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WaltGraham,
What I especially like was that Steve McQueen did his own stunt driving.
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What I especially like was that Steve McQueen did his own stunt driving.
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Yes. Interesting bit about Bill Hickman, the bad guy wheelman.
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Did you know that the upside down shoulder holster he wore really kick started Safariland's business?
I was doing a story there and the owner told me about it
I was doing a story there and the owner told me about it
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Sometimes as I've walked the streets of San Francisco on a layover, I've imagined the Charger going airborne at the top of some hill, then crashing back down on it's suspension just as the Mustang launches off the same intersection right behind it. Screeching turns on two wheels, smoking tires, screaming engines, hard shifts...you can practically see and hear it all in your mind.
There have been so many great movies filmed on those streets. I once found an online walking tour of scenes from Dirty Harry. From the roof top where the swimming girl was shot in the opening sequence, to the church, to the stadium...even down the alley where Harry climbs a trash can to peer in a window. Great movies, beautiful town.
Hope it returns to sanity one day.
There have been so many great movies filmed on those streets. I once found an online walking tour of scenes from Dirty Harry. From the roof top where the swimming girl was shot in the opening sequence, to the church, to the stadium...even down the alley where Harry climbs a trash can to peer in a window. Great movies, beautiful town.
Hope it returns to sanity one day.
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Don't hold your breath
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A couple weeks or so ago the Tom Selleck CBS series "BLUE BLOODS" ran an episode where one of the storylines was the Mustang from "Bullit" was hijacked, and the NYPD had to get it back. Supposedly some nerdy guy owned it ... turned out it was (A.) a plot by the "owner" for insurance fraud and (B.) wasn't even the real BULLIT car but a repro.
That old "Town Hall" building was used as the exterior in the old Raymond Burr series "IRONSIDE" for the bldg his "office/living space" was located in on the top floor ....for those here who may recall that old series.
The interior of Ironside's office was a set in Hollywood at Universal Studio....and those who paid real attention will note the interior geometry/spacing shown in set did not truly match the exterior filmed in San Francisco. After the Town Hall was razed, the show had to use its cache of pre-filmed images of the old Town Hall.
A bit of trivia: That rooftop "where the girl was shot" atop a hotel, stands on the ground where the Old San Francisco Town Hall used to stand up until a year or two prior to the making of that Eastwood film.Captain Gyro said:
That old "Town Hall" building was used as the exterior in the old Raymond Burr series "IRONSIDE" for the bldg his "office/living space" was located in on the top floor ....for those here who may recall that old series.
The interior of Ironside's office was a set in Hollywood at Universal Studio....and those who paid real attention will note the interior geometry/spacing shown in set did not truly match the exterior filmed in San Francisco. After the Town Hall was razed, the show had to use its cache of pre-filmed images of the old Town Hall.
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I didn't know that, but I am not surprised. I know I wanted one bad, and finally found one in Warner Robins. It was light and comfortable (at least to a skinny 22 year old me) and I wish I still had it.
...and Bullitt was great. I gotta check Netflix...:thumbsup:
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Yeah, it has gone steadily down hill. The last good thing to come out of there was some of the music from the late sixties...and it floated out on a cloud of strangely scented smoke.
Now there are parades of half naked guys in nun's habits and gender neutral bathrooms.
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Steve did most of the riding and easily could have pulled off the big jump, but the studio wouldn't let him, so his longtime friend Bud Elkins did the jump. Elkins was also one of the stunt drivers in the Bullit Mustang; again, McQueen wasn't allowed to do everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Ekins
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I do miss sailing in the SF bay, fantastic sailing. Sailed up to see the USS Iowa when she was mothballed at Suisun Bay, that was cool.
And SF has some seriously world class restaurants and museums. The rest, I'm not so big on.
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SpecialEd,
Inasmuch as I was stationed in "The Land of Fruits & Nuts", I would generalize in that manner.
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Inasmuch as I was stationed in "The Land of Fruits & Nuts", I would generalize in that manner.
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I was just a kid when I was in California. I liked Burbank and loved Fresno. An old line of grape vines across the street from an old vineyard. We had black plums, strawberries and something like raspberries in our yard. Apricot groves all around.
We came back to Texas in July of '47 in a brand new Ford pickup truck loaded down with stuff. A sort of reverse of the pilgrimage of Okies, Arkies and Texans fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
We came back to Texas in July of '47 in a brand new Ford pickup truck loaded down with stuff. A sort of reverse of the pilgrimage of Okies, Arkies and Texans fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
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Well, I just recently obtained the special 2 DVD set of "BULLITT"
and last night as I sat down to digest my superfluous abundancy of Turkey I watched it. If I've seen it before, I don't remember it, so it was a "new" film for me.
Yes, the chase seen is a classic .... I think it became the "chase seen" to meet or beat in a lot of subsequent films.
Fun to see those old actors. Norman Fell, Simon Oakland....a Robert Vaughn still looking like Napoleon Solo out of "THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E." except acting all smarmy as D.A. Chalmers....
and every once in awhile I remember what a LOSS Steve McQueen's far too early death was to cinema.
This was one of those times ....
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