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Anybody remember where this movie was filmed??

posted 11 years ago by thundercloud47
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I'm curious about where the river scenes were filmed. I live within a half mile of the Missouri River. For a period of time in the 60's and 70's filmmakers in search of being authentic had quit using the Mississippi when filming a Mark Twain story.

Of course nowadays they'd just use CGI and screw it up by making the steamboats move faster than a modern day speedboat. I could be wrong on that but they do basically the same thing with CGI WWII airplanes. I know the difference because when I was a kid we lived close to one of the FAA's radio directional facilities. Lots of old WWII planes were still flying then and I'd watch them.

[–] mnbush 11 years ago

Imbd says it was filmed in the Sacramento River Valley. It looked like that to me.

[–] luannjim 9 years ago

Most of the picture was shot on the MGM lot in Culver City, but scenes on the river were filmed in the delta at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in Northern California. While on location in 1959 the company was based in Antioch, then a small town (pop. about 16,000) in Contra Costa County 45 miles east of San Francisco. I remember because I was a kid in Antioch at the time, and the presence of the Huckleberry Finn company, especially former champ Archie Moore, was a very big deal. (Antioch is much bigger now, pop. 107,100.)