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Max
von Sydow's 'New York' estate: Brocket
Hall, Hertfordshire
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KISS BEFORE DYING (1991) filming locations
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CREDITS
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Remake
of the 1956 movie of the novel by Ira Levin (Rosemary's
Baby, The Stepford
Wives).
Set in the US, the movie was made on both sides of the
Atlantic. US locations included Charlottesville,
central Virginia, and Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Matt Dillon
tosses the suitcase into the East
River from Manhattan
Bridge, in the real Manhattan, but the New
York country estate, where he goes fishing with industrialist
Max Von Sydow, is Brocket
Hall, Marford Road,
Lamsford in Hertfordshire.
Brocket
Hall was the estate of disgraced peer Lord Brocket,
jailed for an insurance fraud, now a golf and conference
centre. Its most famous screen appearance is as the
mansion of Karswell in Jacques
Tourneur's creepy 1957 classic
Night of the Demon.
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'Philadelphia'
police HQ: First Chicago House, Long Acre, London
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And ëPhiladelphia Central Police HQí? That's the First
National Bank of Chicago, First Chicago House, 90 Long
Acre, in – erm – London.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR A KISS BEFORE DYING
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ASSOCIATED
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Brocket
Hall
was the mansion of the evil demon-raiser Karswell in 1957's
Night of the Demon,
and was the estate in the Agatha Christie mystery
Murder With Mirrors. The'Nelwyn Village' for
Willow was built on
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