Movie Locations

[K Stand Ken]

in 1996, a long time before I started surfing the internet and discovered IMDb, I visited California on holiday. Part of my all-time favourite movie, "The Graduate" was shot in and around there and I wanted to re-enact the scene where Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock drove his red Alfa convertible over the double-deck Bay Bridge - not the more famous Golden Gate Bridge. I managed to upgrade our hired car to a sports car, but sadly it wasn't an Alfa, not a convertible and not even red. It was my intention to drive to Berkeley on the other side of San Francisco bay, to visit the fountain in a grassy quadrangle portrayed as one of the Berkeley colleges. This is the scene where Ben waits for Elaine to come out, but loses his nerve on seeing her and runs off. Sadly no one knew this area - I even asked a traffic officer who had been a student there himself, but he didn't know either.
As you are probably aware, very little is as it seems in the movies, as some years later I found out from IMDb that the "Berkeley college" scene was actually filmed in Los Angeles, hundreds of miles to the south. To rub salt in, LA was where we were then headed.

[Cantaloupe]

From my travels, 3 film locations need identifying.

[Cantaloupe]

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[FourWheelDrift]

Cantaloupe said:

From my travels, 3 film locations need identifying.

Laurel & Hardy, The Music Box.

[Saleen836]

Zetec-S said:

2 fairly local to me which spring to mind:


And although not a film, Ridley Scott's 1970's Hovis advert, set "up north", was actually filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill,_Shaftesbu...

Hovis have a new advert out using the old advert

[tardelli]

Part of "Rush" was filmed at Cadwell .

[Alex]

tardelli said:

Part of "Rush" was filmed at Cadwell .

And they recreated the pits at Blackbushe aerodrome. Watched this again last night.

[yellowjack]

Alex said:

tardelli said:

Part of "Rush" was filmed at Cadwell .

And they recreated the pits at Blackbushe aerodrome. Watched this again last night.

For a while the film set for Rush was on satellite (or aerial) images on Mapbox/OpenStreet Maps (like Google Maps but different) as used by the Strava app. Gone now, replaced by more recent images, but it was interesting to see exactly where the scenes were filmed. Some scenes from 'Criminal' were filmed in exactly the same place, too. I found that out accidentally when I headed up there on my bike for a ride and found most of the two disused runways surrounded by high fences and security, with footpath diversion orders in place.

[thegreenhell]

MrsMiggins said:

Saleen836 said:

The ending of World War Z
https://youtu.be/Dja0z-Bd3bA?t=323

Movie states it is 'Nova Scotia' but in reality it is Lulworth Cove in Dorset

George Square in Glasgow stands in for Philadelphia in the beginning of that film.

The scenes on the ship 'USS Argus' were shot on the RFA Argus in Falmouth docks. They were filming during the Falmouth Week regatta, and we sailed out past them every day, although we couldn't see anything for the massive green screens they'd erected all around the decks.

[Cotty]

I used to work at 10 Trinity Square, it is now a Four Seasons hotel. In the first Tomb Raider film Angelina Jolie drove up to the building on her bike and ran up the steps. She also drove the bike though Leadenhall Market with has been featured in lots of thing including Harry Potter.

[anonymous-user]

Worked and lived near a couple of Bond locations in London. The Broadgate Tower at the back of Liverpool St Station was some skyscraper in Hong Kong(?) where Bond goes to kill an assassin in Skyfall and watched the filming of a few scenes from the jet boat sequence of The World is Not Enough on the canals running through Wapping and Tobacco Dock.

[Evercross]

MrsMiggins said:

George Square in Glasgow stands in for Philadelphia in the beginning of that film.

Also made-over to be New York in the TV series Patrick Melrose, and will stand-in for parts of London in the Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw.

[anonymous-user]

djstevec said:

Worked and lived near a couple of Bond locations in London. The Broadgate Tower at the back of Liverpool St Station was some skyscraper in Hong Kong(?) where Bond goes to kill an assassin in Skyfall and watched the filming of a few scenes from the jet boat sequence of The World is Not Enough on the canals running through Wapping and Tobacco Dock.

Also know the original owner of 85 Swains Lane in Highgate Cemetery which has been in a few films, tv adverts and the latest Luther series. Stayed there a number of times with my ex. The house he knocked down to build this one was in a couple of films too from memory.

[Cotty]

djstevec said:

Worked and lived near a couple of Bond locations in London. The Broadgate Tower at the back of Liverpool St Station was some skyscraper in Hong Kong(?) .

Speaking of Liverpool St Station they filmed some scenes from the first Tom Cruise Mission Impossible film in there.

They used Fenchurch Street station in Green Street
https://globalfilmlocations.net/2017/11/11/green-s...

[QuartzDad]

We were in Scotland earlier this year and realised we weren't that far from where Bond and M stopped on the way to Skyfall. Both sons are huge Bond fans so one diversion later.....trying to Google exactly which rock was the right one with bugger all mobile signal was fun...

[belleair302]

I believe Brent Cross car park was used in The World is Not Enough for the BMW Scene. Shot early on Sunday mornings across two weeks and the Printworks in Garston (Watford) were also used.

[nonsequitur]

belleair302 said:

I believe Brent Cross car park was used in The World is Not Enough for the BMW Scene. Shot early on Sunday mornings across two weeks and the Printworks in Garston (Watford) were also used.

Yes, my son and I 'toured' the site when filming was not active. All the cars had stickers in the window regarding the filming and all the trailers and equipment were parked close by. Lots of security and we were politely asked to leave.

There is a book 'James Bond's London' giving info and photographs of many Bond locations.

[anonymous-user]

Cotty said:

djstevec said:

Worked and lived near a couple of Bond locations in London. The Broadgate Tower at the back of Liverpool St Station was some skyscraper in Hong Kong(?) .

Speaking of Liverpool St Station they filmed some scenes from the first Tom Cruise Mission Impossible film in there.

They used Fenchurch Street station in Green Street
https://globalfilmlocations.net/2017/11/11/green-s...

Totally forgot that my local DLR station in Woolwich was used in the last Jason Bourne film, was supposedly a station in Greece. I mean they're almost indistinguishable in real life!

https://metro.co.uk/2016/03/23/commuters-travellin...

[Abbott]

IanH755 said:

When I was a school kid they filmed part of the Bond movie A View to a Kill at the Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre near my school in Chichester.

It was the small part near the end where Grace Jones character May-Day had taken the bomb out of the "mine" before it exploded so we all got to line up the edge of the quarry and watch as the pyro guys blew up the Cart and a dummy which was pretty cool.

Just down the road from Chichester at Dell Quay they filmed A View to a Kill the bit where they guy in the fishing boat was left high and dry after the explosion. The scene was done at high tide vs low tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-FvdszohE

[DoctorX]

Evercross said:

MrsMiggins said:

George Square in Glasgow stands in for Philadelphia in the beginning of that film.

Also made-over to be New York in the TV series Patrick Melrose, and will stand-in for parts of London in the Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw.

Also stood in for the USA in The Dark Knight Rises