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Hold-up Robbery | Bungee-jump
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Most Spectacular Sequence Feature Film | 1986
Best Vehicular Stunt Feature Film | 1986
1986
Box Office Collection 17,307,019 USD
During the opening, when Eric Masters (Willem Dafoe) is printing money, the film crew was actually creating counterfeit bills. A convicted counterfeiter was on set showing them how it's done. They were filming out in the desert, and Dafoe said that every time a helicopter flew over the building, they were sure it was the police coming to arrest them all.
Despite the crew's best efforts, some of the counterfeit bills made for the film got into circulation. The bills' quality was very, very good, but the Treasury seal on the counterfeits used the letter X, which is not a valid Federal Reserve Bank letter. The Secret Service picked up X bills for quite a while after filming wrapped.
The car chase sequence took six weeks to shoot. It was the last thing shot, apparently so that if anything happened to the principal actors, the filmmakers would, at least, have the bulk of their movie completed without having to replace anybody.
William Friedkin, in his memoir "The Friedkin Connection", says that the fake money they made was so good that, after some of it left the set, he eventually heard from the Secret Service and a US Attorney. After he avoided a confrontation with them, Friedkin states, "When the film came out, there were news stories about people trying to make counterfeit money after seeing the step-by-step process in our film. I took some of the twenties, those printed on both sides of course, put them in my wallet, and spent them in restaurants, shoe-shine parlors, and elsewhere. The money was that good."
Legendary cinematographer Robby Müller declined to shoot the car chase because he didn't know how to set up such a scene. He was replaced by second unit cameraman Robert D. Yeoman.
"Eric 'Rick' Masters: You have my word you won't have to do the whole nickel. Carl Cody: What does that mean? Eric 'Rick' Masters: Grimes is the best lawyer in the state. It'll either be an appeal bond or a sentence reduction. Carl Cody: And the check is in the mail, and I love you, and I promise not to come in your mouth..."
"Jeff Rice: Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo! Eric 'Rick' Masters: Hello Jeff. Jeff Rice: What are you doing in my crib. Eric 'Rick' Masters: You sent two assholes to do Cody and they blew it. I paid you half, I want it back. Jeff Rice: Yeah, well uh... I'm trying to get that money back myself. I had to front the whole purchase to get my people to do their thing. So I ain't got any more. Eric 'Rick' Masters: Well, then uh... you better try and shit 40 grand, because I ain't leaving without it. Jeff Rice: I owe you Cody. Next time there be no fuck-up. Eric 'Rick' Masters: What next time? He's in protective custody. Jeff Rice: Hell, protective custody don't mean shit to me! The man's dead. Eric 'Rick' Masters: In a pig's ass!"
