Filming Locations for Pacific Heights

San Fran yuppies Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) let a room in their San Francisco dream home to the sinister, cockroach-breeding tenant from Hell, Carter Hayes (another star turn from Michael Keaton).

There's a decidedly Hitchcock feel to the movie, acknowledged by the casting of Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's real-life mum) in a cameo role, and a sly director's cameo from Schlesinger himself.

Pacific Heights is one of San Francisco's top-notch neighbourhoods, in the north of the city up towards the Marina district.

But that's not where you'll find the couple's pleasant wood-frame house. Although the address is given as ë275 Pacific Streetí, the house seen in the movie isnít on Pacific Heights at all, but way across the other side of the city.

It's 1243 19th Street at Texas Street in the decidedly downmarket Potrero Hill District, south of the city.

When Hayes flees to LA, the determined Patty catches up with him at the Park Hyatt Los Angeles (then the JW Marriott Hotel), 2151 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, which happens to be built on the site of the old Fox lot (and yes, itís a Twentieth Century Fox movie).

Itís here that John Schlesinger puts in a Hitchcock-like appearance.