I've been following this thread, but not contributing.  I can remember
many of the films suggested as belonging to this category.

I do happen to remember the film, "The Manhattan Project", starring,
among others, John Lithgow.  The setting was Ithaca, New York, though I
don't know if any filming was actually done there.

Having mentioned the film, I'm not sure it belongs in the category if
none of the scenes was filmed in or around Ithaca.

Regards, Bruce Lloyd, Dryden, NY and Fort Pierce, FL


On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 18:04:44 -0800 Bonnie Glickman
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>Hi There!
>
>Linda Norris requested info about feature films, so I contcted George
>Grella at the U of R, who is a Film prof. and does reviews, etc.  I
>thought I'd forward his answer to the whole list, as I found it so
>interesting.  Special note to Linda: I'd be interested in the final
>list, so please let us know what you collect.  Thanks!  B)
>
>George Grella wrote:
>
>> Here are a few titles that may help your correspondent; perhaps it
>> would be easier for you to send them along to her and she could get
>> in touch with me directly for more information if I can come up
>with
>> other stuff.
>>
>> Hitchcock's Spellbound has an important sequence in which Ingrid
>> Bergman and Gregory Peck take the train to Rochester and stay there
>> a day or so with her old professor.  I've always believed that
>> Rochester made it into the movie because of Bergman's residence
>here
>> off and on while her husband doing his own residency at Strong.
>>
>> The Lady in White, though a wretched work indeed, is supposed to
>take
>> place around here.  The independent feature film Eerie is set
>around
>> Rochester and the canal.  Shuffle Off to Buffalo appears in the
>movie
>> 42nd Street.  The folks in Seneca Falls claim that their town is
>the
>> Bedford Falls of It's a Wonderful Life--and Jimmy Stewart has a
>phnoe
>> conversation about Rochester in the movie.  Also the mock
>documentary
>> Dadetown, filmed in and about one of the upstate towns like Batavia
>> or one of those, I can't remember which.  Of course, the new movie
>> Buffalo 66 belongs on the list.  A much neglected little film based
>> on a real story came out around 1980, set and shot in Buffalo--Hide
>> in Plain Sight.  The film version of Frederick Exley's fine A Fan's
>> Notes, though entirely awful, is meant to be taking place in the
>> Watertown area, where he grew up and lived off and on and wrote
>> about.
>>
>> I hope this helps.  There are others, I am sure, many of which I
>> know but just can't think of at the moment.
>>
>> Yours,
>> George Grella  <[log in to unmask]>
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>> > Linda Norris wrote:
>> >
>> > For a proposed series of public programs, I'm interested in
>feature
>> > films that depict upstate New York.  Already on our list are
>> > Ironweed, Nobody's Fool, and Last of the Mohicans.  Any other
>> > suggestions--they don't have to be filmed upstate, just use
>upstate
>> > as a setting or topic.  As well, I'd be interested in hearing
>about
>> > documentary films on the region.
>