Car chase in film 'Patriot Games'.
Rush Wickes
chase scene in the Harrison Ford thriller (partly based on the book by
Tom Clancy) was filmed. Obviously the shots leading up to the
terrorists entry onto the freeway suggest they are getting onto US 50
(green entrance ramp signs are overhead reading US 50
Annapolis/Washington). However, the actual scene where Cathy Ryan's
(Anne Archer's) Porsche is ambushed appears to have been filmed on
another road entirely. Any ideas?
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John David Galt
> I'm just wondering whether anyone determined where the automobile
> chase scene in the Harrison Ford thriller (partly based on the book by
> Tom Clancy) was filmed. Obviously the shots leading up to the
> terrorists entry onto the freeway suggest they are getting onto US 50
> (green entrance ramp signs are overhead reading US 50
> Annapolis/Washington). However, the actual scene where Cathy Ryan's
> (Anne Archer's) Porsche is ambushed appears to have been filmed on
> another road entirely. Any ideas?
The freeway where she notices the bad guys are chasing her looks like
the elevated section of Baltimore's I-295 beltway, between 395 and the
tunnel under the bay. But the actual fight scenes look like another
place entirely, one I don't know.
John David Galt
Mike Pruett
a gore sign on an elevated section reads "EXIT 24," which would be right for
Rowe's (MD 70) exit off of 50, but it doesn't look like that exit. In the
Annapolis area, 50 is all blacktop, with brick facing on the bridges for
visual appeal.
It was elevated and concrete surface, but IIRC there were some medium-tall
buildings close in to the freeway, of which there aren't any along the
elevated Baltimore section of I-95. It may have been on 50 inside I-495,
where there are some buildings in that close, near New Carrollton. I'll
have to watch it again :)
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ru...@south-side.org (Rush Wickes) wrote:
> I'm just wondering whether anyone determined where the automobile
> chase scene in the Harrison Ford thriller (partly based on the book by
> Tom Clancy) was filmed. Obviously the shots leading up to the
> terrorists entry onto the freeway suggest they are getting onto US 50
> (green entrance ramp signs are overhead reading US 50
> Annapolis/Washington). However, the actual scene where Cathy Ryan's
> (Anne Archer's) Porsche is ambushed appears to have been filmed on
> another road entirely. Any ideas?
According to the Internet Movie Database's goof section for the film
(http://us.imdb.com/Goofs?0105112), Cathy Ryan "gets shot on a highway
in Los Angeles." Since I've neither seen the film nor been to Los
Angeles, I couldn't say specifically which highway it was, if indeed
the scene was filmed in Los Angeles.
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wrote:
>I'm just wondering whether anyone determined where the automobile
>chase scene in the Harrison Ford thriller (partly based on the book by
>Tom Clancy) was filmed. Obviously the shots leading up to the
>terrorists entry onto the freeway suggest they are getting onto US 50
>(green entrance ramp signs are overhead reading US 50
>Annapolis/Washington). However, the actual scene where Cathy Ryan's
>(Anne Archer's) Porsche is ambushed appears to have been filmed on
>another road entirely. Any ideas?
The last shot in Annapolis was the quick turn onto the US-50 on-ramp,
today it's next to the Lexus dealership. The freeway scenes, I was
told by a friend who worked on the film, was shot in Los Angeles.
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Jon Morse
> The last shot in Annapolis was the quick turn onto the US-50 on-ramp,
> today it's next to the Lexus dealership. The freeway scenes, I was
> told by a friend who worked on the film, was shot in Los Angeles.
It'd have to have been filmed somewhere else, at least, because there's no
freeway even remotely resembling that between Annapolis and McLean (which
was her destination).
Wasn't there a shot of a BGS for MD 2/Glen Burnie early in the chase,
though? Been a while since I've seen that flick.
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via lots of much larger places
Anonymous
films for years. The continuity people are either asleep at the switch or
they figure that most people do not know the location and do not care. I
have been at several locations seen in a number of films. Between the
filming there and the film editor's surgical skill, reality often gets
altered.
One famous example has to be the scene where Steve McQueen in BULLET begins
the famous Mustang/Dodger chase scenes within the environs of San Fran. One
scene they are deep in down SF going here and there. One corner they go
around immediately takes them to Daly City, a few miles away.
Another scene there is the Dodger going along trying to shake the Mustang.
Right and center--there one can see a man with a walkie/talkie standing
there in full view of the shot and he POINTS to the direction the Dodger
(with the stunt driver inside) is supposed to go. Suddenly he turns around
and looks into the camera--maybe looking surprised. The look on his face is
indistinct but he does make a ducking motion, but realizes "oh, heck, I
ruined THAT shot!" However, it survived into the final cut.
In article <7l5jla$pcj$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>, "Mike Pruett"
<n3...@erols.com> wrote:
> Harrison Ford's character tells her to meet him at Rowe Blvd. In the movie,
> a gore sign on an elevated section reads "EXIT 24," which would be right for
> Rowe's (MD 70) exit off of 50, but it doesn't look like that exit. In the
> Annapolis area, 50 is all blacktop, with brick facing on the bridges for
> visual appeal.
>
> It was elevated and concrete surface, but IIRC there were some medium-tall
> buildings close in to the freeway, of which there aren't any along the
> elevated Baltimore section of I-95. It may have been on 50 inside I-495,
> where there are some buildings in that close, near New Carrollton. I'll
> have to watch it again :)
>
>
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> Mike Pruett
> Maryland Roads www.mdroads.com
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>
>
> John David Galt wrote in message
> <3775D4A5...@but-i-dont-like-spam.boxmail.com>...
> >Rush Wickes wrote:
> >
> >> I'm just wondering whether anyone determined where the automobile
> >> chase scene in the Harrison Ford thriller (partly based on the book by
> >> Tom Clancy) was filmed. Obviously the shots leading up to the
> >> terrorists entry onto the freeway suggest they are getting onto US 50
> >> (green entrance ramp signs are overhead reading US 50
> >> Annapolis/Washington). However, the actual scene where Cathy Ryan's
> >> (Anne Archer's) Porsche is ambushed appears to have been filmed on
> >> another road entirely. Any ideas?
> >
David Jensen
Anonymous <nob...@replay.com> wrote in
<1999062923...@mail.replay.com>:
>Hollywood has messed around with real locations with location footage of
>films for years. The continuity people are either asleep at the switch or
>they figure that most people do not know the location and do not care. I
>have been at several locations seen in a number of films. Between the
>filming there and the film editor's surgical skill, reality often gets
>altered.
>One famous example has to be the scene where Steve McQueen in BULLET begins
>the famous Mustang/Dodger chase scenes within the environs of San Fran. One
>scene they are deep in down SF going here and there. One corner they go
>around immediately takes them to Daly City, a few miles away.
>Another scene there is the Dodger going along trying to shake the Mustang.
>Right and center--there one can see a man with a walkie/talkie standing
>there in full view of the shot and he POINTS to the direction the Dodger
>(with the stunt driver inside) is supposed to go. Suddenly he turns around
>and looks into the camera--maybe looking surprised. The look on his face is
>indistinct but he does make a ducking motion, but realizes "oh, heck, I
>ruined THAT shot!" However, it survived into the final cut.
>In article <7l5jla$pcj$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>, "Mike Pruett"
><n3...@erols.com> wrote:
And, of course the Blues Brothers, eluding the Chicago police in
Chicago, drove off the, at the time unfinished, Hoan (Milwaukee harbor)
Bridge and landed in Chicago again.
Rush Wickes
wrote:
>According to the Internet Movie Database's goof section for the film
>(http://us.imdb.com/Goofs?0105112), Cathy Ryan "gets shot on a highway
>in Los Angeles." Since I've neither seen the film nor been to Los
>Angeles, I couldn't say specifically which highway it was, if indeed
>the scene was filmed in Los Angeles.
For what it's worth, the Ryan house was located, not on the South
River near Annapolis, but overlooking a California coastline. In the
novel, Cathy Ryan was ambushed on the downgrade of the Severn River
span of US 50/301. I imagine though that permission for on-location
filming at that spot was quickly denied by local officials due to the
high importance of that corridor. Besides, no one but the most
attentive Clancy fans would notice the difference.
