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Bill Warren		#141	[-]
Aug 1 10 2:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In CORNERED (1955), an immediately postwar film noir with Dick Powell, included in one of the two most recent film noir collections, the settings include England, France and Argentina. Though the movie is mostly set in Argentina (but filmed on the RKO lot), in the French section, Powell is led by the father of Powell's late wife, a victim of the Nazis, to a cave where victims of the Nazis have been buried. The exterior and interior of the cave is once again Bronson; the first scene takes place outside one of the three entrances in back, though it has been mostly buried, probably by means of a bulldozer. The scene inside really is in the Bronson interior, near that split where the tunnel divides into the three entrances/exits.
Paul Haight		#142	[-]
Apr 15 11 3:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	George Nader returns to Bronson Canyon in THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS (1965): Ro-Man's cave is hard to make out from this angle, but that's it just behind the little dirt hill on the left in pic #1.
Bill Warren		#143	[-]
Apr 22 11 9:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There's a current chat about Bronson Caverns, with photos, in another folder here: http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/37292/Visiting-Bronson-Canyon?page=1 I am trying now to put together two Bronson Canyon/Caverns lists, mostly from IMDb--but then again, I was the one who added a lot of titles to their lists. Just added another one today.
Paul Haight		#144	[-]
Jun 22 11 12:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts
borchabob		#145	[-]
Jun 22 11 10:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey Paul that was cool. I haven't read the whole tread and of what I did read I saw no mention of it but, didn't TEENAGERS FROM OUTERSPACE film some scenes at Bronson's.
Paul Haight		#146	[-]
Aug 7 11 7:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Two additional titles for the list... THE STRANGER WITHIN (1973 - TV) - I've never seen it, but Barbara Eden mentions shooting there in this 1973 interview. ELMO THE MIGHTY (1919) - A lost serial; mentioned in a 1951 column about the Canyon. Planet Collision!
Bill Warren		#147	[-]
Aug 7 11 8:53 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Argh. All I could see of that article was a couple of paragraphs about Betty Grable's legs.
Paul Haight		#148	[-]
Aug 21 11 10:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill Warren wrote: Argh.� All I could see of that article was a couple of paragraphs about Betty Grable's legs.� Must be a wonky link...it's supposed to lead to a 07/20/51 Hollywood Sights and Sounds column by Gene Handsaker. The first item is about Patricia Neals’ dating problems (the author frets that Neal, at the ripe old age of 25, may be on the verge of spinsterhood). The second item reads as follows: Far up Bronson Canyon in Hollywood, the modern apartment houses and homes thin out, and the pavement ends. A sharp turn to the right on the dirt road, and you’re on historic Hollywood ground. There movies have been filmed since 1911. There, just two and a half miles from Hollywood and Vine, picture companies still get out into the rugged wilds. I found Burt Lancaster and his fellow Foreign Legionnaires in “Ten Tall Men” holed up in a jagged cave, preparing to fend off the enemy. The tunnel pierces one of the barren, rocky bluffs where posses frequently shoot it out with the badmen. “It was dug in 1911 by the Southern Pacific railway, which needed hard bedrock as fill on its tracks,” my guide said. “Since then there’s been a movie comapany here almost every other day. Many a serial and western has been filmed here.” The head electrician remembered working with Elmo Lincoln on an “Elmo the Mighty” serial there in 1919. Make a swell place for a picnic, too. I must take my city-cowboy kids there some Sunday. borchabob wrote: ...didn't TEENAGERS FROM OUTERSPACE film some scenes at Bronson's? Yes, Tom Graeff & friends took refuge in Cave B - which also figures prominently in VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE and EEGAH. Here's a recent look at Cave A (the "front door", figuratively speaking): Last Edited By: Paul Haight Aug 21 11 10:52 PM. Edited 1 times.
Paul Haight		#149	[-]
Feb 19 12 5:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Principles Unknown...
Monsterpal		#150	[-]
Feb 19 12 7:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	From SLEEPER?
Rick		#151	[-]
Feb 19 12 11:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, I think Woody's probably looking at the ancient Volkswagen, which will start on the first turn of the key.
Bob Furmanek		#152	[-]
Jun 11 12 12:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	We've just uploaded the first 3-D footage to our YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/3DFILMARCHIVE/videos First, be sure to use our handy YT3D tutorial to optimize your viewing experience. Once you've got everything looking its very best, RETURN TO BRONSON CANYON with Bob Burns in the miracle of third-dimension. Who knows, maybe even Ro-man will make an appearance... Enjoy! Bob
skelton knaggs		#153	[-]
Jun 11 12 12:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Big thumbs up Bob!! Fun stuff! Thankx.... "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
TomWeaver999		#154	[-]
Jun 11 12 12:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< I watched CAPTAIN MARVEL quite recently; though there are lots of cave scenes, I'm not sure if any of those were done at Bronson. << The cave in CAPTAIN MARVEL has to be Republic's long-standing, much-used cave set. On the Republic lot, there was a very large red barn that you see in tons of their Westerns; but the second you went inside, you were on the just-as-large cave set. Brilliant!
bipolarber		#155	[-]
Jun 18 12 3:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I watched "The Universe" last night on satillite. It was an episode about various survival scenarios, should the first manned mission to Mars end up crash landing... One of the expert presenters on the show seemed to be in front of Bronson Cave while being interviewed.... "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
CucamongaDan		#156	[-]
Jul 21 12 8:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I finally got over there yesterday (only an hour from Cucamonga), so here's some pictures from 7-20-12. We parked in the little lot by The Camp Hollywoodland driveway. From there you head back down Canyon Road, cross it and follow the trail that starts at the red-curbed bridge. The walk to the cavern is about 1/4 mile. When the trail forks you can see the cave entrance on the left fork. Once you're directly in front of it you can see the cave is really a short tunnel. As you walk through you see that it branches into three openings on the east side. Looking straight back through the main tunnel...Looking up a gravelly trail that continues up the hill to the east... I tried to take some shots of the back (east) side from different angles and vantage points. There is a thread that never ends. Yes, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started it not knowing that a tree can walk, And they'll keep posting forever about a movie they can mock...
CucamongaDan		#157	[-]
Jul 21 12 9:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The memory card on my camera was full and I didn't know how to take some old pictures off it , but I got one more picture with my cell phone, looking back at the east side cave entrances as I was starting back around the hill. There is a thread that never ends. Yes, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started it not knowing that a tree can walk, And they'll keep posting forever about a movie they can mock...
CucamongaDan		#158	[-]
Jul 22 12 8:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gotta remember to bring the gorilla suit, space helmet, and bubble machine next time! There is a thread that never ends. Yes, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started it not knowing that a tree can walk, And they'll keep posting forever about a movie they can mock...
Monsterpal		#159	[-]
Jul 22 12 6:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Dan. You got some great shots.
SAM33	I finally got there!	#160	[-]
Aug 12 12 9:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Had a trip to LA for work last week, and Friday was free so I rented a car and made the trek. Here's a walk through from front to back shot with my iPad in ShakeyCam® with genuine non-foley sound. It was 95 degrees last Friday and so I sweated for this, but it was probably the highlight of my trip! I was struck by how rich the colors were in the hills of the canyon, some deep golds and sage greens. It IS amazing how you can shoot from many angles and never have a clue you're right in the middle of a huge city. Another check off on the bucket list. SAM33

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