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Remake | Highwayman
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Worst Actress | 1984 | Faye
Budget 15,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 724,912 USD
Faye Dunaway turned down a role of Regan in a British television production of King Lear (1983) starring Sir Laurence Olivier to be in this movie.
Reportedly, Faye Dunaway had fifty hand-made silk dresses imported from France and Italy to wear as costumes in this movie.
Some of the silk on the seventeenth century silk dresses worn by Faye Dunaway was so delicate and fragile that it had to be mounted on other fabrics so as to protect and preserve it.
This movie is notable for a whip-fight between two women, which was not in the original novel, but was already in The Wicked Lady (1945). The scene caused a controversy, as the British Board of Film Classification wanted to impose a cut, and director Michael Winner refused to cut the notorious sequence, lobbying with such fellow director colleagues as Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, and John Schlesinger, as well as author Kingsley Amis to defend retention of the scene. The scene stayed, but the movie's release was delayed.
Director Michael Winner once said how he wanted to make this movie ever since he was a boy and saw The Wicked Lady (1945). He felt the first adaptation deserved better, as it suffered from being studio bound, with fake trees and painted backdrops.
"Jerry Jackson: [Barbara bursts in on Jackson and his wench] Ah... she... she means nothing to me! Jackson's Girl: What? Lady Barbara Skelton: This wench, cheap as she looks, will cost you dear. [Barbara leaves] Jackson's Girl: Who the fuck was that?"
"Jerry Jackson: [about to be hanged] My friends, I don't care whether you're for me or against me. All that matters is that you've come her today in your thousands to give me a grand send off. To you lovely ladies, don't throw your love, your caresses, your tears on villains like me. Save them for a man who's worth it. An honest, faithful man. If you can find one! To the men I'll give a word of warning, never put your faith in a woman. For no matter how much you may think she loves you, like as not she'll betray you in the end! In my short and merry life I've loved many but only once have I ever, ever made the fatal mistake of trusting a woman. That's why I'm here! For believe me friends, only a woman's hand could put a noose around the neck of Jerry Jackson!"
