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Lady in White (1988)

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re you in the mood for a excellent ghost story? A good thriller and an overall great mystery? ...Or maybe just an adventure..?

Well Lady in White has it all.

...So grab some treats and sit back... 'Cause here we go!

In 1952, a horrible thing happened in the quiet town of Willowpoint Falls. A little girl was discovered dead. The murderer was never uncovered, and the little town kept quiet as the murders continued. Ten years has passed since the first child was found...

1962, It is ten years later and Frankie Scarlatti has no memory of the terrible things that have plagued his home town. And why should he, he is just a little boy in Fourth Grade. All Frankie can think about is Halloween, and what a Halloween this will be. For Frankie is about to have the adventure of his life. Locked in his Fourth Grade Cloakroom on Halloween, Frankie sees the little girl murdered there ten years earlier. Now Frankie must try to help her and solve her mystery without being killed.

Will he find out who the murderer is? Will he find out who the Lady in White is?

...Or will Frankie become the next victim of a child killer? I guess you and Frankie will have to find out for yourselves...

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I have watched many films over the Years, But this one I looked for.

Although it is a another great movie to add to my Collection. Lady in White is different. I could not get enough of it. It is a ghost story from a childs point of view, but even though it was called a horror film by many, Lady in White is more about growing up.

It's story will live on, and it will become a classic enjoyed by many in the future.


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The script of "Lady in White" contained over 1400 hand-drawn images.


Won the top awards in the Festival of Imagination.

I have lived in Rochester my whole life and of course know of the Lady in White. The story I knew was that a woman lost her daughter to a murderer (boyfriend?) in lovers lane (Durand Eastman Park) and after that she always haunted the lovers in their cars - and may have even killed a few teenage boys for revenge. -Thanks to Angela Penkin

Though I am a native Rochesterian, I had not heard about the Lady of The Cliffs (a.k.a. - The Lady In White) until after I returned from the Air Force. I was telling a friend about an experience I'd had at one of the many parks along Lake Ontario. The movie was especially chilling for me, as my friend believed I had seen the Lady of The Cliffs. The cloakroom scene gives me chills. -Thanks to Roger Awalt

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Frank LaLoggia strived to portray Lukas Haas' character as "a real kid, not a movie kid." To that end, he tried to make the horseplay between Frankie and his older brother as lifelike as possible, as well as Frankie's shy infatuation with the angel-like girl in his class, played by Lyons-area resident Lisa Taylor.

Writer/director, Frank LaLoggia, also played around with a popular ghost story from his childhood -- "my own" lady in white." According to Rochester legend, says LaLoggia, 50 or 60 years ago a woman who had lived close to a park near LaLoggia's house lost her lover to another woman. Becoming a woman scorned, she killed both her paramour and his new friend and was consequently condemned to forever haunt the area. "Teenagers in the town's 'lover's lane' said she especially liked to frighten girls who were with their boy-friends. At least that's the way I heard it."

"When I think about "Lady in White", I think about it as a combination of two things -- my fondest memories as a child and my most frightening nightmares," says writer/director, Frank LaLoggia. "Whenever I begin work on a new story which I eventually take to screenplay, images start and compel me more than anything else."

One of the pictures LaLoggia had in his head was the cloakroom in which Lukas Haas is locked early in the film. The fact that it was behind the schoolroom's chalkboard, as well as its odd shape and strangely fashioned curved window, made the cubbyhole exactly like the one LaLoggia dreaded entering when he was a fourth grader. "It was one of the most frightening places I had ever seen," says LaLoggia. "At the beginning of the day you would have to crowd into it and hang your coats on these big hooks and, of course take them off the hooks at the end of the day. Luckily, we did that as a communal effort. Going in alone would definitely not have been much fun for me!"

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The very first scene was filmed at Hancock Airport in North Syracuse, Ny. I know this because in the first minute, when 2 woman are walking, chatting in the airport, I was the extra in the red coat! [Thanks to Lena]

In recreating his recollections of an idyllic childhood for 80's moviegoers, "Lady in White" director/writer Frank LaLoggia decided it was critical for the film's backdrop to play as strong a role as any of his human stars. Consequently, he decided to shoot nearly all exteriors of the ghostly thriller in his own youthful backyard, the still-quaint upstate New York town of Lyons.

Although LaLoggia grew up just 30 miles from the hamlet of nearly 5,000, he had never visited the area until he began scouting locations for his semi-autobiographical film. Yet almost as soon as he discovered the town, LaLoggia knew he had stumbled upon his "Willowpoint Falls", circa 1962, the place where nothing really bad could ever happen to anyone.

"I chose Lyons because I wanted the town to have a real storybook feel to it," says LaLoggia. "In the first draft, I had an image of the courthouse, of the gazebo, of the park, and Lyons had all of that. In fact, Lyons had everything I wanted."

It only took one day for LaLoggia and his "Lady in White" crew to transform Lyons into Frankie Scarlatti's mythical hometown. Using facades, signs and props of the early '60s, a photocopy center was turned into "Evans' Apothecary," the Soda Spa diner became "The Willowpoint Cafe", complete with old-fashioned Coca-Cola glasses, a monstrous cash register and counter jukeboxes, and a store window usually filled with barbecue grills and garden hoses had pumpkins, five-foot-high corn stalks and rakes.

The School that was used in the movie was in Phelps, New York. It is now used as a Senior Citezens home. The Graveyard was also from Phelps, New York. [Thanks to Kristin]

The school was then Midlakes Middle School. The classroom in the movie is the one I took 7th grade history in. The courthouse is in Canandaguia New York and is still functional to this day. [Thanks to wesley criblear]

During the storyboarding process, LaLoggia realized he would have to find a suitable area to shoot pounding waves crashing against jagged cliffs, something the otherwise perfect town of Lyons couldn't provide. Because those sequences are a pivotal part of the story regarding Frankie and the mystery he has been pursuing throughout the picture, LaLoggia took more time than usual to find his location. After seven weeks of Lyons photography, where torrential thunderstorms just prior to filming gave the area an even more realistic pre-Halloween feeling, then moving west to shoot all of the movie's interiors at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood for an additional seven weeks, LaLoggia found his bluffs in Kauai, Hawaii.

"No other location we looked at gave us the access we needed to set up our cameras and equipment," says LaLoggia. "Those scenes had to be very dramatic, and luckily, Hawaii had exactly what we needed. We ended up shooting all of the background plates for bluescreen there."

The large white victorian house used in the movie was shot in Middlesex, New York. It was the house that backed up to mine when I was little. I have pictures of the movie being shot with Lukas being filmed. I was probably 5 or 6 years old at the time. The house was always a very spooky place. Everyone said it was haunted. My cat was also in the film. He was the only cat that would stay on the set. Unfortunatly his parts ended up on the cutting room floor! [Thanks to Justine]

Can you help? Do you know any of the Lyons, New York (or any other) filming locations used for Lady in White, particularly The house? [Please send them in]

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Lady in White Movie Details
Year:
1988
Studio:
New Sky
Director:
Frank LaLoggia
Starring:
Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson, Renata Vanni, Angelo Bertolini, Joelle Jacobi
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Genre:
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