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pictures of her in front of the Beebe Windmill on the Berwind Estate in Bridgehampton, but the only copy of the film, I’m told, is in a library in what is now the Czech Republic. Twenty-yearold Harold Lloyd, starting his movie career, is credited as an extra in the film. GREY GARDENS (1975) was an award-winning full-length documentary filmed by Albert and David Maysles at an overgrown and rundown private home being lived in by an army of cats and the cousin and elderly aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The house today is home to Benjamin C. Bradlee and Sally Quinn. DEEP IMPACT (1998). Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. But who? It stars Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman and Maximilian Schell. Produced by Steven
Spielberg, it featured several scenes in the Hamptons, all shot on the beach at Amagansett as crowds watch the incoming comet crash into the ocean to create a tidal wave of mythic proportions. Extras for the crowd scene on the beach were selected at an open call held at the Amagansett Fire House. I had signed up, but didn’t get called. THE DAIN CURSE (1978) is a whodunit mystery involving a playful detective from the 1930s. Adapted from a Dashiell Hammett novel, it stars James Coburn, Jason Miller and Jean Simmons as a 1930 period piece and was filmed on Shelter Island, with some scenes at the Chequit Hotel in Shelter Island Heights with lots of 1930s gangster cars parked out front. WALL STREET (1987) is about that Wall Street master-of-the-universe that everybody loves to hate, Gordon Gekko. It stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Hal Holbrook and Tamara Tunie and was filmed mostly in Manhattan, but with a party scene at a Wall Streeter’s private oceanfront mansion in Quogue. THE FLESH EATERS (1964) is a Grade B horror film about a mad Nazi scientist and a monster that comes out of the sea. It stars Martin Kosleck, Rita Morley and Barbara Wilkin and was filmed almost entirely on the beach at Montauk, which was put forth as an undiscovered island off Long Island. (Three of the characters wade ashore there after their small plane, on their way from Manhattan to the Cape, crash-lands on the sand). The Flesh (Continued on page 46)
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MASQUERADE (1988) is a gripping romantic thriller. It stars Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly and Kim Cattrall. The filmmakers actually blew up a perfectly good yacht in the bay just off of Montauk Harbor’s jetties. A lot of it was filmed in a mansion on Lee Avenue in East Hampton, and also on Shelter Island and in Southampton. ROCKET GIBRALTAR (1988) is about an old family patriarch who unites his family at his summer home for his “final” birthday. It stars Burt Lancaster and Suzy Amis and was filmed almost entirely at an oceanfront mansion in the Murray Compound in Southampton. The dramatic ending, which the patriarch, who has given instructions to his young grandchildren about what they ought to do with him after he dies—which is to set his body off into the surf in a flaming rowboat fire, in Viking fashion— took place at Sagg Main Beach. Kevin Spacey has a small part in this film, and Macaulay Culkin plays one of the children. POLLOCK (2000) is about the life and career of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden and was filmed almost entirely at the former home of the late abstract expressionist painter in Springs, with other scenes at the Southampton railroad station, the old Miller Store and Springs Fireplace Road. Marcia Gay Harden received an Oscar for her performance. HULDA OF HOLLAND (1913) was a silent movie filmed in Bridgehampton, starring Mary Pickford. I have seen stills of this film, including