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Count Murco	What film recreate's Old London Town best ?	Lead	[-]
Mar 27 12 8:31 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	As a backdrop to horror/murder film's , London must rank right up there as the one of the most popular backdrop's from the 1920's right through to the mid 60's .Like Denis Gifford stated in his book , although some English folk sneered at Hollywood's idea of a fog bound London with chirpy taxi driver's and caped Bobby's blowing whistles as they run through dark street's it's a classic image and I for one love it and wish London was more like it in real life ! So let's have your opinions on what film had the greatest recreation of classic Ye Olde London Town !
Mora		#1	[-]
Mar 27 12 10:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hi Count: I'd give my nod to "The Lodger" with "Hangover Square" a close second.
Elisabeth		#2	[-]
Mar 31 12 7:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Fredric March and Spencer Tracy versions of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE do a fine job as well... "E" Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
Count Murco		#3	[-]
Apr 1 12 2:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Both of those are good , for me the first Basil Rathbone 20th century Sherlock Holmes gets my nod and surprisingly the park scenes from "She wolf of London" ring my bell also !
TomWeaver999		#4	[-]
Apr 1 12 3:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Never having been to Old London, I wouldn't know, but THE LODGER was my first thought, also. Perhaps the silent LODGER -- made BY Englishters, probably some of them old enough to actually remember London in Jack the Ripper days -- would be a contender. Turn up the fog machines and have a bobby call a passerby "guv'nor" and moviemakers could shoot three blocks from my house and I'd probably give it my seal of approval.
Monsterpal		#5	[-]
Apr 1 12 8:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Alastair Sim CHRISTMAS CAROL does a good job.
Geezermonster		#6	[-]
Apr 1 12 9:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The John Barrymore silent JEKYLL & HYDE also did a good job of recreating the seamy side of Lunnon. I believe it borrowed a bit from Griffith's BROKEN BLOSSOMS of the year before in that respect. PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY also had a lot of old London atmosphere. The winding streets of Soho today would be a good setting for an updated Ripper movie. A host of recent films (non-genre) have portrayed 19th-Century London beautifully: MRS. BROWN, YOUNG VICTORIA, TOPSY-TURVY AMONG THEM. STAGE BEAUTY, a better film than SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, in my opinion, portyayed 17th-Century London very well. But then I prefer Claire Danes to Gwyneth Paltrow any day.
WalesGuy		#7	[-]
Apr 2 12 3:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For me, GRIP OF THE STRANGLER/CORRIDORS OF BLOOD plus the first GASLIGHT (1940). And possibly the Tod Slaughters.
telegonus		#8	[-]
Apr 4 12 4:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You beat me to it, Mora. I'd go for the Cregars as well. The already mentioned first couple of the Fox Holmes pictures are up there, too. Odd that Fox, a studio that seemed averse to horror, at least got the Old London stuff right. I like the production values of the otherwise mediocre 1951 Son Of Dr. Jekyll. Top notch art direction in this one. The Lewton unit did a good job with the 18th century London of Bedlam. It's not near the top of my list as to atmosphere but deserves honorable mention since the film is so good, so it works. I think that MGM did a decent if maybe too glossy job with the London of the 1945 Picture Of Dorian Gray. It's not so evocative as the London of the Fleming Jekyll and Hyde of a few years earlier,--we get a cold London in Dorian--yet it suits the subject matter of the film itself and in this iit succeeds.
Elisabeth		#9	[-]
Apr 6 12 12:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For Tom W... slightly OT Just go to London around Christmas Time, and you'll be pleasantly surprised. It was the first time I wasn't with my folks, and I was feeling a bit sad, when I saw two carollers. As it usually happens, a lonely tourist joined up, and people kept coming until we had about 20 singers. I heard this gorgeous, trained Tenor and turned to see a kid in black leather, spikes and chartreuse Hair.....The Ghost of Christmas Present....Right out of Dickens! After about 15 minutes, we all headed out separate ways, and I wasn't homesick any more. I also hope that the green haired 'angel' got a job with someone like Andrew Lloyd Webber...because he certainly had the voice for it. "E" Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
ghoulkid		#10	[-]
Apr 7 12 9:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monsterpal wrote: The Alastair Sim CHRISTMAS CAROL does a good job. I totally agree. And I always liked the look of London in House of Wax.
WalesGuy		#11	[-]
Apr 8 12 4:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Hollywood London's looked too clean and neat.
Wich2		#12	[-]
Apr 8 12 7:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Much like the Canadian New Yorks in today's TV!
Count Murco		#13	[-]
Apr 9 12 11:12 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	WalesGuy wrote: The Hollywood London's looked too clean and neat. Thats what I like about it !
atenolol		#14	[-]
Apr 18 12 7:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ghoulkid wrote: Monsterpal wrote: The Alastair Sim CHRISTMAS CAROL does a good job. I totally agree. And I always liked the look of London in House of Wax. London was in HOUSE OF WAX???
madeleymade		#15	[-]
Apr 18 12 9:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Does he mean Mystery of the Wax Museum, perhaps or Terror of the Wax Musuem, 1973 or that Get Smart spoof?
madeleymade		#16	[-]
Apr 18 12 12:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	what's the worst london you've seen? Was it prague, canada?
madeleymade		#17	[-]
Apr 20 12 4:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anyone?
Count Murco		#18	[-]
Apr 21 12 7:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	madeleymade wrote: what's the worst london you've seen? Was it prague, canada? Neither ! the totally false Notting hill in the film of the same name and yes , I know it was filmed in London but anyone who has gone there knows what a grim place it is overall full of dodgy area's no matter how much the yuppies try to dress it up .
madeleymade		#19	[-]
Apr 21 12 9:54 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I know. It is also much more full of black people, but i don't really count real London no matter how overdone
PhantomXCI		#20	[-]
Apr 21 12 12:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	atenolol wrote: ghoulkid wrote: Monsterpal wrote: The Alastair Sim CHRISTMAS CAROL does a good job. I totally agree. And I always liked the look of London in House of Wax. London was in HOUSE OF WAX??? HOUSE OF WAX was set in NYC, as was MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (although the prologue might have been in London. I don't remember exactly). TERROR IN THE WAX MUSEUM was London.

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