Three Businessmen

Date: 1998
Director: Alex Cox
Production Company: Exterminating Angel

Stars: Miguel Sandoval, Alex Cox, Robert Wisdom
Location(s): Liverpool, Rotterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Spain

Region(s): , , ,

Storyline:

Couple of chaps go off for a supper together but can’t seem to get anything to eat, even though they try a few countries. SJ

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William Brown Street, Liverpool

Brother Robin J knows his Liverpool. Still a missing "!"

Panning right

Still no actors. RJ

More panning.

Deserted: notice the matching weather. RJ

Aha, a figure, a supporting artiste.

RJ's nailed the spot.

Panning left, following the action

Another nailing. RJ

And panning left for more.

Now. RJ

Director Cox followed by Sandoval at Lime Street Station.

Confirmed by this shot of a, currently, non public area of the station. Liverpool L1. (PW)

Has the tripod slipped as Sandoval finds a taxi from LIme Street?

RJ matching the incline.

Taxi delivers Sandoval to the Adelphi, which locals will tell one is only a few yards from Lime Street, being in Ranelagh Place. Now part of the Britannia group.

SJ & RJ both enjoyed a school reunion here years ago.

Sandoval under a nice architectural detail, Epstein's nude man on the old Lewis's, opposite the Adelphi, on Ranelagh Street.

Boarded up now with an uncertain future. RJ

Flanagan's Apple, 18 Mathew Street, old Beatles haunt, where there's a "Beatles table."

The same location now. (PW)

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Cox outside the Liverpool Parish Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, "St. Nick's" on Chapel Street near the Mersey.

Now I'm as lost as the two businessmen (the third arriving much later on)... And the next day in comes this from Neil Rigby, "When the lights flicker on the Merseyrail train, hey presto! It turns in to a Rotterdam Metro train. I think this is Beurstraverse, shopping mall."

Frank van de Berg says: Looks much better at daytime and thank you Neil Rigby for identifying this location. (RL)

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Still Liverpool, I think.

Rotterdam: giveaway de Doelen (the goal/target) logo.

It's a concert hall in Rotterdam. Schouwburgplein 50, Oude Westen, 3012. Whilst in Rotterdam Frank took this shot to replace the Wikipedia image and tells us that all the metal on the floor has been replaced by grass. Strangely this is in the middle of the city he says but didn’t see a single soul play football. Luckily for him there were no dead bodies this time! (RL)

Cox and Sandoval now in Tokyo, but still think they're in Liverpool.

Cox and Sandoval are standing around the corner from the east exit of Shinjuku station in Tokyo, just a few meters away from the road exiting onto Shinjuku-dori avenue. They are also very close to the lion statue that is outside the station exit. Just to the left of this photo is the big BIC Camera store whose address is 3 Chome-26-10 Shinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 160-0022, Japan.

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A modern tunnel.

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And now in the desert, very similar to the oasis area in For A Few Dollars More, so we are now in Andalucia, southern Spain.

And this also reminds me of the above dollar film. Los Albaricoques, Spain.

Originally taken for For A Few Dollars More, so not quite high enough up the path but it looks very similar, especially the vegetation. SJ

Los Albaricoques.

Good old Google, even made it to this remote region near Nijar, Andalucia. SJ

At last the third businessman, Wisdom joins the by now very hungry duo.

Nice pointy hill. Google/SJ

Los Albaricoques. Filmed in the afternoon.

Google/SJ. Filmed in the morning.

Los Albaricoques.

Right hill shapes, and wall posts. Google/SJ

Los Albaricoques.

Google/SJ