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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you have a favorite movie made in San Francisco?
Last edited Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:55 PM - Edit history (4)
There have been nearly 100 movies made in San Francisco.
I'd love to list at least 25 or 30 "San Francisco movies" in the poll, but I'm only allowed 10 poll choices.
If your favorite "San Francisco movie" is not in the 10 listed in the poll, mention it in a reply, and if it gets more than one vote, I'll list it in the "Addendum" poll.
55 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited | |
The Maltese Falcon" | |
8 (15%) |
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"Vertigo" | |
18 (33%) |
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"Mrs. Doubtfire" | |
2 (4%) |
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"Bullitt" | |
15 (27%) |
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"Star Trek IV" | |
4 (7%) |
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"The Conversation" | |
3 (5%) |
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"On the Beach" | |
0 (0%) |
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"Foul Play" | |
3 (5%) |
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"Basic Instinct" | |
0 (0%) |
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"The Rock" | |
2 (4%) |
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red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 20, 2019, 06:11 PM - Edit history (11)
11) "48 Hours" (2 votes)
12) "Pacific Heights"
13) "The Presidio"
14) "Dirty Harry" (2 votes)
15) "So I Married an Ax Murderer" (2 votes)
16) "What's Up Doc" (2 votes)
17) "Zodiac"
The Polack MSgt
(13,192 posts)There's a new sheriff in town and his name is Reggie Hammond
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)It's # 11 in the Addendum Poll
yardwork
(61,703 posts)You better tell this man what he wants to hear. He's having a ball with this car door.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)It's a poll choice in the Addendum Poll (Reply # 1)
Coventina
(27,172 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 20, 2019, 05:33 PM - Edit history (1)
It's now a poll choice.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Directed by: Miles Brothers
Cinematography: Harry Miles
Release date: April 21, 1906
Running time: 13 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it traveled down San Franciscos Market Street. The film shows many details of daily life in a major early 20th century American city, including the transportation, fashions and architecture of the era. The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at The Embarcadero, in front of the Ferry Building. Landmarks passed in the latter part of the first half include the Call Building (then San Francisco's tallest) and the Palace Hotel (both on the right; Lotta's Fountain is on the left between the two but is in the shade). The film was produced by the four Miles brothers: Harry, Herbert, Earle and Joe. It is notable for capturing San Francisco four days before the city's devastating earthquake and fire, which started on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906.
The Miles brothers had been producing films in New York including films shot in San Francisco. In September 1905 they shot the fight between Oscar "Battling" Nelson and Jimmy Britt in Colma, California, just south of San Francisco city limits. The Miles brothers established a studio at 1139 Market Street in San Francisco in early 1906. They shot a railroad descent down Mount Tamalpais as well as the Market Street film. On April 17, Harry and Joe Miles boarded a train for New York, taking the two films with them, but they heard about the earthquake and sent the films to New York while they boarded another train headed back to San Francisco. The Turk Street house of Earle Miles survived the earthquake and subsequent catastrophic fire but the studio did not. The Miles brothers based their business out of Earle's home, and shot more film of post-earthquake scenes; some of this footage, including that of a second trip down a now devastated Market Street, reemerged in 2016. It is likely that the Market Street film survives today because it was sent away before the fire.
Several 35mm prints exist with slight changes in footage. Copies are held at the Library of Congress and the Prelinger Archives. A digital version is viewable online at Internet Archive, YouTube and Wikimedia Commons. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
....
Dating the film
The film was originally thought to have been made in September or October 1905, based on the angles of shadows showing the sun's position. Film historian David Kiehn noticed that there were puddles of water seen in the street, and after he examined contemporary newspapers and weather reports, he realized that the early estimates were wrong: no rain had fallen in those months. Kiehn located the February 1906 registration record for a car license plate recorded in the film, and he found that the sun's angle would be the same in March as it had been in September. In 2009 Kiehn suggested that A Trip Down Market Street was filmed in late March or early April 1906, a period with many rainy days reported. He found an advertisement for the film published in the New York Clipper on April 28, 1906, which stated that the film had been shot "just one week before the complete destruction of every building shown in the picture," though this was a somewhat hyperbolic claim given that a number of buildings seen in the film were heavily damaged and later repaired. If the "one week" statement was correct then the film would have been shot on April 11. Kiehn also found a San Francisco newspaper article published on March 29, 1906, describing the Miles Brothers' intent to film aboard a cable car. In October 2010, Kiehn was featured in a 60 Minutes segment discussing the historiography of the film, especially the problem of dating it. In 2011, Richard Greene, an engineer with Bio-Rad Laboratories, published research dating the film to March 2430, 1906, based on the sun throwing well-defined shadows on the Ferry Building. Greene confirmed that the film was shot at about 3:17 in the afternoon, based on the Ferry Building clock. Greene notes that his calculated date range is consistent with Kiehn's findings, but not consistent with the date of April 14 which was published in 2011 by the Internet Movie Database without a supporting cite. He also notes that his date range is about three weeks prior to the earthquake, inconsistent with the "one week" claim in the New York Clipper advertisement. A further source the AFI's Catalog of Holdings 1978 states the film is from 1902 rather than 1906. This is most likely incorrect as some of the cars have ragtop or bonnets which was not a commonality in 1902. Many cars of 1902 were still mostly open-aired and many still had levered-steering.
Here it is at archive.org:
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (compressed HD version)
There are several versions at YouTube. For whatever reason, some have had sound added. Forget them. This is the version linked from the Wikipedia article:
[FULL HD] A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
17,986 viewsOct 6, 2017
Jannes Höke
7 subscribers
I suggest you download the higher-quality version of this video at https://archive.org/details/sanfran_h... since YouTube applies some compression of its own.
The original fuddage is taken from https://archive.org/details/ATripDown... but I undid their poor attempt at interpolation and compressed it.
The video was recorded in 1906 in San Francisco, shortly before many of those buildings were destroyed by an earthquake and the fires that followed it.
Lincensed under CC0 1.0 Universal
FirstLight
(13,364 posts)I will be rewatching it for sure to see all the details.
There were no lanes, everyone was just all over the road...wow
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)all over the city.
(Enrico Caruso was staying at the Palace Hotel during that quake, and he vowed to never again visit S.F.)
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)That's what I've always understood--so sad
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)The movie was shot in San Francisco. Seeing SF in 1924 is amazing. I know its obscure but if you like watching historical movies of SF this is it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_(1924_film)
mucifer
(23,565 posts)Thanks for posting I will watch it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)JDC
(10,133 posts)I also liked how Blue Jasmine used the Bay area. i know it's a WA film, but i really liked it.
Clash City Rocker
(3,398 posts)Okay, a lot of it takes place in LA. I would also include Inside Out and Star Trek IV. Maybe it should have been a bigger list.
Fun fact, in the Graduate, the main character is shown driving on the top deck of the Bay Bridge, toward Berkeley. The top deck of the Bay Bridge only goes away from Berkeley.
I voted for Vertigo. Sections of San Francisco can give you vertigo, what with the hilly terrain and the architecture. And Hitchcock was so good at using San Francisco.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:37 PM - Edit history (1)
But you're right about Dustin Hoffman driving away from Berkeley on the top deck.
That always bothered me, as an S.F. native, but it still was a very good movie.
(I especially loved the songs Paul Simon wrote for it and Norman Fell was great as the owner of the Berkeley rooming house)
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Wonder how they were able to clear the bridge of cars to shoot that scene-- I mean, there's always traffic there during the day time...
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)too much traffic at 7 or 8 AM.
Or, they might have gotten permission to temporarily stop cars from going westbound
(again, very early on a Sunday morning)
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Driving home tonight, I encountered a three-car crash on the Golden Gate Bridge-- talk about inching along!! It took a long time to get home...
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Nothing else fits.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)That's why I made the "Addendum Poll"
Skittles
(153,193 posts)dweller
(23,661 posts)The Laughing Policeman
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=f3GrXfyiIcG-tQWBu5PADw&q=the+laughing+policeman+movie&gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcwqTTNMjUwYAQAFYkC8g&oq=the+laughing+poli&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-hp.1.2.0j46l2j0l5.4510.10573..15956...0.0..0.313.2678.0j15j1j1......0....1.......8..41j41i10j41i22i30j41i131i275j46i131j0i131j41i275j46i275j46i131i275.x3rURa0oPWI
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Policeman_(film)
✌🏼
AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)Also a few love bug movies .
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Everybody remember where we parked!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)And I'll replace it with "Star Trek IV" which now has three votes.
So you can vote for it now in the main poll.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,650 posts)I'm not finding Dirty Harry, and now I see why. I would have voted for it had I gotten here early enough. An iconic film of both the '70s and San Francisco. Yeah, I'm no fan of Eastwood's politics or his disjointed, on-stage conversations with furniture, but, it's still a hell of a movie.
yardwork
(61,703 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Response to Dagstead Bumwood (Reply #61)
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flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)"what does a girl have to do to go to bed with you?". Blech.
A few good shots of the city though.
peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)but I love Tales of the City.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Tikki
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I put it in the Addendum Poll
I'm a huge Michael Keaton fan, as well as Melanie Griffith.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)NBachers
(17,136 posts)film, 1962. The opening sequence, of Lee Remick in a top-down '58 white Fairlane Convertible with a scarf tied around her hair going across the Bay Bridge at night, with a menacing Henry Mancini soundtrack, is the best opening scene of any movie ever.
If you live in San Francisco- Go to the 6th Floor of the San Francisco Public Library. Look for films from the Danger and Despair Knitting Circle. They have a collection of rare and out-of-print San Francisco films. You can take them out and watch them in the 6th Floor viewing rooms, but you can't check them out and take them home.
ALSO- Heart and Souls- a 1993 movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Charles Grodin - a movie you will find heartful, humorous, and affecting long after you've watched it.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:42 PM - Edit history (1)
(I wish I still lived in SF so I could go down to the Main Library & watch those films)
irisblue
(33,023 posts)The scenes in the Bay were haunting.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)And it is available on youtube.
Thanks for that memory
wishstar
(5,271 posts)Had lots of iconic San Francisco scenes.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)It was that stone house on Hugo street, between 4th and 5th Avenues
rownesheck
(2,343 posts)I was hoping I'd get to vote for that one!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)the comedy/thriller featuring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Dudley Moore, Brian Dennehy, etc.
That movie was filmed all over San Francisco and environs outside the city.
Trailer:
Probably the funniest scene in the movie:
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)Loved Foul Play! With Cyrill Magnin as the Pope.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(Even though I can't stand Chevy Chase)
RandySF
(59,224 posts)Ant Man and the Wasp
Venom
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)ms liberty
(8,596 posts)A classic screwball comedy and damn near perfect. I have loved this movie since I saw it in the theater.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069495/
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)As I mentioned below, visiting SF and realizing I was staying at the hotel with the Yes, Eunice escalators was a weird moment for me.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)and remembered why I had such a huge crush on Ryan O'Neal.
ms liberty
(8,596 posts)I had a crush on him after that too - and smart, funny, awkward and goofy suddenly became a lot more attractive! I don't think anyone knew before that movie that Ryan O'Neal was so good at comedy.
I tried to find it on netflix last night after I posted about it, and it's not on their lineup right now so I was thinking of just buying it. The only thing holding me up was the thought that it might not be as good as I remembered from the last time I got to see it, so you've helped me out with that - thanks!
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Scandinavian and UK crime shows, I could use some more comedy. Enjoy!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)The Richard Boone versions for me.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)As a Kid, I just assumed that was his first name.
DFW
(54,436 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, and Jack Warden make one hell of a cast.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I love that movie.
I got it from the local library, and watched it 3 times before I took it back
Mark Harmon reminds me of John Ritter...(He looks a lot like him).
Sean Connery & Jack Warden were excellent in it.
And I love Meg Ryan!
I'll add it to the "Addendum Poll"
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)I love that movie
I think 911 ruined it's appeal, but I loved it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Said no one ever.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Tribalceltic
(1,000 posts)Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 American family comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Our oldest was a single father with a four year old when that movie came out.
He understood.
The Tikkis
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)That's the 1955 Ray Harryhausen movie where the giant octopus attacks the Golden Gate Bridge. It was on Svengoolie just a couple of weeks ago.
If Ray Harryhausen were running for president, I'd vote for him.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Didn't they have a scene filmed at "Playland at the Beach"?
(where the octopus is climbing the Diving Bell perhaps?)
I saw it as kid and don't remember it too well.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Please find it and watch if you never have.
Tikki
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)First adult movie my mother took me to and Good Neighbor Sam, first movie date
my now husband and I went to.
Tikki
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)The wild drive Lemmon takes the PI on through SF is pretty funny.
When the movie came out, my parents wouldn't allow me to see it because they said it was a "dirty movie." I've always wondered why. Lemmon and Provine are sharing the same bed in the opening scene, though, which was kind of advant-garde for 1964.
-- Mal
Tikki
(14,559 posts)We sat in the back of the theater and all that that means, but the movie was funny and caught our
attention through to the end.
The Tikkis
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)some are EXPERTS at this
Response to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #52)
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ms liberty
(8,596 posts)In fact, one might say that people being distracted is the actual purpose of the lounge. So, if you can't handle other people occasionally taking pleasure in life and having fun conversation, then the lounge is probably not for you.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Response to ms liberty (Reply #58)
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)dinger130
(199 posts)I Remember Mama
skypilot
(8,854 posts)...Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)What was weird was, years later, visiting SF and realizing I was in the same hotel. It was the escalators that made me realize it.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Saw it first w/my mom and stepdad, then when my daddy came to get me for the weekend soon after, I told him that was what I wanted to go see cause I thought he'd like it too.
Movies don't get much more nostalgic for me than What's Up Doc.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I found out why: evidently there was some sort of strike going on in NY, so SF was chosen
I thought it was a perfect locale...
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I've seen it many times.
I think it was the one Woody Allen made right before he directed "Annie Hall"
It definitely IS a San Francisco movie.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)😊
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)TlalocW
(15,391 posts)TlalocW
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)moose65
(3,168 posts)Theres two scenes set in SF, but no iconic SF imagery in it. Most of the film is set in Bodega Bay.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Its more of a Bodega Bay film
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)The iconic Robinson's pet store on Maiden Lane was the inspiration for the fictional Davidson's pet store, which was actually built in a Hollywood studio.
Hitchcock with his two Terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley.
moose65
(3,168 posts)Hitch cut from a shot filmed on a real street to the pet store built in the studio.
That reminds me - at some point I read that one of the original ideas for the end of The Birds was to have them escape from Bodega Bay at the end and drive back down the coast toward San Francisco. The last shot of the film would be of the Golden Gate Bridge covered with birds. There was no feasible way to do the effect at the time, though, so it was abandoned. That would have been cool to see!
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)It's not the most enjoyable or satisfying film in the end, but that is part of the point I suppose.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)It's one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen.
The guy who played Arthur Leigh Allen was downright spooky!
I'll put it in the Addendum Poll (Reply # 1)
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)and, while not in San Francisco... The Birds was filmed in the Bay Area
DFW
(54,436 posts)I knew I was forgetting something. Go ahead. Make my day.
And Bodega Bay is still greater Bay Area
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Just sayin'
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)It's now a poll choice in Reply # 1
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)I love this movie.
It is about a woman who stops aging at 29. It is a beautiful film. Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, and Harrison Ford. Great chemistry all the way around.
The Blake Lively character lives in a great walk up apartment in Chinatown.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)...if my local library catalog has it.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)I was surprised by the tepid reviews.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Tikki
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Though of the ones listed above, I'd go with the Maltese Falcon.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)Now, if only someone would start one about movies set in Los Angeles . . .
ddr007
(25 posts)They took out LA and SF in that one.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)If I wanted anyone fighting an earthquake on my side, it'd be The Rock.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Welcome to DU!
brucefan
(1,549 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)and polls were new to me back then.
Rhiannon12866
(206,007 posts)I'm still not big on heights.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)He loved to do cameo roles in his films.
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)"Good Neighbor Sam" and "The Diary of a Teenage Girl." The latter is set circa 1976 in SF, mostly in a perfectly-preserved, funky Queen Anne house. The book's better, but the movie is good, too.
The former is not one of Jack Lemmon's favorite roles (one of a series of flicks he did while in Contract Hell), but it is funny as heck, and has a nice wild drive through the hills (which seems to be obligatory in a SF movie).
-- Mal
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Tikki
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)... but I did recall an old film called San Francisco - from the '30s, I think. It had fire and Clark Gable. Of those you mentioned, I'd say The Conversation was best, considering the city as an important location. Vertigo is the better film of those, in my opinion, but not because of the San Francisco stetting.
diva77
(7,656 posts)I love these films!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)but I Remember Mama is centered around a Norwegian family in San Francisco. Some of the exterior shots where.
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)I enjoyed that movie!
Well acted, and still don't understand how the person escaped.
Who ever it was did everything they could do to be busted.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Zodiac was most likely Arthur Leigh Allen.
Also, the Vallejo Police Dept. had only one suspect for the murder Zodiac committed there, and that suspect was none other than Arthur Leigh Allen (who died in 2006)
Part of the movie was filmed in San Francisco.
The scene of the only Zodiac murder there, in Pacific Heights; and many shots of the Chronicle Building at 5th & Mission streets.
Plus, they may have filmed inside the 3rd floor of the Chronicle Building, where Paul Avery, who was assigned the Zodiac case by the City Editor, and Robert Graysmith, who was a cartoonist, both worked.
(I know that building well because my first job was in the Circulation Dept. on the 2nd floor)
Why Arthur Leigh Allen was never actually caught is a mystery!
Ahpook
(2,751 posts)I thought he was eventually exonerated from DNA recently? DNA from a stamp perhaps?
I'll look it up in a bit
Thanks for the info
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(Now I need to look it up)
There was another "major suspect" who worked at the Surf Theater as a projectionist.
I forget his name.
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Brendan Fraser & Elizabeth Hurley were both great in that one.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)Robert Redford
Sidney Potier
Ben Kingsley
David Strathairn
Dan Ackroyd
Mary McDonald
River Phoenix.
Tagline: "We could tell you what it's about, but then we'd have to kill you."
My favorite spy/heist movie.
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)Great Kurt Russell flick
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)... and tales far too ticklish to tell.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,634 posts)I can't pick a favorite.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(I need to see that one again)
catbyte
(34,447 posts)MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)I never saw that one; but I did see "The Maltese Falcon"..another S.F. movie.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)It's film noir at its finest. And you can't get enough of Bogie & Bacall onscreen. If you enjoyed "The Maltese Falcon," you'll really like this one. Have you seen their first film together, "To Have and Have Not"? I still can't believe that Bacall was only 19 when she made it.
MatthewHatesTrump2
(915 posts)(Near the end, Brendan Fraser is riding a bicycle up a very steep San Francisco street)
argyl
(3,064 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)"A simple thank you would have been nice."
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)As a native San Franciscan, I loved all the scenes in S.F. especially the scene filmed at the Old Mission Dolores Cemetery.
For 3rd & 8th grade I was sent to Mission Dolores School, right next to the cemetery
(worst 2 years of my life due to an evil, sadistic nun)
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)because I'd never seen it in person. Apparently it burned down not long after its scenes in Vertigo were filmed.
I loved the ambience of the film-- romantic, mysterious, suspenseful-- though I felt sorry for Scottie at the end. But maybe I shouldn't-- maybe it shows that he had conquered his vertigo. I'm just not sure.
That cemetery scene is certainly mysterious-- the music, too. It's as if we're in a dreamlike state when we view that scene-- along with Scottie.
My brother and I were in London when Frenzy was first showing-- loved that film, too. No one creates films like Hitchcock.
Sorry you were stuck with an evil nun-- I went to Catholic school in Woodland but the nuns were anything but evil.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)btw, I also attended St. Philips Catholic School in Noe Valley (4th & 5th grades) which had mostly lay teachers (female) and they were super nice.
That nun at Mission Dolores was certainly not "typical" of Catholic nuns, because I've known others and they were all nice.
Turns out that she (the bad nun) had previously taught at another S.F. Catholic school, St. Joseph's, where my cousin's husband went, and he totally agreed with me. She was one "very mean nun."
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I used to drive on Gough Street all the time back then.
It was, and probably still is a one-way street, going north, I think.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I guess navigating around SF is second nature to you I was never any good at driving there (or, I should say city driving). Other people always drove. I did work near the Wharf a few years ago, and that was manageable (albeit barely), but driving on the GG bridge was nerve-wracking because the lanes seemed so narrow and people drove way too fast!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I used to drive on Gough Street all the time back then.
It was, and probably still is a one-way street, going north, I think.
RandySF
(59,224 posts)Partially shot in front of our place.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)After checking up on it - They did film some of it in S.F.,
Russian Hill, Nob Hill, Fisherman's Wharf, Ghirardelli Square & Noe Valley (where I lived for about 5 years)
Which neighborhood were you in?
RandySF
(59,224 posts)Response to red dog 1 (Original post)
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Bobstandard
(1,328 posts)William Powell and Myrna Loy have serious on screen chemistry in this San Francisco-set film. Theres a scene where their chauffeur drives them to the entry to their home The home isnt shown but the entry is that of Coit Tower. Theres a great nightclub scene actually filmed on a Hollywood sound stage but modeled on a real SS China Town club called Forbidden City. The movie gets the nighttime atmospherics of The City perfectly
Tarzanrock
(81 posts)Point Blank (1967) Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll OConnor
The Conversation (1974) Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall
Flame of the Barbary Coast (1945) John Wayne, Ann Dvorak
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
The San Francisco Story (1952) Joel McCrea, Yvonne DeCarlo
Pal Joey (1957) Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak
The Time of your Life (1948) James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris
Where Has Love Gone (1964) Bette Davis, Susan Hayward
The Sea Wolf (1941) Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ida Lupino
Dark Passage (1947) Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead