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Crime in San Francisco – Lombard Street

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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Joan Crawford and Jack Palance on “The Crookedest Street in the World” Lombard Street in the 1952 thriller ‘Sudden Fear’ Their relationship is complicated, she’s terribly in love with him, and he’s terribly in love with her money and planning to kill her for it. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – The Bay Bridge

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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A police Officer pulls over Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy, on the Bay Bridge in the 1941 movie ‘Shadow of the Thin Man’. He goes easy on them. The Pacific Telephone Building, just above Nick and Nora’s car, and the tallest building south of Market Street when the film was made, can be seen left center in the current picture. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – Taylor Street

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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Steve McQueen races down Taylor Street after the bad guys in the black Charger in the famous chase scene from ‘Bullitt’. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – The Cliff House

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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A fun technique I enjoy doing is to overlap a film scene with the present location to blend it in with the current image. Here, the police are closing in on Eli Wallach at the Sutro Baths and Cliff House in the 1958 movie ‘The Lineup’. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – Chinatown

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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Anna May Wong, in a chase scene through Chinatown, turns left on Grant from Washington against today’s traffic in the 1949 film ‘Impact’. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – Filbert Street

February 7, 2015November 4, 2018SF Film Locations

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Arthur Franz, pursued by the police, runs into the front door of his home on Filbert street in an overlap of the location from the 1952 movie ‘The Sniper’. (Thumbnail image)

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Crime in San Francisco – Fort Point

February 7, 2015June 19, 2018SF Film Locations

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The last I heard, trying to kill yourself is still a crime, which is what Kim Novak appears to be attempting by jumping into the Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1958 classic ‘Vertigo’. (Thumbnail image)

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