Seaside piers in movies

[glyn horton]

Penarth Pier can be seen in House! (2000)

[batman]

In the US Santa Monica Pier is used almost as a regular character in Harry O.

[Tony Pendrey]

The Mumbles pier features very prominently in "Twin Town".

[Maurice]

The documentary, broadcast on 11th December, is still available on iPlayer.



Victoria Pier, Colwyn Bay, North Wales : "one year in the life of a building fighting for survival."



Steve Hunt purchased the pier on ebay, selling his own house, in Cambridgeshire, to kick-start the project. He hopes to restore the entire structure.



Income depends on a cafe, amusement arcade and bar.



The pier, which recently celebrated its 108th birthday, is noted for an art deco pavilion opened on 8th May, 1934.



Mike Lees, glass artist, has volunteered to restore a massive stained glass ceiling, covered up in the 1960s.



The pavilion's various uses included boxing, wedding receptions and recitals of Gilbert and Sullivan.



A group of local artists has used the pier for exhibitions.



Work on the entire restoration project has stopped. The local authority, Conwy County Borough Council, took Steve to court in a dispute about unpaid business rates and council tax.



The Council "won". Steve was declared bankrupt and ceased trading. There is considerable local sympathy for his predicament.



The documentary includes an interview with the owner of the Grand Pier, Weston-super-Mare, destroyed by fire. Restoration has already started there.

[Maurice]

name='ghughesarch']Hunstanton Pier, Barnacle Bill / All At Sea (1957)

BARNACLE BILL is available on DVD for the first time: MovieMail £14.99p plus £1 pp.



Alec Guiness plays a retired naval Captain who buys a decrepit pier and registers it as a cruise ship at anchor.



DVDs of Ealing Studio films: MovieMail has an attractive "3 for the price of 2" offer.

[billy farmer]

I recently watched all 13 episodes of the TV series Danger UXB (1979), Cromer Pier featured in episode 12 of Danger UXB, the episode was called The Pier.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0553880/

[harryshand]

Weston's Grand Pier also appears in Deadly Strangers

[Merton Park]

Wasn't there a Pier in The Entertainer? Is it Brighton's West Pier in the background in the titles sequence of Summer Holiday?

[Lord Lionheart]

In the US Santa Monica Pier is used almost as a regular character in Harry O.

I live within walking distance of the Santa Monica pier, there have been many movies featuring Santa Monica pier,
including;
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Sting - the carousel is on SM pier
Forrest Gump - Forrest doing his coast to coast jog ends on the SM pier
Iron Man and many many more

Baywatch probably also features many shots of the pier as the series was at least partially shot on Santa Monica Beach.

Not a pier but one of my favorites to look out for is the 'California incline' which is featured a couple of times in the 'It's a mad, mad , mad, mad world' car chase scenes. I loved this movie as a kid. Growing up in the UK little did I imagine I would be walking my own kids down this incline to the beach every summer. It's within walking distance of SM pier.

Incidently Stan Laurel spent his last days close to both the SM pier and the California incline in a house or apartment on Ocean Avenue, I think about that sometimes when I drive along there. Anyway............. back to piers

[Steve Crook]

In the US Santa Monica Pier is used almost as a regular character in Harry O.

You have to be careful with your punctuation, or how you read that sentence

Steve

[Moor Larkin]

Wasn't the pier at Bognor Regis seen in 'Wish you we're here' ??? 'Up Yer Bum' but it's been years since i've seen it.

I think it was Worthing.

The main location used was the picture house in Worthing,
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so logic says it would have been Worthing Pier, but under movieland law, it might just as easily have been New Brighton......

I can't believe Steve Crook got away with Wigan Pier earlier.........

[billy farmer]

Cromer Pier in Our Miss Fred (1972).

[Merton Park]

The climax to Falling Down with Michael Douglas featured Santa Monica Pier.

[Moor Larkin]

The climax to Falling Down with Michael Douglas featured Santa Monica Pier.

I imagine it was underneath that one where Leslie Nielsen got murdered by Patrick McGoohan, who was having an Identity Crisis. I would say the piers at Brighton are the British equivalent of Santa Monica in terms of frequency of use in movies, as Brighton is a very frequent movie location for British films.

There's an old Liam Neeson movie set in Brighton, but in a bizarre location twist, when his character visits what is described as a "Villa on the outskirts of Brighton", the action for the exterior of the villa is actually filmed at the Portmeirion Hotel!! I can only assume the locations manager fancied a holiday in Wales because there are ample numbers villas in and around Brighton itself....

[Folkal Point]

French Dressing - Ken Russell's first feature (and very nearly his last), features Herne Bay pier in Kent.

[johnnyn]

The main location used was the picture house in Worthing,
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so logic says it would have been Worthing Pier, but under movieland law, it might just as easily have been New Brighton......

I can't believe Steve Crook got away with Wigan Pier earlier.........

Most of the locations were in Worthing: including the Dome, Bus Station, and overhead walkway above the beach huts - half of which has just been knocked down for Worthing's new swimming pool.

The seafront where Emily Lloyd cycles is Bognor and you can see Bognor Pier (complete with gap) much longer in 1986 than now right at the beginning of the film and the same seafront at the end.

cheers
john

You can also see Bognor Pier in The Punch and Judy Man with the Sandman's hut underneath.

[egglondon]

Llandudno Pier was used in 'Yanks' (Schlesinger 1978)

[Joe Fraguela]

The 1956 UK british-b movie Shadow of a Man starring Paul Carpenter and Rona Anderson was filmed in Hastings and some of the film scenes were filmed on Hastings Pier.

[billy farmer]

Cromer Pier also featured in the following episode of This is Your Life - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768595/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thomas_Davies

[Windthrop]

Piltdown AKA Bognor Regis in The Punch And Judy Man

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