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The Cine-Tourist
Piccadilly Circus in films
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I have been collecting images of Piccadilly Circus in films for some time now. Here are images from 100 or so different films (including a couple of TV programmes), from 1896 to 2015:
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Piccadilly Circus (Lumière 1896)
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On a Runaway Motor Car through Piccadilly Circus (R.W. Paul c.1900)
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Whatsoever A Man Soweth (Joseph Best 1917)
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The Man With the Twisted Lip (Maurice Elvey 1921)
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Sherlock Holmes (Albert Parker & John Barrymore 1922)
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Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (George Pearson 1922)
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Wonderful London: Known London (Frank MIller & H.B. Parkinson 1924)
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Wonderful London: London's Outer Ring (Frank MIller & H.B. Parkinson 1924)
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Wonderful London: Flowers of London (Frank MIller & H.B. Parkinson 1924)
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Ame d'artiste (Germaine Dulac 1925)
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Shooting Stars (Anthony Asquith 1928)
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Piccadilly (E.A. Dupont 1929)
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Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock 1929)
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Everyday (Hans Richter 1929)
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Perfect Understanding (Cyril Gardner 1932)
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The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock 1935)
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Emil and the Detectives (Milton Rosmer 1935)
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Music Hath Charms (Thomas Bentley 1935)
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Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith 1938)
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Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin (Luis Trenker 1938)
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St Martin's Lane (Tim Whelan 1938)
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London Can Take It (Humphrey Jennings 1940)
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East of Piccadilly (Harold Huth 1941)
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The First of the Few (Leslie Howard 1942)
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Piccadilly Roundabout (Richard Massingham 1943)
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London 1942 (Ken Annakin 1943)
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The Demi-Paradise (Anthony Asquith 1943)
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Another Time, Another Place (Lewis Allen 1958)
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Piccadilly Incident (Herbert Wilcox 1946)
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Lured (Douglas Sirk 1947)
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Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius 1949)
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Cage of Gold (Basil Dearden 1950)
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The Blue Lamp (Basil Dearden 1950)
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Midnight Episode (Gordon Parry 1950)
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Night and the City (Jules Dassin 1950)
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Scarlet Thread (Lewis Gilbert 1951)
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Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen 1951)
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Penny Princess (Val Guest 1952)
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Paul Temple Returns (Maclean Rogers 1952)
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Salute the Toff (Maclean Rogers 1952)
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The Saint's Return (Seymour Friedman 1953)
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I Vinti (Michelangelo Antonioni 1953)
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Monsieur Ripois (René Clément 1954)
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Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin 1955)
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The Hideout (Peter Graham Scott 1956)
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Nice Time (Alain Tanner & Claude Goretta 1957)
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Expresso Bongo (Val Guest 1959)
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The Giant Behemoth (Eugène Lourié 1959)
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Gorgo (Eugène Lourié 1961)
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The Day of the Triffids (Steve Sekely 1963)
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The Boys (Sidney J. Furie 1962)
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Saturday Night Out (Robert Hartford-Davis 1964)
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Séance On a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes 1964)
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Ring of Spies (Robert Tronson 1964)
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Allez France (Robert Dhéry & Pierre Tchernia 1964)
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London in the Raw (Norman Cohen & Arnold L. Miller 1964)
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Monitor: Joe Tilson (BBC 1964)
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Darling (John Schlesinger 1965)
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You Must Be Joking! (Michael Winner 1965)
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Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano 1966)
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Der Bucklige von Soho (Alfred Vohrer 1966)
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Kaleidoscope (Jack Smight 1966)
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Fumo di Londra (Alberto Sordi 1966)
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Smashing Time (Desmond Davis 1967)
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Austin Powers International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach 1997)
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Fantômas contre Scotland Yard (André Hunebelle 1967)
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Tonite Lets All Make Love In London (Peter Whitehead 1967)
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Bedazzled (Stanley Donen 1967)
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Col cuore in gola (Tinto Brass 1967)
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Dove vai tutta nuda (Pasquale Festa Campanile 1969)
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Two A Penny (James F. Collier 1970)
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Night After Night, After Night (Lindsay Shonteff 1969)
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Permissive (Lindsay Shonteff 1970)
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Ich, ein Groupie (Erwin C. Dietrich 1970)
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Bread (Stanley A. Long 1971)
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Percy (Ralph Thomas 1971)
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Cool It Carol! (Pete Walker 1972)
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Solar Flares Burn For You (Arthur Johns 1973)
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Snatch of the Day (John Krish 1975)
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Brannigan (Douglas Hickox 1975)
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Indagine su un delitto perfetto (Giuseppe Rosati 1978)
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An American Werewolf in London (John Landis 1981)
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Wayne's World 2 (Stephen Surjik 1993)
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Safe (Antonia Bird 1993)
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Staggered (Martin Clunes 1994)
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Trainspotting (Danny Boyle 1996)
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Face (Antonia Bird 1997)
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Croupier (Mike Hodges 1998)
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire 2001)
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Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason (Beeban Kidron 2004)
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28 Days Later (Danny Boyle 2002)
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Osuofia In London (Kingsley Ogoro 2003)
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The Football Factory (Nick Love 2004)
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Fat Slags (Ed Bye 2004)
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Les Poupées russes (Cédric Klapisch 2005)
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The Wedding Date (Clare Kilner 2005)
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Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie 2009)
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Sherlock: A Study in Pink (Coky Giedroyc 2010)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (David Yates 2010)
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Fast & Furious 6 (Justin Lin 2013)
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Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie 2015) - image from moviemaps.org
 
Here is the destruction of Piccadilly Circus as visualised in Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock 1936):

Here are images of Piccadilly Circus from the West End chapter of the BBC's 2012 series London on Film​:


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