Lawrenceburg and Anderson County may not have a bustling film industry, but it has been immortalized in film at least once. In the 1967 film The Flim-Flam Man, the car chase scene was filmed in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, and the courthouse scene was filmed at the historic Anderson County courthouse. One scene, starring rodeo performer and actor Slim Pickens, was filmed in Winchester, Kentucky. In Lexington, Kentucky, the Vaughn Tobacco Warehouses were converted to soundstages and used for interior filming.The Flim-Flam Man is the story of Mordecai C. Jones, M.B.S., C.S., D.D. (“Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing”), a con-man drifting and dealing his way across the American South. Jones is played by veteran actor George C. Scott, who is best known as General Patton in the famous 1970 biopic and General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Read the rest of this entry »

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