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British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 09:33:40 pm
Inspired by a recent post showing a shot of Gordale in the Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell program/film. I was just wondering what other films (or tv shows) feature British crags?

Off the top of my head apparently Malham is in Harry Potter, and my personal favourite is Gordale waterfall being featured in The Dark Crystal (unfortunately I can't find a clip of this online).

Anyway, what have you guys got? Wad points for links to clips.


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#1 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 09:46:50 pm


The best!

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#2 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 10:08:47 pm
Guess the crag.....


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#3 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 10:18:39 pm
Brimham which also featured in Sherlock Holmes as Dartmoor.

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#4 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 10:28:29 pm
 Bits of monty python and holy grail were filmed in the Welsh slate quarries i think.

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#5 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 10:55:00 pm
Dinorwig in Clash of the Titans



When it comes to this thread, there can be only one...


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#6 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 10:57:18 pm
Malham and Gordale were in the Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon vehicle 'the trip'

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#7 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 11:01:30 pm
Roche Rock in Cornwall in The Omen III (@42 minutesish):



Duke’s Quarry as “the dump” in the 2002 version of Stig of the Dump:



Higher Tor in C4 student sitcom Fresh Meat:



I once saw a pr0no clip that was filmed at the Roaches too...  :whistle:

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#8 Re: British crags in films
September 21, 2018, 11:34:59 pm
Kilnsey (and the Tenants pub) were in Calendar Girls. Along with the Kilnsey show.

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#9 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 07:21:23 am
Carry on up the Khyber.

Substituting Afghanistan/Pakistan for the Watkins path up Snowden


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#10 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 07:24:56 am
I’ve been turned off (gently asked if I could do my climbing elsewhere) twice by Emmerdale filming at das Cliff

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#11 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 07:29:51 am
Higgar Tor in C4 student sitcom Fresh Meat:



Fixed the spelling and the clip.  :oops:

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#12 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 07:46:28 am
Bits of monty python and holy grail were filmed in the Welsh slate quarries i think.
I thought that was actually in the Ballahulish slate quarry near Glencoe, but could be wrong.

Hound Tor is in an episode of BBC's W.I comedyJam and Jerusalem, which I'm unashamed to have a soft spot for.

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#13 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 08:09:13 am
I’ve been turned off (gently asked if I could do my climbing elsewhere) twice by Emmerdale filming at das Cliff

*turfed* damned autocorrect

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#14 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 11:34:24 am
From the days when the BBC could afford stars like Peter O'Toole, the 1976 TV film of Rogue Male.

https://youtu.be/yMtGmGa8KZ0?t=11m33s

Sir Robert Hunter about to be pushed off the top of Deceiver Buttress, Wintour's Leap. GO wall in the background and the river Wye showing an unlikely tidal range for somewhere supposedly in Bavaria.
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#15 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 11:58:26 am
I always liked this python sketch at Ilkley.



Stanage has featured in various period dramas, Japanese tourists still visit to see Keira's rock.

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#16 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:03:31 pm
ITV set a police soap opera in Widnes/Runcorn. The opening episode featured a chase through the little wood on top of Pex, though you would have thought they were running through a vast forest from the way it was edited.

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#17 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:14:19 pm
Great thread.

game of thrones has some epic looking geological settings. Many in NI. Not sure if there is any climbing but be surprised if not.

https://www.finder.com/uk/game-of-thrones-locations

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#18 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:17:59 pm
https://youtu.be/ZKAahOOxy6M?t=5755

The Night Digger from 1971. Never watched it but the crag cameo is the finale at 1 hour 36 mins. Any guesses where?

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#19 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:41:23 pm
Bits of monty python and holy grail were filmed in the Welsh slate quarries i think.
I thought that was actually in the Ballahulish slate quarry near Glencoe, but could be wrong.


Watched it a couple of weeks ago and it does say in the credits that it is filmed entirely on location in Scotland.

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#20 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:46:23 pm
https://youtu.be/ZKAahOOxy6M?t=5755

The Night Digger from 1971. Never watched it but the crag cameo is the finale at 1 hour 36 mins. Any guesses where?

Bosigran?

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#21 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:54:02 pm
ITV set a police soap opera in Widnes/Runcorn. The opening episode featured a chase through the little wood on top of Pex, though you would have thought they were running through a vast forest from the way it was edited.

I'm sure that Hollyoaks or Brookside filmed someone getting shoved from the top of The Knife at Pex.

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#22 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 12:57:11 pm
https://youtu.be/ZKAahOOxy6M?t=5755

The Night Digger from 1971. Never watched it but the crag cameo is the finale at 1 hour 36 mins. Any guesses where?

Bosigran?

Yep! Too easy right? This thread needs a spoiler alert, as I guess I've basically ruined the end of that film for anyone who clicks on my link: don't know the story but ends when guy decides to Evil Knievel it off the top of Bosigran getting snagged up on Ledge Climb while his classic vintage British motorcycle continues to tumble on down Little Brown Jug - tragic.

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#23 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 01:09:40 pm


For the more romantically inclined. :-)

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#24 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 01:12:41 pm


Not technically a film and definitely not romantic.

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#25 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 04:40:02 pm
There's a Pete Postlethwaite film featuring climbing at Millstone, and on a side note some naked dancing under the cooling towers that were at the side of the M1. He might have been a decorator and possibly shagging his mates burd... Fucked if I can remember what it's called.

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#26 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 07:15:32 pm
Thor’s cave was used in a decidedly dodgy 1988 version of Bram Stoker’s Lair of the White Work, featuring a young Hugh Grant.

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#27 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 09:08:48 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_of_Muchalls

can't find a clip, but this is just near the bouldering at Muchalls



this was filmed in Newtonhill, Muchalls, Stonehaven and Johnshaven, so can see assorted crags in the background. It's so shit it's actually funny

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#28 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 11:09:20 pm
Wasn't the pete postlethwaite one "standing on the shoulders of giants". . I seem to recall various climbers and rope jocks getting extras parts for the pub scenes filmed in The Vine.

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#29 Re: British crags in films
September 22, 2018, 11:43:12 pm
Among Giants


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#30 Re: British crags in films
September 23, 2018, 07:48:28 am
YES!!

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#31 Re: British crags in films
September 23, 2018, 03:10:22 pm
Among Giants involved Mark Herbet (Dead Mans Shoes, This is England etc.) who was a mate of mine and GME’s when he was at Sheffield Poly.  They originally wanted to film at Gogarth but that proved too difficult so we decided on Millstone instead.  Our very own GME was the climbing double for James Thornton in the film and I was supposed to double for Pete Postlethwaite but had to pull out as I got my first proper job and had to go to London for my induction and training so missed the filming.

I’m pretty sure that UKB’s Fatboy Slimfast’s wife is an extra in The Princess Bride riding a horse in one the scenes cos she grew up in Stoney and it was all filmed nearby. 

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#32 Re: British crags in films
September 24, 2018, 09:07:30 am
And in that small moment, a life of fame eluded you.

In a non UK theme, a friend and ex climbing partner of mine Paul Avery (RIP) was Kevin Bacon's Stunt double in "the Air Up here", so i can claim 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon,.

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#33 Re: British crags in films
September 24, 2018, 12:19:27 pm
The story I heard on Among Giants was that it was written by the same guy as The Full Monty, who wrote it before TFM but it was made after - when money was being thrown at him to make another. Box office flop, but unmissable if you've got the vaguest connection to the Sheffield rope access/ climbing scene. Idol eyes always claimed he was in scene in the Vine, but I've yet to spot him.

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#34 Re: British crags in films
September 24, 2018, 05:23:43 pm
Simon Beaufort. Also wrote Slumdog millionaire and Salmon fishing in the Yemen amongst loads of others.

It was a proper craic working on it, not Hollywood levels but it seemed big budget when your a doley climber and they paid me what was at the time a lot of money.

Pete Postlethwaite was a real star, just how you imagine a film star should be, hard drinking party animal. How he ever got to set in a morning i never know. True gent though who it was a pleasure to meet.

I think the film was OK and worth a watch. It was pretty hyped up due to full Monty and suffered because of it.

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#35 Re: British crags in films
September 24, 2018, 05:31:09 pm
I recall around the early '90s a bunch of Llanberis climbers were extras in a film that was (partly) shot in Nant Gwynant. Dunno if Elephantitus Cave or Clogwyn y Wenallt were in it. Does anyone remember the film?

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#36 Re: British crags in films
September 24, 2018, 05:56:41 pm
I recall around the early '90s a bunch of Llanberis climbers were extras in a film that was (partly) shot in Nant Gwynant. Dunno if Elephantitus Cave or Clogwyn y Wenallt were in it. Does anyone remember the film?
There’s a short bit of a Brosnan Bond film (World Is Not Enough, I think) filmed in Nant Gwynant. Guessing that’s not the one you mean though.

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#37 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 09:15:09 am
In that Pete postlethwaite one I seem to remember that there’s a bit with  someone falling off ash tree wall, but they say that it’s three pebble slab or something?

At the time I watched it on tv it seemed an important mistake. Now I’m not so sure.

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#38 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 09:33:00 am
I recall around the early '90s a bunch of Llanberis climbers were extras in a film that was (partly) shot in Nant Gwynant. Dunno if Elephantitus Cave or Clogwyn y Wenallt were in it. Does anyone remember the film?
There’s a short bit of a Brosnan Bond film (World Is Not Enough, I think) filmed in Nant Gwynant. Guessing that’s not the one you mean though.

No, it was 'Merlin of the Crystal Cave' I was thinking of. Pretty sure Martin Crook and co were extras. A simple google reveals this from the campsite website!

Films set at Llyn Gwynant   

Llyn Gwynant Campsite has many films and TV programs. We have provided a range of services in addition to a beautiful location, including transport, security and construction. Most recently last year we were involved in a major production which is still under wraps, as well as smaller Welsh, private and BBC productions. If you are interested in using the site as a location for filming, please contact us.

Tomb Raider 2 of 2003 saw Llyn Gwynant campsite become a Chinese village where Lara battles her adversary Chen Lo-  although scenes have been transformed by computer-generated imaging. Llyn Gwynant was the main Welsh location but the production also brought surprise benefits to others including 30 of the Chinese community in Caernarfon who were extras and a local farmer who supplied chickens, geese and a mule.

Merlin was a 1997 feature film partly filmed at Llyn Gwynant, where the morraine behind our toilet block hosted fabulous Camelot, with Sam Neill playing Merlin as a flesh-and-blood fellow of real passion, powerless to undo the spell of a rival who has imprisoned Merlin’s great love, Nimue.

Merlin of the Crystal Cave was a 1991 mini-series and film tellling the story of Camelot and King Arthur from the perspective of Merlin, as he grows to become the greatest enchanter legend has ever known. A crystal cave unlocks his mystical gifts of prophecy, powers of conjuring and herbal healing, and Merlin sets off on a search for his father, a quest that takes him from foreign shores to palace intrigues and bloody battlefields and thrusts him into the center of the birth of the British Empire.

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#39 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 10:13:40 am
Good among giants knowledge.

Weren't the llanberis slate quarries used in some 80's fantasy type thing? (Krull???). I'm sure I heard/read about loads of skulls being left up there after filming???...

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#40 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 11:00:45 am
The 1991 Robin Hood film (that sunk without trace against the Costner movie) was filmed around Frodsham. I had a random chat with some guy in Pete's Eats this summer about various films he'd roadied on. I was tired and hungry so can't remember the names, some dragons and faeries stuff. Hope that helps.

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#41 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 11:31:26 am
Weren't the llanberis slate quarries used in some 80's fantasy type thing? (Krull???). I'm sure I heard/read about loads of skulls being left up there after filming???...

Yes. I can't remember its name but I don't think it was Krull. There was loads of work around and, yes, the quarries were littered with props.

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#42 Re: British crags in films
September 25, 2018, 11:47:49 am
I thought I recalled the slate quarries being used in the 80s series "The Tripods" which I used to love as a kid.

tracked it down here..

 https://archive.org/details/TheTripodscomplete/The+Tripods+S1.E8-13 dot avi

(cant get the link to work properly)  (skip to ~1.48).

Its not Llanberis though.  I'm not quite sure where it is - think its prob Blaenau.

There's even a bit of climbing in that scene.  Not bad effects for the 80s budget Beeb series either. 
 :popcorn:

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#43 Re: British crags in films
October 12, 2018, 11:17:07 am
Did anyone recognise the grit crag featured in Doctor Who on Sunday?

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#44 Re: British crags in films
October 12, 2018, 11:23:58 am
Did anyone recognise the grit crag featured in Doctor Who on Sunday?

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#45 Re: British crags in films
October 12, 2018, 11:40:32 am
Weren't the llanberis slate quarries used in some 80's fantasy type thing? (Krull???). I'm sure I heard/read about loads of skulls being left up there after filming???...

Yes. I can't remember its name but I don't think it was Krull. There was loads of work around and, yes, the quarries were littered with props.

One of those props featured in a DMM advert at the time, Jimmy Jewel stood next to a pile of skulls in fluro Ron Hills and some Sportive shoes. The advert byline made some tenuous connection between the skulls and climbing.

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#46 Re: British crags in films
October 12, 2018, 11:58:26 am
I think the film was Willow, which I recall being good clean cheesy fun.

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October 12, 2018, 12:02:53 pm



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#48 Re: British crags in films
October 12, 2018, 06:49:12 pm
Good among giants knowledge.

Weren't the llanberis slate quarries used in some 80's fantasy type thing? (Krull???). I'm sure I heard/read about loads of skulls being left up there after filming???...



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#49 Re: British crags in films
November 14, 2018, 11:32:50 am
Higgar Tor was very nearly in "The Informer" last week on the beeb.

Had a few shots of the main cop dude outside his car on that bad bend at the top of the dale, looking over towards higgar on a snowy day.

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#50 Re: British crags in films
November 15, 2018, 01:18:30 pm
Malham in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

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#51 Re: British crags in films
November 15, 2018, 02:11:39 pm
Actually - it was there..



Crap place to choose to doss for a night, I'd at least parked at hooks carr, or at the high neb/causeway end.

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#52 Re: British crags in films
November 06, 2019, 03:23:42 pm


Python Team being interviewed at Ilkley Quarry. From the interview it seems they filmed there before.

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#53 Re: British crags in films
November 06, 2019, 03:38:06 pm
See my post on page 1, 'I wouldn't go back to public relations'.

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#54 Re: British crags in films
November 06, 2019, 04:48:49 pm
Excellent. This interview was in the 50th Anniversary stuff a month or so back on the Beeb. Worth a watch.

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#55 Re: British crags in films
November 06, 2019, 05:41:42 pm

I once saw a pr0no clip that was filmed at the Roaches too...  :whistle:

I once saw such a film being made at Frogsmouth quarry.

 

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