TripleHHH Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 There are plenty of movies shot in my hometown, either in part or entirely I thought id see what fans like I like DOA, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1976 , the Birds for starters Message was edited by: TripleHHH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobitz Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Vertigo and Bullitt, for the two most obvious and also my favorites. Wasn't Petulia shot there also? I know it was set there. (Seen two...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 TIME AFTER TIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeHolman Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Dirty Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yes, Vertigo is a great one too from here.. ah my favorite The Maltese Falcon !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottman1932 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 BULLITT and DIRTY HARRY, are excellent San Francisco films. I would also add GREED (1924) as many of the exteriors and even some interior scenes were shot there. Also IN OLD SAN FRANCISCO (1927) and FOG OVER FRISCO (1934) and I REMEMBER MAMA (1948) too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 How can we forget It Came From Beneath the Sea ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualfeast Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yes, Petulia was shot in SF, also What's Up Doc?, The Conversation, I Never Sang For My Father, Tillie And Gus, Towering Inferno, Butterflies Are Free, Hammet, Harold And Maude (in Hillsborough, 30 miles south of the City), The Subterranians, Foul Play, The Lady From Shanghai, Impact, several movie serials in the thirties/forties, and for Television, San Francsico Beat, and The Streets Of San Francisco...to name just a few. San Francisco was a favorite locale for movie makers, for the obvious reason that it is a very visually stimulating place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sezne Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 gee what about "the maltese falcon" (1941) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 >How can we forget It Came From Beneath the Sea? Very easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 A few weeks ago TCM aired a rare little gem titled ?Stranded?, with Kay Francis, which contained a lot of film of the actual construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. There are quite a lot of 1930s films that are set in San Francisco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyDan Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Walter Mathau?s and Bruce Dern?s *The Laughing Policeman* comes to mind for me. Yeah, it?s from the 70s and that turns a lot of people off around here, but when I first saw this R rated crime thriller as a kid (my older sister took me and she told the ticket-taker she was my adult guardian ? though she was only 17 herself ?so we got in!) the brutal opening scene and dialogue between the cops and the thugs they confront to solve the crime struck me as very realistic. As the years have passed, the edge has softened to the point where, at times, it feels more like a "Dragnet" episode with cussing. Lots of SF landmarks jumped out at me when I visited there years later. And one of my favorite 60s romantic comedies, *Man?s Favorite Sport?* with Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss features Nob Hill (at least I think it?s Nob Hill) and other SF locales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 gee what about "the maltese falcon" (1941) ? The thread title asked for films actually shot (at least in part) in San Francisco; THE MALTESE FALCON, while set in the city, was shot entirely at Warner Bros. in Burbank, (and a number of the titles listed below also never left Hollywood). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 sezne, Welcome to the board. Here's a list of San Francisco locations listed for "The Maltese Falcon" on the IMDB website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/locations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vallo13 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I'll add the Clark Gable/Jeanette MacDonald /Spencer Tracy film "San Francisco" 1936 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yes, that's a very good one. Just about all the models used in the film were reproductions of real SF buildings, such as City Hall, the Call Building, the two-towered Jewish Synagogue, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starstruck11 Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Someone previously mentioned What's Up, Doc?, but I thought that I would add to that. San Francisco was picked for this movie because of it's hills. If you watch, in almost every outside shot, there is a hill. It helps add to the comedy. Also, during the outrageous chase scene, the cars drive down the concrete steps in Alta Plaza park. These steps actually received damage, I believe it is still visible today. As a result of the damage caused by this movie, San Francisco now requires a permit application with scene by scene details. I just though that was kind of funny. Hope you enjoy the info! (And if you haven't seen this movie, you really should. It's humorous and all of the cast turns in wonderful performances. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sezne Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 gee what about "the lineup"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleHHH Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 I shouldve remembered the It Came From Beneath the Sea i love that movie, low budget but its Ray Harryhausen...and i love his movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 The Star Trek Movie about the whales and the "nuclear wessels". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFavell Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 I have to say that if Starstruck had not mentioned "What's Up, Doc?" I would have had to. The SF locations are integral to the ridiculous chase scene in the last half of the movie. I agree, you simply must watch it if you are a fan of screwball comedy. It is one of the most fun movies I have ever seen, and both my sister and I have fond memories of giggling through it in the movie theatre....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Other good films shot in San Francisco: ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ VIEW TO A KILL PACIFIC HEIGHTS THE TOWERING INFERNO THE BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
florentine Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 maybe this has been posted by now but how about "hell on frisco bay" with alan and e.g? i like the scene where e.g. tries to make alan ladd an offer he can't refuse. it takes place in e.g's kitchen. alan's reply is "what have you been smoking?" (i guess that was a "no"). and i wonder how many of the 1950's viewing audience caught on to what alan was suggesting mr. robinson was inhaling. maybe a lucky or a camel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home, A View to a Kill, and Dirty Harry. Also an old TV police series in the early 1970's, The Streets of San Francisco (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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