What Movie Filmed In Cleveland at the US Steel Central Blast Furnace Is Truly A Classic ?
Its The Deer Hunter
This controversy sparking Vietnam War film movie is supposed to be taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, and Clairton – a blue collar steel town about ten miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In actuality, the town is a combination of eight separate locations.
The opening steel factory scenes were filmed in the US Steel Central Blast Furnace in Cleveland, though “only after a nervous studio insured its stars to the tune of $5 million – the plant is ominously dubbed the Widowmaker.”
I love the Deer Hunter my family would drive all around Cleveland recognizing all the locations The Deer Hunter was filmed.
What a great history where this Mill is dubbed the Widowmaker.
Here is a great Photo !!
