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John
Travolta careers through Philadelphia
City Hall
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This
aural version of Antonioniís
Blowup,
with Travolta
as Jack Terry, a movie sound engineer who captures the suspicious
death of a state governor on tape, was filmed around
de Palmaís
home town, Philadelphia.
The car ëaccidentí – with its echoes of Chappaquiddick – is on Wissahickon
Bridge over Wissahickon
Creek southwest of Philadelphia.
Jack Terry meets Sally (Nancy
Allen) at the city's elegant 30th
Street Station, 30th Street just over the
Schuylkill River (site of the murder in Peter
Weir's Witness),
and itís here that Burke (John
Lithgow) garrottes a prostitute and later stalks
Sally.
From the 30th Street Subway,
Burke and Sally take the Franklin Bridge Express to
Pennís Landing
on the Delaware River. Following in his jeep, Terry
careers through the central plaza of Philadelphia
City Hall, Penn Square at Broad Street, before
crashing into the window display at Wanamakerís
Department Store, Market and 13th Streets
(the department store was also featured in 1987's Mannequin,
with Kim Cattrall
as the shop-window dummy come-to-life).
Terry finally catches up with Burke and Sally (but is
he in time?) atop the Port
of History Building at historic Pennís
Landing.
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