Pub scenes in films

[CaptainWaggett]

The pub in The Titfield Thunderbolt looks like it might be a lot of fun but you'd need to live within walking distance on account of the public transport being so rubbish. If ever a village needed a bus service...



Isn't the pub in Victim also real (the Salisbury in St Martin's Lane I believe)? Not a very relaxing place, what with all the blackmailers and vice squad hanging around.

[Greyandwhite]

Hi Cornelius, Withnail and I... has a couple of great pub scenes, one in London and one in Cumbria. I love the film but a few people on this site find it a real turn off. If you wanted a TV series pub scene then I'd mention the last episode of Boys From The Blackstuff which has an amazing scene of scousers going barmy in a giant lunchtime session. "Shake hands".



Also, Hitchcock's Frenzy has plenty of pub scenes...definitely at the start. Useful to you maybe as there is a pre-opening time sequence.

[julian_craster]

SATUTDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING





TIME BOMB [aka: Terror on a Train ](1953) (pub as centre of the community)



TIME GENTLEMEN PLEASE



Oxfordshire pubs in INSPECTOR MORSE



WINCHESTER CLUB in MINDER

[Nick Dando]

Sitting in the snug drinking cider with Jennifer Jones in Gone to Earth.



The arguments between David Farrah and Sid James in Small Back Room.



The punch ups from The Gift Horse, with Lord Dickie, M, and the Rumpo Kid.



The Cairo bar with Dirk Bogarde in They Who Dare.



The Alexandria lager drinking scene from Ice Cold in Alex.



Nick

[Able Abel]

name='Edward G']Quite a few in Get Carter (1971). Two women having a lively old cat fight, a funeral group where a man gets a pint thrown in his face, Michael carter asking for a drink "in a straight" glass etc.....

Those two women having a cat fight in Get Carter, were in real life, both rival singers on the working men's social club circuit, in the north of England. I once saw the dark haired lady (the pub singer) being interviewed on tv, talking about this film, and she said both of them were not really friendly towards each other, off the set ... so maybe all that hair-pulling and tumbling, wasn't just for the sake of the cameras.



On the subject of bar room brawls, what about the wild west style one, that was featured in Alfie (1966)?

[Moor Larkin]

name='Able Abel']Those two women having a cat fight in Get Carter,

Sylvia has a bitch-fight in Quare!!



Never happened in any pubs I ever went in..............

[Edward G]

Abel Abel,

You are quite right here.

Read Denea Wilde's interview about the Get Carter shoot here.



Get Carter 1971-Extras section.

name='Able Abel']Those two women having a cat fight in Get Carter, were in real life, both rival singers on the working men's social club circuit, in the north of England. I once saw the dark haired lady (the pub singer) being interviewed on tv, talking about this film, and she said both of them were not really friendly towards each other, off the set ... so maybe all that hair-pulling and tumbling, wasn't just for the sake of the cameras.



On the subject of bar room brawls, what about the wild west style one, that was featured in Alfie (1966)?

[Harleybloke]

What about 'Last Orders'?

[dremble wedge]

name='Harleybloke']What about 'Last Orders'?

The two worst words in the English language...

[Edward G]

How about the surreal scene in the pub in Carol Reed's celebrated " Odd Man Out" (1946)?

[faginsgirl]

There is always the pub (ok, tavern) scene in Oliver! where Nancy sneaks Oliver out while singing Ompapa Ompapa



xx

[Jackdaw]

Evocative pub scene, for me anyway, with the bonus of one of our great bands in its original form.





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[Gazza]

name='CaptainWaggett']Isn't the pub in Victim also real (the Salisbury in St Martin's Lane I believe)? Not a very relaxing place, what with all the blackmailers and vice squad hanging around.

Yep, the Salisbury hasn't changed a bit - although the clientele is more touristy these days.

[Cornelius]

hello everyone

Thanks so much for all these, was aware of Withnail, Get Carter etc, (who can forget the 'thin glass' request ;-) but loads there for me to explore. Please keep them coming, seems to me British cinema always at its best down the boozer! For what it's worth, anyone else got fond memories of the scene in 'The Wicker man'?

[Edward G]

A great pub scene, allright in the Wicker Man. Broad comedy, the whole pub singing along to bawdy drinking songs combined with a disturbing undercurrent as even the old geezers join in with a no holds barred animated and plain sleazy tribute to the "landlord's daughter" as both landlord and daughter (a ravishing Britt Ekland) look proudly on! Lively.

name='Cornelius']hello everyone

Thanks so much for all these, was aware of Withnail, Get Carter etc, (who can forget the 'thin glass' request ;-) but loads there for me to explore. Please keep them coming, seems to me British cinema always at its best down the boozer! For what it's worth, anyone else got fond memories of the scene in 'The Wicker man'?

[Santonix]

Still Crazy (1998), had a scene shot in the bar of The Red Lion at Avebury and Dance With A Stranger (1985), had scenes filmed at The Stagg And Huntsman in Hambleden.