- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Near Kankakee
I might be mistaken but house in question was owned by the family of Johnny Mercer. I just took Dear One's conviction that is was as fact. Interesting though, that the family scene was shot there.If that's it's name - The house where the actual murder was committed and wound up as the movie set for Midnight... is also seen near the beginning of Glory as the setting for the party where Robert Shaw meets Frederick Douglass and is told about raising the black regiment and that he has been named to command it. The interiors were actually shot inside the house. In the following scene, Matthew Broderick and Cary Elwes are leaning on the fence outside with the mansion behind them. ( The cinematographers carefully shot the scene so as to omit all the PALM TREES in the yard! ) It was while they were filming that sequence that those of us in the reenactor core group were first introduced to the actors between takes.