FAST AND FURIOUS
A trucker framed for murder breaks out of jail, takes a young woman hostage, and enters her sports car in cross-border road race hoping to get to Mexico before the police catch him.
Film stars John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle, and Iris Adrian. Scenes filmed in Carmel-by-the-Sea, the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the Concours d’Elegance, and Monterey. Some of the scenes at Pebble Beach were practice, qualifying and early race scenes.
Directd by John Ireland and Produced by Roger Corman.
THE FORGER
A teenage art prodigy is abandoned in Carmel by his mother. While struggling to survive, he meets a man who introduces him to the world of art forgery, forcing him to choose between artistic integrity and the prospect of wealth.
Lauren Bacall, Josh Hutcherson, & Alfred Molina
Lawrence Roeck Films
BASIC INSTINCT
A murder mystery, billed as a psychological thriller; Controversial because of its portrayals of gay and lesbian murders; Rated R because of explicit sex and violence; Oscar nominee for Musical Score and Film Editing; Scenes filmed at Carmel Valley Village, Carmel Highlands, and Garrapata Beach south of the Highlands; Garrapata Bech stood in for Marin County’s Stinson Beach.
Michael Douglass, & Sharon Stone
Paul Verhoeven Films
BLIND DATE
Comedy about what happens when Willis goes out with Miss Basinger on a blind date and gets her drunk; scenes filmed in July 1986 on the beach below Bay School near Monastery Beach south of Carmel. Peninsula-filmed scenes cut from the picture; kept on list with an asterisk because filming was done here and did involve the principals.
Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger and John Larroquette
Blake Edwards Films
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES
Comedy about an innocent bank robber who takes refuge with his ex-wife who is married to the district attorney; Scenes filmed in Carmel.
Goldie Hawn & Chevy Chase
Jay Sandrich and Columbia Films
THUMB TRIPPING
Story in the “Easy Rider” tradition about the hippie era in which Burns and Miss Foster are hitchhikers traveling together and sharing experiences; Scenes filmed in Carmel, including inside the Mediterranean Market and Harrison Memorial Library (Turned into the City Jail); Hugh Bayless, retired Carmel City Administrator was an extra.
Michael Burns, Meg Foster, Brice Dern & Marianna Hill
Quentin Masters, and AVCO Films
PLAY MISTY FOR ME
Thriller about a radio disc jockey who is pestered by a woman who becomes homicidally jealous; Scenes filmed in Big Sur, Carmel and Monterey.
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, & Donna Mills
Clint Eastwood and Universal Films
CHANGES
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Bartlett who grew up on the Monterey Peninsula and moved away to become a Hollywood filmmaker; Story about a young Hollywood actor (played by Lane) who doesn’t fit in either the older generation or the younger generation, hip generation, so he drops out of college and travels; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos and Carmel; With Bartlett during the filming was his wife, actress Rhonda Fleming.
Kent Lane, Michele Carey, & Marcia Strassman
Hal Bartlett Films
THE GRADUATE
Comedy about an ex-student, an older woman and her daughter; Oscar nominee for Best Picture, Screenplay, Cinematography and Acting (Hoffman, Bancroft and Ross); Scenes filmed in front of the Carmelite Monastery just south of Carmel (Hoffman is shown driving the wrong-way in a mad dash up and down the coast).
Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft & Katherine Ross
Mike Nichols (Oscar winner), and Embassy Films
THE PARENT TRAP
Story about twin daughters (both played by Miss Mills) whose parents are separated and how they try to bring the family back together; Scenes filmed at the baggage counter at the Monterey Peninsula Airport, on the balcony of the lodge at Pebble Beach overlooking the 18th hole of golf course, around the Palo Corona Ranch house, and at Cypress point in Pebble Beach; Wharf Theater actors Bill Houle, Ruth Warshawsky, Ron Robertson, George Gordon, and David Riley were extras in the film.
Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara & Brian Keith
David Swift, and Disney Films
FLIGHT
(1960) John Steinbeck story originally released as a feature-length film and later edited down to only 30 minutes; Scenes filmed at Palo Corona Ranch, Carmel. The crew filmed around San Jose Creek, the redwoods and steep area of the backcountry.
Glenn Ford & Ann Baxter
Efrain Ramirez Films
VERTIGO
Thriller about a detective who falls for the woman he stalks; Oscar nominee for art direction; Scenes filmed at Carmel beach and in the Environs of San Juan Bautista, including a shot of a car on Highway 101 between Prundale and San Juan Bautista traveling in the wrong direction (North instead of South) to take advantage of better scenery; When Hitchcock filmed at the Mission in San Juan Bautista, the tower, was long gone; They built the tower for Paramount Studios and through the film editor’s art the tower ended up on the top of the Mission for the movie; One of the first 25 U.S. films put on the National Film Registry as “Culturally, Historically or Aesthetically significant under the National Film Reservation Act.”
James Stewart & Kim Novak
Alfred Hitchcock, and Paramount Films
KINGS GO FORTH
(1958) War drama about two GIs who fall for the same woman; Scenes filmed at Yankee Point, Palo Corona Ranch with Frank Sinatra, in Pear Orchard in Lower Carmel Valley, and the Fish Ranch in Carmel Valley.
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood
Directed by: Delmer Daves and United Artist Films
THE NAKED EYE
Feature-length documentary about still photography. Cinematography by Ed Martin (who years later bought a house in Carmel); Nominated for an Oscar for Cinematography; Scenes filmed at Weston’s home in Carmel.
Edward Weston, Alfred Eisenstadt & Margaret Bourke White
Louis Clyde Stoumen Films
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS
Scenes filmed in Pebble Beach and Carmel; Two other of Corman’s Peninsula-made films were “The Monster From The Ocean Floor” (1954) and “Road Racers” (1959): Corman made scores of B movies, mostly horror, teen-exploitation, biker and beach films; Corman could make a film as little as three weeks and spend only a few hundred thousand dollars doing it; He hired young talent, some of whom went on to bigger and bigger things, among them George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, both of whom got their start with Corman.
Made by the King of B Movies, Independent Filmmaker Roger Corman
THE SECOND WOMAN
Suspense drama about a man suspected in the death of his fiancée.
Robert Young & Betsy Drake
James Kern, and United Artists Fillms
THE LADY SAYS NO
Comedy about a magazine photographer who interviews a woman who has written an anti-men book and breaks down her romantic resistance; Scenes filmed at the Pine Inn in Carmel and the nearby coastline.
Joan Caufield & David Niven
Frank Ross, and United Artists Films
CALIFORNIA
Hollywood spectacular set in the days before California became a state, when there was a struggle over whether it would become part of the United States or be its own Republic; Milland played a rugged soldier of fortune in his first outdoor adventure film; Scenes filmed at Monterey’s Historic Landmarks, including Colton Hall, and The Carmel Mission.
Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, & Barry Fitzgerald
John Farrow and Paramount Films
SUSPICION
Suspense drama about a sedate young girl who marries a playboy and comes to suspect that he’s trying to murder her; Based on a novel, “Before the Fact,” by Francis Iles; Hitchcock redid the finish, making a sudden switch to a happy ending to please studio bosses; Joan Fontaine won the 1941 Best Actress Oscar and the New York Film Critics Award and the film was nominated for Best Picture and for the Musical Score by Franz Waxman; Background scenes for key elements in the movie filmed along the coastline between Carmel and Big Sur, which stood in for England (A potential land development deal very near Bixby Creek Bridge goes sour and Hitchcock’s bif finish is played out above the rocky coastline closer to Carmel; There is footage of motoring up and down the scenic coastline.
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, & Nigel Bruce
Alfred Hitchcock, and RKO Films
ALL MEN ARE ENEMIES
A romantic drama about sweethearts parted by war, who are reunited at last, despite another woman; Scenes were filmed around Carmel.
Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, & Mona Barrie
George Fitzmaurice Films
SANDY
A jazz age tragedy; Scenes filmed at Carmel and Pebble Beach.
Madge Bellamy & Leslie Fenton
Harry Beaumont Films
THE ROSARY
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, inherits the bulk of the estate; Scenes filmed in the Carmel area.
Lewis Stone, Jane Novak & Wallace Beery
Jerome Storm Films
SHADOWS
Silent film in which Chaney plays a Chinese laundryman; Scenes filmed at Whalers’ Cove at Point Lobos, on Ocean Avenue in Carmel (including one scene with wandering musician) and in Monterey at Fisherman’s Wharf and the 500 block of Larkin Street; The Larkin Street shots were night scenes and people in the neighborhood sat on the bank of vacant lot across the street and watched for several evenings; Huge Klieg Lights in front windows nearby homes were set up to illuminate the street; The film crew promised to pay residents for the inconvenience but never did; a large Chinese junk was built for the film and Launched off the Point Lobos canning Co.’s Wharf ; Members of the Monterey Civic Club were extras at the scene filmed at the Waterfront, which showed the arrival of a minister.
Lon Chaney, Harrison Ford & Margguerite Dela Motte
Tom Forman, and Lichtman Studios Films
SUNSHINE GATHERS
Documentary about California’s fruit-growing industry made by George E. Stone; Scenes filmed at the Carmel Mission, Carmel River, elsewhere in Carmel area and at Point Lobos; The film was done against a historical background, including the arrival of father Junipero Serra who brought with him fruit trees from Spain; Monterey Fishermen were used for the roles of soldiers and priest, and real soldiers from Presidio of Monterey played the Indians.
George Stone Films
MISS HOBBS
Comedy about a rich, flighty young woman whose latest cause is radical feminism: Exterior scenes filmed in Carmel.
Wanda Hawley
Donald Crisp and Realart Pictures Films
THE ISLE OF LIFE
Scenes filmed at Carmel Mission, J.A. Murphy House in New Monterey, Old Hotel del Monte and its Polo Grounds and Bridal paths, a street flanked by old adobes and Monterey Harbor filled with fishing boats; About 100 local Fishermen and their wives were extras in the action film, set in Sicily and taken from a novel of the same name by J. Francis Whitman.
Roberta Wilson, Frank Whitson & Eileen Sedgwick
Burton George, and Universal Films
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
An early silent movie; Shown in Monterey in November 1914; Scenes filmed at various local sites, including the Old Abalone Cannery at Point Lobos and in and around Carmel.
Myrtle Stedman & Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Bosworth Films
