The last time we spoke about Turn The Key Softly (1953), we saw how the historic Holloway Women’s Prison also known as ‘The Castle’ stole the show in the first minutes of the movie and how three women of different backgrounds Monica (Yvonne Mitchell), Stella (Joan Collins) and Mrs Quilliam (Kathleen Harrison) were released on the same morning.
The following sequence of Turn The Key Softly was also shot in Islington. Not only nearby the prison, but it somehow followed a certain logic. When the 3 women leave prison, Stella’s fiancé is waiting for her outside and they soon vanish. However, nobody has come to meet Monica or Mrs Quilliam and they make their way together to…Holloway Tube Station!
They can be seen walking on Holloway Road passing under the railway bridge, opposite the station’s entrance,
and waiting at the pedestrian crossing, at which point Holloway Road, the bridge and the tube Station are easily recognisable.
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Related Turn The Key Soflty post
Joan Collins released from Holloway Prison
How to get there?
Holloway Tube Station (Zone 2)
Many buses to Holloway Road
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