One movie, two movie . . .
The history of movie-making in Iowa goes back at least to
1935, when Penitentiary was shot at the old Iowa Mens
Reformatory at Anamosa. These are some of the better-known
shot-in-Iowa movies that succeeded.
1935: Penitentiary
1938: Union Pacific (Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea,
directed by Cecil B. deMille) at Council Bluffs
1968: Cold Turkey (Dick Van Dyke) at Winterset and
Greenfield
1977: F.I.S.T. (Sylvester Stallone) at Dubuque
1980: Take This Job and Shove It (Art Carney, Barbara
Hershey) at Dubuque
1984: Children of the Corn (story by Stephen King)
at Whiting and Country (Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard) at Dunkerton
and Waterloo
1987: Miles from Home (Richard Gere) at Cedar Rapids
1989: Field of Dreams (Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan,
James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster) in Dyersville and Dubuque
1994: The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood,
Meryl Streep) in Winterset
1995: Twister (Helen Hunt) in Ames
1998: The Straight Story (Richard Farnsworth, Sissy
Spacek) in Laurens and Clermont
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