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Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 5:21:30 AM

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in Clint Eastwoods magnum force the final scenes are shot aboard mothballed carriers looks like Independence CVL's but could be CVE's was just watching it earlier and remembered this does anyone have any Idea or known facts about this.

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 5:34:03 AM

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Never saw the movie, but the Cabot was scrapped only a couple of years ago.

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 11:28:06 AM

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Cabot was, as Dedalo, in Spanish service from 30 August 1967 until decommissioned at New Orleans 5 August 1989, which I think covers the period when the movie was made (early-mid 70s). It must have been another one, unless the movie was made pre 1967?

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 11:31:46 AM

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As I remember the movie there was more than 1 carrier, all cvl or cve. All moored closely packed and almost derelict. If they were mothballed then not much care was being taken. My guess is they were waiting to be scrapped. Pretty sure it was shot in California, not sure which city it was set in.

Film is probably early 70s - could they be old CVEs waiting for the breakers ?

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 11:33:18 AM

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Ah, yes... the Dedalo. She was homeported in Rota, Spain, moored just ahead of the USS Canopus and the USS Blue Ridge. Used to pass by her nearly every day when I was staioned there. She appeared to have very few outward changes to her appearance from her WWII days... still carried her original AA armament IIRC.

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 12:30:23 PM

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If the movie was filmed in 1972, it may have been filmed on board one of the Essex carriers. I believe the Bunker Hill was never repaired or upgraded after the war and went to the scrapyard in 1972. I think she was moored in San Diego from the end of the war until scrapping and was towed to the Los Angeles area to be broken up. I'm not 100% sure it was the Bunker Hill, but I do know there was one that was not repaired or updated and scrapped around 1972.

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 1:53:54 PM

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Just saw this a couple of weeks ago (in a Dirty Harry Callahan marathon some channel was running) - they didn't look like Essex class.

Pretty sure the movie was shot in SF and environs (most of it was, and it wasn't a really high budget film, esp. since Clint Eastwood wasn't quite the superstar he was today).

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 1:55:15 PM

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Bunker Hill was in San Diego.

Also in San Diego there was a slew of warships in mothballs, among which was a row of 4 or 5 CVEs. They were there as late as 1970.

I understand there still is a similar mothball fleet in San Fransisco Bay even today.

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 2:02:52 PM

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Here are most of the filming locations (according to IMDB) - they did go as far afield as Oakland:

18th St. Overpass, Potrero Hill, San Francisco, California, USA

2190 Washington St., Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California, USA
(DiGiorgios stakeout of Guzman)

3rd St. Bridge, China Basin, San Francisco, California, USA

Broadway Tunnel, Russian Hill, San Francisco, California, USA

City Hall - 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, California, USA

Cost Plus World Market - 2552 Taylor St., San Francisco, California, USA
(foiled store robbery sequence)

Embarcadero Freeway, San Francisco, California, USA
(demolished due to 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake damage)

Fairmont Hotel - 950 Mason St., Nob Hill, San Francisco, California, USA

Hall of Justice - 850 Bryant Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Oakland, California, USA
(Police Department Admin Building, pistol range scene)

Pacific Heights Towers - 2200 Sacramento St., Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California, USA
(Guzman's luxurious living quarters)

San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, USA

San Francisco, California, USA

Vermont between 20th & 22nd Streets, Potrero Hill, San Francisco, California, USA
(Harry's skillfull driving down the crookedest street in San Francisco.)

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RE: Brain Teaser - 11/9/2007 2:50:37 PM

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When I was in San Fransisco in the early 90s there lay 2 CVL (or CVE) in port that was a part of some musem thing.

They were closed for visitors the day I was there :-(

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