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White chalk cliffs and sea stacks above a green-blue sea
Old Harry Rocks, the chalk stacks off Studland, in May 2025. Photo by Michael Garlick. Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0

The Airone hour

A varnished 1930s motor yacht with a white hull and a short mast, four figures on deck, on a choppy grey sea
The Moonstone on set off Dunkirk on 13 June 2016, with Christopher Nolan, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney and Barry Keoghan aboard. The boat’s name is invented for the film. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Seaone day

A wide, nearly empty sandy beach under a blue sky, a sea wall and railing on the right
Malo-les-Bains beach in June 2017, looking along the sand towards Belgium. Photo by Velvet. Velvet · CC BY-SA 4.0

The Moleone week

Dunkirk

Fionn Whitehead, a young man with dark hair, in a dark suit
Fionn Whitehead at the world premiere of Dunkirk in London, 13 July 2017. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fionn WhiteheadTommy · July 2017
Tom Glynn-Carney, a young man with red hair and round glasses, in a dark suit
Tom Glynn-Carney at the French premiere of Dunkirk, in Dunkirk, 16 July 2017. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tom Glynn-CarneyPeter · July 2017

Above: Studland chalk · the Moonstone off Dunkirk, June 2016, with Christopher Nolan, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney and Barry Keoghan aboard · Malo-les-Bains sand

Three strands, three clocks, out of line. Intercut

The editor’s chair

Intercut.

The film follows three strands that run at three speeds: a week on the mole, a day at sea, an hour in the air. They are cut together until they meet. Cut between them yourself. Each cut opens the real place that scene was shot, and moves only that strand’s clock.

The Moleone week

  1. The walk to the beach
  2. The beach
  3. The mole
  4. Two destroyers, one ship
  5. Off the Californian coast

Day 0 of 7

The Seaone day

  1. Casting off
  2. Out on the lake
  3. That’s Dorset
  4. Home to Weymouth

0 h of 24

The Airone hour

  1. Spitfires over the Solent
  2. Models in the air

0 min of 60

Not yet cut. Choose a strand: the mole runs for a week, the sea for a day, the air for an hour.

Nothing cut yet. The air is the shortest strand: two cuts and its hour is gone.

A wide, nearly empty sandy beach under a blue sky, a sea wall and railing on the right
Malo-les-Bains beach in June 2017, looking along the sand towards Belgium. Photo by Velvet. Velvet · CC BY-SA 4.0

Malo-les-Bains · Dunkirk

The beach.

The beach scenes were shot on the coast where the evacuation happened. The streets are Malo-les-Bains, because most of old Dunkirk did not survive the war; the jetty was rebuilt for the shoot and taken away afterwards.

A wide, nearly empty sandy beach under a blue sky, a sea wall and railing on the right
Malo-les-Bains beach in June 2017, looking along the sand towards Belgium. Photo by Velvet. Velvet · CC BY-SA 4.0

Malo-les-Bains, Dunkirk, Nord, France

Malo-les-Bains beach

The beach scenes were shot on the same stretch of coast where the 1940 evacuation took place.

The street scenes were shot in Malo-les-Bains, because most of Dunkirk’s own buildings were destroyed in the war.

The film opens with soldiers walking down Rue Belle Rade, and Tommy runs on from there to the beach.

Filming began in Dunkirk on 23 May 2016, timed to match the dates of the real evacuation.

A public beach below the Digue de Mer promenade, open all day. Rue Belle Rade, where the film opens, is a residential street a few minutes inland.

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Dunkirk Tourism

Hôtel Le Merveilleux

Malo-les-Bains · From €115 a room

A hotel on the Digue de Mer at Malo-les-Bains, above the beach where the film was shot. Twenty bedrooms, several facing the sea.

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A line of old concrete piles and breakwater blocks running out into green sea from a railing
What is left of the East Mole, Dunkirk, in August 2009. Photo by Paul Reed. Paul Reed - ww2battlefields.com · CC BY-SA 2.0

Harbour mouth, Malo-les-Bains end, Dunkirk

The East Mole

The mole is the long jetty soldiers used to reach ships that could not come close to the shallow beach.

For the film, the mole was rebuilt over four months from the original blueprints, at a reported cost of $900,000.

The rebuilt section was taken away after filming.

One location guide puts the film’s mole just to the right of the Jetée de Malo, and says the weather kept breaking it.

Walk out from the west end of Malo-les-Bains beach to the harbour mouth. The pin is the walkway OpenStreetMap names after Operation Dynamo.

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Brick casemates with arched openings, an old anti-aircraft gun in the yard in front
Bastion 32, home of the Dunkirk 1940 Museum, in June 2024. Photo by Roehrensee. Roehrensee · CC BY 4.0

Rue des Chantiers de France, Dunkirk

Dunkirk 1940 Museum, Bastion 32

Bastion 32 was a command post during Operation Dynamo for Admiral Abrial, commander of the French northern naval forces, and General Fagalde, who held the defence of Dunkirk.

The museum covers the battle, the evacuation of British and French troops in 1940 and the town’s liberation on 9 May 1945, with archives, maps, vehicles and objects, many of them found around Dunkirk.

Not a filming place: this is where the history the film draws on is told. Check the museum’s opening times before you go.

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Dunkirk harbour · 13 and 15 June 2016

Muster.

Twenty of the real Little Ships of 1940 took part in the film, piloted by their owners. A photographer in Dunkirk harbour in June 2016 photographed several of them on set. Call them into line; one boat here has an invented name.

The line is empty. Call the boats in.

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    Maillé-Brézé (D627) · Dunkirk, June 2016

    Port and starboard.

    A retired French destroyer was painted up as a 1940 British warship. Look at her from one side and she is one ship; walk round to the other and she is another.

    A grey destroyer moored in a harbour, D36 painted on her bow
    The Maillé-Brézé in Dunkirk on 15 June 2016, port side, painted with the pennant number D36 for the film. Photo by Davidships. Davidships · CC BY-SA 4.0

    D36HMS Vivacious · port side

    Where we read it
    A grey destroyer moored along a city quay on the Loire
    The Maillé-Brézé at her museum berth on the Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, in September 2015. Photo by Duch. Duch · CC BY-SA 4.0

    105 Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, France

    The Maillé-Brézé

    The Maillé-Brézé, a retired French Navy destroyer, was made up to look like a 1940 British warship for the film.

    Christopher Nolan announced on 21 February 2016 that he planned to use her.

    She arrived in Dunkirk’s eastern port on 1 May 2016 to serve as a set.

    In June 2016 she was painted D36, for HMS Vivacious, on her port side and D54, for HMS Vanquisher, on her starboard side.

    She was commissioned on 4 May 1957, decommissioned in 1988, and has been a listed monument historique since October 1991.

    She is now a museum ship in Nantes; guided tours take in the engine room, the bridge, the galley and the crew mess. Adults pay €14.

    Guided tours only, in the afternoons; closed 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January. Take the tram to Gare Maritime.

    Where we read it
    Maillé-Brézé naval museum

    Guided tour of the Maillé-Brézé

    Nantes · Adults €14 · students €12 · children 4–11 €10

    A guided walk through the destroyer that played two British ships: engine room, turbines, bridge, operations centre, galley and crew mess.

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    A grey destroyer under tow in a harbour basin
    The Maillé-Brézé arriving in Dunkirk’s eastern port on 1 May 2016, ready for filming. Photo by Pichasso. Pichasso · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Weymouth · the IJsselmeer · Studland

    The sea.

    Mr Dawson’s day at sea starts on a Weymouth quay, spends its hardest hours on a Dutch lake, and comes home past the Dorset chalk. The real civilian fleet of 1940 sailed from Dover.

    White chalk cliffs and sea stacks above a green-blue sea
    Old Harry Rocks, the chalk stacks off Studland, in May 2025. Photo by Michael Garlick. Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0

    White cliffs ahead. Is that Dover?

    1. Morning
      Painted Georgian buildings along a harbour quay with boats moored in front
      Custom House Quay, Weymouth, in June 2019. Photo by AtticTapestry. AtticTapestry · CC BY-SA 4.0

      Custom House Quay, Weymouth, Dorset

      Custom House Quay

      Mr Dawson casts off the Moonstone from Custom House Quay, loaded with lifejackets, as the civilian fleet sets out.

      George runs along the quay to the boat.

      The early scenes were shot at Weymouth harbour; the production spent about a week in Swanage and Weymouth.

      A public quayside street along Weymouth harbour, with places to eat and boats moored along it.

      Where we read it
    2. At sea
      A fishing boat on a slipway beside a crane, brick houses across the harbour
      Boats and the slipway in Urk harbour, January 2021. Photo by Smiley.toerist. Smiley.toerist · CC BY-SA 4.0

      Urk, Flevoland, the Netherlands

      Urk and the IJsselmeer

      The Moonstone was used for six weeks, and her hardest scenes were shot on the IJsselmeer.

      In June 2016 a crew of 200 and 70 extras got ready to film about five kilometres out from Urk. The village is not in the film, but its harbour filled with boats and props, including part of a British bomber.

      The production spent about four weeks in Urk.

      A working fishing harbour: walk the quays. The lake opens out beyond the lighthouse.

      Where we read it
    3. Landfall
      White chalk cliffs and sea stacks above a green-blue sea
      Old Harry Rocks, the chalk stacks off Studland, in May 2025. Photo by Michael Garlick. Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0

      Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

      Old Harry Rocks, Studland

      As the Moonstone nears home, the soldiers come up on deck and see white chalk cliffs. They ask if it is Dover, and Peter tells them it is Dorset. The cliffs are at Studland.

      Old Harry Rocks are chalk sea stacks and cliffs; a 3.5-mile circular walk reaches them from South Beach.

      National Trust land. Walk from South Beach; car parks cost £4 for two hours and £10 for the day.

      Where we read it
    4. Home
      A harbour mouth with a low theatre building on the quay and the town on the hill behind
      Weymouth harbour and the Pavilion, in February 2013. Photo by John Stephen. John Stephen · CC BY-SA 2.0

      Harbour mouth, Weymouth, Dorset

      Weymouth harbour and the Pavilion

      The Moonstone comes back into Weymouth harbour, and the rescued soldiers come ashore, exhausted.

      The shot pans across the harbour’s Georgian fronts. A Pavilion has stood here since 1908, but the building in shot was rebuilt in the 1950s.

      The harbour is the mouth of the River Wey.

      Walk the harbourside from the Town Bridge to the Pavilion at the harbour mouth.

      Where we read it

    Lee-on-Solent · Point Vicente · summer 2016

    The air.

    The air strand lasts an hour on screen. Off screen it flew for about two weeks from an old naval air station on the Solent, with three real Spitfires, a Hispano Buchón painted as a Messerschmitt, and radio-controlled scale models.

    1. 68 daysOf filming, from 23 May to 2 September 2016
    2. 4 monthsTo rebuild the mole from its blueprints
    3. 20Real Little Ships, piloted by their owners
    4. 6 weeksOf filming with the Moonstone
    5. 12Sorties a day from Lee-on-Solent
    6. 75%Of the film shot on IMAX 65mm
    Where we read it
    An airfield from above, runways and hangars beside the sea
    Lee-on-Solent airfield, now Solent Airport at Daedalus, from the air in June 2017. Photo by Chris. Chris · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire

    Solent Airport at Daedalus

    For about two weeks in 2016 the airfield was home to three Spitfires and a Hispano Buchón painted as a Messerschmitt Bf 109. They flew about twelve sorties a day over the Channel and the Solent.

    Remote-controlled scale models of Heinkel bombers, Spitfires and Messerschmitts were flown here too.

    From 1917 to 1996 this was the Royal Naval Air Station HMS Daedalus. A Hovercraft Museum is on the site.

    A working general aviation airport. The Hovercraft Museum is on the site.

    Where we read it
    A white lighthouse on a cliff above the Pacific
    Point Vicente Lighthouse, Rancho Palos Verdes, in December 2018. Photo by Ron Reiring. Ron Reiring from Inland Empire of Southern California, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California

    Point Vicente

    The production spent two weeks at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center and Lighthouse.

    One location guide says the destroyer-sinking scene was shot just off this coast.

    The lighthouse was built in 1926. Its 67-foot tower stands on a cliff about 130 feet high.

    The interpretive center beside the lighthouse shows its original Fresnel lens. The lighthouse grounds open on the second Saturday of each month, 10am to 3pm.

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    Weymouth · Swanage · summer 2016

    Home.

    The strands end in Dorset. A Weymouth harbour office became the Weymouth Herald; the train that carries Tommy and Alex towards London at night, and into a crowd next morning, is the Swanage Railway, filmed on a July day in 2016 with fans outside the station.

    A station platform under a green canopy, old suitcases on a red trolley
    Swanage station on the Swanage Railway, in October 2017. Photo by Lewis Clarke. Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0
    A red-brick harbour building with a Harbour Master sign over a blue door
    The Harbour Master’s office at 13 Custom House Quay, Weymouth, in August 2021. Photo by Jo and Steve Turner. Jo and Steve Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0

    13 Custom House Quay, Weymouth, Dorset

    Harbour Master’s office

    The harbour office plays the Weymouth Herald newspaper office.

    It is at 13 Custom House Quay.

    A working harbour office. See it from the quay.

    Where we read it
    A station platform under a green canopy, old suitcases on a red trolley
    Swanage station on the Swanage Railway, in October 2017. Photo by Lewis Clarke. Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Railway Station Approach, Swanage, Dorset

    Swanage station

    Tommy and Alex board a London-bound train at night and arrive next day to a warm welcome. Swanage station and Swanage Railway trains play the journey.

    The film’s final scenes were shot here.

    On 25 July 2016 Harry Styles filmed scenes aboard a vintage steam train here, with a crowd outside the station.

    One location guide puts the newspaper boy on the line just outside Harman’s Cross station.

    Steam and diesel trains run about five and a half miles from Swanage through Corfe Castle to Norden.

    The terminus of the Swanage Railway, in the middle of town. Trains run on most days of the year; check the calendar.

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    The people

    Who made it.

    • Fionn Whitehead, a young man with dark hair, in a dark suit
      Fionn Whitehead at the world premiere of Dunkirk in London, 13 July 2017. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Fionn WhiteheadTommy · July 2017
    • Tom Glynn-Carney, a young man with red hair and round glasses, in a dark suit
      Tom Glynn-Carney at the French premiere of Dunkirk, in Dunkirk, 16 July 2017. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Tom Glynn-CarneyPeter · July 2017
    • Barry Keoghan in a dark suit at an evening premiere
      Barry Keoghan at the world premiere of Dunkirk in London, 13 July 2017. Photo by Foxy59. Foxy59 · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Barry KeoghanGeorge · July 2017
    • Mark Rylance in a dark hat and jacket, smiling
      Mark Rylance at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016, the month Dunkirk began filming. Photo by Georges Biard. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Mark RylanceMr Dawson · May 2016
    • Cillian Murphy with short hair and a dark jacket
      Cillian Murphy at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2017, the year Dunkirk was released. Photo by Maximilian Bühn. Maximilian Bühn · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Cillian MurphyThe shivering soldier · February 2017
    • Christopher Nolan in a dark suit, grey hair, at an evening event
      Christopher Nolan at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2018, the year after Dunkirk. No free photograph of him from 2016 or 2017 has turned up. Photo by Georges Biard. Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Christopher NolanWriter and director · shown 2018

    Fionn Whitehead played Tommy, Tom Glynn-Carney Peter, Barry Keoghan George, Mark Rylance Mr Dawson and Cillian Murphy the shivering soldier. Kenneth Branagh was Commander Bolton, Tom Hardy the pilot Farrier, Jack Lowden Collins and Harry Styles Alex. Christopher Nolan wrote and directed it, and Hans Zimmer wrote the score. No free photograph of Nolan from 2016 or 2017 shows his face, so he is shown in 2018; he is also aboard the Moonstone in the band at the top of this page.

    It opened in Britain and the United States on 21 July 2017. It won three Academy Awards, for film editing, sound editing and sound mixing.

    Where we read it
    A tall black-tiled cinema tower on a London square
    The Odeon on Leicester Square, London, in December 2019. Photo by N Chadwick. N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0

    24–26 Leicester Square, London WC2

    Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

    Dunkirk had its world premiere here on 13 July 2017.

    The cinema opened on 2 November 1937 and reopened as the Odeon Luxe on 21 December 2018; its main screen seats 800.

    A working cinema on the east side of Leicester Square.

    Where we read it

    Three strands, one map.

    Where it is now

    13 places you can visit, from the Dunkirk sand to Dorset, with Urk and Point Vicente further afield. The harbour office and the airfield are working sites: see them from outside.

    Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public beach below the Digue de Mer promenade, open all day. Rue Belle Rade, where the film opens, is a residential street a few minutes inland.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk out from the west end of Malo-les-Bains beach to the harbour mouth. The pin is the walkway OpenStreetMap names after Operation Dynamo.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Not a filming place: this is where the history the film draws on is told. Check the museum’s opening times before you go.

    • General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Guided tours only, in the afternoons; closed 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January. Take the tram to Gare Maritime.

    1. A wide, nearly empty sandy beach under a blue sky, a sea wall and railing on the right
      Malo-les-Bains beach in June 2017, looking along the sand towards Belgium. Photo by Velvet. Velvet · CC BY-SA 4.0

      Malo-les-Bains, Dunkirk, Nord, France

      Malo-les-Bains beach

      The beach scenes were shot on the same stretch of coast where the 1940 evacuation took place.

      A public beach below the Digue de Mer promenade, open all day. Rue Belle Rade, where the film opens, is a residential street a few minutes inland.

      Where we read it
    2. A line of old concrete piles and breakwater blocks running out into green sea from a railing
      What is left of the East Mole, Dunkirk, in August 2009. Photo by Paul Reed. Paul Reed - ww2battlefields.com · CC BY-SA 2.0

      Harbour mouth, Malo-les-Bains end, Dunkirk

      The East Mole

      The mole is the long jetty soldiers used to reach ships that could not come close to the shallow beach.

      Walk out from the west end of Malo-les-Bains beach to the harbour mouth. The pin is the walkway OpenStreetMap names after Operation Dynamo.

      Where we read it
    3. Brick casemates with arched openings, an old anti-aircraft gun in the yard in front
      Bastion 32, home of the Dunkirk 1940 Museum, in June 2024. Photo by Roehrensee. Roehrensee · CC BY 4.0

      Rue des Chantiers de France, Dunkirk

      Dunkirk 1940 Museum, Bastion 32

      Bastion 32 was a command post during Operation Dynamo for Admiral Abrial, commander of the French northern naval forces, and General Fagalde, who held the defence of Dunkirk.

      Not a filming place: this is where the history the film draws on is told. Check the museum’s opening times before you go.

      Where we read it
    4. A grey destroyer moored along a city quay on the Loire
      The Maillé-Brézé at her museum berth on the Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, in September 2015. Photo by Duch. Duch · CC BY-SA 4.0

      105 Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, France

      The Maillé-Brézé

      The Maillé-Brézé, a retired French Navy destroyer, was made up to look like a 1940 British warship for the film.

      Guided tours only, in the afternoons; closed 24, 25 and 31 December and 1 January. Take the tram to Gare Maritime.

      Where we read it

    Stay

    On the promenade.

    A room on the Digue de Mer above the beach at Malo-les-Bains.

    Dunkirk Tourism

    Hôtel Le Merveilleux

    Malo-les-Bains · From €115 a room

    A hotel on the Digue de Mer at Malo-les-Bains, above the beach where the film was shot. Twenty bedrooms, several facing the sea.

    See the hotel

    Go there

    The destroyer, and tours.

    A guided tour of the Maillé-Brézé in Nantes, and tours around Dunkirk and the Dorset coast from the marketplace.

    Maillé-Brézé naval museum

    Guided tour of the Maillé-Brézé

    Nantes · Adults €14 · students €12 · children 4–11 €10

    A guided walk through the destroyer that played two British ships: engine room, turbines, bridge, operations centre, galley and crew mess.

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    Steam at Swanage.

    Flying Scotsman on the line where the film’s train home was shot.

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    Poster, score and history.

    An original 2017 one-sheet from our archive, Hans Zimmer’s score and Joshua Levine’s history.

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    Dunkirk (2017) — US one-sheet

    An original 2017 American one-sheet, 27 × 40 inches, rolled, in mint condition.

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    Dunkirk: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Hans Zimmer · CD, 2017

    Hans Zimmer’s score, released on 21 July 2017, the day the film opened.

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    Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture

    Joshua Levine

    The history of the evacuation published alongside the film in 2017.

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    The register

    Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

    13 of 13 places · 15 of 15 Moments

    • Malo-les-Bains beach

      Malo-les-Bains, Dunkirk, Nord, France

      • The walk to the beach

        Soldiers walk down Rue Belle Rade in Malo-les-Bains, and Tommy runs on to the beach.

      • The beach

        Soldiers wait on the beach, on the coast where the 1940 evacuation took place.

    • The East Mole

      Harbour mouth, Malo-les-Bains end, Dunkirk

      • The mole

        Commander Bolton oversees the boarding from the mole, rebuilt for the film over the old structure.

    • Dunkirk 1940 Museum, Bastion 32

      Rue des Chantiers de France, Dunkirk

      • The real command post

        Bastion 32 was a French command post during Operation Dynamo and is now the Dunkirk 1940 Museum.

    • The Maillé-Brézé

      105 Quai de la Fosse, Nantes, France

      • Two destroyers, one ship

        The Maillé-Brézé plays British destroyers off Dunkirk, a different pennant number on each side.

    • Urk and the IJsselmeer

      Urk, Flevoland, the Netherlands

      • Out on the lake

        The Moonstone’s hardest scenes are shot on the IJsselmeer, from a base at Urk.

    • Custom House Quay

      Custom House Quay, Weymouth, Dorset

      • Casting off

        Mr Dawson casts off the Moonstone from Custom House Quay, loaded with lifejackets.

    • Weymouth harbour and the Pavilion

      Harbour mouth, Weymouth, Dorset

      • Home to Weymouth

        The Moonstone comes back into Weymouth harbour and the soldiers come ashore.

    • Harbour Master’s office

      13 Custom House Quay, Weymouth, Dorset

      • The Weymouth Herald

        The harbour office plays the Weymouth Herald newspaper office.

    • Swanage station

      Railway Station Approach, Swanage, Dorset

      • The train home

        Tommy and Alex take a London-bound train; Swanage station and its trains play the journey.

    • Old Harry Rocks, Studland

      Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

      • That’s Dorset

        The soldiers see white cliffs and ask if it is Dover; it is Dorset, at Studland.

    • Solent Airport at Daedalus

      Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire

      • Spitfires over the Solent

        Three Spitfires and a Buchón fly from Lee-on-Solent for about two weeks.

      • Models in the air

        Remote-controlled models of the aircraft are flown at the same airfield.

    • Point Vicente

      Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California

      • Off the Californian coast

        Two weeks of filming at Point Vicente; one guide places the destroyer sinking here.

    • Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

      24–26 Leicester Square, London WC2

      • World premiere

        The film has its world premiere at the Odeon, Leicester Square.

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