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Alex's superspeed threesome in A Clockwork Orange was actually instigated at the Chelsea Drug Store
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The building, which occupies the corner of of Royal Avenue and King's Road is now a McDonald's.
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Thamesmead Estate was the location for Alex's slow-motion beat-down of his fellow droogs.
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You can find the exact stretch of waterway beside the estate's artificial Southmere Lake
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How did Kubrick manage to capture the bombed-out urban sprawl of the Vietnam War?
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Yes, he used then-dilapidated East London, most of which has been regenerated, but for the still-abandoned Beckton Gasworks
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The nervy sequence of Tom Cruise being pursued in Eyes Wide Shut is a superb example of New York's sinister nighttime presence
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Or it would be, were it not shot in the Hatton Garden region of Soho, dressed in NYC phone boxes
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Eyes Wide Shut ends with a reconciliation of Cruise and Kidman's post-Christmas toy shopping
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Brilliantly, their incongruous discussion of sex was shot in a real-life toy shop: Hamleys, on Regent St
Stanley Kubrick was a famously obsessive filmmaker, his micromanagement of anything and everything to do with a production heightened by his severe fear of flying. Despite the settings of his movies spanning almost as many continents as they do genres, location shooting was a rare thing for Kubrick.
Mostly he preferred his set designers to construct elaborate, intricately detailed — and easily controlled — replicas on soundstages, most often at the Shepperton and Pinewood Studios near his country home in Hertfordshire.
There are exceptions, however. For the Kubrick fan looking to make a pilgrimage, but unable to afford flights to the moon or accreditation for film studios, we’ve compiled a list here of the London locations utilised in his films, with images comparing how they looked on the big screen to how they appear now (…with a little help from Google Street View).
I need to go on pilgrimage!