<Ul> <Li> The Steven Soderbergh film Bubble, released in 2006, was filmed in Parkersburg and neighboring Belpre, Ohio, using an all - local cast . </Li> <Li> Parkersburg was mentioned in the novel Night of the Hunter (1953) and the 1955 film by the same name adapted from it . In Davis Grubb's 1953 novel, Parkersburg was the town where the preacher Harry Powell was caught for car theft and sent to prison . It was worldly town that Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish in the film) avoided because she'd been short - changed; and finally it was the home of the state troopers who came to arrest Powell for murder . Powell called Parkersburg, "One of them Sodoms on the Ohio River," referring to its reputation as a rough river town in the 19th and early 20th century . </Li> <Li> Parkersburg was the set for the 1962 television series It's a Man's World . </Li> <Li> The city was featured in a 1996 episode of Rescue 911 . </Li> <Li> Other films shot in the city are Salvage and The Barbecue . </Li> <Li> Parkersburg was featured in a 2013 episode of the NBC post-apocalyptic science fiction television drama series Revolution </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Steven Soderbergh film Bubble, released in 2006, was filmed in Parkersburg and neighboring Belpre, Ohio, using an all - local cast . </Li> <Li> Parkersburg was mentioned in the novel Night of the Hunter (1953) and the 1955 film by the same name adapted from it . In Davis Grubb's 1953 novel, Parkersburg was the town where the preacher Harry Powell was caught for car theft and sent to prison . It was worldly town that Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish in the film) avoided because she'd been short - changed; and finally it was the home of the state troopers who came to arrest Powell for murder . Powell called Parkersburg, "One of them Sodoms on the Ohio River," referring to its reputation as a rough river town in the 19th and early 20th century . </Li> <Li> Parkersburg was the set for the 1962 television series It's a Man's World . </Li>

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