Comments on: An RKO Story http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/an-rko-story/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/an-rko-story/#comment-1858 dcairns Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:30:58 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=383#comment-1858 That'd do it! Mitchum could be a great guy...or otherwise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNawbuG4mTg Coming up, a look at the Hughes-Preminger joint authorship of Angel Face -- tomorrow, if I find time to write it. That’d do it! Mitchum could be a great guy…or otherwise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNawbuG4mTg

Coming up, a look at the Hughes-Preminger joint authorship of Angel Face — tomorrow, if I find time to write it.

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/an-rko-story/#comment-1856 David Ehrenstein Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:14:50 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=383#comment-1856 I saw that RKO Story episode too, and immediately thought of <i>Angel Face</i> -- which is a big fave of both Godard and Rivette (the latter learned the most from it, I believe.) On the RKO Story there's a teriffic anecdote from Robert Mitchum about the shooting of the film. There was a scene where He was required to slap Jean Simmons. Otto kept asking for take after take, and Mitchum quickly surmised that Otto liked to watch Jean getting slapped. So he turned the tables and slapped Otto. There were no further retakes. I saw that RKO Story episode too, and immediately thought of Angel Face — which is a big fave of both Godard and Rivette (the latter learned the most from it, I believe.) On the RKO Story there’s a teriffic anecdote from Robert Mitchum about the shooting of the film. There was a scene where He was required to slap Jean Simmons. Otto kept asking for take after take, and Mitchum quickly surmised that Otto liked to watch Jean getting slapped. So he turned the tables and slapped Otto.

There were no further retakes.

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