Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl film locations
Film locations: Los Angeles; Grenadines
A movie in a long dead genre (The Pirate Movie, Roman Polanski’s Pirates, Yellowbeard...), based on a theme park ride. Didn’t look too promising, did it? But a good script and a great cast save the day.
‘Fort Charles, Port Royal’ was built on a three-acre bluff on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, south of Los Angeles, on the site of Marineland, a one-time amusement park (near the Point Vicente Lighthouse seen in Pearl Harbor). The Governor’s mansion was also built here (the interior being a set at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach, a little further north up the coast).
St Vincent in the Grenadines was the production base in the southern Caribbean. The harbour of ‘Port Royal’ was built at Wallilabou Bay on St Vincent (the dock and a facade have been left), and the small town set (which has now gone) at Chateaubelair.
The outer Grenadine island of Petite Tabac became the deserted isle where Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly) are abandoned by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) If you want the full Depp experience, stay at Young Island, a 35-acre resort, ten minute’s boat ride from St Vincent, where the star stayed for part of the filming (www.youngisland.com).
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
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Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Regent Beverly Wilshire, 9500 Wilshire Boulevard (tel: 310. 275.5200) at the foot of Rodeo Drive
Cicada, Oviatt Building, 617 South Olive Street, downtown Los Angeles (tel: 213.488.9488)
Trivia
The Regent Beverly Wilshire became home for Zira and Cornelius after their Escape From the Planet of the Apes in 1971.
Cicada, with its ocean liner-inspired style, is where Kim Basinger succumbs to “pathological intoxication” in psycho-thriller Final Analysis. Tony Bennett croons If I Ruled the World for Bruce (Jim Carrey) here in Bruce Almighty, and Woody Harrelson confronts Demi Moore and Robert Redford outside the restaurant in Indecent Proposal. More recently, it became the restaurant in Mr & Mrs Smith with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.