The Last Picture Show northern Texas. McMurtry had renamed the town Thalia in his book; Bogdanovich renamed it Anarene for the film, a name chosen to correspond to the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas, in Howard Hawks' "Red River" (1948). "Red River", significantly, is the movie, indeed the last picture show, which Sonny and Duane watch at the end of the film. After shooting the film, Bogdanovich went back to Los Angeles to edit the film on a Moviola. Bogdanovich has said he edited the entire film himself but refused to credit himself as editor, reasoning that director and co-writer was enough. When informed that
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