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SHEPTON MALLET PRISON

A most unusual place

ovie directors use different techniques to introduce the main characters to the viewing audience and set the scene, but none can be more unusual than thosed used in the opening scenes of the 1967 blockbuster The movie begins with convicted soldiers being given a chance to redeem themselves by volunteering for a secret mission. The first big scene, supposedly set at Shepton Mallet prison in Somerset, is very tense and serves to introduce the central

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