Lady in Cement released Nov. 20, 1968

Lady In Cement is a 1968 detective film, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel and Richard Conte. A sequel to the 1967 film Tony Rome, and based on the novel by Marvin H. Albert, Lady In Cement was released on November 20th 1968.

Trivia:

When Tony Rome walks into the room in the massage parlor where Bronski is, Bronski (Dan Blocker) is watching the TV show “Bonanza” (1959) where he starred as Hoss Cartwright.

The scene when Tony Rome gets in the taxi by the air-port, there is an advertisement for fellow “Rat Pack” member, Dean Martin’s restaurant on the side of the cab.

Sinatra says that he knew a girl that used to date bullfighters, a reference to Ava Gardner’s affair with a matador when filming The Barefoot Contessa (1954) in Spain.

As Tony Rome is running from the police on the beach, you hear a band playing the Sinatra song “You Make Me Feel So Young”.

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Cape Fear released November 13, 1991

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Cape Fear is a 1991 thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a remake of the 1962 film of the same name.

Trivia: 

• Robert De Niro paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $20,000 to have them fixed.
• De Niro was tattooed with vegetable dyes, which fade after a few months.
• Gregory Peck, who starred in Cape Fear (1962), appears as Cady’s lawyer. Robert Mitchum played Max Cady in the 1962 version, and appears as Lieutenant Elgart. Martin Balsam played Mark Dutton in the 1962 version and the judge in this version.
• De Niro researched sexual predator crimes for the part and suggested the scene where his character bites the victim.
• The scene in the high school auditorium was totally ad-libbed by Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis, and done on the first take.
• Director Trademark: [Martin Scorsese] [mother] fruit stand customer.
• For the first time in Scorsese’s career, he allowed the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, on the set during filming.
• Steven Spielberg was originally set to direct. He later recommended Martin Scorsese for the job and personally called the director, letting him know that this was a commercial film that had potential to be a hit, which would exercise more power for Scorcese to make his films.
• De Niro did a lot of working out several months before the movie and during the shoot to make him the
  

  Robert DeNiro

  muscular Max Cady, reportedly taking his body fat down to only 3%.

• The auditorium scene was originally scripted as a chase scene, but Scorsese wanted it to be a seduction.
• The climactic scene out in the swamp was filmed in John U. Lloyd State Park, in the middle of a mangrove swamp. A tropical depression set over the set for four days, so the film crew had to wait for the storm to stop, so that they could make their own rain.
• Director Martin Scorsese’s first choice for the role of Bowden was Harrison Ford. He had Robert De Niro call Ford to try convincing him to take the part.
• Robert Redford was also considered for the role of Sam Bowden.
• This was Gregory Peck’s final appearance in a theatrical film release.
• This was Scorsese’s first picture to be shot in 2.35 : 1 aspect ratio.
• Amblin Entertainment’s first “R” rated motion picture.
• Drew Barrymore tested for the role of Danielle Bowden but failed the audition. She later said she had “acted all over the place and it was just the biggest disaster of my life”.
• Reese Witherspoon auditioned for the role of Danielle Bowden.
• Both Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte had to alter their physiques for the film because the 6’1″, bulky, Nolte is clearly larger than the 5’10″, slimmer De Niro. Nolte lost a good deal of weight while shooting the film and De Niro bulked up his muscles considerably until De Niro was clearly Nolte’s physical superior. Interestingly the original Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) was also slightly taller than the original Max Cady (Robert Mitchum).
• When Steven Spielberg was attached to direct he had plans on casting Bill Murray as Max Cady.
• This is the first film that Martin Scorsese uses optical FX.
• The ice cream parlor scene was shot in the first week of production where the owners complained for the first three days that they were losing business.
• The scene where Robert De Niro sits on the brick wall, he actually sits behind a blue screen where the fireworks were added later in production.
• Robert De Niro helped costume designer Rita Ryack chose Cady’s clothing.
• Robert Mitchum feared in comparing his character of Max Cady to Robert De Niro’s portrayal in the film. He had never seen either movies.
• The script went through 24 drafts.
• Director Martin Scorsese read the original script three times while making GoodFellas (1990) and hated it each time because of how the Bowdens were a happy family and wanted them to be miserable.
• Juliette Lewis developed a crush on Robert De Niro during the scene in the drama class.
  

  Juliette Lewis

• It took a year to convince Martin Scorsese to make this movie.
• The scene between Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis in the school was shot in three takes, but the first one was used in final productions.
• George C. Scott was originally supposed to play the Lieutenant role. But because of health problems he dropped out a few days before filming and Robert Mitchum was brought in.
• The score by Elmer Bernstein is not only an arrangement of ‘Bernard Herrmann”s original “Cape Fear” score, but also includes parts of Herrmann’s unused score for Torn Curtain (1966).
• A picture of James Dean is shown when Danielle (Juliette Lewis) slams the door while her parents argue.
• Gregory Peck completed filming his cameo scenes in one day.
• De Niro played scenes with Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates in the Sam and Danielle roles for Martin Scorsese when De Niro was trying to interest him in directing the film.
• Robert De Niro’s thick Max Cady accent reportedly gave Scorsese the creeps, and as a joke, De Niro would call the director’s house, leaving messages as Cady.
• De Niro’s Cady accent came from an earlier role where he played a southerner. To prepare for the role, De Niro took excerpts of the script and a tape recorder into southern towns and would ask locals to read the lines into the tape.
• Robert Richardson auditioned for the position of cinematographer but lost out to Britain’s Freddie Francis. Martin Scorsese, a staunch admirer of Richardson’s work with his former NYU student Oliver Stone, remembered Richardson when he was preparing to direct Casino (1995).
• Illeana Douglas based her performance as Lori Davis on Jennifer Levin, who was murdered in 1986 in Central Park by Robert Chambers (whom the press dubbed the “Preppy Murderer”).
• Jennifer Connelly reportedly turned down the role of Danielle.
• Christina Applegate did an audition for the role of Danielle, but had to turn down the part due to conflicts from “Married with Children” (1987) producer Ron Leavitt.
• Winona Ryder turned down the role of Danielle.
• Alyssa Milano was offered the role of Danielle but had to turn down the role, due to pressure from fellow “Who’s the Boss?” (1984) cast member Tony Danza.
• Nicole Eggert auditioned for the role of Danielle but turned it down.
• Sarah Jessica Parker was originally cast as Danielle.
• Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demi Moore, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Bridget Fonda, Diane Lane, Brooke Shields, Nicole Kidman, Molly Ringwald and Shannen Doherty all were considered for the role of Danielle.
• Tiffani Thiessen was offered the role of Danielle, but turned down the choice to play the part, in order to stay with “Saved by the Bell” (1989).
• The music video Danielle watches to avoid her parent’s argument is Jane’s Addiction’s “Been Caught Stealing.”

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Frightmare released November 6, 1974

Frightmare (also known as Cover Up and Once Upon a Frightmare) is a 1974 horror film directed by Pete Walker and written by Pete Walker and David McGillivray. It starred Rupert Davies and Sheila Keith. The story focuses around Dorothy and Edmund Yates, who have recently been released from a mental asylum, and is one of Pete Walker’s most notable films.

Trivia:

The film that the hero and heroine go to see on their date is La grande bouffe (1973), which deals with characters who set out to eat themselves to death – a touch of ironic humor in view of the plot of “Frightmare.” However, the dialogue we hear is not from “La Grande Bouffe but from Pete Walker’s previous film, House of Whipcord (1974).

The final film of Rupert Davies.

The final English-language film of Leo Genn.

Cast
  Rupert Davies … Edmund Yates
  Sheila Keith … Dorothy Yates
  Deborah Fairfax … Jackie
  Paul Greenwood … Graham
  Kim Butcher … Debbie
  Fiona Curzon … Merle
  Jon Yule … Robin
  Tricia Mortimer … Lillian
  Pamela Fairbrother … Delia

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Body Double released October 26, 1984

Body Double 1984

Body Double is a 1984 film directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, and Dennis Franz. The film is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s films Vertigo, Rear Window, and Dial M for Murder. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline “You can’t believe everything you see”. The film was remade in India as the Hindi film Pehla Nasha (1993).

Trivia:

• Porn star Annette Haven was originally cast for the role of “Holly”, but Columbia Pictures decided to turn her down when their executives saw what kind of movies she had been making. Haven later stated that she was happy because of that, because she hadn’t liked the script and hadn’t liked to be in a film with gory violence.
• The lead character in the film, Jake Scully, plays a struggling actor. In one scene a film producer asks him what work he has doing in film, and the character mentions “I was in a Hart-to-Hart that was pretty good.” The actor playing Jake Scully, Craig Wasson, *was* in a “Hart to Hart” (1979) episode titled “Hit Jennifer Hart” in 1979.
• Brian De Palma originally planned for this to be the first Hollywood film to boast unsimulated sex scenes. The studio thought differently.
• Bret Easton Ellis’ book ‘American Psycho’ references this film many times, it is one of the main character, Patrick Bateman’s, favorite movies.
• Deborah Shelton’s voice is dubbed.
• Dennis Franz based his portrayal of Rubin the Director on Brian De Palma.
• Tatum O’Neal, Jamie Lee Curtis and Carrie Fisher all auditioned for the role of Holly, but turned it down. Brooke Shields was offered the role, but turned it down in order to study French Literature at Princeton. Linda Hamilton turned down the role in order to prepare for her role in The Terminator (1984).

 

The Boston Strangler released October 16, 1968

The Boston Strangler is a 1968 film based on the true story of the Boston Strangler. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, and stars Tony Curtis as Albert DeSalvo, the strangler, and Henry Fonda as John S. Bottomly, the chief detective now famed for obtaining DeSalvo’s confession.

Trivia:

• 20th Century Fox originally hired Terence Rattigan to write the screenplay based on the book by Gerold Frank, but he wrote it as a comedy and was replaced by Edward Anhalt. In Rattigan’s version, the killer was revealed, by a computer, to be Darryl F. Zanuck.
• Horst Buchholz was among those actors considered for the Tony Curtis part.

• Tony Curtis does not appear until one hour into the film.
• Tony Curtis broke his nose while filming a chase scene.
• Other actors considered for the role of Albert DeSalvo were Robert Redford and Warren Beatty.
• Lionel Newman’s original music consists of one cue (“Peter the Pole”) lasting 22 seconds.
• Shortly before filming was set to begin the real Albert DeSalvo escaped from the mental institution where he was imprisoned. He was later captured after being on the run for 33 hours.
• Edward Winter’s first role.
• Stuart Whitman was considered for the lead role.

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Fight Club released October 15, 1999

 

 

 

Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in Fight Club (1999)

 

 

Fight Club is a 1999 American film adapted from the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. The film was directed by David Fincher and stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter. Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, an “everyman” who is discontented with his white-collar job in American society. He forms a “fight club” with soap salesman Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.

Tagline: How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?

 

Palahniuk’s novel was optioned by 20th Century Fox producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Jim Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was one of four directors the producers considered; they hired him because of his enthusiasm for the film. Fincher developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. The director and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967). Fincher intended Fight Club‘s violence to serve as a metaphor for the conflict between a generation of young people and the value system of advertising. The director copied the homoerotic overtones from Palahniuk’s novel to make audiences uncomfortable and keep them from anticipating the twist ending.

Studio executives did not like the film, and they restructured Fincher’s intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club failed to meet the studio’s expectations at the box office, and received polarized reactions from critics. It was cited as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of 1999. The Guardian saw it as an omen for change in American political life, and described its visual style as ground-breaking. The film later found commercial success with its DVD release, which established Fight Club as a cult film.

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Marathon Man released October 8, 1976

Marathon Man is a 1976 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. The film was directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman as the protagonist, Thomas “Babe” Levy, Roy Scheider as his brother, an undercover agent, and Laurence Olivier as Nazi dentist and war criminal, Dr. Christian Szell. The original music score was composed by Michael Small.

 A financial and critical success, Olivier’s performance in Marathon Man was particularly praised: he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and he won a Golden Globe in the same category. Dr. Szell was ranked as villain #34 on the American Film Institute’s “100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains” list. The film itself was ranked #50 on the “100 Years…100 Thrills” list. Both the novel and the film contain a graphic depiction in which Szell tortures Babe by drilling into his teeth, without anesthetic, while repeatedly asking the question, “Is it safe?” The quote “Is it safe?” was ranked #70 on the “100 Years…100 Movie Quotes” list.

Marathon Man was not the first feature film production to use the Steadicam (the distinction going to Bound for Glory). However, it was the first feature using Steadicam that saw theatrical release, predating the premieres of both Bound for Glory and Rocky.

Trivia:

The dental torture scene in this film was named #66 on Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

In the 2004 science fiction film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, ace mechanic Dex (Giovanni Ribisi) disables the holographic image of Laurence Olivier as the supervillain Dr. Totenkopf, prompting Sky Captain (Jude Law) to ask, “Is it safe?” This is an homage to Olivier who repeatedly spoke this line of dialog in Marathon Man. Jude Law had suggested Olivier as the film’s villain to director Kerry Conran.

During the filming of the movie, Hoffman, a dedicated Method actor, allegedly stayed up for two nights in order to more accurately portray Babe’s exhaustion after being tortured by Szell. A bemused Olivier reportedly retorted, “Try acting… it’s much easier!” After denying the story for years, Hoffman eventually admitted that he had been up all night partying, and Olivier was referring to his lifestyle rather than his acting technique. The episode led to persistent reports that Olivier and Hoffman disliked each other, but Hoffman has stated that the two were actually friendly despite the differences in their approach and that they had great admiration for each other.

Olivier’s character Szell is known as “The White Angel,” a clear allusion to notorious (and, at the time, still living) Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who was known as the “Angel of Death.” Two years after Marathon Man, Olivier played a Nazi-hunter pitted against Mengele in the film The Boys From Brazil.

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Sigourney Weaver Birthday October 8

 

Sigourney Weaver

 

Sigourney Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies. Weaver is also a three-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. She is still one of the very few actresses who has ever been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in a science fiction movie (Aliens).

Although Weaver has played a number of critically acclaimed roles in movies such as Gorillas in the Mist, The Ice Storm, Dave, and The Year of Living Dangerously, she is best known for her appearances as Warrant Officer/Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the blockbuster Alien movie franchise. She first appeared as Ripley in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. She reprised the role in three sequels, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in Aliens. She also starred in two films in 1988, receiving Academy Award nominations for her roles as Katherine Parker in Working Girl and as naturalist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist. She lost out to Geena Davis and Jodie Foster respectively, although she received Golden Globes for both roles.

 

Weaver also appeared in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II as Dana Barrett. She played the role of agoraphobic criminal psychologist Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat, and went on to become one of the most highly paid actresses of the 1990s. In addition to her trademark role as Ripley, Weaver has recently concentrated on smaller roles such as 1999′s A Map of the World and 2006′s Snow Cake. She has also appeared in comedic roles, such as Jeffrey (1994), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Heartbreakers (2001), in which she starred with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 1997, Weaver won the BAFTA Award for her supporting role in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. In 2003, she was voted 20th in Channel 4′s countdown of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. She was one of only two women in the top 20 (the other was Audrey Hepburn). That year, she also played The Warden in the movie Holes. In 2006, Weaver returned to Rwanda for the BBC special Gorillas Revisited.

Weaver was approached to star in The Accused but felt the nature of the story was too violent. She was considered for the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, but Sharon Stone was cast instead.  Bryan Singer originally wanted Weaver for the role of Emma Frost in X-Men: The Last Stand, but Singer (along with screenwriter Dan Harris, who had directed Weaver in Imaginary Heroes) left the project, and the idea to include Frost was dropped. In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also guest starred in the TV show Eli Stone in the fall of 2008.

Weaver also has done voice work in television and film. She had a guest role in the Futurama episode “Love and Rocket” in February 2002, playing the female Planet Express Ship. In 2006, she was the narrator for the American version of the Emmy Award-winning series Planet Earth. Also in 2006, Weaver narrated “A Matter of Degrees”. A short film that plays daily at The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center) in Tupper Lake, New York. In 2008, Weaver was featured as the voice of the ship’s computer in the Pixar and Disney release, WALL•E. She also voiced a narrating role in another computer-animated film, 2008′s The Tale of Despereaux, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo. Weaver has also expressed interest in starring in a fifth Alien film. Pre-production details for the film are expected to start soon.

Trivia:

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#81). [1995]

Attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT.

Her dad Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. (“Pat” Weaver), NBC-TV president (1953- 55), pioneered the desk-and-couch talk show format that still survives on two programs he created – NBC’s “Today” (1952) and “Tonight!” (1953) (aka “The Tonight Show”) shows.

Ranked #71 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]

Changed her name after reading “The Great Gatsby”.

Debuted in Woody Allen ‘s Annie Hall (1977), duration: 6 seconds.

Family: Daughter of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. (“Pat” Weaver) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, older brother, Trajan Weaver. Uncle, actor Doodles Weaver.

Afraid to travel in elevators.

#13 of Sci-Fi’s Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997]

Eye/hair color: brown

Speaks fluent French and German.

Graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Has one daughter, Charlotte Simpson, was born on 13 April 1990.

She is one of the elite eleven thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett.

Her salary for Alien: Resurrection (1997) was more than the entire cost of the original Alien (1979) movie.

Measurements: 34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Suffered nightmares for two weeks after reading the script for The Village (2004).

Was nominated for Broadway’s 1985 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for David Rabe’s “Hurlyburly,” but lost to a co-star, Judith Ivey.

Has worked with three Bagginses. In Alien (1979) she works with Ian Holm, who played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation and Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). In The Ice Storm (1997) she worked with Elijah Wood, who played the part in the film. In Aliens (1986) the stunt double for Newt was Kiran Shah, who was also Wood’s scale double.

Though they have never worked together she has co-starred with nine actors who have also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis: Ray Liotta, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Tim Allen, J.E. Freeman, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Philip Bosco and Bill Paxton. Both have co-starred with Michelle Williams. They have also both worked with composer John Ottman and director James Cameron.

In many of her roles her character has had to deal with artificially intelligent spaceships. In the “Alien” movies, she battles them. In Galaxy Quest (1999), much to her character’s chagrin, she repeated whatever the spaceship said. In addition, on an episode of “Futurama” (1999), and in the film WALL·E (2008), she had the chance to voice a spaceship.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998

Attended the Yale School of Drama

Remains in contact with her former Aliens (1986) co-star Carrie Henn.

In the film Alien: Resurrection (1997) Sigourney actually managed to sink the basketball into the hoop backwards on the first take, even though she wasn’t supposed to or intended to. The shot was almost ruined because Ron Perlman broke character because he was so amazed.

Her performance as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Her performance as Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” quadrilogy is ranked #8 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Injured her knee during the shooting of Snow Cake (2006) and has been forced to stop exercising for a year.

Friend of Selina Cadell.

Ranked #20 on E4′s 100 Greatest Movie Stars. She was the second highest female on the list behind #13 Audrey Hepburn.

Along with Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Janet Leigh, Jodie Foster, Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Eileen Heckart, Ruth Gordon, Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Toni Collette, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, she is one of the few actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a horror movie.

Singer/songwriter Mike Garrigan wrote a song entitled “Sigourney Weaver” that pays tribute to the actress.

Dana Barrett, her character in the Ghostbusters films, is the only character among the leads who did not appear in the animated adaptation, The Real Ghostbusters (1986).

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#74). [2007].

Ranked #74 on Empires’s 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. (2007).

Has turned down several high-profile roles over the years: the Shelley Duvall role in Annie Hall (1977), the Brooke Shields role in The Blue Lagoon (1980), the Kathleen Turner role in Body Heat (1981), the Debra Winger role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the Michelle Pfeiffer role in Scarface (1983), the Amy Irving role in Yentl (1983), the Linda Hamilton role in The Terminator (1984), the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987), the Kelly McGillis role in The Accused (1988), the Nicole Kidman role in Dead Calm (1989), the Natasha Richardson role in The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), the Geena Davis role in Thelma & Louise (1991), the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992) and the Holly Hunter role in The Piano (1993).

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Alien Nation released October 7, 1988

 

 

 

 

 

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Alien Nation is a 1988 science fiction film written by Rockne S. O’Bannon and directed by Graham Baker. It stars James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Leslie Bevis and Kevyn Major Howard.

Tagline: Prepare Yourself.

 

The following year, the film’s plot concept was used as the basis for a television series of the same name, which premiered in 1989 and ran for a single season. A comic book series and book series were started when it looked like it might never return to television. Finally in 1994, the first of five television movies was produced as a continuation of the series.

Syfy is planning a new Alien Nation television series.

Mandy Patinkin and James Caan

Trivia:

• The alien character played by Mandy Patinkin was originally going to be named George Jetson but Hanna-Barbera wouldn’t give the rights to the name. The decision to call his character ‘George’ in the movie was kept as an in-joke.
• Jerry Goldsmith’s synthetic and score was rejected early in post production for being “too weird” and replaced with music by Curt Sobel. Jerry Goldsmith’s rejected score was released in Spring 2005 as a Varese Sarabande CD Club Release limited to 3000 copies.
• The October 1987 draft of the screenplay credits a rewrite to James Cameron. He is not credited in the final film.
• The trailer shows a portion of a fight scene between George and Rudyard Kipling with a burning car in the background, meaning that in an earlier edit Kipling exits the car before it explodes (you see him regain consciousness at one point with a groan) and then fights with George. This would also explain why it is that Sykes compliments George on showing “some good moves back there”.
• When George is comforting the old woman a poster of former boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard can be seen hanging next to the Pepsi cooler.

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Make Up Department
  Janice Alexander … hair stylist
  David Anderson … alien makeup effects
  Grant Arndt … sculptor: Stan Winston Studios
  John Blake … alien makeup effects
  Roger Borelli … alien makeup effects
  Katalin Elek … makeup artist
  Zoltan … alien makeup applier
  Zoltan … makeup artist
  John Elliott … alien makeup applier
  John Elliott … makeup artist
  John M. Elliott Jr. … makeup co-department head
  Greg Figiel … alien makeup effects
  Steve Frakes … alien makeup effects
  Mark Garbarino … alien makeup effects
  Emilio M. Gonzales … alien makeup effects
  Jeff Kennemore … alien makeup effects
  Makio Kida … alien makeup effects
  Eryn Krueger … alien makeup effects
  Richard J. Landon … alien makeup effects
  Karen Mason … alien makeup effects
  Michael Mills … makeup artist
  Brian Penikas … alien makeup effects
  John Price … alien makeup effects
  Matt Rose … prosthetic painter
  Russell Seifert … alien makeup effects
  Michael Spatola … alien makeup effects
  Michiko Tagawa … alien makeup effects
  Mike Trcic … alien makeup effects
  Monty Westmore … makeup artist
  Kenny Myers … makeup artist (uncredited)

The First Deadly Sin released October 3, 1980

 

Frank Sinatra and Faye Dunaway

 

The First Deadly Sin is a 1980 film produced by and starring Frank Sinatra, with Faye Dunaway, David Dukes, George Coe and Martin Gabel in his final acting role.

Tagline:   He’s searching for a killer. She’s searching for a miracle …. And time is running out.

The last of nine films produced by Sinatra and his final starring performance, as the troubled New York City cop Detective Sergeant Edward X. Delaney, The First Deadly Sin was based on a series of popular novels by Lawrence

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Sanders and was originally slated to be directed by Roman Polanski, who was dropped by Columbia Pictures after statutory rape charges were brought against him.

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Co-starring with Sinatra was Faye Dunaway as his ailing wife, bed-ridden in hospital during the entire duration of the film with a rare kidney affliction. The musical score was provided by composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins, who first worked with Sinatra on the 1957 album Where Are You?. One of the bit players was an unknown Bruce Willis who had a walk-on part, virtually unrecognizable as a hat covers most of his face.

The First Deadly Sin was the third production by Sinatra’s Artanis production company and was shot on location in New York City. It was premiered on October 23 1980 at Loew’s State Theatre in Times Square as part of a benefit for the Mother Cabrini Medical Centre.

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