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25 best Texas movies of all time
DFW.com ^ | July 16, 2014 | Cary Darling, Robert Philpot and Preston Jones

Posted on 07/18/2014 10:23:53 AM PDT by EveningStar

We round up our 25 favorite films set in Texas. If you’ve seen them, maybe it's time to see them again. If you haven’t seen them, what are you waiting for?

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinema; film; hollywood; moviereview; movies; texas
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It was a composite of small town/rural life all over the south.
Pappy Lee O’Daniels was the Governor of Texas, the song You Are My Sunshine was written by someone in Louisiana, there was a town mentioned (can’t remember the name right now) that is in Oklahoma. It is my favorite movie of all times and my earliest memories were of the small east Texas town that my mother was from and the whole movie reminded me of Cleveland Texas in the 1940’s.


101 posted on 07/19/2014 7:52:41 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: MisterArtery

I have been to that bar.... once.....


102 posted on 07/19/2014 8:04:27 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: octex

I never met him. I worked for the cya and he was one of our celebrity ex-inmates.


103 posted on 07/19/2014 8:42:08 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Advanced technological development.)
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To: Ditter
It was a composite of small town/rural life all over the south. Pappy Lee O’Daniels was the Governor of Texas, the song You Are My Sunshine was written by someone in Louisiana, there was a town mentioned (can’t remember the name right now) that is in Oklahoma. It is my favorite movie of all times and my earliest memories were of the small east Texas town that my mother was from and the whole movie reminded me of Cleveland Texas in the 1940’s.

Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. I just remember it being set in Mississippi. Though you're right; the governor in the movie was based on a governor of Texas.

It was Jimmie Davis who wrote You Are My Sunshine. Also you neglected to mention the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was also part of the plot.

104 posted on 07/20/2014 7:12:42 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator

I had forgotten about the connection to Tennessee Valley Authority. There were probably other places mentioned. The Oklahoma town was Tishamingo.

The song You Are My Sunshine was a very popular song, my mother sang it to me when I was young.


105 posted on 07/20/2014 7:26:37 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

That is a really pleasant mental image.

A Mother singing “You Are My Sunshine” to her little child.


106 posted on 07/20/2014 5:26:40 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

Yes :)


107 posted on 07/20/2014 6:02:58 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: morphing libertarian

The way the ‘Texans’ talked and acted was corny. 4th generation and I’ve never heard any Texan talk or act like that.


108 posted on 07/22/2014 12:29:06 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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