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Ransom | Psychopath
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Robert Butler replaced Sidney J. Furie as director. Furie was the director who was originally hired for this film. Furie quit when it was alleged that Brolin broke his foot, and the producers suggested James Brolin perform the rest of the movie in a cast. The doctor's reports, however, were erroneous. Many of Furie's previous collaborators, including writer Rick Natkin, editor Argyle Nelson Jr. and producer Jay Weston, continued working on the film until it was finished.
Production shut down for about a week after James Brolin injured his foot by breaking it whilst shooting a stunt sequence on 13th June 1978. Filming resumed with director Sidney J. Furie with scenes without Brolin but it was then later decided that principal photography would not be able to re-start with Brolin's foot in a cast, it being to much of an obstruction to shooting, this causing a second break in the movie's production filming. Shooting resumed on 16th August 1978 after Brolin's cast had been removed.
The peep show parlor was a set constructed by production designer Stuart Wurtzel in an old Kodak Photography warehouse and was based on a real life peep show parlor called "Peepland".
Source novelist William P. McGivern reportedly received about US $200,000 for the film rights to this movie's source 1975 novel of the same name that he had written according to the 6th January 1975 edition of publication 'Publishers Weekly'.
According to the American Film Institute, as reported in the 9th August 1978 edition of 'The Los Angeles Times', "producer 'Jay Weston' and executive producer Arnold Kopelson planned to take legal action against Furie [Sidney J. Furie] for breach of contract". Moreover, the AFI states, as reported in the 4th October 1978 edition of show-business trade paper 'Variety', "Jay Weston Productions and Night of the Juggler Inc. filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Furie for leaving the production after approximately twenty-three days. The suit alleged the director's walkout cost an estimated [US] $500,000 loss in profits and [US] $300,000 loss in overhead. Furie was paid $211,000 for his time on the film."
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"Gus Soltic: I'm gonna keep her! [singing] Gus Soltic: I'm gonna keep her... I'm gonna keep her."
