Not P, but a western with an ATD vibe...

[David Kilroy]

Ever heard of a Christopher Walken / Margot Kidder / Geoffrey Lewis / Bo
Brundin subdued-psychedelic western titled Shoot The Sun Down?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083070/

https://inputs.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/interview-with-david-leeds-director-of-shoot-the-sun-down/

Director David Leeds:
"The.... original title of the first draft of the screenplay was actually *Mr.
Rainbow*.

"I thought the combination of ‘shoot’ and sun down, somewhat of a play on
sundown and also the literal image of the sun being shot down conveyed a
bit of the Western, desert feel. It implied both a tearing down of the
generic image – a deconstruction if you will, plus a reference to the end
of all the characters – their dreams and aspirations, as well as those of
the Navajo – in the sense that pollution by the white man brings
destruction.

"The film was actually shot in 1976, on a six-week (six days a week)
shooting schedule in late August and September. The locations were, just
outside of Santa Fe, at an old Western movie ranch, where we built the
Mexican town set. (The Western town was where parts of *The Cowboys*
(1972), with John Wayne, directed by Mark Rydell was filmed.) Our set was
subsequently used in *Silverado* (1985). It was the town where Kevin Kline
gets a gun while dressed in his underwear, and goes after the guy that had
his hat – where the action takes place when he runs into Brian Dennehy....
We also shot outside of El Paso, at the Hueco Tanks – the site of the
Navajo Village, and a little mini village outside of Las Cruces – where
they all gather before going out to ‘save’ the Navajos. We also shot some
general exterior stuff in Chaco Canyon. I was the first person to use it
for filming, and we stayed in the trailers where the original archeological
excavation team stayed.

"The desert dune stuff was in Alamogordo, New Mexico (where they did the
first test of the A bomb) at the White Sands Park and missile testing
range. (This was the scene, earlier, of the horse race in *Bite the Bullet*
(1975) with Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen.) There was a serious
production problem there. The sand there is normally very white – it’s
actually gypsum- like snow. In September, it was our last location; it
actually snowed, after we had been shooting for several days. Supposedly it
was the first snow this early since 1880."
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