Saturday, September 20, 2008

Radio.

The movie "Radio" with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris was filmed in the Boro. Here's a trailer (set to Nickelback's "Savin' Me":



Public Defender's Office investigator, C.T., helped out with security for the film, and he gave me some tid-bits about the show. Cuba Gooding is "cool", and Ed Harris rolled his own cigarettes. The movie was shot almost entirely at night, even the day-time scenes. Floodlights were used to make it look like daytime. During a classroom scene in which it was supposed to have been raining, the Colleton County Fire Department turned on the firehoses to simulate rain. The classroom scenes were mostly filmed at Walterboro's branch of the University of South Carolina: USC-Salkehatchee. Okay, nothing shocking. Anyway, C.T. showed me where some of the stuff was filmed.

A lot of the scenes were filmed in downtown Walterboro. This section on the left is where Radio is pushing his shopping cart in the opening credits (though the angle isn't the same.
This was Radio and his mamma's house in the movie. You see it a couple of times in the movie. It's now somebody else's house.

All the football scenes were shot at Cougar Stadium, current home of Colleton County High School football (they're getting a new stadium in the next year or so).

Here's the send-off site for the football team when Radio gets left behind. It's the entrance to the old Salkehatchie gym (where I think C.T. said is where they filmed the basketball scenes).

The current location of the Blarney Stone tavern is the former site of the barbershop scenes in Radio. The Blarney Stone is also scene of a nosh by the Amazing Ultra-Marathon Runner AndyMan, as seen on this old post.

2 comments:

Chase Squires said...

this tour kicks so much total ass.

thanks, most excellent!!

superdave524 said...

Thanks back atcha, Chaser.