However, for fear that his notoriety would cause the film's box office in the South to be jeopardized, Sid Caesar was cast for the role instead.

It is most widely noted as the only film role of Peg Entwistle, who gained notoriety after her body was found below the Hollywood sign weeks before the film's release ( police surmised suicide ).

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The film's lesbian eroticism was however significantly cut for its US release.

The Academy cited the film's genre of " non-fiction ", arguing that it was not actually a documentary.

The film's total budget was estimated to be US $ 6 million.

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

The film's production was not nearly as chaotic or strange as the production of the original, largely because of Raimi, Tapert and Campbell's additional film making experience.

The film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola during the film's production.

Life Without Zoe was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down.

Although a moderate box-office success, grossing $ 58 million domestically on an estimated $ 45 million budget, it was panned by critics, many of whom disliked the film's abrupt contrast between actual comedy and tragic melodrama.

Andy Garcia has since claimed the film's script was nearly produced.

Camille Claudel, directed by newcomer Bruno Nuytten and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was a major commercial success in 1988, earning Adjani, who was also the film's co-producer, a César Award for best actress.

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

The film's cinematography | cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir's stylized images.

Scarlet Street was a semi-independent — cosponsored by Universal and Lang's own Diana Productions, of which the film's costar, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder.

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

Nonetheless, Capra's vision about the film's significance was clear:

The significance of the film's message was established further in France, shortly after World War II began.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

The film's significance as a cultural artifact of German post-WWII introspection is enhanced by the fact that its haunting medieval-sounding score is written by Hans Werner Henze, the noted German modernist composer.

After years of research, a scientist uses a recombination of Mew's DNA to create Mewtwo, a genetically enhanced clone of Mew who becomes the film's main antagonist.

Jordan also believed the film's success was a result of the film's British / Irish political issues being either lesser-known or completely unknown to American audiences, who thus flocked to the film for what Jordan called " the sexual politics.

The War Department also had concerns: they wanted to make sure that the film's portrayal of the departing soldiers " should result in giving the audience the feeling that these boys are normal, thoroughly fit American soldiers who have had an evening of clean fun.

Rather than the main conflict between Becket and the King revolving around the Constitutions of Clarendon, as is depicted in the play, and as happened in real life, the film's dispute between Becket and Henry II centers on the assassination of an accused priest by the henchmen of Lord Gilbert, a nobleman and friend of King Henry, and Becket's excommunication of Gilbert as a result.

In an audio commentary track recorded by Friedkin for the Collector's Edition DVD release of the film, Friedkin notes that the film's documentary-like realism was the direct result of the influence of having seen Z, a French film.

Hawke later described the opportunities he was offered as a result of the film's success as critical to his decision to continue acting: " I didn't want to be an actor and I went back to college.

As a result of the economic challenges involved in Canadian film production, film funding is often provided by government bodies such as Telefilm Canada, and CBC television is often a Canadian film's most lucrative potential market.

Arthur Hiller, the film's real director, objected to the way Eszterhas recut the film, and as a result, had his name removed.

As a result of this film's commercial success, Kramer helped spur on Hollywood to reform its film marketing practices when it was observed that the film was doing excellent business everywhere in the US, including the southern states where it was assumed that films with African American lead actors would never be accepted.

( A line of dialogue that would have revealed this in The Wrath of Khan was edited out prior to the film's release and never restored ; as a result, the canonicity of this piece of information has been debated for more than two decades.

Afterwards, she remained on Vulcan with Spock's family for reasons never explained on screen ; the film's writers intended that this was because she was pregnant with Spock's child as a result of the pon farr, but no references to her pregnancy made it into the finished movie and it was never followed up, thereby once again placing this development into a grey area in terms of canon.

As a result of the film's success, Monroe and Russell were given the chance to put their hand and feet prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre ; a spectacle that got a lot of publicity for both actresses.

Many point to the film's commercial failure as a result of the movie being released a month after George Lucas ' runaway box-office smash of 1977, Star Wars.

Furthermore, Canby noted the film's historical significance: " The result is a film of tremendous visual impact, a kind of cinematic Guernica, a picture of America in the process of exploding into fragmented bits of hostility, suspicion, fear and violence.

As a result of the film's success, director Harry Rapf was appointed the studio's new head producer.

As a result the film's title was changed to reflect its new " younger " perspective.

The film's North American release was halted or minimized as a result of a court case in the Superior Court of Canada instigated by David Whitten, a B-movie distributor.

As a result, the film's plot and scenes were heavily parodied in the 2001 spoof Not Another Teen Movie.

The film's success paved the way for the Indian New Wave as a result.

If the main credits occur at the beginning, then the director's name is last to be shown before the film's narrative starts, as a result of an agreement between the DGA and motion picture producers in 1939.

As a result the second half of the book was not used at all, and the film's ending is entirely new.

As a result of the low number of animators some critics called the film's animation " amateurish-looking ".

Due to difficulties experienced by the film's Iranian producer as a result of the Islamic revolution in Iran, the film was never made.

Hawks said he did not think the film's premise was believable, and as a result thought the film was not as funny as it could have been.