Dorset Themed Films

[kline]

As mentioned elsewhere the in-laws are from the USA and have come to expect themed film evenings when on holiday. This year our location is Dorset.



So, any suggestions for Dorset themed films or TV programmes (drama or documentary) to appeal (that we can get hold of).



My starters would be;



Moonfleet,

Nuts in May,

French Lieutenant's Woman

all the Hardy adaptations (I preferred the Mayor of Casterbridge with Bates & Stallybrass moi-meme),

the greatest haircuts of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall



Were there any detective stories filmed there (Rockliffe's Babies ?)



Your expert views welcomed. Many Thanks.

[Steve Crook]

Powell and Pressburger's The Small Back Room (1949) starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron finishes up with a very tense bomb disposal scene on Chesil Beach. For the most part it's a "Brit Noir" set during WWII



Available on a Criterion DVD with a very good commentary track



Also ...

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) with Julie Christie & Terence Stamp

Lots of Dorset action there in Thomas Hardy's "Wessex"



Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Most of the "Vietnamese countryside" scenes are actually filmed in Dorset. But it's not obvious



The Guinea Pig (1948)

With Richard Attenborough as the working class boy given an academic scholarship to a public shool. Filmed at Sherborne School in Dorset



Steve

[darrenburnfan]

Moonfleet (1955), with Stewart Granger; Jon Whiteley; George Sanders and Joan Greenwood, was set in Dorset, but was filmed entirely in California and the cliffs and beach scenes looked nothing like those in the real Dorset.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Another of Thomas Hardy's novels set in Dorset....."Tess"

Superb film.....but was filmed in France, because director Roman Polanski faced extradition to USA if found in UK

Sgt S

[HUGHJAMPTON]

The Dam Busters, the bomb testing scenes were shot around Portland and Weymouth. And for that commercial break, go for the Hovis ad, that was filmed at Gold Hill, Shaftsbury.

[chiglet]

Heroes of Telemark. Some scenes were filmed in Poole Harbour.

[Euryale]

Comrades (1986) about the Tolpuddle martyrs, partly filmed in Dorset as well as Australia.



Brandy For The Parson (1952), filmed in Devon and Dorset.



Rough Shoot (1953), starring Joel McCrea and Herbert Lom, made on location in Dorset. Not sure if this is commercially available, though.



E.

[Mark O]

Are 'the Railway Children' two productions with Jenny Agutter set in Dorset if not actually made there?

[mallee59]

name='Mark O']Are 'the Railway Children' two productions with Jenny Agutter set in Dorset if not actually made there?

thought the original was around the Keighley and Worth railway

[dylan]

Losey's The Damned filmed at Weymouth and Portland.



D.

[Straff]

Vis-a-vis ' Far from the Madding Crowd ' (the Stamp/Christie version) does anyone know of a 2.35:1 DVD ?

[DB7]

Paranoiac I believe. I did mean to post some images to id the exact location.

[CaptainWaggett]

name='Mark O']Are 'the Railway Children' two productions with Jenny Agutter set in Dorset if not actually made there?

I'm fairly sure that in the book they go North.



Any version of Persuasion will have some key Lyme Regis scenes.

[McGill]

name='kline']



Were there any detective stories filmed there (Rockliffe's Babies ?)



Your expert views welcomed. Many Thanks.

I believe Rockcliffe's Folly was filmed there.

[HUGHJAMPTON]

Monty Python's Flying Circus, the bearded castaway at the beginning of each programme was filmed at Studland Beach. The Ruth Rendell Mysteries with George Baker, as Wexford. Tom Jones with Albert Finney.

[Rob Compton]

Obscure - but good!... "All Over the Town" filmed in Lyme Regis



See this link: All Over the Town (1949)



rgds

Rob

[Stevie Gee]

Railway Children was Keithley & Worth Valley in Yorkshire, not Dorset. They are actually quite proud of it....



I am sure I have seen Dorchester in a film....

[Santonix]

name='HUGHJAMPTON']The Dam Busters, the bomb testing scenes were shot around Portland and Weymouth. And for that commercial break, go for the Hovis ad, that was filmed at Gold Hill, Shaftsbury.

The scenes where Gibson and Wallace watch the bombs being tested were filmed at Gibralter Point near Skegness in Lincolnshire.

[CC1]

Harbour Lights (with Nick Berry) filmed at West Bay

Original Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter) opening shots were also filmed at West Bay

The Bulldog Breed (Norman Wisdom) some filming at Portland Harbour

By the Sea (Two Ronnies silent film) was shot around Swanage & the Purbeck Hills

[darrenburnfan]

Moonfleet (1955) was set on the Dorset coast, but was filmed almost entirely in Hollywood, with the exception of the cliffs and beach scenes, which were filmed on the Californian coast.