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5 Against the House location

posted 18 years ago by syleme37
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Does anyone know in what Reno casino this film was shot?

If you do, please email me at [email protected]....thanks

[–] harfrafre 18 years ago

I just saw this film again for the first time in 15 years. It was on a local Reno channel. It
was filmed in Harolds Club which has since been
torn down and replaced with a plaza. The Reno
sign has been moved and replaced with a new one. I've been living in Reno for 12 years and
many changes have occured. The auto lift in the
parking garage is no longer there.

[–] billr1953 16 years ago

and where was midwestern university? Tahoe? Reno?

[–] mackjay2 14 years ago

According to IMDb, Lake Tahoe

[–] liscarkat-2 11 years ago

Must have been in the Midwest somewhere. The drive took them at least a couple of days. At one point early in the film, as they were returning, a sign indicated they still had 300 miles to go.

[–] Ethereal-Cloud 10 years ago

Midwest University is currently in Downers Grove Illinois, a suburb of Chicago (It recently opened a satellite campus in Glendale, Arizona). However, In 1955, it was located in the city of Chicago.

[–] garyhos 10 years ago

In 1961 I attended Midwestern University in Wichita Falls TX, while training at Shepard AFB. I think they'd just changed their name from Hardin-Simmons College. Nice looking campus, but not the one in "5 Against the House". From a filming budget standpoint, wouldn't the school have been close to Hollywood?

In early 1980's, I worked with Charlie Willock, inventor and manufacturer of "pigeon hole parking", the modern artificial kidney machine, and other things. A self-made man, he's gone now.

[–] balducci2 8 years ago

According to his obituary, Wilcock invented a parking garage car lift. But according to everything I can find online, the actual pigeon hole parking system was invented by someone else. Specifically, Leo and Vaughn Sanders of Spokane, Washington, invented and patented the system that came to be know as Pigeon Hole Parking. They hold 4 patents on this, the first dating to 1949.

But according to Wikipedia, "the earliest use of an automated parking system was in Paris, France in 1905 at the Garage Rue de Ponthieu. The APS consisted of a groundbreaking multi-story concrete structure with an internal elevator to transport cars to upper levels where attendants parked the cars."

[–] den_quixote 8 years ago

They never said where it was supposed to be though I think one of them said something about Kansas, but the university shown is the University of Nevada at Reno.

[–] Redsfan001 (6003) 2 years ago

Harlod's Club. It was bought by Howard Hughs for $11.5 million in 1970 and eventually demolished in 1999.

This movie is the best visual representation of the casino in it's heyday.

Very interesting for history buffs like me.