Movie Location Location

The farmhouse in Cumbria used in Withnail and I (1987) - or Uncle Monty's Cottage - is to be saved for posterity. The new owner is hoping that it'll become a site of pilgramage for fans of the film, which has a number of similar locations in the area. I had a rueful smile at the story because I'm particularly prone to movie tourism. Here are a few of the ones that I've been to (or tried to go to!):

• The square of Campo San Barnaba in Venice is where Katherine Hepburn fell into the canal in David Lean's Summer Madness (1955) and also (and given Spielberg's reverence of Lean hardly surprising) where the library that leads into the catacombs is set in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  
  
• Sicily is synonymous with The Godfather trilogy, but it's also the sett of Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963) - a valiant attempt to get inside Palazzo Valguarnera Gangi where the ballroom scene was filmed failed!
  
  
  
  
• I've never seen The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, but did randomly come across the boat on which the film is based in Picton in New Zealand. The Echo which was used by the US Army as a supply ship in World War II has until recently been used as a cafe and bar, although when I was there the owners were trying to sell it off.
  
  
• Has one city ever been quite so associated with a film? Vienna is for me, now and forever, Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949) and no, not the giant ferris wheel, but number 8 Schreyvogelgasse where Harry Lime (Orson Welles) emerges from the shadows in a doorway.
  
  
• There are too many other places to mention, but above all I suppose is New York which I've mentioned before. Los Angeles notwithstanding, if ever a place was designed for cinema to be made, this is it.