Photographs, movie stills, lobby cards, and screenshots capture the Iverson Ranch as it looks today and as it appeared during half a century of movie-making between 1912 and the late 1960s. In Chatsworth's backyard, there remains a fantasyland that was forever made famous by Hollywood… A place where Superman once captured the evil Luthor in his hidden Stoney Point cave, where Batman wrestled a criminal on top of a speeding locomotive, where Tarzan the Ape Man found an ancient elephant graveyard, and where John Wayne's fighting Seabees pushed a Japanese tank off the same cliff that Nyoka used to escape Vultura’s killer ape. The place is Boulder Pass. It was the jungles of India and Africa, the sands of the Sahara, the Khyber Pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the plains of Montana, and the High Sierras and the Rocky Mountains all rolled into one. It was the scene of stagecoach holdups, posses chasing outlaws on owlhoot (outlaw) trails, Indians attacking white settlers in remote cabins, flying rocket men, and unearthly spaceship landings. It was a land for make-believe. It could be anything a Hollywood director fancied. Boulder Pass is a fictitious name borrowed from an old B-Western movie. The real place is the Santa Susana Pass in Chatsworth, California. For nearly three-quarters of a century, the Santa Susana Pass was home to the granddaddy of all movie location ranches--the Iverson Ranch. Jerry England is a western movie historian and author who has researched and written about filming locations in the San Fernando Valley. Rendezvous at Boulder Pass is his second book about the area. In 2008 he published Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas. © 2010 Echo Press, Chatsworth, California Go here to see a few sample pages
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Introduction Part I - Iverson Movie Location Ranch: Iverson Ranch History, Surviving Rock Stars on the Lower Iverson Ranch, Lower Iverson Ranch Indian Hills Area, Surviving Rock Stars on the Upper Iverson Ranch, Iverson Ranch Buildings and Sets, Genesis – The Silent Movie Era (1912 – 1929), Golden Years - The Classic Movie Era (1930 – 1950s), Cliffhangers – Movie Serials (1930s – 1950s), B-Westerns of the 1930s, B-Westerns of the 1940s, B-Westerns of the 1950s, B-Westerns of the 1960s Part II - Beyond Boulder Pass: Brandeis Movie Ranch, Corriganville Movie Ranch , Burro Flats Filming Location , Chatsworth Reservoir, Chatsworth Trains, Bell Location Ranch, Double R Bar Ranch, Spahn Ranch, Perils of Boulder Pass, Bibliography, About the Author
Other books by Jerry England:
Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas (2008)
