In Harm's Way (1965) - 20 Hidden Facts Nobody Knows

Описание: John Wayne was secretly dying of lung cancer during the entire production of In Harm's Way, and the director who terrorized his cast may have accidentally saved his life by finishing three weeks ahead of schedule. These are twenty hidden facts about the nineteen sixty-five naval epic that most classic film fans have never heard.

This video covers the full behind-the-scenes story of Otto Preminger's ambitious world war two film, from the casting decisions and on-set conflicts that defined the production to the personal crises unfolding just beyond the camera's reach. You'll learn why screenwriter Wendell Mayes — who received an Oscar nomination for Anatomy of a Murder — considered this his least favorite of his three Preminger collaborations, and why he wanted John Wayne's character to die in the original ending. You'll find out what Kirk Douglas said nose-to-nose to Preminger when the director raised his voice at him, and how Preminger's treatment of actor Tom Tryon effectively ended one career and launched a bestselling novelist.

The video also covers the black-and-white cinematography decision that likely cost the film millions at the box office, the Academy Award nomination earned by cinematographer Loyal Griggs, the Saul Bass title sequence placed at the end of the film rather than the beginning, Jerry Goldsmith's on-screen cameo as the piano player in the Pearl Harbor sequence, and the personal gesture Kirk Douglas made for Jewish servicemen on location in Hawaii.
Franchot Tone, Patricia Neal, Hal Needham, Hugh O'Brian, and Brandon De Wilde all figure into a production history that is considerably richer and stranger than the film's box office performance in nineteen sixty-five suggested.

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