About two years ago, Carrie and I wrote a long travel piece for the South Magazine about South of the Border as a fading reminder of the glorious American car culture, and testimony to the acute business genius of founder Alan Schafer. While drinking Mad Dog in a honeymoon suite, we talked about making a documentary about Schafer, who not only built the tourist trap from the ground up, but was also indicted for tampering with local elections, and may or may not have become a Howard Hughes-esque recluse later in life while living at S.O.B.
Well, it seems two students at the College of Charleston beat us to the punch, and their documentary is set to debut April 25th at the Charleston Film Festival. Here's the trailer. It looks like they did a good job. I can't hate, I'm glad somebody did this because it is truly one of the great American stories.
Here is the blog of one of the directors.
Watch the moment at about 1:38 seconds in, when the confused bearded guy is trying to figure out who is making money in this situaion. His fat wife and kid behind him almost get into a fight!
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