Show me the money...Famous movies with SMU

[BoazHoes]

Yeah sure you have never seen the movie Spaz.....nice disclaimer.

[Spaz]

Ya got me....I'm a HUGE Richard Gere fan...

[MustangSally]

I saw most of that movie one boring night on HBO. The weirdest thing about that movie was how it ended. I mean Richard Gere is driving down some highway outside Dallas and gets picked up by a tornado, car and all, and blown to MEXICO?!?!?! And a pregnant mexican lady is about to give birth and he is there to miraculously deliver the baby. Who wrote this story and what drugs were they on at the time?

Spaz, I almost completely forgot about that whole whataburger commercial thing. I do recall that the mess was all on your side of the room. Way to blow my shot at stardom, buddy.

[Spaz]

Face it Mustang Sally, your's is a face for radio.....

[MustangStealth]

Spaz, you can comment on appearances when you get a haircut.

[Spaz]

Whatever, man, EVERYONE loves a Hockey Mullet

[MrMustang1965]

I can't believe that NO ONE has posted this 'classic' with several SMU greats in it!

RKO Sportscope: Football's Mighty Mustang (1950)

A sports short, kicking off the 1950 college-football season, featuring Kyle Rote,the All-America football player of the Southern Methodist University Mustangs from Dallas. In the last game of the 1949 season, the vastly-underdog Mustangs, minus the services of their injured 1948 Hesiman Trophy winner, Doak Walker, came close to beating the undefeated Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in a 27-20 loss, thanks primarily to the exploits of Kyle Rote. The latter made the 1950 All-American team and went on to a stellar career playing for the professional New York Giants, before going on to a career as an acclaimed network sportscaster.

Credited cast members are:

Matty Bell, head coach of the SMU Mustangs
Kyle Rote
[deleted] McKissick

Numerous campus scenes including Ownby Stadium.

[NavyCrimson]

hey '65...

where can we find that to purchase?

(if even available)

any ideas?!

[MrMustang1965]

N&C: It was produced by RKO Pathe Pictures, Inc. and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. You might try their offices in Los Angeles to see if it's still available. Also keep an eye out on ESPN Classic Channel. It might run there sometime.

Here's another 'classic' that had some SMU students called "The SMU 50" in it. "The Big Show" (1936) with Gene Autry and his horse, Champion, Smiley Burnette and Kay Hughes and William Newell. Filmed at the Texas Centennial in Dallas, Autry confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double.

When cowboy star Tom Ford (Autry) disappears, Wilson (William Newell) gets his double Gene Autry to impersonate him. But Ford owes gangster Rico $10,000 and Rico (Harry Worth) arrives to collect. He fails to get the money but learns that Autry is an impersonator and now blackmails Wilson and his movie studio.

[MrMustang1965]

And from 1947, "Sing and Be Happy: Let's Sing a College Song". Universal's "Sing and Be Happy" series was their contribution to the audience-participation sing-a-longs such as the "Community Sing" series from Columbia. The singing group in the Universal shorts was called "The Rhythm Masters" and they were ever bit as obscure as Columbia's "Song Spinners." This entry has campus footage from five colleges in the USA, and it was no coincidence that four of the five had football teams ranked high in the polls of that time. The exception was the University of Maine but it was included because the producers wrongfully concluded that the audiences across America all knew the words to "The Stein Song." Most didn't, and still don't. The songs include Notre Dame's "Victory Song"; "Peruna"(the name of the Shetland pony mascot) from Southern Methodist University; "Rambling Wreck" from the Georgia Institute of Technology, better known as Georgia Tech, and the University of California's "Hail to California."

[MustangSally]

Also in that movie "The Big Show" were the Light Crust Doughboys. Jeeze those guys are old. in 1997, they cut an album with the SMU Mustang Band. It was called "The High Road to the Hilltop" and it's still available at the bookstore. The album actually went to the second ground of the Grammys. Just a little SMU trivia for you there.

[Topper]

There was no visual in this one but- in the 60s on an episode of "The Jackie Gleason Show" - the Honeymooners were in Ireland. A bartender told an Irish patron of a pub that "there was big news from America". The patron replied: "Dont tell me Notre Dame beat Southern Methodist again!"

[PonyTime]

Dallas Hall



Milos

[mavsrage311]

Not a movie, but the SMU campus and Dallas Hall are pretty prominent in a scene of Prison Break.

[82Pony]

Another random one:
In Gilligan's Island, the "professor" supposedly received degrees from USC, UCLA, SMU, and TCU. Maybe they thought it was funny to throw in two sets of rivals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCk83FDTIw