I'm not positive but I think Ordinary People was set in the Chicago area.
The name of The American Tragedy film was A Place in the Sun.
How about any of the films with a West Point setting - The Duke of West
Point, with Louis Hayward (film and leading man a childhood favorite of
mine); John Ford's The Long Gray Line; West Point Story, with Jimmy Cagney.
Of course what is considered "upstate" depends on how parochial your
viewpoint is. Many Manhattan denizens consider Van Cortlandt Park in the
Bronx to be "upstate". With that in mind, much of Hello, Dolly takes place
in Yonkers (filmed in Garrison, further up the Hudson).
When this thread runs its course I'd like to see a final list of the films
posted.
David
>Philip,
>You are right about the Lake Placid locale. I also seem to remember that
>academy award winner, "Ordinary People," was set in NY.
>
>Wayne Miller
>
>On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, philip terrie wrote:
>
>> Isn't _Holiday Inn_, the Bing Crosby film that first gave "White
>> Christmas" to the nation set in Lake Placid?
>>
>> _Cold River_ is based on young adult book about a murder and survival
>> experience in the central Adirondacks in the dead of winter.
>>
>> Don't forget _An American Tragedy_. Dreiser's novel is based on an actual
>> murder that occurred on Thirteenth Lake in Warren County and was made into
>> at least one movie (or are there two?).
>>
>> There are other Adirondack-based films. Memory fails me for now, but you
>> could give a call to either Caroline Welsh or Hallie Bond, both Curators
>> at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. I'll bet they both could
>> come up with quite a few further titles.
>>
>> cheers,
>> phil
>>
>>
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