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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 American crime film written and directed by Michael Cimino and starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, and Geoffrey Lewis.
Stan Kamen of the William Morris Agency came up with the initial idea for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, but gave it to Michael Cimino to write on speculation with Eastwood in mind. Due to the great financial success of Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, road pictures were a popular genre in Hollywood. Eastwood himself wanted to do a road movie. Agent Leonard Hirshan brought the script to Eastwood from fellow agent Kamen. Reading it, Eastwood liked it so much that he originally intended to direct it himself. However, on meeting Cimino, he decided to give him the directing job instead, giving Cimino his big break and feature-film directorial debut. Cimino later said that if it was not for Eastwood, he never would have had a career in film. Cimino patterned Thunderbolt after one of his favorite '50s films, Captain Lightfoot.
Eastwood did not like to do any more than three takes on any given shot, according to co-star Bridges. "I would always go to Mike and say 'I think I can do one more. I got an idea.' And Mike would say 'I gotta ask Clint.' Clint would say, 'Give the kid a shot.'" Charles Okun, first assistant director on Thunderbolt, added, "Clint was the only guy that ever said 'no'. Michael said 'OK, let's go for another take.' It was take four, Clint would say 'No we got enough. We got it.' [...] And if [Cimino] took too long to get it ready, [Clint] would say, 'It's good, let's go.'"
Given that for Eastwood this was an offbeat film, Franks Wells of Warner Brothers refused to back Malpaso in the production, leaving him to turn to United Artists and producer Bob Daley. Eastwood was unhappy with the way that United Artists had produced the film and swore "he would never work for United Artists again", and the scheduled two film deal between Malpaso and UA was cancelled.
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Apocalypse Now Workprint (Rough Cut)
This is the notorious extended bootleg version. It runs about four hours and forty nine minutes. In addition to "The End," which was the only one to survive the final cut, it also contains various other Doors' songs. And, it also contains Otis Redding's cover of "Satisfaction," where the final film uses the 'Stones original, I believe. The ending is incomplete because the print was leaked before the final editing was finished.
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Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Welcome to the SamFanatic Restoration of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973). As many people know, this film was butchered by studio executives, to be released sooner and generate maximum profit, for the MGM Grand Hotel. The preview version ran 121 minutes and was cut to 106 minutes. In 2005, a Special Edition (115 minutes) was released, restoring a few lost scenes, but basically keeping the butchered pattern of theatrical version. This version (127 minutes) is a compilation of the preview version(PV) and the Special Edition(SE). In subsequent revisions, I've included longer parts from the SE, to include richer music and added sound effects, as well as more deviations I've found from the preview version. Because of my affection for this film, I would never alter the picture color of the preview version. However, because the SE is such a travesty, I changed the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma properties, as well as the audio properties, to match the PV better.
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Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming. It's a dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. Eastwood dedicated the movie to deceased directors and mentors Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Eastwood himself was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. In 2004, Unforgiven was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was only the third western to win the Oscar for Best Picture following Cimarron (1931) and Dances With Wolves (1990).
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