The film received considerable press coverage for this reason, although Chaplin tried to downplay the issue.

Because of illness, he asked his son-in-law, actor Anthony Quinn, to direct a remake of his 1938 film The Buccaneer ; although DeMille served as executive producer, he was unhappy with Quinn's work and tried unsuccessfully to remedy the situation.

Since the release of the film the town of Åmål has even tried to embrace the publicity generated, despite the fact that the town's name is missing from the English title.

They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).

Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.

" When they tried to sell it to various Hollywood studios, they were told that the film would not work.

They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.

Rather than attending LSU, Soderbergh tried his luck in Hollywood after graduating from high school ; he worked as a game show scorer and cue card holder to make ends meet, and eventually found work as a freelance film editor.

Ultimately this came down on the shoulders of Boris Shumyatsky, " executive producer " of Soviet film since 1932, who in early 1938 was denounced, arrested, tried and convicted as a traitor, and shot.

" This decision came under attack by Family Voice Australia ( formerly the Festival of Light Australia ), the Australian Christian Lobby and Liberal Party of Australia Senator Julian McGauran, who tried to have the lifted ban overturned, but the Board refused, stating " The film has aged plus there is bonus material that clearly shows it is fiction.

Of course filmmakers also tried to emulate the Leone cinematography ( at least the close-ups ) and most important of all, if Ennio Morricone couldn't compose the music for the film himself, composers like Luis Enrique Bacalov, Francesco Di Masi, Bruno Nicolai, Carlo Savina and others wrote something similar.

Bullock tried to produce a film based on F. X.

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

Inspired by the game, the British photographer Andy Gotts tried to reach Bacon through photographic links instead of film links.

Tate returned to the United States alone, saying she wanted to further her studies, but tried to find film work.

The plans to film the shows at Madison Square Garden were threatened when the local trades union tried to block the British film crew from working.

He also tried his hand at acting, appearing in the The Colorado Cattle Caper episode of the McCloud television movie on February 24, 1974, and starring in the 1977 film Oh, God!

The submissions for the 75th Academy Awards, for instance, became shrouded in controversy when it was reported that Humbert Balsan, producer of the critically acclaimed Palestinian film Divine Intervention ( 2002 ), tried to submit his picture to the Academy but was told it could not run for the Foreign Language Film Award since the State of Palestine is not recognized by the Academy in its rules.

Davis felt that Hopkins tried to upstage her throughout the film.

Although the dance routines were choreographed by Astaire and his collaborator Hermes Pan, both have acknowledged Rogers's input and have also testified to her consummate professionalism, even during periods of intense strain, as she tried to juggle her many other contractual film commitments with the punishing rehearsal schedules of Astaire, who made at most two films in any one year.

* Otto the Director ( Rita Moreno ): A hapless auteur dressed as an old-style Hollywood film director, Otto tried in vain to make her actors say a line correctly as printed on an oversized cue card held by Marcello ( Morgan Freeman ), her terrified ( but very loyal ) assistant.

He tried long takes, with some shots, unabridged, lasting an entire scene, which, for Ebert, add to the dramatic power of the film: " Few viewers probably notice how much of Annie Hall consists of people talking, simply talking.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.

Assistant Prosecutor Fred Lewis, who tried both the Hengesbach and Pohl cases, said he did not know what would be done about two arson charges pending against Pohl.

A 24-year-old Atlanta man was arrested Sunday after breaking into the home of relatives in search of his wife, hitting his uncle with a rock and assaulting two police officers who tried to subdue him, police said.

`` I wouldn't even be surprised '', she said unhappily, `` if Myra tried to leave her with us forever ''.

`` Don't think Linda couldn't have got John back any time, if she'd tried '', Mousie Gordon, who had been Mousie Chandler, said between bites of a chicken sandwich at a luncheon table at Le Mont.

Forty-two years later, Henry's first biographer, William Wirt, working from oral histories, tried to reconstruct what Henry said.

Even the Christian missionaries said they were savage looking and tried to alter how the Aleuts dressed and groomed themselves.

Beck said the miners shot and possibly killed at least one of the creatures, precipitating an attack on their cabin, during which the creatures bombarded the cabin with rocks and tried to break in.

The IMC said they tried to create troubles to lure police forth, while they have also taken to stoning and using petrol bombs.

" ( 38: 26 ) " And remember when the Lord of Abraham tried him with certain commands which he fulfilled ; Allah said to him, ' Verily I am going to make you a leader ( imam ) of mankind.

The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.

After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat Robertson's The 700 Club, " I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America.

Osawa said that he had originally tried to make Kid Icarus completely serious, but opted for a more humorous approach after objections from the team.

" On the other hand, in Letter 153 he said, " I tried to show allegorically how might come to be taken up into Creation in some plane in my ' purgatorial ' story Leaf by Niggle.

It is said that they tried to impose Christianity on the locals.

" They tried everyone else singing it except me " Lemmy later said.

At age twelve, Bradbury began writing traditional horror stories and said he tried to imitate Poe until he was about eighteen.

Coach Landry said Staubach tried to throw the ball soft when he saw how wide open Smith was and that it came in low, and that when Smith tried to stop, his feet seemed to come out from under him.

< Blockquote > One of their kings tried to make a canal to it ( for it would have been of no little advantage to them for the whole region to have become navigable ; Sesostris is said to have been the first of the ancient kings to try ), but he found that the sea was higher than the land.