 | 80's Teen
See the teen movie locations, the school
that featured in The Breakfast Club and Ferris
Bueller's Day Off. It used to be the Main North High
School but now it's the Illinois State Police Station,
located at 9511 Harrison Street, Des
Plaines, Illinois.
You can get a shot of the outside if you're dead keen.
Cameron's house and the Ferrari garage in FBDO
are actually the Ben Rose Auto Museum located at 370 Beech
Street in Highland Park, Illinois. "Nobody puts baby in
the corner" at Mountain Lake Hotel, in Pembrooke
Virginia - home to the famous Dirty Dancing
scene.
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The Park San Han River (Pagsanjan Falls) near Manila in the
Philippines features heavily in Apocalypse Now. The film
also used sites such as the Charon River in the Dominican
Republic. A trashy bar of the
same name is located in Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam - it's missable.
The classic 19th century Italian Renaissance building's glass-topped atrium in Blade Runner was from the Bradbury Building
in Los Angeles. Find it at 304 S. Broadway at Third Street, Downtown LA. The castle from Hudson Hawk is in
Rimini Italy
at the Castello di San Leo.
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The Man with the Golden Gun was filmed in southern Thailand, half way between
Phuket and Krabi, on several islands, one of which
has become known as James Bond Island. Talk about the negative side of tourism... even the Thais have resorted to calling it that.
Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief was filmed in Monaco - the chase scene was filmed on Moyenne Corniche, the same road that
later claimed the life of Grace Kelly. The bridge can be found in Eze,
Provence, France. Hitchcock not only included himself in every film, his house
was also a cameo in most of his movies. It can be found at 10957 Bellagio Road, Bel Air in
LA.
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Angkor Wat in Cambodia features in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider as does Hatfield House in
Hertfordshire, UK, where Lara called home.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade had one of the most impressive movie locations in the world - the beautiful
Petra in Jordan.
Matmata
in Tunisia is the desert where much of the original Star Wars film was shot. It was the set for Tatooine (Luke's planet), and also Anekin
Skywalker's home town. It also provided the Cantina bar - find it at Hotel Sidi Driss.
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| | Famous Islands
The island of Kastellorizo, Greece was used as the set for Mediterraneo - you can see the blue house from the harbour. While in
Greece, you can also check out the island of Cephalonia, featured in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. And yes, we know, the book was
heaps better than the movie. The Beach was filmed on Phi Phi
Island, in southern Thailand, which can be visited on
a day trip by boat from Karabi. The Haew Suwat waterfalls are in Khao Yai National Park.
Kauai in Hawaii features in Jurassic Park. If you've dreamed about The Big Blue, you can hop between Kalotaritissa Bay
in Amorgos on Cyclades in Greece (home to the stranded ship scene), Egia Anna in Small Cyclades nearby, and Taormina in Messina,
Sicily.
Unfortunately we can't guarantee sightings of Jean-Marc Barr.
Waking Ned Devine was filmed at the town of Cregneash on the Isle of
Man, off Ireland. The island is busy marketing itself to potential
film makers, and also boasts classics like Thomas the Tank Engine.
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Fans of Casablanca will be disappointed to hear it was mainly shot at the Bar Casablanca at the Hyatt Regency in
Casablanca, Morocco,
but it may disappoint. While in Morocco, check out the kasbah Ait Ben Haddou in Draa Valley, Ouarzazale, which was used in Lawrence
or Arabia and Gladiator. Fans of A Room With A View will be excited to know that you can picnic where Julian Sands
and the big-haired Helena Bonham Carter fell for each other. Visit the Villa di Maiano, just north of
Florence.
If you had a farm in Africa, it would be in Kenya, at the beautiful Shaba National Game Reserve were Out of Africa was filmed.
The Bridge Over the River Kwai is in Kanchanaburi in
Thailand. It's a well-trodden landmark and only an hour from Bangkok.
Glen Nevis in northern Scotland is the home to Braveheart - you can even go on a tour to hear the story of William Wallace if the
movie wasn't enough.
Fancy donning a white frock and getting a Seven Year Itch in New
York? You'll find the subway gate on the northwest corner
of 51st and Lexington. The Trans-Lux Theatre is no longer there, but the subway still does its thing every few minutes.
In Germany, visit the Eberbach monastery, in the Rhineland. It was home to In the Name of the Rose.
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| | TV Land
Cosmopolitans anyone? You can do the Sex and the City tour and visit the shopping sights, bars and clubs - sounds tacky
and probably is. But you know you love it! If you prefer the bundled approach, when you are in New York City you can knock off Friends and Sopranos on
a Manhattan TV
tour. Tom's Restaurant from Seinfeld is on the corner of Broadway and 110th. The Soup Nazi's shop -
officially the Soup Kitchen International - is at 259A West 55th Street. It's closed during summer and on weekends. The same rules apply
as in the show. If you're looking for Jerry's apartment exterior, you won't find it in
New York; the actual apartment facade used is in
LA.
Melrose Place fans may find it hard to accept that Melrose Place is but a small slip of a road coming off Melrose Ave and isn't worth
seeking out. Buffy the Vampire Slayer fiends might not know that the school is the same one used in 90210. It's Torrance
High School - located at 2200 W. Carson Street in Beverly
Hills.
If you want to visit the home town of Dawson's Creek get yourself to Wilmington,
North Carolina. The original inspiration for the
Cheers pub is in Boston - the Bull and Finch on the edge of Boston Common. It will disappoint however, as it is only really the stairs
that were used. The bar itself is tiny and mainly flogs Cheers merchandise. Scully and Mulder fans
should head to Surry in British
Columbia, Canada, home to the X-Files.
North Bend, Washington and in particular Twede's Cafe is where much of the television show Twin Peaks was shot.
Roslyn, Washington, which stood in for Cicely, Alaska in the television show Northern Exposure.
Pin Oak Court, Vermont South, Victoria, is the suburban Melbourne shooting location for internationally popular soap opera Neighbours |
