Cornwall film locations

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Portloe alias St Gweep

Cornwall's rugged landscape and scenery have been used by film and television companies as a backdrop for some of their productions.

The most recent critically and commercially successful film to be made mostly in Cornwall was the 2019 musical comedy,

Lands End and St Ives.[2]

In 1971, Sam Peckinpah's infamous movie Straw Dogs, starring Susan George, was filmed at St Buryan and Lamorna. More recent films featuring Cornwall include Saving Grace, set on the north coast around Port Isaac, Boscastle and Trebarwith Strand, and Johnny English, part of which was filmed at St Michael's Mount.

Cornwall's scenery came to particular prominence in the mid-1970s with the serialisation of

Echo Beach, a post-watershed drama set in fictional coastal resort Polnarren. The show will run in tandem with Moving Wallpaper, a sitcom starring Ben Miller as a producer desperate to make Echo Beach a success.[3]

The use of Cornwall as a film location has led to the establishment of ventures based in the area, including the £6 million South West Film Studios at St Agnes, now owned by Marilyn Gough,[4] the Cornwall Film Fund, the Cornwall Film Festival, and the production company Mundic Nation.

List of film locations in Cornwall

Trebarwith Strand, looking East towards Tintagel
Rinsey Head
Crackington Haven
Widemouth Bay

Television filmed in Cornwall

See also

References

  1. ^ "Visiting Cornwall Film Locations". Visiting Cornwall.
  2. ^ "Visiting Cornwall Film Locations". Visiting Cornwall.
  3. ^ BBC news June 2007 - Actor Donovan cast in ITV1 soap
  4. ^ BBC news April 2007 Plans unveiled for film studios
  5. ^ "BAIT Film by Lecturer Mark Jenkin Gains International Acclaim". News. Falmouth University. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  6. ^ Aplin, Lucy (15 February 2023). "Beyond Paradise filming location in Cornwall for the BBC's Death in Paradise spin-off series". inews.co.uk.

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