Made in 1984 and originally screened on TV as part of PBS' "American Playhouse" anthology series. Only released theatrically in 2022.
Although most of the filming was in Greenfield, Massachusetts and Block Island, Rhode Island, there were a few more towns where there was filming. Some of the filming locations were: South Deerfield, Massachusetts, Northampton, Mass., Barton Cove Camping area in Gill, Mass (scenes with Jo, Tom, and Jackie camping), Turner Falls, Mass. (Farren Memorial Hospital-the hospital scene with Jo's adoptive mom), Holyoke, Mass. ( Mater Delorosa Church-the church in the beginning where Jo is with her sister and adoptive parents and also the same church that she runs out of to get away from Steve), Amherst, Mass. (Pratt Gallery-scene/building where Donna and Jo go to ask Ron about Donna's artwork and then give him a ride), Greenfield, Mass. (St. James Episcopal Church-now known as The Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew-the scene where Jo watches Jackie sing in the choir and then leaves the church to find Donna locked inside her car), Northampton, Mass.(Smith College Museum of Art-the scene where Jo, Donna, and Jackie go to the art gallery and Donna says a man is following them before Donna leaves with the man and Jo and Jackie go wait for her in the car), Altair Airlines at Bradley Field( Hartford/Springfield Airport), in Hartford, Connecticut (airplane scenes with Brooke Adams in the first and last scene of the movie), Frontier Pharmacy located in Deerfield, Mass. (the scene in the beginning where Jo runs into the guy who got her pregnant when she was a teen, as she goes to get aspirin from the pharmacy), The Whale's Tail in Block Island, RI, La Cage Aux Folles in Block Island, RI, and Hotel Warren in Deerfield, Mass (bar and drinking scenes),
Initially released as a TV movie called Haunted for American Playhouse which aired on PBS on March 20th, 1984. Thirty-eight years later in got its proper theatrical release and premiered on Friday, May 27th, 2022 in New York City with the title Vengeance is Mine.
Altair Airlines, which was the flight that was used for filming the plane scenes with Brooke Adams in the very first and last scene of the movie, operated from 1967-1982, after it filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations in November of 1982 (approximately 2 months after filming wrapped in September of 1982). It was an airline based in Philadelphia and primarily served the northeast U.S. The scene was filmed at Bradley Field (Hartford/Springfield Airport also known as Hartford/Brainard Airport) in Hartford, CT.
The women's clothing store that Jo went to see her biological mother (played by Scottie Bloch) at was a store called Peggy Parker which was located on the north side of Main Street at 138 Main Street in Greenfield, MA(the store is no longer there). The clothing store was not actually in Fall River where Jo told Donna it was when Donna asked Jo where she needed to go to see her biological mother.