One location that nobody has is the diner where Sollozzo takes Tom Hagan after kidnapping him. …there’s one photo that may show the hotel lobby and bar: http://cdn.brownstoner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hotel-St.-George-lobby-1910.jpg. I saw a piece a few years ago about the guy who sold the house. It can be found at the intersection of Clark and Henry streets off the A stop at High Street; or the 2,3 stop at Clark Street. The barber shop scene, Michael’s dinner with Kay, Clemenza shooting into the elevator, Willy Cici shooting the boss through the revolving door were all filmed at the St. Regis Hotel on E55th St. and 5th Ave. This is great–but link to Scouting LA, please? Opposite, number 137 Mott Street was the greengrocer stall at which the Don buys oranges before being gunned down. Just before Vito guts Don Ciccio, you can see the sea behind him, and he is facing toward the left where Don Ciccio is snoozing on the front porch. This is the Corleone residence today, located at 110 Longfellow Avenue in Staten Island. Edit. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and Kay (Diane Keaton) are staying in five-star luxury at the St Regis Hotel, now the St Regis New York, 2 East 55th Street on the corner of Fifth Avenue. Used to work in locations myself in the late 80’s early 90’s. Strangely they borrowed that name from their pinball machine. as this would seem to remove the principal objection to stem-cell research. Never realized that the Sopranos was basically David Chase’s view of New Jersey and the modern, upper middle class family meets the Godfather. The barbershop hit scene is at the St regis Hotel in manhattan. With mafia movies out of fashion and relatively unknown director Francis Ford Coppola at the helm, Paramount was keen to cut costs by updating the film of Mario Puzo's best-seller to the present day and filming on its Hollywood lot. This is where Tom Hagen stocks up on presents when Sollozzo’s men invite him for a car ride. What is unbelievable is that I cannot find a single damn picture of the establishment.

Loved that place! The store was an empty shell. Two nearby villages stood in for it. It's the enormous Beverly Hills estate at 1011 North Beverly Drive. My favorite film, my favorite city – what more can I ask for?

The British were civil servants and military, the Americans were small retailers. I use the Godfather trilogy extensively. 1) A spraying fire hydrant is not in need of repair. I remember it so clearly cause it was a special occasion restaurant for our family. Also watch the marathon this weekend and I recall seeing a shootout scene that I believe is found in front of what we called the horseshoe bar or the crocodile Dundee bar or 7B it’s a bar on the corner of Avenue B and seven street sorry I wish I could remember the exact scene. Can’t help you on photos of the St. George’s Hotel, but it played an important role in my family’s history: my parents were married there on Columbus Day in 1957.

climbing the stairs and the guy shot in the revolving door I believe were also filmed at the St Regis. Outstanding work for your Godfather photos and historical research. The NYEE is a client of the company I work for and I’ve asked my contacts there about it but nobody seems able to confirm it. They shared the Oscar for Greatest Cinematography. The Godfather‘s Sicily locations included the villages of Savoca and Forza d’Agro. Both institutions have since been completely rebuilt. While I can’t say as to the bar where the scene was filmed, the exterior is remarkably preserved and looks exactly like the postcards. Great research on this film. The “florist” sign is now for a cafe and a door through to it and the “maisonettes” sign is for a gift shop. They had their wedding reception down the block at the Towers Hotel (BTW, they are both buried in Calvary Cemetery 1 near the “Corleone family” – I know the space well). Regarding the Christmas shopping scene at Best & Co on Fifth Avenue: the 1947 building was scheduled to be torn down in 1971 after the luxury department store chain closed in 1970, and the production designer got them to rent the location for the filming.

He said part of it was still up in the side yard. It was later turned into condos, and the building absolutely still stands. Then, Kay notices a headline on the newsstand announcing the Corleone shooting: …to a telephone booth, where Michael calls home. Then, the car pulls a u-turn and heads back the other way.”. Frank Speno steeled himself from the Black Hand. genre. …shot in the rear entrance to the Hotel Edison on West 46th Street btw.

I need to get out of here. You'll recognise the slightly redecorated corridor with its circular mirrors, as the lobby of mobster Nick Valenti's penthouse in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Fleeing to Sicily, Michael goes to ground in the village of ‘Corleone’.

The barber shop looks the one in the concourse below Rockefeller Center. The Godfather was filmed in 1971, so it would have been Penn Central by then. The29th St. side Bellevue entrance has been closed off since 2001, but an identical entrance is on the 30th St. side of the building and matches the entrance in the film perfectly. Loved your website. Regarding Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, I used to work right across the street from the new hospital location while it was being built. A couple things about the Mitchel Field site for Sonny’s shooting: A radio tower is seen in the distance in some wide shots. The bathroom shot of Michael’s restaurant killing, I believe is also in Williansburg, an old bank on Broadway used for locations till this day. The barber scene where Willie Cicci gets a shave and where the mob Leader in the white Dinner Jacket, as well as where Clemenza shotgunned 2 guys in the elevator at the top of the staircase he climbs were all filmed at the St. regis Hotel,,E 55th street between Mad and 5th ave. I lived there in 2005. Just luck. There are two signs visible by the revolving doors: Florist (from Cicci’s perspective), and Maisonette (from the victim’s perspective). Anyway. Wikipedia had this to say.

It’s an area with a lot of cemetery’s. I have a couple of contacts, that I got from my Hollywood producer contacts, who are in Rome, and apparently were location scouts for the film.

I really wish I knew where this was, but it seems that any record of it is long gone. Most of the St. George is still there. on Northern Blvd in Long Island City, Queens right by Best Buy, around 50th St. Never forget that the radio playing at the tollbooth is Russ Hodges’ calling Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World.” Listen closely to it…Clint Hartung is down at third when the toll booth clerk closes the window. Michael now becomes Godfather in a ritual brilliantly intercut with the bloody murders of the other family heads. The bridge used for the U-turn scene, however, is the Queensboro Bridge over the East River. It's long been claimed that the garroting of Brasi was filmed in Sofia’s Restaurant, the Edison’s Italian eatery, which closed some years ago. the diner looks like the Moondance Diner which was located at 80 sixth ave between grand st and canal. After a hiatus, you can now take a Paramount Pictures Studio Tour again, entrance at 5515 Melrose Avenue. So, I started contacting anybody I could think of, in the area, who might know. I tracked down the house used in the Graduate. Sollozzo did a U-turn and exited the Triboro Bridge overpass at one of the exits while still in the Bronx. Anyway. The abandoned restaurant looks a lot like the Jackson hole diner on Astoria blvd in queens. My father lived across the street in 36 Clark (in the late 40’s – early 50’s) until he married my mother and moved to Clinton Hill. The prior day they had completed principal shooting of the wedding. Regarding the St George – there used to be a bar on the ground floor called Club Wild Fyre, and that was where the Luca Brasi scene was filmed. This was the place was where Peter Clemenza had lunch. He witnessed the shoot, saw Caan and the crew – also note that the Rheingold truck was used to block the FDR. Phillip Smith was the production designet.

I was born there in 1949. Built in the 1920s, and once owned by William Randolph Hearst (the newspaper magnate on whose career Orson Welles based his classic Citizen Kane), it was put on the market in 2007 for $165 million. Because the film is a period piece, The Godfather actually presents a fascinating record of what 1940s-era New York City locations still existed in the early-1970s.

As a former location scout I can appreciate the amount of time and effort this took!!! I’ll post pictures when I return in July. The last, fanciest and most expensive of the Strip hotels built in the 50s, the Tropicana is the location for the ‘Folies Bergere’ number in the Elvis Presley film Viva Las Vegas. Supposedly, the truck’s placement was deliberate, to block the view of something (not specified AFAIK) in the background that wouldn’t have fit the time frame.

The billboard was strategically placed to hide the modern high rise (evidently the one we see in your photo). As always, a fantastic post. Hence the ST. R on the window outside the shop. Brasi is then murdered by Sollozzo in an upscale restaurant…but where was this shot? So, I started searching in Catania. and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, still recognisable from the days before the area became swamped by tacky tourist shops and tattoo parlours.

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