8mm Forum: Thunderball (James Bond) co-incidence

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Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on January 18, 2017, 09:34 AM:

I was watching this film (off Blu ray) last night and when a hotel appeared on screen I thought it looked familiar and that I had been past it. The road name was also on shot- "Windsor End".

PM Films shop was at 39 Windsor End, Beaconsfield, no wonder it looked familiar as I had visited the shop, cycling up from Beaconsfield station (past the National Film School, previously Beaconsfield studios, past the hotel. PIty PM couldn't have released Thunderball on Super 8.

Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on January 18, 2017, 09:39 AM:

Ah ! Good old PM Films.

Now that brings back a lot of memories for me.
I still have their catalogues in my collection.

I am going to look for this scene the next time I watch Thunderball on my Blu-Ray Brian. [Smile]

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on January 18, 2017, 01:09 PM:

If I may add a little bit of personnal trivia, the castle where the opening scene occurs is Château d'Anet, in France. This is where my mother was born, as her dad, my grand-father, was the groundskeeper.
If you watch the sequence, when Bond flies off the rooftops with his jet-pack, there's a wide shot of the exterior, where the DB5 is parked, and you can see the monumental door of the château. Flanking the gate is a small building with 4 windows. This was the family housing (see attached pic). But when the film was shot my grandfather was retired...

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