'Where Daydreams are Nightmares, And Death is a Way of Life.'
Philip Nutman, author of 'WET WORK', and screenwriter of Jack Ketchum's 'THE GIRL NEXT DOOR', wrote this buy-line for 'GORDON THE MOVIE' back in 1979, and also worked on the film. All when he was but a schoolboy. ...
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WHY 'GORDON THE MOVIE' SHARES DISTINCTIONS WITH THE FILMS OF BELA LUGOSI AND BRUCE LEE...
WHY 'GORDON THE MOVIE ' NEARLY MADE SID VICIOUS'S MUM SICK...
WHY DID DILYS POWELL AND KEN LOACH IGNORE ME?
WHY I RECEIVED HELPFUL CAREER ADVICE FROM MY ESTEEMED HEADMASTER.
WHY GORDON TURNED BLACK AND THEN RETURNED.
WHY GORDON THE MOVIE HAS A CONNECTION WITH WHITEHALL AND THE CIA.
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Super 8. 57 minutes total.
Part SIX of SIX...shooting began 1979, premiered 1982...made up of fragments
of planned film as star Gordon and 2 other cast died during shooting....star replaced by life sized dummy...Gordon plays purveyor of bits of famous dead people....his actual funeral is finale of film, at which his dummy and most recent victim also appear.
See my blogsite http://biginbrasil.blogspot.com/2008/... for first installment of the story of making Gordon the Movie, plus magazine articles, jottings etc.
Made on Super 8 using facilities of Workshop Films, Bath, UK by Paul Nachman ( Nasher).
Press Quotes:
"You've heard of low budget, well this is no-budget..."
"Makes Herzog's Fitzcarraldo look like a day trip to Margate..."
"A surreal epic of bad taste and nightmarish morality..."
"Parochial surrealism on a grand scale..."
"What a load of morbid shit..."
Nasher,
i just watched the whole lot.
i really enjoyed it. absolutely fantastic. i just met brian popay at a gig in dublin and he told me all about the film and some of the background. the projector bursting into flames at the premiere made it for me.
great film. really reminded me of 200 motels at times..well the tap dancing lesson part.
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bunko74 3 years ago
@bunko74 I'd take Bri's stories with a pinch or two! Thespians you know! He only worked a morning and an afternoon on the film! The projector did not burst into flames at the premiere, or at any other time!
nasher53 1 year ago
All my "Gordon the Movie" posts have been hijacked & reposted with pokersite spam added in "More Info", or in the film itself. I've complained to YouTube & flagged the hijacked versions many times, but YT have done nothing,nor sent me any response.
It's being done to loads of other users vids too (...maybe yours??)
The culprits are niferGYN, enPXLeSa, zabethsr
and cy3s2vBu.
If you check out their channels, you'll find all their videos have been nicked from other users & spam added.
nasher53 3 years ago