He started sending letters requesting his release from prison, not realizing that he
was this psychotic killer, who spent 43 years in South America.
So, it shows the power of film.
How are you, man?
Good girl.
Now we're on a movie tour in San Francisco, and we're seeing clips of movies and actually
visiting where each one was filmed.
It's been there since the 1930s, and it's also where the car chase for Bullet is.
Is that a bad guy?
That's a bad guy.
The director wanted this to all be musically scored, but a sound designer said, no, I think
the screeching of the tires is a bad guy.
He's supposed to be being chased by police is a reoccurring theme in a lot of his movies.
We're actually going to see a recreation of Buster Keaton film, where he's being chased
by a different crowd of people.
He's being chased by brides instead of police.
It's women to volunteer with their own real wedding dresses.
They didn't want to pay extras, but 30% of the people who showed up are actually men in
drag.
We're going to look for the one where they come to San Francisco in the past to get whales
to bring back to outer space to communicate with aliens.
Written by Dashel Hammett, who's a local writer, on your left you'll see it's Dashel
Hammett Alleyway, because he worked in that building, that greenish brown building on
the corner.
He worked on the third floor.
If you take a look at the Bank of America, you see these gold revolving doors, especially
the entrance to the towering inferno.
Janelle Toplan actually lived in this bright yellow house, and she actually was kicked
out of this house.
Not for any reasons that you might think, she actually found a puppy in Winnivista Park.
She brought it home and our landlord said, you can't keep the puppy here, it's kind of
a green teal house.
Anne Rice lived there, and she's writing part of an interview with the vampire girl.
I was thinking about Anne Rice, her mom named her Howard Alan O'Brien, she went to her first
safe school, the nun asked her what her name was, and she said Anne.
The white building is where the interview took place, an interview with the vampire.
Body snatchers, the 1978 version, that's the dome of City Hall, it's actually the fifth
largest dome in the world, it's modeled after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
It actually has real details of real gold now, real gold leafing.
On your right is the entrance to the police station for the streets of San Francisco.
This is what used to be the old main branch public library, it's actually now the Asian
Art Museum.
It's a clip from Dirty Harry, it's actually the only scene that wasn't filmed in San
Francisco, it's filmed on a soundstage or a lot in LA.
The reason for that, they want this marquee to show up in the scene, it's just plain
misty for me.
As she passes behind this newsstand, she actually ends up on a soundstage in LA.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Peter Bogdanovich, the one who set the Hilton on fire, took out
the cars and wrecked them and then brought them in.
He also didn't have permission to do what he's doing down these stairs, these stairs
were built in 1890.
Bring up on our left side, wash the taxi cabs that comes down the stairs.
See that damage there, he had to pay out of his own pocket and was asked not to come back.
The fake cable cars with tires, these ones with tires.
And then they'll show up close-ups of the actual cable car wheel.
So you don't actually see the creature outside of the water because they also ran out of
special effects money.
So it's supposed to be an octopus but they can only afford five tentacles, claymation
tentacles.
So they just said we'll just call it a squid.
They actually swung the stunt double off a crane onto the bridge.
They actually went to drop a real stuntman off the bridge on a bungee and the city said
no.
So they had to drop a dummy and Alfred Hitchcock actually wanted the last scene of the birds
to be the bridge covered in birds and they ran out of special effects money.
But it was the first movie that he didn't have the end of the end of the movie because
he wanted it for the terror to continue.
It's going to be called 1906 and it's about the earthquakes, they're going to use all
their Pixar technology.
It's supposed to come out in 2012.
This guy's hair cut.
Yeah.
Yeah, flat top.
Yeah, flat top.
Yeah, sure.
That's fine.
I've seen over 70 clips from 60 different films.
