatuated 1 of 2 american college students (david kessler), being treated in hospital in london.
earl s court setting 1941 novel hangover square: tale of darkest earl s court novelist , playwright patrick hamilton. cited hamilton s finest work, set in 1939 in days before war declared germany. hero george harvey bone innocently longs beautiful cruel woman called netta in dark smoky pubs of earl s court, while drowning himself in beer, whisky , gin.
26 courtfield gardens mentioned in richard curtis time (2013) , location 1 of party scenes.
^ film locations repulsion (1965). movie-locations.com.
^ imdb: popular titles location matching 64 coleherne road, earl s court, london, england, uk . imdb.
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