The cliff Obi Wan and Luke are standing on when Obi Wan first shows Luke Mos Eisley in A New Hope is located in Tunisia at the entrance to Star Wars Canyon. What they see though was filmed at Dante's View in Death Valley National Park. A matte painting of Mos Eisley in the distance was added over the view of Death Valley.

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Several scenes near the beginning of A New Hope were filmed in and around this gorge near Tozeur in south west Tunisia earning it the nickname Star Wars Canyon. This is where R2D2 was captured by the Jawas, where Luke was attacked by the Tusken Raiders and where Obi Wan first appeared to scare the sand people off. At the mouth of the canyon is the Sandcrawler Parking Lot where the Jawas were parked when they were attacked by the Stormtroopers.

This is also where Indiana Jones stopped Belloq with the rocket launcher near the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not far from here to the east is the location of the Tanis dig site from that movie.

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The igloo-like exterior of the Lars Homestead from the beginning of A New Hope is located in the salt flats of south-west Tunisia. The crater the film crew dug gives the illusion of the underground courtyard that was actually filmed 240 km away at a hotel in Matmata, Tunisia.

The igloo was dismantled after the filming of A New Hope, but it was rebuilt in the same spot to be used in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. After the prequels it fell into disrepair, and some Star Wars fans raised money and restored the small building in 2012.

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The interior scenes of the Lars Homestead, the moisture farm on Tatooine where Luke lives with his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru at the beginning of A New Hope, were filmed at the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matmata, Tunisia, and Lucas and crew revisited it during the filming of the prequel Attack of the Clones.

Star Wars fans (or anyone for that matter, but let's be honest, it's mostly Star Wars fans) can spend the night in the hotel's underground cave-rooms and visit the Lars family kitchen and dining room.

The aboveground igloo exterior in the movie is located over 240 km west near Nafta.

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Very little of Grosse Pointe Blank was actually filmed in Detroit's upscale suburb Grosse Pointe. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles was used for Pointes High School where Martin Blank and Debi attend their ten-year high school reunion.

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