Where was The Big Country filmed?

1958 film by William Wyler

The Big Country (1958) was filmed in Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert, Farmington and Red Rock Canyon State Park, 4 places named in its Wikipedia article's Locations section, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Arizona, California. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's Locations section

Wikipedia’s Locations section names 4 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Farmington United States

  “The creek and many other places nearby were used as locations in the 1958 film The Big Country, as was scenes for the movie, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974).” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Arizona, California, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

Filming locations that are mapped there: United States

Also shot in these places

• Chinatown 1974
• Volcano 1997

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