The Sixth Amendment and another Texas Chicken Ranch

In the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Burt Reynolds, playing a Texas sheriff, falls in love with Dolly Parton, portraying the good-natured, warm-hearted proprietor of a local brothel. That theatrical house of ill-repute was based on a real life bordello known as the La Grange Chicken Ranch.

Although many local residents supported the Chicken Ranch—and the entertainment and tax dollars it brought to Greater La Grange—its closing involved law enforcement at the highest levels of Texas government.