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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
1982 · Directed by Colin Higgins · 114 min · Comedy · 10 frames
Tagline
With Burt and Dolly, this much fun just couldn't be legal!
Crew
- Screenplay: Larry L. King, Peter Masterson, Colin Higgins
- Cinematography: William A. Fraker
- Edited by: Nicholas Eliopoulos, Walter Hannemann, David Bretherton, Pembroke J. Herring
- Music: Patrick Williams
- Produced by: Robert L. Boyett, Edward K. Milkis, Thomas L. Miller
Cast
- Dolly Parton as Mona Stangley
- Burt Reynolds as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
- Dom DeLuise as Melvin P. Thorpe
- Charles Durning as Governor of Texas
- Jim Nabors as Deputy Fred
- Robert Mandan as Senator Wingwood
- Lois Nettleton as Dulcie Mae
- Theresa Merritt as Jewel
- Noah Beery Jr. as Edsel
- Raleigh Bond as Mayor
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions
- Budget: $27,500,000
- Box office: $69,702,172
- Themes: governor, crusader, brothel, texas, musical, based on play or musical, conservative, prostitution, tv reporter, madame
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