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Post by teleadm on Jul 21, 2017 17:36:48 GMT
Wake up room"
Mention movies that took place as a whole, part of the plot, song and dance number, secret codes were exchanged, or whatever, I also include those old british piers like Brighton, and those created in a studio, and those who ttaveled around any country or fairs. Old and new movies, in an amuement park
Rollercoaster 1977
State Fair 1945
Oh What a Lovely war 1969
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 21, 2017 17:53:02 GMT
This delightful Thelma Todd short purports to be situated on Coney Island but it was actually filmed at an old LA amusement park.
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Post by telegonus on Jul 21, 2017 17:55:23 GMT
I think that Strangers On A Train and Gorilla At Large qualify.
Then there's The Lady From Shanghai.
If you can include carnivals and small circuses,--arcades?, things like the Santa Monica Pier--a surprising number of films with dark themes take place in them.
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Post by jervistetch on Jul 21, 2017 17:58:58 GMT
THE THIRD MAN
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 21, 2017 18:00:40 GMT
Joey goes to Coney Island in the Classic Little Fugitive.
Avoid at all costs the 2006 "remake"!
and
BIG ... The Zoltan Machine is at an amusement park.
Rye Playland, Rye, New York, USA
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 21, 2017 18:07:29 GMT
Laurence Olivier plays a seedy comedian/MC at a seaside resort in The Entertainer.
Going Home with Robert Mitchum.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 21, 2017 18:17:22 GMT
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jul 21, 2017 18:19:50 GMT
The Pike Amusement Zone, Long Beach, California only has a few listings on IMDb as a filing location, but it has been used for years in May fils and TV shows. It was often used as a substitute for Coney Island because of the Cyclone Racer Roller Coaster. Also of note was the twin Ferris Wheel, which was featured in the Jack Lemmon film "Luv" (1967).
It was torn down about 1980.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 21, 2017 18:23:02 GMT
Laurence Olivier plays a seedy comedian/MC at a seaside resort in The Entertainer. Going Home with Robert Mitchum. Olivier 1960 The Entertainer |
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Post by teleadm on Jul 21, 2017 18:26:23 GMT
The Third man ferris wheel was also used un a Bond movie, Austria clue
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 21, 2017 18:33:16 GMT
The O'Neals  |
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Post by telegonus on Jul 21, 2017 19:54:29 GMT
Laurence Olivier plays a seedy comedian/MC at a seaside resort in The Entertainer. Going Home with Robert Mitchum. Olivier 1960 The Entertainer Yup. I thought of that one later. There's also a good one in A Taste Of Honey. Amusement park, I mean. |
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Post by teleadm on Jul 21, 2017 19:59:12 GMT
Olivier 1960 The Entertainer Yup. I thought of that one later. There's also a good one in A Taste Of Honey. Amusement park, I mean. That amusement place in Entertaner is no more, it died, location shots, I meant |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 21, 2017 22:56:40 GMT
American Experience <--Documentary about old Coney Island Some of the rides they show at Steeplechase Park were still there in my "yute". Luna Park had burned down by then though. The Ferris Wheel and the Parachute jump had been brought to Coney Island after the 1939 World's Fair. I never did get up the nerve to do the jump but the wheel was awesome. The cars slid down (seemingly into space) on ramps as the wheel rotated.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 21, 2017 23:06:15 GMT
Small traveling Circus : FreaksMeet Me Down at Coney Isle (1930) A nine-minute tour of famed Brooklyn amusement park Coney Island, focusing on the brightly-lit rides and attractions and the people who flock to the park at night to get away from the daytime heat during the summer. Destination Magoo (1954) Mr. Magoo accidentally crashes his old college roommate's rocket ship at a Coney Island amusement park (Luna Park) and thinks he's landed on the surface of the moon. Tales the Searchlight Told (1908) The Farmer's Visit: "Si" Slocum visits Coney Island, mounts the observation tower at Dreamland, hires a spy-glass... Director : Erwin S. Porter ! Dial's Girl's Band, Luna Park (1905) |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 21, 2017 23:31:23 GMT
The backdrop of Coney Island features in the 1927 film Lonesome Jim and Mary two lonely city dwellers meet by chance on a mid-week day off at Coney Island...  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 21, 2017 23:42:25 GMT
The Shooting Gallery... is an important element in Female (1933) executive Allison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) leaves her swish party and is attracted to the local Amusement Park , at the shooting gallery she meets Jim Thorne (George Brent)...  In Gun Crazy (1950) a traveling carnival comes to town, a fateful experience for Bart (John Dall). Watching sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) he challenges her to a contest and wins...  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 22, 2017 0:11:27 GMT
A rural Amusement Park is a central element to Zoltán Fábri's beautifully filmed Hungarian tale, Körhinta , Merry-Go-Round (1956)  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jul 22, 2017 0:19:30 GMT
Mouchette (1967) at the amusement park , a joyous ride on the dodgem cars draws a beautiful smile, the only one we see from Mouchette, who for just a short moment forgets all the troubles of her world... 
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jul 22, 2017 0:40:58 GMT
In the 1973 cult film SSSSSSS Dirk Benedict's character brawls with a jock at a carnival.
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