Locations - Man with the Gun (1955) Discussion

[–] johnny_clay 16 years ago

I'm interested, too. I've never seen that particular western street before. The signs are real amateurish and the main street has quite a slope to it.

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[–] layton59 15 years ago

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I'm interested, too. I've never seen that particular western street before. The signs are real amateurish and the main street has quite a slope to it.

Yeah, I really like that main street.

Great slope.

Too many westerns have such flat streets.

Wasn't DIE HARD 1 filmed at Century City?

Also Trotter's Bar is a funny name. I wondered if the cheap whiskey gives you the trots? I am sure it was named after the horse gait though. Still a funny name.

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[–] max von meyerling 16 years ago

Darlings, this is a back lot movie, though the interiors and even some exteriors were shot on a soundstage. Pretty amazing isn't it but that's what a first class cinematographer like Lee Garmes could do. You'll notice that even on exterior shots you can't see the sky, just a neutrally painted cyclorama. The back lot (since this was a United Artist release it was a non-studio, independent production it must have been shot at a general services studio) had the bulk of the town set built on it, a so-called “Western Street”. Unlike a studio picture that used a standing set, it was possibly built and used only for this picture. Maybe the shots of the entrance to town past the Boot Hill were shot on location, as was the building the homestead scene (which was actually the same location as the Boot Hill location), probably all in the same day. Lake Arrowhead was a favored western location but I can't swear to it.

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[–] wildbillharding 16 years ago

Thanks, Max - most interesting. You're dead right about Lee Garmes. His work on another Mitchum western, the woefully underrated The Lusty Men, was superlative. United Artists was co-owned by Sam Goldwyn and Mary Pickford, who fell out and ended up in court in '55, the year Man With The Gun was filmed. Goldwyn outbid Pickford and became sole owner. Warner Bros eventually bought out the studio. The Warner's western town, which was flattened about five years ago, is familiar from TV westerns like The Dakotas and Cheyenne, as well as Blazing Saddles and many others. By historic reasoning, therefore, Man With The Gun could have been shot, in part, on what became the Warner's lot. Then again, as Johnny Clay says, this is not a familiar set, so perhaps it was mostly shot elsewhere and the buildings destroyed later.

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[–] wildbillharding 16 years ago

Actually, Max, I think I've cracked this one. On watching the movie again, I'm almost certain the town is the 20th-Fox street from Warlock and Forty Guns, the one that was knocked down to make way for Century City. The buildings were dressed down from their usual, more polished appearance, giving Tollinger's town the look of a run-down place not far from the end of its rope.

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[–] BarnettLP 12 years ago

The street with the hill also was used in "The Magnificent Seven."

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[–] moewadle 11 years ago

I agree with wildbillharding on this. I just watched WARLOCK today at home and the sloping street(s) in that film really look like the streets in MAN WITH A GUN. Since I own both on video I compared them to some degree and think wildbillharding is correct. On IMDB it is stated that WARLOCK town and exteriors were done at Century City.

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[–] prolkiewicz 15 years ago

Most likely "Man With The Gun" was filmed either in Old Tucson (at 201 Kinney Road) or in Tombstone, where Gunfight At The OK Corral was filmed. I can tell you were it wasn't shot - in Jersey City NJ. Cheers! Anthony Olkiewicz

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[–] wildbillharding 15 years ago

No, Anthony! Gunfight At The OK Corral was filmed at Old Tucson. I checked it out myself. The area where the final shootout took place is still visible. Tombstone (1993) was shot north of old Tombstone on a private ranch set. Man With The Gun was definitely not shot in Tombstone. As I said in an earlier post, the Mitchum movie was shot on the 20th Fox lot. The same street, which was flattened to make way for Century City, is featured in Sam Fuller's Forty Guns and in the underrated Warlock, with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn.

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[–] moewadle 11 years ago

Wildbillharding, et al..I have just read in a good refernce that Gunfight at OK Corral was PARTIALLY filmed at Old Tucson...but Old Tucson was used for the setting of Fort Griffin, Texas where the first part of the film takes place. Some other place in AZ or Calif. was used for filming the part that took place in Tombstone...I think it was Paramount Ranch or some other movie ranch in Calif.

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[–] pt100 10 years ago

It was shot at Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California.

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[–] karnevilelp 9 years ago

What pt100 wrote, it was filmed at the old Goldwyn Studios on Santa Monica & Formosa in West Hollywood.

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Studios/WarnerHollywoodStudios.shtml

There's a section on IMDb for where a movie was filmed, I just laugh at "Where was this filmed?" threads.

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[–] pt100 9 years ago

Yes, some posters are too lazy or clueless to look it up on IMDb.com, so I let them know. Your link corroborates my info: "In the 1950's, the studio became the Samuel Goldwyn Studios."

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[–] Druxy 8 years ago

The bulk of the picture may have been shot at Goldwyn, but western street is definitely Fox.

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[–] movies789 8 years ago

As the the movie began, the town immediately brought "The Ox-Bow Incident" to mind.

I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'd bet a sawbuck that it's the same set.

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