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Also filmed in Milton Keynes, a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
I know, because I played a Nazi soldier. £100 and all the food I could eat for a nights work.
I don’t think Harrison Ford was even there, but Mr Bronson was.
for my sins I was born and raised in Watford so since 97 loads filmed at the warner bros lot - however Star wars the Phantom Menace shots in the woods were at my Local bike spot Jar Jar , Obi Wan and co filmed next to one of our trails ..
Die Another Day and Top Secret!
‘Who framed Rogue Rabbit’ hiding in the cinema was filmed in the Sate cinema in Grays, Essex (my home town).
‘4 wedding and a funnel’ filmed the funnel st Marys church behind proctor and gamble factory in west Thurrock (still grays).
‘28 days later’ truck stop fill up just up the road near Stanford le Hope.
‘Indiana Jones and the last crusade’ filmed the Venice boat chase scene in Tilbury dock (very similar place, honest).
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AND HOW COULD I FORGET ‘ESSEXBOYS!’ basically about the gangland killing over the drug market of Essex that was actually filmed in Grays, lakeside, and ssssoooouuuutttthhheeennndddd.
The Railway Children and Pink Floyd's The Wall are two that spring to mind, but there's plenty of others and lots of TV.
BBC's Cuckoo is based in Lichfield with very few scenes actually filmed here.
By the way this is a great series and is available on Netflix for you to watch!
Happy Valley/Last tango in Halifax and some high school drama on channel 4 are filmed round 'ere
I'm with mattvanders.. I remember watching the film and thinking how this was an awful grim place to live.. little did I know
on a lighter note it also made me smile to know Alex Kingston once graced our town
Read this whole thread hoping that @trail_rats mate from School would have done an Arbroath based short.
Local Hero features the local airport. There was a Norwegian production named after Aberdeen but they filmed most of it in more picturesque towns along the coast.