Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Ruthless People (1986)

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Ruthless People still holds up as a great comedy after all these years.  Some of these locations I had found, but others were found by my friend, Chas.  First up, Danny Devito's mansion is located up in the hills.   I believe he actually lived here at the time, but now has new owners...





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Next up is Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater's house... which also looks as bad as it did back then, graffiti and all....







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Helen, however, has aged quite well....


Some random locations here.... the rooftop stakeout....


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Another ransom call area...

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"This could very well be the stupidest man on the face of the Earth."



And the Santa Monica pier has changed quite a bit over the years, but here is how it looked in 1988 on one of my visits and it looks exactly as it did in the movie with the crane.





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Maid To Order (1987)

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 I have been desperately looking for this mansion for a while now, but just happened upon it as I was driving en route to the location of the Whatever Happened To Baby Jane remake!   As usual in LA, it looks mostly the same....




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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Poltergiest II: The Other Side (1986) - Cuesta Verde Street

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For Poltergeist II: The Other Side, they needed an empty lot to stand in for where the house had disappeared from the first film (see that location in Simi Valley herehttp://movielocationsandmore.blogspot.com/2013/11/poltergeist-1982.html.)  They didn't travel too far, just over to Chatsworth -- and also just a stone's throw from Charlie Manson's ranch!    The houses on the street do not look much different, and the empty lot of course is gone and is a paved road up the hill.     (For those interested in Grandma Jess' house, click here!)





















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