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Jan 6, 2023 · The film was filmed on location in Marion and West Memphis, Arkansas and Memphis. The house used as Jerry Lee Lewis’ childhood home is located at 93 Military Road in Marion. The church singing scenes were shot in The Blessings Through Faith Temple Congregation Church off U.S. 70 in West Memphis.
Jul 28, 2023 · It was stocked with many of the movie set items that were auctioned to local citizens when the filming ended. The “Painted House” museum is located on Arkansas Highway 135, south of downtown Lepanto. The building suffered damage in strong storms on April 13, 2022. For additional information: Grisham, John. A Painted House. New York: Dell, 2001.
Many of the original shooting locations are still standing, including Garry’s Whopper Burger (now called Garry’s Sling Blade Drive-In to cash in on its cinema fame) at 619 Cox St., which...
Mar 19, 2024 · Most of the town scenes in the movie were shot in Lepanto, which was transformed into a 1950s community. However, the farm scenes were filmed in the nearby town of Clarkedale Arkansas. And that is where the 5-room house was originally constructed.
- The Old Mill North Little Rock, Arkansasseen In: “Gone with The Wind”
- I-30 Speedwayalexander, Arkansasseen In: “White Lightning”
- Downtown Camdencamden, Arkansasseen In: “Boxcar Bertha”
- Piggly Wiggly Grocery Storedumas, Arkansasseen In: “Mud”
- Garry’s Sling Blade Drive-Inbenton, Arkansasseen In: “Sling Blade”
Though it made one of the most memorable Arkansas location appearances ever in a major Hollywood film, a brief glimpse during the opening credits of the 1939 Civil War classic “Gone With the Wind,” North Little Rock’s Old Mill turns out to not be an actual mill at all. Though it looks the part, with multiple floors, a mill wheel that once turned, a...
Directed by John Sargent, the movie “White Lightning” stars up-and-coming Hollywood leading man Burt Reynolds (still years from superstardom in flicks like “Smokey and the Bandit”) as Arkansas moonshine runner and stock car racer Gator McKlusky. Gator is an Arkansas prison inmate who cuts a deal with the feds to gain his release. He then infiltrate...
In 1972, following up on the cult success of “Bloody Mama,” which he’d filmed in Arkansas, schlock director and producer returned to Arkansas to shoot another Depression-Era film, “Boxcar Bertha.” Loosely based on real-life train robbers Boxcar Bertha Thompson and “Big” Bill Shelly, who become wanted fugitives after a gambler was murdered, the film...
Screenwriter, director and Little Rock native Jeff Nichols has been slowly making a name for himself as one of the best young directors working in Hollywood today, and the film that really helped him arrive was 2013’s “Mud,” starring megastar Matthew McConaughey as a fugitive who seeks the help of two boys in Southeast Arkansas. Nichols fought hard...
Made on a shoestring budget by the then largely-unknown writer, actor, director and Malvern-native Billy Bob Thornton, the simple, powerful story of friendship and sacrifice seen in 1996’s “Sling Blade” went on to win the hearts of millions of moviegoers, a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Thornton, and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay i...
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Stacker compiled a list of movies filmed in Arkansas using data from Movie Locations, with additional information about each film collected from IMDb.
