Editing Alabama Hills (section)

== Filming location ==
[[File:Gunga Din Temple movie set.jpg|thumb|[[Gunga Din (film)|Gunga Din]] Temple movie set ({{coord|36.5857398|N|118.1112798|W}})]]

The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially [[Western movie|Westerns]] set in an archetypical rugged, isolated milieu. The first known movies to be filmed there are the  [[lost film]]s ''[[Water, Water, Everywhere|Water, Water Everywhere]]'' and ''[[Cupid the Cowpuncher|Cupid, the Cowpuncher]],'' both shot in 1919 and released in early 1920. The oldest surviving film shot in the hills is ''[[The Round-Up (1920 film)|The Round-Up]]'' (1920), starring [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]], which includes a cameo from his friend, [[Buster Keaton]].<ref name="Malone">{{Cite web|last=Malone|first=Tyler|date=2020-08-03|title=These Strange Rock Formations Have Been a Filmmaking Hotspot for Over a Century|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alabama-hills-filmmaking-hollywood|access-date=2021-04-17|website=Atlas Obscura|language=en}}</ref>

Since then, hundreds of [[film|movie]]s have been filmed there, including: [[Gunga Din (film)|''Gunga Din'']], ''[[The Walking Hills]]'', ''[[Yellow Sky]]'', [[Springfield Rifle (1952 film)|''Springfield Rifle'']], ''[[The Violent Men]]'', ''[[Bad Day at Black Rock]]'', the [[Budd Boetticher]]/[[Randolph Scott]] "Ranown" cycle, [[How the West Was Won (film)|''How the West Was Won'']], ''[[Joe Kidd]]'', ''[[Saboteur (film)|Saboteur]],'' and ''[[Django Unchained]]'', ''[[Tremors (1990 film)|Tremors]], [[Iron Man (2008 film)|Iron Man]],'' and ''[[The Monolith Monsters]]''.  

Among the television shows that have been shot there are ''[[The Gene Autry Show]]'', [[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|''The Lone Ranger'']], ''[[Bonanza]],'' and ''[[Annie Oakley (TV series)|Annie Oakley]]''.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|title=Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California |website=Internet Movie Database |url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Alabama%20Hills,%20Lone%20Pine,%20California,%20USA |accessdate=June 5, 2012}}</ref>

In [[Lone Pine, California|Lone Pine]], the closest town to the Alabama Hills, the Lone Pine Film History Museum explores the area's relationship to the art of cinema. Exhibits include the Dr. King Schultz dentist wagon from Quentin Tarantino's ''Django Unchained'', the 1937 Plymouth [[Humphrey Bogart]] drove in Raoul Walsh's ''[[High Sierra (film)|High Sierra]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Current Exhibits|url=https://www.museumofwesternfilmhistory.org/current-upcoming-exhibitions/current-exhibitions|access-date=2021-04-17|website=www.museumofwesternfilmhistory.org}}</ref> and  a Graboid underground monster from ''[[Tremors (1990 film)|Tremors]]''. 

Every Fall the Museum hosts the [[Lone Pine Film Festival]], which bills itself as "the only film festival on location", because festival-goers watch films shot in the area and then take tours to see the very spots where the scenes were filmed.<ref name="Malone"/>