Britmovietours offer eight wonderful tours in, out, and around London from the comfort of their own transport. ReelStreets movie tours offer wonderful tours throughout Europe and the rest of the world from the comfort of your own desk chair.
You want A London Movie tour? Click into www.reelstreets.com, use the search slot for “London” and up comes a fistful of locations that include the capital city. There are ten pages of them, and, at ten listings per page, there are probably a hundred films examined and maybe a thousand “then” and “now” pictures.
With a Romantic search one finds references to eight films, all British made and all made before the 1980’s, because up until now, ReelStreets had a twenty year cut-off for inclusion on site.
When Spy is searched, we branch out to Arabia, Italy, Bermuda and the Bahamas, not only are the filming locations listed, but the dates of release and the actors who took part.
Notting Hill has some forty entries, a popular cosmopolitan area which serves for kitchen-sink dramas and Minis preparing to scoot off to undertake a heist in Milano.
The ever popular Wormwood Scrubbs is one of the more photogenic London nicks, but Brixton, Pentonville and Wandsworth, come up under a “prison” search, as well as St Albans and even Dublin with Kilmainham Jail, or, if you prefer Gaol.
Hammersmith has five pages and is the setting for the grisly Cinema of Darkness screenplay about a film technician who uses the same location in Hammersmith over, and over, and over again, for some seriously unpleasant business……. that we are not at liberty to reveal.
So, enough of the Smoke, the Great Wen, off to pastures new, west country, midlands, seaside all have their films, and our pictures; the other countries of these British Islands, when searched, produce sixty entries for Wales, forty for Ireland and another sixty for Scotland. Hundreds of comparative pictures.
Or maybe you want to home in on directors and where they shot their films, or the film stars and where they acted, and even “music” has a good return.
Perhaps you have a favourite town, maybe Reading, for reasons best known to yourself, thirty entries, Beaconsfield, for much better reasons has forty entries. Even Turville, in Buckinghamshire, is listed, and Thame, in Oxfordshire.
War unhappily gets a hundred entries, and peace, only two. A sad reflection on our behaviour. But love has pages and pages, and even sex has a good sprinkling, despite the site having a “U” certificate.
However you do it a tour of film locations is always a rewarding nostalgic pleasure and Film Induced Tourism, whether by coach, or mouse, offers endless evocative memories.
Until the end of the year you can access the site with the login…..petrified, and the pass…….bogart.
Happy travelling! www.reelstreets.com
PS, you can even contribute with you own pics.
