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 Last Valley (1971 film) Caine had also signed on. At one stage the film was going to be called "Somewhere in the Mountains There is a Last Valley". It was the biggest budgeted pictures made to date by ABC Pictures. Clavell cast much of the supporting cast from British rep companies. Filming started 25 August 1969 in Austria. The film was mostly shot in Tyrol, Austria (Trins and Gschnitz and the Gschnitztal Valley). Actor Martin Miller collapsed and died on the set before shooting of the first scene commenced. The film was an expensive failure at the box office. It earned rentals of $380,000