Since we talked a little bit about Wild Hogs (2007), let’s start some threads about the movies and television series made on the Turquoise Trail:

Many ranches and farms in our area were used for backdrops:

The Hughes Movie Set/Jarrot/Bonanza Creek Ranch (starting in 1950 with the movie Rangeland Empire and with the 1972 John Wayne movie The Cowboys)  http://www.bonanzacreekranch.com/filmography.html

Eaves Movie Ranch (the television series Empire and the movie Cheyenne Social Club 1969-Henry Fonda, Gunfighter with Kirk Douglas, Where Angels go Trouble Follows 1967)

Highway 14 and 41:
Easy Rider with Dennis Hopper and part-time Cerrillos Resident Peter Fonda

What else?????

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Well right off the top of my head, I’d have to add David Bowie in “Man Who Fell to Earth”, 1968 filmed partly in Madrid.  And of course “Young Guns” was filmed in Cerrillos.  The upcoming movie “Paul” filmed a couple nights in Madrid’s Mine Shaft Tavern last year.  As well as scenes of Toby Keith’s “Beer For My Horses” in February of 2008.

A western town was built & used for filming Silverado (1984) in the pasture across from the State Pen on Hwy 14. It headlined Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott Glenn as Emmett, Kevin Costner as Jake and Danny Glover as Malachi ‘Mal’ Johnson. We saw it recently on TV and the New Mexico scenery was stunning.

Just saw a movie named: “Cowboy” from 1958 with Glenn Ford, the cowpoke Ruiz, and Jack Lemmon, the tenderfoot, taking a herd from Mexico to the United States.  It starts off with being filmed by the Bonanza Creek Ranch on Highway 14.  Then they go into Mexico which is depicted by a guy riding a horse up Camel Rock.  They get to the town of Guadalupe which is Tesuque Pueblo.  There they have fiesta with a Rooster Pull and thing they call the “cattle game” in an adobe arena.  This is where a rider puts a ring on the horn of a bull that is protected by a lot of cows.

There is a church with twin open bell towers.

Then they pick up the herd just west of Black Mesa at a corral that belongs to Santa Clara Pueblo.

They have a cattle stampede at a big arroyo on that desolate piece on the highway to Santuario. 

Then they drive the herd down the Tesuque creek west of the Pueblo. 

They get to a railroad that might be at Santo Domingo by the sidings by the Rosario Pumice mine.

Four of the Transformer movies have New Mexico scenes as well as in studio production as well as Eli.