page_title: Franklin Canyon Park
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Franklin Canyon Park / In the media / Film
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable from the trailer for the film It Happened One Night.
context_page_description: Franklin Canyon Park is a public park located near Benedict Canyon at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. The park comprises 605 acres, and is located at the purported geographical center of the city of Los Angeles. The park features a 3-acre lake, a duck pond and over five miles of hiking trails.
  Franklin Canyon is also the name of the canyon and surrounding neighborhood.
  The lake and pond are visited by birds in the Pacific Flyway. The park was used for the hitchhiking scene in It Happened One Night, and the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show. The lake was also frequently seen in the Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts.
context_section_description: The lagoon from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) is Franklin Lake.
  The duck pond next to the reservoir was used in On Golden Pond (1981)
  Claudette Colbert's famous hitch-hiking scene from It Happened One Night (1934), as well as rural roads were filmed here 
  Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
  A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  Private Lives (1931)
  The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
  Camp Nowhere (1992) 
  Kindergarten Cop (1990) 
  The Great Outdoors (1988) 
  The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  Drowning Mona (2000)
  100 Million BC (2008)
  These Three (1936)
  Purple Rain (1984)
  The Man (1972)
  Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
  Bittersweet Love (1976)
  I Met My Love Again (1938)
  The Lady Escapes (1937)
  Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
  Platoon (1986)
  Big Momma's House (2000)
  Minority Report (2002)
  Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
  When a Stranger Calls (2006)
  Georgia Rule (2007)
  All About Steve (2007)
  National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
  I Love You, Beth Cooper (2008)
caption: The characters portrayed by Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable attempt to hitchhike in It Happened One Night.
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