Originally Posted by cashman (Post 924326)

its n owd un,but i reckon "Whistle Down The Wind" twas set ribble valley way i think.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924403)

Another film I absoutely love, and also do another party piece from, which involves slapping someon's face, is A Taste of Honey.

Was Lancashire at the time it was filmed, pre-Greater Manchester, and also has some great filming in Blackpool.

Originally Posted by steeljack (Post 924307)

Watching 'Hobsons Choice' on the classic movie channel and it got to wondering what film best sums up Lancashire. Seems to me there was a time when having a "thick" Lancashire/northerm accent didn't mean that you were 'thick' in the head like the media like to portray these days .
So whats your favourite film set in Lancashire ......

thanks ...;) :D

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 924326)

its n owd un,but i reckon "Whistle Down The Wind" twas set ribble valley way i think.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 924326)

its n owd un,but i reckon "Whistle Down The Wind" twas set ribble valley way i think.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924500)

I do believe that one of the most tear jerking love stories put on celluloid of all time - and one of the top three British films, as voted by the critics - was set in Lancashire.

'Brief Encounter', starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, made mostly in Carnforth.

How come you lot missed that?

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924508)

Lovely, init!

Just a shame there ain't any steam trains running through to give it some atmosphere. Still, I'd much rather meet a nice little blondie there for a cuppa and a cream bun than in that hell hole, Wetherspoons Accy.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924500)

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924500)

I do believe that one of the most tear jerking love stories put on celluloid of all time - and one of the top three British films, as voted by the critics - was set in Lancashire.

'Brief Encounter', starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson, made mostly in Carnforth.

How come you lot missed that?

Am I the only great romantic left on Accy Web?

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 924523)

The question is:- why would a nice little blondie want to meet you for a cuppa and a cream bun?

Send your answer on the back of a fourpenny stamp...on second thoughts, no, don't bother.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 924466)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning I think was centred around Rochdale always remember those immortal words of Alan Bates when he was working at his machine counting the machined pieces, nine hundred and ninety seven, nine hundred and ninety eight, nine hundred and ninety bloody nine, all I'm out for is a good time all the rest is propaganda

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924590)

Great film.

True classic.

But I'm afraid it wasn't meant to be set in Lancashire.

True, Carnforth station was used as Millford railway station. Mainly because it was relatively quiet, and we were still at war.

The town scenes were filmed in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

Lots of cut-glass, home counties accents. But from station buffet, to cinema foyer, you'll not hear a Lancashire one.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 924633)

The question was 'Best movie/film set in Lancashire'

No one gives sod all about Beaconsfield; they care about the train and the clock scenes, filmed in Lancashire.

Now go back to bed and think yourself lucky you're not going to get a petrol bomb through your window tonight.

Originally Posted by wadey (Post 924598)

It was Nottingham, the main location being the Raleigh bike factory

"
And it was there, to the turnery department, that Reisz' cameras went. Finney actually spent two days on a Raleigh lathe, so he would look convincing.
The film company used some of the turnery employees as extras, paying them Equity rates for the scenes in which they appeared. They were paid on a "cash in hand" basis, £2 a day.
At one point Finney rides a Raleigh bike. He was filmed on Salisbury Street, Radford, for a scene in which he is supposedly going home after work.
A similiar scene, with Finney on the same sports bike, was also filmed in Beaconsfield Terrace, one of Nottingham's then-still-cobbled streets. Sillitoe himself had lived there, at No 5, and his mother still did when the film was made.
A number of Nottingham pubs were used, notably the notorious Eight Bells in St Peter's Gate. The pub had a striking ground-floor tiled frontage.
To ensure the film's smooth-running – and that everything was in place when necessary – maker Woodfall Films set up production headquarters in the Co-op offices in Toll Street at least a month before the cameras started rolling. It became the hub of productivity.
It was from there the company issued its appeal for extras – general extras as opposed to the Raleigh workers – for the filming scenes in Old Market Square and elsewhere in the city centre.
More than 900 people answered. In the event, about 150 were picked."


This is Nottingham | Nottingham screening for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 924758)

A Kind of Loving was set in Blackburn, Preston and Manchester...it was a gritty northern film.
Mullards Factory on Phillips Road was one of the locations, and the Rotunda in Blackburn Infirmary was used for one of the scenes(ward 11 and 12).....I think the park scenes were set in Heaton Park at Manchester.

The film was very much my era....and I liked Alan Bates.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924892)

It could be Lancashire, in Thatcher's Britain, but isn't.

IMDb - Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)

Set in that county, just t'otherside o' Burnley.

:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 924907)

May I say one of George Costigan's best roles, only watched it again a few months ago:D

Originally Posted by talentedbutslow (Post 924971)

"The Family Way".....who could ever forget John Mills immortal words....."He walked through here like it was a public convenience"

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924914)

Aspiration and degradation.

Thatcher's Britain.

Nice you appreciate this celluloid documentation of those times.

:D

Originally Posted by talentedbutslow (Post 924971)

"The Family Way".....who could ever forget John Mills immortal words....."He walked through here like it was a public convenience"

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924892)

It could be Lancashire, in Thatcher's Britain, but isn't.

IMDb - Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)

Set in that county, just t'otherside o' Burnley.

:D

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 925061)

Loved the music too we're having a gang bang:D:D:D

Originally Posted by wadey (Post 925515)

Black Lace

Black Lace - Gang Bang - YouTube

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925521)

Rita Sue do Gang Bang - YouTube

This hopefully works.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 925786)

What about that film 'Yanks'...that's set in Lancashire....has Steeljack, being a Yank, got 'owt to do with that?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 925804)

Wasn't the follow up to Debbie Does Dallas set in Lancashire?

Debbie Does Dingle.

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 925808)

Another thread wander....am I right in thinking that about 50 years ago this week/next week there was a seaside special train running from Burnley/Accy/Blackburn that crashed and came off the rails somewhere outside Blackpool with lots dead and injured?

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 925906)

I wonder why there was never a film made of 'Mist over Pendle'? That really would have shown off some of the best parts of the area. I read it as a boy and it inspired me to spend many hours biking around the Pendle area,finding the places mentioned. Never did find Malkin Tower! Shame, I might have been spellbound.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 924404)

(Slap.)

'Yer know wha' they're callin' ya around here?'

'A silly little slut!'

(Pause.)

'O' Jaw, I am sorry'.

Originally Posted by Romps (Post 925929)

I can hear Dora in my head right now. Jeff And that damn doll cracks me up!! X gonna watch it tomorrow now!

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 925779)

A girl in our year had been in a film set round Pendle about the Lancashire witches but I can't remember what it was called -think it was made in the mid 70's though...

brilliant!

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

am I right in thinking that about 50 years ago this week/next week there was a seaside special train running from Burnley/Accy/Blackburn that crashed and came off the rails somewhere outside Blackpool with lots dead and injured?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 934370)

Diary of a Bad Lad.

Gangster film set in Blackburn.

Just watched it.

Dire, with some unintentional hilarity.

Here's their trailer.

(Contains some swearing.)

Diary Of A Bad Lad Watch Free Feature Films Online - YouTube

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 934572)

I think "dire" comes out from the clip you've posted!

Originally Posted by mimicuk (Post 936761)

Does anyone remember the film "The Nature of the Beast" which was filmed around Accrington?

Originally Posted by mimicuk (Post 936761)

Does anyone remember the film "The Nature of the Beast" which was filmed around Accrington?

Originally Posted by mimicuk (Post 936761)

Does anyone remember the film "The Nature of the Beast" which was filmed around Accrington?

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 925808)

Another thread wander....am I right in thinking that about 50 years ago this week/next week there was a seaside special train running from Burnley/Accy/Blackburn that crashed and came off the rails somewhere outside Blackpool with lots dead and injured?

Originally Posted by yerself (Post 971147)

Have a read about Bill Naughton if you're interested in films/plays set in Lancashire. Naughton claimed the idea for Coronation Street was nicked from him.

Bolton Museums - Bill Naughton

Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy (Post 973504)

Best movie/film set in Lancashire? Does TV count? then:-

Boys from the Blackstuff and GBH.

Honourable mention to 'Juliet Bravo'

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 973508)

Historically Liverpool was in the county palantine of Lancashire, but when Boys from the Blackstuff was filmed and set, it was in Merseyside.

Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy (Post 973516)

I doubt many Scousers would consider themselves as Lancastrian though.

Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy (Post 973516)

It certainly has a different feel about it than the rest of Lancashire, something to do with being a port I think.