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- DirectorRay KelloggStarsDon SullivanFred GrahamLisa SimoneA giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.Filmed near Dallas, Texas, the film was budgeted at $175,000 and was produced by Dallas drive-in theater chain owner Gordon McLendon[2] who wanted co-features for his main attractions. McLendon shot the film back to back with The Killer Shrews. Both films were feted as the first feature films shot in and produced in Dallas, and the first movies to premiere as double features. Unlike most double features released in the South, these films received national and even foreign distribution.
- DirectorRay KelloggStarsJames BestIngrid GoudeKen CurtisOn an isolated island, a small group of people is terrorized by giant voracious shrews during a hurricane.Shot outside of Dallas, Texas, it was produced back-to-back with The Giant Gila Monster. Now in the public domain. Principal photography took place outside of Dallas, Texas.[1] Special effects were provided by first-time director Kellogg, who served as the head of 20th Century Fox's special effects department throughout most of the 1950s. This low-budget feature was regarded as one of the more successful "regional films". Unlike other regional films, however, it received national and even foreign distribution.
- DirectorJosé FerrerStarsPat BooneBobby DarinPamela TiffinA brother and sister find romance and good clean fun at the state fair in Dallas.Shot in and around Fair Park in Dallas, and on-location in Kaufman and Becker, Texas.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
- DirectorLarry BuchananStarsTommy KirkYvonne CraigByron LordDop leads his fellow Martians to Earth on an interplanetary quest for females. Dop proves that Martians have impeccable taste when one of his first conquests turns out to be sexy scientist Dr. Marjorie Bolen.Over a two-week shooting schedule, Buchanan shot Mars Needs Women in his hometown of Dallas, pretending it to be Houston. Faced with his usual meager budget, he resorted to using available spaces, including office buildings, to serve as NASA headquarters. Typical shoddy "B" movie production values are evident throughout the film. Southland Life Insurance Building is clearly visible as the Martians drive among the humans. Other prominent Dallas landmarks, including Southern Methodist University, are also featured. Footage from a SMU Homecoming game is used, and the Homecoming Queen is one of the Martian's "recruits". Footage was also shot at Dallas Fair Park (Planetarium, Lagoon, and Science Building). Additional footage was shot at Dallas Love Field, where a man is shown reading the Houston Chronicle, and at the Gypsy Room on Harry Hines Blvd. One scene with dancer Bubbles Cash was shot at an actual Dallas striptease bar The Athens Strip, located on what is now Lower Greenville Ave. Other scenes were shot inside the empty White Rock Lake Pumphouse, once used when the lake was a city water source (the City of Dallas Water Dept eventually converted the building to offices on the southwest end of White Rock Lake). The scene at the NASA "Space Center" was filmed in Richardson, Texas, north of Dallas, in the Antenna Building, which belonged to Collins Radio, a NASA contractor; their large radio satellite dish antennas can be seen in some background shots.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsBurt LancasterRobert RyanWill GeerRogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.Written by Dalton Trumbo and starring Burt Landcaster. Filmed at Dealy Plaza.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsPaul WilliamsWilliam FinleyJessica HarperA disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.Filmed at The Majestic theatre.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'HerlihyIn a dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, young police officer Alex Murphy is brutally murdered by a ruthless gang, only to be resurrected by a powerful corporation as the cyborg RoboCop, who soon seeks revenge on his killers.Set in Detroit, but shot all over Dallas. The OCP headquarters is actually Dallas City Hall, stretched via special effects to a 95 story height. Some interior scenes of OCP were shot in the Plaza of the Americas atrium, while the 40th floor of the Renaissance Hotel served as the OCP boardroom (with Fountain Place clearly visible just outside the windows). The historic Dallas High School building was a stand in for the Detroit Police Department, while the interior scenes at Detroit PD were filmed in what is now Sons of Hermann Hall, and the Dallas Municipal Building on Harwood was the setting for Detroit’s City Hall.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsEric BogosianEllen GreeneLeslie HopeA rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.Talk Radio follows a Dallas-based talk radio personality whose program is about to be syndicated nationally, but his acerbic attitude incites a portion of his listener base to violence. While most of the film takes place inside the radio station studio, Dallas’ skyline is used in several establishing shots, and KDFW’s tower was used for the station's tower. Longtime Dallas television anchor Chip Moody had a small part as the radio station’s announcer.
- DirectorJoe CampStarsPeter BreckDeborah WalleyPatsy GarrettA stray dog saves two kidnapped children.Shot in Denton, Dallas, and McKinney, Texas. The park scenes were shot in Dallas.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard JordanA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.The film shot both interiors and exteriors in Dallas and Fort Worth. Producers saved $3 million by finding readily available locations in numerous Dallas buildings, including the Apparel Mart at Dallas Market Center (The Great Hall), Oz Restaurant and Nightclub (The Love Shop) and Pegasus Place (Sandman headquarters), the Fort Worth Water Gardens, and the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston. The exterior shots depicting the Sandmen’s headquarters are of the Pegasus Place building off I-35E, former home to Zales and Exxon Mobil.
- DirectorRon HowardStarsCharles Martin SmithClint HowardLeslie KingA group of high school friends form a rock band.Directed by Ron Howard. Filming took place in Dallas, Texas, at Lake Highlands High School and at the Town East Mall for the Battle of the Bands event.
- CreatorDavid JacobsStarsLarry HagmanKen KerchevalPatrick DuffyJ.R. Ewing, a Texas oil baron, uses manipulation and blackmail to achieve his ambitions, both business and personal. He often comes into conflict with his brother Bobby, his arch-enemy Cliff Barnes and his long-suffering wife Sue Ellen.
- DirectorDavid ByrneStarsDavid ByrneJohn GoodmanAnnie McEnroeA small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.Filmed all around Dallas and North Texas, including in NorthPark center. set in the fictional town of Virgil, Texas.
- DirectorDennis DuganStarsMichael OliverJohn RitterJack WardenA young boy just short of a monster is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as he pushes them to the limits.Shot all around Dallas and North Texas. Much of the film was shot in Dallas and the surrounding suburbs. Most notably, the scene were Junior goes to the fair was filmed in Fair Park, but months before the actual opening of the State Fair. Producers hired thousands of extras to populate Fair Park, and paid to have the rides running months ahead of schedule.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.A large part of the film was shot in and around Dallas. Keen eyes will note that the Independence Day parade was filmed on Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. After the parade, Kovic travels to Syracuse and attends a rally against the Kent State shootings at a college; the college scenes were filmed on the campus of SMU. Regulars of Milo Butterfingers will recognize the iconic bar where Kovic gets in a fight with a Korean war vet.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsLuke WilsonOwen WilsonNed DowdThree friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.Dallas natives Luke and Owen Wilson both made their feature-length film debuts in Wes Anderson’s directorial debut, Bottle Rocket. The film boosted their careers. It was shot around many notable Dallas locations like the sadly recently destroyed Highland Park Soda Fountain. The motel where Luke’s character Anthony meets a maid and falls in love is in Hillsboro, and the future thieves learn to shoot guns in a field just outside of town. Back in Dallas, Anthony and Dignan plot their next job at their accomplice Bob’s house, which is none other than the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gillin House near Northwest Highway. Northpark Mall is the site of a bookstore that the trio rob for practice, before tackling the big job of Hinckley’s Cold Storage (now the Texas Ice House) on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsRichard GereHelen HuntFarrah FawcettA wealthy gynecologist's ideal life is thrown into turmoil when the women closest to him begin to affect his life in unexpecting ways.Dr. T and the Women, a Robert Altman film, has a scene in which the character Kate (Farrah Fawcett) visits stores in the area of the Neiman Marcus court, then is seen around the Dillard's court fountain—which she eventually finds herself in, frolicking and splashing in the buff.[21]
- DirectorKimberly PeirceStarsHilary SwankChloë SevignyPeter SarsgaardA young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.While set in Nebraska, it was filmed all over North Texas, and most prominently in Dallas. Greenville, Texas, was chosen as the stand in to depict the midwestern setting. Downtown Greenville is featured as Teena walks through town and toward the courthouse, and the Hunt County Courthouse is clearly shown as Teena walks up the steps and goes inside. Curiously, the filmmakers made no attempt to hide the name on the courthouse as the camera pans upward.
- DirectorJohn A. DavisStarsDebi DerryberryRob PaulsenMegan CavanaghAn eight-year-old boy genius and his friends must rescue their parents after the adults are abducted by aliens.Created at DNA Productions in Irving, Texas.
- DirectorShane CarruthStarsShane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey GoodenFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.Operating on a shoestring budget, Carruth shot the film in and around Addison and Richardson, after extensively storyboarding his planned shots via 35mm photos. Notable scenes were shot in and around Addison Circle park, where engineers Aaron and Abe discuss their invention, and a U-Haul near Marsh Lane and Belt Line Road is filmed where the engineers store their time travel device. Later, Aaron and Abe sit on the patio of a Sonic Drive In adjacent to Addison Airport to discuss how they’ll use the time travel device. It's said that Carruth took almost two years to post-produce and edit the film, and that he was close to bonding the project at several points.
- DirectorMichael MillerStarsChuck NorrisRon SilverSteven KeatsA sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a silent maniacal murderer who, as the result of secret genetic experimentation by an unethical scientist, has the ability to self-heal.Filming began on July 30, 1981 in Dallas. It took 30 days. Director Michael Miller called the film "kung fu meets Frankenstein
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepKurt RussellCherA worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.Silkwood was shot largely in New Mexico and Texas on a budget of $10 million. The film was shot on location in Albuquerque and Los Alamos in New Mexico, and Dallas, Howe, Texas City, and Tom Bean in Texas.
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsRobert DuvallTess HarperBetty BuckleyA broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.Shot by Palmer, Waxahachie, and Arlington. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas.
- DirectorRobert BentonStarsSally FieldLindsay CrouseEd HarrisIn north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.Filmed in Waxahachie and Ellis County.