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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 21, 2019 2:28:06 GMT
Guns at Batasi (1964).
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Post by mikef6 on May 21, 2019 2:35:44 GMT
The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939). This “Hound” was an American Hollywood production at 20th Century Fox studios. The brief scene on Baker Street outside of 221B was a back lot setting. Everything else: all interiors and the moors and the Great Grimpen Mire were a very large construct inside a big sound stage.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 21, 2019 2:38:03 GMT
The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1939). This “Hound” was an American Hollywood production at 20th Century Fox studios. The brief scene on Baker Street outside of 221B was a back lot setting. Everything else: all interiors and the moors and the Great Grimpen Mire were a very large construct inside a big sound stage.
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Post by vegalyra on May 21, 2019 17:47:01 GMT
I didn't realize anyone even remembered that film. Great one! Even though most of the action and dialogue takes place in an apartment room, the set is massive for The Rear Window....
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 21, 2019 19:44:42 GMT
It was such a common practice that there are hundreds of examples, and then hundreds more on top of them. Bride Of Frankenstein, for example. The sequence in which the monster is taken to the dungeon from which he escapes moments later (below) is the only one in the entire picture utilizing any of Universal's backlot exterior sets. Everything else - various woods and forests, cemeteries, the hermit's hut and so forth - was constructed within sound stages.  Over at RKO the same year, Top Hat featured just a few quick second-unit exterior shots and one brief exterior dialogue scene (below).  Otherwise, the production was entirely soundstage-bound, including a rain-soaked park bandstand...  ...and some very fanciful depictions of Venice and its canals:   20 years later, across town at MGM, the entirety of Brigadoon was shot within sound stages.     And more than twenty years after that, a number of Close Encounters Of the Third Kind's supposedly exterior scenes were shot indoors:    |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 21, 2019 20:43:09 GMT
I remember Guns at Batasi. Great movie.
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Post by wmcclain on May 21, 2019 21:18:10 GMT
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Post by london777 on May 21, 2019 22:37:15 GMT
I didn't realize anyone even remembered that film. Great one! I recently added it to my collection for $1.99 plus p&p. Big fan of the director, John Guillermin: Towering Inferno (1974), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), etc. Look out for his early effort Town on Trial (1957), filmed in my home (small) town.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 21, 2019 23:31:05 GMT
I didn't realize anyone even remembered that film. Great one!
Even though most of the action and dialogue takes place in an apartment room, the set is massive for The Rear Window...
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Post by vegalyra on May 22, 2019 0:55:19 GMT
I didn't realize anyone even remembered that film. Great one!
Even though most of the action and dialogue takes place in an apartment room, the set is massive for The Rear Window...
Not that Wikipedia is always a reputable source... "Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. His rear window looks out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wave, he watches his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool." 
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 22, 2019 1:23:11 GMT
WHAT?!?! I DON'T recall it taking place MOSTLY in an apartment. In FACT I don't RECALL an apartment at all. Inside buildings yes, but NOT an apartment.
"Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. His rear window looks out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wave, he watches his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool."
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Post by vegalyra on May 22, 2019 1:32:38 GMT
Not that Wikipedia is always a reputable source...
"Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. His rear window looks out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wave, he watches his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool."
Gotcha... I believe in that film they were mostly stuck in the Sergeant's Mess.... 
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Post by RiP, IMDb on May 22, 2019 1:37:34 GMT
WHAT?!?! I DON'T recall it taking place MOSTLY in an apartment. In FACT I don't RECALL an apartment at all. Inside buildings yes, but NOT an apartment.
"Recuperating from a broken leg, adventuresome professional photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jefferies (Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment. His rear window looks out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wave, he watches his neighbors, who keep their windows open to stay cool."
Guns at Batasi (1964) < Wikipedia.
Guns at Batasi (1964) < Rotten Tomatoes.
Guns at Batasi (1964) < TCM.
FORGOTTEN GEM? Guns at Batasi (1964) < The War Movie Buff.
Guns at Batasi (1964) < Netflix.
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