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28Monument Valley meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Utah-Arizona state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley is a sacred area that lies within the territory of the Navajo Nation Reservation, the Native American people of the area.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns; critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 square kilometers] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West.
Monument valley in Films
Films:
John Ford's Point in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
The Vanishing American (1925)
The Lone Star Ranger (1930)
Stagecoach (1939)
Kit Carson (1940)
Billy the Kid (1941)
King of the Stallions (1942)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946) by John Ford.
Angel and the Badman (1947)
Fort Apache (1948) by John Ford.
Laramie (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) by John Ford.
The Living Desert (1953)
The Searchers (1956) by John Ford.
Sergeant Rutledge (1960) by John Ford.
How The West Was Won (1962)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968),
Easy Rider (1969)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Un homme qui me plaît (1969)
The American West of John Ford (TV Documentary) (1971)
Wild Rovers (1971)
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975)
The Eiger Sanction (1975),
Joshua (1976)
The Villain (aka Cactus Jack) (1979)
Wanda Nevada (1979)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982),
Thunder Warrior (1983)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
***Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
In Back to the Future Part III (1990), Marty McFly drives from 1955 to 1885 from a drive-in theatre set at the Valley's base.
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
In Forrest Gump (1994), Forrest ends his cross-country run here. He is running north on U.S. Route 163 before he stops running.
Lightning Jack (1994)
Sunchaser (1996) features the site
Wild America (1997) features scenes of Monument Valley.
The opening shots of Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) feature Tom Cruise climbing in Monument Valley.
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