Here’s an odd one.
As recently as this past April, I posted a little entry about a long-vanished midtown attraction called The Mill at Burlington House, although I originally invoked it on a comparatively ancient post about same from 2015.
Today, meanwhile, I fielded a comment from a reader named Charles, who wrote…
I found film footage of this attraction while watching a Frank Sinatra movie called Contract on Cherry Street in 1977. I was wondering what opening scene about 2:30 in the movie this was shot in and came across your blog.
Sure enough, in one of the opening segments of the film, The Mill at Burlington House is used as a location.
Released in 1977, “Contract on Cherry Street” stars Ol’ Blue Eyes as a hardscrabble detective also named Frank who is trying to take on the Mob after his partner is killed … or something like that. In the scene in question, Frank meets his undercover informant, the ridiculously named Jack Kittens, to get some dirt on an automotive fencing ring. In fittingly clandestine fashion, they meet on the conveyer belt of The Mill.
Watch from about 02:30 onward…..
In all honesty, the movie looks like a bad, half-baked cop show from the `70s, but who knows? It might be great, not least for period-specific NYC locations like this one.
Big thanks to Charles for sharing!
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