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What catches your spying-eye radar in this scene from the 1991 movie ‘Backdraft’?
This action thriller (written by Gregory Widen & directed by Ron Howard) starred Kurt Russell, William Baldwin & Robert De Niro, among others, & is set in Chicago IL.
I was trying to figure out where this was and it’s a place I’ve never really been in Chicago, but the Brighton Theater is no longer there. It was torn down in 2003. Also, Backdraft was the very first movie I ever watched on a Lazer Disc player. Remember those? Probably not, but my dad owned one and it was awesome.
I’ll also add that the theater closed in 1991, the same year the film was released!
Ha, cool. Did not know some of those details; thank you, Ben! And, yep, while I never had one, I do remember that LD player!