Brighton Mob, The
Date: 2015
Director: Christian J Hearn
Production Company: Jump Start Productions
Stars: Ray James, Max Day
Location(s): Brighton and Hove, East Sussex
Region(s): South East A-D
Storyline:
Ryan Cohen, a young police constable fresh out of Hendon, is recruited by DCI Guy Sabo of Special Operations to work undercover infiltrating a gang led by the mysterious ‘Monopoly Man’.
Additional Information:
Screen grabs and uncredited now shots by Phil B.
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- Capture 1
- 23 Jan 2019

Police are investigating a road traffic death. Islingword Rd, Brighton.

View northwest towards Lewes Road
- Capture 2
- 23 Jan 2019

Ryan (Ray James) returns from making house-to-house enquiries. The junction of Islingword Road, Ewart Street and Hampden Road

Looking northwest again, with the end of Hampden Road in view.
- Capture 3
- 23 Jan 2019

Atkins (Kieron James) sends him off to ask at more houses. Opposite view to capture 3, the junction of Islingword Road and Islingword Street.

New traffic restrictions...
- Capture 4
- 23 Jan 2019

Ryan bridles at the way Atkins adresses him. Islingword Road.

Outside number 52.
- Capture 5
- 23 Jan 2019

Guy Sabo (Max Day) watches Cohen as he heads back to the houses on the north side.

Islingword Road has a small offshoot here, and we are looking from this stub to the main route.
- Capture 6
- 23 Jan 2019

He follows and accosts the young PC. Islingword Road again.

Further down than the earlier shots. Grant Street is just visible on the left.
- Capture 7
- 23 Jan 2019

Sabo shows Cohen a police ID and introduces himself as a member of the Special Operations branch, SO10. Cobden Road, view towards Elm Grove.

The gable of the Cobden Arms is visible about halfway down on the right.
- Capture 8
- 23 Jan 2019

Later, at a pub, Sabo offers Ryan an undercover role as part of a team on the track of a gang led by the mysterious 'Monopoly Man'. Brighton Marina, outside the Master Mariner.

View southeast with the Master Mariner out of shot on the right.
- Capture 9
- 23 Jan 2019

Having persuaded Ryan to take on the identity of 'Max Caul', Sabo leaves.

Brighton Marina Village, outside the Master Mariner.
- Capture 10
- 23 Jan 2019

Max Caul's training begins. Preston Park Velodrome, Brighton.

View towards Preston Drove, with the cricket pavilion in the background.
- Capture 11
- 23 Jan 2019

Instruction continues at various locations. Sabo gives Ryan a detailed account of his character's criminal past. This is New England Street, viewed from York Hill.

- Capture 12
- 23 Jan 2019

The opposite view from capture 11, with New England House in the background.

Still just as pretty.
- Capture 13
- 23 Jan 2019

Another view of New England Street from York Hill.

- Capture 14
- 23 Jan 2019

The two have come down and are under the steps in York Hill.

Same place, different graffiti.
- Capture 15
- 23 Jan 2019

'Never admit to being undercover filth'. Providence Place.

This is the back of the NatWest bank at 42 London Road. Even more graffiti.
- Capture 16
- 23 Jan 2019

Digesting the information, Ryan/Max walks down Providence Place towards St Bartholomew's Church.

The backs of buildings in London Road on the left, the impressively tall St Bartholomew's and the London Road multi-storey car park on the right.
- Capture 17
- 23 Jan 2019

Opposite view from capture 16, looking towards St Bartholomews church.

- Capture 18
- 23 Jan 2019

Max has met contacts from the gang at a pub. Simmons (Nicholas Moon) walks ahead as they take him to their car.

The Long Man in Wilmington Way.
- Capture 19
- 23 Jan 2019

Max is wary of the car ride, but Simmonds and Edwards (Stephen Forrest) insist.

Church Close, just around the corner from the Long Man.
- Capture 20
- 23 Jan 2019

The gang have been stitched up by a fence. Max poses as a courier delivering a parcel to gain access to his heavily secured flat.

Southwater Close, looking northeast.
- Capture 21
- 25 Feb 2019

After gaining the trust of the gang, Max meets with Sabo in a car park. Stephen Dean spotted this one -- Norton Road car park in Hove.

Only minor changes here.
- Capture 22
- 23 Jan 2019

A robbery unfolds. Simmons, posing as a chauffeur, walks behind the intended victim (Graham Bradbury).

The Lanes, looking from Meeting House Lane towards Market Street.
- Capture 23
- 23 Jan 2019

Simmons strolls calmly away after brutally robbing his victim.

Meeting House Lane, looking from Brighton Square.
- Capture 24
- 23 Jan 2019

Max and Edwards are watching a bank.

HSBC at 126 Church Road, Hove.
- Capture 25
- 23 Jan 2019

Max sets about stealing a car.

View down Cobden Road from the junction with Elm Grove.
- Capture 26
- 23 Jan 2019

Will (George Webster) approaches the target bank.

View along Hova Villas from Church Road.
- Capture 27
- 23 Jan 2019

As the manager (Martina Bristow) leaves, Will is loitering outside.

View south across Church Road to Albany Villas.
- Capture 28
- 23 Jan 2019

Max lurks outside 89 Ewart St waiting to receive the bank manager's keys.

View towards Islingword Road.
- Capture 29
- 23 Jan 2019

Keeping fit. Preston Park Velodrome.

Preston Drove on the left, and the tower of St Mary's RC church behind.
- Capture 30
- 23 Jan 2019

Max walks through Brighton. These steps link the higher and lower parts of Stroudley Rd.

Development has continued here.
- Capture 31
- 23 Jan 2019

He smokes a pensive cigarette.

Behind Max was the unmistakeable roof of the Brighton Dome. A view across Church Road with, in the background, the American Express building (where all the lights are in the screen grab) on the left. The view is from the top level of the Theatre car park in Church Street
- Capture 32
- 23 Jan 2019

Sabo phones Max to arrange a meeting. The old Fruit & Veg market in Circus Street, looking roughly north towards Morley Street.

Now demolished and being redeveloped.
- Capture 33
- 23 Jan 2019

Max and Ian (Reuben Liburd) are out to steal a vehicle for the bank job.

Southampton Street, view towards Southover Street.
- Capture 34
- 23 Jan 2019

They pass the Constant Service at the corner of Islingword Road and Southampton Street.

View from Southampton Street across Islingword Road.
- Capture 35
- 23 Jan 2019

Caul ignores Lisa, a prostitute he has been visiting, and walks on down Islingword Road towards Islingword Street.

The same view in daylight.
- Capture 36
- 23 Jan 2019

They drive off in a stolen van down Islingword Road.

Just above number 101 on the left.
- Capture 37
- 23 Jan 2019

The following day, Max finds that Lisa has been murdered.

View from the open ground by Beaufort Terrace.
- Capture 38
- 23 Jan 2019

As Caul walks along Ewart Street, the camera lurks at the corner of Grant Street and Jackson Street, watching him.

- Capture 39
- 23 Jan 2019

We follow him as he heads down Jackson Street.

- Capture 40
- 23 Jan 2019

Max disappears left into Lincoln Street.

View down Jackson Street to Washington Street, with Lincoln Street crossing ahead of us.
- Capture 41
- 23 Jan 2019

We catch up and follow him down Lincoln Street towards Southover Street.

- Capture 42
- 23 Jan 2019

He turns left again and heads into Lincoln Cottages.

- Capture 43
- 23 Jan 2019

After again dealing with the fence who has repeatedly caused them trouble, the gang leave a premises on the seafront.

A difficult one to place exactly, but this is Kings Road, Brighton, looking East towards the Royal Albion Hotel. This shot, just east of Middle Street, seems to put the street lights in all the right places.
- Capture 44
- 17 Feb 2019

Max wants to pull out of the undercover operation -- but then Simmons arrives to tell him that the bank job has been brought forward and they are going immediately. Sea View Way, Woodingdean.

The extra greenery on the right helped in some degree to counter the low sun.
- Capture 45
- 17 Feb 2019

A view in the opposite direction. Sea View Way, Woodingdean.

The Sunblest and Jaycee factories occupied this site until 2002, and had been derelict for some years before they were replaced by the Woodingdean Business Park.
- Capture 46
- 23 Jan 2019

Sabo leaves Brighton Police Station. Kingswood Street, junction with John Street and Carlton Hill. The new Amex building at 1 John St, completed in 2012.

A row of shiny new posts.
- Capture 47
- 23 Jan 2019

A woman asks Sabo for a light.

William Street, looking south to Edward Street.
- Capture 48
- 23 Jan 2019

He boards a train.

Brighton Station, platform 2. Thanks to the Security guy at Brighton Station for permission to take photos.
- Capture 49
- 'Now' required

With a changed appearance, he walks into the South Terminal at Gatwick Airport.

