:07:00
He had been up in that area,
there in the Napa Valley,
:07:04
checking out
the wine lists of the country.
:07:07
So I think Santa Rosa
was an area that he knew.
:07:11
Today it's a large city, really.
:07:14
It's big now.
:07:16
But in those days it was
a sleepy little village
:07:19
with a courthouse, a library.
:07:21
The library doesn't exist any more.
:07:23
I think the courthouse
is now a modern building.
:07:26
But this was an old-fashioned town.
:07:30
It was the kind of a town
that didn't say where it was.
:07:34
It was American.
:07:35
It could have been in the middle West.
:07:38
It could even have been in the East.
:07:40
In those days
it spelled America more than any town,
:07:44
and I think that appealed to Hitch,
:07:46
who hadn't been in America very long.
:07:49
He was now interested in exploring it
:07:52
and trying to get
the essence of American life,
:07:57
small-town, innocent life.
:08:00
The innocent America.
:08:02
Santa Rosa
seemed to be a big contrast
:08:05
to the New Jersey rooming house.
:08:18
(O'Connell) And they found
this wondertul, old house,
:08:21
that was just a little run-down,
:08:23
which is exactly what they wanted
:08:25
because the family
was not wealthy or anything.
:08:28
So they made the deal,
and when they went up there
:08:33
they found that the people were so
excited that they'd used their house
:08:37
they'd painted the whole house.
:08:39
So they had to dirty it down again.
:08:41
But then they did fix it up for them.
:08:44
(Boyle) It's the kind of house
where you didn't lock the doors.
:08:47
It beckoned you
to come in and be there.
:08:50
So all the influences, good and evil,
:08:53
could enter that house from any place.
:08:57
It was like the innocent town.
:08:59
It was an innocent house that said,