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The
free-for-all: Lamb Pub, Leadenhall Market,
EC3
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BRANNIGAN
filming locations
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CREDITS
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A
US cop comes to London to apprehend an escaped villain,
in John Wayneís
only English picture.
The criminal mastermind is quite obviously the English
Tourist Board, as every event takes place in front of
a famous London
landmark. The muffed postal drop filmed in the middle
of Piccadilly Circus,
where the villains manage to escape through convenient,
if unlikely, sewers (isn't there a tube station down
there somewhere?).
Villain Ben Larkin (John
Vernon) stays in luxury at the Dorchester, Hotel,
53 Park Lane (previously seen in 60s classic Morgan
‚ A Suitable Case For Treatment).
Jim Brannigan (Wayne)
and Det Sgt Thatcher (Geeson)
enjoy a meal at famed celeb eaterie Mario and Francoís
Terrazza, which is now now Lupo,
50 Dean Street, Soho (tel 020.7434.3399).
Brannigan has to borrow a tie when he lunches with top
cop Commander Swann (Richard
Attenborough) at the Garrick
Club, 15 Garrick Street, the gentlemenís
club which numbered Charles Dickens among its members.
Another famed gentsí club: Larkin is kidnapped from
the lavish Royal Automobile
Club (RAC), 89 Pall Mall. Just look at the
famously extravagant swimming pool.
Branniganís 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.
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).
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 (tube: Bank),which
also houses The Leaky Cauldron in Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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
Thomasí Hospital.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR BRANNIGAN
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In the City of London? Enjoy a lunchtime pint with
the suits in The
Lamb, Leadenhall Market, at the foot of the
amazing Lloyds Building.
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ASSOCIATED
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The
Lamb pub is directly opposite Pizza
Express, which was once the Thai restaurant
Saigon Times, where hostage negotiator Russell
Crowe is assigned to the Latin American
case in Taylor
Hackford's Proof
of Life.
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