IT is taking a long time to get through them all but we are really enjoying our journey through the world of movies filmed in Weymouth and Portland.

Thanks to Audrey Russell of Portland we've got a real poser that we'd like our readers to help with.

She wants to know which readers remember a film shot around Bincombe in Weymouth called Precious Bane.

The film came from a novel by Mary Webb and tells the story of a young woman with a harelip who falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who may see her differently.

Audrey remembers: "I was staying at Bincombe with my relations Ruth and Roy Pashen.

"A film company arrived and wanted extras. Ruth, Roy, most of Bincombe villagers and myself from London all applied.

"We went to the Riviera Hotel to be made up and dressed in period costume which included me wearing a dress with a boned bodice (it was so hot!)

"We were paid £2 a day! Scenes were filmed in Lower Bincombe just below where the original road went.

"Hay carts and horses and gleaming tools were used.

"I was thrown up on the top of a hay cart and had to pile the hay up carefully (Don't forget I came from London). Roy took flagons to labourers in the film.

"One of the ladies in Bincombe went on to film another bit for the film in Dorset.

"All I remember was she had a real Dorset accent and part of her words she said were: "Calling out to Gideon."

Audrey says she has tried to find out what happened to the film but no-one seems to know.

She added that it had been filmed for six weeks around Bincombe.

Can you help Audrey by providing more information about Precious Bane?

If so get in touch with Looking Back the usual way using the details below.

*We also have some more celluloid expertise from Mike Lee who wishes to point out some other movie connections that Dorset has.

Mike and his wife were exploring Worth Matravers in Purbeck and looking at St Nicholas churchyard where they spotted that Leslie Banks the actor was buried there.

This intrigued Mike and he carried out a bit of research.

Leslie Banks was born on June 9 1890 and suffered facial injuries in the First World War which left his face partially scarred and paralysed.

In his acting career he used this injury to good effect by showing the unblemished side of his face when playing comedy or romance and the scarred, paralysed side when playing drama or tragedy.

After the war he did repertory work and returned to London in 1921 where he became a leading dramatic actor.

He eventually made it to Hollywood and his 22 films spanned the years 1921 to 1950. Some of his most famous films include Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Laurence Olivier's film Henry V (1944) and David Lean's Madeleine (1950).

He was also in Went The Day Well, which is still highly regarded today and thought to be one of the finest Home Front films made during the Second World War.

Leslie and his wife Gwendoline retired to Worth Matravers and lived in 'the thatched cottage' set back next to the church at the top of the hill. They had three daughters.

Leslie was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to theatre in 1950, the year of his last appearances on stage and screen.

He died in 1952 aged 61 from a stroke he suffered while walking.

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