Grizedale Hall, "The One That Got Away"
N 54° 20.396 W 003° 01.331
30U E 498557 N 6021344
The One That Got Away was filmed on location in Grizedale. The actual exteriors were used where the real life events took place. Grizedale Hall was one of two POW Prisoner of war camps set up in 1939. All that remains is the retaining wall.
Waymark Code: WM7YZA
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/26/2009
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The scene shown here is the daily exercise march from the hall beside a large retaining wall.
Grizedale Hall was owned by the Forestry Commission in 1939, having been built in 1903 for a wealthy family. Shortly after the film was made, the hall was knocked down. It is now a tarmac area. The Forestry Commission do this with most property acquired.
The film screen play is taken from a book by Kendal Burt and James Leason, published in 1956.
The plot is.
"With the Battle of Britain at its height in 1940, German Luftwaffe pilot Oberleutnant Franz von Werra (Hardy Kruger) is shot down over Kent and captured by British soldiers. After interrogation in London, von Werra is imprisoned in a camp in the Lake District and brags to his interrogators that he’ll escape within six months. Captivity cannot deter him from the single aim of escaping back to his homeland and he makes two unsuccessful attempts while in England; once by slipping away over wall, the second time whilst masquerading as a Dutch pilot he comes perilously close to commandeering a Spitfire.
The German flyer is then transported to Canada, where he makes a daring escape from a train bound for Montreal." (
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