Over the years, the city of San Francisco has starred in quite a few books, movies and tv shows. Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood have driven its streets. Dashiell Hammett also made San Francisco the stage of The Maltese Falcon. One can even take a 4 hour Dashiell Hammett walking tour. Contagion was one of the more recent movies that was filmed here. It is also the host of the headquarters and council chambers of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet.
Not long ago we watched a movie starring our wonderful city. Watching it, I realized that I had photos of almost every place that was important to the story and I decided to play a little game. I’m going to post the photos and maybe you can figure out which movie we watched. I don’t think it will be difficult for the movie buffs out there.
The characters visited other places in and out of The City. I present them in no particular order.
If you have figured it out already, good for you. For those still struggling, I have placed several photos below the fold that should provide the answer.
Here are the pictures that should give away the movie.
If any of you haven’t seen it, Vertigo is probably Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest masterpiece. It’s a creepy tale of love and obsession and probably one of the great ghost stories as well.
Ha, good game! I can play, too! 🙂
A few blocks over in my new neighborhood, a couple films featured this (third one in) North Philly rowhouse –
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Yo, Adrian! If you got it, good job. 🙂
And I was wrong, actually. It’s the first unit, right on the corner!
Way cool. I guess you’re glad to be back home again. 🙂 Hubby and I are off to climb a mountain today and take pics, of course. I’ll check in later.
Ha, of course! Not there yet, though. Leaving Portland on March 15, and moving in there on the 19th. I can make it in half that time but there’s no rush now since I have to be out of here the Thursday after this one, and the place in Philly won’t be ready until the 19th anyway, so I can take it easy. Broke as always though, so I can’t really do anything along the way. If the timing’s right, I wouldn’t mind spending a few hours just wandering Cheyenne, WY. Maybe Boise. Omaha? Youngstown, OH? I get to geek out over maps soon and explore the possibilities, so that’s fun too! 😀
I’m a cartophile. I have tons of maps as we have AAA insurance and membership, which makes the maps free. GPS is fine, but I love my maps. GPS is only good for telling you where you are. It sucks for figuring out where you want to go. 🙂
It is… Entertaining listening to her get into verbal arguments with the GPS…
-“Say a command.
– NO, $%^#*&@!!!
– Remain on the right in – …
– Wrong! It’s another two miles!
– Prepare to exit on – …
– I don’t wanna go there!”
I cleaned up the language of course.
Heh. And yeah, agreed on maps. I don’t even like online maps. I want a book or a large unwieldy piece of paper in my hands! 😉
We used to drive a lot for an old job, and the one guy who relied solely on GPS (he refused to use maps, or even the very precise written directions we had to all of our clients and field sites) used to always, without fail, ALWAYS call from some weird place the unit directed him to, at least once a month, inexplicably like miles from where the actual work site was.