Filming took place from 11 June to September 1957 at Pinewood Studios and on location at Oxhey. Losey did not enjoy filming, calling produced Maurice Cowan a "monster" although he felt with the cinematographer, Mercouri, the designedrand editor " we were really able to make something." Losey said he "had no artistic control, but it had been agreed that I would control the cutting of the picture, the music and the general finishing. The studio in general wasn’t very happy. They didn’t understand what I was doing; they didn’t understand what Melina’s virtues were — and she has many, chiefly enormous energy."Losey p 153
