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One of the fun things about being a cinephile is to recognize locations when production moved out of the studio and showed real backgrounds. If you have a good time with westerns the one place that's most easily recognizable is Monument Valley, even if you've never been there. A whole bunch of westerns were filmed there; John Ford made so many there that there's a point named after him. It's a stunning panorama of sandstone buttes towering over a flat desert plain and I guess there was never a shortage of Indian extras as it's part of the Navajo reservation.
There's another place that people have seen a gazillion times in all genres of flicks, but perhaps don't know where it's located. I don't know if this is true but probably more films, TV episodes, documentaries and matinee shorts were shot here than any other place in the country. It's called the Alabama Hills just outside of Lone Pine, CA. Mrs Lipstick and I went there last spring, most of these are my pictures.
If you watch television or rent DVDs, I guarantee you've seen this place. Ever catch Bonanza or Hopalong Cassidy? Seen Gladiator, Charge of the Light Brigade, Star Trek, Tremors, High Sierra, North to Alaska, The Postman? I saw a an older Squint Eastwood vehicle that was made there, Joe Kidd, just last night.
It's an ideal outdoor set for a lot of reasons. It's fairly close to the studios in LA by being just up 395 across from Death Valley. Mt. Whitney and the sierras form a gorgeous backdrop to the west. The hills themselves are an older, darker and more rounded formation that when juxtaposed with the jagged, snow covered, towering sierras make for some wonderful eye candy.
The broad Owens Valley slopes east to the Panamint range so from one location the filmmakers had a bunch of sweeping vistas. But it's in the hills themselves where a lot of the action took place. It's a perfect place for ambushes, car chases and shootouts. Plenty of climbable rocks and gulches and flat ground for stampedes. Tim Allen almost got squished here by the rock monster in Galaxy Quest.
Aside from the moviemaking history there's an awful lot to do in the area. Lone Pine is a sizable enough town as a base of operations. There's plenty of stuff to explore, museums, lots of hiking and four wheel driving trails, good fishing and there's Death Valley a few miles to the east. It's a wonderful place to visit. Better pack your gun though.
There's another place that people have seen a gazillion times in all genres of flicks, but perhaps don't know where it's located. I don't know if this is true but probably more films, TV episodes, documentaries and matinee shorts were shot here than any other place in the country. It's called the Alabama Hills just outside of Lone Pine, CA. Mrs Lipstick and I went there last spring, most of these are my pictures.
If you watch television or rent DVDs, I guarantee you've seen this place. Ever catch Bonanza or Hopalong Cassidy? Seen Gladiator, Charge of the Light Brigade, Star Trek, Tremors, High Sierra, North to Alaska, The Postman? I saw a an older Squint Eastwood vehicle that was made there, Joe Kidd, just last night.
It's an ideal outdoor set for a lot of reasons. It's fairly close to the studios in LA by being just up 395 across from Death Valley. Mt. Whitney and the sierras form a gorgeous backdrop to the west. The hills themselves are an older, darker and more rounded formation that when juxtaposed with the jagged, snow covered, towering sierras make for some wonderful eye candy.
The broad Owens Valley slopes east to the Panamint range so from one location the filmmakers had a bunch of sweeping vistas. But it's in the hills themselves where a lot of the action took place. It's a perfect place for ambushes, car chases and shootouts. Plenty of climbable rocks and gulches and flat ground for stampedes. Tim Allen almost got squished here by the rock monster in Galaxy Quest.
Aside from the moviemaking history there's an awful lot to do in the area. Lone Pine is a sizable enough town as a base of operations. There's plenty of stuff to explore, museums, lots of hiking and four wheel driving trails, good fishing and there's Death Valley a few miles to the east. It's a wonderful place to visit. Better pack your gun though.
posted by nolocontendere at 6:56 PM
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I just visited the Alabama Hills, and wondered if the rock monster scenes in Galaxy Quest were filmed there. After a bit of Googling, it appears that they were actually filmed in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah.
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