The Last Picture Show and Barc Doyle. Stephen King's novel "Lisey's Story" makes repeated references to "The Last Picture Show" as the main character Scott Landon frequently watches the film throughout the novel during flashbacks. 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
The Last Picture Show transfer of Peter Bogdanovich's director's cut, two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich ""The Last Picture Show": A Look Back", (1999) and "Picture This" (1990), documentaries about the making of the film, "A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich", a 2009 Q&A, screen tests and location footage, and excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood. In 1992, Bogdanovich re-edited the film to create a "director's cut". This version restores seven minutes of footage that Bogdanovich trimmed