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Best Foreign Film | 1970
Budget 1,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,900,000 USD
This film was improvised from a 56-page outline. Each scene was shot in sequence and built upon the previous scene. To aid in this experiment, the film's producers had a video-camera tube attached to the Panavision camera and connected to an Ampex studio videotape machine, allowing the actors and crew to review what they had just filmed. According to a contemporary article in Daily Variety this was one of the first productions to use a video camera in this matter. This eliminated the time and expense of developing the film and showing the "rushes" the following day. The cost of this new technology was $1,100 per day, but director Edwards said the system saved the production many times that amount by avoiding costly resets and re-shoots on following days.
Associate producer Ken Wales nearly drowned during filming, after stuntman Dick Crockett shoved him into the foam-filled swimming pool as a joke. No one had told either man that the foam was actually designed for use by firefighters and absorbed oxygen in order to help put out fires, meaning that Wales couldn't breathe even when he was above the water. He had to be rescued by a couple of stagehands.
The interior of the mansion was a massive indoor set built at "The Lot" Studio, located at 1041 N. Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood, CA, not at MGM studios in Culver City.
Hrundi involuntarily blowing up the fort was possibly inspired by a similar real-life occurrence which happened a couple of years before, during the shooting of a now iconic scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Due to a misunderstanding, a huge bridge was blown up while the cameras were not filming, enraging director Sergio Leone; the bridge had to be rebuilt.
Bakshi's car is a Morgan Sports Model, built from 1932-39. Note that it has right-hand drive like all UK vehicles.
"Hrundi V. Bakshi: We have a saying in India... Michelle Monet: Yes? Hrundi V. Bakshi: Yes. Michelle Monet: Well? Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well what?"
"[last lines] Michelle Monet: Oh, here's your hat. Hrundi V. Bakshi: Oh, look... you keep it. Michelle Monet: But you may need it. Hrundi V. Bakshi: No, I'd like you to keep it. Michelle Monet: All right. If you think that you should want it or need it sometimes... Hrundi V. Bakshi: Well, if I need it... I could always come, perhaps, and pick it up. Michelle Monet: That would be very nice. Hrundi V. Bakshi: When would you be available for me to pick up my hat? Michelle Monet: Well... [laughs shyly] Michelle Monet: maybe next week. Hrundi V. Bakshi: I'll come and get it then. Michelle Monet: OK. Hrundi V. Bakshi: For I'd love to have my hat back. Michelle Monet: Goodbye. Hrundi V. Bakshi: Bye bye."
