Information
| Year: | 1974 |
| Rating: | 5.7(5088) |
| Listed in: | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Mark Robson |
| Actors: | Charlton Heston George Kennedy Lorne Greene Richard Roundtree Ava Gardner Geneviève Bujold |
| "An Event..." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Mark Robson | |
| Actors | |
| Charlton Heston | as Stewart Graff |
| George Kennedy | as Sgt. Lew Slade |
| Lorne Greene | as Sam Royce |
| Richard Roundtree | as Miles Quade |
| Marjoe Gortner | as Jody |
| Barry Sullivan | as Dr. Willis Stockle |
| Lloyd Nolan | as Dr. James Vance |
| Walter Matthau | as Drunk |
| Gabriel Dell | as Sal Amici |
| Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | as Officer Emilio Chavez |
| Lloyd Gough | as Bill Cameron |
| John Randolph | as Mayor Lewis |
| Kip Niven | as Walter Russell |
| Scott Hylands | as Max - Assistant Dam Caretaker |
| Tiger Williams | as Corry Marshall |
| Donald Moffat | as Dr. Harvey Johnson |
| Jesse Vint | as Buck - Jody's Roomate |
| Alan Vint | as Hank - Jody's Roomate |
| Michael Richardson | as Ralph - Jody's Roomate |
| John Elerick | as Carl Leeds |
| John S. Ragin | as Chief Inspector |
| George Murdock | as Colonel |
| Don Mantooth | as Sid - National Guardsman |
| Lionel Johnston | as Sandy - National Guardsman |
| Alex Brown | as Pool Player |
| Bob Cunningham | as Dr. Frank Adams |
| John Dennis | as Brawny Foreman |
| Gene Dynarski | as Fred - Dam Caretaker |
| Bob Gravage | as Farmer Griggs |
| H.B. Haggerty | as Bald Pool Player |
| Tim Herbert | as Las Vegas Man |
| Dave Morick | as Technician |
| Josh Albee | as Boy with Radio |
| Hal Bokar | as Dam Workman #1 |
| Ian Bruce | as Officer Scott - Wilson Plaza |
| William H. Burton | as Stranger |
| Ric Carrott | as National Guardsman |
| David S. Cass Sr. | as Sherriff Merle - Slade's Nemesis |
| Lonny Chapman | as L.A.P.D. Captain |
| Sam Chew Jr. | as Tony - Kathie's Husband |
| Kenny Endoso | as Bar Cook |
| Robert C. Ferro Jr. | as Sports Car Thief |
| Bruce M. Fischer | as Man #1 |
| James W. Gavin | as Helicopter Pilot |
| Ernest Harada | as Seismologist |
| Jerry Hardin | as Man #2 |
| Bert Kramer | as Policeman |
| Karl Lukas | as Man #3 |
| Jimmy Nickerson | as Seismology Graduate Student |
| Stuart Nisbet | as Loudspeaker Voice |
| Grant Owens | as Police Officer |
| Charlie Picerni | as Pool Player |
| George Sawaya | as Deputy Sherriff |
| Fred Scheiwiller | as Jay the Bartender |
| Dean Smith | as Pool Player |
| John Tuell | as Prop Tractor Driver |
| Keith Walker | as Radio Voice |
| Sandy Ward | as Studio Guard |
| Dick Warlock | as Diver at Hollywood Reservoir |
| William Whitaker | as Ambulance Driver |
| Don Wilbanks | as Dam Workman with Blowtorch |
| Forrest Wood | as Man #4 |
| Clint Young | as Dam Workman #2 |
| Actresses | |
| Ava Gardner | as Remy Royce-Graff |
| Geneviève Bujold | as Denise Marshall |
| Victoria Principal | as Rosa Amici |
| Monica Lewis | as Barbara |
| Ines Pedroza | as Laura |
| Joan Blair | as Pawnbroker's Wife (TV version) |
| Vivian Brown | as Woman #1 |
| Shannon Christie | as Dr. Vance's Nurse |
| Patty Elder | as Blonde Secretary in Royce Building |
| Diana Herbert | as Woman #2 |
| Frances Osborne | as Housewife |
| Debralee Scott | as Kathie (TV version) |
| Kitty Vallacher | as Grocery Store Clerk |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 11 February 1974 - 9 May 1974 (principal photography) |
| Budget: | USD 7,000,000 |
| Plot: | Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her father, Sam Royce, who is Stuart's employer, to use his influence to stop Stuart from seeing Denise. Rogue policeman Lew Slade is suspended from the L.A.P.D. for having punched an obtuse officer from another jurisdiction. Embittered, Slade contemplates quitting the police force. Jody, a perverted grocery store manager, lusts after Rosa Amici, sister of Sal, the assistant to Miles Quade, an aspiring daredevil motor cyclist. The lives of all these people are devastated when a major earthquake rips through Los Angeles and reduces the city to ruins. |
View Online
Tags
Goofs
|
Continuity: The glass is visible in the woman's head before she gets hit by it. Continuity: When Graff starts out of the garage, the tailgate is down; when he comes out onto the street, the tailgate is up. Revealing mistakes: During the earthquake, a truck full of cattle turns upside down; however, the cattle remain in the truck, glued in place on the miniature. Fact errors: Most, if not all, passenger elevators have mechanical gravity brakes that are automatically activated in the event an elevator plunges uncontrollably. Revealing mistakes: Debris falling from a building in one sequence passes behind part of a matte painting, temporarily disappearing, only to reappear after it falls further into the scene. Revealing mistakes: After the stairway has fallen away in the skyscraper sequence, an office worker manages to hold on to a girder before falling to his death. As he falls through a giant pane of glass, the airbag is clearly visible under it and actually shoots out of the top of the frame. Revealing mistakes: During the quake, Bill Cameron looks out the window of the skyscraper he is in to see two men fall out out of a neighboring window. As they fall, they both disappear behind the matte separating the building facade and the minuature of downtown Hollywood. Revealing mistakes: In one shot of the exterior of a building, a large piece of debris lands on a woman's head, but she keeps running as if nothing has happened. Crew: When Denise Marshall returns to her destroyed house to look for her son, as she wanders through the rubble, the top of the living room set walls in the soundstage are visible. Crew: As the farmer drives his tractor towards the scientists in the trench, a shadow of the camera crew can be seen. Continuity: The airliner tells the control tower it is "VFR on top" meaning it is flying in clear weather above the clouds. A moment later a shot is show of the airliner in clear skies; no clouds above or below. Continuity: Also the airliner is cleared to land on runway 25, it actually lands on runway 13. Continuity: The man on the plane that is soon to arrive at LAX is seen putting the hi-liter down on the arm rest. The next shot has him X-ing next to a paragraph in a magazine article with the yellow hi-liter. The shot changes back again and the hi-liter is back on the arm rest between him and his wife. Continuity: When the airliner is on its way to Los Angeles, the pilot tells the passengers that they are flying over the Grand Canyon, and that he will turn the plane to the right to allow them a better view. In the view from the cockpit, the plane is turning to the left. Continuity: In the television version, the aircraft on which the newlywedsare flying changes repeatedly from a Boeing 707 to a Convair 880 and back again, each time with airline different markings. Nighttime shots of the plane are borrowed from the film Airport (1970) Revealing mistakes: During the final scene, a looped-in background dialog track repeats itself before fading out. Continuity: Rosa takes out her billfold twice at the market. Revealing mistakes: There is no furniture in the collapsing buildings during the big earthquake scene. Miscellaneous: When Remy chases Stewart out of the elevator into the lobby, there isn't any separation of the lobby floor and the elevator floor. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When the dam elevator opens, the water floods out carrying the drowned maintenance worker. You can see the actor forcibly blow out air from his mouth as he hits the floor with all the water around him. Revealing mistakes: During the aftershock sequence in the underground parking garage, you can see columns of brick that are obvious props fall, but stay completely intact without falling apart. Continuity: When Miles try to perform his stunt on the track after the first went wrong, you can clearly see him riding out of the loop again, since the footage used to show the beginning of his new attempt is the same of the first one. Continuity: During the chase scene, the branch of a tree suddenly changes position before the county police's car passes the crossroads to join the other two. Continuity: During the escape from the underground garage, you can see Geneviève Bujold crawling through the tunnel behind the stretcher carrying her son. In the next shot, you can see Geneviève Bujold and the stretcher carrying her son entering the hole in the wall that leads to the tunnel. SYNC: If you listen to the soundtrack closely all the screams and shouts during the earthquake scenes are the same looped over and over again. Revealing mistakes: The exterior of the parking garage falling apart with the aftershock is a combination of miniature on the top and live action at the bottom. The debris falling off the miniature disappear behind the live action on the bottom. Revealing mistakes: When Denise Marshall grabs the tree during the earthquake, behind her back there is only a pale blue background that turns into the edge of a street in the next shot. Continuity: During the earthquake sequence about the Stewart and Remy Graff sheltered under the jeep, the sign 5020 that is upon the lobby of the Royce building falls down but reappears on the top again in the next shot. Continuity: After Miles comes out of the loop on his first try, the left handlebar is acutely bent as are the gauges. When he starts his second attempt, the handlebar and gauges are restored. |
Quotes
|
Mayor Lewis: The governor and I aren't even in the same party. If this turns out to be a false alarm, he'll make me out to be the biggest fool west of the Mississippi. Dr. Stockle: Second biggest. I'll top the list. Sam Royce: Barbara, take off your pantyhose, damnit! You too, c'mon, take off your pantyhose! Sgt. Lew Slade: Earthquakes bring out the worst in some people. Drunk: What do you have to do to get a drink around here? Remy Royce-Graff: You know, if it wasn't 7:30 in the morning I would have a drink. Remy Royce-Graff: [shouting] God damn it! Stewart Graff: Your last words to me last night; your first words this morning. Ever thought about expanding your vocabulary? Stewart Graff: Sweet Christ... Chief Inspector, L.A. Dept. of Water & Power: Find anything? Diver at Hollywood Reservoir: [surfaces] All OK as far as I can tell! I'll check again! [submerges] Chief Inspector, L.A. Dept. of Water & Power: I guess we won't find anything until after the shaft is pumped out, but everything looks fine. Max, Assistant Dam Caretaker: Right. People drown in elevators every damn day of the week! [last lines] Dr. James Vance: This used to be a helluva town, officer. Sgt. Lew Slade: [on the edge of tears] Yeah... |
Comments
No comments yet.
