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HITCHCOCK
HOUSE - KENSINGTON
London
Thriller - Hitchcock Slept Here
Footsteps
fall on a dark street. It’s late at night in London. You’ve
stayed out late with London’s new late drinking hours and you
think maybe you’re being followed. You take another "39 Steps"
and wonder if you’re "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Are you being
chased by a "Secret Agent" or just your "Notorious" reputation. Wait
a minute, you’re standing in front of the Hitchcock house! Ever
wonder where the famous film director and master of suspense got his
inspiration. Before moving to Hollywood and making his American studio
films beginning with"Shadow of a Doubt", Hitch's
early career was in the
London film-making world.
It’s
mostly forgotten by the casual passer-by, but on a busy thoroughfare
in Kensington is the row
house Sir Alfred Hitchcock
lived from 1926 util 1939, during his formative London film-making
period before being discovered by the moguls of Hollywood just before
the start of World War II. Now, just
another
slightly run-down building of rental flats, officially known as The
Turner House and identified by a English Heritage plaque, the house
is sandwiched
in a block of Cromwell Road between The Derby Hotel and the Kensington
Marriot Hotel. The Derby
Hotel, decent but decidedly “Tourist Class” notes its famous
neighbor in its marketing material, the Marriot does not.
Stay
at the
Marriott London Kensington or
Derby Hotel Kensington
For a more
in-depth Hitchcock journey there is a Hitchcock
Walk given by Sandra Shevey, a film
historian who interviewed the director and encompassing the Cromwell
apartment and London locations from some of Alfred Hitchcock's films
like "Frenzy" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much".
If you’re
visiting London and have a lot of sightseeing stops to make, try a London
Pass. Or you're in a London mystery mood take a Jack
the Ripper Tour available from Rail Europe. ©Bargain
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