dalereagan.com: Visiting/Touring Savannah (GA)

Photography by Dale Reagan

Services | Portraits | Contact | Slideshow Index | Thumbnail Index | Savannah, Ga| Order Prints | Digital Photo Tips | Site Search | Photo Products | Gallery Viewing

Novel Impacts - Curse or Windfall?

We refer to it as 'The Book'

book + movies + Savannah = movie tourists!!!

Short list of movies made in the Savannah area:

Gator - Burt Reynolds, Sallie Fields
Forrest Gump - Tom Hanks, Sallie Fields
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Cusak, Kevin Spacey
Something to Talk About - Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duval
The Gingerbread Man - Robert Downy Jr.
Glory - Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman
Cape Fear - Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Telly Savalas
General's Daughter - John Travolta
The Legend of Bagger Vance - Will Smith, Matt Damon
Forces of Nature - Sandra Bullock

Savannah promotes the area for film/media projects and maintains a comprehensive list of films made in the Savannah area: Savannah Film Office.

Please visit the Slideshow Index for additional photo collections of Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia.

Common movie related tourist questions:

Where is the bench? - Answer: unknown or 'in storage'- reference to the bus stop park bench used in Forrest Gump (movie with Tom Hanks.) The street was shut down during the shooting of the movie and the bus that was seen in the movie traveled the wrong way on the street.

Where is the bird-girl statue? - Answer: It is housed in the Telfair Museum (picture below, right - bird-girl image is also present.) This is a direct reference to the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Where is Bonaventure Cemetery? - Answer: Bonaventure Cemetery (picture below, left) is located in Thunderbolt, Ga (along the ICW - Intra-coastal waterway.)

We refer to it as 'The Book' - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Savannah tourism saw a significant increase after this book was published.