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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg paid a visit to Flatbush on Tuesday to shoot scenes for the movie “Saint James Place,” a thriller about the Cold War.
The film follows Hanks’s character, a lawyer, as he negotiates the release of an American pilot who has been shot down while flying a spy plane over the Soviet Union.
The shoot included an old-timey Chrysler with a veritable film studio mounted onto it and Hanks riding passenger. The scenes took place in the Ditmas Park Historic District and, not wanting to allow in a whiff of the modern era, the crew affixed antique-looking-but-geographically-accurate street signs to a lamppost at E. 17th Street and Ditmas Avenue.