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- Country United States Location San Francisco, California, United States
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Fog Over Frisco is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow was based on the 1932 mystery novel The Five Fragments by George Dyer.
Fog Over Frisco: Directed by William Dieterle. With Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot. The lifestyles of Arlene and Valkyr Bradford, half-sisters from a respected San Francisco family, diverge markedly as Arlene takes up with criminals.
The real treat here is the location shooting in San Francisco, showing the city before they built the bridges and a car chase that predates the one in Bullitt, except never exceeding 35 miles per hour.
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- Crime, Mystery, Romance
- William Dieterle
- 1934-06-02
William Dieterle directed, making sure the San Francisco setting was authenticated with lots of location shots (with some from Southern California mixed in for good measure). The movie was filmed in only 19 days from Jan 22 to Feb 10, 1934 and released on June 2, 1934. The Story
Location. San Francisco, California, United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the novel The Five Fragments by George Dyer (Boston, 1932).
- William Dieterle, Daniel Reed
- Bette Davis
Oct 30, 2016 · During the movie's opening credits the background shot of waterfront piers with fog-shrouded Angel Island looming in the distance establishes San Francisco as the setting.
Dec 6, 2014 · When it’s not dark out, though, Fog Over Frisco has a great deal of location shooting all over the city of San Francisco, from up on the hillsides to down in the docks. It’s all used for great atmospheric effect, creating a movie that looks vastly different than most other SoCal-bound films of the 1930s.
