Maire Rose Connor Mapped: The London Locations Of Powell And Pressburger
Dorset House, the modest Marylebone apartment block where Powell & Pressburger dreamt up some of their most fantastical films. You can just make out their commemorative blue plaque to the left of the building. Image: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
It was love at first sight , according to Michael Powell. Throughout the 1930s, the young director had cut his teeth making quota quickies low-budget (and often bone-achingly dull) films churned out to make a quick buck but before the decade was out, an encounter with a Hungarian screenwriter would set his career on a much more daring trajectory.