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Well this was a great movie, from a (last of the greats ) great actor. The scene where they are driving the combine about in the fields. Is on Will County line Rd, and a mile east and one mile north of my child hood home. This field was a place that I would ride my Honda50, before school, back in the 60s,. The property dose'nt have the old house there any longer ,. we always thought it was haunted. The lights Upstairs or perhaps a glow would come on when you would drive from south to north on the gravel road on the Kankakee side, This road would come to a T.If you drove straight you would go into the drive for this property. The County road ran east to west. I accually spent a nite in that old house, with the only people I ever knew to live there . My sister was baby sitting I was young enough to wonder if they where all ghosts LOL.. Anyway! This was a movie that I will never forget. Because of my admiration for Steve McQueen. And the fact that I spent some childhood runnin up and down the road where some of his last movie was made.( take me home country road ,take me home) OK any person under fifty reading this dont laugh your time is comming LOL... Bjoe> - P.S. The River Scenes,! taken across the river from my first X wifes parents home HA! And the train pulls outa Kankakee, Headin on its southbound oddesey............

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I used to work within sight of the Marina Towers that were used in one scene of The Hunter. They are two 61-story circular buildings just north of the loop in downtown Chicago. The first 19 floors are a parking garage with spiral ramps. The upper floors are residential units.
This scene involved a car racing through a spiral parking garage and then exiting from an upper level as it plunges into a river. We watched as a crew remove one of the railings on an upper level of the garage and set up bright lights and four camera positions. When the setup work stopped and we heard a helicopter circling overhead (it had a fifth camera), we knew something was about to happen. Then suddenly a car came flying out and landed in the Chicago River. From the beginning of setting up until the one take, I believe it took five hours.

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Lavar"What's his name" in a legend's film? Oh man.....I can name a dozen character actors of 1980 who would set fire to add verve to this beautiful movie.

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