Studio notes

Soon, we will get our first glimpse of Ursula Andress as Honey Rider. United Artists Publicity Director Jerry Giroux recalls the actress. Ursula Andress, I first met when she was signed by Paramount as an actress at the studio in the early 50s. She was absolutely one of the most beautiful women that I have ever seen. The unfortunate thing was she spoke very little English in those days. She was a Swiss-German girl.

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In the studio, you can control everything much easier, so everybody was more quiet, and it was easier, it was less tension. Sound effects play a key role in the latter part of the film. Editor Peter Hunt. In order to level that all out, I know how we came to have that general hum, was that we thought, well, because it was way down, underground,

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Tim Lucas

It was photographed at the Grotte di Salone beneath the streets of Rome, a location used in other well-known Italian pictures of this period like Hercules Unchained and even Caltiki the Immortal Monster. This scene, filmed in the studio location in Almeria known as Mini Hollywood, is the film's first really foregrounded acknowledgement that our insignificant little story is taking place against the backdrop of the Civil War.

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Tim Lucas

De Gemini had previously contributed to Leonard Bernstein's soundtrack for West Side Story, as well as For a Few Dollars More. My friend John Bender shared with me a story that was attributed to De Gemini, who shared it with an early obsessed fan of these films named Richard Landwehr. According to De Gemini, one of the recording sessions for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was suddenly disrupted by a recurring sound in the studio that could not readily be traced.

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Tim Lucas

a great crime picture for Phil Carlson, followed by the lawless breed for Raoul Walsh at Universal International. Eastwood remembered as a young actor seeing Van Cleef on the studio lot and thinking that he had a lot going for him. But the closest thing he got to a starring role in many ways was his part in Roger Corman's It Conquered the World, made in 1956, as a naive ham radio operator who unwittingly opens the doors to an alien invasion.

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In Bob's film, there's one scene that actually goes into oral sex. But any kind of other hardcore out, you know? It also has an odd moment where they have two guys on a park bench that, you know, are naked and just fondle each other. Now, that must have really made the audiences go crazy. I mean, that's not... Where was that shot? I don't know. You mean the name of the studio? I have no idea. West Coast. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

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