10 Movies You Didn't Know Were Made In Britain

5. Goldeneye

goldeneye Don€™t get smart; I know you know the MI6 HQ is the real one on Vauxhall Road (oops, I do hope the SAS don€™t kill me). But remember that showpiece tank/car chase through St. Petersburg? Well, surprising as it may seem, Eon Productions couldn€™t just trash Russia€™s capital in the name of 007 spectacle (it would have made the Cold War a lot easier if they could). So, with little more than a few Cyrillic plaques, production designer Peter Lamont constructed an elaborate square around the back of Leavesden Studios. And Trevelyan€™s wonderfully grim Soviet train€”the one that looks like an evil Thomas the Tank Engine€”was actually traversing Peterborough€™s Nene Valley railyard. Now, this is a fascinating place€”trains from around the world are stored there, and so with minimal fuss, your showpiece train chase can be affordably filmed in Cambridgeshire! It can also be seen€”doubling as East Germany€”in Octopussy (1983). sean bean goldeneyeGiveaway British Character Actor: Okay, that would be cheating on this one.
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Hamish Crawford writes fiction more easily than fact. His first volume of short fiction, “A Madhouse, Only With More Elegant Jackets”, was published in 2011 from First Edition Publishing. He has an English degree from the University of Calgary and a Screenwriting M.A. from the University of Westminster, which leaves little space on the wall for his several PhD. rejection letters. His stories and articles have appeared in such publications as NoD and the Cult Britannia website (www.cultbritannia.co.uk). In September he will be speaking at a Doctor Who 50th anniversary conference in Hertfordsire. The owner of far more hats than heads, Hamish currently lives in Canada, and is disappointed that the preceding biography contains so few factual errors. Visit his website: http://hamish-crawford.weebly.com