Last Orders
Date: 2001
Director: Fred Schepisi
Production Company: Future Films, MBP (Germany), Scala Productions
Stars: Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay, Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, JJ Feild
Location(s): Kent, London
Region(s): London H-L, South East E-L
Storyline:
A butcher’s last orders in his will is that his ashes be scattered off Margate Pier by his friends who reminisce about all their lives on the journey from London to Kent.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Simon James and Phil Wilkinson.
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- Capture 1
- 21 Dec 2021
Ray (Bob Hoskins) leaves his flat at the start of the film. David Rothon recognised the block of flats to be Moira Court on Trinity Crescent off Balham High Road SW17 as he lived there at the time of filming. It was just around the corner from Peacocks Motors seen later in the film.
Hugh F. provides this comparison.
- Capture 2
- 21 Dec 2021
The street outside Ray's flat. Trinity Crescent in Upper Tooting identified by David Rothon.
Taken on the road outside Moira Court by Hugh F.
- Capture 3
- 06 Apr 2012
Ray enters The Coach and Horses.
Now called The Victoria and located at the corner of Bellenden Road and Choumert Road in Peckham SE15. (PW)
- Capture 4
- 06 Apr 2012
Vic (Tom Courtenay) leaving his Funeral business a few doors along from The Coach and Horses.
The same location now on Bellenden Road. Note that the top of the right hand pilaster is missing in the then shot. The arch was removed in the early 2000s when the road was refurbished and festooned with Zandra Rhodes street furniture (an example of this is the three sphere sculpture). (PW)
- Capture 5
- 19 Aug 2018
The car dealership belonging to Vince Dodds (Ray Winstone). Nigel Coupe found this location on Balham High Road in London SW17 adding that "the dealership was named Peacocks of Balham but the building has been demolished and replaced with the Trinity Medical Centre".
278 Balham High Road today. SJ
- Capture 6
- 06 Apr 2012
Amy (Helen Mirren) leaving the butchers shop to visit her daughter.
The same Bellenden Road location now across the street from the Funeral Parlour. (PW)
- Capture 7
- 06 Apr 2012
A close up of the same location seen in the previous capture.
The off license still going strong under a different name. (PW)
- Capture 8
- 14 Feb 2013
St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road SE1 where Jack (Michael Caine) spent his last days.
NHS sign moved or it was a prop. SJ
- Capture 9
- 06 Apr 2012
Taken from inside Jacks shop looking out onto Bellenden Road at the junction with Maxted Road.
Road works, cycle racks, wheelie bins and Zandra Rhodes street furniture litter todays scene. (PW)
- Capture 10
- 30 Apr 2012
Hemmings, Hoskins, Courtenay and Winstone at Canterbury Cathedral
Now. SJ
- Capture 11
- 30 Apr 2012
Just outside Canterbury cathedral.
Now. SJ
- Capture 12
- 06 Apr 2012
Canterbury Cathedral and Precincts also feature in 'Kipps', 'A Canterbury Tale' and 'I Could Go On Singing' and other parts of the city are seen in 'The Raging Moon'.
Sun Street and Burgate. SJ
- Capture 13
- 06 Apr 2012
The road into Margate
Leaning out of the window on a similar day. SJ
- Capture 14
- 06 Apr 2012
Margate front, Note the domination of the towering Dreamland, remembered as Bemboms by me in the 80s, containing a grade II* listed cinema and a grade II-listed scenic railway.
Now. Other films here include Exodus and The Last Resort. SJ
- Capture 15
- 06 Apr 2012
The pier
Not sure why I took this so close. SJ
- Capture 16
- 'Now' required
Hemmings pops to the loo
- Capture 17
- 06 Apr 2012
Strolling down the pier
Nice cranes. SJ
- Capture 18
- 06 Apr 2012
Reverse POV, still rather a wet day for filming
A hint that the sky's clearing and the relentless rain ceasing. SJ
- Capture 19
- 06 Apr 2012
Getting darker and darker, as the ashes are conveyed to the end of the pier,
More clutter. SJ
- Capture 20
- 06 Apr 2012
Preparing the urn
Couldn't quite lean out as far as the then camera. SJ