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So slayton, I take it this comment was directed to both me AND Eddie Muller, RIGHT?!

When it comes to movies about these sorts of teacher/student"interactions", there's this one too from 1971...

Well SURE, and thanks to all this off-topic banter that's been goin' on in your thread here these last few hours! (...and it would've been even HOTTER if you'd just break down and allow MOTORCYCLES to be discussed in it TOO, ya know) LOL

Gotta say when I see or hear the name of "Van Nuys", it sometimes brings to mind watching Lawrence Welk on TV when I was a kid, What, am I the only here who remembers him saying after his orchestra finished a song, "Van Nuys, boys. Van Nuys!" (...now THERE'S ya an old joke, huh!) LOL

Yeah, there was slayton, but this NYC-centric movie starring Al Pacino had nothin' at all to do with cars. "Cruising" meant something completely different within the context of this flick. (...and no and in the case of this movie, not just because the extensive public transportation system of NYC makes owning an automobile a nonessential commodity)

I'm not an angler myself cinecrazydc, but I've always been under the impression that fly fishing is done mainly to catch trout located in streams and rivers, and not bass located in deep lakes which is done using bait. And so, with the Fred Clark character dressed as a fly fisherman in White Heat and with him saying that to Edmund O'Brien, I would think that this was meant within the script to imply there being another reason for O'Brien's character to question the veracity of the Clark character. Now, I can't remember the mountain location of where Cody and his gang were said to be holed up for a while in this film, but after checking White Heat's filming locations in its IMDb web page, there were no locations listed that were anywhere close to the Sierras, and with the only somewhat rural outdoor filming location shown being Chatsworth and which in 1949 was still fairly rural and a reasonably undeveloped part of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley at that time.

It's because Steve McQueen was WAY too cool to be on ANYTHING known as "Peacock", THAT'S why! Any other questions??? Well in that case, I've got one. This "Eucalpytus P. Millstone" name here. Love it. It sounds like a character Groucho might've played in some movie, but I know it's not or at least I don't think it is, anyway. And so, what's the genesis of this? (...and btw...welcome to the boards)

Yeah, you're right. That shot could have definitely been taken a little earlier than in the "late-'70s" and as I suggested it was. And as you also stated, yep, that overhead Ventura Fwy onramp sign could have also been sitting above Van Nuys Blvd and not Ventura Blvd. (...but hey, I was CLOSE anyway, RIGHT?!...but as they say, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"...oh, and in dancing TOO of course)

LOL Eeh, don't worry about it. I'm sure you'll hardly feel that little rap on your knuckles that you're about to receive. (...slayton is actually a pretty gentle soul overall, ya know) LOL

Nice choppers there, NS. Due to these Harleys being Shovelhead and Panhead powered, this shot looks to have been taken along Ventura Blvd (note the overhead Ventura Fwy onramp sign in the background) in around the late-'70s and before Harley introduced their Evo engines. (...but I hope you know that slayton doesn't allow motorcycles in his car thread here, and so don't be surprised after he sees this one, if he'll correct you for your little faux pas here...right slayton?!!!) LOL

While I think I know what you mean in this regard KR and which is probably a decent point, I gotta say here that I've NEVER thought of Rod Steiger having a "weak voice". (...nope, perhaps "unattractive" sometimes, but the way the guy very often bellows his lines was certainly never "weak")

Gotta say I don't remember any of the gas station attendants from yesteryear ever being shapely young lasses like this one here, NS. Nope, in my neck of the woods they were either craggy older dudes or high school boys. And in fact, it seems to me by the early-'70s, most gas stations, and especially in California, had converted to being of the self-service variety, and thus making this job pretty much a quaint relic of days past. and never again to hear the ring of the bell as your tires would run over that pneumatic hose which would activate it. (...I do know though that some states back east still have attendants by force of their state laws...I think New Jersey is one of them)

LOL That's okay, NS. No harm, no foul, here. I didn't take offense to it. (...or in OTHER words, at MY age presently, the whole idea of "needlessly aging me" is pretty much a moot point anyway, wouldn't ya say?!)

So Fedya, then it appears you might know that Bass Lake, CA (a place where my family would often rent a cabin for a week every other couple of summers back then, and not to far from the southern entrance to Yosemite N.P.) was where many of the scenes in Leave Her to Heaven were filmed, and perhaps most notably the one where Gene Tierney allows little Darryl Hickman to drown in that lake. (...and coincidentally, another location used in this film would be here in Sedona AZ)

LOL You know AG's tagline: "Where were you in '62?", don't ya. Well, Diana would have just recently graduated high school that year, and at 10 years old, I would've been even younger than Mackenzie was here.

Btw NS, I forgot to add above that supposedly it was at this very A&W stand was where Brian Wilson was inspired to compose the song 'Fun, Fun, Fun ('til her daddy took her T-Bird away)' after overhearing a story about one of the regular young ladies who frequented the place during those cruises.

Actually, my eight year older sister Diana was more into the cruise scene along Hawthorne Blvd back then than I was. One of the major hangouts along that boulevard during the late-'50s and early-'60s was the A&W Root Beer stand in Hawthorne, and I remember Diana telling me that she saw Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys hanging around there a couple of times and during the time their songs first began to get radio airplay.

The best pictures I've seen of Van Nuys Boulevard cruising - LA Observed (...btw NS...down in my neck of the L.A. woods back then, the South Bay, the cruise scene was up and down Hawthorne Blvd)

Yep, OR for that matter, anything with his tall, leggy and gorgeous wife of 60 years Paula here, and who always had THE sexiest voice! (...although she's not in The Last of Sheila, I'm SURE she would've been a hell of a lot better in the role that Raquel Welch had in it, as I've always thought Welch was one of THE worst actresses ever)

You mean like this?... (...nope, probably not anymore now days, huh)

Hey Tiki. Let us know what you thought of The Last of Shiela after you get around to watching it. I happened upon it a couple of years ago on TV, and thought it one of the better who-done-its I've ever seen with a great group of actors doing very good work delivering smart dialogue from a well written script, and with beautiful cinematography of the French Riviera. (...and btw, and speaking of the earlier mentioned "Shelley Winters being tough to work with in WTMWH"...I remember reading that Raquel Welch turned out to be the very same way during the filming of TLOS, and also didn't make any friends to put it mildly during its filming)

I've always thought the chemistry between these two in Raiders was palpable... And for that matter, I've always thought it was there with Ford and Kelly McGillis here in Witness too... (...of course then again, maybe its just in the hats he wore in these two flicks, eh Moe?!)

No, its remake Against All Odds (which starred Jeff Bridges in basically Mitchum's role from Out of the Past) had a few scenes filmed in Manhattan Beach along the strand.

Ah yes, Manhattan Beach. The town where many a scene in Against All Odds, that inferior neo-noir remake of Out of the Past, were filmed along the strand there. (...there ya go, Cid...see how I so effortlessly got this baby back on track for ya here?...happy now?!) LOL

Irene Dunne Fredric March Never saw a bad performance given by either of 'em. (...ever)