Cornwall film locations
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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,
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
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
- Hayle
- West Penwith[5]
- Hinterland (2015) - Polzeath and Port Isaac
- About Time (2013) - St Austell
- Cold and Dark (2005) - South West Film Studios at St Agnes
- Ladies in Lavender (2004) - Penzance and Helston areas.
- San Antonio (2003) - Widemouth Bay
- Johnny English (2003) - St Michael's Mount.
- Holywell Bay, Eden Project.
- Saving Grace (2002) - Port Isaac, Boscastle, Trebarwith Strand
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) - Watergate Bay, Bodmin Moor
- Mansfield Park (1999) - Charlestown
- The Shell Seekers (1998) - Land's End, Lamorna, Marazion
- Swept from the Sea (1997) - Crackington Haven, Bodmin.
- Oscar and Lucinda (1997) - Boscastle, Port Isaac, Bossiney
- Rebecca (1997) - Charlestown
- Poldark (1996) - Rinsey (The Lizard), Lansallos (near Looe), Penrose Estate (Helston)
- Moll Flanders (1996) - Falmouth, Charlestown
- Twelfth Night (1996) Trebarwith Strand
- Blue Juice (1995) - Newquay, St Ives, Mousehole, St Agnes, Godrevy
- The Three Musketeers (1993 film) - Boconnoc
- The Witches - Headland Hotel, Newquay
- Bryher, Isles of Scilly
- Doomwatch (1988) - Mevagissey, Polperro
- Never Say Never Again (1983) - Carn Brea, St Michael's Mount brief overflight.
- Dracula (1979) - Carlyon Bay
- The Eagle Has Landed (1976) - Newquay and Charlestown
- Malachi's Cove or The Seaweed Children (1974) - Trebarwith Strand
- Straw Dogs (1971) - St Buryan, Lamorna
- Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles) (1967) - Newquay
- Night of the Eagle (1962) - Cape Cornwall, Porthcurno Beach
- Knights of the Round Table (1953) - Tintagel
- Treasure Island (1950) - Carrick Roads, River Fal, Helford River, Falmouth
- Johnny Frenchman (1945) - Mevagissey
- Miranda (1948) - Carlyon Bay, Polperro, Looe.
- Love Story (1944) - Minack Theatre
- Jamaica Inn (1939) - exteriors shot at Bolventor
- The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) - Falmouth
- The Uninvited (1944) - "They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean."
Television filmed in Cornwall
- Beyond Paradise (2023) - Looe[6]
- Poldark (2015-2019) - various locations
- Echo Beach(2008) - Newquay
- Doc Martin (2004-2022) - Port Isaac
- A Seaside Parish (2003) - Boscastle
- Hornblower (2002) - Falmouth, Charlestown, Pendennis Castle, St Mawes, Rame Head
- Wild West (2002) - Portloe
- Coming Home (1998) - Lelant, Prideaux Place (Padstow), Marazion
- Frenchman's Creek (1998) - various locations
- Wycliffe (1993-1998) - various locations
- The Camomile Lawn (1992) - Veryan and Portloe
- Holywell BayBeach
- West Penwith
- Penmarric(1979) - various locations
- Poldark (1975-1977) - various locations
- The Onedin Line (1971-1980) - Charlestown
See also
- List of topics related to Cornwall
- Cornwall Film Festival
References
- ^ "Visiting Cornwall Film Locations". Visiting Cornwall.
- ^ "Visiting Cornwall Film Locations". Visiting Cornwall.
- ^ BBC news June 2007 - Actor Donovan cast in ITV1 soap
- ^ BBC news April 2007 Plans unveiled for film studios
- ^ "BAIT Film by Lecturer Mark Jenkin Gains International Acclaim". News. Falmouth University. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ^ Aplin, Lucy (15 February 2023). "Beyond Paradise filming location in Cornwall for the BBC's Death in Paradise spin-off series". inews.co.uk.
External links
- Visiting Cornwall film locations
- Visiting Cornwall television locations Archived 20 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine