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FILM LOCATION ARTICLES

Reel Streets
.. by John Tunstill.

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Sites for Sore Feet, walking through cult British film
...by Derek Pike

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Inspiration on SummerIsle ~ The Wicker Man
...by Derek Pike

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RECENT ADDITIONS
Here is a list of the films that have recently been included.
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Another Time, Another Place
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
Boys, The
Games, The
Holiday on the Buses
Inside Out
Monster Club
Offence, The
Pool of London
Press for Time
Pygmalion
Room at the Top
Scandalous
Secret Ceremony
Secret Place, The
Sitting Target
So Well Remembered
Waterloo Road
Went the Day Well?
Whisperers, The
Wrong Box, The



Films featured on site: 205
Films awaiting loading: 266
Total films listed on site: 928


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Locations used in films made in Great Britain 1920's to 1980's

A site devoted to British film locations, and the places where movies were made in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, in the years 1920's to the late 80's.

Movies, in fact, made more than 20 years ago, by such famous directors as Alfred Hitchcock, "39 Steps"; Alexander Korda, "Fallen Idol"; David Lean, "Ryan's Daughter"; Joseph Losey, "The Servant" and Michael Powell, "A Canterbury Tale". For such wonderful companies as Ealing Films, "Lavender Hill Mob"; J Arthur Rank,"Genevieve"; London Films, "Seven Days to Noon"; and Gainsborough, with "Millions Like Us". At the film studios at Denham, Pinewood, Merton and Elstree and with such famous actors as Stanley Baker, Dirk Bogard, and Noel Coward, and including such cinema classics as "Alfie", "The Blue Lamp", "Brief Encounter", "The Girl with Green Eyes", and hundreds of others which were made on location in the streets of London; "Children of the Damned"; Belfast, "Odd Man Out"; Birmingham, "Privilege"; Manchester, "Taste of Honey"; and Liverpool, "The Magnet". In the counties and villages of Kent; "Blythe Spirit"; Berkshire, "Carry on.........Everything"; Hertfordshire, "The Big Sleep"; and Buckinghamshire, "Fast Lady"; and sometimes on the Islands and Highlands themselves, but not "Whiskey Galore", which doesn't qualify because none of the scenes showing real streets had identifiable actors.


'ReelStreets' is concerned with the British Cinema in the sixty years between the 1920's and 1980's, which perhaps really was the "Golden Age"; but more, it is concerned with scenes which were shot outdoors in recognisable built-up locations, and which incorporated some of our favourite actors, and how not only these movie locations have changed in the intervening years, but also our accents, our clothes, our food and our houses.

Most of the actors of the silver screen's golden age have long since gone to the eternal critic. Many of us who grew up admiring their work at the local "flicks", or "pictures", have remained enthusiastic about their achievements; and now a growing band of younger filmgoers are recognising the entertainment, and also the social values, inherent in these old films.

John Tunstill
BOOKS / POSTERS

In Simon James' new book, London Film Location Guide, are hundreds of films, addresses and photos. Including: 10 Rillington Place, 23 Paces to Baker Street, 101 Dalmations, Accident, Cool it Carol, Corruption, Criminal, Crossplot, Death Line, Diamonds,Doomwatch etc. and many "modern" films that will take us the next 20 years to include: 11 Harrowhouse, 28 Days Later, 84 Charing Cross Road, About a Boy, Avengers, Awakening, Backbeat, Basil, Bean, Betrayal, Blue Ice, Blue Juice, Borrowers, Bounty, Brazil, Bullseye, Business, Captives etc.

Reference under a still marked *SJ, information has come from Simon James' book.

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A useful list of current movie releases .. some of which may find there way onto Reel Streets in the future. These all link to the official movie websites.

Beowulf
Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Love in the Time of Cholera
Redacted
Margot at the wedding
Southland Tales
Eleven Men Out
What would Jesus Buy
No Country for Old Men
Fred Claus
August Rush
Enchanted
The Mist
Nina's Heavenly Delights
The Savages
Awake
Badland
The Sasquatch Gang
Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris
Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding
Billy the Kid
Juno
The Golden Compass
Grace is Gone
Looking for Cheyene
Man in the Chair
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Arranged
I am Legend
The Kite Runner
Look
Youth Without Youth
National Treasure - Book of Secrets
P.S. I Love You
Steep
Sweeney Todd
Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story
Aliens vs Preditor: Requiem
The Bucket List
Charlie Wilson's War
Persepolis
The Water Horse - Ledgend of the Deep
The Orphanage
One Missed Call
In the name of the King - A Dungeon Siege Tale
Cloverfield
Day Zero