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• IMDb Code: 0067328
• Genre: Drama
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• Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd | See full cast and crew »
• Sound Mix: Mono
• Plot Keyword: High School | Friend | Texas | High School Football | Pool Hall
• Director: Peter Bogdanovich
• Release Date: 22 October 1971 (USA)
• Rate: 8.1/10 total 28,841 votes 
• Budget: $1,300,000 (estimated)
• Filming Location: 115 East Main Street, Archer City, Texas, USA
• Soundtrack: Slow Poke
• Original Music By: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (archive footage) Phil Harris (archive footage) Johnny Standley (archive footage) Hank Thompson (archive footage)  
• Runtime: 118 min | 127 min (director's cut)

The Last Picture Show (1971) Writing Credits By:

• Larry McMurtry (screenplay) and
• Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay)
• Larry McMurtry (novel)

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The Last Picture Show (1971) Known Trivia

• At 9 minutes and 54 seconds, Ben Johnson's performance in this movie is the shortest to ever win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 15 of 15 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Cybill Shepherd was cast with the option of backing out of her nude scenes if she so desired. She only agreed to do them after asking the opinions of three female costars - Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn and Eileen Brennan - who all thought she should do them. 14 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• All the film's music (except for the closing credits and the live band at the Christmas party) is played in the background on radios, jukeboxes, or on a portable record player (the two Wichita Falls party scenes). 12 of 12 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• All but one of the shots are at eye-level. 18 of 19 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Cloris Leachman's last scene in the movie was printed on the first take without any previous rehearsals. She wanted to rehearse the scene but director Peter Bogdanovich thought it would ruin the scene if it was rehearsed. Ultimately his sense of direction paid off, as Leachman won the Academy Award for her performance. 13 of 14 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Peter Bogdanovich's introduction to this story was through actor Sal Mineo who had given him the novel to read by then little-known Texas writer Larry McMurtry. Mineo had longed to play a part in the film adaptation but felt he was by then a little too old for any of the principal roles. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• This film began a trend where already popular recordings by the original artists are used to score a film. Featured here are songs by Frankie Laine, Hank Williams, Jo Stafford and others.. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Peter Bogdanovich had originally offered the role of "Sam the Lion" to James Stewart, who liked the part but had already committed to a TV series and couldn't get out of it. The role was then offered to Ben Johnson, who took it eventually won an Academy Award for it. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Peter Bogdanovich left the location because of the death of his father and after he returned to the set, the first scene he shot was the funeral of Sam the Lion. 8 of 8 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |
• Film debut of Randy Quaid and Sam Bottoms. 7 of 7 found this interesting Interesting? Yes No |

The Last Picture Show (1971) Story: In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the ... Written byMark Fleetwood <mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>

Goofs: Anachronisms: Several scenes show television programming, however TV was not introduced to the Wichita Falls area (and Anarene) until 1953. The movie takes place in 1951-52.

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The Last Picture Show (1971) Plot: A group of 1950s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally. Full summary »  »

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