Warren Beatty had been offered the lead role but turned it down. Inger Stevens and Max Baer Jr also joined the cast. Eventually Robertson dropped out and was replaced by George Hamilton whose fee was a reported $100,000. The following month Cliff Robertson signed to co star. Ĭorman had the script rewritten by Robert Towne with whom he had collaborated a number of times, most recently on The Tomb of Ligeia (1965).
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He and the studio came to terms once they agreed to give him a free hand with the script. "The main difference between the minors and the majors is the amount of freedom allowed", Corman said. However, Columbia and Corman clashed and Corman wound up returning to AIP where he directed the hugely successful The Wild Angels. Filming was meant to start in September 1965. In June 1965 the title of The Southern Blade was change to The Long Way Home. Lee would go to United Artists and the proposed third Columbia film would be a war film, The Day They Let the Prisoners Out, by Peter Bogdanovich. The others were Iwo Jima (about the Battle of Iwo Jima) and Robert E. The first was The Southern Blade, which he was to produce along with Harry Joe Brown. (He would end up making the first two films for other studios).
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To show something you can't see on TV leads inevitably to unusual material." Ĭorman says the ideas he submitted to Columbia were a biopic of Baron von Richthofen, a story of the St Valentine's Day Massacre and an adaptation of Only Lovers Left Alive. You've got to give them something a little more complex artistically and intellectually. Ordinary pictures don't make money today because audiences today are too intelligent. "Every idea they had seemed too ordinary to me. "But every idea I submitted was too strange, too weird", he later said.
Ĭorman had a deal to make three films with Columbia. "But I decided I was going nowhere and wanted to move directly into the business." So he accepted a contract with Columbia. "Everything had been interesting, artistically satisfying, economically satisfying", Corman said eighteen months later. He set up the project at Columbia where he joined forces with Roger Corman.īy the end of 1964, Roger Corman was one of the most successful low-budget filmmakers in Hollywood, mostly working for American International Pictures. In October 1964 the screen rights to the novel were purchased by producer Harry Joe Brown.
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The Los Angeles Times called it "fast moving" The New York Times said it was full of "military stereotypes" but that it was written with "professional skill." The film was based on a 1961 novel The Southern Blade. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and they soon find themselves in a battle with the Union search party who also is unaware of the war's end. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border.
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