Soon other actors from “Killers of the Flower Moon” stopped by as well.
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“He said anytime he does a movie, he tries to see a museum,” O’Connor said, adding that the actor had once read for a TV version of “The Outsiders.” He has since been photographed at other museums in the area, including the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. Okies helped me.”ĭiCaprio, who was in northeast Oklahoma for filming of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” showed up to the Outsiders House during business hours and took a tour in July. He started a GoFundMe to raise money for repairs and restorations. I saw a house from one of my favorite movies,” said O’Connor, 52. And I mean that in the true sense of the word. Still, when he would crisscross the country on tours or just traveling, he’d always make a beeline for Oklahoma. Before he embarked on the project, he hadn't been sure what he was going to do next, having plowed through most of his savings. The building was in disrepair when O’Connor bought it back in 2015 after visiting the tenants and tracking down the owner. The house was home to the Curtis brothers and a hangout for their Greaser friends. “The Outsiders” takes place in Oklahoma in the 1960s and features rival teen gangs: the Socs, short for Socials, and the Greasers. The museum also includes memorabilia from the film set, including furniture, photos, posters and the leather jacket worn by Dillon's character, Dallas Winston. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. It’s a family museum.”ĭirector Francis Ford Coppola shot the film in Tulsa with a young cast of future A-listers, including C. He said visitors have ranged “from 8 to 80 - to everything in between. “That was our ‘Gone with the Wind.’ That was our ‘American Graffiti.’ Every generation finds the cool archetypes of who we could be, and that for me was the movie,” O’Connor said in a recent interview inside the house. Hinton's classic 1967 novel of the same name. The modest white bungalow with a wide front porch was used as a central set in the 1983 film “The Outsiders,” which was based on S.E.
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