CREDITS SNATCH, 2000 dir: Guy Ritchie Jason Statham Lennie James Alan Ford Vinnie Jones Brad Pitt Benicio Del Toro Rade Serbedzija Ewen Bremner

“Should I call you Bullet? Tooth?”
“You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.”

Snappy and inventive, but Guy Ritchie’s compulsive laddishness is starting to outstay its welcome.

Naturally, the setting is London, where the diamond store of Doug the Head (Mike Reid) is Premier House, 12-13 Hatton Gardens, EC1, near Holborn. His nearby local (where director Ritchie puts in a microcameo as Man Reading Newspaper) is Ye Olde Mitre Tavern, between 8 & 9 Hatton Gardens.

For once the ‘Ye Olde’ isn’t a faux addition from the seventies, but the real deal. Tucked away in the narrow alley between 8 and 9 Hatton Garden, marked by an old crooked street lamp and a small sign in the shape of a bishop’s mitre.

Snatch location: Doug the Headís local pub: Ye Old Mitre Tavern, Hatton Gardens

This tiny pub, with wood-panelled bars can get pretty busy at lunchtimes. It was built in 1547 for servants of the palace of the Bishops of Ely, Cambridgeshire (and is technically still part of Cambridgeshire), but after the reformation, Queen Elizabeth obliged the bishops to rent land to one of her courtiers, Sir Christopher Hatton, hence the name of the area. Shades of Passport to Pimlico – since the bar is technically not part of London, legend has it that police must ask permission to enter, which is quite possibly why itís Doug’s local.

Snatch location: Sol's pawm shop: Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green

To the East End, and Bethnal Green. 88 Teesdale Street, E2, became Sol’s (Lennie James) pawn shop. Bethnal Green Town Hall, Cambridge Heath Road at Patriot Square (also used in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), became Benicio Del Toro’s tailorís .

On the Park Royal Industrial Estate just behind Central Middlesex Hospital, west London, a casually tossed carton of milk precipitates the motor smash.

Snatch location: Turkish's office: Jester's Amusements, Broadway, West Ealing

Even further west, in West Ealing, Jesters Amusements, 127 Broadway at Coldershaw Road, is the games arcade and the office of wide-boy Turkish (Jason Statham) that gets smashed up. Near the next stop north (South Greenford) is 14 Tees Avenue, Perivale, across the A40, which was home to Boris the Blade (Rade Serbedzija).

Snatch location: the home of Boris the Blade: Tees Avenue, Perivale

Way south of the river, Caesars Nightclub, 156-160 Streatham Hill (tel: 020 8671.3000) The site of Brad Pitt’s unlicensed boxing match. Seventies and eighties music is the more usual fare. Cheap and cheerful or huge and cheesy? It probably amounts to the same thing.

Snatch location: ‘The Drowning Trout’: The Jolly Gardeners, Black Prince Road, Lambeth

‘The Drowning Trout’, the big old pub where Bullet-Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) is confronted by Sol and co before the bloody shoot up, is The Jolly Gardeners, 49 Black Prince Road, at Tyers Street, SE11. Despite its proximity to Westminster, do remember that this is a local boozer, not a Mayfair winebar. Nearby, Salamanca Place is where Brick-Top’s heavies catch up with Tyrone (Ade), but it has since been completely redeveloped.