Frenzy (1972) - locations

[[Hitchcock]] on set at [[Covent Garden Market]]

Frenzy was filmed over a period of 13 weeks, starting in late July 1971, with principal photography ending on October 14th.

Exterior scenes were filmed at various locations in London, predominantly centred around the Covent Garden area, including:

• Tower Bridge and London County Hall, on the banks of the River Thames, were used for the opening scenes
• market scenes were filmed at Covent Garden Market, along with exterior shots of Bob Rusk's house on the adjacent Henrietta Street, and the nearby Nell of Old Drury and The Globe public houses
• the Coburg Hotel on Bayswater Road, Hyde Park and the London Hilton on Park Lane
• Brenda Blaney's flat in Ennismore Gardens Mews and her Blaney Bureau office, situated just off Oxford Street
• New Scotland Yard on Broadway
• Wormwood Scrubs prison and St. Mary Abbot's Hospital

Permission was granted for Hitchcock to film inside the Old Bailey during the first full weekend of August.

The majority of the interior scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios, with Syd Cain working as the production designer.

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Frenzy (1972)

List of Locations

• Berkeley Square, London
• Coburg Hotel, Bayswater Road, London
• Covent Garden Market, London
• Covent Garden, London
• Ennismore Gardens Mews, Knightsbridge, London
• The Globe, Bow Street, London
• Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London
• HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, London
• Hyde Park, London
• Leicester Square, London
• London County Hall, Belvedere Road, London
• Middlesex Street, London
• Nell of Old Drury, London
• New Scotland Yard, Broadway, London
• Old Bailey, London
• Oxford Street, London
• Park Lane, London
• Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
• River Thames, London
• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
• Soho Square, London
• St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, Kensington, London
• St. Paul's, Covent Garden Market, London
• Tower Bridge, London
• Victoria Station, London
• Watford, Hertfordshire

Further Information

The following resources provide further information:

• Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide to Locations (2009) by Gary Giblin71174
• "Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece" - by Raymond Foery (2012)