One could tell by the Texas state flag hanging alongside the 48-starred version of Old Glory over the entrance of the First National Tower.
The old bank building was dressed up to be in a movie, and so were the people who moved along its sidewalks in ’50s vintage fedoras, wide-lapelled suits, long skirts and pillbox hats.
Eisenhower-era Chevys, Fords and Buicks rolled by in the streets of what, for a few hours on Saturday, was supposed to be downtown Fort Worth circa 1957.
The cast and crew of "The Killer Inside Me” had come to town after three weeks of shooting in Guthrie and were filming "general street scenes” of star Casey Affleck, dressed in a white cowboy hat and dark blue suit, walking among a crowd of "pedestrians” who were actually locally recruited extras.
"It’s the first chance we’ve had to give some real scale to the movie,” British producer Andrew Eaton said. "It’s the first time we’ve shot on streets of this size with all the extras.”
The $13 million crime thriller, directed by Michael Winterbottom and based on a 1952 pulp novel by Anadarko-born author Jim Thompson, has been filming at Oklahoma locations since May 18, with two and a half weeks still to go in Cordell, Tulsa and Enid.
"Oklahoma’s been fantastic; it’s been really great,” Eaton said. "The only problem we had was Casey Affleck, who injured his back picking up Jessica Alba. So we had to stop for four days because he’d pulled a muscle in his lower back.”
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