A nature and mediation film, it was, as the Herald’s Dennis Taylor wrote, “his love letter to the paradise that has been his home since 1969.” 3-D full-length movie with locations from Monterey to Big Sur.
Produced and directed by John Harris.
Family drama in which a young Elizabeth Taylor, a twelve year old, wins a horse and trains it to enter England’s famed racing event, The Grand National, with the help of former jockey Mi Taylor; With the support of her family, the determined Velvet gets her lovely horse ready for the big day; Revere, who played Taylor’s mother, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar; the film also won for film editing and was nominated for best director and cinematographer; Scenes were filmed at the Pebble Beach Golf Links, 9th and 10th fairways.
Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, & Anne Revere
Clarence Brown, MGM Films
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.
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community.
Ken Matsudair, Hako, & Mariska Hargitay
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem; She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane’s pickup, who’s on the way to the World Championships in Arm-pressing; When he discovers her , he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him – and gets himself into big trouble; Her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother; Scenes filmed at The Fisherman’s Wharf, including Abalonetti Seafood renamed Benny’s, and in the Municipal Wharf #2.
Paul Le Mat, & Molly Ringwald
Story based on two John Steinbeck novels, “Cannery Row” and “Sweet Thursday”; Raquel Welch originally cast in The Winger role but was fired; Scenes filmed at Sand Dunes north of Marina and Cannery Row waterfront (Cannery Row Street scenes were done in a sound studio in Culver City).
John Huston, Nick Nolte, & Debra Winger
David Ward and MGM Films
Drama about politics; Oscar winner for Screenplay; Scenes filmed at the Monterey Marina.
Robert Redford, Peter Boyle & Melvyn Douglas
Michael Ritchie Films
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
Drama about an ex-GI with a criminal record who gets into trouble; Filmmakers, including starts from the movie, were in town for about a month from mid-July to mid-August of 1968; Scenes filmed at Point Lobos, Colton Hall, Monterey Boat Works and elsewhere around the Peninsula.
Ryan O’Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young & James Daly
Alex March, and Warner Bros Films
Comedy about a Volkswagen car with a mind of its own.
Dean Jones, Michele Lee & Buddy Hackett
Robert Stevenson, and Disney Films
Love story about a liberated artist with an illegitimate son living in a Monterey beach shack and a dedicated, married and confused minister who is in charge of a school; Oscar winner for Best song (“The Shadow of Your Smile”); Scenes filmed in Monterey and Big Sur.
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton & Eva Marie Saint
Vicente Minnelli, and MGM Films
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
Story about an engineer who brings his family back to San Francisco from Chile and his teen-age daughter who runs into troubles of the heart; Scenes filmed at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and Monterey, including the Old Train Station, where the train was headed in the wrong direction; The granddaddy of the Prof. Toro Movie list: The first filmed and the inspiration for the list.
Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan & Connie Stevens
Delmer Daves, and Warner Bros Films
$2 million budget; Drama about three young marines’ adventures on love and war; The story was based on Monterey author Anton Myrer’s second novel, :The Big War;” Filmed entirely on the Monterey Peninsula, including Fisherman’s Wharf, The Ghost Tree on the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach and the Beach and Tennis Club at Pebble Beach; Ted Balestreri, then a freshman at Monterey Peninsula College and now co-owner of the Sardine Factory on Cannery Row in Monterey and other restaurants, had a bit part, a speaking role in three scenes, as Hunter’s younger brother on a fishing boat; Loval extras in the film included Brenda Buerger (daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Newton Buerger of Pebble Beach who was a stand in for Miss Lang), Tom Coble, Ken Greene, Gregorio Cueto and Jill Livingston (then the 4-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Livingstone of Carmel; Jill’s twin sister might also have been in the film).
Robert Wagner, Bradford Dilman, Jeffrey Hunter. Hope Lange & Dana Winter
20th Century Fox Films
Suspense drama about a concert pianist who plans to murder his wife; Oscar nominee for Screenplay and Song (title song); Scenes filmed at the Monterey Peninsula Airport, including a plane-landing scene, and elsewhere on the Peninsula, including Colton Hall; Monty Hellam, a former police judge, had a bit part and was in Colton Hall when “Julie” went to the “Carmel Police Station” to report an attempt on her life.
Doris Day, Louis Jordan, & Barry Sullivan
Andrew Stone and MGM Films
Drama about a hardened girl who comes back from the big city to a fishing village; The bitter and cynical Mae Doyle returns to the fishing village where she was raised after deceptive loves and life in New York. She meets her brother, the fisherman Joe Doyle; Scenes filmed on Cannery Row.
Marilyn Monroe, Paul Douglas, & Barbara Stanwyck
Fritz Lang and RKO Films
Suspense drama about a man suspected in the death of his fiancée.
Robert Young & Betsy Drake
James Kern, and United Artists Fillms
Suspense action drama about the underground smuggling refugees out of Europe to the Palestine Coast; Scenes filmed at Del Monte Beach in Monterey, which stood in for the Palestine Shore; one of the extras who manned the oars of the landing craft was High School student John Anastasia; the big thrills came during the landing on the shore in heavy surf as boats pitched wildly into each other, several extras were swamped by the waves, but no one was hurt, no children were used in the landings because of the hazards; 300 extras — men, women and children — were on set from one to seven days, earning $15.50 a day; Two special teachers were brought in to teach school half-a-day each day the children were on the set; It’s a good thing the squid weren’t running in Monterey Bay that day or the promised land would have become deserted, according to one wag during the filming of a beach scene using 100 extras, portraying lines of ragged and weary Jewish refugees landing in Palestine, most were Monterey Fishermen of Sicilian descent who had a poor season chasing fish; Working title was “Sword in the Sand.”
Dana Andrews, Jeff Chandler & Martha Toren
George Sherman, and Robert Buckner Films
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
Drama, based on a novel, about a selfish and jealous woman who is psychopath causing unhappiness for everybody around here, even in her suicide; Oscar winner for Cinematography and nominations for Tierney and Art Direction.
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, & Jeanne Crain
John M. Stahl Films
Story about the first American attack on Japan in World War II; Oscar nominee for Cinematography .
Van Johnson & Spencer Tracy
Mervyn Leroy, and MGM Films
Exploitation film with Japanese stereotypes running a spy operation; Scenes filmed at G.T. Marsh & Co. Oriental Art Collectors next to El Estero Park in Monterey, which was turned into a mysterious temple.
Paul Fung & Luke Chan
Variation on “The Grapes of Wrath”; Oscar nominee for Best Actor (Frank Morgan).
Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Spencer Tracy & Frank Morgan
Victor Fleming, and MGM Films
World War II drama about attempts to liberate Norway; Scenes filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey, which was transformed into a Norwegian fishing village, Point Lobos and the shores of Pebble Beach; Carmel Valley resident Louis C. Moore was a uniformed member of the German Luftwaffe in the film.
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, & Walter Huston
Lewis Milestone and Warner Bros Films
Action film about competition in the trucking business; Scenes filmed at Wharf No. 2 in Monterey (Hauling fish by truck).
George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Raoul Walsh, and Warner Bros Films
Saga of a man trying to find his destiny; Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm; Scenes filmed in front of Colton Hall.
John Garfield, & Priscilla Lane
Lewis Seiler Films
James Cagney turned down the male lead; Scenes filmed at the Presidio of Monterey, then a Cavalry Post; The cast and crew stayed at the Old Hotel San Carlos (Now the site of the Monterey Sheraton), where Reagan gave a dinner and party for the Cavalry soldiers stationed at the Presidio who appeared in the movie but were barred by the Army from accepting any pay; Reagan was introduced in local newspaper accounts of the filming as a “Former Midwest Radio Sports Commentator, whose nickname was Dutch”; During the filming Reagan suffered a bruised shoulder when a horse went under him on a jump, but he was back on the set the next day “A bit lame but still game,” according to the newspapers reports; The film crew spent $20,000 in Monterey.
Ronald Reagan & Marry Maguire
B. Reeves Eason, Warner Bros, and Cavalry Picture Films
Four Daughters, 1938; Adaptation of The Fannie Hurst story; Critically acclaimed; Oscar nominee (Best Picture, Screenplay, Director and Garfield as Best Actor); Scenes filmed in front of Colton Hall in Monterey; Sisters Toni and Clara Brucia had small parts in the film.
Claude Rains, John Garfield, & The Lane Sisters
Michael Curtiz and Warner Bros Films
Story –based on the writings of Rudyard Kipling– about a spoiled rich kid who falls off a cruise ship and is rescued by a fisherman who teaches the boy to love the sea; Spencer Tracy won the Best Actor Oscar; Oscar nominee for Screenplay and Film Editing; Scenes filmed on Monterey Bay involving two schooners, which tied up at Wharf No.2 in Monterey.
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Melvyn Douglas, & Mickey Rooney
Victor Fleming and MGM Films
Includes footage of The Stage Melodrama, “Tatters, The Pet Of Squatter’s Gulch,” at California’s first theater in Monterey; The theater was resurrected by Dene Denney and Hazel Watrous with the “Tatters” production, opening June 3, 1937, running three nights and being revived for another week in July; “Tatters” was filmed by Dick Bare, who may have been connected to a Carmel production company; A new color filming technique, given a trial run for “Tatters,” was developed by Bare and his partner Bob Edgren, both “Film Nuts” who ran the Filmarte Theather in Carmel, which showed shocking films like “Ecstasy.”
Color Film
20th century-fox; Story about a lighthouse keeper who rescues a ship-wrecked Shirley Temple and raises her as a daughter; Background scenes, without either miss Temple or Kibbe, filmed at Point Lobos, Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey and in Pacific Grove; At least 18 local people were hired as extras, mostly from the Worker’s Protective Association of East Monterey; The director and film crew stayed at The Old Hotel Del /monte, once the playground of the rich and famous and now the Naval Postgraduate School, and at The Old Hotel San Carlos, now The Monterey Marriott.
Shirley Temple, & Guy Kibbee
David Butler Films
Oscar winner for Best Picture and Acclaimed as one of the Hollywood’s Greatest adventure movies; Oscar nominations for Screenplay, Director, Musical Score, Film Editing, Laughton, Gable and Tone; Scenes filmed in The Monterey Harbor Aboard the ships Pandora and Bounty.
Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, & Franchot Tone
Frank Lloyd and MGM Films
Tolstoy’s story of an illicit romance in the Imperial Court of Russia; Critically acclaimed movie; Race track and steeplechase scenes filmed on the Monterey Peninsula.
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, & Basil Rathbone
Clarence Brown Films
Tough, even daring, drama about a reporter who uses a girl’s friendship to expose her father’s smuggling activities; The story is based on Max Miller’s popular book of the same name; The film originated the phrase, “Not tonight, Josephine!”; Monterey stood in for San Diego Waterfront, where the story is set; Film crew was in Monterey for two months; In one filming sequence, Sal Colletto, “Beau Brummel of Fisherman’s Wharf,” was photographed at the wheel of his purse seiner, the Dante Alighieri, about a mile off Fisherman’s Wharf.
Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence (in his last movie), & Ben Lyon
James Cruze and United Artist Films
Polo field at the Old Hotel Del monte in Monterey used for a comical scene in which Robinson and his fellow gangster characters try to play Polo.
Edward G. Robinson & Mary Astor
Roy Del Ruth, and Warner Bros Films
Action-packed melodrama — once referred to as an early vision of “JAWS” — about a Portuguese tune fisherman who marries a girl out of Pity, then sees her fall in love with his best friend (A popular Warner Bros plot Gambit); The action comes from sharks that attack fishermen; Scenes filmed along Cannery Row and Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey; The footage was interspersed with a few shots in San Diego and/or San Pedro Harbor, the action was described as “San Diego.”
Edward G. Robinson
Howard Hawks, and Warner Bros Films
Cavalry film about three ham actors down on their luck who enlist by mistake and one of them ends up as a hero; Scenes filmed at Presidio of Monterey and the Old Polo Grounds, now a part of the Monterey Peninsula Airport and Naval Postgraduate School Golf Course; Featured was the Horsemanship pf the 11th Cavalry, stationed at the Presidio.
George “Slim” Summerville, Mary Philbin & Roscoe Karnes
Tiffany Productions Films
An engineer in New York is unhappily married to a politically ambitious wife; Scenes filmed at the Old Hotel Del Monte.
William Powell
Famous Players-Lasky Production Company headed by Allan Dwan
Miss Purviance was Chaplin’s girlfriend; The film was privately exhibited and may have only been shown once, it was never put into general release; Scenes filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey and on Monterey Bay; Two Monterey sardine boat crews, Angelo Lucido’s and Peter Ferranti’s, were used in the filming.
Edna Purviance, & Raymond Bloomer
Josef Von Sternberg Films
From the studios of Cecil B. De Mille; Silent Film; Cavalry scenes filmed at the Presidio of Monterey, then a cavalry post; Filming done here in October 1925 and was delayed three days because of fog.
Rod La Rocque & Tyrone Power Sr.
Alan Hale Films
Scenes filmed at the Old Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (now the Naval Postgraduate School, along all the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach and other scenic locations on the Monterey Peninsula; Usually heavy fog in august 1923 repeatedly delayed filming of exterior shots at the hotel.
Reginald Denny
Universal
Scenes filmed at the Old Hotel Del Monte and along the 17-mile Drive in Pebble Beach.
Katherine McDonald & Bryant Washburn
Preferred Films
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
Scenes filmed at the Old Hotel Del Monte, now the Naval Postgraduate School.
Kathryn McDonald, Nigel Barrie & Leota Lorraine
Drama about a cynical attorney whose faith in mankind is restored; Two endings were filmed — one in which the hero dies, in line with the novel. “The Right of Way,” by Sir Gilbert Parker, and the other a ‘Happy ending,’ theater operators were allowed by metro to show either ending — or both at different showings; Forest scenes filmed near Monterey.
Bert Lytell, Gibson Gowland & Leatrice Joy
John (Jack) Francis Dillon, and Metro Films
Five-reel Bluebird feature made at a cost of $30,000; Fishing scenes filmed at McAbee Beach on Cannery Row; A cast of 30 was here for the filming; Top cast members stayed at The Old Hotel Del Monte, the rest at The Monterey Hotel. Based on the book Gladsome.
Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Jessie Pratt, Ed Brady, Dick La Reno, & Hayward Mack
George Cochrane and Universal Films
A travelogue; Prisma Motion Picture Co. of New York; Scenes filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf and elsewhere on the Waterfront, on the streets of Monterey and at Point Lobos.
Prisma Motion Picture Films
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
Set in early California about 1850; Scenes filmed in Monterey, including historic sites, with local actors in supporting roles, including Herb Nuttal, Phil Satterbach, Wilton Gonzendorier, Helen Otis & Alvin Johnson; An old horse-drawn street car was used in the filming.
Harold Lockwood, May Alison & Thomas Ricketts
American motion Pictures Co. Films
Scenes were filmed at Point Lobos, along the 17-Mile Drive and at various historic sites, including the Custom House in Monterey; Also filmed were sea gills at Monterey’s Wharf No.2 and the Old Point Lobos Canning Co., which was billed as the only Abalone Cannery in the world, getting its catch from drivers who worked right near its front door in Whalers Cove.
Mutual Weekly Gaumont Film Series
One of the first of 70 films done by Demille and done the year he started in movies; Demille is the person most responsible for making Hollywood the Film Capital, he moved Hollywood from Two-and-three-reel Films into Feature-length Motion Pictures; In 1914, Demille was director general of the Lasky Co., a partnership of Demille, Lasky and Samuel Goldfish, which grew into the giant Paramount Pictures; Miss Barriscale’s second film; She was a star of early silent movies, typically romantic melodramas, whose career peaked prior to 1920; Filmed extensively in Monterey; cast and crew of 40 people shot thousands of feet of film in Monterey, using the city’s historic buildings and scenic beauty as a backdrop; Filming was done in September 1914, and the picture was released in the theaters before the end of the year.
Bessie Barriscale
Cecil B. Demille, and Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. Films
Short film; May have been among the earliest films ever available for public showing; Released in October 1897 along with another Peninsula-made film, “Hotel Del Monte.”
Thomas Edison Co. Films
Short film; May have been among the earliest films ever available for public showing; Released in October 1897 along with another Peninsula-made film, “Surf at Monterey.”
Thomas Edison Co. Films
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