The Police Emerald Society of Baltimore Pipe Band, which has a cameo in the film, played bagpipes outside the Senator dressed in kilts.Įven political rivals O'Malley and Ehrlich Jr. Guests sipped champagne and sampled caviar and star-shaped chocolate cookies. The party tent was draped in red and lit by red strobe lights. Dozens of onlookers filled the sidewalks behind police barricades, and diners in a York Road Chinese restaurant pressed their faces to the glass window to get a glimpse of the stars. Two shiny red fire engines were parked on York Road outside The Senator Theatre, their ladders extended so that they met in the middle and formed an upside-down "V." From that makeshift scaffolding hung an immense movie poster. joined Travolta, Phoenix and hundreds of others for last night's $200-a-plate screening and prefilm party, held in the Belvedere Square parking lot.Ībout 800 tickets were sold for the event, which raised $175,000 for the Baltimore City Fire Foundation, according to Allied Advertising, the firm handling publicity for the film. Ehrlich Jr., Mayor Martin O'Malley and Baltimore Fire Chief William J. As such, it is a rare look at the men and women who have become American heroes since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center three years ago.īaltimore had a rare role in shaping that look, and so such local luminaries as Gov.
11, 2001, to explore firefighters' daily lives, and those who have attended advance screenings praise its fidelity to both the tone of life in the firehouse and the realistic portrayal of the techniques and challenges of battling blazes. Ladder 49, the story of a firefighter trapped in a burning building and the efforts to save him, opens nationwide Friday.ĭirector Jay Russell has said Ladder 49 is the first major feature film since Sept. "They were on the fire trucks with us every day," firefighter Don Coster said before last night's benefit screening of the new film at The Senator Theatre.
They won't see Travolta, Phoenix, and the actors who portrayed firefighters going through strenuous training at Baltimore's fire academy and, later, riding along with the city's engine companies. They won't see the cameras wrapped in fire-retardant material, and the crew - camera operators, gaffers and sound supervisors - suited up in firefighters' gear. Mark Yant standing just inside the door of a burning home, ready to spring into action if the film's deliberately set fires began to rage out of control and an actor became trapped. The most realistic parts of Ladder 49, the new film shot in Baltimore and starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, are the things that movie-goers will never see on-screen.
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