Cultural References
The pier features prominently in the 1971 film, Carry On at Your Convenience, and it is frequently shown iconically to "set" film and television features in Brighton, for example in scenes in Mirrormask, The Persuaders, the Doctor Who serial The Leisure Hive (1980), the 1979 film Quadrophenia and the 2007 film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The End of the Affair (1999 film). Much earlier on in 1896 the pier was also shown in many silent films. R.W. Paul shot the iconic film, On Brighton Beach, which included both the Palace Pier and the West Pier. Palace Pier is the title of a novel by Keith Waterhouse, set in Brighton, and it is the setting for a scene in the Graham Greene novel Brighton Rock. In 1993, the English alternative rock band, The Sundays, filmed the music video for their cover of the Rolling Stones' song "Wild Horses" on the pier. In 2010, the Palace Pier was the setting for part of an episode of Midsomer Murders, "The Sword of Guillaume". The pier also featured heavily in the TV series Sugar Rush, with the character Sugar even getting a job as a candyfloss salesperson at the end of the pier. The pier was also featured in Lynda la Plante's 1998 thriller Killer Net.
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