The Last Picture Show | Adaptations
The Last Picture Show was made into a 1971 Peter Bogdanovich feature film starring Cybill Shepherd as Jacy; Cloris Leachman as Ruth Popper; Timothy Bottoms as Sonny (and his brother Sam Bottoms as Billy); Jeff Bridges as Duane; Ben Johnson as Sam; and Ellen Burstyn as Lois Farrow. Filmed in black and white, the cinematography was extremely effective in portraying the bleakness of the town, and the plainness of the characters, giving a small-town and diminished feel to the action; only in a scene with Sam and Sonny at a swimming hole does the camera pan away for a moment from the...
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