MOVIES - Feb. 20, 1987

Willie Nelson’s latest movie, “Red Headed Stranger”--based on Nelson’s 1975 narrative LP--was to open Thursday night at a benefit in Austin, Tex., where suggested dress was black tie or blue jeans. The film about a Western preacher’s fall from grace stars Nelson, Katharine Ross and Morgan Fairchild. A spokesman for Alive Films, the film’s distributor, said Thursday that “Red Headed Stranger” would not be shown in Los Angeles in the near future, though it is scheduled to open nationally today.