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Blade runners, deer hunters and blowing the bloody doors off : my life in cult movies

Title
Blade runners, deer hunters and blowing the bloody doors off : my life in cult movies / Michael Deeley.
Author
Deeley, Michael.
Publication
New York : Pegasus Books, 2009.

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Description
xi, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Recounts the author's career in films and the battles he fought while making his cult classics, from defending the infamous love scene of "Don't Look Now" to seizing control of "Convoy."
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Contents
Overture: 'And the winner is...'? -- Robin Hood, the goons and the nudist boom -- Getting The knack -- Hollywood UK -- Gearing up for The Italian job -- White-knuckle ride: making The Italian job -- The greatest film I never made, and the hellish one that I did -- Mr. Wilson, and his plans for British film -- Don't look now, or The prudery of Warren Beatty, and The wicker man, or The Wrath of Christopher Lee -- British business -- Soaring high, almost crashing: The man who fell to Earth -- The lion's last gasp -- Peckinpah, Convoy and a blizzard of cocaine -- A national them: The deer hunter -- Low grade -- Power, vainglory and Michael Cimino -- Blade runner- incept date: 1979 -- Blade runner- t-shirt wars -- Blade runner- waiting for Vangelis -- A form of retirement -- Coda.
ISBN
  • 9781605980386
  • 1605980382
  • 9781605981369
  • 1605981362
OCLC
  • ocn286439266
  • 286439266
  • SCSB-14748050
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library