USE PALOUSE SCENES
Saturday, Sept 10, 1983, Lewiston Morning Tribune
PULLMAN (AP) -- A film crew for Robert Redford's new movie spent four days in the Palouse this week gathering footage for "The Natural," in which the veteran actor appears as a baseball player.
However, Redford's fans struck out trying to see him because he did not make the trip.
The movie's location manager, Bruce Lawhead, said the crew filmed scenery to be used as Redford rides a train through Nebraska in the 1920s and 1930s. The Palouse footage will be on a backdrop on a scene filmed on a stage that resembles a 1920s railroad car.
"It's hardly likely anyone will ever notice," said Washington Motion Picture Bureau director Art Kuhlman.
