i've driven by where this movie was filmed so many times through out my life. i even went to school about 2 and a half blocks away! what's really sad is i'm almost 100% sure hurricane katrina wiped it out. has anyone else on here been there too?
shareThis is the same area that Jimmy Buffett grew up in.
I was listening to Radio Margaritaville on Sirius this morning, and he was being interviewed... he makes reference to being around this area when they were filming this movie. Something about seeing Natalie Wood in a Rolls!
His comment this morning, in an attempt to remind folks about the scope of Katrina, comparing the Gulf states looking much like Normandy must have four months after d-day.
There is a video from his new album coming Aug 15th, and it was filmed at an old beach bar in the same general area.
that's where im from! i live about 2 or 3 blocks away from the house is. some people want to tear it down though. o no it wasnt torn down by the storm but i dont know what the inside is like, its all boreded up now. i havent watched all the movie so i dont know about other sites.
share"There is a video from his new album coming Aug 15th, and it was filmed at an old beach bar in the same general area. "
Yes but unfortunately the video is about Hurricane Ivan's effect on Gulf Shores Alabama. I guess for Jimmy's next act he'll go down to ground zero in New York and make a video about JFK Jr. crashing his plane into the Atlantic Ocean.
The other sites from the end of the film are New Orleans, La. The Dumaine St. apt in the French Quarter is what's reffered to as a "slave quarter" apt in the back of 816 Dumaine. It also happens to be exactly 2 blocks from Tennessee Williams' last home, were he spent the last decades of his life, in the mid 1000 block (on the odd number side) of Dumaine, which I imagine may have had some impact on the use of that location. The Clover Grill on the corner is still there, looks exactly the same and is open 24 hrs a day (great late night breakfast I can tell you.) The French Quarter as a whole survived the storm well.
There is a bridge in a scene when Alva first arrives in New Orleans, a little foot bridge located in City Park next to the children's playground. The bridge is still there, looking exactly the same. Behind her is City Park Avenue in the distance, and although it can't be identified, it's my house in the distance back there, I would have been about one month old when it was shot.
My dad was stationed at Keesler AFB '64 - '68. I had two horses and usually went riding all day long during the summer months when not in school. The railroad tracks were directly behind our house and I'd just follow them one way or another. One particular day, I just happened to find myself on the train trestle overlooking the skinny dipping scene while this was being filmed. I also got to watch a few scenes between Redford and Wood. That was the first time I'd ever seen Redford and boy did I fall in love! Needless to say, I was late getting home that night! What a memory.
sharehttp://www.sunherald.com/business/story/359699.html
I live in Gulfport. This story is in today's local paper. Apparently, the Little Theatre group in Bay St. Louis bought the property, and plans to restore and use it. Please do note, though......... Lisa Monti, the author of the article, would still like a grocery store in Bay St. Louis.
I was there last August and the building is still intact where they shot the scene of the house. It was far enough inland that it did not suffer too much damage. All the beach front houses are gone along with the bridges across the bay. The Railroad bridge is working but the highway 90 bridge was still being worked on when I was there.
I am a BSL High School graduate and I was there when they were shooting the movie scenes.
Can you tell us anything about the what you saw at the filming?
I've seen pics of the house recently, quite amazing! Definately would not want it teared down, would like to see it sometime.
I live in the Bay now.... offa Demontluzin St. Depot Street is up and runnin . Begninos is serving their lunch specials... Johnny's Steak House has moved there too. the 90 bridge is finally open. Trapanis re-opened on 90 but will return to the beach within the next year or so. Beach Blvd is still devoid of commercial life, gotta HAVE a Beach Blvd first. Things are looking up, although the boarding house is still abandoned ( some roof damage).
shareI live here in Bay ST Louis and now the opening shot of the movie is now what that yellow house looks like on the outside. Inside there is hardly anything there.
shareThis property was condemned:
http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/2006/04/lights_camera_c.html
But then....
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?s=7840100
I used to live on Central Ave. near Chantilly Terrace back in the 90's before I moved back to New Orleans in 2000. I still like to watch the movie to remember the area. BTW, the movie theater that Redford and Wood went to is a Church near the Train Depot.
shareThis Property was not condemned and was way too strong for Katrina to destroy. On October 1 2010, THE GRAND OPENING OF THE BAY SAINT LOUIS LITTLE THEATER WILL BE THE TALK OF THE TOWN. The building has been meticulously restored and is a beauty to behold. Mary Badham and Jon Provost will be our honored guests and will tell us their memories of the filming. IT IS GRATIFYING to see how many people still love this movie as much as the people of the bay do.COME SEE US,OUR FAVORITE BUILDING AND THE PLETHORA OF ARTISTS,WRITERS AND ACTORS WHO MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN BAY ST. LOUIS
shareThat must have been an interesting event with Badham & Provost. Nice to read about the restoration.
Film has some real insider names attached to it. Surprised to see Dabney Coleman. Behind the lens was James Wong Howe director of photography. And Edith Head for costome design. Wally Westmore did makeup on a gizzalon big name films from 1930 onward like Double Indemnity 1944 and w/ Redford in Barefoot in the Park 1967, check the mega list of films he work on! Full range of material.
I've been a long time fan of Williams but honestly can't say I exposed myself to this one. Suddenly Last Summer, The Fugitive Kind, Tiffany were the ones I really got into.
Nice to finally reach this point. With the layoffs in oil fields now, a version of Condemned wouldn't be out of the quieston. Not a shot for shot kind of Psycho thing, just using the basic premise.
Strange how life runs in circles/cycles. Doomed to boom & bust despite the thinking for a while that such matters were under control at long last.