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Movie Points of Interest
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Monterey County
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Movie Map
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The Golden State Theatre, Monterey
1926 movie theater, downtown on Alvarado Street
Fox California Theatre, Salinas
1921 movie theater, downtown on Main Street
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“Whalers Museum” at Point Lobos State Reserve
Display of more than 40 movies filmed on-site
Castroville, “Artichoke Capital of the World”
The heart of the artichoke industry, and where Marilyn Monroe
was named the first Artichoke Queen in 1948
California’s First Theatre, Monterey 1845
On Pacific Street, dating back to the Gold Rush
National Steinbeck Center, Salinas
Exhibits spotlight movies based on Steinbeck’s stories
Steinbeck.org
Monterey Zoo/Vision Quest Ranch, Salinas
On River Road, trained animals for film and TV,
and Safari Bed & Breakfast
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Roll Credits
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Thanks to the following for their help and support
of the Monterey County Movie Map:
Movie research: Joe Graziano, Monterey County Herald
Graphics: Larry Omoto, OmotoArt
Writer: Linda Joan Smith
California Views/Pat Hathaway Collection of
Historical Photographs, CaViews.com
Pebble Beach Company, Neal Hotelling
Monterey County Board of Supervisors
Monterey County Convention & Visitors Bureau
SeeMonterey.com
Scenic Movie Tour of the Monterey Peninsula
800-343-6437 / 831-372-6278
MontereyMovieTours.com
Discover the locations where your
favorite movies were filmed!
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FilmMonterey.org
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Film Festivals and Events
FilmMonterey.org
FilmMonterey.org
831-646-0910 • info@filmmonterey.org
“Bringing Lights, Camera and Economic Action”
to Monterey County
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Star Destinations
Pacific Grove
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he Hog’s Breath Inn in Carmel has long been a must-see stop for avid
Clint Eastwood fans. But there are countless other spots in Monterey
County where you can trace the tracks of the stars or relive the moviemaking past, and enjoy some stellar dining, shopping, and sightseeing
along the way.
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Ft. Ord
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© 1989 Touchstone Pictures
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Valley
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Big Sur and the Coast The rocky Pacific shoreline and
rugged hills of the Big Sur coast beckoned filmmakers even before
Hwy. One provided an easy inroad to this wild territory. Explore
Garrapata, Andrew Molera, and Pfeiffer Big Sur State Parks,
isolated Pfeiffer Beach, and other Big Sur sites for glimpses of
the terrain that enriched Suspicion, Deep Valley, One-Eyed Jacks,
Doctor Dolittle, The Terror, and Zandy’s Bride. Or, take in the
hawk’s-eye view and tackle an Ambrosia Burger at Big Sur’s
Nepenthe, on the spot where Henry Miller once wrote, Orson
Wells and Rita Hayworth once dreamed, and Richard Burton
and Elizabeth Taylor once played out a scene for The Sandpiper.
Big Sur
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Fisherman’s
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Salinas
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Tom Hanks in
“Turner & Hooch,”
1989 with scenes
filmed in downtown
Pacific Grove
© 2001 MGM Pictures
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Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett and Bruce Willis in
“Bandits,” 2001 with scenes filmed in downtown Salinas
Courtesy Pebble Beach Company Archives
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Peter Lorre in “My Favorite
Brunette,” 1947 with scenes
filmed in Pebble Beach
Monterey County
with this movie map
as your guide, and
go on location to
both the famous
and the little-known
spots that
Hollywood has
immortalized
on film.
CaViews.com/Pat Hathaway Collection
Carmel-by-the-Sea/Carmel Valley Though the whitesand beach at the end of Ocean Avenue is world famous, Carmel’s
quaint architecture has won most of the casting calls. Movies such as
Julie, Five Finger Exercise, The Lady Says No, Seems Like Old Times,
Thumb Tripping, and Play Misty For Me have all relied on Carmel’s
shop-lined Ocean Avenue and other byways for much of their street
appeal, with the old Mediterranean Market a frequent star. In the
summertime, load up on picnic supplies and blankets, then head to the
historic outdoor Forest Theatre for screenings of some of Hollywood’s
classic work.
Fisherman’s Wharf The atmospheric potential of
Monterey’s wharves and fishing fleet hooked moviemakers as early
as 1916, when the harbor stood in for Sicily in The Isle of Life. In
subsequent films—as on the wharves today—eating the Monterey
Bay’s bounty was as popular a pastime as catching it. Barbara
Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Troy Donahue, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard
Burton, and Clint Eastwood all have filmed scenes at the
waterfront’s restaurants and cafes, from the long-gone Cerrito’s to
the Windjammer (now the Sandbar & Grill).
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destinations in
Cannery Row Thrust into the literary spotlight by John
Steinbeck, Cannery Row today will bring you face to face with
souvenir shops and succulent seafood rather than cannery workers
and immense catches of sardines. Films such as Clash by Night in the
1940s revealed the Row’s gritty working side; more recent pictures
such as Play Misty for Me and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home have
celebrated its latter-day attractions, including the Sardine Factory
restaurant and the world famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. While at
the Aquarium, don’t miss the delicate sea nettle jellies that ballooned
into horrors of the deep in Sphere.
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Monterey Peninsula
Monterey Peninsula
Fort Ord Home to California State University, Monterey Bay, this
former Army Base once enrolled film crews that put its barracks and
chaparral-covered dunes to work. The authentic Army backdrop, still in
evidence, was a key element in films such as The Girl He Left Behind with Tab
Hunter and Natalie Wood, and Soldier in the Rain which starred Jackie Gleason and
Steve McQueen in an odd tragi-comic pairing. The Fort’s miles of public hiking trails will
put you in territory where local National Guard tanks once masqueraded as German Tiger
tanks in Breakthrough.
“Foolish Wives,” 1921, Monte Carlo set at Pt. Lobos
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South County
Monterey The historic heart of the county, Monterey dates to the late 1700s and has long attracted
moviemakers and visitors with its old adobes, maritime backdrops and hospitality. In addition to Fisherman’s
Wharf and other historic sites, tour Colton Hall for a close-up look at the police station where Doris Day sought
help in Julie and the school where Sandra Dee pined for Troy Donahue in A Summer Place. The building’s real-life
role as home to the state’s first constitutional convention was memorialized in the western California, starring Barbara
Stanwyck; the film premiered at downtown Monterey’s grand Golden State Theatre.
Marilyn Monroe named the first
“Artichoke Queen” in 1948
Pebble Beach Once linked to Monterey’s elegant Hotel Del Monte by a winding track known as the 17-Mile Drive, Pebble
Beach’s native pine forest, gracious Lodge, golf courses, mansions, rocky coast, and windswept cypresses were—and are—a filmmaker’s
heaven. From the silent era to today, more than 40 films have taken advantage of the sights, including Our Dancing Daughters (Joan
Crawford’s 1928 breakthrough role) and the original version of The Parent Trap.
Point Lobos State Reserve The sublime meeting of land and sea known as Pt. Lobos has lent its scenic glories to nearly 40 films,
including Evangeline, for which an entire village was built on site—then intentionally burned—in 1929. Follow trails to locations where nature rather
than movie-making is now the grandest show, including sheltered China Cove, noisy Sea Lion Point, and Cypress Grove, one of only two naturally
growing Monterey cypress stands in the world.
Salinas and the Salinas Valley It is fitting that Salinas hosted movie crews during the filming of the award-winning East of Eden in 1955.
Salinas, Spreckels, and surrounding farmland played a major role in Steinbeck’s 1952 novel. This burgeoning town was John Steinbeck’s birthplace. Its
National Steinbeck Center honors its best-known literary son and spotlights the writings and the movies that came from them. Plan for lunch at the
nearby Steinbeck House, Steinbeck’s boyhood home, or drive through the long valley that shaped so much of Steinbeck’s work.
Pacific Grove Walk and shop the hometown streets of Pacific Grove, where Tom Hanks found canine companionship in Turner & Hooch, and
the movie Junior filmed a driving scene.
And More... Dine on succulent fried artichokes in Castroville, the Artichoke Capital of the World. The 22-year-old starlet Marilyn Monroe was
crowned Artichoke Queen in 1948. Explore South Monterey County where Steven Webber starred in the thriller Farmhouse, near Bradley. All will
bring Monterey County’s star connections and motion picture heritage into close-up focus. ★
“Big Sur” 2013 based on Jack Kerouac’s book
County now gather dust in archives or have been lost
altogether, victims of the passage of time and the de-
terioration of their nitrate film stock. Other motion pictures
A Summer Place ★★★
1959
Karen Nordstrand
ore than a few of the silent films made in Monterey
1971
© Universal Pictures
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Monterey County’s
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Clint Eastwood at Fisherman’s Wharf
Play Misty for Me ★★★★
with local scenes have only themselves to blame for their obMany Monterey-area movies, however, have remained
vital, entertaining, and available—due to the undying popularity of their stars, the polish or impact of their filmmaking,
the power of their stories, or the scenic appeal of the places
they were filmed. Among them are these standouts.
1992
Actors: Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Richard Egan
Director/Studio: Delmer Daves/Warner Bros.
Eastwood plays a disc jockey who becomes romantically involved with a
psychopathic female fan (Walter) in this thriller. When he tries to cool
things off, she begins to stalk him and those he loves. Scenes filmed in
Carmel Highlands, Carmel Beach, the Windjammer restaurant (now the
Sandbar & Grill on Monterey’s Municipal Wharf #2), KRML radio station
(originally at the Carmel Rancho Shopping Center), the Monterey Fairgrounds, the Sardine Factory restaurant on Cannery Row, and in Carmelby-the-Sea.
When Dee and her parents come for a stay at an inn run by Donahue’s
parents, sexual sparks fly between the two teenagers as well as between
Troy’s mother and Dee’s father. The Inn, supposedly located in Maine, was
actually the private LaPorte mansion in Pacific Grove (at the corner of
Lighthouse Avenue and 17-Mile Drive); other East Coast scenes were
filmed at Colton Hall in Monterey, outside All Saint’s Episcopal Church
in Carmel, at Pt. Lobos, Pebble Beach and Tennis Club’s pier, and at the
Monterey Regional Airport.
East of Eden ★
Bandits ★
1955
©1992 Carolco
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone at Garrapata
Basic Instinct ★★
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
Director/Studio: Clint Eastwood/Universal Pictures
2001
Karen Nordstrand
scurity.
Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
Director/Studio: Paul Verhoeven/Carolco Pictures
Actors: James Dean, Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet
Director/Studio: Elia Kazan/Warner Bros.
Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett
Director/Studio: Barry Levinson/MGM
In this psychological thriller, novelist Stone seduces and sexually manipulates Douglas, a police detective who’s investigating a murder strikingly
similar to a killing in one of Stone’s books. Oscar nominee for musical
score and film editing. Scenes filmed at a private home in the Carmel
Highlands and in Carmel Valley Village (Cloverdale Police Department
scene). Garrapata Beach stood in for Marin County’s Stinson Beach.
Based on John Steinbeck’s novel, this is a modern-day Cain and Abel
story in which Dean (in his first starring role) feels unloved by his father
and jealous of his brother, with tragic results. Nominated for best actor,
director, and screenplay Oscars; Jo Van Fleet won the Supporting Actress
Oscar for her role as Dean’s prostitute mother. Scenes filmed in the farm
fields of the Salinas Valley and near Spreckels.
Two fugitive bank robbers played by Bruce Willis and his hypochondriac
partner Billy Bob Thornton rob a string of banks from Oregon through
California, hoping to finance their South-of-the-Border retirement dream
which gets complicated when they meet a runaway housewife and they
both fall in love with her. The scenes “Wildwood Bank” scenes were
filmed in and around a former bank building in Oldtown Salinas at Main
Street and Gabilan Street.
1994
National Velvet ★
1944
Rebecca ★
1940
© 1994 Universal City Studios Inc.
Junior ★★
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson
Director/Studio: Ivan Reitman/Universal Pictures
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Anne Revere
Director/Studio: Clarence Brown/MGM
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson
Director/Studio: Alfred Hitchcock/Selznick International Pictures
Comic fantasy about a pair of male research scientists (Schwarzenegger and
DeVito) who, when their funding is cut, decide to test an anti-miscarriage drug
by getting Schwarzenegger briefly pregnant. But he bonds with his unborn baby
and won’t give it up when the time comes to end the experiment. Scenes filmed
in Pacific Grove, on Hwy. One, and at Carmel Valley’s Stonepine Estate, which
stands in as a retreat for expectant mothers.
Family drama in which a young Elizabeth Taylor wins a horse and trains
it, with Rooney’s help, to enter the Grand National—England’s famed racing event. Revere, who played Taylor’s mother, won the Best Supporting
Actress Oscar; the film also won for film editing and was nominated for
best director and cinematographer. Scenes filmed at the Pebble Beach Golf
Links, 9th and 10th fairways.
When a naive Fontaine marries a wealthy Olivier and returns with him
to Manderley, his estate on the Cornish Coast, she has no inkling that her
marriage will be haunted by the memory of his first wife. This dark thriller
won Oscars for best picture and cinematography and was nominated in
nine other categories, including director, actor, actress, and supporting actress. Scenes filmed at Pt. Lobos and Big Sur.
We Were Soldiers ★
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ★ 1986
Turner & Hooch ★
1989
Mark Schuler
© Monterey Bay Aquarium
Stephen Vaughan © 2002 Paramount Pictures
2002
Actors: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear
Director/Studio: Randall Wallace/Icon Entertainment Int’l.
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks
Director/Studio: Leonard Nimoy/Paramount Pictures
Actors: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson
Director/Studio: Roger Spottiswoode/Touchstone Pictures
This compelling war drama depicts the true story of the first major battle
between the United States and North Vietnamese forces. Mel Gibson
plays Lt. Col. Hal G. Moore, the American lieutenant colonel. Fort
Hunter Liggett, in the south portion of Monterey County, doubled for
Vietnam’s Central Highlands, where the savage battles at Ia Drang took
place. Numerous locals served as extras during several months of filming.
When a space probe that emanates erie sounds threatens to destroy Earth
in the 23rd century, Shatner and crew must travel back to the 20th century
to capture two humpback whales, the only creatures who can communicate
with the probe. Hicks, playing a cetacean biologist, helps them out. Nominated for four Oscars, including cinematography. Scenes filmed at the
Monterey Bay Aquarium, which portrayed the fictitious Cetacean Institute
in Sausalito.
In this comic thriller, Hanks is a bored, small-town police detective who’s
about to move to the big city when he finally gets a murder case. To solve
it, he must adopt the victim’s slobbery mastiff, believed to be the only witness to the crime. Winningham is the town’s vet. Scenes filmed largely at
the intersection of Pacific Grove’s Lighthouse and Forest Avenues (where
a bank was transformed into City Hall and another building doubled as a
church) and along nearby Ocean View Boulevard.
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200 and Counting...
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he following films include, or are believed to contain,
scenes or background scenery filmed in Monterey County.
Where known, the sites are indicated. The Monterey County
Film Commission posts additions and corrections at FilmMonterey.org.
A Man of Honor (1919) Bert Starkey, Gordon McGregor. Pebble Beach Golf
Course turned into village street in the semitropics, and Carmel Beach
A Summer Place (1959) See Monterey County’s Finest
A Woman of the Sea (1926) Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer. Scenes at Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey and on Monterey Bay
A Woman Rebels (1936) Katherine Hepburn. Cypress Point in Pebble Beach
stands in for Italy in background shots
All Men Are Enemies (1934) Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Barrie. Carmel
Anna Karenina (1935) Greta Garbo. Race track and steeplechase scenes filmed on
the Monterey Peninsula
Back Street (1961) Susan Hayward, Vera Miles
Bandits (2001) See Monterey County’s Finest
Basic Instinct (1992) See Monterey County’s Finest
Beautiful Monterey (1917) Pt. Lobos, Fisherman’s Wharf, and streets of Monterey
Beauty Market (1919) Katherine MacDonald, Joseph Dowling. Highlands Inn at
Carmel Highlands
Big Sur (2013) Jean-Marc Barr stars as Jack Kerouac, with Kate Bosworth and
Josh Lucas. Big Sur scenes below Rocky Creek Bridge, Hwy. One, and a Bixby
Canyon private cabin
Blind Date (1987) Kim Bassinger, Bruce Willis. Scenes filmed near Monastery
Beach, but cut from final film
Brainstorm (1983) Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood. Single scene of truck crossing Bixby Creek Bridge
Braveheart (1925) Tyrone Power Sr., Rod La Rocque. Cavalry scenes filmed at the
Presidio of Monterey
Breakthrough (1950) John Agar. Parts of Ft. Ord stood in for Normandy
California (1947) Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland. Brief scenes at Monterey’s
Colton Hall
Cannery Row (1982) Nick Nolte, Deborah Winger. Scene shot on the rocks behind
Stohan’s at 484 Cannery Row, and on the dunes north of Marina
Captain January (1936) Shirley Temple. Background of local coastline
Captains Courageous (1937) Spencer
Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Freddie
Bartholomew. Some sailing scenes
filmed on Monterey Bay
Celebration at Big Sur (1971)
Filmed at Esalen just south of Big
Sur
Chandler (1972) Warren Oates,
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Clash by Night (1952) Barbara Stanwyck, Marilyn Monroe. Scenes
filmed at Fisherman’s Wharf and a working Cannery Row
Conquest (1937) Greta Garbo. Pt. Lobos stands in for the Isle of Elba; film included
other local background shots
Daddy Long Legs (1931) Janet Gaynor. Cypress Grove at Pt. Lobos
Dark Angel (1925) Ronald Colman
Daughters Courageous (1939) The Lane Sisters, John Garfield
Deep Valley (1947) Ida Lupino. Scenes capture the building of Hwy. One along
the rugged Big Sur coast
Desire (1954) Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons. Cypress Point and scenic Pebble
Beach
Desire Me (1947) Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart. Pt. Lobos, the
17-Mile Drive, and Malpaso Creek south of Carmel
Doctor Dolittle (1967) Rex Harrison. Crews filmed for four days at the Doud Ranch,
south of Carmel Highlands
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) Priscilla Lane, John Garfield, Alan Hale. Scene filmed
in front of Monterey’s Colton Hall
East of Eden (1955) See Monterey
County’s Finest
Edge of Darkness (1942) Errol Flynn,
Ann Sheridan. Monterey’s Municipal
Wharf #2 transformed into a Norwegian Fishing Village; scenes also filmed
at Pt. Lobos and Pebble Beach
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Eve’s Secret (1925) Betty Compson. Scenes filmed at
beach in Carmel
Everything for Sale (1921) May McAvoy, A. Edward Sutherland
Famous Places (1937) The film includes a local production of Tatters, the Pet of
Squatter’s Gulch at the California First Theater in Monterey
Farm House (2008) Steven Webber, William Lee Scott. Psychological Thriller.
Shot in private home near Bradley, doubling for Midwest
Fast and Furious (1927) Reginald Denny. Racing scenes filmed at Indian Village
near the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach
Five Finger Exercise (1962) Rosalind Russell. Scenes in Carmel, on the 17-Mile
Drive, and inside a mansion in Pebble Beach
Flight (1960) Scenes at the private Fish Ranch at the mouth of Carmel Valley
Follow the Sun (1951) Glenn Ford, Ann Baxter. Pebble Beach Golf Links
Foolish Wives (1922) Eric von Stroheim. Monte Carlo set built at Sea Lion Point
at Pt. Lobos and scenes also filmed along 17-Mile Drive
Forever Amber (1947) Cornell Wilde, Linda Darnell. Cypress Point in Pebble
Beach
Four Daughters (1938) Claude Rains, John Garfield, the Lane Sisters. Scene filmed
in front of Colton Hall
Francis Joins the WACs (1954) Donald O’Connor. Scenes at Ft. Ord
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Gregory Peck. Filmed at various Peninsula locations
Gift of Love (1958) Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
Gladsome (1917) Neva Gerber, Ben Wilson. Fishing scenes filmed at McAbee
Beach at Cannery Row
Green Dolphin Street (1947) Donna Reed, Lana Turner, Van Heflin. Old Coast
Guard Station in Big Sur stands in for a nunnery in New Zealand
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957) Sterling Hayden. The Lone Cypress and local coastline
He Was Her Man (1934) James Cagney, Joan Blondell. Pt. Lobos
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) Dean Jones. Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway
Hotel Del Monte (1897) Carriages roll by the Hotel Del Monte
I Cover the Waterfront (1933) Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon, Ernest Torrence.
Monterey stood in for the San Diego waterfront
I Melt with You (2011) Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Thomas Jane. Locations include
Fisherman’s Wharf, Bixby Bridge, and Pt. Sur Lighthouse
In Love and War (1958) Robert Wagner, Hope Lange. Scenes filmed at Municipal
Wharf #2 and various sites in Pebble Beach
Incubus (1966) William Shatner. Big Sur
Intermezzo (1939) Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard. Early scene filmed near 15th
hole of Cypress Point Golf Course in Pebble Beach
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1964) Celia Kaye
Japanese War Bride (1952) Don Taylor, Shirley Yamaguchi. Salinas Valley, Pt. Lobos
and the Wharf. First filming from a helicopter
Johnny Belinda (1948) Jane Wyman. Pebble Beach and Pacific Grove waterfront
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973) Richard Crenna, Juliet Mills. Seagulls from
Marina landfill with scenes of Monterey Bay, Garrapata Beach, and Pt. Lobos
Julie (1956) Doris Day, Louis Jordan. Scenes at Pebble Beach Lodge, Beach and
Tennis Club, 17-Mile Drive, Colton Hall, and downtown Carmel
Junior (1994) See Monterey County’s Finest
Kings Go Forth (1958) Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood. Fisherman’s
Wharf, Carmel Valley, and local coastline
Lassie Come Home (1943) Roddy McDowell, Elizabeth Taylor. Brief segment filmed
at Pt. Lobos (standing in for the coast of Scotland)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde. Local coast doubles for
Bar Harbor, Maine
Maid of Salem (1937) Claudette Colbert, Frederick MacMurray. Lobsterman’s cabin
set at Pt. Lobos
Marine Raiders (1944) Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan. Pebble Beach, including Bird
Rock and the 14th Hole of Cypress Point Golf Course in Pebble Beach
Married Alive (1926) Lou Tellegen, Margaret Livingston. Carmel Highlands and
the beach at Pacific Grove
Men on Call (1930) Edmund Lowe, Mae Clarke. First talkie made indoors on location (Pebble Beach); lighthouse set built along
17-Mile Drive
Midnight Lace (1960) Doris Day, Rex
Harrison
Miss Hobbs (1920) Wanda
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Clark
Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot
Tone. Monterey harbor aboard the ships Pandora and Bounty
My Blood Runs Cold (1965) Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton. The 17-Mile Drive
and Pt. Lobos
My Favorite Brunette (1947) Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre. The
Crocker Mansion in Pebble Beach
My Son (1925) Nazimova. Notley’s Landing on the Big Sur coast
National Velvet (1944) See Monterey County’s Finest
Notorious Lady (1927) Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford
Of Mice and Men (1939) Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith. Salinas Valley
One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Marlon Brando, Karl Malden. Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur; coastline and Point Joe in Pebble Beach
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) Joan Crawford. Del Monte Lodge
P. K. and the Kid (1982) Paul Le Mat, Molly Ringwald. Fisherman’s Wharf and
Municipal Wharf #2; Abalonetti Seafood renamed Benny’s
Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933) Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter. Coastline south
of Carmel and Pt. Lobos
Paid to Love (1926) George O’Brien, Virginia Valli. 17-Mile Drive; Monte Carlo
set was built at Cypress Point at Pt. Lobos
Passion Fruit (1921) Sidney Bracey, Edward Earle. Cypress Point in Pebble Beach,
with Doraldina (Dora Saunders), the champion hula dancer
Peg O’ My Heart (1933) Marion Davies
Pidgin Island (1916) Harold Lockwood, May Allison. Scenes filmed on the beach
near the old abalone cannery at Pt. Lobos
Play Misty for Me (1971) See Monterey County’s Finest
Poco Loco (1994) Susan Brecht, Sandra Chapin, Meeka Schmalle. Filmed in
Carmel Valley at Holman Ranch and Santa Lucia Preserve
Poetic Justice (1993) Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur. Scenes filmed near Big Creek
Bridge in Big Sur
Primrose Path (1940) Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrae. Del Monte Beach next to Municipal Wharf #2, old cafe on Del Monte Blvd. and Pacific Grove waterfront
Ramona (1916) Adda Gleason, Monroe Salisbury. Three thousand feet of film shot
in the Monterey area
Ramona (1927) Dolores del Rio. Scenes filmed at Pt. Lobos
Rebecca (1940) See Monterey County’s Finest
Road Racers (1959) Sally Fraser
Rose of the Golden West (1927) Gilbert Roland. Scenes at Pt. Lobos
Rose of the Rancho (1914) Bessie Barriscale. Monterey’s historic buildings and
scenic beauty
Salome, Where She Danced (1945) Yvonne de Carlo, Rod Cameron. Stagecoach
chase scene filmed at Garrapata Canyon and Pt. Lobos
Samurai (1944) Paul Fung, Luke Chan, Fred C. Bond. G. T. Marsh & Company
across from Lake El Estero stood in for a mysterious temple
Sandy (1926) Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton. Carmel and Pebble Beach
See America First (1915) Scenes were filmed at Pt. Lobos, along 17-Mile Drive
and at various Monterey historic sites
Seems Like Old Times (1980) Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn. Downtown Carmel
Sergeant Murphy (1938) Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire. Scenes filmed at the Presidio of Monterey (then a cavalry post)
Shadows (1922) Lon Chaney. Whaler’s Cove at Pt. Lobos; Fisherman’s Wharf, the
500 block of Larkin Street in Monterey, and Monastery Beach
Shock (1946) Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore
Sleeper (1973) Woody Allen, Diane Keaton. Scenes at Santa Lucia Preserve
Small Town Girl (1936) Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor. Scenes on 17-Mile Drive
(as the coast of Maine); also at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach
Soldier in the Rain (1963) Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld. Scenes
filmed at Ft. Ord
Soul of the Cypress (1921) Fantasy short film. Pt. Lobos
Sphere (1998) Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone. Footage filmed at the Monterey
Bay Aquarium’s Outer Bay galleries
Sporting Youth (1924) Reginald Denny, William A. Carroll. Scenes filmed on the
17-Mile Drive and outside at the old Hotel Del Monte
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) See Monterey County’s Finest
Strawberry Road (1991) [Japanese Release] Pat Morita, Toshiro Mifune in cameo.
Alisal High School (Salinas), Salinas Valley farms, Hawkins Road and Chualar
Bridge in south Monterey County
Sunshine Gatherers (1921) Scenes filmed at the Carmel Mission, Carmel River,
elsewhere in the Carmel area and at Pt. Lobos
Surf at Monterey (1897) Local coastline
Susan Slade (1961) Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens. Cypress
Point, Pebble Beach Equestrian Center, and old Monterey train station
Suspicion (1941) Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant. Scenes filmed on the coast between
Carmel and Big Sur (standing in for the English coast)
Sword in the Desert (1949) Dana Andrews, Marta Toren. Del Monte Beach and
dunes in Monterey stood in for the Palestinian shore
Take the High Ground! (1953) Richard Widmark, Karl Malden. Filmed at Ft. Ord
and featured the men and cadences of the 20th Infantry Regiment
Tess of the Storm Country (1922) Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope.
Tess of the Storm Country (1932) Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell. Scenes on 17Mile Drive
Monterey Regional Airport, the Lodge at Pebble Beach, and Carmel Valley
The Big Bounce (1969) Ryan O’Neal, Lee Grant. Pt. Lobos, Colton Hall in MonThe Primrose Path (1925) Clara Bow, Wallace MacDonald
terey, and the Monterey Boatworks
The Right of Way (1920) Bert Lytell. Forest scenes near Monterey
The Birthmark (1912) Scenes filmed on 17-Mile Drive
The Rosary (1922) Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone. Scenes in Carmel area
The Bugle Sounds (1941) Wallace Beery, Donna Reed. Scenes at Ft. Ord
The Sandpiper (1965) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton. Scenes at Pfeiffer Beach,
The Caddy (1953) Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin. Scene filmed at Fan Shell Beach in
a temporary set at Doud Beach in Big Sur, and Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach
The Second Woman (1951) Robert Young, Betsy Drake. Pebble Beach
The Candidate (1972) Robert Redford. Fisherman’s Wharf and nearby marina
The Shift (2009) Portia Di Rossi, Maury Sterling, Edward Kerr. Asilomar State
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) Ken Barry, Sandy Duncan. Scenes filmed in Big
Conference Grounds near Pacific Grove
Sur and the Salinas Valley
The Snob (1920) Wanda Hawley, Edwin Stevens
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Robert Donat. The Lone Cypress on 17-Mile
The Terror (1963) Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Sandra Knight. Pfeiffer Beach
Drive
in Big Sur
The Deep Six (1958) William Bendix, Joey Bishop, Alan Ladd, Keenan Wynn.
The Trial of Billy Jack (1974) Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor
The Beach and Tennis Club at Pebble Beach, and 17-Mile Drive, and Carmel
The Turning Point (1920) Kathryn McDonald, Nigel Barrie. Scenes filmed at
The Divine Lady (1929) Victor Varconi, Corinne Griffith.
the old Hotel Del Monte
Scenes filmed at the former Rittenhouse residence in
The Uninvited (1944) Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp. Pebble Beach
Del Monte Forest
The Unknown (1927) Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney. Pebble Beach
The Eiger Sanction (1975) Clint Eastwood.
The Valley of the Moon (1914) Myrtle Stedman, Hobart Bosworth. Scenes
Scenes filmed at Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House,
filmed at the old abalone cannery at Pt. Lobos and in Carmel
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The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) Robert Ryan, Laraine Day. Brief scenes
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The Wrong Mr. Wright (1927) Jean Hersholt, Enid Bennett. Carmel
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy
John Ireland. Scenes filmed in Pebble Beach and
“Japa
Thumb Tripping (1972) Meg Foster, Michael Burns. Big Sur, downCarmel
town Carmel, and Harrison Library as City Hall
The Forger (2012) Lauren Bacall, Josh Hutcherson, Alfred
Tiger Shark (1932) Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann. Scenes
Molina, Hayden Panettiere. Carmel-by-the-Sea locations:
filmed along Cannery Row and Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey
Sunset Center, Carmel Beach, and art galleries
Tin Gods (1926) William Powell. Scenes at the old Hotel Del Monte
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, Natalie Wood.
Topaz (1969) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Scenes shot in Salinas
Scenes filmed at beach near Stillwater Cove in Pebble Beach, and the 5th hole at
Tortilla Flat (1942) Spencer Tracy, John Garfield. Fisherman’s Wharf and Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach Golf Links
Treasure Island (1934) Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore. Scenes at
The Girl He Left Behind (1956) Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood. Ft. Ord
Pt. Lobos, reputed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel,
The Graduate (1967) Dustin Hoffman. Hwy. One south of Carmel
from which the movie was made
The Iron Mask (1929) Douglas Fairbanks. Filmed at Pt. Lobos
Troopers Three (1930) Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver. Scenes at the Presidio
The Isle of Life (1916) Monterey stands in for Sicily; scenes filmed at Carmel Misof Monterey and the polo grounds of the old Hotel Del Monte
sion, Hotel Del Monte, and Monterey Harbor
Turner & Hooch (1989) See Monterey County’s Finest
The Horse with the Flying Tail (1961) George Fenneman. Salinas Valley
Vertigo (1958) Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, with their first kiss scene filmed at
The Lady Says No (1951) David Niven. The Pine Inn in Carmel and nearby coastline
shoreline at Cypress Point Lookout. Scenes at Pebble Beach and on Hwy. 101 going
The Limey (1999) Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Fonda. Big Sur at
through a dense eucalyptus grove just north of the county line. Other scenes filmed
Lucia Lodge, private home north of Lucia, and driving along Hwy. One
in San Juan Bautista
The Little Giant (1933) Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor. Polo field at the old
We Were Soldiers (2002) See Monterey County’s Finest
Hotel Del Monte
White Shoulders (1922) John O. Barrows, Bryant Washburn. Scenes at the old
The Long, Long Trail (1929) Hoot Gibson, Walter Brennan. Scenes filmed at the
Hotel Del Monte and on 17-Mile Drive
18th annual California Rodeo in Salinas
Why Women Love (1925) Blanche Sweet, Robert Frazer. Pt. Lobos
The Love Bug (1968) Dean Jones, Buddy Hackett, Michelle Lee. Filmed at Mazda
Zandy’s Bride (1974) Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann. Big Sur including Andrew
Laguna Seca Raceway
Molera State Park, where the set of an 1870s town was built
The Love Light (1920) Mary Pickford. Scenes filmed at Pt. Lobos
The Master Gunfighter (1975) Tom Laughlin. Big Sur coastline including Rocky
Point, where filmmakers built a town and then burned it
The Miracle Man (1932) Chester Morris, Sylvia Sidney. Background scenes at Pt.
About this movie map….
Lobos, on the 17-Mile Drive, and elsewhere
The information about scenes filmed in Monterey County has been
The Mistress of Shemstone (1920) Roy Stewart, Pauline Frederick. Scenes filmed
gleaned from a variety of sources. The Monterey County Film Comat Pt. Lobos
The Moon Is Down (1943) Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb
mission assumes no responsibility for errors, but welcomes additional
The Muppet Movie (1979) Kermit et al. Grove of oak trees at Santa Lucia Preserve
details, corrections and comments. For more information go to
doubled for Louisiana swampland and roads near Salinas Valley crops
FilmMonterey.org.
The Naked Eye (1956) Raymond Massey, Edward Weston. Edward Weston’s home
The Notorious Landlady (1962) Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire. Yankee
Point and Carmel Highlands
The Other Side of the Door (1916) Harold Lockwood, May Alison. Scenes filmed
in Monterey, including Monterey historic sites
The Parent Trap (1961) Hayley Mills, Brian Keith, Maureen O’Hara. Scenes filmed at
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tion. Motor along the 17-Mile Drive and you’ll follow the same
scenic road as Doris Day in Julie, Troy Donahue in My Blood
Runs Cold, and Rosalind Russell in Five Finger Exercise. Every
corner of Monterey County, from Salinas and Carmel Valley
to the former Ft. Ord and the wilds of Big Sur, has had its turn
on the silver screen and its brush with the stars. Parts of nearly
40 movies have been filmed at Pt. Lobos alone.
From 1916 to the 1950s, Pt. Lobos and other local spots
bluffed their way through films, doubling for far-off or historical
locales. Monterey County’s scenery stood in for the coast of
Cornwall in Rebecca, the Island of Elba in Desire, coastal Maine
in A Summer Place, Russia in Anna Karenina, the beaches of
Normandy in Breakthrough, and a Norwegian fishing village in
Edge of Darkness. In what was billed the “first million-dollar
silent film,” Foolish Wives, Pt. Lobos was a Monte Carlo lookalike. Monterey County locations also have played the part of
Sicily, Scotland, New England, New Zealand, and Palestine at
the movie theater.
Unlike those distant locales, Monterey County was easy
to reach by rail, plane, or private railroad car from Los Angeles.
And, the stars relished a few nights’ stay at the old Hotel San
Carlos, the Casa Munras, the Del Monte Lodge (now the
Lodge at Pebble Beach), or the Hotel Del Monte (now the
Naval Postgraduate School). What the actors occasionally didn’t relish was the temperature and turbulence of the local waters; stars from Greer Garson to Jack Nicholson have all been
tumbled by the coast’s picturesque, but bone-numbing seas.
As moviegoers became more sophisticated and well-travelled, directors allowed the county’s scenic spots to play themselves, without disguise. But the temptation to use sleight of
hand still draws filmmakers to the area. Over the years, local
Courtesy Pebble Beach Company Archives
Stroll down Cannery Row and you’ll trail Marilyn Monroe
and Barbara Stanwyck in Clash by Night. Tour Carmel’s Tor
House and you’ll visit Clint Eastwood’s home in The Eiger Sanc-
he crashing waves, gnarled cypress and white-sand
beaches that have lured visitors to the Monterey
Peninsula for more than a century have also beckoned other kinds of sight-seekers. Directors and cinematographers have been drawn to the spot since 1897,
when a cameraman working for Thomas Edison shot the
pounding Monterey surf and filmed carriages arriving at
the posh Hotel Del Monte. Filmmakers from Cecil B. DeMille to Alfred Hitchcock have flocked here ever since,
seeking the perfect backdrops for their shots.
Scenes in more than 200 films are believed to have
been shot in Monterey County, from the Edison Manufacturing Company’s early 20-second travelogues to favorites
such as Rebecca, National Velvet, Play Misty for Me, and Star
Trek IV: The Voyage Home. At almost any scenic spot,
whether it’s the Lone Cypress, Fisherman’s Wharf, Garrapata Beach, or the farm fields of the Salinas Valley, you’ll
walk in the footsteps of the stars.
Film production of “My Favorite Brunette”
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in “The Caddy”
destinations have doubled for Marin County’s Stinson
Beach in Basic Instinct, Sausalito in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Louisiana swampland in The Muppet Movie, and
the 19th century Baltic coast in budget-movie-king Roger
Corman’s The Terror.
Motion pictures are part of a century-old tradition that
promises to thrive. Recent films such as I Melt with You,
The Forger, and Big Sur, based on Jack Kerouac’s book,
helped put local settings in starring roles.
Waves will continue to pound the rocks at Point Pinos
and Pt. Lobos. Fog will continue to drift through the
branches of the brooding cypress. Golden hills will continue to shelter rural valleys. And a new generation of filmmakers will make movie magic, lured by the beauty and
scenic diversity that are Monterey County’s hallmarks. ★