The Last Picture Show The Last Picture Show The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel "The Last Picture Show" by Larry McMurtry. Set in a small town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges). The cast also includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, and Cloris Leachman, and features Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, and Randy Quaid. For aesthetic reasons, it was shot in black
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