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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