The best little whorehouse in Texas
2010
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Under the proprietorship of the lively buxom madam, Miss Mona (Dolly Parton), business at Chicken Ranch brothel is booming. Town Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds) is Mona's boyfriend, a down-home boy who covers up for illegal goings-on. This convenient arrangement is disrupted when the Chicken Ranch is targeted by moralistic TV media crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) who exposes it as "the Devil's playhouse" on his glitzy, song-and-dance TV news show. Melvin will stop at nothing to shut the place down. Based on the true story of the reporter who attempted to close down the real life "Chicken Ranch" brothel in LaGrange, Texas, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, started life as a Broadway show and became the most successful movie-musical of the 80s.
Durning, Charles, 1933-2012, actorHiggins, Colin, 1941-1988, director, screenwriterParton, Dolly, 1946-, actorReynolds, Burt, 1936-2018, actorKing, Larry L.Nabors, Jim, 1930-2017, actorMasterson, Peter, screenwriter
United States : Universal Studios, ©1982.Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2010.©1982
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Based upon the stage play written by Larry L. King.Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.In English.
Director, Colin Higgins ; screenplay, Larry L. King, Peter Masterson, Colin Higgins.
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors.
Censorship classification: M.
DVD, Region 4, PAL.
791.4372
English
362555
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Penrith | DVD | 791.4372 BES | Censorship classification: MAvailable |
St Marys | DVD | 791.4372 BES | Censorship classification: MOnloan - Due: 15 Nov 2024 |