Arthur Kill Correctional Facility was a medium security state prison in New York City. It closed in 2011.
Broadway Stages, Ltd. is a movie production company based in New York City. They purchased the closed prison for seven million dollars in 2017. They now rent it as a setting for movies and television series. The prison scenes in Ocean’s 8 were filmed there along with the 2018 season of Orange is the New Black. Other series that have had scenes filmed there are The Americans, The Blacklist, Blindspot, Quantico, and Seven Seconds.
The SS officer who delivers Roger Bartlett to Stalag Luft III at the beginning of The Great Escape is the same one who arrests Bartlett and MacDonald later in the movie and brings Hilts back to camp at the end.
He was played by Karl-Otto Alberty, who was also the commander of the Tiger tank in Kelly’s Heroes. He made quite a career out of portraying Nazis up until the late 1980s. He was in Raid on Rommel, The Battle of the Bulge, Is Paris Burning?, The Battle of Britain, Slaughterhouse Five, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, along with many other cinematic and TV films.
In his autobiography, Tony Curtis describes the home of George Raft in his heyday as (IIRC) an “elaborate Turkish brothel.” In his declining years, Raft was continually in need of funds, having spent so lavishly on women and parties decades earlier.*
I’m watching Demolition Man, and just found out that the European release had Pizza Hut as the only survivor of the Franchise Wars. All the logos were replaced and the lines were redubbed overseas.
Orion Pictures head Mike Medavoy wanted James Cameron to cast OJ Simpson as the Terminator, and offered the role of Kyle Reese to Schwarzenegger. Cameron wisely vetoed both choices.
Parts of the movie Cry Baby were filmed at a local Maryland theme park called The Enchanted Forest. By the time the movie was made the park had been closed for two years and was reopened just for the movie.
The entire theme park (except for the sign) was later moved to a nearby farm.
That makes some sense. I thought he was saying it was the same guy in the two movies, clicked on the link, and it was clearly O’Neill. Deliverance was made 8 years before Dogs but that is far more difference in their faces than 8 years would produce.
The musical Bye Bye Birdie did not have a song with that title as originally filmed. Six months after filming, director George Sidney felt the movie needed something more, wanted a title song written and Ann-Margret brought back to sing it as an opening and/or finale.
The producers said No, but Sidney was so confident of his idea that he spent $60,000 of his own money to prepare and film the opening and final singing scenes where Ann-Margret gives her iconic performance. When the final cut was screened, producers reimbursed the $60,000.
