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.

Peckinpah claimed to have done an extensive rewrite on the film's screenplay, a statement which remains controversial.

By most accounts, the low-budget film shot on location in Arizona was a learning process for Peckinpah, who feuded with Fitzsimons ( brother of the film's star Maureen O ' Hara ) over the screenplay and staging of the scenes.

The film's supporting cast includes ZaSu Pitts, Leila Hyams, and Roland Young, and the screenplay was written by Walter DeLeon, Humphrey Pearson and Harlan Thompson.

Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography received a nomination by the British Academy Film Awards, and the film's screenplay garnered a Writers Guild of America nomination.

Christopher Hampton received critical acclaim for his screenplay, with Time Out writing that " one of the film's enormous strengths is scriptwriter Christopher Hampton's decision to go back to the novel, and save only the best from his play.

The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler " From the Records of The United States Marine Corps ", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers.

The film's animators were never given a screenplay, and were instead told by Bakshi, " Do a scene that's funny, whatever you want to do!

The film's screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener, and it was produced by William Goetz and directed by Joshua Logan.

The film's gratuitous nudity, simulated sex, and $ 2 million screenplay ( written by Joe Eszterhas, who had worked with director Paul Verhoeven before ) did not lend itself to what might have been a provocative film.

( Harris would also write the film's screenplay.

Stone commissioned the first draft of the film's screenplay in the fall of 1993.

Various other script-writers, including Laura Phillips ( who had previously written several episodes of Fraggle Rock ), George Lucas, and Elaine May, subsequently re-wrote and made additions to the screenplay, although Jones received the film's sole screen-writing credit.

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

The primary influence for the film's screenplay came from Andrew Kevin Walker's time spent in New York City while trying to make it as a screenwriter.

He subsequently reworked and expanded it, still in Czech, as a literary-narrative screenplay published in 1964 under the title " The Shop on Main Street " ( Obchod na korze ), which already contained the film's storyline, although not in the usual ( American ) screenplay format.

Marrs served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy.

" While praising Branagh's direction and performances by the cast, Berardinelli attributed most of his discontent to the film's screenplay, concluding, " This is Branagh's worst effort to date and shows, if nothing else, that no matter how talented the director and his cast, he still needs a decent screenplay.

Although the film did not win, Blatty did win a Golden Globe for the film's screenplay.

" Blatty's screenplay was later published in 2000 with commentary by English film critic Mark Kermode ( Kermode also contributed to the audio commentary and feauturette on the film's DVD release in 2002 ).

Although Carpenter wrote the screenplay, in the film's credits the writer is listed as Martin Quatermass, a homage repeated in the film with Kneale University.

A novelization by Hank Searls, based on an earlier draft of the screenplay by Sackler and Tristan, was released, as well as Ray Loynd's The Jaws 2 Log, an account of the film's production.

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.

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.