9 Movie Sets Recycled In Other Movies
2. An Act Of Murder Becomes Back To The Future
Courthouse Square is a set purposely built on the Universal Studios Lot for 1948's noir thriller An Act of Murder. Never the sort of folk to bin something off after one solitary outing, Universal has returned to the well time and time again for this most famous of movie sets.
Most memorably, the Courthouse Square set would be brought back decades later as part of the Hill Valley setup of the Back to the Future trilogy. That in and of itself would be a pretty cool revelation, but adding further to the sheer awesomeness of Courthouse Square is the small fact that it was also used as Kingston Falls in the Gremlins movies.
While Back to the Future and Gremlins are likely the two properties that grab the most attention when looking at the history of the Courthouse Square set, there was also a spell where the set was rechristened as Mockingbird Square after being featured in 1962's Academy Award winning, Gregory Peck-starring To Kill a Mockingbird.
Other notable films to have seen this set dusted off and brought back to life are classic sci-fi B-movie It Came From Outer Space, so-so sequel Psycho II, nipple-tastic Batman & Robin, and, err, The Cat in the Hat.