1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk - With Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Marilyn Monroe
1951 Across the Wide Missouri - Clark Gable
1956 Tribute to a Bad Man - James Cagney
1962 How the West Was Won - Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, James Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, John Wayne et al.
1964 Unsinkable Molly Brown - Debbie Reynolds
1965 Sons of Katie Elder - John Wayne and Dean Martin (based on a real Ridgway family)
1968 True Grit - John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Paul Newman
1978 Avalanche - Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow (final scene shows a clip of Farrow hanging off the Camp Bird Mine Bridge
1987 - Over the Top, Sylvester Stallone. Opening has 18-wheeler driving through mountains. Red Mountain.
Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) 7.1/10 (4676 votes)
...aka Cannibal! The Musical (1996) (USA: video title)
Durango Kids (1999) 4.5/10 (142 votes)
Sunchaser, The (1996) 5.9/10 (1168 votes)
Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) 7.1/10 (4676 votes)
...aka Cannibal! The Musical (1996) (USA: video title)
Durango Kids (1999) 4.5/10 (142 votes)
Sunchaser, The (1996) 5.9/10 (1168 votes)
4 comments:
Such great info!
CDC discussed the film industry's potential economic impact here fairly extensively a while back. While we do not have actual data, there is anecdotal info about the relatively frequent use of Ouray and environs for film locations, mostly for commercials. It seems to us that it is a niche worth investigating and recruiting. One place we can get data of sorts on current impact is from EMS. Apparently all filming operations are required to have an ambulance and 2 EMTs onsite at all times. The lodging folks may also have some reports on such things as frequency, size of groups, length of stay, and HOW THEY FIND US. The reports I have heard is that they spend fairly well on their stays.
The State of Colorado formerly paid a subsidy to film industry when doing their locations in the state. The subsidy was hefty, but not as much as the revenue created in the locations they worked. That subsidy was eliminated, and from what I read, the film industry ceased a major portion of using Colorado. I read recently that the subsidy may (or has been?) reinstated. The State did reinstate the Film Commission which is designed to recruit those who will use Colorado as a location. We tried to contact the new director of the FC, to be sure he knew of Ouray, to see if we could know more about their process, etc...but received no response from repeated phone and email contacts.
We did receive, prior to that, notification that they were establishing a central contact for those investigating locations and we asked that we be included in that list. OCRA was set up as our central contact for requests that might come from the Film Commission. I believe there has not been a hefty number of contacts. As I recall, we need a great inventory of photos of many kinds of sites, bldgs., etc.
The other thing we discovered is that there is a type of business known as "location managers" which we thought might have some promise as a new biz here. There is one in Montrose and one in Telluride (or were at that time). Such company needs to know MUCH about all potential locations as well as handling all details associated with the needs of these visits.
I am sorry about that name on my comments. I used that for another google blog and cannot seem to makeit change to Joyce. Will get that figured out when I have more time to concentrate.
1987 - Over the Top, Sylvester Stallone. Opening has 18-wheeler driving through mountains. Red Mountain.
Found a few more from the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com):
Alferd Packer: The Musical (1996) 7.1/10 (4676 votes)
...aka Cannibal! The Musical (1996) (USA: video title)
Durango Kids (1999) 4.5/10 (142 votes)
Sunchaser, The (1996) 5.9/10 (1168 votes)
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