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The
'George and Dragon': Pier House Hotel,
Charlestown, Cornwall
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THE
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CREDITS
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WWII
thriller, with Germans infiltrating an English village
as part of a plot to kill Churchill.
The snowy railway marshalling yard on the Russian-Polish
border, where Colonel Steiner (Michael
Caine) unsuccessfully attempts to save a Jewish
prisoner, was filmed in the goods yard of Laplandís
capital, Rovaniemi
a– the biggest town on the Arctic circle a–
in Finland.
Cornwall
stood in for the ëChannel Islandsí and Berkshire
for ëEast Angliaí.
ëOccupied Alderneyí a– a Channel Islands town a–
was recreated at the harbour of Charlestown
in Cornwall,
on the coast 18 miles southeast of Newquay. The German
communications post was built at the edge of the harbour,
while the ëGeorge and Dragoní, the pub from which Liam
Devlin (Donald
Sutherland) gets ejected, is the townís Pier
House Hotel.
Also in Cornwall
was ëLandsvoort Airfieldí, where the captured DC3 is
held, which was the RAF station at St
Mawgans, five miles from Newquay.
The East Anglia village of ëStudley Constable, Norfolkí
is actually Mapledurham,
on the A329 just northwest of Reading, Berkshire.
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The
'East Anglia' church: Mapledurham, Berkshire
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Real locations include the church, where the villagers
are held hostage, which was the Church
of St Margaret (which now houses a small
exhibition of photographs taken during the production)
and the watermill, where the fake Polish soldier blows
the Nazisí cover. a fake waterwheel was added to the
15th century structure, itís fully restored and working,
producing flour you can buy in the gift shop.
You wonít be able to sink a pint at the 'Spyglass and
Kettle' though, or shop at the local store, both of which
were built on still recognisable sites in the village.
The Manor House, to which Churchill is taken, is the
16th century Elizabethan Mapledurham
House. Itís open to the public on summer weekends
(tel: 01189. 723350; www.mapledurham.co.uk). Mapledurham
is four miles northwest of Reading on the north bank
of the Thames.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE
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The
16th century Elizabethan Mapledurham
House is open to the public on summer weekends
(tel: 01189. 723350). Mapledurham
is four miles northwest of Reading on the north bank
of the Thames.
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