Eyes Wide Shut - Letter Scene - Filmed at Transport Research Lab, Crowthorne, now Bucklers Park.

Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut - Letter scene and arriving at Mansion scene filmed at the Transport Research Laboratory in Crowthorne. The TRL site has been scaled back with most of the old site making way for Bucklers Park estate and country park but this filming location still remains and can be found near the high bank curve.

[@DAGDRUM53]

You gotta love minutiae like this.

[@FreeTheRightSide]

Great vid showing this I didn’t know where it was, everyone assumes it’s the front gate at Mentmore Towers but clearly it’s not comparing it to this.

[@markhirstwood4190]

I thought this was a back entrance to Mentmore Towers. Berkshire expands the meaning of the credits of Eyes Wide Shut to '...and the Home Counties'. Thanks for posting this.

[@silver_stringz]

Well worth a visit if you're nearby and a fan of the film. Most of the track and road system used for filiming has gone but this section I recorded and the high bank curve is still there.

[@MariePrive]

@@silver_stringz Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire

[@joesmith9216]

Thanks for this, so cool!

[@dyslexiksteve2488]

I remember this being filmed but did not know what film it was for.

[@silver_stringz]

Cool, did you work on the TRL site?

[@dyslexiksteve2488]

@@silver_stringz no I heard they were filming and could see the huge flood lights at night. You could see them for miles around.

[@silver_stringz]

​@@dyslexiksteve2488 Cool. I worked on the site back then and knew the track manager and him telling me Tom Cruise and Kubrick were on the site.

[@user-qg4no4jc7b]

Is it an optical illusion, or is the road actually a lot wider in the movie?

[@silver_stringz]

Wide angle lens. Kubrick used them a lot. There's also some vegatation on the road as it's no longer used and maintained

[@alcambrola2834]

Hi, I've searched hi and low for the name of the actor who played the old man with the letter. Would you happen to know?

[@silver_stringz]

I don't know, sorry.

[@callum4035]

Why have they ruined all of the trl site now?. Also do you know if a little show called lee evans so what now was filmed there too when the crashed the limo, looked like it

[@silver_stringz]

That's possible! quite a few tv shows were filmed on the site

[@jackdaniels2905]

England?

[@silver_stringz]

Yep scene was shot in England at the Transport Research Lab, Crowthorne

[@VredesStall]

@@silver_stringz
The huge mansion
(where the naked-orgy takes place)
is also located in England...
is that not so??

[@MariePrive]

@@VredesStall Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire

[@MariePrive]

Kubrick was very particular about the design of the gates which are nearly identical to the ones at Ascot Place, Berkshire It was owned by H.J. "Jack" Heinz II. Jack Heinz and rich from the Heinz food empire. he was also a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. Stranmgley I cannot see mention of parties he was involved with that I had previously seen on the internet. Ascot Palce also has a mysterious nightmare fuel grotto in the garden. Mick Flick, Mercedes-Benz heir and grandson of Friedrich Flick (the richest man in Germany and a convicted Nazi war criminal), It is now owned by Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, then Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of the U.A.E.
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[@nilber24]

Interesting, thank you for sharing.