The company promised to spend at least $1 million (the cast and crew, receiving ample per diem expense accounts, would spend twice that) and money began flowing immediately. Paramount's announcement that it would film a major feature in Port Townsend triggered a burst of excitement and activity. The filming pumps some three million dollars into the local economy, results in a hit film for Paramount, and boosts the careers of its three stars. Movie scenes are shot at Fort Worden State Park, the Tides Inn, the Town Tavern, the Port Townsend Paper Mill, and other locations around the historic city on the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula. For two months, Hollywood stars rub shoulders with Port Townsend residents on the streets, in local restaurants, and at after-hours parties. Directed by Taylor Hackford, the romantic drama stars Richard Gere as a would-be Navy pilot attending Officer Candidate School, Debra Winger as the local factory worker who becomes his girlfriend, and Louis Gossett Jr. In late April 1981, a cast and crew of more than 100 arrive in Port Townsend to begin filming the Paramount Pictures feature An Officer and a Gentleman.
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