List of Films Shot in Stamford, Connecticut - Boomerang

Boomerang (1947), directed by Elia Kazan was based on incidents in Bridgeport, Connecticut involving Stamford resident (and mayor and later U.S. Attorney General) Homer Cummings, for whom Cummings Park and the Lockwood, Cummings law firm are named. Cummings was Attorney General of the United States in Franklin Roosevelt's administration.

Almost all of the film was shot in Stamford except for the courtroom scene (shot in White Plains, New York).

"t wasn't an oddity to run into Dana Andrews, one of the stars of the movie, in a local restaurant, or to see other stars on the street," according to Don Russell, a columnist for The Advocate.

Stamford locations:

• The South End of Stamford, particularly at Saint Luke's Chapel.
• Old Town Hall, particularly the Police Department offices and the stairway leading up from them to the courtroom.
• The Altschul home on Den Road in Stamford (for a meeting of leading citizens).
• For a scene in which a pastor was killed, the movie used the front and sidewalk of the Plaza Theatre, which stood on Greyrock Place (a driveway leading into the Stamford Town Center Mall is at that location now).
• The former offices of The Advocate of Stamford, the local daily newspaper, on Atlantic Street. Some members of the Advocate editorial staff members were used in a scene about the news breaking that the priest killer had been caught.