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Produced as an experiment, “Mr.

|| Texas” has amazed religious leaders

H and motion picture authorities alike

P during its first year of‘showings. At | the film’s preview in Hollywood ; Bowl on October 1, 1951, a record ! throng of 25,000 persons jammed into the huge amphitheater for the largest attendance any motion picture has ever had in this country. During the past year and a half of showings an estimated 4,000,000 persons have seen the film. From this number of viewers, over 100,000 have made decisions to accept the Christian way of life, according to records on file in the Graham film organization’s v Washington, D. C. office. Both figures v indicate new highs in evangelistic circles.

The story revolves around the Billy Graham Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas. To produce the film, an entire motion picture company moved from Hollywood to Texas and made all of the Texas scenes in the vicinity of Fort Worth. The rodeo scenes, some of the most beautiful color photography being seen today, were made at Hardin Simmons University, and feture the world champion Mayo Rodeo Riders, together with the r famous Hardin Simmons Cowboy I Band.

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