John Matrix Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Our fine city/county isn't too well represented in celluloid. Two instances where i remember being surprised to hear Leicester mentioned were: 1. Shout At The Devil (1976) Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin) asks, after hearing his name, whether Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) is of the famous Oldsmith's of "Ly-ses-ter-shy-ah". 2. Rogue Male (1977) Thordyke (Peter O'Toole) comes across a couple sharing a picnic and asks to borrow their bike, during the conversation Freda (Maureen Lipman) proclaims, "Were from Leicester". Location wise Belvoir Castle Several films and television programmes have used it as a location, notably the film Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Sir Alec Guinness. The castle itself was used as a location for The Da Vinci Code - it represented Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer residence. It also featured in the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes starring Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox. In September 2007, it was used as a location for The Young Victoria. In the 2001 Jim Henson production of Jack and the Beanstalk: The real story, the castle is where the giant bones have been discovered. The kitchen scenes of Hill House were filmed here for the 1999 version of The Haunting which is the remake of the 1963 version. can you name any others.
MikeyT Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Our fine city/county isn't too well represented in celluloid. Two instances where i remember being surprised to hear Leicester mentioned were: 1. Shout At The Devil (1976) Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin) asks, after hearing his name, whether Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) is of the famous Oldsmith's of "Ly-ses-ter-shy-ah". 2. Rogue Male (1977) Thordyke (Peter O'Toole) comes across a couple sharing a picnic and asks to borrow their bike, during the conversation Freda (Maureen Lipman) proclaims, "Were from Leicester". Location wise Belvoir Castle Several films and television programmes have used it as a location, notably the film Little Lord Fauntleroy starring Sir Alec Guinness. The castle itself was used as a location for The Da Vinci Code - it represented Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer residence. It also featured in the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes starring Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox. In September 2007, it was used as a location for The Young Victoria. In the 2001 Jim Henson production of Jack and the Beanstalk: The real story, the castle is where the giant bones have been discovered. The kitchen scenes of Hill House were filmed here for the 1999 version of The Haunting which is the remake of the 1963 version. can you name any others. What a film!
rico Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Robert Carlyle is at LFE Services at the end of this film
rico Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Loughboroughs steam railway station has been used in many movies also
Trav Le Bleu Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 I can top the lot... In the first Mission Impossible film Leicester City (FC) are mentioned. There's a TV on in the background with a man reading football results and one of them is Leicester.
Saxondale Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Loughboroughs steam railway station has been used in many movies also Yep, Great Central Railway, Shadowlands amongst other films. EDIT: Full list! Film Buster (1988) The Secret Agent (1993) Shadowlands (1993) The Navigators (1999) Enigma (2001) The Hours (2002) Cemetery Junction (2009) TV She's Out (1994) Woof! (1995) Goodnight Mr. Tom (1998) Take a Girl Like You (2000) The Cazalet Chronicles (2001) Casualty (2001) Hawking (2004) The 4:50 from Paddington (2004) E=MC2 (2004) The 39 Steps (2008) Central Steam (TV Series) (2010) South Riding (TV miniseries) (2011) Top Gear (2011)[4]
MikeyT Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Yep, Great Central Railway, Shadowlands amongst other films. I think a part of "The Hours" was filmed there too.
Rocket-Ron Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 In the warriors just after cirus is shot they run into a graveyard. One of them is hiding behind a tombstone which has then name of the person buried there and also has born Leicester England.
rico Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 In the warriors just after cirus is shot they run into a graveyard. One of them is hiding behind a tombstone which has then name of the person buried there and also has born Leicester England. thats brill,if true!
Kitchandro Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 I can top the lot... In the first Mission Impossible film Leicester City (FC) are mentioned. There's a TV on in the background with a man reading football results and one of them is Leicester. Is that the one that starred Micky Adams?
Tielemans63 Posted 7 December 2011 Posted 7 December 2011 Er...you seem to have all forgotten the British classic 'The Girl with Brains in Her Feet' which was filmed mostly in Braunstone - and no it isn't a horror film.
Saxondale Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome is used as a filming location quite a lot. not sure about films but definitely TV. Top Gear have filmed quite a lot in Leicestershire: * Bruntingthorpe (various drag races and the car football) * Great Central (the trains) * Various shots of the M1 in Leicestershire on different races they've done * Filmed in Rutland and the Market Harborough area when they did used cars for the price of a Nissan Pixo * The Alfa Romeo challange ended at Autoitalia at Stanford Hall near Loughborough * Various bit done at MIRA just outside Hinckley (though technically just over the Warks border, I think)
Rincewind Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 I think there have been one or two mentions in Eastenders. Someone visiting relatives.
Saxondale Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 I think there have been one or two mentions in Eastenders. Someone visiting relatives. That's right! Didn't Beppe and Gianni (or whatever the two Italians were called) 'move to Leicester' when they got written out? EDIT: Makes a change from the usual methods, ie. being stabbed, shot, burned alive etc etc.
Guest Electric Yetis Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 That's right! Didn't Beppe and Gianni (or whatever the two Italians were called) 'move to Leicester' when they got written out? EDIT: Makes a change from the usual methods, ie. being stabbed, shot, burned alive etc etc. Just as painful though! Not film but in Robbie Williams' music video - Road to Mandalay, they escape in a van bearing the name L.Mills & Son. On the door of the van there is an address for the company and you can clearly see the word Leicestershire in the address.
MikeyT Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 Here ya go. http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Leicester,%20Leicestershire,%20England,%20UK
Saxondale Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 Just as painful though! Not film but in Robbie Williams' music video - Road to Mandalay, they escape in a van bearing the name L.Mills & Son. On the door of the van there is an address for the company and you can clearly see the word Leicestershire in the address. Just watched it and it says Hunts Lane, Desford, Leicestershire - but they've blanked out an S and the two Ds so it just says ' HUNT LANE ESFOR' !
rico Posted 8 December 2011 Posted 8 December 2011 That's right! Didn't Beppe and Gianni (or whatever the two Italians were called) 'move to Leicester' when they got written out? EDIT: Makes a change from the usual methods, ie. being stabbed, shot, burned alive etc etc. Pete Beale Snr died here!
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