61. Taking In Some Culture - Red Dragon (2002)
The supposed Brooklyn Museum to which Ralph Fiennes madman goes and eats a picture of a dragon is in real life a cleverly disguised Baltimore Museum Of Art.
62. Camping Out - Body Double (1984)
The amazingly neon-looking Hollywood Tower apartment buildings from Brian De Palma's thriller are real, perched on Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles.
63. Wrigley Pair - The Blues Brothers (1980)
A scary, Nazi Henry Gibson rallies the troops to find the runaway Blues Brothers right in front of Chicago's famous Wrigley Field, home of - well, you can read the rest.
64. Ida Down - Chinatown (1974)
The distinctive apartment where Jack Nicholson discovers Ida is dead in this dark modern noir is still standing on Kensington Road in Los Angeles.
65. Home Field - Friday Night Lights (2004)
This early aerial shot in Peter Berg's superb High School football movie sweeps over Ratliff Stadium in Odessa, Texas, the playing field used by the real Permian Panthers.
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StevePotter
Jul 5th 2011, 7:22
Pretty cool article, and as an American I appreciate you guys doing it. One question: isn't the place from the Untouchables also in the Dark Knight when they're having a funeral for Commissioner Loeb? It looks identical.
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QuietLife
Jul 5th 2011, 11:29
I really enjoyed that article! Some iconic images and it was really cool seeing them in real-life (so to speak). Makes me wish I went to a school in LA though!!
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graemeross
Jul 12th 2011, 14:28
Great great article but the article name was 99 American movie locations and you seem to of stuck to LA & NYC. Now I know that most movies are filmed in these locations but i was expecting a little more iconic locations. In my spare time i like to try find movie locations through google earth and street view and have found loads that i would of expected to be in an article like this. For example the house from the bruce willis movie Hostage, Sleepless in seattle House, Teen Wolf house, Jim's house from American Pie, Murtaugh house from Lethal Weapon, Jerry Maguire house etc... Would love you to do another of these articles but make it more open.
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