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JACKSON COUNTY JAIL (1976): A woman seeking a fresh start drives into a nightmare of violence and official corruption.

Dir: Michael Miller | Writer: Donald E. Stewart | DP: Bruce Logan | Music: L. Loren Newkirk
Starring: Yvette Mimieux & Tommy Lee Jones.
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Goblin wasn't the original choice to provide the film's famous music

Dario Argento initially commissioned jazz composer Giorgio Gaslini for the soundtrack to Deep Red.

However, Argento wanted a more aggressive, rock-influenced sound and turned to the progressive-rock group ive interview, he recalled that Goblin became involved around the middle of production. He met with the musicians at night while filming continued. The resulting soundtrack helped establish Goblin's enduring association with Argento's cinema.

Deep Red (1975) A jazz pianist witnesses a murder, then learns that seeing isn't the same as understanding. Dario Argento's dazzling, nightmarish giallo.

Dir: Dario Argento | Writers: Argento & Bernardino Zapponi | DP: Luigi Kuveiller | Music: Goblin & Giorgio Gaslini

Van Peebles took on an extraordinary number of production responsibilities, including writing, directing, producing, editing, composing, and starring in the film. The independent production ultimately grossed more than $15 million

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Peebles | DP: Bob Maxwell | Music: Van Peebles & Earth, Wind & Fire

After viewing an early cut, director Ivan Reitman decided the film needed more scenes establishing the relationship between Bill Murray and Chris Makepeace. The filmmakers constructed a cabin in Montreal during winter and spent approximately $20,000 shooting additional material lls (1979)
Dir: Ivan Reitman | Writers: Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Janis Allen & Harold Ramis | DP: Donald Wilder | Music: Elmer Bernstein

Jaws 2 experienced substantial production turmoil.

Original director John Hancock departed approximately three weeks into filming following creative disagreements. Universal considered several replacements before selecting Jeannot Szwarc.

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb was brought play, eliminating characters and changing certain casting decisions.

After filming resumed in Florida in August 1977, two hurricanes caused additional delays. The budget reportedly grew from an initial $10 million estimate to approximately $20 million by completion.

Jaws 2 (1978) Roy Scheider returns as Chief Brody to face another killer shark and a town that won't listen.

Dir: Jeannot Szwarc | Writers: Carl Gottlieb & Howard Sackler | DP: Michael Butler | Music: John Williams

Warren Beatty's character was inspired by real Beverly Hills hairstylists.
Screenwriter Robert Towne spent time living with celebrity hairstylist Gene Shacove, who served as a technical consultant on Shampoo.

Shampoo (1975)
Dir: Hal Ashby | Writers: Warren Beatty & Robert TownMusic: Paul Simon

Arthur Penn's production encountered a bizarre weather problem while filming in Alberta, Canada. The crew initially had to suspend winter filming in December 1969 because there wasn't enough snow. When production resumed in January 1970, the filmmakers finally had their snow but ero temperatures.

Little Big Man (1970)
Dir: Arthur Penn | Writer: Calder Willingham | DP: Harry Stradling Jr. | Music: John Hammond

MGM executives reportedly wanted Shaft filmed in Los Angeles because New York's harsh winter weather threatened to increase production costs.

Director Gordon Parks refused. According to his autobiography, he threatened to leave the project unless the movie was filmed in New ltimately shot throughout Manhattan, while many interiors were constructed inside the old City Hospital on Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island.

Shaft (1971) Richard Roundtree walks New York with swagger and a refusal to play by anyone else's rules. Gordon Parks' landmark detective thriller.

Dir: Gordon Parks | Writers: Ernest Tidyman & John D. F. Black | DP: Urs Furrer | Music: Isaac Hayes

Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Cliff Robertson were connected to earlier versions

The Mechanic spent several years in development before Charles Bronson starred in the finished picture.
A 1967 Hollywood Reporter column stated that Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster had contacted Carlino requesting to read his script. By 1969, Cliff Robertson was reportedly attached to star, with Martin Ritt scheduled to direct a New York production. Neither arrangement materialized. The film eventually emerged in 1972 under Michael Winner, starring Bronson, with extensive location photography in Los Angeles and Italy.

The Mechanic (1972)
Dir: Michael Winner | Writer: Lewis John Carlino | DP: Richard H. Kline | Music: Jerry Fielding

In a June 1969 interview with Daily Variety, Ernest Borgnine claimed he stopped filming one morning after discovering that prop ammunition bandoliers contained live bullets.

Borgnine, who had served as a gunner's mate in the U.S. Navy, recognized the ammunition. He alleged that to use live rounds to capture authentic bullet sounds.

The Wild Bunch (1969)
Dir: Sam Peckinpah | Writers: Walon Green & Peckinpah | DP: Lucien Ballard | Music: Jerry Fielding

Director Michael Ritchie developed Smile from his experiences judging an actual beauty contest in California. For added authenticity, he cast 25 local Santa Rosa teenagers alongside eight professional Hollywood actresses and staged the fictional competition much like a genuine Dir: Michael Ritchie | Writer: Jerry Belson | DP: Conrad Hall | Title song: Nat King Cole

Five Easy Pieces (1970) Jack Nicholson's restless oil-rig worker drifts between working-class life and the privileged world he abandoned. A defining portrait of alienation.

Dir: Bob Rafelson | Writer: Carole Eastman / Bob Rafelson | DP: László Kovács | Songs: Tammy Wynette

SHAFT, btw, is the perfect example of a hard-boiled detective film that is not a noir.

The screenplay reportedly began as a romantic comedy.

The Beguiled (1971)
Dir: Don Siegel | Writers: Albert Maltz & Irene Kamp | DP: Bruce Surtees | Music: Lalo Schifrin

Lifeguard (1976) Sam Elliott plays a California beach lifeguard who refuses to trade the ocean for a respectable career. A quietly moving film about aging on your own terms.

Dir: Daniel Petrie | Writer: Ron Koslow | DP: Ralph Woolsey | Music: Dale Menten

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The actors fought an invisible opponent in the famous Kali swordfight.

For the extraordinary battle involving the six-armed goddess Kali, Ray Harryhausen faced an enormous technical challenge.

The actors had to rehearse and perform their swordfight against an opponent who ally. Months afterward, Harryhausen animated a jointed model measuring approximately one foot tall and carefully integrated its movements with the live-action footage.

The resulting sequence remains one of the most memorable achievements of his stop-motion career.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
Dir: Gordon Hessler | Writer: Brian Clemens | DP: Ted Moore | Music: Miklós Rózsa

Peter Yates shot the film entirely on location in and around Boston.

The first bank robbery sequence was photographed at South Shore Bank in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. According to studio publicity, the same bank had previously been the target of an actual robbery involving he bank manager's family, strikingly similar to the film's fictional crime.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Dir: Peter Yates | Writer: Paul Monash | DP: Victor J. Kemper | Music: Dave Grusin

MGM executives reportedly wanted Shaft filmed in Los Angeles because New York's harsh winter weather threatened to increase production costs.

Director Gordon Parks refused. According to his autobiography, he threatened to leave the project unless the movie was filmed in New ltimately shot throughout Manhattan, while many interiors were constructed inside the old City Hospital on Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island.

Shaft (1971) Richard Roundtree walks New York with swagger and a refusal to play by anyone else's rules. Gordon Parks' landmark detective thriller.

Dir: Gordon Parks | Writers: Ernest Tidyman & John D. F. Black | DP: Urs Furrer | Music: Isaac Hayes

The original screenplay reached Clint Eastwood through a restaurant maître d'.

UC Berkeley drama student Gail Morgan Hickman and his friend Scott Schroers wrote an original screenplay titled Moving Target. Rather than submitting it through conventional Hollywood channels, they e manuscript to the maître d' at Clint Eastwood's restaurant in Carmel, California.

The Enforcer (1976)
Dir: James Fargo | Writers: Stirling Silliphant & Dean Riesner | DP: Charles W. Short | Music: Jerry Fielding