Home Run

I just watched Midnight Run, one of the best road pictures of the past few decades. Check it out if you haven't seen it. It brought back memories--not of the movie, but of the shoot.

I lived in downtown Chicago in the 80s, near the river, and often saw them shooting films in the neighborhood. Just a few blocks away they worked on The Untouchables and Red Heat, to name a couple.

Once I was walking home from work and I saw several people with handguns. Who knew what it was? We're talking Chicago, after all. Turned out to be part of a scene in Midnight Run. If you watch it, it happens as Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin get off a bus.