Sling Blade, which stars Hot Springs native Billy Bob Thornton as a mentally handicapped man who has spent much of his life in a psychiatric hospital for the murder of his mother and her lover, was filmed in Benton, Conway, Little Rock and Clinton and includes a shot of the Saline River Bridge which appears on the film poster.

Want to check out locations where films such as A Face in the Crowd (1957), Boxcar Bertha (1972), Sling Blade (1996) and more were filmed?

The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism has a website that will help.

Click here to discover tidbits such as:

The Legend of Boggy Creek, Charles B. Pierce's 1973 tale of the furry humanoid Fouke Monster, was filmed in south Arkansas. 

Fighting Mad (1975), directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Peter Fonda and Scot Glenn, was filmed in and around Fayetteville, including a scene at Brenda's Bigger Burgers near Fayetteville High School.

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), starring singer/songwriter James Taylor and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, includes scenes shot on several Arkansas highways and on a ride across the Arkansas River on Toad Suck Ferry in Faulkner County just before ferry rides were suspended because of the opening of the new Toad Suck Bridge.

The most famous film with Arkansas scenery is 1939's Gone with the Wind, which opens with views of the Old Mill in North Little Rock. 

Recent films such as Joey Lauren Adams' 2006 drama Come Early Morning (filmed around Little Rock) and Jeff Nichols' Shotgun Stories (2007; filmed in England, AR) and Dumas- and Stuttgart-based Mud (to be released in 2013) are not included on the site.