Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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For those who couldn’t attend the local theater premiere of “The Pale Blue Eye”—the Christian Bale/Harry Melling flick featuring shots of ¾¨Ó㴫ý—the movie is now available on Netflix.
“The Pale Blue Eye”—an adaptation of a 2003 novel of the same name by Louis Baynard—is an American gothic thriller revolving around the attempt to solve a series of murders that took place in 1830 at West Point. Bale plays a veteran detective investigating the murders with the help of Melling’s character, a detail-oriented young cadet who will later become the world-famous author, Edgar Allan Poe, who bequeathed us the detective genre.
The Netflix Feature Films and Cross Creek Pictures movie features scenes filmed on ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s campus in November and December 2021.The center quad on ¾¨Ó㴫ý’s campus—surrounded by Collegiate Gothic-style buildings Old Main, Browne and Ferguson halls and the McGill Library—was used to create a setting of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point during the 1830s.
“We were delighted to have been selected as a site for filming. Our campus served as a beautiful ‘double’ for West Point," said ¾¨Ó㴫ý President Dr. Kathy Brittain Richardson. "Additionally, some of our students were given the opportunity to appear as extras, while others worked in technical support areas. It made for a memorable late fall semester.”
In celebration of the film's premiere—which was released in limited theaters on Dec. 23—¾¨Ó㴫ý hosted an exclusive red carpet event on Jan. 5, at Shenango Valley Cinemas in Hermitage, Pa. More than 200 people attended.
The movie is currently trending at #1 on Netflix.
View the movie trailer here:
