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By David Bak
Gamecock Film Crl
When you think ab
movies, you rarely (if
about it being dont
Carolina. After all, Soi
has no film commissic
neighboring states, G
North Carolina. There
encourage producers t<
Still, South Carolina
removed from Hollyw(
people might think.
1974 hit ThP MMn
starring Burt Lancaste
Clark, was filmed <
location in the Anders
area. Burt Reynolds fi
scenes for Gator aero*
from Savannah, and
upcoming comedy-tl
Double MacGuffin wa
Charleston.
Currently on location
is The Great Santini, a
arrived in such a styl
but eclipsed the hooph
its predecessors. The '
began shooting on Oct
the first scenes to g(
cameras were of
"Phantom" F-4 jets.
Based on Pat Com
The Great Santini is th<
Col. "Bull" Meechum
P Arne' m ACI
iTiai I1IV? V-Ul po HIW.JI
stunt pilots. The pii
place in 1962, when, wi
planes to shoot down
goes to war with the t>
3 reat San
;s Holly w<
Beaufort
loves the most: hi
c Marines.
out making
ever) think The story s,m
in South motlon P,CV^0''
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s no one to "?ta y? Th?
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Universale Conroy wrote at
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r and Susan
entirely on
on-Clemson The Great Santi
ilmed some just over $4 mil
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Joe Camp's "We'll be here i
iriller The December," Prat
is filmed in back to Hollywooc
in Beaufort
i movie that The finished
e that it all released late nex
. , said. We 11 ope
a created by saicj) "and hope I
"man crew m0uth publicity."
oberll, and gantini just isn't
> before the that can be rushe
dogfighting release.
The film stars I
oy's novel, Bull Meechum, ar
j story of Lt. as Meechum's Sot
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s family and the *
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