Here are four of the more popular and recognizable
locations, out of many in California.
Most of the Mongram/LoneStar
and early Republic movies were filmed
in these locations.

Alabama Hills

Many of Duke's early Movies were made around
here, and you'll recognize the distintive rock formations

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Alabama Hills- Google Images ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

Information from
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
edited by ethanedwards

Alabama Hills are a range of hills in the Owens Valley of California, near Lone Pine, California. The rounded contours of the Alabamas contrast with the sharp ridges of the Sierra Nevada to the west; however, the Alabamas are no older than the Sierra. Different patterns of erosion account for the difference.

Mt Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, towers several thousand feet above this low range, which itself is 1,500 feet above the floor of Owens Valley. However, Gravity surveys indicate that the Owens Valley is filled with about 10,000 feet of sediment and that the Alabama's are the tip of a very steep escarpment. This feature may have been created by many earthquakes similar to the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake which, in a single event, caused a vertical displacement of 15-20 feet.

There are two main types of rock exposed at Alabama Hills. One is an orange, drab weathered metamorphosed volcanic rock that is 150-200 million years old. The other type of rock exposed here is 90 million year old granite which weathers to potato-shaped large boulders; many of which stand on end due to spheroidal weathering acting on many nearly vertical joints in the rock.

The Alabama Hills are a popular location for television and movie productions (especially Westerns) set in an archetypical "rugged" environment. Since the early 1920s 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here including Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, and the Lone Ranger. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, and How the West Was Won, as well as more recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree were filmed at sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road. In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse front of the Alabamas, Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain.
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Owens Valley

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Owens Valley ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

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Lone Pine

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Many early movies were also filmed here, and some scenes from
North To Alaska, Duke's final film here

Lone Pine ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

Lone Pine- North To Alaska ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

Movies made in Lone Pine ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
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Bronson Caves

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Bronson Canyon ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

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Bronson Canyon is a location in Griffith Park, California that has become famous as the setting for an astounding number of movies and TV shows filmed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Its picturesque setting and remote (but easily accessible) location has made it a prime choice for filmmakers who want to place their stories in a "wilderness" setting.

Originally named Brush Canyon, the famous hill and cave setting is on the western side of Griffith Park. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry for excavation of crushed rock, used in the construction of city streets. The quarry ceased operation in the late 1920s, leaving the caves behind. The caves, known as the Bronson Caves, gave the area its more popular name of Bronson Canyon.

Scenes filmed in Bronson Canyon for motion pictures and TV shows have always been filmed in a manner that shows the cave entrance at an angle. This is because the cave is actually a very short tunnel through the hill; it opens up on the other side of the hill after a short distance.

The most well known appearance of the cave in Bronson Canyon is likely as the Batcave in the Batman television series of the 1960's.

Most of the Lone Star Movies,
seemed to feature the same Hacienda and town
and this is why
most of them were all filmed at

Trem Carr Ranch


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Trem Carr was a producer at Monogram and
so loaned out his ranch for the movies



Trem Carr Ranch ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
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Kernville and Kern River

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The Kern River is a river in eastern California in the United States, approximately 155 mi (249 km) long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield. Fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney, the river passes through scenic canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for whitewater rafting and kayaking. It formerly emptied entirely into the Buena Vista Lake at the southern end of the Central Valley; however, now it is diverted for irrigation, recharging aquifers, and it still empties a portion into Lake Buena Vista for recreational use. In addition some of the water is diverted into the California Aqueduct.

Duke and Yak, were always jumping in the river

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Mammoth Lakes

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Beales Cut- Newhall

Scenes from Stagecoach, were filmed here

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Death Valley- California/Nevada

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Scenes from 3 Godfathers filmed here

Janss Conejo Ranch

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Scenes from Stagecoach and Sands of Iwo Jima filmed here



Lucerne Dry Lake

The famous Indian Stagecoach attack was made here

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Red Rock Canyon

Many Movies, particularly westerns were made here,
Including Duke's Pals of The Saddle and Lawless Frontier

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The Walker Ranch

Two early Movies, involving Duke were filmed here
Range Feud and Two Fisted Law

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For the benefit of our new members.
This is one of several threads, showing the
various locations of Duke's Movies.

Keith, Thanks for bringing this back to the top, as we know there is an interest in knowing these locations. Especially from visitors from different lands. Would love to visit some of them ourselves, if we only had more time, and with gas prices the way they have gotten, a bit pricey.

Chester :newyear: and the Mrs :angel: