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Best London pubs on film

'Mission: Impossible' features a scene in The Anchor on the South Bank where oft-duped super spy Tom Cruise can be seen sharing a cheeky half with Ving Rhames.

The Windmill Theatre on Great Windmill Street in Soho acted as the backdrop to Stephen Frears' wartime romp, 'Mrs Henderson Presents'.

The Mother Red Cap on Tavistock Cresent melded with the nearby Black Cat which features in the opening scenes of the seminal boozing flick 'Withnail & I'.
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The pub in Edgar Wright's rom-zom-com, 'Shaun of the Dead', although named The Winchester Arms in the film, is in fact The Duke of Albany on Monson Road in New Cross Gate.

The Newman Arms on Newman Street is the location where Mark Lewis commits his first murder in Michael Powell’s 'Peeping Tom'.

The Magdala features in ‘Dance with a Stranger’, the film about Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged in Britain – who shot her lover outside this South End Green boozer. Purportedly, bullet holes can still be seen in the tiles outside.

In Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’, the pub in which Jon Finch overhears the city gents drooling over the wave of sex killings is the Nell of Old Drury on Catherine Street opposite the Drury Lane Theatre.

The Blue Anchor pub in Hammersmith was used as a location for the film ‘Sliding Doors’ in which John Hannah achieves the stupendous feat of running from there to Primrose Hill in a worldbeating five minutes.

The Lowndes Arms Pub on Chesham street in Belgravia is where the characters plot the assassination in 'The Crying Game'.

After being chased by a marching band of bagpipers in full regalia playing 'Scotland the Brave', The Beatles dive into The City Barge Pub in Chiswick in the film ‘Help!’ and proceed to order 'two lagers and lime and two lagers and lime'.