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In GOING HOME, January-Michael Vincent plays nineteen-year-former "Jimmy Graham," who decides to visit his father "Harry" (Robert Mitchum) in prison house, after not having contact with him for years. Upon arriving at the prison, he finds to his dismay that Harry had been released months ago. Jimmy decides to seek him out, still bitter that, while in a drunken rage, Harry had murdered Jimmy'due south female parent fifteen years earlier. The film marked the feature-picture directorial debut for television producer Herbert B. Leonard. Leonard and Robert Mitchum complained about the last editing of the film by then MGM president and chief executive officeholder James T. Aubrey, Jr., who did not give the film an opening entrada or any not-public previews. GOING HOME, which was originally rated R, was recut past Aubrey to gain a GP rating before its release (see posters below). Aubrey cut xx-one minutes from the motion picture, including the role of actress Sylvia Miles, as a housewife involved with Jimmy Graham; several minutes from a rape scene; and one scene involving nudity. The pic apace closed its limited run in only four cities after one calendar week and, of class, was not a financial success for the studio or director Herbert B. Leonard, who had agreed to piece of work for a deferred bacon. Pecker Walker 's score for the picture has non had a release. (A portion of the film was shot in my home town of McKeesport, PA.) Jan-Michael Vincent was nominated for a Gold Globe Honor every bit All-time Supporting Role player - Motility Picture. He lost to Ben Johnson for THE LAST Movie SHOW. Jan-Michael Vincent and Robert Mitchum in GOING Dwelling house
  GOING Domicile was recut by the studio and then shut to the film's release that there was no time to print up new posters. So new rating stickers were pasted over the rating symbol of the old posters.  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Posted: | Mar 8, 2019 - 11:46 PM | | | | By: | Bob DiMucci (Member) |
THE MECHANIC starred Charles Bronson as an crumbling hitman who befriends a young man (January-Michael Vincent) who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually information technology becomes clear that someone has betrayed them. THE MECHANIC was the offset motion-picture show that Bronson shot primarily in the U.S. since THIS Property IS CONDEMNED (1966), in which he was a supporting role player. From the mid to late 1960s, Bronson acted in a few episodes of American television series, but began to proceeds prominence as the star of numerous European-made Western and action films. By 1971, Bronson had become 1 of the biggest stars in Europe, and his popularity in the U.S. was ascending. The film was originally to exist directed by Monte Hellman, who had critical but not financial success in 1971 with the road movie TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, only subsequently a few weeks the film's producers, Irwin Winkler And Robert Chartoff, switched studios and brought in Michael Winner, who would be directing Bronson for a 2d time, subsequently CHATO'S Land. Winner would go on to direct Bronson in four boosted films, including Death WISH (1974), one of the near successful films of their respective careers. In January 1972, while THE MECHANIC was in production, Bronson received the Hollywood Foreign Printing Association's Henrietta Laurels equally "Globe Film Favorite" star of the yr. THE MECHANIC grossed $7.three meg in the U.S. Some modern critics take pointed to the THE MECHANIC as a turning point in Bronson's career, solidifying his position as a major star in the U.S. too as abroad, and catapulting him to a position amidst the top ten box office stars in the globe throughout the mid to late 1970s. An abbreviated version of Jerry Fielding's score was released on LP by Citadel in 1978 and on CD by Bay Cities in 1990. The complete score was released by Intrada in 2007 and re-issued by La-La Land in 2012. Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent in THE MECHANIC
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1973 was Walt Disney's 50th year of product. The showtime of Disney's four film offerings that yr was THE WORLD'Southward GREATEST ATHLETE. The flick was about a perennially losing higher coach and his assistant, who on a trip to Africa, come beyond a Tarzan-similar boyfriend who is able to excel at any sport. They bring the young man dorsum to campus, and the fun begins. Tim Conway received top billing as the bumbling assistant motorbus, in his first of many films for Disney. John Amos was the autobus, and Jan-Michael Vincent was the star athlete, each in his only Disney moving-picture show. Roscoe Lee Browne played a Oxford-educated African witch doctor. Actress-comedian Nancy Walker, who had a cursory comic role as a near-sighted landlady, had not appeared onscreen since LUCKY ME, released in 1954. THE Globe'Southward GREATEST ATHLETE marked the last film of character role player and comedian Billy De Wolfe (1907--1974), who appeared in the small role of "Dean Maxwell." Although De Wolfe had appeared periodically on idiot box, he had not made a feature picture show since BILLIE, released in 1965. THE WORLD'Southward GREATEST ATHLETE marked the motion-picture show debut of Canadian-born dancer and model Dayle Haddon, who played Jan-Michael Vincent'south college love interest, likewise as the debut of the Bengal tiger "G.T." equally "Harri." THE World'Southward GREATEST ATHLETE was one of but three features directed by Robert Scheerer, a long-time tv set manager, who in a nearly 40-year career directed everything from Barbra Streisand's Tv concert "A Happening In Central Park" (1968) to "Dynasty" (1983) to "Star Expedition: Voyager" (1997). Rather than being scored past Disney'south ubiquitous Buddy Baker, THE WORLD'Due south GREATEST ATHLETE instead had a sprightly score by Marvin Hamlisch. The score included a band number, the "Merrivale Fight Vocal," with music past Hamlisch and lyrics by screenwriters Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso. A 45 RPM record was issued with ii of Hamlisch's themes.  The film was shot on location near Stockton, CA in Caswell Memorial State Park, which was used for some of the Zambia sequences, and at various sites throughout Southern California, including exteriors and interiors at the Hollywood-Burbank Airdrome in Burbank, CA (renamed the Bob Promise Airport in 2003), the athletic field at California State University, Los Angeles and Newhall, in Southern California, which was used every bit the location site for Red china. In addition to Caswell Memorial State Park, King of beasts State Safari in Irvine, CA was as well used for some of the Zambia sequences. Product began on THE WORLD'Due south GREATEST ATHLETE in Stockton, CA on 24 April 1972. But on 28 April, actor-comedian Godfrey Cambridge, who was initially cast in the office of Autobus, complanate from exhaustion. The production closed for several weeks but resumed on fourteen May, with John Amos taking over Cambridge's function. Production connected through early August 1972. The film had a number of special effects sequences, ranging from the simple, like showing activeness in either boring or speeded-upwards motion to emphasize the able-bodied prowess of "Nanu" (Jan-Michael Vincent), to effects that were much more elaborate. Tim Conway, as "Milo Jackson," was featured alone in several sequences that highlighted his pop abilities as a concrete comedian. One long sequence, which was periodically interrupted with scenes that advanced the plot, involved his grapheme shrinking to three-inches tall and attempting to free himself from a cocktail drinking glass and a woman's large bag. Jan-Michael Vincent did his own swimming in the movie only all the sporty stunts and athletic feats were performed by body doubles and stunt men. Vincent said of the film: "It's a spoof. Information technology was like making a motion-picture show with real people. I played a nut in GOING Abode and a killer in THE MECHANIC) and at present information technology's fun to do something a little more than positive. It sounds like a typical 'Me nanu, you Jane' motion-picture show simply it's far more than interesting than that". January-Michael Vincent in THE WORLD'Due south GREATEST ATHELETE
 THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE opened in New York on ane February 1973 to lukewarm reviews. On the positive side were Roger Ebert, who found the moving picture to be "a silly, funny, relaxed fantasy, and but about the best movie to come from Walt Disney Productions since BLACKBEARD'S GHOST" (1968). Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the moving picture's integrated casting (with John Amos and Roscoe Lee Browne having prominent roles), praised all of the performances, and found in the script by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso "an uncommon in-ness amid the jollity." While no ane seemed to hate the film, other critics were more mixed in their assessments. Newday'southward Martin Levine imagined "that the moving picture'due south intended audience of pre-teenagers will savour it; I can written report that it is painless plenty for adults." And Ann Guarino of the New York Daily News agreed that "youngsters volition discover the mild comedy more entertaining than the balance of the family, for the film unfortunately has a seen-before quality." One prediction that definitely was spot-on came from Variety's "Murf" who opined that the moving-picture show "looks adept for boxoffice." THE Globe'S GREATEST ATHLETE became the ninth highest-grossing picture show of 1973, taking in over $eleven,600,000 at the North American box office. A 1981 re-release increased its full to over $22.5 million. A few months later on THE Earth'S Great ATHLETE opened, the April 1973 issue of Playboy magazine was issued, which featured a nude photo layout of extra Dayle Haddon. That exposure effectively ended her acting career at Disney. She took off for Europe and landed a string of steamy roles, the best known being in Just Jaeckin'south THE FRENCH Woman (1977). She worked primarily in Europe in the 1970s, cropping up occasionally in small roles in American movies such as NORTH DALLAS 40. Since the mid-1990s she has worked in the cosmetics industry.  | | | | | | | | | | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2019 - 12:39 AM | | | | By: | Bob DiMucci (Member) |
BUSTER AND BILLIE, was set up in 1948 rural Georgia, where a socially awkward loftier school daughter (Joan Goodfellow) is taken advantage of by the boys, because information technology's the just way she knows to relate to them. But one, "Buster" (Jan-Michael Vincent), falls in love with her. Jan-Michael Vincent turned down iii other higher-paying movie roles because he was captivated by the "strong story and characters" in this pic. Author Ron Turbeville based the flick's characters on people he knew in high school in Florence, S Carolina, specifically a daughter he dated who was known as a "gang-bang." Turbeville stated that the girl was abused by her parents, had no dress and was starved for attention. He noted that similar girls were ubiquitous in American high schools. This was i of the commencement mainstream American films to feature full-frontal male nudity. The scenes of a naked Jan-Michael Vincent, in his commencement pb role, caused considerable give-and-take when this movie was released. In a 1975 interview with Dorothy Manners, Vincent was asked about the nude scene in the film: "The scene was in proficient sense of taste, and I don't call back I sprang whatever surprises on anyone", he replied with an impish grinning on his face up. "Simply standard equipment." Daniel Petrie directed the 1974 drama. Al DeLory's score has non had a release. The movie'south title song, "Billie'south Theme", is sung over the opening and closing credits by Hoyt Axton. A re-recorded version appeared on Axton's "Life Machine" anthology the aforementioned twelvemonth of the moving picture's release. January-Michael Vincent and Joan Goodfellow in BUSTER AND BILLIE
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Bite THE BULLET was inspired by the 1908 700-mile cross-country horse race from Evanston, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado. It was sponsored past the Denver Post, which offered $two,500 prize money to the winner. In the film, 1 of the race entrants is a young man named "Carbo" (Jan-Michael Vincent). Every bit art imitated life, life imitated art when it was announced that a 495-mile horse race, inspired by BITE THE BULLET, was fix to take place betwixt Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, between 12 and 25 April 1975, to coincide with the film's world premiere on twenty April 1975 in Melbourne. Cast members did non see the script earlier shooting, equally was customary with director Richard Brooks's films; during product, actors received daily "sides" with their lines for the next day'southward shoot. Picture show editor George Grenville too noted that the flick'southward finale was entirely unscripted. Another portion of the script was contradistinct when 1 of the actors, Paul Stewart, suffered a center assail after the first two weeks of shooting and was hospitalized at Espanola Infirmary in NM. Stewart did not appear in the film and received no onscreen credit. The American Humane Association put Bite THE BULLET on a list of pictures for the organization's members to avoid, suggesting that horses were improperly treated on set. Brooks vehemently denied the allegation, stating that no equus caballus died or was injured during production. Cleveland Amory, president of The Fund for Animals Inc., came to Brooks's defense, despite the film's depiction of a equus caballus falling backward off a cliff and another being "ridden to death" across a desert. Critical reception was mixed. Vincent Canby of the New York Times named BITE THE BULLET as ane of the "10 Worst of '75" and stated, "The script wasn't written. It was compiled as if it were a public stance poll." He likewise noted the film was big and "expensive." The picture show simply cost a reported $4 one thousand thousand dollars, actually a small sum considering the boggling cast of Oscar winners and Oscar nominees including Gene Hackman, James Coburn, Candice Bergen, Ian Bannen, and Ben Johnson In a mostly positive review in the Los Angeles Times, Charles Champlin described the scenery as "absolutely spectacular" and the performances as "potent and confident." Movie critic King Reed reported that Seize with teeth THE BULLET was, in his opinion, one of the best pictures of 1975. Estimates of the pic's box office take range from $11 - $16 meg. Bite THE BULLET received Academy Accolade nominations for Best Music (Original Score) by Alex North and All-time Audio. North lost to John Williams for JAWS.   | | | | | | | | | | | Posted: | Mar 9, 2019 - four:49 PM | | | | Past: | Bob DiMucci (Fellow member) |
WHITE LINE FEVER was a 1975 drama about a truck driver, "Carrol Jo Hummer" (January-Michael Vincent), who runs afoul of abuse in the trucking industry. Hooking upwards his father's trailer, he visits old family friend "Duane Haller" (Slim Pickens), assistant manager of the Blood-red River Shipping Company, and immediately gets an consignment to haul a shipment to Ohio. Jonathan Kaplan directed and co-wrote the moving-picture show. David Nichtern provided the unreleased score. The picture show grossed $18.ii million in the U.Due south. Kay Lenz and Jan-Michael Vincent in WHITE LINE FEVER
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In BABY BLUE MARINE, a immature man (Jan-Michael Vincent) joins the Marines during WWII just fails to meet qualifications, and so is washed out and sent habitation in a low-cal bluish uniform which indicates his status. He meets a real war vet (Richard Gere) in a bar who wants to get AWOL considering he is afraid to exist sent dorsum. The vet mugs the swain in the alley and takes his clothes, leaving him to hitch-hike dwelling in an undeserved hero's compatible. The small boondocks of McCloud, CA, near Mt. Shasta, was used to depict the film's locale of Bidwell. Jan Michael-Vincent performed his own h2o stunts at the McCloud River. John Hancock directed the 1976 drama. Fred Karlin's score has not had a release. Richard Gere and Jan-Michael Vincent in BABY BLUE MARINE
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The Westernized grandson (Jan-Michael Vincent) of a shaman returns to the wilderness to learn more than about his Native American heritage in SHADOW OF THE HAWK. When he encounters powerful evil spirits, he enlists the aid of his lover (Marilyn Hassett) and a local chief (Chief Dan George) to stop the spirits. This Canadian product was Vincent's 5th straight film released by Columbia, and was filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia. George McCowan replaced Daryl Duke as director during shooting of the film. The unreleased score was by Robert McMullin. Marilyn Hassett and Jan-Michael Vincent in SHADOW OF THE HAWK
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Later on oil is plant in a small-scale boondocks, and the local mill shuts down, violent criminal offense skyrockets. A immature man (Jan-Michael Vincent) has had enough and calls in his older blood brother (Kris Kristofferson), a cynical Vietnam vet, to head the VIGILANTE Force. This was the very last production filmed on the famous "Mayberry" backlot set but before it was razed in 1976. This film ended an era that lasted 49 years for the famous "RKO 40 Acres" and afterwards, "Desilu Culver" backlot.
George Armitage directed the 1976 film, which has an unreleased score past Gerald Fried. Kris Kristofferson and Jan-Michael Vincent in VIGILANTE Force
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DAMNATION Alley takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where a group of survivors travel in huge custom-designed all-terrain vehicles seeking to find other settlements. January-Michael Vincent plays "Lt. Tanner" of the 123rd Strategic Missiles Wing of Tipton Air Force Base in California. Vincent did a fair share of his own motorbike stunts in the motion picture. Robert Wise was approached to direct the movie, only turned the offer down considering he thought the script was incommunicable to film. Jack Smight helmed the film. The futuristic twelve-wheel vehicle chosen "The Land Chief" was based on a patented invention by Vehicle Systems Development Corporation. It was xxx-five feet long, twelve feet alpine, weighed 21,800 pounds, and included a 391 Ford Truck Industrial Engine. Although two State Masters were featured in the early function of the movie, simply one was made, at a price of $300,000. After shooting concluded in August 1976, Twentieth Century-Fob spent a year in post-product due to DAMNATION ALLEY's special effects. According to producer Jerome M. Zeitman, over "300 different blueish sky location shots" had to be replaced with various colors to reflect Globe's post-apocalyptic atmosphere and extreme weather. Additionally, the $7.5 million movie featured the studio's new "Sound 360" system that surrounded audiences with six speakers, and the release date was delayed while 300-400 theaters could be outfitted with the new applied science. DAMNATION ALLEY opened in Japan in early October 1977, a couple of weeks before its American release, considering the pic was expected to receive huge box office grosses in Nihon. In the U.Due south., the moving-picture show grossed $fourteen.9 1000000. Varese Sarabande released xix minutes of Jerry Goldsmith's score in their 2004 box set "Jerry Goldsmith at 20th Century Fox." Intrada released an expanded 34-minute edition of the score in 2017. Jan-Michael Vincent in DAMNATION ALLEY
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Large WEDNESDAY was a John Milius-directed film that followed the lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s. The primary surfers were "Matt Johnson" (Jan-Michael Vincent), "Jack Barlow" (William Katt), and "Leroy 'The Masochist' Smith" (Gary Busey). Barbara Unhurt, in her final theatrical pic, played Jack Barlow'southward mother, a good fit considering she was the actual mother of William Katt, who played Barlow. Vincent'southward "Matt Johnson" character is based on real-life surfer Lance Carson, who struggled with alcoholism throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Jeff Bridges turned down the part of Matt. Basil Poledouris's score for the film was released past Film Score Monthly in 2004. Gary Busey, Jan-Michael Vincent, and William Katt in BIG Wed
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In the 1978 activeness comedy HOOPER, Burt Reynolds stars as stuntman "Sonny Hooper,' who equally the film opens, dresses for work, numerous scars and bandages roofing his aging torso. He arrives on prepare of The Spy Who Laughed at Danger equally stunt double for the film's star, Adam Westward--who plays himself in HOOPER. Jan-Michael Vincent is "Delmore "Ski" Shidski", a young, up-and-coming stuntman, whom Hooper eventually takes under his fly. The film, originally titled "The Stuntman," was announced with Lamont Johnson attached to direct. Producer-manager Richard Rush took Warner Bros., the studio developing the movie with Burt Reynolds, to arbitration before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) over the film'due south championship. The MPAA ruled that Blitz had prior claim to the title. Rush's project, based on the 1970 novel past Paul Brodeur called The Stunt Man, had previously been in evolution at Columbia Pictures. Due to delays caused by the arbitration and by problems with the script, the project was shelved in 1976. Further, Burt Reynolds pulled out due to previous obligations to film SMOKEY AND THE Bandit and SEMI-TOUGH. Despite the problems, Reynolds said he was committed to doing the project considering his film career began every bit a Hollywood stuntman. He was also contractually obligated to make a picture with Warner Bros. By the fall of 1977, the project had been re-activated past Warner Bros. At the same time, Rush's THE STUNT MAN (1980) was about to go into production. Worried that the two projects would cause confusion in the media, Rush considered reactivating his appeal to the MPAA to force Warner Bros. to drib their new but like title, "Hollywood Stuntman," if the studio didn't voluntarily change the title themselves. Meanwhile, primary photography began on "Hollywood Stuntman" on 31 January 1978 in Tuscaloosa, AL with Hal Needham directing. In the end, Reynolds and Warner Bros. lost the appeal, thus forcing them to cull a new title. In April 1978, it was announced that the title was changed to HOOPER. Hal Needham directed Reynolds for the second time in HOOPER. HOOPER grossed somewhere between $51 - $78 million (sources differ), putting information technology in the pinnacle seven at the box office for 1978. The score past Beak Justis was released on a Warner Bros. LP, but information technology has never been reissued on CD. Jan Michael-Vincent and Burt Reynolds in HOOPER
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In 1980'southward Disobedience, when merchant seaman "Tommy Campbell" (Jan Michael Vincent) receives a half dozen-month suspension, he is stuck in New York City with nothing to practice. He rents a cheap, rundown apartment on the Lower E Side, while harassing a supervisor named "Karenski" (Joe Campanella) to find him whatever ship consignment.
Although he tries to avoid the tearing gang plaguing his neighborhood, it does not work. Soon he is contesting the Souls and non but changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors besides. Filming occurred in New York City between Avenues A and B on Eastward 12th Street, a neighborhood known for heavy drug use and the presence of gangs. In early scenes shot on the rooftops, residents were non immediately aware of the production. Later, autograph seekers became more than prevalent when filming moved to the neighborhood streets. John Flynn directed this action drama. Dominic Frontiere'south score has not had a release. Jan-Michael Vincent in DEFIANCE
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In 1980's THE RETURN, after unusual prove involving cattle mutilation is discovered, scientist "Jennifer" (Cybill Shepherd) makes her way to rural New United mexican states to written report the findings, gathering clues that point to the arrival of alien life. Helping her is "Wayne" (Jan-Michael Vincent), a local cop who finds himself mysteriously fatigued to the new arrival. The pair's investigation is challenged by angry land owners and bullies. Likewise on the motility is an enigmatic prospector (Vincent Schiavelli) who stalks the surface area, showing signs of psychological decay as he fills a macabre purpose for reasons he doesn't understand. Cybill Shepherd claimed in her autobiography that the bandage were "a rather sad group of actors, all trying to resurrect our macerated careers. [Raymond Burr] read his lines off a TelePrompter." Jan-Michael Vincent had problems with his alcoholism during the making of this film. For example, when Vincent failed to show upwards for work one twenty-four hours, director Greydon Clark had to convince Cybill Shepherd and Martin Landau to work on that day even though they weren't originally scheduled to do so. Yet, Vincent did his own stunts for a scene in which he's attacked by a dog, in improver to doing the majority of his own motorbike riding. If the film had a U.S.theatrical release, it was very limited. Dan Wyman'due south score for the moving-picture show has non had a release. Jan-Michael Vincent and Cybill Shepherd in THE Render
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In the 1981 drama Hard Country, ambitious young "Jodie Lynn Palmer" (Kim Basinger) wants more out of life than the small Texas state boondocks she lives in has to offering. Jodie realizes that in gild to pursue her dreams, she will accept to leave Texas and motility to the big metropolis. However, her shiftless factory worker boyfriend "Kyle Richardson" (Jan-Michael Vincent) wants to stay in Texas. The picture was based upon a country and western vocal, "Difficult Country," written by Michael Martin Murphey. Murphey wrote the song in the autumn of 1978 and presented it, among other songs, to his agents at International Artistic Management (ICM). Concurrently, Aaron Latham published an article in the 12 September 1978 Esquire regarding the "new urban cowboy." Jim Wiatt, a picture agent at ICM, felt Murphey's song could exist adult into a characteristic moving-picture show nearly the urban cowboy lifestyle, and hired screenwriter Michael Kane. Warner Bros. picked up the projection, and Kane went to Texas to piece of work with Murphey on the story. Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures signed John Travolta to star in URBAN COWBOY (1980), a film based on Latham's article and co-written by Latham and James Burke. Subsequently, Warner Bros. dropped Difficult Country. Afterwards, Paul Lazarus, vice president of motion pictures at Marble Arch Productions, brought the picture to his company. The film was budgeted betwixt $5 -- $vii.5 million. Due to budget constraints, the filmmakers chose to use locations in the Los Angeles area to double for Texas, and the Basque Club in Bakersfield, CA, was transformed into the quintessential Westward Texas honky-tonk bar. David Greene (GRAY LADY Down) directed the pic. HARD Country marked the feature motion-picture show debut of Kim Basinger, subsequently spending five years in tv set.  Marble Arch Productions hoped to release the film in the summer of 1980 at approximately the aforementioned time every bit URBAN COWBOY. Nevertheless, the release was delayed by questions regarding the film's MPAA rating. The MPAA initially rated the film [R] because the film contained ii instances of a four-letter sexual expletive. Associated Moving-picture show Distribution (AFD) agreed to remove the offending words and the film was later on re-rated [PG]. HARD Land was released in March 1981. All the same, the film's [PG] rating was revoked in early July 1981. The MPAA claimed that both instances of the questionable give-and-take were to be deleted for the [PG] version, but, in a situation that AFD executive vice president Leo Greenfield termed "a misunderstanding," AFD believed they were only required to delete one instance of the dialogue. Afterward a special panel revoked the [PG] rating, AFD removed approximately 500 prints from distribution and, as required by MPAA guidelines, planned to keep the picture show out of release for xc days before submitting it for re-rating. Still, Hard Land had nearly completed its release and, therefore, the upshot of the MPAA'south decision was minimal. Hard COUNTRY was a box office bomb, grossing only $535,000 in the U.S. Jimmie Haskell provided the unreleased score. The moving picture's soundtrack was populated mainly past country songs sung by Michael Martin Murphey, Tanya Tucker, and others, which appeared on an Epic Records song-runway LP. The LP has not been re-issued on CD.  | | | | | | | | | | | Posted: | Mar x, 2019 - 1:43 PM | | | | By: | Bob DiMucci (Member) |
THE WINDS OF War was an ballsy 1983 television mini-series that chronicled the exploits of American naval officer "Victor 'Pug' Henry" (Robert Mitchum), who becomes Ambassador to Germany, and his various family unit members' activities from 1939-1941. Meantime, the pic also charts the ascension of Germany's Fuhrer Adolf Hitler (Gunter Meissner), and the effects his growing influence has on not only Germans, but the residual of the world, and especially the Jewish people. Polly Bergen is "Rhoda," Henry's increasingly bored, gauche wife. When her hubby is away for long periods of time, Rhoda starts to run across an atrocious lot of widowed uranium scientist "Palmer 'Fred' Kirby" (Peter Graves), who is working on the atomic bomb. Henry is stationed in Berlin, London, Rome, and even Moscow, past President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Ralph Bellamy), to be his observer. But 'Pug' has got the charming young Brit "Pamela Tudsbury" (Victoria Tennant) to hero-worship him. Jan-Michael Vincent is the family 'black sheep' son "Byron," who goes to Italy to work as a research assistant for famed American author "Aaron Jastrow" (John Houseman). There he falls in love with Houseman'southward stuck-upwardly, stubborn, rich-girl niece "Natalie Jastrow" (Ali MacGraw).  Jan-Michael Vincent's alcoholism was a major problem during filming, and may exist why he was not cast in the 1988 sequel mini-serial, WAR AND REMEMBRANCE. The official explanation was that he was unavailable for the second serial due to prior commitments to the "Airwolf" television series. Yet, Vincent was nominated for a Aureate Globe Laurels for "Best Performance past an Actor in a Supporting Part in a Serial, Miniseries or Movement Picture Made for Television." He lost to Richard Kiley for THE THORN BIRDS. Herman Wouk's script ran 962 pages and independent ane,785 scenes. It was shot in 267 locations, in six countries and on two continents, and took 34 months to flick and 12 more to edit. There were about l,000 costumes, and Robert Mitchum alone had 112 changes. When the cameras stopped, producer-director Dan Curtis had one million feet (185 hours) of film, which he cut down to 81,000 feet. The 7-episode serial covered sixteen hours of air time (including commercials). Originally, the thought was to produce a 12-hour testify. At the time information technology was made, this was the most expensive television production e'er mounted, at a price of $40 million. The mini-series was scored by Dan Curtis' favorite composer, Robert Cobert, who's soundtrack was originally released by Varese Sarabande and re-issued by them in 2017. On June 3, 1991, a federal jury in Los Angeles ruled that the WINDS OF State of war theme vocal had been plagiarized from John Woodbridge, a professor of history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity Schoolhouse in Illinois. He sued in 1986, challenge the theme was actually a song called "Sans Vous" ("Without Yous"), which he had composed in 1965. Terms of the settlement are non known (to me anyway).  | | | | | | | | | | | Posted: | Mar 10, 2019 - 2:03 PM | | | | By: | Bob DiMucci (Member) |
In LAST Plane OUT, Jan-Michael Vincent plays "Jack Cox," an American journalist covering the civil war in Nicaragua who falls in love with "Maria Cardena," a beautiful Sandinista rebel (Julie Carmen). Scriptwriter Ernest Tidyman (THE FRENCH Connection) was also the original director just was replaced in the early stages of filming by David Nelson (of the "Ozzie and Harriet" Nelsons). This New Earth Pictures quickie trounce the similarly themed Under Burn into the theaters by 3 weeks. That head start translated into merely $116,000 of theatrical receipts, while UNDER FIRE's star-power of Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte produced $5.vii million of concern. Dennis McCarthy'due south score has not had a release. Julie Carmen and Jan-Michael Vincent in LAST Airplane OUT
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