South Central New Mexico

“Lonely are the Brave” (1962), starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, filmed in Albuquerque. Based on Edward Abbey’s second novel, “The Brave Cowboy,” this film contains all of the sardonic irony of Abbey’s later novels. From a truck load of toilets being hauled west, signifying the deteriorating state of the West, to the protagonist’s derision directed at everything from the power company, government, penal system and the military, the plight of an individualist living in…

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“Four Faces West“ (1948), starring Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, filmed in El Morro, White Sands and Gallup. Filmed during the heyday of Westerns, “Four Faces West” was an anomaly compared to similar films where good guys and bad guys were instantly recognizable by the color of their hats. Not a single shot was fired in this film; there isn’t even a fist fight. Based on the short novel “Pasó Por Aqui” by Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the connection to New…

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Coyote County Loser (2009) Starring James Hobbs, Roy Black of Flying J Wranglers, co-produced by Alan Trever of ENMU-Roswell and filmed in Roswell, New Mexico. Residents of Lincoln and Chaves Counties will recognize the scenery early in Coyote County Loser as highways outside of Roswell. The protagonist, Jack Proctor played by Beau Clark, a “love doctor’ radio personality from Los Angeles is driving through the desolate area stumbles upon a struggling radio station and its assortment of hosts whose fix-it,…

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