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February 2003
Location, location, location - Films
Cutting It on location in Manchester
Cutting It on location in Manchester

Roll 'em! Manchester has been the setting for a whole load of films.

Which ones do you remember? And can you add anything to those already here?

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Use the form below to tell us about other films and to add or comment on the information already here - and if you have any snaps of filming in Manchester, send them to us at manchester.online@bbc.co.uk and we'd love to hear from you if your property was used as a location.

Films
Billy Liar
Billy Liar (1963)

Love on the Dole (1941)
Deborah Kerr starred. It was about life in Lancashire - but were there any Manchester locations?
Suggested by Adrian Whittleworth in Dubai UAE

Man in a White Suit (1952)
A classic Ealing film starring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker and Michael Gough> But was it filmed in Manchester?
Suggested by Adrian Whittleworth in Dubai UAE

Hobsons Choice (1954)
A bootmaker from Lancashire is brought to book by his eldest daughter and her husband who have opened a rival shoe shop. With Charles Laughton and John Mills had scenes filmed in Peel Park Salford.
Suggested by Mike Neal in Denton

Gracie Fields films
Anyone know what films she made and where they were made?
Suggested by Adrian Whittleworth in Dubai UAE

Hell Is A City (1960)
Gritty cop drama starring Stanley Baker and Donald Pleasence.

A Taste of Honey (1961)
Starring Rita Tushingham and Dora Bryan.
From Robert MacRae in Manchester:
A Taste of Honey really is suberb. It stars Rita Tushingham as a girl who gets pregnant with a black sailor. When her scatterbrained mum (Dora Bryan) leaves to settle down with young lover, she sets up house with a young gay man. Northwest landmarks like Manchester Town Hall, the Blackpool piers, Stockport parish church and the Manchester Ship Canal all feature in this taboo-breaking social drama.

Peter Williams in leigh says:
I was actually in the film but only sat on the top deck of a bus but there were a few other local kids filmed playing in the streets around Brindle Heath.

A Kind of Loving (1963)
Starring Alan Bates. Filmed around Manchester and Oldham.
Suggested by R Lander in Hong Kong


Billy Liar (1963)
Keith Waterhouse's classic story starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Finlay Currie, Leonard Rossiter.

The White Bus (1966)
Starring Anthony Hopkins. Filmed in various parts of Manchester.

Charlie Bubbles (1968)
A successful, married businessman grows bored with his life and begins an affair with his younger secretary. Some location work at Old Trafford (Manchester United). This film was Liza Minelli screen debut and also starred Albert Finney and Billie Whitelaw.

The Lovers(1972)
Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox in a spin off from the TV series.
Suggestion by John Hacking
in Manchester

The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (1974)

The Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue (1974)
"A small English town is infested with the living dead"!!

Yanks (1979)
Richard Gere was busy handing out nylons to the women of Stockport. Filming also took place alongside the Manchester Ship Canal at Moore.

Mike Neal in Denton adds:
Also had scenes filmed in Stalybridge and on Stamford Golf Course near Mossley.

Reds (1981)
Warren Beatty's award winning epic. But was it filmed in Manchester?
Suggested by Adrian Whittleworth in Dubai UAE
At least part of Reds was filmed outside the Zion Centre in Hulme. I think it is the scene where someone is addressing a crowd from the step[s of what i thinlk is meant to be a building (courthouse) in Chicago. I remember the producers advertising for extras in the Moss Side Job Centre.
Additional info from John Hacking
in Manchester


That film where they kidnap a City player (90's)
Anyone know this film?
Suggested by Adrian Whittleworth in Dubai UAE
I think the film where they kindap a City Player was called something like Superstar and concerned a bungled ransom/kidnap plot of a black city player called darren(?). they held him hostage in a flat in Ardwick. I think the film was made by Channel 4.
Additional info from John Hacking in Manchester

Butterfly Kiss (1995)
A road movie in which two lesbians fall for each other while speeding through Northern England on a murder spree.

Resurrection Man (1998)
Starring Peter Nesbit and John Hannah - filmed in Openshaw, Manchester (at the back of my house!) - about a journalist in seventies northern ireland - good film - bit gory...
Suggesested by Helene McCarthy, Openshaw, Manchester
Nice one helen. Did you take any pictures of the filming?

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
(Directed by John Hay, Pathé 2000). A marvellous metaphorical presentation of the City-United divide in Manchester. Locations all over the city and, of course, at Maine Road itself.
Suggested by David Hand in Stockport

24 Hour Party People (2002)
Starring Steve Coogan, Keith Allen, Rob Brydon, Peter Kay and Enzo Cilenti. This is the story of the Manchester music scene from the late 1970's to the early 1990's.


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From tom murphy in canada
brillient shows watch all of them such exsitment at home when we get to see them - ex manchester lad and wife



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