🏛 Landmarks & buildings

Huntsville Unit in Texas

Texas state prison

🇺🇸 United States · 30.7220, -95.5456

Huntsville Unit in Texas is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia article of 1 production — in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on.

“Peckinpah shot the opening prison scenes at the Huntsville Penitentiary, with McQueen surrounded by actual convicts.”

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Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Huntsville Unit in Texas as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

Named here by Huntsville Unit in Texas’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Huntsville Unit in Texas, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

• A Perfect World 1993

  “Kevin Costner portrayed the convict Butch Haynes in the 1993 film A Perfect World, who escaped from Huntsville Prison.” Wikipedia

• The Getaway 1972

  “The Getaway, a 1972 Sam Peckinpah film, which starred Steve McQueen, was filmed here.” Wikipedia

• The Life of David Gale 2003

  “The 2003 film, The Life of David Gale, was shot in multiple places, including Huntsville, Texas.” Wikipedia

Filming locations nearby

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Huntsville

  🇺🇸 United States

  city in and county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States

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  🏛 Landmarks & buildings

  Ellis Unit

  🇺🇸 United States

  Prison in Texas

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  🏛 Landmarks & buildings

  Sam Houston State University

  🇺🇸 United States

  public university in Huntsville, Texas

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