Bullet to Beijing

Date: 1995
Director: George Mihalka
Production Company: Harry Palmer Prods, Showtime Networks

Stars: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Gambon
Location(s): London, Saint Petersburg

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Harry Palmer is back sorting out troubles, mainly a virus called “Red Death,” between Russia and North Korea. SJ

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Nice part of town. Colville Terrace near Portobello Road W11. (SJ)

Still quite scruffy. SJ

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The Duke of Wellington on the corner of Elgin Crescent and Portobello Road, London W11. Various parts of Portobello Road make an appearance in a number of productions including ‘Otley’, ‘Notting Hill’, ‘Pressure’, ‘The Wind of Change’, ‘Breaking Glass’, 'Seven Green Bottles', ‘West 11’, ‘The Moon Over the Alley’, 'Don't Open till Christmas', ‘Tonite Let's All Make Love in London’, ‘Mantrap’, ‘The File of the Golden Goose’, ‘The Italian Job’, ‘Villain’, ‘Who Done It?’, ‘The Gentle Trap’ and ‘The Traitors’.

And here's the Duke of Wellington now. PW

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Embassy disagreements: I hope that the demonstrators' red paint is washable.

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Also outside the embassy, panning right. Caine and Corinna Richards tend to Anatoly Kulbitsky stabbed (by an umbrella belonging to Tamara Timofeyeva)

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Caine in the Mall, walking towards Whitehall. SW1

Now, with camera depth rendering Nelson's Column invisible it seems. SJ

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Caine enters the Foreign and Commonwealth Offices on King Charles Street, London SW1

Now. SJ

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Looks difficult...

But it's still there on Strand, WC2. SJ

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... until now. The Savoy, London

Oh dear, a shot directly into June's sunlight, but a now for this has been long awaiting. SJ

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Nice stunt in Saint Petersburg. The bridge is on Millonnaya Uitsa, looking northwest.

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Canal speedboat chase captured by local artist. This is the view of Salt Town, Saint Petersburg, from the west end of Panteleymonovskiy Most, a bridge crossing the Fontanka River. (SR)

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This looks rather exclusive.

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Caine and Connery at an airport: that helpful sign under the wing just seems to say "airport" in Cyrillic script.

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Another sign: Oonevyermag or letters to that effect.

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A station, one of Saint Petersburg's I expect.

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"South Korea" but probably not.

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Definitely Saint Petersburg

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Supposedly just outside the station.

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And again, with the burning car suggesting a more controlled environment than outside a mainline railway station. Sarrazin, Connery, Caine et al

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Closing scene.

This is the bridge with gilded-winged griffins but looking the wrong way for a match. SJ