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A Bird's-Eye View of Films That Have Used Long Island Setting or Facilities

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1. Astoria, Queens. Interiors scenes were shot at the Famous Players-Lasky studio for 1921's "The Sheik," with Rudolph Valentino. Desert scenes were shot in Montauk.
2. East of the Queensboro Bridge. Site of 1985's "Turk 182!"
3. Valley Stream. "The Brothers McMullen" (1994) was filmed at home of director Ed Burns' parents.
4. Lynbrook. Site for Vitagraph's 1911 "The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of," directed by D.W. Griffith.

5. Atlantic Beach. Scenes for "Night Falls on Manhattan"were filmed here.
6. Long Beach. Used for a Vernon and Irene Castle dance scene for 1914's "Whirl of Life,"and by Woody Allen for "Zelig"(1983).
7. Lido Beach. Martin Scorsese used the Lido Beach Hotel structure for "Raging Bull"(1980).
8. Mitchel Field, Garden City. Machine-gun death of Sonny Corleone in 1972's "The Godfather" was filmed on an abandoned runway.
9. Old Westbury. Old Westbury Gardens and the former Phipps estate house were the setting for such films as "North by Northwest" (1959), "Love Story" (1970), "Wolf" (1994), and "The Age of Innocence" (1993). Also in Old Westbury, the Knole estate was the home for characters in "Arthur" (1981) and "Reversal of Fortune"(1990); Whoopi Goldberg used its staircase for a grand entrance in "The Associate"(1996).
10. Sands Point Preserve. Its Guggenheim estate homes are a key Long Island setting for mansion shots. Famed "horse's head" scene in "The Godfather" was filmed in the bedroom at the Norman manor Falaise; seaside Hempstead House was used for "Malcolm X" (1992), "Scent of a Woman" (1992), and the recent "Great Expectations."
11. Glen Cove. Two mansions for two versions of "Sabrina": Welland house for the 1954 original; Salutation house for the 1995 remake.
12. Muttontown, Coleman estate. Nice place for Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor to indulge in psychological torture in 1958's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
13. Mill Neck. Fordyce house was used for scenes in "Hair" (1979); Trevor manse was Diane Keaton's home in "Godfather, Part 3"(1990).
14. Northport. Village doubled for the fictional Greenleaf, Ind., in the 1997 comedy "In & Out."
15. Port Jefferson. Pink bluffside mansion was used as home of "romance novelist" Meryl Streep in 1989's "She-Devil."
16. The Hamptons. East End resident Alan Alda opened up the far reaches of Suffolk as a major film site with his 1986 movie, "Sweet Liberty."