Films with London in them

[Cockney_si]

Just watching The Davinci code and noticed that on one street there were two red phone boxes (one on each side of the road), one post box and one red bus in the same scene.
I'm sure in some films "London" has to have at least one of the above for people to recognise it.

[mrs_overall]

It's like every film from the 1960's features a debonair man and a dolly bird driving acoss a London bridge in a sports car.

I believe it was a compulsary scene for all films of that era

[Cockney_si]

Also in movies that feature Paris, the Eiffel Tower can be see from every window.

[mrs_overall]

Ditto the Coliseum in Rome

[nungate]

What annoyed me in the Da Vinci code was the bit at the end when he goes in search of the tomb. He's staying at the Ritz which is in Place Vendome all he needs to do is go out of the front door and cross the square, heading south, turn left into the rue di Rivoli and carry straight on toward the Louvre, instead they have him going up and down all sorts of streets when he's barely 10 minutes away from the place with the Magdalen's tomb is supposedly located! Sorry just needed to vent ..........

[Cockney_si]

People seem to take the long way round in films, I've noticed that a lot.

[tenrec]

Apparently english films sell better abroad if they have the usual tourist attractions in them.

[lankeela]

Once saw a soft porn film in Spain about an English detective in the seventies and he was wearing a deerstalker and smoking a pipe.

[askyourgran]

They all insist on bowlers and brollies in London films, and warm 'arted Cockneys.