Movie locations continued 2

Mutiny ON THE BUSES

During 1972, a year after the first On the Buses film was made, a second film went into-production. Entitled Mutiny on the Buses, this film was also another success and reunited the same cast once again!

The studio filming was again of course at the then called EMI Elstree Film Studios, with location filming again (with the exception of the filming at Windsor Safari Park) being in and around Borehamwood.

The photo above shows a long shot of Malden Road (the house at the end of the row in the middle of the photo) and part of Clarendon Road, as used in the above scene, as it looked in June 2006. And despite it being (at the time the photo was taken) 34 years since the film was made, the road and the houses have changed very little. The only main obvious changes with the exterior of the houses being that they have been painted.

The vid. cap. above features the character of Olive, thinking her husband is playing away with another woman, instead of working late with Jack and Stan, using Arthur's motorbike to travel to the bus depot. In the event angry and still a very inexperienced motorcyclist, she manages to steer the motorbike all over the road and on to the pavements knocking dustbins over spin the process!

As with the two other On the Buses spin-off films, Mutiny on the Buses again used Malden Road as the location for the Butler's residence!

Below we see Turnaround betty's from the ON THE BUSES movie.

The photoabove whichPaul Burtontook on his second visit to Borehamwood in June 2005, is of an unlikely and unglamorous location will mean nothing to you unless you are a big fan of the film like me! The location features in the film after the character of Jack Harper (played by the late, great Bob Grant) has altered the new buses radio stystem that is becoming the bain of Jack and Stan's lives. Jack has changed the circuits so that suppossibly all Blakey's (played Stephen Lewis) radio messages are being broadcast onto other frequencies including the Governments! As a result two policemen who are on duty in a police car receive an urgent message to go to the gas works which they believe to be from their Inspector! The two men race to what they believe is a crime scene (the above location) and find out that the message has actually come from the bus depot and not the police station

The location, which is just near to the Elstree & Borehamwood railway station, and not ten minutes walk from the studios, was positioned next to a building which had once been The Gate Studios. Sadly, the old studio building complex was demolished during the early part of March 2006.

Visit Paul Burton's Elstree siteby clicking on the photo belowand find out more about the studios.