The Last Picture Show

Picture Show is absolutely authentic, due to two behind-the-scenes craftspeople and two actors who transform the film. The story of Picture Show began with the novella of the talented, but at the time, little-known author, Texan Larry McMurtry. McMurtry worked on the screenplay with the director, who had only released one pretty good previous film, after moving on from researching and writing about film --- Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich was brilliant in utilizing the talents of two disparate actors to underline the film --- an old cowboy who’d been in the John Ford film company and never stretched as an actor, Ben Johnson, and an actor who had worked primarily in TV and a few minor film roles such as in the noir Kiss Me Deadly, who would go on to a long career in film and TV, Cloris Leachman. And they were in the supporting cast!

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