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Year Made: 1929
Name of Film: Street of Abandoned Children
Location: St. Ives, Mevagissey.
Production Company:
Director: Paul Czinner
Cast: Pola Negri, Warwick Ward, Hans Rehman, Margaret Rawlings, Cameron Carr.
Silent Film. WMN year report featured item about film being disrupted by church goers on a Sunday.

Year Made: 1942
Name of Film: Next of Kin
Location: Mevagissey
Production Company: Ealing Films
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Mervy Johns, Nova Pilbeam, Stephen Murray.

Year Made: 1945
Name of Film: Johnny Frenchman
Location: Mevagissey
Production Company: Ealing Studios
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Francoise Rosay.

Year Made: 1949
Name of Film: Treasure Island
Location: Carrick Roads, River Fal, Helford River, Gull Rock.
Production Company: RKOP/Walt Disney
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Robert Newton, Bobby Driscoll.

Year Made: 1953
Name of Film: Never Let Me Go
Location: Mullion Harbour, Newquay, Mevagissey.
Production Company: MGM
Director: Delmer Davies
Cast: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydyn, Kenneth Moore.
Notes: Mullion Harbour was a Russian Harbour.

Year Made: 1957
Name of Film: Dangerous Exile
Location: Porthluney Cove, Carrick Roads, Falmouth Bay & Harbour, Caerhays Castle.
Production Company: Rank.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Louis Jordan

Year Made: 1967
Name of Film: Magical Mystery Tour
Location: Newquay - Atlantic Hotel, Towan Beach, Bodmin.
Cast: The Beatles.

Year Made: 1969
Name of Film: The Bed Sitting Room
Location: St. Austell
Production Company: United Artists
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Michael Hordern.

Year Made: 1970s
Name of Film: Blake's Seven
Location: St. Austell Clay Pits
Production Company: BBC TV

Year Made: 1970s
Name of Film: Dracula
Location: St. Michael's Mount, Carlyon Bay, Mevagissey.
Production Company: BBC TV
Cast: Louis Jourdan, Susan Penhaligon.

Year Made: 1970s
Name of Film: Rebecca
Location: Caerhays Castle (for Manderley), Porthluney Cove.
Production Company: BBC TV
Cast: Joanna David.

Year Made: 1972
Name of Film: Doomwatch
Location: Polperro, Mevagissey.
Production Company: Tigon
Director: Peter Sasdy
Cast: Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson.

Year Made: 1972-1979
Name of Film: The Onedin Line
Location: Charlestown, Mousehole.
Production Company: BBC TV
Cast: Peter Gilmore, Ann Stallybrass, Jill Gascoine.

Year Made: 1975
Name of Film: Doctor Who
Location: St. Austell Clay Pits
Production Company: BBC TV

Year Made: 1976
Name of Film: The Eagle Has Landed
Location: Charlestown, RAF St. Mawgan.
Production Company: ITC/Associated General
Director: John Sturges
Cast: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duval.

Year Made: 1980s
Name of Film: Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle.
Location: Charlestown
Production Company: BBC TV

Year Made: 1981
Name of Film: Omen III (The Final Conflict).
Location: Penrice - St. Aistell, Luxulyan, Prideaux Place.
Production Company: TCF
Director: Graham Baker
Cast: Sam Neill

Year Made: 1982
Name of Film: My Cousin Rachel
Location: Gribbin Head, Vault Beach, Lantivet Beach.
Production Company: BBC TV

Year Made: 1991
Name of Film: The Camomile Lawn
Location: Broom Parc, Veryan.
Production Company: Channel 4
Director: Sir Peter Hall

Year Made: 1994
Name of Film: Wycliffe Series 1. Red Rooster
Location: carn Galver, Reskajeage Downs, Hemmick Beach, Cape Cornwall, Pentire, Godrevy, Rinsey, Wheal Charlotte.
Production Company: HTV
Cast: Jack Shephard, Jimmy Yill, Helen Masters, Aaron Harris, Adam Barker.

Year Made: 1995
Name of Film: Treasure Island
Location: Charlestown
Production Company: Pinewood
Director: Ken Russell