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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2018 2:31:09 GMT
Try as I might, can't find any screenshots or stills.
Guess we'll just have to take your word for it then, Doghouse6
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 24, 2018 2:34:37 GMT
Speaking of staircases, someone calling themself riversidefan2 went to a great deal of trouble to assemble this video of clips from various films featuring a venerable staircase and entry hall on a Warner Bros soundstage:
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jan 24, 2018 2:39:49 GMT
Joan of Arc (1948) Take away the tents, add a spaceship, pour in pea soup fog, some clever lighting now the Scottish moors. Edgar G. Ulmer saved money and re-used the JOA set for a six day shoot for The Man From Planet X (1951)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 24, 2018 4:28:44 GMT
Try as I might, can't find any screenshots or stills.
Guess we'll just have to take your word for it then, Doghouse6 And you know you can take that to the bank. 'Course, you can take a canned ham to the bank too, if you want to, but I don't know what either of them would be worth there.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 24, 2018 4:38:17 GMT
Doghouse6Say... maybe we cannot (yet) locate the Eve-Staircase BUT wasn't there a balcony (or two) that was used several times ?
and 's words are always bankable !
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Post by gunshotwound on Jan 24, 2018 8:18:18 GMT
The library set from The Music Man (1962) is used as an American book store in Rome owned by Constance Ford in Rome Adventure (1963). I also believe part of the library set was used as Henry Higgins' library in My Fair Lady (1964) but I am not really sure about this.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 24, 2018 8:39:26 GMT
The Universal backlot NYC street had (has?) a brownstone with an arched stairway; underneath the arch is a sub-street level walkway by a basement room. This room was the setting for the gang dance in City Across The River (1949) where Stephen McNally drags Joe Turkel out to the street. This same spot would see Angel Martin warning Jim about two Chicago hitmen gunning for him on The Rockford Files almost 30 years later.
Universal did not believe in wasting sets. There's an episode of The Name of The Game set in post-Dubcek Czechoslovakia where the home of a Pasternakish author (Boris Karloff) is the redressed Shiloh ranch house of The Virginian.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 24, 2018 8:45:59 GMT
Perhaps my favorite set recycling: The Bates house from Psycho pops up in a number of Universal TV series of the '60s, including Wagon Train and Thriller. Intriguingly, the Bates house interior can be seen in an episode of Laramie -- was it ever used anywhere else? AFAIK, the last non-ironic,non-referential use of the Bates exterior was in an Alias Smith & Jones episode in 1971. Robert Horton moseys on up to the Bates house in Wagon Train
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 24, 2018 8:59:38 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Jan 24, 2018 9:11:40 GMT
Production shot of house set built for Universal's So Goes My Love (1946): It pops up in various Universal productions afterwards: Leave It To Beaver: Wagon Train, "The Kitty Pryor Story": Redressed a tad, it was immortalized as the Munsters house: Some people in Texas actually built a replica, and it's open to the public: Munster Mansion | Waxahachie Texas
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 24, 2018 9:13:54 GMT
I have read that the Marsten staircase for Salem's Lot 1979 was reused for the vampire house in Fright Night 1985.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 24, 2018 9:17:08 GMT
DAVE / THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT / THE WEST WING I think IN THE LINE OF FIRE may have also used some of the same set.
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Post by claudius on Jan 24, 2018 10:24:54 GMT
Other Universal sets: the German street for ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT reused for FRANKESTEIN and THE WOLF MAN. The front door of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) cathedral was used for PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE INVISIBLE RAY.
Stage 28, the auditorium of the Paris Opera House for THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA would be used for any Universal film auditorium sequence: DRACULA, PHANTOM 1943, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, THE STING, etc. Then they tore it down for a stupid Harry Potter ride.
Hammer re-used its sets. The interior Castle Dracula for HORROR OF DRACULA became Baskerville Manor in HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. The Castle interior/exterior sets for DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS would be used for RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK, PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, and THE REPTILE.
The streets of OLIVER! reused for JABBERWOCKY (Terry Gilliam wanted to use the Castle set from THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN but Blake Edwards, when asked, proceeded to destroy it).
THE RAVEN'S castle set was used for THE TERROR. THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH reused sets from BECKET.
IVANHOE'S Castle exterior was besieged again for THE WARRIORS (1956).
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jan 24, 2018 17:34:57 GMT
I believe that the night club in "Blues in the Night" was also Rick's Cafe American in "Casablanca."
Marian the Librarian lived on "Kings Row" on the Warner Bros. Lot, as did The Gilmore Girls.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 24, 2018 17:52:51 GMT
Not really surprising, yet quite obvious & comical for me. Dr. No's HQ & Goldfinger's Fort Knox vault.
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 25, 2018 0:43:23 GMT
I'm pretty sure the shop windows and sidewalks of Budapest in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940) were recycled to depict Warsaw, with Polish signs and marquees replacing the Hungarian ones, for Lubitsch's 1942 film To Be Or Not To Be.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 25, 2018 0:56:41 GMT
The Desert Sands Motel in Albuquerque was used in No Country for Old Men and In the Valley of Elah. It had a serious fire and was torn down a while ago. Here's a photo I took of the motel room where a character in No Country meets his end:
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 25, 2018 2:42:22 GMT
More a location than a set, The Bradbury Building in downtown L.A. has an interior that is instantly recognizable. It's been used in many productions that include: "The Outer Limits" episode "Demon With a Glass Hand" D.O.A. BLADE RUNNER WOLF 500 DAYS OF SUMMER
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 25, 2018 2:54:38 GMT
jervistetchGREAT Building. I know it from Blade Runner and shall watch for it elsewhere !
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Post by OldAussie on Jan 25, 2018 3:32:04 GMT
Julius Caesar (1953) was apparently not going to be made until MGM realised they could save a heap by re-using the sets and costumes from Qvo Vadis?.
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