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Where was The Blues Brothers filmed?

1980 film, directed by John Landis.

  • Chicago

The story is set in Chicago, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Chicago
Filmed in
Chicago
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About The Blues Brothers

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Released
1980
Director
John Landis
Cast
John BelushiDan AykroydJames BrownCab CallowayRay CharlesAretha FranklinMatt MurphySteve CropperDonald "Duck" DunnMurphy Dunne
Genre
MusicalComedy

Jake Blues, a blues vocalist and petty criminal, is paroled from Joliet Prison after serving three years of a five-year sentence for armed robbery and is picked up by his brother Elwood in a battered former police car.

The brothers escape after a car chase through the Dixie Square Mall.

Five of them are performing as Murph and the Magic Tones at a deserted Holiday Inn lounge and quickly rejoin.

Famous lines from The Blues Brothers

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • The what?Elwood
  • What's this?Jake
  • I traded it.Elwood
  • You don't like it?Elwood
  • No, I don't like it.Jake

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