Bath in Films

A Presentation by:

Claudia Lohse

Martin Orgill

Oliver Held

Bath – a frequently used film set!

• Bath Film Office: more than 110 projects have been filmed in and around Bath since 1931

• Some of the outstanding buildings have been used as film sets particularly often:

• Royal Crescent

• Pump Room

• Assembly Rooms

• Circus

The Pump Room (1)

The Pump

Room (2)

Pump Room with Bath Abbey

Royal Crescent and Circus

Royal Crescent

Dyrham Park, near Bath

Filmed (partially) in Bath:

• Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ealing Studios, starring Alec Guinness

• The Titfield Thunderbolt, Ealing Studios

• Oliver!

Acclaimed adaptation of Dicken‘s “Oliver Twist”

6 Academy Awards

• Prince Valiant

Cast:

James Mason

Robert Wagner

Janet Leigh

Also:

• The Count of Monte Christo

• Doctor Dolittle

• The Canterbury Tales (Director: Pasolini)

• Miss Marple – Sleeping Murder

• Jack the Ripper

• House of Eliott

• Moll Flanders

• Emma

• Chocolat

• Harry Potter 1 and 2

• Murder in Mind

• Stardust

• Vanity Fair

Closer Look at:

• The Remains of the Day

• Persuasion

• Northanger Abbey

• Barry Lyndon

The Remains of the Day • Filmed 1993

• Director James Ivory

• Producer: Ismail Merchant

• Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro‘s novel

Anthony Hopkins is Stevens, the Butler

Emma Thompson is Miss Kenton, the Housekeeper

Christopher Reeve is Congressman Lewis

James Fox is Lord Darlington

Hugh Grant is Darlington‘s nephew

Plot:• set in the 1950 with extensive flashbacks to pre-

war England

• Lord Darlington sympathizes with Nazi Germany and organizes political conferences at Darlington Hall, his home

• Stevens is Butler at Darlington Hall and embodies blind loyalty and devotion towards his lordship

• Against the backdrop of devotion the somehow existent feelings between Stevens and Miss Kenton are repressed

• Miss Kenton leaves Darlington Hall and marries someone else

• After the war Darlington Hall is taken over by an American Congressman, Mr Lewis

• Stevens, still in service, sets off to see Miss Kenton in Clevedon, hoping to set his “mistake” right

• Miss Kenton tells him about her marriage being broken up and again circumstances are against a relationship: Miss Kenton is going to be a grandmother and therefore refuses Stevens’ offer to return to Darlington Hall to her former position

About the film:• Production budget: 6.5 million £

• Box office taking in the US: 20 million $

In the UK: 4 million GBP

• Movie Map (1998): Castles, stately homes, medieval manor houses etc.

• Howards End, The Madness of King George, Mrs Brown, The Remains of the Day, Sense and Sensibility, Wilde, Elizabeth

• 250,000 times distributed via American travel agencies

Dyrham Park, near Bath