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Prison Escape | Mistaken Identity
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison!
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New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison!
Worst Supporting Actress | 1981 | Georg Stanford
Budget 10,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 101,300,000 USD
Prior to filming, Arizona State Prison Warden Robert Raines had tried to organize a rodeo for 2 years. The biggest obstacle was the cost of constructing an arena, complete with grandstand, stables, and livestock chutes. When Columbia Pictures inquired about renting the prison for a film shoot, he saw a way to realize his dream. If security could be maintained, the prison was available for a fee which matched the budget for the new rodeo grounds. Raines said, "There was a fringe benefit we didn't anticipate. Morale in the prison was never higher. Some 350 inmates signed on as extras, playing themselves, and the rest, even the most notorious troublemakers, stayed on their best behavior. There were simply no incidents."
The cast and crew had to leave the prison walking in a line, single file, every night so the guards could ensure that no inmates escaped. One night, Charles Weldon recalled, "As I was walking out, a guard asked me to stand to one side. I should have realized something was wrong, but I obeyed him without a second thought." A moment later, Weldon found himself marched toward a cell block, along with the inmate extras. Fortunately, the film's production coordinator noticed one of the actors was missing, and rushed back to the prison. Weldon added "The guard told me, 'I could have sworn you were one of our guys.' He was profusely apologetic. But I didn't mind. To an actor, there couldn't have been a higher compliment."
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder improvised many of their scenes together.
The picture grossed $101.3 million at the box office in the U.S., making it the third highest grossing movie of 1980, behind 9 to 5 (1980) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
350 Arizona State Prison inmates worked as extras in the film.
"Skip Donahue: What are you doing? Harry Monroe: I'm gettin bad. You better get bad, Jack, 'cause if you ain't bad, you're gonna get fucked."
"Rory: That's Grossberger. The biggest mass murderer in the history of the southwest? My dear, he killed his entire family and all of his relatives in one weekend and then he killed some more people that reminded him of his family!"
