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was this movie about the Bronx in the 1800's?

posted 17 years ago by emobgenovese
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cuz there is a neighborhood called Gun Hill in the Bronx. jus curious.

[–] wtl471629 17 years ago

No it takes place in the west. I think at first they are in Oklahoma but then Douglas goes to Texas (I think) where Quinn is and that is where most of the movie takes place.

[–] tramky 17 years ago

The exact setting of this film is hard to gather from the film itself. The only real town mentioned in the dialogue was Dodge City, which is in southwestern Kansas. That was what Craig Belden told Morgan about where Lee & Rick had been roaming around at the start of this story. This story took place in towns called Pauley(?) and Gun Hill. Oklahoma, Texas? It's not clear. Doesn't really matter much.

[–] wtl471629 17 years ago

tramky I read the book based on the screenplay years ago. Unfortunately I have have missplaced the book but from what I remember Rick and Lee were passing by Kirk Douglas town which was in Oklahoma but I think he caught the train to Gun Hill which I as I remember was in Texas.

[–] rubyredjewel 17 years ago

Do people ever bother to look things up on the internet.I hardly think the bronx in the 1800's looked like the old west.

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[–] hobnob53 9 years ago

I think/hope the OP was kidding. I'm about five miles north of Gun Hill, the Bronx, as I write this, and I guarantee never in its history did it ever look like anything in the movie!

By the way, the film takes place in 1904, not the 1800s.

[–] wrlord2001 9 years ago

Yes. The hotel is at 246 Gun Hill Road, in the Bronx. The first scenes take place on the Grand Concourse. And there's one scene in Riverdale.

[–] Bilwick1 7 years ago

I remember going with my parents and siblings to the late, lamented Freedomland amusement park in the Bronx. It was a long, long trip for us, coming from southern Queens; and I've read that its relative remoteness for anyone not living in the Bronx was a major reason for Freedomland's premature demise (although it was a very good amusement park). At one point in our seemingly endless trek we found ourselves at a Gun Hill train station, and I was thinking of the movie.