Очень милый, забавный бред.
В некоторых моментах очень в духе Чарли Чаплина.
Для первого фильма неплохо. Интересно в каком фильме впервые Вуди обрел свой традиционный стиль? Увидим.
The first time Woody Allen performed the triple duties of writing, directing and acting in a film.
читать дальшеThis was the first movie that Woody Allen directed. His initial lack of either confidence or track record prompted him to initially ask Jerry Lewis to direct the movie, but Lewis was busy with his own work.
One hundred San Quentin prisoners were paid a small fee to work on the film during the prison sequences.
The regular cast and crew were stamped each day with a special ink that glowed under ultra-violet light so the guards could tell who was allowed to leave the prison grounds at the end of the day.
Woody Allen's decision to become his own director was partially spurred on by the chaotic and uncontrolled filming of Casino Royale, in which he had appeared two years previously.
Virgil's inept attempt to escape prison by carving a gun out of soap and turning it black with shoe polish is loosely based on real life bank robber
John Dillinger's famous escape from the Crown Point, Indiana jail using a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish.
In an interesting parallel, in the film Dillinger directed by John Milius and starring Warren Oates as John Dillinger, he is shown using a bar of soap instead of a piece of wood.
Allen's first cut was deemed to be decidedly unfunny, including his death scene in a slow-mo hail of bullets, like Bonnie and Clyde.
Producers Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe convinced him to sit with top editor Ralph Rosenblum to see what could be salvaged.
The first thing Rosenblum did was cut out the gory ending, then he restructured the film completely, and generally tightened up Allen's loose narrative.
This effort transformed the finished film into a comedy classic. Rosenblum subsequently became Allen's editor of choice on most of his next films, including Bananas, Sleeper, Love and Death and Annie Hall.
Allen initially filmed a downbeat ending in which he was shot to death, courtesy of special effects from A.D. Flowers.
Allen's editor, Ralph Rosenblum (whose first work with Allen this was), convinced him to go for a lighter ending.
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