Favorite Movies Set in SAN FRANCISCO
Below is a list of my ten (10) favorite movies set in San Francisco, California:
FAVORITE MOVIES SET IN SAN FRANCISCO
1. "After the Thin Man" (1936) - Woody Van Dyke directed William Powell and Myrna Loy in this second and my favorite entry in the "THIN MAN" series about the sleuthing couple's efforts to clear Nora Charles' cousin of murder.
2. "Star Trek IV: The Voyager Home" (1986) - Leonard Nimoy directed my favorite "TREK" movie about the efforts of James T. Kirk and company to save Earth from a mysterious probe by traveling back in time to find a humpback whale. William Shatner, along with Nimoy and Catherine Hicks starred.
3. "Bullitt" (1968) - Steve McQueen starred as a San Francisco cop who becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness under his protection. Peter Yates directed.
4. "Foul Play" (1978) - Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase starred in this delightful comedy thriller about a librarian and a cop who fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church. Colin Higgins directed.
5. "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) - John Carpenter directed this delightful fantasy thriller about trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in San Francisco's Chinatown. Kurt Russell starred.
6. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) - John Huston wrote and directed this third and best adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel about detective Sam Spade's search for a valuable bird statuette. Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor starred.
7. "Magnum Force" (1973) - Clint Eastwood made his second appearance as police detective Harry Callahan in my favorite "Dirty Harry" movie. In it, Callahan is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables. Ted Post directed.
8. "A View to a Kill" (1985) - Roger Moore appeared as James Bond for his seventh and last time in this entertaining thriller about Bond's efforts to investigate an industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley. John Glen directed.
9. "Sneakers" (1992) - Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley starred in this complex, all-star comedy thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal. Phil Alden Robinson directed.
10. "Zodiac" (2007) - David Fincher directed this interesting thriller about the the hunt for a notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac", who killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Jake Gyllanhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. starred.