That was a good one. The book was better. I thought about listing it as well as Hud, based on McMurtrey's first novel Horseman, Pass By. In both cases a major figure in the novel was virtually eliminated from the movie.tallguy606 wrote:My favorite movie of all time, "The Last Picture Show." I grew up in small-town Kansas, it really captured the flavor of small-town life in the 50s and 60s.
Probably why I enjoyed the television mini-series Lonesome Dove, and The Good Old Boys so much. They're almost verbatim reproductions of McMurtrey's and Kelton's arguably best works.
Maybe that should be another thread - "novels Hollywood ruined".
Ken