Blue Thunder Filming Locations

Blue Thunder filming locations

Where was Blue Thunder filmed? Blue Thunder was filmed in 39 locations across United States in the following places:

Blue Thunder Filming Locations

Circus Liquor - 5600 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Opening scenes robbery at Circus Liquor, a real world location. )

2152 East 7th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Heli crash under the bridge )

Pickwick Drive-In Theater - 1100 W. Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California, USA ( Daytime scenes at Drive-in theatre parking lot. A real world location of the time. Since demolished. )

5200 Zoo Drive - Los Angeles, California, USA ( location )

422 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Amos's BBQ scenes. Location at the time of filming was known as 'Atomic Cafe". Location has since been demolished and redeveloped. )

255 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Murphy watches F-16 pilot parachute down )

Goodyear Tire factory - 6701 S. Central Avenue at 69th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Final exterior helicopter fight scene in abandoned industrial area. Location has since been demolished and redeveloped. )

Burbank, California, USA ( location )

Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located 12 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population of 107,337. The city was named after David Burbank, who established a sheep ranch there in 1867.

Chavez Ravine, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California, USA ( location )

Lancaster, California, USA ( location )

Lancaster is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 173,516, making Lancaster the 153rd largest city in the United States and the 30th largest in California.

Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA ( location )

Toluca Lake is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley 12 miles northwest of downtown. The name is also given to a private natural lake fed by wells and maintained by neighboring property owners.

Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites - 404 S. Figueroa Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Cylindrical building seen in multiple shots )

525 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Skyscraper hit by heat-seeking missile )

876 South Main Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Chase - flyover scene )

749 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Murphy hovers over parking lot )

Mojave-Tropico Road, Rosamond, California, USA ( "Pinkville" testing grounds, 34.911484, -118.220004 )

5571 Cahuenga Boulevard, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA ( Officer Lymangood runs and gets hit by a car. )

4310 West Riverside Drive, Burbank, California, USA ( Officer Murphy makes a call on a parking lot payphone )

850 East Cesar E Chavez Avenue. Los Angeles, California, USA ( Cop car cut in half )
Blue Thunder (1983)
Runtime: 109 minutes
Rating: 6.4
Release year: 1983
IMDB: tt0085255
Plot summary

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.

Genres
Action
Crime
Drama
Cast
Roy Scheider
Warren Oates
Candy Clark
Daniel Stern
Directors
John Badham
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Blue Thunder filming locations