FILM · 1971 · USA
The Last Run
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- #001
George C. Scott starred opposite two of his wives from his three marriages. At the time of filming he was nearing the end of his second marriage, to Colleen Dewhurst. The following year he married Trish Van Devere.
- #002
Star George C. Scott feuded with legendary director John Huston and co-star Tina Aumont during rewrites of the script while shooting. Huston quit the film after a shouting match with Scott. By chance Aumont was replaced by Trish Van Devere, with whom Scott fell in love and later married. Richard Fleischer replaced Huston.
- #003
In a March 22, 1971 cover story on George C. Scott, Time magazine quoted him on why he took this film: "I'm doing it because it reminds me of old Bogart pictures."
- #004
Harry's car is a rare 1956 BMW 503 convertible. Unlike most BMWs, it has an eight-cylinder engine and is quite slow to drive. Only 139 convertibles were built between 1956 and 1959, and this may be the only one to feature so prominently in a film. One sold at auction in 2017 for over $580,000, and a good example could be worth well over $300,000 in 2021. Two of these cars were used in this film. Other films in which the car appears, though not prominently, are Hubertusjagd (1959) and Die Rosel vom Schwarzwald (1956).
- #005
The film's trailer includes a rare, candid, lengthy interview with George C. Scott in which he discusses his career up to that point and explains his reaction to winning the Oscar for "Patton." It was shown on TCM.
- #006
George C. Scott was willing to cast Dominique Sanda as the female lead and reportedly fired Tina Aumont. Sanda turned the offer down, however. In 1979 he began work with Sanda on The Formula (1980) but dismissed her as well, and Marthe Keller took her place.
- #007
Thanks to his recent Oscar-winning performance in Patton (1970), George C. Scott held considerable power during the making of this film. The first director, John Huston, insisted that Alan Sharp's script needed extensive rewriting (earning the writer's lasting enmity), and his son Tony Huston and personal assistant Gladys Hill worked hard on the screenplay. Scott refused to accept their work, and Huston, who had been ordered to stay faithful to Sharp's original version, resigned from the film immediately, forgoing a large directing fee (reportedly $150,000).
- #008
This film gives a good deal of information about the age of George C. Scott's character. In real life George C. Scott was only 44 when this film was shot.
- #009
The film showing on the television in the café is the 1961 biographical film Mad Dog Coll (1961), which marked the debuts of Telly Savalas, Gene Hackman, Peggy Feury and Brooke Hayward.
- #010
John Boorman was the first director attached to this project, but he left when he and George C. Scott could not agree on the script.
- #011
The two cars chasing the trio were a white 1969 Jaguar XJ6 Series 1 and a 1969 Dodge Dart built in Spain by Barreiros during Chrysler's ownership of the company.
- #012
In the same year he made this film (1971), George C. Scott was nominated for an Oscar for The Hospital (1971).
- #013
This was Sven Nykvist's first American film, even though it was shot in Europe. Apart from a few scenes in The Dove (1974), he did not shoot a film in the US until Pretty Baby (1978), five years later.
- #014
There is a theory that because director Richard Fleischer was not regarded as an "auteur" director like Sam Peckinpah or Blake Edwards, MGM chief Jimmy Aubrey felt less obliged to control the final cut.
- #015
The producers tried to replace Tina Aumont with Bonnie Bedelia in the original cast, but Bedelia did not want the role. By chance Trish Van Devere took it on.
- #016
When Tony Musante's character quotes gangster Dutch Schultz's last words, he replaces "wept" with "wished." The real quote is "A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim."
- #017
Despite the "ribbing" that Harry Garmes was very old, George C. Scott (1927-1999) was only 9 years older than his mocking co-star Anthony Musante Jr. (1936-2013).
- #018
Italian censorship visa # 59345 was issued on December 1, 1971.
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