Shooting schedule

And your mother decided it might be best for me to let you know the news. The close-ups of Mitchum were done on a different day than the close-ups of Billy Chapin. When we examined the shooting schedule, it was rather weird the way some scenes were shot over two or three different times in the shooting schedule. They'd wait a few days and go back to it.

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restaurant. As the editor, Bob Golden, told me, we ate a lot of food, we drank a lot of booze, but we got the job done that way. I think the whole production of First Unit was just about six weeks, wasn't it? That's right, just about. 35-day shooting schedule, wasn't it? There's a line coming up here. She says, he was looking for love the only way you'd know how.

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Alan K. Rode

He would say, unless you're fortunate enough to have the financial wherewithal to replace a bad actor, you're stuck with them for the rest of the schedule. In an interview, Kubrick remarked about hiring the best actors, saying, there's little joy in trying to get a magnificent performance from a student orchestra, unquote. But there are no bad actors in any way, shape, or form in The Killing. The cast is absolutely brilliant.

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Alan K. Rode

Jim Harris knew that they couldn't make a movie of any quality for $200,000, so he scraped up another $130,000 from his own savings and borrowed the rest from his father. So the budget for the killing was $330,000 with a 28-day shooting schedule. What's interesting is Variety ran an August 3, 1955 squib claiming that United Artists agreed to finance the entire picture for $600,000, a story that is false.

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