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The Deer Hunter film location: the steel town: Mingo Junction, Ohio. The town, however, is an amalgamation of eight separate locales. Three are in Pennsylvania: the real Clairton; McKeesport, over the Monongahela River; and Pittsburgh.
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Filming location of The Hunter in Chicago (United States) at Marina City (credits: Paramount Pictures, Rastar Productions)
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This 2011 summer blockbuster starring Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler filmed scenes at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport and in the Northern Panhandle towns of Weirton, New Cumberland, New Manchester and Follansbee. Most of the filming sites are open to the public, including DeStefano’s Spaghetti House & Restaurant and the Marland Heights Deli, which...
Based on the novel “Rocket Boys” by West Virginia native Homer Hickam, 1999’s “October Sky” recounts Homer’s teenage years in a coal mining community in the early 1960s. The first Sputnik launch inspires Homer, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, and his friends to take up rocketry. The movie was filmed out of state, but you can visit Coalwood, where the bo...
This 2003 romantic comedy starring Josh Duhamel and Kate Bosworth filmed in Fayetteville, Grandviewand at the London Locks on the Kanawha River. The movie is about a small-town girl who wins a date with a celebrity, which leads to a love triangle between the 2 of them and the girl’s best friend. The town in the movie, Fraziers Bottom, was inspired ...
Filmed in Moundsville, Sistersville and New Martinsville, this 1955 film noir boasts yet another West Virginia connection: the story, drawn from a novel written by Moundsville native Davis Grubb, revolves around Harry Powell, a corrupt minister-turned-serial killer who sets out to rob a widow of $10,000 that her executed husband hid away. Robert Mi...
This 1978 Academy Award-winning film starring Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep was filmed partly in the Northern Panhandle cities of Weirton and Follansbee. It’s about a group of men who work in a steel mill. They hang out at the local bar and spend their weekends hunting deer— until the Vietnam War changes them forever.
In this 2001 movie, Russell Crowe plays Bluefield native John Nash Jr., the brilliant mathematician who struggled with mental illness but went on to win the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory.
This 1998 Robin Williams movie tells the real-life story of Dr. Hunter “Patch” Adams, a physician, comedian and social activist who founded the Gesundheit! Institute‚ a holistic health care facility, in Pocahontas Countyin 1971. Dr. Adams organizes a group of volunteers who travel the world dressed as clowns to bring humor to orphans, patients and ...
Want to know where The Hunter from 1980 was filmed? The movie starring Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and Kathryn Harrold was shot at more than 1 locations. All the filming locations of The Hunter are listed below.
Though The Deer Hunter is set in Clairton, Pennsylvania, what was filmed for the movie is a hodge-podge of many different cities in the general area, including many locales in Ohio. Chief...
Michael Cimino had only one previous directorial credit ( Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ), but the filmmaker was given unusual leeway to create a three-hour-plus epic, with equal weight given to its study of small-town American life and to the brutality and horror of war.
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The Deer Hunter locations were authentic, it was all filmed on location, and they didn’t use sound stages at all. The town of Clairton, Pennsylvania was actually filmed in four different states – Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Washington.
