Year Of The Dragon, 1987
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visit the film locations
New York: Flights: JFK Airport
Wilmington: Flights: Wilmington NC International Airport, 1740 Airport Boulevard, Wilmington, NC 28405 (tel: 910.341.4333)
Visit: Wilmington
Trivia
Wilmington is a major filming centre. See the town itself as ‘Lumbertown’ in David Lynch’s creepy classic Blue Velvet.
Viet-vet Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) fights corruption in New York’s Chinatown in this thriller, written by Oliver Stone. All is not as it seems, though.
Most of the Big Apple locations an huge and elaborate set, built on the backlot of the de Laurentiis Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina.