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Around the world in 80 days 195612/27/2023 This historic pub is still going strong, though you're unlikely to stumble across it by accident. News of Fogg's arrival in the USA stirs up excitement back in England, where two sporty ladies ( Hermione Gingold and Glynis Johns) place their own personal bet on the outcome as they sit outside The Grenadier, 18 Wilton Row, Belgravia, SW1. Ironically, it’s the Reform Club that’s since gone on to become a regular screen star, in films such as Bond movies Die Another Day and Quantum of Solace, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, the live action debut of the Peruvian bear Paddington, along with Miss Potter, The Four Feathers, Nicholas Nickleby, even supplying the lobby of the ‘Dolphin Hotel, New York’ for the 2007 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1408.Īround The World In 80 Days location: the two ladies bet on the outcome: The Grenadier, Wilton Row, Belgravia, London SW1 The interior of the club became ‘Claridges Hotel’ for Oliver Parker’s 1999 version of Oscar Wilde’s An ideal Husband, the palace of the Viceroy of India for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, a tearoom in Keep The Aspidistra Flying and even suffered the indignity of being a greasy spoon for Julian Simpson’s 1999 The Criminal. Founded as the United Service Club (and known as The Senior) catering to the upper echelons of the military – it was the Duke of Wellington’s favourite club – it slowly fizzled out after merging with several other clubs and losing its distinct identity before being taken over by the Institute of Directors. The exterior of the club seen in the film is that of the Institute of Directors Club, 116 Pall Mall. In Jules Verne’s book, Fogg accepts the challenge to travel around the world at the Reform Club, 104 Pall Mall, SW1, a real London club and still going strong, though its interior, along with that of ‘Baggott’s Employment Office’ and ‘Lloyd’s of London’, was recreated in the studio at Elstree in Hertfordshire.Īround The World In 80 Days location: Phileas Fogg accepts the bet at the 'Reform Club': Institute of Directors, Pall Mall, London SW1 Fogg’s home now houses the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The intimidatingly grand houses bristle with security devices and many sport grandiose embassy plaques. The home of globetrotting hero Phileas Fogg ( David Niven) is 17 Belgrave Square, in the heart of posh Belgravia, a central London district of barely distinguishable cream streets and squares. So that’s a widescreen Todd-AO camera hidden in a street stall on the Guards’ parade ground, then? Hmm… The scene was supposedly filmed clandestinely with a camera hidden in a vegetable stall. The parade of the Scots Guard was filmed at Wellington Barracks on the south side of Birdcage Walk in Westminster. The opening scenes were naturally shot in London, beginning with posh Victorians strolling on Rotten Row, the riding path running along the southern perimeter of Hyde Park.Īround The World In 80 Days location: parade of the Scots Guard: Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, Westminster, London SW1 The ambitious plan originally was to employ a director from the relevant country to direct each sequence, but Brit director Michael Anderson, who kicked off with an efficient if uninspired job in London was handed the whole assignment by producer-showman Mike Todd.Īssociate Producer William Cameron Menzies, the brilliant production designer who storyboarded Gone With The Wind, was given responsibility for the exterior locations in Europe, Colorado and Oklahoma.Īs it turned out, a great deal of the film was made in the studios (you’re not going to fly all those guest stars halfway round the world for a one-minute cameo). First, the statistics, so beloved of publicity departments: 50 guest stars, 68,894 people on screen (don’t trust me, count’em), eight different countries four million air-passenger miles travelled, 112 exterior locations, 140 sets in six Hollywood studios plus studios in England, Hong Kong and Japan, 34 species of animal and 33 assistant directors (interesting juxtaposition). Ah, the great old days before digital imagery, when all those extras and sets existed in the physical world.
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