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How about PARIS TEXAS with Harry Dean Stanton. 20 or more min. at the very beginning was shot at Terlingua but actually around Terlingua Ranch and up on 118 with a smudge shot in Alpine and Marathon then the whole plot moves to California. Then we have a movie of either Anglo/Spanish or Anglo/Mexican shot on location of the Pecos Overlook with Alfred Molina and I saw it once but can't tell you the name. The first and original " Hitcher " was filmed with parts of US 90 and Dryden. Next Joe should remember Pancho's in Study Butte and the regaling of the proprietor showing us pics of the actors and some of the crew of Barbarosa and telling us that they ate there frequently during filming. Next is the classic and original " The Get-Away" with Steve McQeen and Ali McGraw. The bank robbery was suppose to take place and be filmed in Alpine but the great director of implementing slow filming of specific scenes ( also he directed the Long Riders ), Walter Hill moved the whole plot and subject to around Laredo due to his wanting something a little more seedy in looks of a small township closer by and the advantage of being able to cross the border for some shots.
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......

WOW: Pancho's... what a place. Them were da daze!!!!!

wasn't there a scene or 2 from selena....and lone star????

Lone Star was filmed in Del Rio and I can't believe no one who has seen the movie mentioned a scene on the old Highway 90 bridge over Eagle Nest Canyon. I was also an extra in Fandango. I drove a Red 1965 GTO in the Sonic scene and around the Courthouse in Marfa. I've collecting down there so long that I actually collected an alterna just east of the bridge when it was the highway.

drive naked though ). Several of us remembered the naked guy on 170 just past Terlingua at about Bob M rental house. At least this old guy wore shoes out there at night when walking naked.
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......