Last Picture Show, The (1971) - (Movie Clip) Beauty Is Truth

Last Picture Show, The - (Original Trailer)

A group of new stars and some classic character actors appear in Peter Bogdanovich's movie of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show (1971).

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Trashy Behavior

Texas teen Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and pals are ashamed, bringing mute Billy (Sam Bottoms) back to town after buying a prostitute for him, called out by pool hall and theater owner Sam (Academy Award winner Ben Johnson), in The Last Picture Show, 1971, Peter Bogdanovich directing, from Larry McMurtry's novel.

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) She Was Just A Girl

High schooler Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), pal Billy (Sam Bottoms) in tow, with mentor Sam "The Lion" (Ben Johnson), reconciled after a disagreement, fishing outside town, in 1951 Texas, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Too Rough For Me

Opening scenes, Sonny (Timothy Bottons) in sleepy Anarene, TX, 1951, picks up pal Billy (brother, Sam Bottoms) and visits Sam (Ben Johnson) at the pool hall, who comments on last night's football game, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Is It Something Bad?

Texas high school senior Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) brings his football coach's lonely wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman), whom he's just met, home after a visit to the doctor for an unspecified ailment, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.

Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Roughneck For You

Outside what amounts to a whole-town Christmas party (in novelist and co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s fictional 1951 Anarene, Texas) Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) frustrates jock boyfriend Duane (Jeff Bridges), contriving an excuse allowing her to slip away with Lester (Randy Quaid) to a promising country-club party in a bigger town, Peter Bogdanovich directing, in The Last Picture Show, 1971.