The Last Picture Show eye fell on an interesting title, "The Last Picture Show". The back of the book said it was about "kids growing up in Texas" and Bogdanovich decided that it did not interest him and put it back. A few weeks later, actor Sal Mineo handed Bogdanovich a copy of the book. "I always wanted to be in this," he said, "but I'm a little too old now" and recommended that Bogdanovich make it into a film. At the time, Bogdanovich was married to Polly Platt and he asked her to read it. Her response was, "I don't know how you
The Deserter (1971 film) the Fort Bowie set built in the Province of Almería, Spain, where the desert landscape and climate that characterizes part of the province have made it a much utilized setting for Western films, among those "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966) and later "800 Bullets" (2002). This same set was also used in the films "Blindman" (1971) with Ringo Starr and "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die" (1972). A US Army cavalry unit returns from a 2-week patrol to find the inhabitants of an outpost near its home fort have been