I recently viewed the famous movie Peyton Place on the Turner Classic Movie Channel. I had seen the film many decades ago and had forgotten most of the content of this American Drama Film, released in December 1957, nominated for nine Academy Awards. The film is based on the best selling 1956 novel by Grace Metalious of the lives, loves of a small New England mill town....in the film's case, a woollen mill........in the years just before and after World War Two.
On one of my several visits to Camden Me. over the last two decades, a restaurant on Maine Street had a mural display of information of the movie Peyton Place. I had not known till that time, that the film was shot primarily in Camden, along with exteriors in both Rockland and Belfast Me. The familiar quaint landmarks of Camden are most visible in the Movie.
At the beginning of the film, one of the main characters is driving on a rural road approaching a rail crossing with flasher signals. There is a brief view of a freight train with the classic Maine Central dark green coloured box cars with caboose.
I was wondering if anyone familiar with the scenery in the movie, knows where this view of the train may have taking place.........the MEC Rockland Branch perhaps ?
On one of my several visits to Camden Me. over the last two decades, a restaurant on Maine Street had a mural display of information of the movie Peyton Place. I had not known till that time, that the film was shot primarily in Camden, along with exteriors in both Rockland and Belfast Me. The familiar quaint landmarks of Camden are most visible in the Movie.
At the beginning of the film, one of the main characters is driving on a rural road approaching a rail crossing with flasher signals. There is a brief view of a freight train with the classic Maine Central dark green coloured box cars with caboose.
I was wondering if anyone familiar with the scenery in the movie, knows where this view of the train may have taking place.........the MEC Rockland Branch perhaps ?
