Mystery of the Blues

First aired: 3/13/93 

Directed by: Carl Schultz

A location-heavy shoot in Wilmington, NC stood in for 1920s Chicago. 

An excerpt from George Lucas: The Creative Impulse:

“After all the foreign adventures, Mystery of the Blues was made largely at studios in North Carolina and cast with local people.”

Harrison Ford & George Lucas on location

The opening truck chase was filmed near Harrison Ford's ranch east of Jackson, WY. The cabin was built here as well.

All of the downtown city street scenes and the exterior of "Colosimo's Restaurant" were filmed on the backlot of Screen Gems Studio. Click here for the full story.

GPS Coordinates:

34.25284,-77.92462

The Duke University Sociology/Psychology Building at 417 Chapel Drive, seen from the SW side.

GPS Coordinates:

36.002226,-78.937454

The exterior of the dorm that Indy & Eliot Ness share is the east entrance to the Duke University Languages Building at 413 Chapel Drive.

GPS Coordinates:

36.002087,-78.93798

The frat house is the Honnet House in Wilmington at 322 South Front Street.

This seems to match the geography of Caswell Beach, south of Wilmington.

Again, the Sociology/Psychology Building at 417 Chapel Drive. This shot was re-used in Princeton 1919.

Indy practices his sax on a bench on the east side of the Perkins Library, with Duke Chapel in the background.

GPS Coordinates:

36.001529,-78.938304

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