Mission: Impossible

Date: 1996
Director: Brian de Palma
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions

Stars: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Vanessa Redgrave, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emilio Estevez, Marcel Iureş, Dale Dye.
Location(s): London, Czech Republic, Scotland (train shots), USA

Region(s): , , ,

Storyline:

Complicated and exciting stuff as the MI team come up against killings, red herrings, a NOC list, and double crosses. SJ

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How very helpful...Praha, or even Praga mater urbium as we all remember from our Latin.

Taken by Calvin Brady in Oct. 2019. (SJ)

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An interior: what a lot of staircases. National Museum of Prague in Nové Město, New Town. Also seen in Casino Royale, The Omen (both 2006), From Hell and Euro-Trip.

Our best match -and only so far- from Calvin taken in March 02. (SJ)

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Scott Thomas and Cruise emerge from the north side of the Lichtenštejnský palác also known as Ledebursky, (Lichtenstein Palace).

Bro Robin IS Cruise (or Scott-Thomas). Taken by wife Alison.

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Voight steps into the Prague air.

Another match from Calvin (SJ)

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Marcel Iureş (acclaimed Romanian actor) now in the steps of Cruise.

Bro R IS Iureş. Taken by Alison.

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Lichtenstein Palace, Kampa Island as seen looking south-west from Karlův Most (Charles Bridge), Prague.

Trees replaced. RJ

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Voight on the Charles Bridge.

Now. RJ

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Stairs to the Charles Bridge from Na Kampě.

New tree in the way. RJ

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Cruise up the stairs.

Now. RJ

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And up again.

Great match. RJ

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Nice angle.

Nice angle again or did the camera slip. Well done, RJ.

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Scott Thomas in trouble on Kampa Island by the Vitava river, north of Lichtenstein Palace.

Now. RJ

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Cruise climbs over the gate while Iureş is pinned against it, no more.

Same gates, not to be confused with the same style at the other end on the alley opening into Na Kampě. RJ

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Cruise in Old Town Square, Staroměstské náměstí, to the east of Charles Bridge. St Nicholas Church in the background.

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But this isn't there, not surprisingly since it is all but destroyed. It was the Paramount lot in LA. Included for the sake of averting wild goose chases.

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Cruise runs away from the restaurant rendezvous.

Now, looking north on Old Town Square. RJ

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Another rendezvous: this time Cruise and Redgrave, neither in shot.

Na příkopě looking southeast down Nekázanka, east of the Charles Bridge. RJ

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There's the contact on the bench.

A bin has replaced the bench. RJ

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The hide-out back in London, above the busy Liverpool Street tube station. Cruise steps out to encounter Voight in the mainline station opposite.

And there's the middle windows above where the MI force hide out. SJ. Michael Bradley has been in touch with some reminisces. Overnight July 1995, he watched the filming of this scene (with sprinklers and numerous takes including the Cruiser slipping in his shoes) and the following inside the station, managing to obtain the autographs of Scott Thomas, Béart and de Palma.

An update with an improved angle and indeed to show that very little has changed on this corner in an otherwise much changed area. SJ

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Cruise enters the concourse of the main station. London's Liverpool Street station. The terminus is also seen in 'The Elephant Man', 'The File of the Golden Goose', 'I Was Monty's Double', 'A Prayer for the Dying', 'The Silent Passenger', 'The Entertainer' and 'Suspended Alibi'.

Lee Langton grabbed this shot on his way through the station.

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...to make a call.

This was taken only a few days after the London opening. Already there was MI-related graffiti and, soon after, the phones were removed, and the whole area enclosed and replaced with cashpoints. SJ

Still no throughway. SJ

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Cruise times his call carefully.

The split-flap board, only installed in 1991, was changed in 2007. SJ

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Ponti's cafe in Liverpool Street Station.

Ponti's, which opened in 1992, was on the level above the ticket barriers but this is taken from ground level. SJ

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Czerny and Dye at a helipad placed in a then car park and now gardens in front of City Hall SE1.

The same location by Peter, also seen in 'An American Werewolf in London'.

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The climax is on board the TGV but what's it doing in Scotland? The Ballochmyle Viaduct, East Ayrshire.

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Approaching the Channel Tunnel with a bit of CGI I suspect ... The train heading for the euro tunnel was filmed between outside Dumfries and Gretna because there is a section of straight railway line for at least 20 miles: the euro tunnel entrance is CGI, contributes Michael Ceates.

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Cruise at the Anchor Inn, Bankside, SE1

This is the side entrance on Bank End rather than the river entrance. SJ

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Cruise with Rhames.

Those shutters are a bit bright, and someone's nicked the seating. SJ

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Cheers.

On an uncluttered Sunday morning, taken soon after filming which is why the shutters are still blue. SJ

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And bye for now, until the sequel.

Now. SJ