Posted on 07/18/2014 10:23:53 AM PDT by EveningStar
We round up our 25 favorite films set in Texas. If you’ve seen them, maybe it's time to see them again. If you haven’t seen them, what are you waiting for?
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Except for maybe Rex Allen, Ben Johnson had the greatest voice in Hollywood.
I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.
My post was purely tongue in cheek, but the movie takes place in Houston (even though it was filmed in Dallas) :0)
The Searchers.
As was mine.
LOL
I just read the other day that Elvis thought Roy Orbison had the greatest voice ever. I don’t know if he was including all the great opera singers or not.
Not sure Elvis heard the great opera singers. Maybe Grand Ole Opery.
Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis jammed one night at Sun Records. I think the CD came out awhile back and there was a broadway play, The Million Dollar Quartet.
Would liked to have been in the room.
How about “No Country for Old Men”?
As a Texan, I agree that Bernie should be added. It was really a great movie!
I saw a you tube version of “Life’s Railway to Heaven” a year or so back.
Johnny Cash was doing most of the singing but the “Nitty Gritty Dirt Band”, Earl Skrugss, and the Carter Family were all singing or playing.
It was very good.
Great flick that one.
“The Searchers” should be at the top of your list.
I also think that Cotton Candy by Ron Howard should be added to the list.
It was a made for TV movie, but it was filmed at my high school (Lake Highlands in Dallas), and I was in it!!
All the extras were kids in my school, and we wore our normal clothing. It’s a very cheesy movie, but it definitely did capture the feel of the late 70’s.
Here’s one part of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5cTeYShAA
I love the prom dresses and looking at the cars in the parking lot. Plus, I see lots of kids I remember from high school.
They have that and Blood Simple. They also have Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dazed and Confused.
FReegards
No thread about the best Texas movies is complete without a nod to Smithville.
It’s a beautiful small town.
Filmography[edit]Smithville has its own music and film commission and continues to promote itself as a Film Friendly Community, a designation it received from the Texas Film Commission in 2008. Following is a list of productions that had filming locations in Smithville.
Hope Floats starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr. was set and filmed in Smithville, and was released at theaters across the nation on May 29, 1998.
The Tree of Life starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain was filmed in Smithville, and was released in May 2011. The film, which was directed by Terrence Malick, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. This film was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Picture at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony.
The film Natural Selection, released in 2011 and starring Rachael Harris was filmed in Smithville.
Doonby, a film starring John Schneider, was set and filmed in Smithville in 2010 and released in 2011.
The Richard Linklater-directed film Bernie was filmed in Smithville. Released in 2011, the movie stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
Beneath the Darkness is an American horror-thriller film starring Tony Oller, Dennis Quaid that released in 2012.
Smithville has also been the location for several commercials, notably Valero Energy Corporation and Dairy Queen.
The John Wayne production of ‘ The Alamo’- hands down. (See my page for review.)
Giant was filled with Hollywood stereotypes ..never met anybody who acts and talks like that - and I’m fourth generation. It was embarrassing.
And because I grew up in El Paso:
Lone Wolf McQuade
The Getaway
The Border
Extreme Prejudice
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