anthony chubb

watching it the other day i wondered where they filmed the rowing scene the begining when they set of with that tudor looking bldg behind and that big pipe thing as they set off ??????

anton

Tony Pendrey

If it's the part I'm thinking of then it's a place called Middle Fell Bridge, Langdale Beck in the Lake District. That's according to IMDB anyway. It would make sense as they were up that way using Carnforth station for the location shots.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Tony Pendrey

OOPS ! No I was wrong. Middle Fell bridge is in the film but it's not the rowing scene. Just watched it again and it looks like any public park boating lake.

I'll keep looking.

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Tony Pendrey

Found it ! It's Regents Park. Filmed Straight after the Lake District stuff during a chilly February.

Here is a bit about it.

"The script was opened out so that audiences would see the lovers going to the cinema, together in a rowing boat, taking a drive, lingering over a stone bridge. The 'stone bridge' sequence was the last one filmed in the Lake District, at Middle Fell in Langdale, after the company had already wrapped up at Carnforth. There was a regrettable delay of two days because, being February, the light levels were poor. On the third day, impatient to return south to get on with the boating sequences, which were scheduled to begin on Regent's Park boating lake on 23 February, Lean took a gamble, opened the lens up and filmed on the bridge. Two further locations in the south of England were used to good effect in the film. The fictional town of Milford, where the lovers have tea and go to the pictures, was filmed on the streets of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, and the cinema where they watch Flames of Passion was, in reality, the Metropole in Victoria, London, where 'business as usual' meant that the crew could only gain access to the auditorium after the building emptied, usually at around 10.30 or 11 p.m. each night"

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Marky B

I didn't see all of it,but a small bridge appeared towards the end - it looked like Surrender Bridge in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Tony Pendrey

That was the afore mentioned Middle Fell Bridge in the Lake District.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

Marky B

That was the afore mentioned Middle Fell Bridge in the Lake District.

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