 Many scenes were set in Mingo Junction or nearby cities such as Steubenville, Ohio, and Weirton, West Virginia and Pittsburgh.Mingo Junction's movie credentials also include two 1983 films, "All the Right Moves" starring Tom Cruise and Craig T. Nelson and "Heart of Steel" with Peter Strauss and Pamela Reed.In 2016, the village was visited and filmed for a Dutch television show called "Jensen kiest voor Amerika" (Jensen chooses for America).