6. The UN Building - Nighthawks (1981)
Rutger Hauer's crazed terrorist poses menacingly outside Manhattan's UN building in this gritty off-kilter crime thriller.
7. The Car Chase Bridge - Knight And Day (2010)
The climactic chase sequence of this fluffy spy thriller doesn't take place in Spain at all, but on the Queensway Bridge in Long Beach, California.
8. Driving Home - Serpico (1973)
Speaking of bridges, we see Al Pacino's hippy cop hero Frank Serpico motoring along the Williamsburg bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan early in the classic movie.
9. Knocking Off - After Hours (1985)
Griffin Dunne steps out of work and into an evening of bohemian distress, the gilded gates actually belonging to an office building on Madison Avenue.
10. School Front - Prom (2011)
The real school used for the filming of this critically derided mush is the John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles, which had better luck with Pretty In Pink and Teen Wolf.
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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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