View Full Version : Duke's Movie Locations- London, England


ethanedwards
January 2nd, 2007, 04:52 PM
London- England

Brannigan, was filmed in these locations

Information from
The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations

A US cop comes to London to apprehend an escaped villain, in John Wayne's only English picture.

event takes place in front of a famous London landmark. The muffed postal drop filmed in the middle of

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Piccadilly Circus ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

where the villains manage to escape through convenient, if unlikely, sewers (isn't there a tube station down there somewhere?).
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Villain Ben Larkin (John Vernon) stays in luxury at the

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Dorchester Hotel ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

53 Park Lane (previously seen in 60s classic Morgan ‚ A Suitable Case For Treatment).
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Jim Brannigan (Wayne) and Det Sgt Thatcher (Geeson) enjoy a meal at famed celeb eaterie

Lupo ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

which is now now Lupo, 50 Dean Street, Soho (tel 020.7434.3399).
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Brannigan has to borrow a tie when he lunches with top cop Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) at the

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Garrick Club ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

15 Garrick Street, the gentlemen's club which numbered Charles Dickens among its members.
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Another famed gentsí club: Larkin is kidnapped from the lavish

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Royal Automobile Club ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

(RAC) 89 Pall Mall. Just look at the famously extravagant

swimming pool. ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).

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Brannigan's temporary London home is 61-80 York Mansions, Prince of Wales Drive alongside Battersea Park, south London (though when the villains booby-trap his toilet with a bomb, the resulting hole in the wall mysteriously reveals a view of the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park). Whatever.
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He moves in with Jennifer Thatcher, at Douglas House, 6 Maida Avenue, Maida Vale, West London (next door to A Fish Called Wandaís ëKipling Mansionsí).
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The obligatory pub fight, where everyone ends up flailing at everyone else, was filmed in

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The Lamb ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
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The criminal mastermind is quite obviously the English Tourist Board, as every in the centre of the Victorian arcaded

Leadenhall Market ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

at the foot of the new Lloyds Building (tube: Bank),which also houses The Leaky Cauldron in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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The most famous scene is the car leap across a half-opened Tower Bridge.

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The Metropolitan Police HQ, Scotland Yard, seems to jump the Thames too,from its usual home in Victoria. The view from the windows is obviously south of the River Thames. These scenes were shot in St Thomasí Hospital.

ethanedwards
January 26th, 2007, 08:26 AM
Beckton Gas Works


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The signal Box, where Duke Kicked off the door knob


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St Katherine's Dock

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DukePilgrim
February 10th, 2007, 05:44 AM
Superb job on all the locations Keith.

Well done for all your hard work.

Mike

Senta
March 20th, 2007, 05:55 PM
Hi,
I haven't seen Brannigan yet, but will visit London in april:hyper:
It seems it would be the first Duke movie location which I would visit.
Regards,
Senta

Lt. Brannigan
April 20th, 2007, 05:15 PM
One thing that amazed me was that Duke right at home in Jolly Old England.

Senta
September 13th, 2007, 04:35 PM
St.Katerine dock is somewhere in Docklands?

ethanedwards
September 13th, 2007, 04:39 PM
The place where Duke threw the motor cycle rider in the river!

ethanedwards
September 18th, 2007, 06:46 AM
hi,


This was mentioned the other day, so here it is again

ethanedwards
July 22nd, 2008, 08:17 PM
Chillbill, in his Duke Stories,
mentions, Brannigan, and Duke in London.
Here are some of those locations

William T Brooks
January 2nd, 2009, 10:27 AM
Keith, Thanks for putting Up the Brannigan Locations in London.
Bill