Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel) is a puddled iron tower built on the Champ de Mars, beside the River Seine, in Paris, France. It is the most famous Paris landmark and is used as a symbol of the city. At the time of its construction in 1889 it was the tallest building in the world, and remained so until 1930. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is a premier tourist destination, with over 5.5 million visitors per year.

Appearance in film

• 1949: In the film The Man On The Eiffel Tower the Tower plays a central role, and the climactic scene involves a climbing chase that predates the Mount Rushmore scene of North by Northwest.
• 1951: The Lavender Hill Mob - models of the tower are central to the plot, and the climax takes place on the real tower.
• 1953: In the end of The War of the Worlds, the tower is seen destroyed.
• 1965: At the end of the Blake Edwards movie The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/ the tower is blown up by a misfired cannon shot from Professor Fate's car.
• 1970: The tower is shown in the classic animated film The Aristocats.
• 1980: The tower (and the rest of Paris) were almost blown up by a terrorist nuclear bomb and Lois Lane almost plunged to her death under its elevator in Superman II.
• 1981: Condorman attempts to fly off of the tower in the movie by the same name.
• 1985: The James Bond film A View to a Kill contains a scene in the Eiffel Tower including scenes in a fictional restaurant there.
• 1985: In the film National Lampoon's European Vacation, Rusty throws his beret off the Tower. A dog, thinking it is a frisbe, jumps after it. Because they sought a PG-13 rating, however, the dog is not seen dying, but rather, lands in a pond at the bottom of the tower.
• 1991: In the Eiffel Tower is shown as still standing in the 23rd Century and is visible from the office of the Federation President. The Eiffel Tower was also seen in the Star Trek franchise in 24th Century Paris in the episode of "We'll Always Have Paris"(1988) of and in two episodes of , "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" (1996).
• 1996: The Eiffel Tower can be seen on TV in Independence Day (and is destroyed in the French movie version).
• 1996: In Mars Attacks!, the Eiffel Tower is destroyed by Martians.
• 1998: The tower is destroyed in Armageddon.
• 2000: In ', the babies are atop the tower while using the giant Reptar invention.
• 2003: In The Real World Paris television show on the US MTV network, the tower is seen.
• 2003: The Tower is featured in '.
• 2004: In Van Helsing, the Eiffel Tower is under construction.
• 2004: In ', a rocket blows the tower up, then the tower falls on the Arc de Triomphe.
• 2004: The tower flew and moved around Paris in the puppet version of Without a Paddle, in a scene that starts only after the credits end.
• 2004: In ', Kamacuras or Kumonga attacks the tower.
• 2004: The tower is seen in Eurotrip.