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PLOT An
unscrupulous
industrial pharmacist and profiteer is accused by the American
judiciary and
therefore sought by the police for producing drugs with carcinogenic
effects.
The Department of Justice learns that the magnate is hiding on an
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FILMING
LOCATIONS
Filming
dates: May through
July 1978
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CREDITS Photography (Technicolor): Robert Paynter, Dick Kratina, Richard Kline Music: Gato Barbieri Sophia's costume design: Per Spook Makeup Artists: Richard Mills, Allen Weisinger Sophia's Hair Stylist: Nicola Palombi Sophia's Double for Stunts: Roy Alon Still photographers: Bert Cann, Robert Ross, Tazio Secchiaroli Production: Michael Winner for Scimitar Films I.T.C. ( |
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NOTES
Sophia's stunning wardrobe is by Paris-based Norwegian fashion house Per Spook. She wears most of her outfits braless for Carribean location scenes. Second film with now infamous O.J. Simpson who is a favorite of Lew Grade who produces a second film starring Sophia Loren. The National Enquirer reports that one evening, at the of a shooting day in New York, Simpson's wife, Nicole Brown, showed up with a swollen face from blows. Sophia would have said, "If this is the way you treat a woman, you need to see a psychiatrist." Later, at a restaurant, she went on with more comments saying that "in Italy, a man who beats his wife should be ashamed to be seen in public." In a effort to woo the motion picture industry back to New Jersey, State Governor Brendan Byrne meets Sophia on the set in Clifton where he presents her with a "bicentennial bell" which he urges her to ring "if you ever need me". Director Michael Winner is such a tough taskmaster on the set of that his crew dreams up a most appropriate parting present by giving him a box containing the ashes of what was once his director's chair. |
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QUOTES
AND REVIEWS "...with
olive eyes co-ordinated to
her couturier wardrobe, glides Sophia Loren in the only sort of role that seems to
attract her
any more: she plays a high-priced courtesan who swims to seamy
individuals
(Anthony Franciosa, Victor Mature) festooned with power and encrusted
with
money like a shark swims to offal. Miss Loren looks
wonderful, of course, but the degeneration of her career is complete:
after appearing
in Two Women and The Condemned of Altona - after functioning, and
functioning
well, as an actress - she is now content to look pretty, dodge geysers
of vital
fluids and purr Oh, Jerry, you still know what a woman wants to hear
into James
Coburn's flaming ear.
Jay Scott, Globe and Mail, 3 may 1979 "What does a star have to do with this tropical-espionage tangle? Often she is used like a highly paid extra, placed there to embellish the scene." Ranieri Polese, La Nazione, 3 nov 1979 "A lean Sophia Loren with two faces, both expressionless, passes through the story with a cool arrogance, as though it did not concern her, despite the fact that her name occupies first place in the cast." Achille Valdata, La Stampa, 11 oct 1979 "Sophia Loren moves like a queen, even though the part does not call for it, and changes her outfit every ten minutes." Alfio Cantelli, Il Giornale, 12 oct 1979 |
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