Sophia Loren and Sir Carol Reed, filming The Key

Sophia Loren and Sir Carol Reed, the producer and director of The Key in which she stars with Willian Holden and Trevor Howard. Sophia Loren as a Foreign woman in wartime England : Aylesbury serves as location setting for the market of wartime naval town :To wet yet still quaint and historically interesting county market town of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, went the entire movie making team of director Sir Carol Reed and Producer - writer Carl Foreman, Making The Key'. With them went the main star of the picture - Italian actress Sophia Loren. Dressed in a raincoat and headscarf, she was Shot from every angle wandering amongst the stalls. But before the Shooting started she went as yet unrecognised by the ordinary Saturday afternoon crowds. As soon as the camera crews appeared, however, the usual decoy and crowd control measures had to be taken and extras dressed as wartime citizens and servicemen on leave appeared. When it rained Sophia took refuge in the Bukl Head Hotel until it stopped. Co-stars William Holden and Trevor Howard were not wanted for this scene - of Sophia, the Swiss - Italian woman in a wartime British naval base town of Westport'. The story is of gallant rescue tugs operating from Westport in the Western Approaches. Other scenes have been made in Dorset and interiors at Borehamwood studios

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Amongst Appeared Approaches Aylesbury Borehamwood Buckinghamshire Co-stars Crews Decoy Entire Extras Foreman Gallant Historically However Interesting Measures Operating Ordinary Quaint Raincoat Rained Refuge Serves Servicemen Stalls Stopped Tugs Unrecognised Usual Wandering Westport Willian

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