Film locations in Sonoma County, California

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Film locations in Sonoma County, California are a diverse set of sites throughout this California county, where all or parts of notable motion pictures have been produced. Due to the scenic and varied aspects of Sonoma County, a large number of films have been made within this County. Some of the earliest U.S. filmaking occurred in Sonoma County such as the 1914 production 1914 Salomy Jane and Bronco Billy Anderson produced in 1915. Many of these films are classics in American cinematography such as the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter, starring Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds produced in 1963, which film was also partially filmed in adjacent Marin County. Many other more modern classics have used Sonoma County as a filming venue, including the 1990 production of the Flatliners and the 1992 film Basic Instinct. A few of the other representative films produced partially in Sonoma County are:

[edit] Representative film locations

Sonoma County has hosted several major motion picture films:

1915 Bronco Billy Anderson - The only one of Anderson's 400 short westerns.
1965 The Third Day -
1972 Images - US/UK Filmed mostly in Ireland.
1977 Heroes -
1977 Mr. Billion -
1993 Nowhere to Run - Coleman Valley Road, Occidental, for farmhouse and pond scenes.
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There -
2001 Bandits - Flamingo Hotel; Clover milk truck featuring local icon "Clo the cow"; and rural County roads.

Bodega Bay

1963 The Birds - Church and schoolhouse (also Marin County)

Cloverdale

1955 Many Rivers to Cross -
1993 So I Married an Axe Murderer - Cloverdale Airport (also San Francisco and Alcatraz).

Cotati

1947 The Farmer's Daughter - Penngrove and Cotati.
1990 Flatliners - (also Los Angeles, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry).^[1]

Glen Ellen

1982 Shoot the Moon - Glen Ellen and Jack London's Wolf House (also Marin County).

Occidental

1993 Nowhere to Run - Taylor Lane and Occidental with farmhouse and pond scenes.

Penngrove

1947 The Farmer's Daughter - Penngrove and Cotati.

Petaluma

1984 Impulse - Farm sequences filmed in Petaluma.
1987 Howard the Duck Flight scenes with Petaluma Bridge.
1988 Peggy Sue Many scenes of downtown petaluma, especially Washington St., made over to resemble the 1950s.
See also: Petaluma

Rohnert Park

1992 Basic Instinct - Petaluma and Rohnert Park (also Carmel and San Francisco)

Russian River

1914 Salomy Jane - Guerneville, Monte Rio (also Marin County, near Mount Tamalpais).
1995 Braveheart - Along the river.
1942 Holiday Inn - Village Inn Lodge in Monte Rio as the "Holiday Inn" with tons of artificial snow.

Sebastopol

1949 Thieves' Highway - Gold Ridge Road.
1985 Smooth Talk - Sebastopol, Gravenstein Highway and Santa Rosa.
1999 Mumford - Sebastopol, Analy High School.

Santa Rosa See: Santa Rosa

Sonoma

1973 American Graffiti - Schellville along Highway 121 between Napa and Petaluma.^[2]
1978 Magic of Lassie - Hop Kiln Winery.
1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Sonoma (also Oakland, San Bruno, San Francisco, and Marin.
1996 Scream - Sonoma Community Center on East Napa Street.^[3]
2001 The Animal - Sonoma City Hall as Police Headquarters; Historic Plaza.