Films in this library shot in Utah, a state whose rock formations are recognisable enough to be a character. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
UtahA traumatized young man dons a Santa suit and goes on a killing spree, in the controversial slasher that protested over its release. Sellier Jr.'s 1984 American slasher film depicting a young man traumatized by witnessing his parents' murder by…
Berlin1983 John Glen Bond film with Moore in India. Maud Adams as Octopussy, jewel-smuggling circus train, Soviet nuclear plot.
ArizonaLeone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.
ArizonaNine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
ArizonaWayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
CaliforniaDean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
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Pinewood StudiosStar Wars: The Last Jedi is the middle entry of the Disney-era sequel trilogy. Rian Johnson wrote and directed.
CaliforniaJohn Carter is one of the most unfairly maligned films of the past fifteen years and one of the most expensive commercial failures in Disney history. The production was Stanton's live-action feature debut after his Pixar work on Finding Nemo…
UtahWilliam Holden, Cliff Robertson, and the true story of the joint US-Canadian commando unit that earned a German nickname. The film tells the true story of the First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit assembled in 1942 to…
ArizonaPlanet of the Apes has one of the great endings in science fiction cinema and earns its place in the conversation entirely on the basis of that ending. The Statue of Liberty rising from the sand is the genre's most…
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