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	Timothy Bottoms	Sonny Crawford
	Jeff Bridges	Duane Jackson
	Cybill Shepherd	Jacy Farrow
	Ben Johnson	Sam the Lion
	Cloris Leachman	Ruth Popper
	Ellen Burstyn	Lois Farrow
	Eileen Brennan	Genevieve
	Clu Gulager	Abilene
	Sam Bottoms	Billy
	Sharon Ullrick	Charlene Duggs
	Randy Quaid	Lester Marlow
	Joe Heathcock	The Sheriff
	Bill Thurman	Coach Popper
	Barc Doyle	Joe Bob Blanton
	Jessie Lee Fulton	Miss Mosey
	Gary Brockette	Bobby Sheen
	Helena Humann	Jimmie Sue
	Loyd Catlett	Leroy
	Robert Glenn	Gene Farrow
	John Hillerman	Teacher
	Janice E. O'Malley	Mrs. Clarg
	Floyd Mahaney	Oklahoma Patrolman
	Kimberly Hyde	Annie-Annie Martin
	Noble Willingham	Chester
	Marjorie Jay	Winnie Snips

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Director	Peter Bogdanovich
Writer	Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
Producer	Stephen J. Friedman, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider
Musician	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Phil Harris, Johnny Standley, Hank Thompson
Photography	Robert Surtees

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Part of: America Lost and Found - The BBS Story boxset

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences-namely, young people-and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set-works that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id.

The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show is one of the key films of the American cinema renaissance of the seventies. Set during the early fifties, in the loneliest Texas nowheresville to ever dust up a movie screen, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, focuses on the daily shuffles of three futureless teens-the enigmatic Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), the wayward jock Duane (Jeff Bridges), and the desperate-to-be-adored rich girl Jacy (Cybil Shepherd)-and the aging lost souls who bump up against them in the night like drifting tumbleweeds, including Cloris Leachman’s lonely housewife and Ben Johnson’s grizzled movie-house proprietor. Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer of Peter Bogdanovich's director's cut, supervised by Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Two audio commentaries, one from 1991, featuring Bogdanovich and actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman, and Frank Marshall; the other from 2009, featuring Bogdanovich
“The Last Picture Show”: A Look Back, (1999) and Picture This (1990), documentaries about the making of the film
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, a 2009 Q&A
Screen tests and location footage
Excerpts from a 1972 television interview with director François Truffaut about the New Hollywood
Theatrical trailers
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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