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(Pearl Harbor Black Cat location, San Pedro)  

Pearl Harbor: The 'Black Cat Diner, Honolulu': 474 West Sixth Street, San Pedro, LA

PEARL HARBOR filming locations


CREDITS
PEARL HARBOR , 2001
dir: Michael Bay

Ben Affleck
Josh Hartnett
Kate Beckinsale
Jennifer Garner
Cuba Gooding Jr
Jon Voight
Ewen Bremner
Alec Baldwin
Tom Sizemore
Dan Aykroyd
William Fichtner
A sudsily fictitious romance set against a historic tragedy that cost hundreds of lives. What were they thinking of? Hardly a failure, but with a launch party alone that cost $3 million, it wasn’t the titanic hit intended. Michael Bay’s slam-bang epic is photographed in eye-popping colours that will leave bruises on your retina.

Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, is now a historical site. US Arizona, sunk in the raid, still lies at the bottom of the harbour and has been turned into a permanent memorial, open most days of the year, with free admission. It’s about 45 minutes west of Waikiki on the Kamehameha Highway, Highway 99. The end of the movie features underwater shots of the real US Arizona.

Most of the film was shot around California, including the ‘Tennessee’ fields of the opening, which are at Somis, between Thousand Oaks and Ventura, northwest of LA.

The movie kicks off on the East Coast, in New York. ‘Mitchell Field’, where Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) indulges the laddish antics of Rafe and Danny (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), is Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley (just where are those mountains in the background supposed to be, then?). The airport (before redevelopment) was one of the few real locations (if not the only one) seen in Casablanca.

The steps of the hospital, where Rafe’s romantic gesture ends with a Champagne cork thwacking his already bruised nose, is the entrance to the old LA County Historical and Art Museum, now part of the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, south of downtown LA.

The ‘New York’ nightclub, where the pilots and nurses fraternise, is the Queen’s Salon (which used to be the First Class Lounge) of the Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, permanently berthed in Long Beach. The interior of the Queen Mary was also a ‘New York’ nightclub in Ridley Scott’s Someone To Watch Over Me, and a ‘Manhattan’ bar in the Coens' Barton Fink.

Ironically, in the next scene, Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) is taken for a nighttime cruise around the Queen Mary, supposedly in ‘New York harbor’, where she dreams of being aboard the luxury ship.

(Pearl Harbor location, Union Station Los Angeles)  

Pearl Harbor: The ‘New York’ goodbye: Union Station, South Alameda Street, downtown Los Angeles


Rafe tells of his posting to ‘Eagle Squadron’ in England, and promises to come back, at Evelyn’s elegant ‘Manhattan’ hotel. And this is LA, too, downtown. The deco entrance and the lobby are the Los Angeles Design Center, 433 South Spring Street. Also downtown is the ‘New York’ railway station where Danny waves byebye to Rafe, which is Union Station, 800 North Alameda Street, which has featured in countless movies, including The Way We Were, The Driver and The Replacement Killers (where it was passed off as an airport).

Most famously, the station was transformed into the futuristic cop station for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

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FILMING LOCATIONS FOR PEARL HARBOR
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TRAVEL


Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

Warner Grand Theater, 478 West Sixth Street in San Pedro, south LA (pre-recorded info: 310.548.7672)
Warner Grand Theater Restoration

Union Station, 800 North Alameda Street, downtown. Take a 360° Tour

Queen Mary, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California 90802 (tel: 562.435.3511)

Point Vicente Lighthouse, Point Vicente Drive South, on the most southwest point of the Palos Verdes Peninsula

Hawaii: Honolulu: Flights: Honolulu Airport, 300 Rodgers Boulevard, Honolulu, Oahu

Hawaii Tourism

US Arizona, sunk in the 1941 raid, still lies at the bottom of the harbour and has been turned into a permanent memorial, USS Arizona Memorial, 1 Arizona Memorial Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818-3145 (pre-recorded info: 808.422.0561), open most days of the year, with free admission. It’s about 45 minutes west of Waikiki on the Kamehameha Highway, Highway 99

ASSOCIATED FILMS


The glorious interior of the Warner Grand can be seen standing in for the ‘Apollo, Harlem’ in Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It?
Union Station can be seen in many films, including The Way We Were, The Driver, The Replacement Killers (where it was passed off as an airport), Star Trek: First Contact (as the ship's holodeck) and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (as a ëMiamií bank)

For a different view of Hawaii during WWII, see From Here To Eternity

 

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