Island Cinemas 10 - 866 West Main Road, Middletown (in The Home Depot Plaza)
Video About The Area:
Newport Mansions(1996) -VHS
Return to Newport -VHS, America's Castles
Astors -VHS, America's Castles Series
Biltmore Estate -VHS, America's Castles Series
Porthole TV DVD Classic ship: Regal Empress (2006) the magazine television series that features the cruise ship experience and its intriguing ports of call. Discover three fantastic ports of call for her Northern Itinerary; Newport, Rhode Island; Bar Harbor, Maine; and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Movies filmed in and around Aquidneck Island:
High Society (1956) - Director: Charles Walters, Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, et al.
The Great Gatsby (1974) - Director: Jack Clayton, Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, et al. An adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Bostonians (1984)-
Director: James Ivory, Starring: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa
Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Linda Hunt, Wallace Shawn, and Wesley
Addy. "Before their breakthrough successes with A Room With A View, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day, the Merchant-Ivory filmmaking team refined
their literary adaptation skills with this 1984 drama, adapted from
the classic
novel by Henry James."
Mr. North (1988) - Starring: Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston.
Reversal of Fortune (1990) - Director: Barbet Schroeder, Starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, et al. "One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin." .
Amistad (1997) - Director: Steven Spielberg, Starring: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, et al. Filmed in and around Newport, Broadway, the green by Trinity Church was built into the prison. Also filmed in Providence - RI State House was depicted as the US Capitol Building.
True Lies (1994) - Director: James Cameron, Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, et al. Filmed in and around Newport, Salve Regina, Goat Island
Wind (1992) - Director: Carroll Ballard, Starring: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, et al. Filmed in and around Newport - the mansion is The Elms. Fantastic scenes of yacht racing.
Thirteen Days (2000) - Director: Roger Donaldson, Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, et al. DVD
The ex-USS JOSEPH P. KENNEDY (DD 850), was towed to Goat Island from Fall River, MA where it has been in mothballs for years to be used in the film. The number "753" has been painted on the hull to make it appear as the ex-USS JOHN R. PIERCE.
The JOSEPH P. KENNEDY was the actual ship that stopped the Greek Freighter carrying the Soviet missiles during the crisis. To make a political statement to the Soviets during the crisis, the President ordered the ship that carries his family namesake to intercept the freighter. Other destroyers shadowed the freighter until the KENNEDY could steam down to the vicinity from its homeport in Newport. The KENNEDY gained worldwide attention at that moment for intercepting and forcing the ship to turn back.
For more information on the JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, see: http://www.maritime.org/hnsa-kennedy.htm.
Dan in Real Life (2007) - Director: Peter Hedges, Starring: Juliette Binoche, Steve Carell. Much of the film was done in Jamestown Blu-Ray Version
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