"Just a few blocks from residences, super A productions, B Westerns, many serials including Flash Gordon (1936–38), music videos and commercials have all been shot there. "We all know and love Bronson Canyon," says DGA member and film historian Rudy Behlmer. Perhaps the Bronson Caves' most fitting role was that of entrance to Batman's bat-cave in the 1960's television hit. in heavy trucks hauling horses, sets and equipment to turn the urban parkland into the 19th-century American West. Hundreds of movie and TV Western film crews have rumbled up Canyon Drive at 6 a.m. Productions such as I Am a Fugitive on a Chain Gang (1932), Sagebrush Trail (1933) starring John Wayne, Julius Caesar (1953) starring Marlon Brando, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) with the Three Stooges and, more recently, The Scorpion King (2002) and the upcoming Tremors 4 all feature scenes shot in and around these manmade caves fashioned from an early 20th-century rock quarry. Just two miles northeast of Hollywood & Vine in a canyon on Griffith Park's western edge, the caves have served for almost 90 years as a set for everything from oaters to outer space serials. Few movie and TV locations are as eternal and easily accessible as the Bronson Caves.
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