Reply With QuoteWasn't it an Odeon cinema opposite EMI Elstree? If so, I recall it was in plenty of Britflix... "Confessions of a...". Over to the experts.
Not films that featured at ODEON Cinema's, but films that used exterior/interior shots of them. I'll start with 'The smallest show on Earth, the exterior of the 'Grand' was the Odeon/Gaumont/Apollo Hammersmith, and the interior shots where from Richmond, Surrey. Any more?
Wasn't it an Odeon cinema opposite EMI Elstree? If so, I recall it was in plenty of Britflix... "Confessions of a...". Over to the experts.
I don�t know if it counts as a film but the 1979 TV production The Knowledge used the exterior of the Harlesden Odeon.
A scan of the IMDb Location Tree for England shows a few uses of Odeon cinemas (& theatres) as locations.
Hammersmith Odeon:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
plus many live concerts, including Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973)
Odeon, Leicester Square:
Quite a few documentaries & promotional films showing the premi�res there
Plus the comedy short Wheeling Dealing (2004)
Streatham Odeon:
The War Against Terror: The Musical (2004)
Southall Odeon:
The Wild and the Willing (1962) by Ralph Thomas
Richmond Odeon:
The aforementioned The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Steve
My local the Phoenix East Finchley has been used in many films.Also of course the Odeon in Brief Encounters is one of the most famous.
Carry On At Your Convenince features the old Uxbridge Odeon, whilst Carry On Camping features the Odeon Gerards Cross (then a Picture Playhouse).
name='Klark Crass']Wasn't it an Odeon cinema opposite EMI Elstree? If so, I recall it was in plenty of Britflix... "Confessions of a...". Over to the experts.
It was called Studio 70, long since demolished and replaced by an Office block next door to a McDonalds which was coverted from a Pub
The exterior of Barnet Odeon is seen in 'Buster', the same Odeon where Beattie and Husband exit from in a BT advert
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the location of the Bijou cinema set in "The Smallest Show on Earth"?
Yes it is in Kilburn where 2 railway lines converge.A fascia was erected between them.So alas the Bijou never existed.
Guys, Some great leads, I'm going to have to pay closer attention when re-viewing these movies.
Over Xmas, I was visiting relatives in North Staffordshire, and their local paper said that some cinema scenes from 'The smallest show on Earth' were filmed in Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent.
Is there any truth in this?
Here's the mention...
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk...l/article.html
name='Alan F']I don�t know if it counts as a film but the 1979 TV production The Knowledge used the exterior of the Harlesden Odeon.
Really?
That might explain why I could never match up the Well Hall Road one in Eltham to the film!
Is it still standing?
No, it�s gone. It was on the corner of Craven Park and St Albans Road but there are flats on the site now.
I found it by matching it to this picture
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.aspx?uid=108437&index=264&form=advanced& monumentTopTerm=LEISURE&monumentType=CINEMA
but another way would have been to look up The New Atlas caf� on the opposite corner, that is still there.
Cheers for that.
The cinema scene was one of my last 'unfound' locations from The Knowledge along with 'Titanics' house which I believe was located around Braganza Street SE.
Eyewitness (1956) features a robbery from an Odeon Cinema (part of the Donald Sinden R2 DVD collection....)
name='PaulPlowman']Over Xmas, I was visiting relatives in North Staffordshire, and their local paper said that some cinema scenes from 'The smallest show on Earth' were filmed in Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent.
Is there any truth in this?
Here's the mention...
Movie and film stars in Stoke-on-Trent | Bogarde, Sellers, McKenna | Stoke & Staffordshire News
Yep. One wonders why you'd think it was made up, but yes, it is true; and the last scene on the train in TSHOE includes a view of Longton (one of the six Pottery towns). Longton Church (St James) is clearly visible on the right in the distance. Earlier, as a train is leaving "Sloughborough" Station an announcement is made that it will be calling at "Longport, Middleport and Alsager", all stations to the north of Stoke on the present Derby-Crewe line.
Odeon Cinema - location 2, Foundry Street, Hanley (from 1947 Pottery Gazette)
Grand Theatre, Trinity Street. Looking down Trinity Street towards Etruria. The Grand Theatre was built in 1897 and largely destroyed by fire in 1932, only a few months after it had been converted to a cinema.
Meanwhile, The Crown Hotel (below) in King Street, Longton was used for internal and external backdrops in the film.
I live just up the road.
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