Comments on: Movies filmed in NC

By: Lew Powell

Lew Powell — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Maybe “Billy Bathgate” (1991)? Hoffman played a gangster, and a lot of it was filmed in a retrofitted Hamlet….

By: Tommy B.

Tommy B. — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:07:45 +0000

I’m looking for the name of a movie that was made in Julian N.C. (or at least used in a scene using a local diner) the name of the diner was changed to Milo’s Place. Some say Dustin Hoffman was in this movie. Can anyone please help? Thanks.

By: Melinda T.

Melinda T. — Sat, 21 May 2011 02:10:29 +0000

High Point, NC – I was on the crew – House of Cards with Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones. 1992

By: Dave Church

Dave Church — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:20:56 +0000

There is a movie being made just outside of Hickory, NC in the small town of Hildebran. Does anyone have any info on this movie?

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:42:36 +0000

I remember hearing information about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being filmed in NC. A lot more movies should shoot in NC, beautiful piedmont and mountains.

By: Lew Powell

Lew Powell — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:10:16 +0000

After scouring the nation for an old-growth forest that would double as upstate New York in 1757, the director of “Mohicans” settled on the site on Lake James — where most trees were no more than 30 years old. Crescent Resources, a Duke Power subsidiary, had clear-cut and replanted pines.

By: JackStraw

JackStraw — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:59:42 +0000

I watched Last of the Mohicans when I was a kid and I still can’t get out of my
head how beautiful it was. I always wondered where that was filmed. Now I have to visit. I didn’t know about the Fugitive either. Thanks.

By: Jessica Sedgwick

Jessica Sedgwick — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information with us Kevin, how interesting! I noticed that ECU has some other digitized materials from the collection online too, available here: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/encore/search2.aspx?index=Collection&term=John%20W.%20Warner%20Papers

By: Kevin Cherry

Kevin Cherry — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:02:28 +0000

I noticed “Pitch a Boogie Woogie” on the list, and thought I would share this from the Guide to the John Warner Papers held by East Carolina University:

“Pitch a Boogie Woogie,” released by Lord-Warner Pictures, Inc., in 1948, was the first movie made by a production company based in North Carolina. The film, which had an all-black cast of mostly local Greenville, N.C., performers, enjoyed success in the Carolinas, but was never shown outside that area. Lord-Warner dissolved in 1949 and John Warner went to work for a local TV station. His brother William Lord, who changed his name from Warner in the 1920s, returned to New York.”

East Carolina’s library also has a postcard scanned and online that was used to promote the film, apparently: http://media.lib.ecu.edu/spclcoll/staffpick.cfm?id=115

In 1986, ECU professor Alex Albright rediscovered the film, and it was given national exposure.