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Name: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Released: 1982-7-23
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

R
1h 54m
1982

46%

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas documents in rousing song and dance a new Texas Legend, which now joins the Alamo as an historical institution immortalized in story, song, book, play and movie. The demise of the real-life Chicken Ranch inspired the musical stage play, and now the big screen version stars Burt Reynolds as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd and Dolly Parton as the Chicken Ranch's proprietress, Miss Mona. The two join together not only in romance, but to fight big city TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.

Director:

Colin Higgins

Producer:

Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis, Robert L. Boyett

Writer:

Larry L. King, Peter Masterson, Colin Higgins

Cast:

Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors, Barry Corbin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

46%

Reviews

48 Hills

Dennis Harvey

Managing to find a silly, escapist side to police corruption—not to mention women, sex, and the law...

The music and the dancing are poor at best, and an embalmed kind of perfectionist's poor at that. Then there's director Collin Higgins. This guy's inability to create rhythm, in scenes as well as between them, could leach the life out of any script.

...neither Parton nor Reynolds seem comfortable with the enforced intimacy...

May 16, 2021

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Buffalo Courier-Express

Jay Boyar

This isn't a very engaging idea. Neither outrageous enough to be funny nor apt enough to be clever, it's a rickety hook to hang a movie on.

September 21, 2020

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