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some of the movies ( I can think of at least 7 ) shot on or around location of the Trans-Pecos area. At least 3 or 4 has been faily famous down through the years. Some of you young guys won't know some of the older movies shot there. Some of us old guys, well, might have even been there at times of location shootings. I was there with at least one or right after.
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......

Let's see, no way I can get all of them, but

Dead Man's Walk
Streets of Laredo
Fandango
Contrabando

and Brooks and Dunn shot My Maria Music Video there....

There has bound to have been an Alamo Movie shot in Brackettville, that leaves at least three for the other folks

Forky

was shooting another last year while I was there... don't know the name of it yet though....

Forky

I think it's called "Three Burials" or something like that Joe. It's about the BP. Allot of it was filmed at Tommy Lee Jones's place just outside of Van Horn.
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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas

El Mariche (sp?)
Desperado
Kill Bill Vol 3 (some shots where in Acuna)

Just the other day there was a Big Film crew in acuna as well.

Giant

Movie for my sensitive side

All the pretty horses

Gambler 5

This set was built for the Gambler movie. Most herpers know where it's at..

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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas

>>some of the movies ( I can think of at least 7 ) shot on or around location of the Trans-Pecos area. At least 3 or 4 has been faily famous down through the years. Some of you young guys won't know some of the older movies shot there. Some of us old guys, well, might have even been there at times of location shootings. I was there with at least one or right after.
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>>I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......
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Chris Harrison

Barbarossa, a Willie Nelson classic, filmed outside of Lajitas

Well,
This is fun. I can think of a couple that had scenes filmed on location near Marfa that no one has mentioned.......SLYVESTER, the story of a grand pris jumping horse starring Melissa Gilbert and FLESH AND BONE starring Dennis Quaid. I remember Barbarosa with the non-indigenous(to the Big Bend) armadillos everywhere.
Jim McLean

Surprised no-one has mentioned it; Lonesome Dove. Parts of it were filmed on the Prude Ranch in Ft. Davis. Last Man Standing (Bruce Willis) was filmed East of El Paso and some scenes from Culberson County. Lone Wolf McCuaid (sp) was filmed mostly in El Paso with a few scenes from South of Marfa. They shot a movie in Brackett a few years ago called Jerico (Western) which turned out horrible. Everyone else already named the others I was thinking. Fandango and Giant stand out the most.
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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas

I filmed "Hollister" in Ft. Davis.

All the best,
Bill
Link

THE HITCHER, 1986 film starring rutger hauer as psycho hitchhiker i believe was filmed in west texas. great movie if you've never seen it, one of my favorites.

Shafter was used to represent the fictional town of "Piedmont, NM" in the 1971 Robert Wise film version of Crichton's Andromeda Strain.

Tom Lott

Didn't the Sugarland Express wind up out there somewhere?