Zion: Movie and TV Hotspot

People on their first visit to Utah’s slickrock country often experience deja vu — the sense that they’ve seen this country’s geology before. Chances are, they have seen cliffs, canyons, rivers and hoodoo formations before in movies or television.

Southern Utah has long provided spectacular scenery for westerns, and just plain wild/weird scenery for science fiction or horror movies.

One of the types of information stored about movies and TV shows in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is the filming location. Productions filmed in Utah can be viewed, organized by city or other specific location (such as a national park) using the page at:http://us.imdb.com/LocationTree?Utah,+USA

Movies and TV filmed in or near Zion National Park, Utah

1. Arizona Kid, The (1930)
2. Behind the Movie Lens (1938)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
4. Car, The (1977)
5. Desperate Hours (1990)
6. Dude Ranger, The (1934)
7. Eiger Sanction, The (1975)
8. Electric Horseman, The (1979)
9. In Old Arizona (1929)
10. In Old Oklahoma (1943)
…aka War of the Wildcats (1944) (UK)
11. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
12. Jewel of the Nile, The (1985)
13. Mormon Conquest (1941)
14. Ramrod (1947)
15. Romancing the Stone (1984)
16. Time for Killing, A (1967)
17. Zion Canyon: Treasure of the Gods (1996)

Movies and TV filmed in Kanab, Utah

1. “Daniel Boone” (1964) TV Series
2. “Death Valley Days” (1952) TV Series
…aka “Call of the West” (1952) (USA: syndication title)
…aka “Pioneers, The” (1952) (USA: syndication title)
…aka “Trails West” (1952) (USA: syndication title)
…aka “Western Star Theater” (1952) (USA: syndication title)
3. “Lone Ranger, The” (1949) TV Series
4. 6-18-67 (1967)
5. Car, The (1977)
6. Challenge the Wilderness (1951)
7. El Dorado (1967)
8. Fargo Kid, The (1940)
9. In Old Oklahoma (1943)
10. Kansas Raiders (1950)
11. Lone Ranger, The (1956)
12. Mackenna’s Gold (1969)
13. One Little Indian (1973)
14. Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
15. Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)
16. Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
17. Sergeants 3 (1962)
18. Shooting, The (1967)
19. Wagon Train (1940)
20. Western Union (1941)
21. Westward the Women (1950)
22. Windrunner (1995)