Eddies Last Cruise (EATC Movie Location) Traditional Cache
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Eddies Last Cruise (EATC Movie Location)
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This is part of the (EATC Movie Location) series. In case you're wondering.......EATC is Eddie and the Cruisers. More caches in the series are listed below. GC2EE1Q Doc's Place (EATC Movie Location) GC2F677 Eddies Deck by the Dock (EATC Movie Location) Click on the following link to see the original trailor for Eddie and the Cruisers. It clearly shows the bridge, although it states that it's the Rariton bridge, it's actually the Port Republic bridge. It's changed a little from the original white wooden side rails, but otherwise still the same bridge. http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=220700 The cache can be found at the foot of the Port Republic Bridge. This spot was used as part of the film Eddie and the Cruisers. If you live in NJ, chances are that you have either seen this movie or at least heard of it. If you’ve seen the movie, you may remember the opening and closing scenes of the movie. There is a newscaster standing on the bridge where Eddies car crashed before he disappeared. This is that bridge. Just thought it would be a cool piece of info to bring people to check out. Just another cool piece of history in our little town of Port Republic. There is more movie info below. If you haven’t seen it, it’s not a bad film, and much of it was filmed in the Ocean City / Somers Point area. Maybe another cache to follow at another film location??? Hmmm. In the early 1960's, Eddie Wilson (Michael Pare) and his band The Cruisers enjoyed a brief fling with success, but their career came to a halt when Eddie's badly damaged car was discovered in an accident on a bridge. However, Eddie's body was never found, and years later, a reissue of the group's only album sparks rumors that the mysterious Eddie might still be alive. Frank Ridgeway (Tom Berenger), Eddie's former piano player and lyricist, finds himself trailed by Maggie Foley (Ellen Barkin), a reporter trying to find out the truth about Eddie, as well as another former bandmate who wants Frank to join his revamped version of the Cruisers -- and is trying to track down the tapes for the Cruisers' unreleased second album. While not a box-office success on its original release, Eddie and the Cruisers developed a following after its showings on cable television and release on videotape; this led to the belated success of the film's soundtrack album, featuring a number of bombastic neo-Springsteen numbers by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. Beaver Brown saxophonist Michael "Tunes" Antunes plays Wendell, the Cruisers' sax player and Eddie's best friend (despite the fact that we never hear him speak). - Mark Deming, All Movie Guide BenamBenam3 (a fellow geocacher) adds: The fraternity scenes for this movie were filmed at Haverford College in Haverford, PA. The president's house was the frat house. Some college friends are in that movie, and I think they filmed like 12 hours that day and got a tiny amount of $$$...I remember them telling me how movie extras are like human furniture. And they were not allowed to say anything at all while filming.
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