Friday, September 10, 2021

PICTURE, QUOTE, MOVIE #97

 

 
1.  What movie is the picture from?
 
2.  What movie is this quote from?

Sir, I've inspected this boat, and I think you ought to know that I can't swim.

 3.  What movie is this?

In the late 1960s, a British star was coming off several box office flops and his step-son urged him to dumb it down and make an action picture.  He took the idea to producer Elliot Kastner who sought out Alistair MacLean (“The Guns of Navarone”).  MacLean wrote the book and screenplay (his first) in six weeks and took the title from a line from Shakespeare.  An American star who was hoping to branch out from cowboy movies was recruited and it was off to snowy Austria and Bavaria.  Just as importantly, famed stuntman Yakima Canutt brought a cadre of great stuntmen to the production.  


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