About the Movie:
Trivia from IMDb.com (updates to come as found)
- Cameo: [S.E. Hinton] as a teacher.
- The basketball game was shot in the gymnasium of what was, at that time, Broken Arrow Senior High, Broken Arrow Oklahoma. To make it look like a nighttime game, they put thick black paper over the windowpanes. This added to the heat generated by the summer weather, as they were filming daylight hours.
- Several mock-up sets duplicating Tex's house were built inside the National Guard Armory building on the campus of Broken Arrow Senior High.
S.E. Hinton on the movie:
Tex was the first of my books to be filmed, and it introduced me to Matt Dillon, who went on to star in two more of my films, Outsiders and Rumble Fish.
I also met Emilio Estevez on Tex, who went on to star in two more of my films, The Outsiders and That was Then...
Emilio also wrote the screenplay for That Was Then.
Tex was just plain fun to shoot. My horse, who I based Tex's horse on in the book, played Tex's horse in the movie and did a great job!
This is a really good movie - captured the spirit of the book very well; and contained some great performances.
(I play the typing teacher. I was supposed to look terrified, which was lucky, because I was.)
Used with permission from S.E. Hinton
The Official S.E. Hinton website
