In the previous photos I took of Mission San Juan Bautista I neglected to include the bell tower, which was an important setting for a key scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. While the setting of the film is principally San Francisco, Hitchcock had visited the Mission before the bell tower was torn down due to dry rot. Although Hitchcock was displeased to find the tower had been torn down when he returned to film a key scene in the movie, the studio was able to use a painting the of bell tower and special effects to complete the key scene.
While I had thought that Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" also included a scene from the bell tower at Mission San Juan Bautista showing Jimmy Stewart trapped on a tower ledge, a check of the cast for Dial M shows that the leads were Ray Milland, Grace Kelley, and Robert Cummings.
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