The ‘Texas Rangers HQ’ is also a bank – New Mexico Bank & Trust, 320 Gold Avenue SW at 4th Street NW in Albuquerque. The robberies attract the attention of about-to-retire Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton (deservedly Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges) and his Indian-Mexican partner Alberto ( Gil Birmingham). The second robbery, at ‘Texas Midlands’ in ‘Olney’, where the old timer isn’t impressed by the brothers’ claim that they’re “not stealing from you, we’re stealing from the bank” and takes potshots at their fleeing car, is a real bank, JP Stone Community Bank 201 South Abilene Avenue, Portales. The three fortuitously ‘cross’ shaped windows opposite the bank are not the invention of the film’s Art Department, they’re the real windows of St James Episcopal Church. This is not a bank but the office of internet company Suddenlink, 1106 North Main Street in Clovis, New Mexico. The ‘Texas Midlands Bank, Archer City’ is the target of their first not-too professional attempt at a hold-up. The flat, wide landscapes are convincingly Texan but astonishingly the whole film was shot in New Mexico. The ‘West Texas’ setting of Taylor Sheridan’s script, is clearly in the grip of financial recession, its roads littered with foreclosure signs and ‘loan’ billboards – the twin trap in which so many blue-collar workers find themselves.įacing the loss of his family ranch, straight-arrow Toby Howard ( Chris Pine) is driven to enlist the help of his shadier brother Tanner ( Ben Foster) in a plan to rob banks to pay off a reverse mortgage and save the property for his estranged kids.

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