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


ethanedwards
January 2nd, 2007, 03:52 PM
Brannigan (http://www.dukewayne.com/showthread.php?t=1759)was filmed in these locations.

London
Part One

England

Piccadilly Circus

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The muffed postal drop filmed in the middle of Piccadilly Circus,
where the villains manage to escape through convenient
unlikely sewers, because there is a tube station down there!!

For more photographs:-
Piccadilly Circus- Google Images (http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=picadilly%20circus&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=656)
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Dorchester Hotel

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Villain Ben Larkin (John Vernon) stays in luxury at the
Dorchester Hotel, 53 Park Lane

For more information, or fancy a stay!:-
Dorchester Hotel (http://www.thedorchester.com/)
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Mario and Franco’s Terrazza

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Jim Brannigan (Wayne) and Det Sgt Thatcher (Judy Geeson)
enjoy a meal at famed celeb eaterie Mario and Franco’s Terrazza,
which is now now Lupo, 50 Dean Street, Soho

For more information:-
Lupo Restaraunt (http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/clubs_bars/venue-2817.php)
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Garrick Club

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Brannigan has to borrow a tie when he lunches with top cop
Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) at the
Garrick Club, 15 Garrick Street,
the gentlemen’s club which numbered
Charles Dickens among its members

For more information:-
Garrick Club (http://www.garrickclub.co.uk/)
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Royal Automobile Club (RAC)

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Another famed gents’ club: Larkin is kidnapped from the lavish
Royal Automobile Club (RAC), 89 Pall Mall.
Just look at the famously extravagant swimming pool.

For more information:-
Royal Automobile Club (RAC) (http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/Home)
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Tower Bridge

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The most famous scene is the car leap across a half-opened Tower Bridge.
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 Thomas’ Hospital.

For more photographs:-
Tower Bridge- Google Images (http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=656&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=tower+bridge&aq=2&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=tower+&gs_rfai=)
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Battersea Park

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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).
Which in that location, it would not!
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Maida Vale

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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 Wanda’s ‘Kipling Mansions’).
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The Lamb- Pub

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The obligatory pub fight, where everyone ends up flailing at everyone else,
was filmed in The Lamb in the centre of the Victorian arcaded
Leadenhall Market at the foot of the new Lloyds Building
which also houses the entrance to
‘The Leaky Cauldron’ in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
More recently, the late Heath Ledger charmed the ladies here
when the travelling show is set up in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.

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(click on photo for enlargement)

For more information:-
The Lamb (http://www.lambtavernleadenhall.com/home.htm)
as it is now.

For more information:-
Leadenhall Market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadenhall_Market)

Edited and compiled by ethanedwards
with some information from
Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations (http://www.movie-locations.com/)

ethanedwards
January 26th, 2007, 07:26 AM
London
Part Two

Beckton Gas Works

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The signal Box, where Duke
Kicked off the door knob

The Gas works, Products works and Alps were used as a location
for TV and cinema filming on a number of occasions.
The mounds of chemical waste were used to portray mountaineering scenes.

In 1975 the film Brannigan starring John Wayne used the location.

The opening sequence of the 1981 James Bond movie
For Your Eyes Onlywas filmed here.
The scenes involved Roger Moore as James Bond attempting to regain control
of a helicopter operated by remote control by his nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

In 1986 the film Biggles: Adventures in Time
used the gas works as a location for a weapon testing ground.

For more details:-
Movie scenes shot at Beckton Gas Works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckton_Gas_Works)
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St Katherine's Dock

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Where Duke threw the hapless motor cycle rider into the water !

DukePilgrim
February 10th, 2007, 04:44 AM
Superb job on all the locations Keith.

Well done for all your hard work.

Mike

Senta
March 20th, 2007, 04:55 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, 04:15 PM
One thing that amazed me was that Duke right at home in Jolly Old England.

Senta
September 13th, 2007, 03:35 PM
St.Katerine dock is somewhere in Docklands?

ethanedwards
September 13th, 2007, 03:39 PM
The place where Duke threw the motor cycle rider in the river!

ethanedwards
September 18th, 2007, 05:46 AM
hi,


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

ethanedwards
July 22nd, 2008, 07:17 PM
Chillbill, in his Duke Stories,
mentions, Brannigan, and Duke in London.
Here are some of those locations

William T Brooks
January 2nd, 2009, 09:27 AM
Keith, Thanks for putting Up the Brannigan Locations in London.
Bill

ethanedwards
October 20th, 2010, 07:54 AM
Now updated with more information and photographs