visitors is a 2003 australian thriller film starring radha mitchell , susannah york and ray barrett , directed by richard franklin and produced by jennifer hadden .

the film proved to be richard franklin 's final project .

visitors ( 2003 film )

2003 - “the horror , the horror . . . ” panel member , brisbane international film festival 2003
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visitors ( 2003 ) . director - richard franklin . stars : radha mitchell , susannah york . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
2003 : bloom shakes hands with fans as he makes his way to frontierland .
saf welcomes groups and visitors for self - guided and organised tours and activities .
since sharjah biennial 6 in 2003 , sharjah art foundation has supported the production of film and video work by visual artists and filmmakers .
well , i ' m glad you said that , because that ' s what visitors is about .
2003 : keira knightley , who plays elizabeth swan , poses with some pirate wenches outside main street cinema .
2003 to 2012 - the vaginabillies ( vocals ) semi - acoustic cabaret version of they might be . . .
dedicated to film and filmmaking , the saf film club is designed for filmmakers and offers opportunities to get involved in the local film community .
2003 - escape from the planet of the tapes ( interview subject ) sbs tv documentary about me and trash video ' s struggle to evolve .
established in june 2003 , sja film technologies ltd . , a privately owned company , began trading as a slitting , rewinding and film supplier company and quickly developed the business portfolio to include stocks of many substrates including plastic films , cast polypropylene , oriented polypropylene , degradable films , polyester , sandwich lidding film , release liner and paper .
2015 - gone lesbo gone ( interview subject , co - producer ) documentary directed by jarret gahan on the troubled production of lesbo - a - go - go ( 2003 ) , premiered at brisbane underground film festival , january 2015 .
but , when the walt disney studios motion pictures movie had its world premiere at disneyland on june 28 , 2003 , few could have predicted it would be the success it is today . pirates is the ninth highest grossing film franchise in history , earning $ 4 , 524 , 358 , 182 at the global box office after last year ' s fifth film : dead men tell no tales . pirates of the caribbean : the curse of the black pearl premiered in theaters nationwide 11 days later , on july 9 , 2003 .
arabiyat confirmed that the strategy was developed to help jordan benefit from the opportunities that filming destinations have , as designing tour itineraries around film locations can attract more visitors . he also noted that jtb has hosted many production companies from hollywood and bollywood in recent years and has offered incentives to encourage more filming in jordan . jtb also supported rfc’s efforts to promote jordan at international film festivals , including the cannes film festival .
amman , 13 august 2017 - under the patronage of her royal highness princess rym ali , the royal film commission ( rfc ) launched jordan’s first film tourism strategy today , which is set to guide efforts over the coming three years to attract more visitors to jordan through film . the strategy was developed in cooperation with the jordan tourism board and with support from the usaid building economic sustainability through tourism project ( best ) .
reflecting the growing importance of film in the foundation ' s work , the saf film programme offers regular screenings in mirage city cinema , sharjah ' s only dedicated outdoor cinema , a film club , educational programmes for film enthusiasts , as well as support for filmic work by visual artists .
sharjah film platform ( sfp ) , an annual programme organised by sharjah art foundation , aims to support film production in the united arab emirates .
, which is generally the film , if i ' m asked what i ' ve made , is the film i refer to as my first film . even though there were one and a half films before it .
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ibrahim osta , usaid best chief of party , said that film commissions compete to attract part of an $ 88 billion - dollar industry that yields deep direct and indirect economic benefits to filming destinations . thus , “usaid best is supporting jordan’s efforts to boost its international competitiveness , create new tourism jobs , and distribute tourism revenues across the country through this film strategy , which lays out a clear path to attracting film productions and visitors .
, using a lot of the same financiers , you see , my next film was an attempt to make a universal genre film . and that was
the royal film commission – jordan ( rfc ) is a public institution , with administrative and financial autonomy , established in 2003 with a mandate to promote for and contribute to the development of an internationally competitive jordanian audio - visual industry . the rfc organizes training workshops , screenings and provides production support services .
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, which if i ' m asked , is the film i refer to as my first film . even though there were one and a half films before it .
michal blaško ( b . 1989 , bratislava ) is studying film and television directing at the academy of performing arts in bratislava ( všmu ) . his short movie fear ( 2015 ) , a coproduction with prague’s famu , premiered at the san sebastián iff and went on to win a variety of international awards . his bachelor project atlantis , 2003 was selected for the cinéfondation section at the 70th international cannes film festival .
but that must have been quite an honour to have italians rip off your film .
was also richard franklins last ever film and he died from cancer in 2007 ) .
, worked , but not the comedy . and so my next film , using a lot of the same financiers , was an attempt to make a universal genre film . and that was
representatives from local tour operators and film production companies attended the one - day conference , which included sessions on the latest global developments in film tourism and the successes of countries like denmark and czech republic in attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists , as a result of shooting blockbuster films . jordan ' s film tourism strategy was discussed , as well as designing tourism itineraries around film locations .
new mexico offers one of the leading film incentive packages in the country . up to 30 %
it’s 2003 , four years before slovakia becomes part of the schengen area . today the border with ukraine is one of europe’s best guarded , but back then it was the playground of smugglers and human traffickers . martin and denisija dream of leaving ukraine for germany to begin a new life . crossing the border brings unexpected complications , but the pair are willing to sacrifice a great deal to reach their destination . atlantis , 2003 provides a chilling excursion to a recent past we should not forget , but it also asks a universal question : how responsible are we for each other ?
radha mitchell is an awful actress and visitors might just be her tour de force of awful . she plays this character crazy for the outset , which makes her
descent
into crazy feel like just a normal day . she turns what could have been a solid mystery into something borderline unwatchable .
is on the cusp . as was the original . hitchcock just redefined the genre with that film , and
, and employs none of that film ' s subtlety here ) had no easy task before him - - a single character at sea is not the easiest of situations in which to establish any kind of drama without dialogue . with this in mind , it didn’t even bother me that georgia’s cat speaks to her in a laughable british accent , or that the film constantly flashes back to her life on the mainland , if only because they had to have some way of establishing character development without using constant narration . but when the titular visitors start showing up , the film exhausts any semblance of suspense and becomes almost laughably stilted .
and so i suppose it wasn ' t until the late seventies that hardcore took over the sex film industry .
richard franklin isn ' t my favourite australian filmmaker , but you ' ve got to give credit to the man for managing to make a purely genre career in a country like ours . visitors isn ' t his strongest effort visually or intensity wise , but he manages to crank out a few neat twists along the way .
elia kazan ( 1909 - 2003 ) was a dominant and hugely influential force in the postwar american cinema , a director whose keen intuition and perspicacity made him almost impervious to the vicissitudes of the declining studio system and ideally suited to take advantage of the gradual shift towards independent production . prolific in spite of hollywood ' s dramatic ebbs , kazan created a group of vital , emotionally intense and frequently controversial films that helped define american film history and popular culture .
but you ' ve got to realise , this was an era when it was very hard for young people to get professional work in hollywood and the people who are now the modern hollywood film industry were making these kinds of film .
a young ukrainian couple plan their getaway to germany . it’s 2003 , four years before slovakia integrates into the schengen area . the slovak - ukrainian border is controlled by smugglers and human traffickers – martin and denisija have no idea of the traps that await them . they only have each other but they are willing to sacrifice much to fulfill their dream .
it was the hostile press that buried the film , thanks to the efforts of fred nile’s festival of light . “it was the fact that the film had government funding , and was based on a ' pornographic poem ' . and they cited
while franklin ' s direction is crisp and stylish and mitchell performs admirably in the starring role , visitors is still missing something substantial that keeps it from being anything more than an interesting mind game . part of the unevenness comes from the fact that franklin doesn ' t appear to be able to decide just what kind of movie he wants to make here . is it a slick horror film ? is it a twisty mystery ? is it a drama about insanity ? while it touches on all three , the film never explores any of these elements sufficiently to fully satisfy in any particular direction .
, worked , but not the comedy . and so my next film , coming off the ( in the end ) quite successful
was a b film . i never thought of myself as making b films ; i did see myself as making genre films .
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for a time during the 1980s , australias richard franklin was a genre director worth watching . in australia , richard franklin made the psychic coma patient film
, which was substantially a one - person drama about stacy keach in a truck where the entire film equally wavered between real and possibly imagined threat .
) , i didn ' t particularly want it to tarnish my career . ” in retrospect , his film career could have been over before it started .
and the room and so on . that was a pretty silly film otherwise . you made a comment about b movies ; it used to be argued that
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di ingon ' nato : zombies in our backyard
essay and director ivan zaldarriaga interview , sinekultura film journal ( university of san carlos , cebu ) issue # 4 , second semester 2012 , pp . 14 - 21 ; reprinted in film international 63 - 4 ( sweden ) , august 2013
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
uae audiences can enjoy a wide range of films and film genres featured in the regularly scheduled screenings that take place in saf ' s mirage city cinema .
from the past to the present , santa fe and new mexico has been a dramatic draw for filmmakers of all stripes and our film scene is booming .
2015 - talk on pinoy cult cinema with leo katigbak and manet a . dayrit , qcinema international film festival , quezon city , philippines 28 / 10 / 15
for two weeks in february every year , dublin turns into one of the hotspots of international cinema . the jameson dublin international film festival ( jdiff ) mixes works by independent film makers from around the globe with releases from the mainstream hollywood studios for a cross section of the most exciting movies of the past twelve months . from intimate documentaries to big drama , the range of films shown during the jdiff has something for everybody and dublin becomes a choice destination for film fans every february .
to mark the centenary of johnny mercer ' s birth , director bruce ricker ' s latest jazz documentary focuses on the music and legacy of the great american songwriter , interweaving interviews with tony bennett , andre previn and harry connick , jr . with screen performances of mercer ballads by the likes of frank sinatra , judy garland and nat king cole . the harvard film archive is pleased to welcome bruce ricker to discuss his latest film and to celebrate the very generous donation of his important film collection to the archive .
directed by elia kazan . with robert de niro , tony curtis , robert mitchum us 1976 , 35mm , color , 125 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
although marketed as a horror flick , visitors is mostly a psychological drama with mild horror thriller elements , so take this into account before you embark on this one expecting some serious ( or even cheesy ) thrills and chills . director richard franklin ( cloak & dagger , road games ) puts aside his hitchcockian homage tendencies for a more atmospheric character study revolving around a woman that must try to keep from hurting herself , despite the vividness of the disturbing images that she sees on a daily basis .
special thanks to kent jones ; mark mcelhattan ; joan miller , wesleyan cinema archives ; pat doyen , george eastman house ; may haduong , academy film archive ; kokkalis program on southeastern and east - central europe , harvard ; mary keene , museum of modern art ; brian block , criterion pictures usa ; sara rubin , the boston jewish film festival .
directed by elia kazan . with kirk douglas , faye dunaway , deborah kerr us 1969 , 35mm , color , 127 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
directed by elia kazan . with marlon brando , jean peters , anthony quinn us 1952 , 35mm , b / w , 113 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
directed by elia kazan . with gregory peck , dorothy mcguire , john garfield us 1948 , 35mm , b / w , 118 min . print courtesy of the academy film archive
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depp never gave any interviews to promote the film . instead , he decided to dress up in character as jack sparrow last year to surprise pirates of the caribbean riders at disneyland .
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sharjah art foundation works with artists and audiences on programmes that reflect the foundation ' s core projects . these include the film programme ' s screenings and film club activities , the artist and professionals programme ' s residencies , production grants and internships as well as the opportunity for everyone to become involved through saf community programmes such as vantage point sharjah and the urban garden .
despite its god awful poster , visitors is surprisingly decent . whilst it doesn ' t touch franklin + de roche ' s earlier efforts , there ' s enough solid moments and creative editing choices that cover up the many budget limitations that really undercut some of its thematic ambitions . the major flaws come from richard franklin ' s choice of actors , who are all incredibly miscast ( radha mitchell is a good actress , but doesn ' t quite nail this role ) and the digital cinematography looks cheap . i feel like if this same script was made by franklin in the 80 ' s , shot on nice grainy film stock and old school ozploitation practical effects , it would be regarded as a classic of that era .
b ut yes he is . and he was great fun to work with , and full of great stories about old hollywood , and i really enjoyed the whole film to be honest .
directed by elia kazan . with stathis giallelis , linda marsh , paul mann us / greece 1963 , 35mm , b / w , 168 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
directed by elia kazan . with karl malden , carroll baker , eli wallach us 1956 , 35mm , b / w , 114 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
the italian film festival in santa fe returns april 20 - 22 , 2018 . join us for contemporary film , food & fun , italian - style ! cinefesta italia is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non - profit organization that raises awareness of italian culture . a portion of our proceeds help our charitable partners support santa fe’s neediest children in today’s challenging world .
was that the selling point , the way to get the film financed ? because it looks like it ' s a period comedy , but then the nudity ' s grafted on the top .
. well , she could not have been more chuffed , and went on the record to say that this film was going to undo the damage that spoto ' s book had done to her father ' s image . so in its way the film did have the blessing of the family . indeed , one of the things i ' ve been looking at by way of preparation for
the director general of the jordan tourism board , abdul razzaq arabiyat , explained :
the strategy was developed in consultation with film and tourism industry representatives and will capitalize on the huge potential of jordan to become an international film destination .
he added that blockbuster films help promote destinations and there are many examples of countries that witnessed a huge increase in tourists as a result . in new zealand , tourism soared to more than $ 3 billion in 2014 following filming the hobbit franchise there , and florida reported an almost 70 % increase in tourism thanks to the film dolphin tale .
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is noteworthy for proving once again that mitchell has what it takes to be a legitimate star , and since this film’s release she has indeed found her way into more top - shelf material . but the film wastes what could have been a truly frightening premise on hackneyed plot devices . in the end it commits the most unforgivable sin in all of horror cinema : it just isn’t that scary .
directed by elia kazan . with dana andrews , jane wyatt , lee j . cobb us 1947 , 35mm , b / w , 88 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
richard franklin ' s final film is also his fourth collaboration with screenwriter everett de roche , but visitors is a far cry from the brilliance of patrick , roadgames and link . it ' s certainly got that de roche touch of originality about it , but unusually none of his blows land on this occasion . it ' s a psychological horror about yachtswoman george , who ' s on the final leg of her solo circumnavigation of the world , but when we first meet her , she ' s stuck south of africa due to calm seas . and that ' s when she starts to crack up . it ' s a nice touch having george communicate with her pet cat taco , and having him talking back to her , but the screenplay isn ' t brave enough to make this all…
2007 - zombie mariachi ( actor , producer , additional camera ) short film directed by filipino guerrilla filmmaker khavn de la cruz during his 2007 biff appearance . i play
great white zombie hunter
!
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and blue poles , the jackson pollock painting , as instances of the government squandering public funds . and the theatres were picketed , and it was actually fairly successful in terms of damaging the picture . i thought it would be great publicity , but the one thing people don ' t want to hear is that tax dollars have been wasted . the minute they hear that , they ' re less inclined to throw good money after bad , if you see what i mean . so the film was not successful , so that ' s why i made my next film… i needed to make a film that would make money . ”
. i should have dropped out of university and done it permanently , in retrospect , but at the time i was in film school , so i just went out and visited when i didn ' t have classes .
i usually tell people to avoid imdb when recommending a movie that has a twist ending that might be ruined by looking at the cast or the synopsis . but with this movie , i ' d say avoid imdb because almost everything that is said about the movie is wrong . first the synopsis states that visitors is about
the story of georgia perry , the first woman to sail around the world solo .
. not sure who wrote that , but it ' s clearly stated while she ' s pulling out of the harbor that if she completes the journey that she ' d be one in a handful of women to accomplish this feat . not only…
well , she didn ' t think she ' d been exploited , she just liked the front page of the sunday papers and the like ! ( laughs ) but it wasn ' t that that sparked off the festival of light , it was the fact that the film had government funding , and was based on a ' pornographic poem ' . and they cited eskimo nell and blue poles , the jackson pollock painting , as instances of the government squandering public funds . and the theatres were picketed , and it was actually fairly successful in terms of damaging the picture . i thought it would be great publicity , but the one thing people don ' t want to hear is that tax dollars have been wasted . the minute they hear that , they ' re less inclined to throw good money after bad , if you see what i mean . so the film was not successful , so that ' s why i made my next film… i needed to make a film that would make money . so the next film was a deliberate attempt to make a sort of send up of the scandanavian sex documentaries that were able to be shown here .
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a fifth film , pirates of the caribbean : dead men tell no tales , was announced in 2013 . plagued by production problems , the movie will make its long awaited debut in u . s . theaters on may 26 .
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filmed at the time of kazan’s notorious huac testimony , viva zapata ! offers a dramatically searching yet ultimately unresolved return to the director ' s roots in radical left - wing theater and politics . written in close collaboration with lifelong mexicophile john steinbeck , who shared kazan ' s fascination with zapata ' s vision and failure , the film uses the idealistic revolutionary to offer an unflinching critique of the limits and corrosive potential of power . featuring one of brando ' s underappreciated bravura performances , viva zapata ! is today considered one of the most evocative screen depictions of the mexican revolution , despite the intense efforts by the mexican film industry to suppress and censor the film during its early production stages .
well , thank you ! i storyboarded the whole film myself , my own drawings . they were fairly rudimentary , but it was a very studied piece of directing . i was doing a thriller , i knew how hitchcock worked , and i had a shoebox with dollhouse furniture . i had some concerns about filming an entire film in a small room , and i peered at this for months , and came up with lots of different camera angles . so thank you .
, which was trying to reinvent the genre . and i ' m not saying that ' s exactly what i ' m doing , i think this particular film probably owes as much to polanski as it does to hitchcock , somewhere between
it was , and it was that that allowed me and tony ginnane to make patrick , which was my next film . even though i had done it under a pseudonym , it was perceived that i could make films that would make money .
you call it a sex comedy , i didn ' t . as i saw it , it was in the same vein as something like , oh god i ' m trying to think of it now , the jon voight - dustin hoffman film -
had already covered the making of a fictitious softcore version ( as well as a gay western , kung fu and sickly family version ! ) of the famous bawdy 19th century poem by a unscrupulous smut film producer . franklin’s version , co - written with alan (
i remember seeing that film when i was living in the middle east , early eighties , i was only 12 or 13 at the time . i saw patrick and road games , both on videotape . and if it made it to the middle east - !
when we screened patrick at the afi awards , i remember being rather devastated at the amount of audience laughter , and then being amazed - nominated for best picture ! what i had done inadvertently was what is now post - modernism , or a self - referential film . the film had fun with the genre , and that was mostly me having fun on the set . i didn ' t really realise that it would transfer to screen quite so well . i thought there was a camp element to the matron and all of that…
2010 - machete maidens unleashed ! ( associate producer , additional footage , original concept ) feature length doco written and directed by mark hartley , based on the original
the search for weng weng
concept . premiered at melbourne international film festival 24 / 07 / 10
fails to establish any kind of consistency of mood or tone . the film shifts radically in several instances , changing from a horror story to a family drama , from adventure ( look out ! there’re pirates about ! ) to thriller , eventually settling on an ending that seems lifted out of a bad romantic comedy . the whole thing smacks of drastic rewrites , and i wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find that the film had been re - cut to satisfy a more mainstream audience . not only this , but outside of a few excellent cg - assisted zoom outs to the stratosphere , franklin does a meager job of conveying the truly desperate nature of georgia’s isolation , and for the majority of the film it seems obvious that her boat is floating in a water tank on a studio backlot .
in the ideal form of transmedia storytelling , each medium does what it does best - so that a story might be introduced in a film , expanded through television , novels , and comics , and its world might be explored and experienced through game play . each franchise entry needs to be self - contained enough to enable autonomous consumption . that is , you don’t need to have seen the film to enjoy the game and vice - versa . as pokemon does so well , any given product is a point of entry into the franchise as a whole .
) hopgood , sticks closer to the source material and transposes the action to a more culturally iconic stomping ground : the ballarat goldfields , the eureka stockade , the snow - capped blue mountains . the ambitious franklin’s second unit even filmed the klondike scenes - where dick supposedly loses his eye - outside montreal , and some incredible location shots such as the iceflows from the canadian far north helped win the film an afi award for best photography . come to think of it , it’s hard to remember when an r - rated film looked so good ! i told franklin that
bloody hell . i mean it would have been a real shame to market it as a horror film , because the stuff that ' s great about road games is where stacey keach is just flipping out and becoming ultra , ultraparanoid , and seeing things that aren ' t there .
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balut westerns : the filipino cowboy as king , and the rise and fall of the goon action film
in domingo lopez ( ed . ) , wild wild east : the curry western and the noodle western ( tyrannosaurus books , barcelona ) , pp . 186 - 237 ,
among kazan’s most controversial films , this dynamic and intensely cinematic adaptation of tennessee williams’ provocative study of sexual desire inflamed a passionate outcry from the production code administration and the legion of decency , who tried to derail the film by branding it with their lowest rating of “c , ” for “condemned . ” centered around carroll baker’s still shocking performance as the thumb - sucking yet sexually precocious baby doll and principally shot in rural mississippi , kazan’s mid - career masterpiece offers one of the finest renditions of the psychosexual territory of williams’ mysteriously deep , deep south . print courtesy of ucla film and television archive .
the last of kazan ' s studio assignments , and perhaps his least known film , the anti - communist thriller man on a tightrope was offered by zanuck as a means for kazan to establish his credentials as a
rehabilitated
director immediately following his outspokenness with huac . based on the true story of a czech circus troupe ' s daring attempt to escape to the west , the film is energized by kazan ' s extensive location shooting in eastern europe , the casting of members from the real life troupe , and a steely performance by frederic march as the harried circus leader dreaming of a better life .
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indeed , 70s sex queen abigail was a major selling point , gorgeous as ever and totally starkers ( for the first and only time on film ! ) as esmeralda the leopard - clad wife of a traveling magician who catches pete nailing her to the floor of his “magic box” . after leaving the warm bosom of the
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comes from the tired school of horror where every bit of psychological fright has to be the result of some personal demon manifesting itself visually . so when georgia starts seeing things , they are all characters we’ve met before , and for the purposes of having some dialogue , she usually chats with them for a little while . while i can see why the filmmakers took this route ( they were probably freaking out that they had a feature film with only a forty - page script ) , it does very little to encourage a mood of dread or suspense , emotions so key to a story like this . i found myself wishing that the menace at the film’s center had been a bit more nebulous , or at the very least that the filmmakers had tried to string the mystery along a little longer . as the film stands , we get georgia working out her issues with specters of her dead parents , a recycled plot device that fails to work even in the more direct dramatic sense . this story isn’t
director  richard franklin , screenplay  everett de roche , producers  richard franklin & jennifer hadden , photography  ellery ryan , music  nerida tyson - chew , visual effects  photon , special effects supervisor  peter stubbs , production design  stewart burnside . production company  showtime australia / digitimij / film victoria / bayside pictures .
crew call : untitled houston feature film is seeking crew who can work as locals for early june - july 25th shoot . synopsis : a troubled teen finds an unexpected friend in an elderly neighbor . crew needed : grips , electrics , and production assistants in all departments . crew positions are paid . please send crew resume houstonfilm2018 @ urltoken
is enough of a teaser to keep you watching , although you keep anticipating that there should be more to the story than what you ' re actually seeing . as the film approaches the end , you may find yourself waiting for that pay off to the 85 previous minutes of constant build up , but unfortunately , it comes as a disappointment to find the pay off had already come and went without you realizing it a few minutes before . like the heroine of the film , we see visions and horrifying images flash before our eyes , and while we are looking for something substantive to help us make sense of it all , the answers are too inconclusive to truly satisfy .
yes , by me it was . i mean , i was pleasantly surprised when i learned years later from bill margold that the film was considered a kind of classic in the states . but a classic of an era . i don ' t know how easily you ' d find a copy of it now , you know , in the states .
budd schulberg and kazan reunited to adapt schulberg ' s own cautionary tale about the manipulative and treacherous potential of television and advertising as political tools . misunderstood at the time , and badly wounded at the box office , a face in the crowd seems uncannily prescient in its depiction of right - wing extremism cloaking itself as all - american cracker - barrel folksiness . kazan ' s successful and highly unconventional casting of untested comedians and character actors—dunn in tree , mostel in panic —reached its apogee in his ingenious selection of stand - up comic andy griffith , in his first feature film , as lonesome rhodes , the hayseed populist transformed into an ultimately uncontrollable televisual sensation . print courtesy of ucla film and television archive .
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while the technological infrastructure is ready , the economic prospects sweet , and the audience primed , the media industries haven’t done a very good job of collaborating to produce compelling transmedia experiences . even within the media conglomerates , units compete aggressively rather than collaborate . each industry sector has specialized talent , but the conglomerates lack a common language or vision to unify them . the current structure is hierarchical : film units set licensing limits on what can be done in games based on their properties . at the same time , film producers don’t know the game market very well or respect those genre elements which made something like tomb raider successful . we need a new model for co - creation - rather than adaptation - of content that crosses media .
gillies spits out the smutty one - liners with relish , like “have you ever stuck your dick in a milk pail and churned it till it’s butter ? ” at the heart of the film , however , is the oddly touching parasitic relationship between voyeur dick and coxman pete , and their shared wet dream of finding the fictional lay eskimo nell . “it was an attempt to do something kind of poignant , ” agrees franklin . “in retrospect it probably should have been funnier than it was . but it wasn ' t my intention to make a sex comedy . you just have to remember the era , and the fact that the r certificate had just come in , and we ' d just seen the first full - frontal nude in a commercial film in
richard : i still don ' t talk about it very often… there are people who find the idea a bit offensive , even though it was softcore pornography . i ' d had such a drubbing from the festival of light about true story of eskimo nell , the fact that i then did a sex film , i didn ' t particularly want it to tarnish my career .
no , that ' s when you do an american accent . that ' s when you have english spoken with a bit of an american accent , so it works both places . that ' s kind of what is commonly been done here now for american television that is shot here . but no , this was a miscalculation , because they promptly revoiced the whole film in america .
georgia is played by the severely underrated actress radha mitchell , who does a fine job of carrying the film on her shoulders , but her nuanced performance can’t lift the material beyond its very basic flaws , the biggest of which is that it never manages to deliver on its set - up in any way that’s not entirely contrived and predictable . in all fairness , writer everett de roche ( who wrote
the original film ' s world premiere shut down the theme park . a red carpet was rolled out on main street so johnny depp , keira knightley and orlando bloom could sign autographs and take pictures with fans . other attendees really got into the spirit , like danny bonaduce , who had a sword fight , and daryl hannah , who dressed in costume as a pirate ( eye patch included ) .
yeah , well as i say , it was an attempt to do something kind of poignant… in retrospect it probably should have been funnier than it was . but it wasn ' t my intention to make a sex comedy . you just have to remember the era , and the fact that the r certificate had just come in , and we ' d just seen the first fullfrontal nude in a commercial film in
i don ' t think i ' ve ever seen her in another film . i remember her in stills from about that time . as i recall , she had another name , i think she worked under multiple names , as a lot of them did and do , so i can ' t - she may be better known under another name . but that was the name she wanted to do that under .
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. ” true , for a film marketed as a sex comedy , there is a palpable absence of flesh . “correct . but you ' ve got to remember , this was the beginning of the ' r ' certificate era ; ‘very little flesh’ was a lot . we had a full - frontal of abigail , and a couple of other girls topless , but quite a lot of bad language , you see . that was new . ”
yeah , she had a good time , we got on well . i remember when i made psycho ii , a lot of people asked why we didn ' t use her in the lead . the answer was , it was too obvious . and i screened , one of the first screenings i had of the film was for jamie and janet , who came and saw it . but i haven ' t seen her a lot since .
let’s face it : we have entered an era of media convergence that makes the flow of content across multiple media channels almost inevitable . the move toward digital effects in film and the improved quality of video game graphics means that it is becoming much more realistic to lower production costs by sharing assets across media . everything about the structure of the modern entertainment industry was designed with this single idea in mind - the construction and enhancement of entertainment franchises .
well you know the original poem ' eskimo nell ' is pretty raunchy . we were just trying to hypothesise about what kind of a true story might have been the basis of such a poem . i originally wanted to make the film in the states , at the time of the revisionist western , but learned quite quickly that the poem is unknown in the states . it ' s known only in the “english world” , meaning canada , australia and england .
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so far , the most successful transmedia franchises have emerged when a single creator or creative unit maintains control over the franchise . hollywood might well study the ways that lucasfilm has managed and cultivated its indiana jones and star wars franchises . when indiana jones went to television , for example , it exploited the medium’s potential for extended storytelling and character development : the young indiana jones chronicles showed us the character take shape against the backdrop of various historical events and exotic environments . when star wars moved into print , its novels expanded the timeline to show us events not contained in the film trilogies , or recast the stories around secondary characters , as did the tales of the cantina series , which fleshes out those curious - looking aliens in the background of the original movie . when star wars went to games , those games didn’t just enact film events ; they showed us what life would be like for a jedi trainee or a bounty hunter .
with this thin veneer of medical ' therapy ' , or whatever , these films were being shown in these little underground cinemas and so on around the place . they were all essentially softcore , and we decided to make a kind of send - up of one , really . not because we wanted to do a send - up , but because we didn ' t think we wanted to do a genuine one . we just wanted to make a fun film about sex !
still , sometimes the very texture of the film , and the information that surrounds the characters on the screen , make it worth seeing . i didn ' t believe in james caan ' s cons , but i believed him , and at times like that it ' s helpful to stop keeping score and live in the moment . between the caan and dillon characters there are atmosphere , desperation and romance , and , at the end , something approaching true pathos . enough .
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how to get to the festival screenings during the jdiff take place in six cinemas across dublin . five of the festival cinemas are located within walking distance of each other in the city centre : the savoy , cineworld , the screen , lighthouse cinema and the irish film institute . the sixth cinema , movies @ dundrum is located at the dundrum village centre and can be reached from the city centre with the green luas tram line which departs from st . stephen ' s green .


it stars vic morrow , leslie parrish and ray danton repeating his role as ' legs ' diamond .

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portrait of a mobster is a 1961 film directed by joseph pevney . it stars vic morrow and leslie parrish .
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mary o ' dowd [ ire ] - portrait of mary o ' dowd , 1972 ( b _ 4 . valley of knockanure ) .
a quiet , domestic moment . here , on this pleasant summer’s day , was a mobster in twilight , about to go out for a vegetarian lunch that he would wash down with a bourbon and coke .
chicago ( ap ) — a plot twist in a legal drama featuring a mobster and a violin played out wednesday when a prison chaplain announced in court minutes before his trial was to start that he was guilty of trying to help an imprisoned mob hit man recover a hidden stradivarius .
1896 max receives a gift of a giraffe piano from johann strauss , jr .
i am not big on watching mobster movies , but i recall this jewel from my teenage and pre - teen years . i remember really enjoying it and feeling a range of . . .
this was jeannette morlock , the murder victim’s widow . and like the man charged with killing her husband , she too kept old photographs , among them a portrait of the family : a young boy of about 10 , a short , smiling woman and a large man with half - moon shadows under his eyes .
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this is for all things about the mobster , mafia & gangster days of the 1920 ' s and 30 ' s . fiction , non - fiction , biography etc .
a federal search in 2010 did turn up $ 1 million in cash , diamonds and other valuables in a wall behind a family portrait in calabrese ' s chicago - area oak brook home . but despite searches in wisconsin , no violin was ever found .
one concern about passing on notes from a locked - up hit man , attorneys have said , is that references in it could be code for something sinister , including an order to attack a rival . klein disclosed the contents of calabrese ' s message to one of the mobster ' s former associates over a meal at a suburban chicago restaurant , according to filings .
a vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in depression - era new york in this account of the life of dutch schultz .
but he struggled to summon this mobster’s name from his mind’s darker recesses . “you forget people , like , as you go along , ” he said . “so the pictures kind of keep me up to — you know . ”
however , mr macmillan repeatedly states on the transcript of the recording that a total of seven people were invited .
tony fiore , a former comrade in crime , agreed . mr . fiore’s reputation as a specialist in robbing armored trucks is memorialized by a tattoo adorning his chest . it depicts a thief wielding a gun , with a bag of cash at his feet and an armored truck in his sights .
“one of the most dangerous criminals in new england , ” said brian andrews , a former detective commander of the rhode island state police . “a bad bastard . ”
tony fiore , a former mob associate of mr . demasi’s , has a tattoo depicting their old specialty : robbing armored trucks .
“rudy sciarra , ” mr . demasi said , motioning to a photo of a vicious mafioso from rhode island , long dead . “and the one on the right , he’s a wiseguy out of new york . …”
hatcher is a gentleman of the old school . big six - foot goy .
he was once a feared member of the new england underworld , a specialist in robbing armored cars . at 80 , he was years out of prison . but could his life of crime ever be behind him ?
raymond l . s . patriarca . frank marrapese , a . k . a . bobo . robert deluca . gerard ouimette , a . k . a . the frenchman . raymond lyons . luigi manocchio , a . k . a . baby shacks . ralph demasi . as a providence journal reporter covering organized crime a quarter - century ago , i was their deadline boswell .
i ' m a fool for a song ,
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of twenty - one cents and paid for over the month of march out of my weekly allowance of a nickel . above the central portrait , each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the u . s . post office department identified as the
lamp of knowledge
but that i thought of as aladdin ' s lamp because of the boy in the arabian nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for . what i would have asked for from a genie were the most coveted of all american stamps : first , the celebrated 1918 twenty - four - cent airmail , a stamp said to be worth $ 3 , 400 , where the plane pictured at the center , the army ' s flying jenny , is inverted ; and after that , the three famous stamps in the pan - american exposition issue of 1901 that had also been mistakenly printed with inverted centers and were worth over a thousand dollars apiece .
a series of fairfax media and four corners reports over the past two years have shown that tony madafferi and mr lamattina were involved in a 2006 donations scandal in which the planned deportation of mr madafferi ' s brother , francesco , a mafia boss , was overturned after a long campaign of lobbying and donating to federal liberal politicians .
i had been planning to write a profile of mr . demasi in the new year — something about the reduced circumstances of an aging , forgetful gangster reflecting the state of new england organized crime . but here was a murder charge .
that was the whole of it—forty - one words , if you included the a for augustus .
he led the way to his small , well - ordered bedroom , where dozens of photographs formed a wall - to - wall collage of contradiction , a blur of toddlers and mobsters . here , his ex - wife with their baby at an amusement park , and here , a friend at a picnic , shortly before his gangland murder .
by now deep into his 70s , mr . demasi melted back into a new england that had largely forgotten him . continuing a kind of institutionalized existence in the squat house in salisbury , he exercised , corresponded , followed a vegetarian diet , kept his cell of a bedroom neat . he also dreamed .
1920 february 20 . dere mable opens at baltimore academy of music . max is taken ill and vinton freedley , a member of the cast , replaces him , thereby changing the course of freedley ' s career . the show closes out of town .
brian andrews , a former detective commander of the rhode island state police , called mr . demasi “one of the most dangerous criminals in new england . ”
in march 1991 , the authorities arrested mr . fiore and his crew as they prepared to hold up an armored truck carrying $ 1 million at a mall in north attleborough , mass . the plan included having a grandfatherly thief in a wheelchair holding a semiautomatic under a blanket .
as roth tells npr ' s robert siegel , the invented history of the plot against america is also
a kind of false memoir .
he places his family and himself as a young boy in newark in the middle of this fascist alter - america .
mr madafferi , a wealthy market gardener and the owner of the la porchetta pizza chain , has repeatedly been accused by police in court of being a high - ranking member of melbourne ' s mafia and mr guy has previously been warned about associating with him .
a collage of memories from mr . demasi’s gangster years displayed at his rental home on the massachusetts shore .
mr guy has insisted the lobster dinner was not in any way a clandestine affair , saying he walked through the front door of the restaurant and the meal was
conducted in the middle of a restaurant
.
1973 march 2 . leonette steiner accepts award on behalf of max from motion picture hall of fame .
as for her son , ed jr . , he went on the road , working for a traveling zoo and an indoor circus , then for a series of retail outlets , then for a private school’s horse stable . he married , had a daughter , divorced , remarried .
iris marries her fiancé , frank brennan , a police detective . they need money and frank accepts payoffs from dutch , who is forming a gang of his own .
the thorough steiner filmography was revised for this volume by its original compiler clifford mccarty , a longtime bibliophile as well as a tireless chronicler of film music . mccarty , who has been active in the society for the preservation of film music from its inception , is also the compiler of film composers in america : a checklist of their work ( new york : da capo press , 1953 , repr . 1972 ) . he is at work on a revised edition of this mainstay resource .
the ex - con and the flimflammer’s redheaded younger sister were married within four months . around the same time , mr . demasi was suspected in the burglary of a suburban boston home emptied of assorted valuables , including a mink coat , some jewelry and a saxophone . searching the demasi apartment , the police found many of the goods , as well as a sweet but telltale note :
a few months after my visit , on a december afternoon as clear and cold as a stare , other visitors came unannounced to ralph demasi’s door . and they were armed .
prosecutors say klein even called a real estate agent selling the home , posing as a potential buyer . the plan was for another unidentified conspirator to distract the agent during a tour of the house while klein helped retrieve the violin .
the life and music of the
dean of film composers
continues to touch the lives of millions around the world , beyond even what steiner himself could have imagined before the era of compact cassettes , cds , laser discs , satellite television , and videocassettes . the max steiner collection , now available to the world of scholarship , serves both as a memorial and a working archival collection documenting his seminal contributions to the art of film music .
to his right , past the exercise ball he balanced on to do 1 , 000 situps every morning — he often invited people to test his taut stomach — was a closet crammed with still more memories : copies of indictments , appeals of convictions , transcripts of wiretapped conversations ( “i’ve got a crew of guys , i’ll tell you , and we rob armoreds , we rob armored trucks . …” ) . a half - century archive of persistent criminality .
this movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster dutch schultz . while building his own mob ring , he romances iris , the daughter of a man he killed .
ralph demasi , once a feared member of the criminal underworld , in his cell at worcester county jail in massachusetts .
certificate of honor commemorating the planting of five trees in israel by dr . samuel sternberg and his daughter hagith (
as chief steven sargent donned his glasses to read from a statement , he struggled to navigate his many emotions . the satisfaction and pride he felt were tempered by memories of having seen a man in a bloodied uniform die in the emergency room .
no doubt , mr . demasi would love to be back at it . scoping out some strip mall for a week , a month , whatever it took . getting the timing down for when the guard came out with that canvas bag of cash . donning a nylon mask . concealing a semiautomatic . go !
this movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster dutch schultz . while building his own mob ring , he romances iris , the daughter of a man he killed . when iris marries a cop , schultz . . . see more »
i eventually moved on , taking with me the noirish stories and vague threats . that time , for example , when the owner of a mob - connected strip club i was investigating mentioned during a tense interview the name of my wife and the address of the house we were about to buy .
this movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster dutch schultz . while building his own mob ring , he romances iris , the daughter of a man he killed . when iris marries a cop , schultz . . . see full summary »
coverage of the robbery , committed as mr . morlock was trying to transfer money from a supermarket to an armored truck .
1912 september 9 . the tiller summer show , including bits of dresden , comes to the end of its run .
eager to see beyond the winchendon horizon , the young man defied his father by joining the marines , returned from service , found factory work , got married , had four children , all girls . one evening , at a wake , he was introduced to a cousin’s wife , jeannette , a petite woman with dirty blond hair . she had also grown up in winchendon , one of 16 children of a french canadian foundry worker and a homemaker .
1913 november 18 . olympic fund performance given at the london opera house under the patronage of the duke of westminster . at the end of the show , max and the members of the orchestra are among those warmly introduced to the duke . a singular , much appreciated act of courtesy by the duke is to have an unforeseeable influence upon max ' s future .
klein , 66 , of mesa , arizona , wore a clerical collar and gripped a cane as he walked into court , where half a dozen witnesses sat on a back bench ready to testify in the long - planned trial . but the clergyman surprised the courtroom by saying he wanted to forgo the trial and plead guilty .
ms . morlock , who bought a gun after her husband’s death , holding a target she shot in 1992 with 96 percent accuracy .
hunched by hard time lived and served , his lean body scarred by several bullets and one ice - pick stabbing , he led a brief tour of the modest rental house he shared in a massachusetts shore town . he paused to point out his three shelves in the communal refrigerator , a measure of his diminished domain .
1912 august 25 . max and beatrice declare first proclamation of their marriage banns , a european custom requiring public announcement of the intention to marry beginning two weeks prior to the actual wedding .
she spent years helping to write and distribute a newsletter for families of homicide victims . she sang alto and soprano in the choir at st . francis of assisi catholic church and worked the post - mass coffee break , where her confetti angel cake sold for a dollar a slice . she bought a . 22 - caliber ruger and learned to shoot at the woodsman rifle and pistol club .
on duty that morning was a young , clean - cut detective with street smarts and a military bearing named steven sargent , the son of a worcester police lieutenant . having grown up in a working - class neighborhood just down lincoln street , he knew this shopping center well . as a boy , he’d ride his bicycle to visit his grandmother , who lived in subsidized housing behind the plaza . as a uniformed patrolman , he’d take breaks at the dunkin’ donuts .
despite my mother ' s mood , my father did everything he could to keep up our spirits , remarking on how clean and well - kept everything looked , reminding sandy and me that living in one of these houses the two of us would no longer have to share a small bedroom and a single closet , and explaining the benefits to be derived from paying off a mortgage rather than paying rent , a lesson in elementary economics that abruptly ended when it was necessary for him to stop the car at a red light beside a parklike drinking establishment dominating one corner of the intersection .
what did the boss say ?
she asked him . the boss was how the four of us referred to the manager of my father ' s newark office , sam peterfreund . in those days of unadvertised quotas to keep jewish admissions to a minimum in colleges and professional schools and of unchallenged discrimination that denied jews significant promotions in the big corporations and of rigid restrictions against jewish membership in thousands of social organizations and communal institutions , peterfreund was one of the first of the small handful of jews ever to achieve a managerial position with metropolitan life .
he ' s the one who put you up for it ,
my mother said .
how must he feel ?
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1912 december 24 . a scene is included in the palace theater , london , program entitled a dresden fantasy . music appears credited to herman finck and max steiner ( finck was resident conductor at the palace , with a penchant for utilizing the work of other composers ) .
his assailants grabbed the bag , ran to an idling white cadillac with stolen license plates and peeled out of the parking lot . the vehicle was found in an apartment complex a half - mile away , having been swapped for another getaway car . a chain blocking access to a back road out of town had been removed in advance .
fear presides over these memories , a perpetual fear . of course no childhood is without its terrors , yet i wonder if i would have been a less frightened boy if lindbergh hadn ' t been president or if i hadn ' t been the offspring of jews .
in some ways , the man’s journey seemed preordained . born in 1936 to a teenager in a connecticut home for unwed mothers , he was soon abandoned . so began his peripatetic life as a troubled foster child .
according to prosecutors , klein broke prison rules by accepting a note from calabrese wrapped in religious materials and pushed through the food slot of his cell . it directed klein to look in a pull - out door and against a wall in the home in williams bay , wisconsin .
charles stango , of henderson , nev . , was trying to arrange a hit on a mob rival who he believed insulted a high - ranking family member . but the two assassins he offered $ 50 , 000 for the killing were actually undercover fbi agents , authorities said .
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“this has always been a personal case for me , ” the chief said . “and today , it gives me a measure of satisfaction to say justice has been served for edward morlock and his family . ”
ralph demasi was arrested after breaking into the kingsway bowling alley in fairfield and rifling a pinball machine . . . was remanded to the custody of the new york state police after being charged with burglarizing a sporting - goods store in brewster , n . y . … was arrested at gunpoint behind a boston furrier’s , his car filled with $ 80 , 000 worth of furs , his pocket allegedly concealing a loaded gun .
by the age of 7 , he was working on his family’s dairy farm , tending the cows . by his teenage years , he was driving a milk route in a cream - colored truck . stopping to make deliveries along maple street , he would often see a smallish teenage girl balancing herself like a tightrope walker on the guardrail cables along the road .
also at the dinner was hawthorn footballer turned liberal councillor geoff ablett , and two other calabrian community members , bruno diaco , a relative of mr madafferi , and vince doria , a business partner of mr madafferi who co - owns the docklands venue used for the 2013 fundraiser .
years later , after mr . bulger was captured , convicted and sentenced to prison forever , mr . demasi sent him a letter — a message , really — that he summarized as : “whatever transpired between us , it didn’t kowtow me or make me any less of a man . ”
as his conversation with the undercover officer revealed , mr . demasi also liked to brag , as if to prove that he was his own man , the head of his own crew — which by the summer of 1991 included a couple of degenerate gamblers , a hanger - on distrusted by other gangsters and an aimless young man from the campground .
in the preparation of this register , commendation goes first to my assistant , john n . gillespie . a work of this nature requires a series of checks , over a seemingly endless trail of detailed information . he has also proven a valuable colleague for the sharing of solutions to mysteries presented by certain manuscripts . for rendering valuable information and advice on max steiner over the years , thanks are also extended to the following individuals : janet bradford , heather corrigan , susan corrigan , thomas driggs , dian baker drinkall , cynthia lindsay , tom demary , nick redman , william rosar , craig spaulding , fred steiner , and don wilson .
list of unpublished compositions composed by max steiner which were taken from cue sheets of warner brothers .
listed by production title ,
the morlocks moved around winchendon , then down to florida , then back to massachusetts , where they eventually bought a small yellow cape cod house on a main road in the bypassed industrial town of athol . one bathroom , and an endless whoosh of traffic just beyond the front door .
israel didn ' t yet exist , six million european jews hadn ' t yet ceased to exist , and the local relevance of distant palestine ( under british mandate since the 1918 dissolution by the victorious allies of the last far - flung provinces of the defunct ottoman empire ) was a mystery to me . when a stranger who did wear a beard and who never once was seen hatless appeared every few months after dark to ask in broken english for a contribution toward the establishment of a jewish national homeland in palestine , i , who wasn ' t an ignorant child , didn ' t quite know what he was doing on our landing .
1925 october 20 . castles in the air is first performed under the title of land of romance in providence , rhode island , before transferring to the olympic theater in chicago for a successful run of nearly one year . a subsequent transfer to the selwyn theater in new york city causes the company to split and at that time max leaves the show .
the list of steiner ' s film credits at the end of this register includes those scores for which he went uncredited on the screen such as the adventures of tom sawyer ( 1938 ) and confessions of a nazi spy ( 1939 ) . in the latter case , steiner requested that his credit not be shown on the screen . he was fearful for the fate of family members still in the trouble areas of europe at the time of release of this film . while the original sketch is in steiner ' s distinctive hand , even there he chose to list its authorship simply as
music by staff .
steven sargent , worcester’s police chief , was a young detective at the time of the shooting and was with mr . morlock when he died . “this has always been a personal case for me , ” he said .
prison authorities kept calabrese in isolation after he was accused of threatening a prosecutor during his trial in the same chicago courthouse , allegedly mouthing to the government attorney :
you are a . . . dead man .
a lot of preliminary work came first . you had to assemble your crew : gunman , wheelman , lookout . you had to spend weeks on surveillance : watching the police routines , the traffic flow , the arrivals and departures of the armored trucks , the habits of the armed guards . and of course , you had to plot your getaway .
the awards file contains most of the awards ( and limited related correspondence ) given to steiner for his film music over the years , including the blue ribbon , laurel , academy of motion picture arts and sciences , and golden globe awards . steiner ' s three academy award oscars are also a part of the collection . these awards are in the form of both certificates and three - dimensional plaques and trophies . a few of these items also relate to steiner ' s father , gabor .
then we just stood there together under the intimidating spell of the three portraits . never before had being seven felt like such a serious deficiency .
my parents would give me or sandy a couple of coins to drop into his collection box , largess , i always thought , dispensed out of kindness so as not to hurt the feelings of a poor old man who , from one year to the next , seemed unable to get it through his head that we ' d already had a homeland for three generations . i pledged allegiance to the flag of our homeland every morning at school . i sang of its marvels with my classmates at assembly programs . i eagerly observed its national holidays , and without giving a second thought to my affinity for the fourth of july fireworks or the thanksgiving turkey or the decoration day double - header . our homeland was america .
in a 2009 investigation by the federal police into allegations about donations by mr madafferi , the afp warned that the source of many donations in australia were never declared because of the high disclosure threshold and other loopholes .
“he didn’t take any lip from anybody , ” recalled tony fiore , a mob associate and friend . “i mean , he was a tough guy . ”
six other people associated with the decavalcante family , including stango ' s son anthony , have pleaded guilty to a number of crimes following a roundup in 2015 . the undercover investigation began in 2012 , according to court documents .
those days came flooding back two years ago when the documentary filmmakers marc smerling and zac stuart - pontier contacted me about “crimetown , ” a podcast focusing on the darker side of providence . we began sharing our knowledge and research , which benefited me as i prepared a story about maury lerner , a minor - league baseball player who became a hit man for the patriarca crime family .
1913 now deprived of his management of the ronacher theater and unable to gain employment in vienna , max returns to england at the suggestion of clifford fischer , then in the preparatory stages of presenting his new american extravaganza , come over here , at the london opera house . max is engaged as musical director , adopting the anglicized name of phil saxe .
1911 october 30 . a second season of amsterdam with max as musical director / composer touring manchester , dublin , leeds , nelson , and portsmouth .
[ the lobster cave ] gave us a very , very private table . . . no one really saw matthew with any of these people .
the liberal party is cash strapped , with some of its traditional wealthy donors withholding funds after a spat between party officials and long - time donors .
released finally in 2013 , mr . demasi said that he received some walking - around money — about $ 5 , 000 or so — from an emissary of raymond patriarca jr . , the son of the old mob boss , dead now 30 years and more . the gift would be in keeping with mob tradition , a recognition of a man’s long and faithful service , but the younger mr . patriarca said through a spokesman that it never happened .
[ © 1996 edward a . j . leaney . used by permission . ]
mr madafferi has never been charged with a criminal offence and denies any wrongdoing .
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in one of multiple recordings , mr macmillan refers to a warning from mr kroger , who mr macmillan claims to have told about the lobster cave meeting .
a book’s total score is based on multiple factors , including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book .
1935 receives first academy award for the informer . this is the second year an award for best score is given . it is in the form of a framed certificate with an oscar statuette positioned at the top of the frame .
mr . demasi , in the tank top , and his associates having a “trunk lunch” as they surveilled a parking lot in newburyport , mass . , in 1991 .
1913 may 9 . max is appointed as music director of the innovative london opera house dancing school , under the directorship of the renowned theodore kosloff .
then there was the time he represented himself against charges that he had conspired to murder a different judge by hiring assassins to blow up the man’s home . for the two - week trial , mr . demasi wore button - down shirts , slacks and brown hush puppies with white socks — never a jacket or a tie . according to the providence journal , he presented his case without opening a law book , relying instead on a mail - order paperback that explained how to win a criminal trial .
this filmography lists every motion picture with which steiner was involved as a composer or musical director . the films are listed in the order of their copyright dates .
his speech was unadorned and to the point , delivered in a highpitched , flat , midwestern , decidedly un - rooseveltian american voice . his flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he ' d crossed the atlantic , and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles , which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed .
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a liberal insider conspired to funnel donations from an alleged mafia boss and his three relatives into party coffers after a lobster dinner involving the men and opposition leader matthew guy .
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this movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster dutch schultz . while building his own mob ring , he romances iris , the daughter of a man he killed . when iris marries a cop , schultz makes sure the cop goes bad and takes kickbacks from schultz ' s organization . iris goes back to the arms of schultz , not knowing he ' s the man who killed her father .
we ' re probably talking hundreds [ of thousands of dollars in donations ] . . . they can ' t stand the bloody labor party .
mr . demasi pleaded not guilty that morning , his cuffed hands holding a piece of paper , his expression somewhere between confusion and concern . since then he has been in the worcester county jail , awaiting a trial that may not begin until 2018 .
newark - - a 73 - year - old member of the decavalcante crime family , which is said to have been the inspiration for
the sopranos ,
was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a murder - for - hire plot .
by the late 1980s , a finite number of new england gangsters , about two dozen , specialized in robbing these armored trucks . prominent among them : ralph demasi .
koshering what ?
my father said , exasperated with alvin ' s seemingly speaking sarcastic nonsense at a moment of so much confusion .
doing what ?
now , the federal bureau of investigation was watching as the demasi crew monitored armored - truck deliveries to a strip - mall bank in newburyport , not three miles from the campground . one afternoon , the men were photographed having a picnic in the parking lot , making and eating sandwiches around the trunk of their car while conducting surveillance .
this movie portrays the rise and fall of 1920s gangster dutch schultz . while building his own mob ring , he romances iris , the daughter of a man he killed . when iris marries a cop , schultz makes sure the cop goes bad and takes kickbacks from schultz ' s organization . iris goes back to the arms of schultz , not knowing he ' s the man who killed her father . written by sooz
1920 march 22 . yes , madame opens and promptly closes out of town .
whenever the corpse of another wiseguy floated up to public consciousness , mr . demasi was always in the mix of likely suspects . “armed and dangerous” was stipulated .
one cold november night , she said , he locked her out of the house after she announced that she wanted a divorce . she had 95 cents and no coat .
during his wandering , he collected more than a dozen tattoos that cover his arms and torso , including one of anubis , the egyptian god who watches over the dead .
buy a kiss ,
irving berlin , inc . , 1933 , 5 pp .
a star is born ,
irving berlin inc . , 1937 , 5 pp .
he so confused and frightened me that i pretended he was making a joke and laughed .
among the fifty photographs that are found in the collection , nearly half are of steiner . the remaining images are of family , hollywood personalities with whom he associated , members of the max steiner music society , and other miscellaneous and unidentifiable images .
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because it was the first muggy evening of the summer , the windows were open in every room and sandy and i couldn ' t help but continue to follow from bed the proceedings being aired over our own living room radio and the radio playing in the flat downstairs and—since an alleyway only barely wide enough for a single car separated one house from the next—the radios of our neighbors to either side and across the way . as this was long before window air conditioners bested the noises of a neighborhood ' s tropical nights , the broadcast blanketed the block from keer to chancellor—a block on which not a single republican lived in any of the thirtyodd two - and - a - half - family houses or in the small new apartment building at the chancellor avenue corner . on streets like ours the jews voted straight democratic for as long as fdr was at the top of the ticket .
in the brazen ranks of the providence underworld , mr . demasi distinguished himself as a dedicated family man who approached crime as a 9 - to - 5 job with the occasional late night . the police routinely watched him drive off in the morning to lay the groundwork for a planned robbery , then return home in the evening , leaving the carousing to others .
it was a saturday morning in may 1991 . the boston celtics and the aging larry bird had just been eliminated from the playoffs . the red sox were in the midst of being swept down in texas . and the older mr . morlock had agreed to fill in as a courier for a co - worker who wanted the day off to celebrate his birthday .
permission to publish material from the max steiner collection must be obtained from the supervisor of reference services and / or the l . tom perry special collections board of curators .
1912 september 8 . max and beatrice declare their second proclamation of their marriage banns .
1913 april 13 . come over here opening is postponed because of malfunctioning stage machinery .
producer ' s guide to standard songs from the catalog of joy music , inc .
an undated photo of mr . demasi with sue , then his wife , and one of their children at the rocky point amusement park in warwick , r . i .
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this was ralph demasi , once a feared member of the new england underworld whose long résumé included truck hijackings and home invasions , robberies and violence . days shy of 80 , he half - joked that at the moment he’d rather be holding up an armored truck .
1912 december . in notes to you max refers to his false imprisonment prior to christmas in connection with the closure a short time earlier of the ronacher theater due to poor business .
at the end of the film , the water running into the sewer indicates it is a street in new york city . the actual murders took place in newark , new jersey .
is this great film still not on dvd ? it is a shame we have sooooo many stations and outlets for movies like netflicks and none of them carry great movies . . .
the three scrap books of newspaper clippings and trade magazine notices in the scrap books section that were kept by steiner from 1930 to 1953 give a perspective on public perceptions of his work during that important period . the articles in the scrapbook contain valuable contemporary interviews with steiner .
“we used to go sit in parking lots from 7 in the morning until 5 at night before we would do a score , ” said mr . fiore , now 74 . “we used to actually put more time into a score than people do if they were working a legitimate job . ”
in a hastily arranged afternoon press conference , mr guy said no donations had been made to the liberal party by any of those at the dinner . fairfax media does not suggest otherwise .
in the oak brook search , prosecutors found a certificate indicating the violin may have been a much less valuable one made in 1764 by giuseppe artalli , and not by the renowned italian antonio stradivari .
dusk finds me dreaming of you ,
4 pp . ( 2 c . )
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theme from a summer place ,
m . witmark & sons , 1959 , 3 pp .
“thanks for coming by , sue , ” mr . demasi said as she gave him a peck .
looks like a movie star . sixty years old and fit as a fiddle . these are the people who run things , bess—they don ' t waste their time getting angry at someone like me .
the rev . eugene klein , left , and his attorney , thomas anthony durkin , walk into dirksen u . s . courthouse on wednesday , feb . 11 , 2015 , in chicago . klein pleaded guilty to charges of trying to help convicted mobster frank calabrese sr . recover a rare , 250 - year - old stradivarius violin hidden years earlier in calabrese’s then - wisconsin summer home . federal prosecutors allege the plot was hatched in 2011 when klein administered daily communion to calabrese at the missouri prison where he was serving a life sentence for 13 murders . calabrese died in december 2012 . ( ap photo / chicago tribune , anthony souffle ) mandatory credit ; chicago sun - times out ; daily herald out ; northwest herald out ; joliet herald out ; the times of northwest indiana out ; new york times out ; tv out ; mags out ; no sales ; daily chronicle out
at about two a . m . that night , while soundly asleep , i again rolled out of my bed , but this time i remembered afterward what i ' d been dreaming before i hit the floor . it was a nightmare all right , and it was about my stamp collection . something had happened to it . the design on two sets of my stamps had changed in a dreadful way without my knowing when or how . in the dream , i ' d gotten the album out of my dresser drawer to take with me to my friend earl ' s and i was walking with it toward his house as i ' d done dozens of times before .
1910 july 11 . composes music for a ballet in the tiller summer season show , lovely lucerne , at the winter garden , blackpool . another number , carambas , was later copyrighted by max in 1911 . such tiller shows were almost a traditional part of the blackpool summer attractions . to have 150 members appearing in these shows was not unusual , given the high quality of their presentations .
at the end of the film , the water running into the sewer indicates it is a street in new york city . the actual murders took place in newark , new jersey . see more »
as he left with a bag of money and receipts , two men confronted him in the supermarket’s foyer , and one tried to disarm him . a bagger inside the store saw mr . morlock standing against the wall , his hands raised . then came loud popping sounds , with blood spattering the soda machines . he slumped to the floor , his gun beside him , out of its holster .
the rev . eugene klein , left , and his attorney , thomas anthony durkin , walk into dirksen u . s . courthouse on wednesday , feb . 11 , 2015 , in chicago . klein pleaded guilty to charges of trying to help convicted mobster frank calabrese sr . recover a rare , 250 - year - old stradivarius violin hidden years earlier in calabrese’s then - wisconsin summer home . federal prosecutors allege the plot was hatched in 2011 when klein administered daily communion to calabrese at the missouri prison where he was serving a life sentence for 13 murders . calabrese died in december 2012 . ( ap photo / chicago tribune , anthony souffle ) mandatory credit ; chicago sun - times out ; daily herald out ; northwest herald out ; joliet herald out ; the times of northwest indiana out ; new york times out ; tv out ; mags out ; no sales ; daily chronicle out ( the associated press )
eugene klein , a roman catholic priest , was accused of scheming with chicago outfit enforcer frank calabrese sr . to find a rare , 250 - year - old violin calabrese hid years earlier in his wisconsin summer home to keep authorities from selling it . they believed it might be worth $ 26 million .
in the distant blur of the 1940s and 1950s , who knows what truly happened to one forsaken boy ? one version is that , at age 11 , he finally found a foster mother whom he loved , a mrs . bowman , in bridgeport . when her husband began hitting her , again , the boy grabbed the man’s shotgun , threatened to shoot and ran away . he slept nuzzled beside the gun in a graveyard , then robbed a bookie’s card game the next day by ordering everyone at gunpoint to strip naked .
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1905 december 9 . attends the dresden court theater ' s production of richard strauss ' salome .
1912 january 15 . . . . the end of the tour and the return to london .
the section entitled music consists of general correspondence steiner received and sent to various people in and out of the film and music industry . the correspondence is arranged alphabetically , while each individual folder ' s contents is chronological , thus preserving steiner ' s original order . this correspondence deals with fan requests for information on steiner ' s body of music , steiner ' s request for information of various kinds , inquiries about uses of steiner ' s music , requests for appearances , etc .
laurel award ( plaque ) for best musical composer of the year ( n . d . )
theme from helen of troy ,
harms , inc . , 1956 , 3 pp .
honey , i did what i did . that ' s the end of it .
this is the start of labor ' s disgusting and dirty war against the coalition .
1917 january 11 . the shubert show have a heart opens at the liberty theater . despite jerome kern ' s delightful music and lyrics by p . g . wodehouse , it is not a hit . in notes to you max thought the show ' s title to be alone at last which was the shubert theater presentation of october 15 , 1915 , by franz lehar . it ran until the spring of 1916 .
mr . demasi , who has an eighth - grade education , wound up winning his own acquittal . he promptly accused the prosecutor of reneging on a $ 10 bet over the trial’s outcome and invited all the jurors to join him for a drink . that evening , though , he drank his bourbon and cokes alone .
1909 a chance encounter outside appenrodt ' s restaurant in london ' s west end leads to an introduction to producer george dance ' s assistant , tommy wray , who immediately engages max as rehearsal pianist on a temporary basis .
i was a pretty bad actor . i did like to rob banks and armored trucks and things like that .
the shopping center in worcester , mass . , where ed morlock was fatally shot during a robbery in 1991 .
according to steiner , film and music help each other in the way a husband and wife help each other in a good marriage , but neither one can save the other . as for his method :
there is no method . some pictures require a lot of music , and some are so realistic that music would only interfere . most of my films were entertainments - - soap operas , story book adventures , fantasies . if those films were made today , they would be made differently and i would score them differently . but my attitude would be the same - - to give the film what it needs . and with me , if the picture is good , the score stands a better chance of being good .
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