Don't get me wrong: I'm well aware that TPF is a classic flick, but the artificial scenery seen in the background of the outdoor set is rather bothersome to me.
Just wish they'd have filmed it on location - perhaps in the California desert.
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The TPF movie is derived from the stage play, where [most of] the action takes place inside a seedy restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
"Outdoor" scenery on stage would look as seedy and artificial as it does in the movie. That may have been intentional by the movie producers to recreate the "stage experience" for all the people people who had already watched the play.
Don't be so hard on the movie production.
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Besides, all the deserts were booked for making Cowboy Movies.
You had to call months in advance to get a half decent desert.
I prefer the toad less raveled
If you want to see an older movie based on an early 1900s stage play, watch Frank Borzage's 1930 indoor/outdoor film, Iliom, in which the sets looks even more "stagey", and I'm sure he did intentionally.
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If you want to see an older movie based on an early 1900s stage play, watch Frank Borzage's 1930 indoor/outdoor film, Iliom, in which the sets looks even more "stagey", and I'm sure he did intentionally.
It's a filmed recreation of the play.
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