The Last Picture Show: Sweeping

Timothy Buttons..

one of the most haunting scenes in film..for a different look at the talented Timothy Bottoms try to find a clip from ..:Thats my Bush"

The scene is all the more powerful since Sam Bottoms just died in real life of a brain tumor. He was 53. This film was his debut and he was a solid character actor for many years.

Timothy Bottoms was awesome in this scene....a real talent.

this scene is one of the saddest things i've seen in a movie

One of the most underrated films ever. Several scenes, performances, and lines from this piece have remained with me to this day-and the last and only time that I saw it was when it was currently running at the movies.

Can you giveme the title and pulishers name I would like to read thiis book

@cochranexyz Texasville was BAD , Read " Duane;s depressed.

@cochranexyz BOOK WAS TERRIBLE. FILM WORSE. " Duane's Depressed" and "When the Light Goes" are really good reads. "

Sam the Lion.

one of the best movie quotes of all time thank you for posting it

Excellent Movie only surpassed by The French Connection in 1971 Oscars!

A kind of Sisyphus but with a broom, not a rock.

Easily inside of my personal top 5 most powerful, haunting, and memorable scenes in the history of film.

I remember seeing this film for the first time. This scene really got to me.

@thisisnotzimbabwe yes, i agree texasville is a big letdown after picture show. the few good things about texasville were actually found in the novel. sonny was the heart and soul of lps. it was a big mistake to completely change the character of duane from lps to what he became in Txville. sure people change in 30 years, but for duane to go for an impulsive character to the voice of reason was just too much. it may as well have been two different people.

@thisisnotzimbabwe paper moon is indeed a far superior film to txville.

magistral retrato de la soledad del dolor y la desolacion, que terrible!

It would have been a metaphor for futility if no one would have cared, if no one would have hollered on his behalf or bothered to pick him up. This movie portrayed what I grew up calling the good old days. It's a good reminder to those who are trying to take us back, to the good old days. A great movie.

...."a ... poignant metaphor for the futility of existence .... " is a brilliant summation of this powerful scene , Ransomriggs. Thanks for sharing.

This doesn't show the futility of existence-just that LOVE is the only thing that matters.

This showed that the best movies can be made on the cheap.

May be the saddest scene of all time.

Great movie...the book was even better.

Tim had to do this scene in real life
he hates this film

My goodness, this is just far too sad to watch.

Sam the Lion wouldn't of taken shit off those old pudknockers in the street. He would have beat the hell out of them for disrespecting the remains of Billy.

theres nothing left.... :(

Brilliant, a metaphor of the white south that blames young victims for the crimes of elders

Great Movie So many Memorable Scenes!😊🐃🎬🎥

when he came out that pool hall it is now a restaurant. best hamburger I have ever had in my life,

First and last scene with the Bottoms brothers.

There are so many scenes that make this a magnificent movie, but this scene is probably the best, yet hardest to watch. Billy's death was the metaphor for the death of the town.

Peter Bogdanovich passed today....Rest In Peace

The way those men just stood there and talked…. That scene, broke my heart.

Poor kid
Billy didn't have enought sense to stay out of the road, and you didn't have enought compassion or respect to pick him up off the street and show a little sympathy

This is a scene that ALL students of film, along with all students of psychology should watch about once a year.

that's timothy bottoms real-life brother, what a moving scene

What really makes this scene is in all callous remarks by the truckers no caring represents the mundanity of life in the town and showing Sonny’s breaking point

its one of those rare times that the movie is better than the book and in this case 'much better'.

I heard director Peter Bogdanovich cried after shooting this scene.