![]() Westley sets off to make something of himself in order to be worthy of Buttercup's hand in marriage but is waylaid by the Dread Pirate Roberts, well known for taking no prisoners. Adapted from the novel of the same name, "The Princess Bride" follows the travails of Westley (Carey Elwes), a young stableboy who serves Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright) without question, with the two eventually falling in love. It packs in plenty of heart and wit, in addition to danger and excitement. ![]() The mysterious M (Richard Roxburgh) convenes the League to stop a plot by the equally mysterious Fantom to start a war by bombing a gathering of world leaders.Īdventure lovers who haven't seen the cult classic "The Princess Bride" would do well to resolve that issue as quickly as possible. Jekyll (Jason Flemyng) and his abominable counterpart, Mr. Legendary big game hunter and adventurer Allan Quartermain (Sean Connery) is recruited out fo Africa to lead a squad featuring the likes of Dorian Grey (Stuart Townsend), whose immortality is tied to a portrait that ages in his stead Wilhelmina Harker (Peta Wilson), whose vampirism is a result of her husband Jonathan's former employment by Count Dracula the Invisible Man, Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), a thief who stole the secret to invisibility from its creator Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), captain of the submarine Nautilus and maybe a pirate as well American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West) and Dr. "LXG," as the film was marketed, adapts the graphic novel series of the same name and unites a handful of popular adventure characters as the titular team. Like "Stardust," "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" came from the mind of a legendary graphic novel writer, in this case Alan Moore, whose credits include "V for Vendetta" and the "Watchmen" movie. That means tracking down Alan's old friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), with whom he was playing the night he disappeared and who was traumatized by the events of that evening. While it would be great to just stop playing, the only way to stop the insanity is to keep going and for someone to win. A couple of decades later and young Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Shepherd (Bradley Pierce) are living in the old Parrish house and discover the cursed board game, unwittingly releasing Alan from its confines. Had young Alan done the sensible thing and thought better of picking up an old board game buried in a construction site to which he was summoned by tribal drumming, there would have been no film at all. ![]() The late, great comedic actor took on the role of the adult version of Alan Parrish, a young boy who gets sucked into the game in the 1960s, literally he's trapped in the world of the titular magic board game. Parts of the railway have survived and some of the sections are still functioning today as the Hejaz Jordan Railway – in fact the filming encouraged the railway to repaint much of its coaching stock to dark red and creamĪlso in Jordan is the canyon with the giant water head, which is at Petra, seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.īack in the UK, the archaeological dig at ‘Hamunaptra, City of the Dead’ was built at Bryant’s Lane Quarry, Heath and Reach, near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and the ‘jungle’ (with the pygmy mummies) is familiar old Black Park Country Park, alongside Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.The thing about "Jumanji" is there are plenty of options from which to choose, but nothing beats the '90s original, starring Robin Williams. ![]() The railway, built to transport pilgrims from Damascus, in Syria, to Medina in Saudi Arabia, was completed in 1908, but was severely and repeatedly damaged during the First World War by the real Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt. ![]() The train filmed on the Hejaz Railway on the outskirts of Amman in Jordan. The ‘Egyptian’ deserts were filmed at the spectacular Erg Chebbi Dunes at Merzouga, about 30 miles south of Erfoud in Morocco. The subsequent bus chase is a dizzying mix of locations: the soldier mummies scuttle along the walls of the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 the double decker careers along Lambeth Palace Road, on the Thames Embankment by Lambeth Bridge and past the Georgian houses of Endsleigh Place, Bloomsbury, before coming to a halt on Tower Bridge, the famous bascule bridge jumped by John Wayne's car in Brannigan. Underneath the set dressing, you might recognise it as the ‘Acme warehouse’ from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The interior, where Mr Hafez ( Alun Armstrong) resurrects the Mummy, is the Dimco Building, Wood Lane, now alongside the Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherds Bush, London W12. The Mummy Returns location: Mr Hafez resurrects the mummy in the ‘British Museum’: Dimco Building, Wood Lane, Shepherds Bush, London W12 ![]()
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