Movie London – Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is one of the top instantly recognisable London landmarks, along with the Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, the Houses of Parliament and the black taxi.
So it’s not surprising that it’s been a star of the silver screen. Back in 1939 it formed a backdrop to the action in Dark Eyes of London – in which Bela Lugosi ran an insurance company whose clients had a strange habit of getting drowned. Hitchcock’s Frenzy opens with a helicopter shot of the bridge, setting the action unambiguously in the centre of the city.
Recently, we’ve seen Tamy and Andy breaking for freedom across the bridge on a stolen bike in 28 Weeks Later. (In Seven days to Noon, too, the bridge formed the backdrop for escape – with evacuees from threatened London boarding boats at Tower Pier.)
But the best scene starring the bridge is surely that in seventies cop thriller Brannigan – in which we see a car chase across the bridge just as the bridge is opening, and John Wayne’s car spectacularly leaps the gap.
Photo credit: Aaron Webb on Flickr
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