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A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.
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James Brodhead
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- TriviaReportedly, Gene Hackman's salary for this movie has been estimated at being between 1.25 and 1.5 million dollars. According to Mark Litwak's 1986 book, "Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success in the New Hollywood", talent agent Sue Mengers said that "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film" with the amount of money he was being offered.
- Alternate versionsThe UK DVD is cut by 11 secs to edit a cockfight scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in TUGS: A Bigg Retrospective (2023)
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Released in Sydney in 1976 in the beautiful lost Plaza cinerama-screen theatre LL was crazily blown up to 70mm for release here and suffered horrible cropping to make it a rectangle 2.2 ratio pic when it seemed to be shot 1.66-1. Heads were cut off, or in one famous scene with Liza in a chair with Hackman and Reynolds standing behind her (the famous "fish fart" line) all we saw was her eyes on the stage and the men's chins at the top. I saw it again in proper ratio and it was far better, so whoever's idea to blow it up literally only added to the maligned 'bomb' status of this very expensive ($13m) 1975 film. Yes, the washed out image also looks weird, and makes you yearn for better access into the antics on screen. We had one of the 3 reported endings: the silly happy one where they all surface in the water after being blown up. The Butch Cassidy ending where the guys die and she is left would have been much better. Amazing that this film cost $4m more than STAR WARS filmed the next year. I saw a terrific 'making of' featurette at a nearby cinema at the same time which was in focus and offered a witty and attractive lead to the film, so there is plenty for the DVD if we get it. Reynolds other films of the time AT LONG LAST LOVE and NICKELODEON deserve favourable DVD releases too; all 3 are funny and enjoyable and compared to new multiplex releases from the USA, are masterpieces. LL is almost a musical and Reynolds is a hoot. The John Held artwork on the credits will make you rush to buy a book of his delicious 1920s cartoons.
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- Abenteurer auf der Lucky Lady
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- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,441,725
- Gross worldwide
- $24,441,725
- Runtime1 hour 58 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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