http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/roboyeggs/ david cairns Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/roboyeggs/#comment-32263 Wed, 11 May 2011 19:24:18 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=15101#comment-32263 The Warners approach is fascinating because it both proves and disproves the importance of the director. Someone like Curtiz could impose his style over a whole film just by shooting part… but that meant you could replace him with a lesser talent and allow the lesser material to be subsumed by the great bits.

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/roboyeggs/#comment-32260 Wed, 11 May 2011 13:15:34 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=15101#comment-32260 No directors were credited, but Roy del Ruth, Lloyd Bacon, Howard Bretherton, Mervyn LeRoy, Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, and Busby Berkeley all shot footage according to the recently recovered studio logs. It was all a bit of a fiasco, really. Curtiz quit after just one day on the set.

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/roboyeggs/#comment-32258 Wed, 11 May 2011 07:17:55 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=15101#comment-32258 Jeez — that’s the guy who contacted the Self-Styled Siren when she expressed similar confusion re the name. No political sympathy for him, but 44 is too young.

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