San Francisco
1936
Justine Shapiro explores the diverse city of San Francisco. Her journey starts in China Town, before moving onto The Mission District, The Castro and Haight Ashbury and ending in North Beach. Read more
| Starring | Justine Shapiro |
|---|---|
| Director | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Genres | Special Interest |
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San Francisco
Justine Shapiro explores the diverse city of San Francisco. Her journey starts in China Town, before moving onto The Mission District, The Castro and Haight Ashbury and ending in North Beach.
| Starring | Justine Shapiro |
|---|---|
| Director | W.S. Van Dyke |
| Studio | PILOT FILM & TV PRODUCTIONS LTD |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Special Interest |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Apr 2004 Production year: 1936 |
| Format | DVD |
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This ropey pilot for a short-lived 1970s TV series boasts Van Johnson in the cast, but has to rely on Pernell Roberts to carry the main role of the head of security whose fears about shortcomings in the system are proven by a series of far-fetched events. It's just about possible to accept that pilot David Hartman would consent to the kidnap of his wife to allow Tab Hunter to stage a $3 million bullion raid. But a teenager stealing a plane to keep his parents together? Roberts was replaced in the TV show by Lloyd Bridges.
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MGM's old war-horse just about scrapes by on starpower - Gable's cynical saloon keeper, MacDonald's showgirl, and... read more on Time Out
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Only good as a guide to San Francisco Sub-Culture
This is a very poor introduction to the city of San Francisco for most visitors to the city. Apart from a visit to Alcatraz, a brief glimpse of Chinatown & a whole 8 seconds at Fisherman’s Wharf it seems pre-occupied with exploring the depressing sub-culture side of the city. A lot of San Franciscans in this DVD come across as pretentious, unfriendly and weird. There is no time at all spent at Presidio, Marina. Pacific Heights, Nob Hill, Embacardo, Union Square or Golden Gate Park. It does cover Haight Ashbury, Mission, Castro and illegal night time activities, the most tedious of which being when the presenter joined a 'cyber-buss' full of ‘cyber-freaks’ for a night time ‘space-walk’. The space walk is an annual underground art event where participants move around the city in dilapidated ex-school buses at what appeared to be 2am, staging guerrilla type ‘art-attacks’ in torch lit alleyways and concrete buildings, “whilst trying to stay one step ahead of the police”. It involved people doing lots of shouting and swinging chains about high up in the eaves of what appeared to be the underside of an overpass. According to the presenter it was a “great event” where “everyone’s just sort of free to be whoever they want to be” (she said this seemingly gleeful at being on a bus full of weirdo rave drugee types hurtling through the night in the arse-end of the city). If they were chilled out hippies that would have added to the charm, but I found it depressing and somewhat scary. Why would most people buying what appears to be a travel guide on San Francisco (with a picture of the Golden Gate bridge on the front, which the programme doesn’t cover) be interested in groups of counter-culture people briefly doing performance art in seedy back-alleys in the cold and dark before being moved on by the cops? The presenter whined ‘this looked really promising, all these people showed up to do something and they’re not being allowed to do it, I mean they just want to perform and the Police are stopping them. I guess San Francisco isn’t as tolerant and liberal as it used to be, it’s too bad”. Oh grow up.
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Only good as a guide to San Francisco Sub-Culture
This is a very poor introduction to the city of San Francisco for most visitors to the city. Apart from a visit to Alcatraz, a brief glimpse of Chinatown & a whole 8 seconds at Fisherman’s Wharf it seems pre-occupied with exploring the depressing sub-culture side of the city. A lot of San Franciscans in this DVD come across as pretentious, unfriendly and weird. There is no time at all spent at Presidio, Marina. Pacific Heights, Nob Hill, Embacardo, Union Square or Golden Gate Park. It does cover Haight Ashbury, Mission, Castro and illegal night time activities, the most tedious of which being when the presenter joined a 'cyber-buss' full of ‘cyber-freaks’ for a night time ‘space-walk’. The space walk is an annual underground art event where participants move around the city in dilapidated ex-school buses at what appeared to be 2am, staging guerrilla type ‘art-attacks’ in torch lit alleyways and concrete buildings, “whilst trying to stay one step ahead of the police”. It involved people doing lots of shouting and swinging chains about high up in the eaves of what appeared to be the underside of an overpass. According to the presenter it was a “great event” where “everyone’s just sort of free to be whoever they want to be” (she said this seemingly gleeful at being on a bus full of weirdo rave drugee types hurtling through the night in the arse-end of the city). If they were chilled out hippies that would have added to the charm, but I found it depressing and somewhat scary. Why would most people buying what appears to be a travel guide on San Francisco (with a picture of the Golden Gate bridge on the front, which the programme doesn’t cover) be interested in groups of counter-culture people briefly doing performance art in seedy back-alleys in the cold and dark before being moved on by the cops? The presenter whined ‘this looked really promising, all these people showed up to do something and they’re not being allowed to do it, I mean they just want to perform and the Police are stopping them. I guess San Francisco isn’t as tolerant and liberal as it used to be, it’s too bad”. Oh grow up.
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San Francisco
Justine Shapiro explores the diverse city of San Francisco. Her journey starts in China Town, before moving onto The Mission District, The Castro and Haight Ashbury and ending in North Beach....
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