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20 Movies That Were Made in Ohio. Academy Award-winning tales, lesser-known finds and, yes, even a couple of couple box-office bombs have been filmed in the Buckeye State. When it comes to movies made in Ohio, “A Christmas Story” and “The Shawshank Redemption” are often the first two those who live here think of as being tied to the ...
Super Fly: Directed by Gordon Parks Jr.. With Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris. The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.
- Filmed in Ohio: Movies locations you can visit in the Buckeye State. CLEVELAND, Ohio – The best of moviemaking will be celebrated in Hollywood this weekend.
- The Shawshank Redemption, Mansfield. Many of these sites are open to the public and are featured on the Shawshank Trail. Among them: * The Ohio State Reformatory, which substitutes for Shawshank State Prison in the movie.
- The Avengers, Cleveland. Downtown Cleveland stands in for both New York City and Stuttgart, Germany, in this action-packed superhero flick, released in 2012.
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cleveland. Cleveland subs for Washington, D.C., in this 2014 Marvel movie, which features a downtown chase scene, Tower City Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lake View Cemetery and other sites.
Jul 29, 2022 · CLEVELAND, Ohio — I doubt “Super Fly” could play to Black audiences nowadays the same way it did August 4, 1972, when the film premiered at the Scrumpy-Dump Cinema on East 105th Street.
- Justice Hill
THE STORY OF THE REAL SUPERFLY CAME FROM CLEVELAND - The characters “Scatter” and “Priest” in the classic Blaxploitation flick, Superfly, were both inspired by infamous Cleveland Black crime boss and restaurateur Herman (Scatter) Stephens.
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Jan 17, 2004 · By Wil Haygood. January 16, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. EST. We rushed -- Flan, Olen, Bubbles, Tutu, Macaroni, my sisters, myself -- downtown to the Southern Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, in 1972 to see...
