Lone Pine Movie History Past and Present Lone Pine is known for many things, one of them being movies. The area has stood in for places as different as Africa for “Gunga Din” (1939) and Afghanistan for “Iron Man” (2008) even other planets. (The town has a museum and festival devoted to westerns and even the name of the route running through the nearby Alabama Hills is Movie Road.) And more specifically is the connection of Western movies, plenty of Western movies. The Lone Pine Film Festival, held in October, celebrates the history of film making in the area. The festival offers tours to movie locations, a chance to chat with actors and those behind the camera too like stuntmen and women or the sons and daughters of stars long passed. The festival has been going strong for more than 20 years and should not be missed. The festival goes well with the Beverly and Jim Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History. The museum is easy to find, look for the big White Horse out front. Inside is a wealth of props from movies filmed in the area, a gift shop and a screening room. Check out the museum’s website or Facebook page for the latest on what’s playing and what’s showing in the museum. Hundreds of classics starring the likes of Hopalong Cassidy, John Wayne and directors like John Ford have filmed in the area. But
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there have been more than old-time Westerns filmed in the shadow of Mount Whitney and the Sierra Nevada. The cult classic “Tremors” (1990) was filmed in the area, standing in for the Arizona town of Perfection. The movie is about a giant sand worm attracted to movement that tries to eat everyone in the little town that is blocked off from the outside world by the mountains (the Sierra Nevada). This is Lone Pine’s six-degrees of Kevin Bacon connection. Most recently, blockbusters like “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009), “Iron Man” (2008) and “Django:Unchained” (2012) have been filmed in the area. Locals occasionally get a chance to be extras in movies, like a music video filmed in Independence where the whole town was occupied by aliens. Just outside Lone Pine on the Owens Lake bed, scenes for “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (1989) and other space age movies have been filmed.
Shot on Location Near Lone Pine 2013 Lone Ranger, The 2012 Django Unchained 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2008 Iron Man 2006 Electroma 2006 What I Did For Love 2004 Stand Up for Justice 2003 Little Eden 2002 Last Place on Earth, The 2002 Goodbye, Guy Guy 2001 Rat Race 2000 Dinosaur 2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds 2000 Gladiator 2000 Slow Burn 2000 Highway 395 1998 Phantasm IV: Oblivion 1998 Sand Trap 1997 Postman, The 1997 G.I. Jane 1997 Trial and Error 1996 Crossworlds 1995 Taming Power of the Small 1995 Digital Man 1994 Shadow, The 1994 Maverick 1994 Bicyclist, The 1994 Terminal Velocity 1994 Replikator 1994 Star Trek Generations (VII) 1994 New Age, The 1993 Army Of One 1993 Kalifornia 1992 Chaplin 1991 Dark Rider 1991 Sweet Poison 1991 Letters from Moab, The 1991 Death Falls 1990 Tremors 1990 Crash and Burn 1989 Homer and Eddie 1989 Caged Fury 1989 Star Trek V- The Final Frontier 1985 Savage Dawn 1985 Perfect 1982 Great Chess Movie, The 1978 And I Alone Survived 1976 Farewell to Manzanar 1976 Bridger 1974 Mrs. Sundance 1973 Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1972 Joe Kidd 1972 Timegate 1970 Zabriskie Point 1968 Bamboo Saucer, The 1967 Waterhole # 3 1967 Violent Ones, The 1966 Eye For An Eye, An 1966 Nevada Smith 1965 Hallelujah Trail, The 1965 Great Race, The 1965 War Party 1963 Showdown 1962 How the West Was Won 1961 Posse From Hell 1961 Master of the World
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North to Alaska Hell Bent for Leather Comanche Station Thunder in the Sun Money, Women and Guns Ride Lonesome Violent Road, The Cattle Empire From Hell to Texas Law and Jake Wade, The Monolith Monsters The Hired Gun, The Lonely Man, The Gunfire at Indian Gap Tall T, The Blackjack Ketchum, Desperado Around the World in 80 Days Seven Men From Now Prince of Players Rawhide Years, The Return of Jack Slade, The Violent Men, The I Died a Thousand Times Bad Day at Black Rock Bad Day at Black Rock with Sturges Long, Long Trailer, The Adventures of Hajji Baba, The Goldtown Ghost Riders Pack Train Born to the Saddle Last Posse, The Desert Legion Hitch-Hiker, The King of the Khyber Rifles Stranger Wore A Gun, The Tarzan's Savage Fury Springfield Rifle Desert Pursuit Hangman's Knot Texans Never Cry Valley of Fire Along the Great Divide Flame of Araby Rawhide Man in the Saddle Under Mexicali Stars Beyond the Purple Hills Blazing Sun, The Cow Town Mule Train Desert Hawk, The Kim Border Treasure Dynamite Pass Rider from Tucson Gunfighter, The Nevadan, The Broken Arrow Stage to Tucson Gun Smugglers Mysterious Desperado, The Stagecoach Kid Samson and Delilah Black Midnight Continued on page 19
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