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Both crashes were very accurately depicted. Both Castellotti's and De Portago's cars launched high in the air. You can easily find info and pictures of the real life incidents. A period picture exists of Castellotti's car "parked" high in the stands of that track. Look it up. There are police reports for the second accident. As for the safety/not of the 1957 Mille Miglia race it was nothing unusual at the time. There were road races like that taking place all over the world from the mid 1890s just after the invention of the automobile, up to the 1980s. You could stand at the side of the road and watch with no barriers between you and the cars. Track-only F1 was similar up to the 70s as even though most spectators were sitting on the stands there were photographers, policemen, stewards (and the occasional random person) etc walking by the side of the racetrack with no barriers, nothing between them and a 180+ mph passing racecar 2 feet away. Things have changed.
Not saying this movie is perfect but there's nothing incoherent about it except in the protagonist's mind. Watch again.
Bump!
Basically only point 1 made by OP is valid, everything else is plausible.
Lol bad guys don't always need a key to open a door! Anything else?
Exactly! That money was not counterfeit! They should go back and watch again!
De Niro as Louis Cyphre? Now that was scary!
Thanks!
I agree it's one of the best off-the-wall running gags! She never actually kissed Drake until her final appearance (ep. Dance Contest where she kisses both Drake and Josh) she usually flew by saying something very quickly and ending with "I love you! Bye!" leaving Drake perplexed! She's like Drake's biggest fan/wannabe groupie. It's never mentioned who she is and I can't find her through IMdB credits.
Come on, a gang crime film PG13?? I'm 99% this was either shot as a TV movie but as it sometimes happens they decided to give it a cinema release, limited or not OR the original uncut cinema print is lost. IMDb doesn't mention anything but they do have many mistakes in there as we all know. I'm currently watching 70s and early 80s street crime/vigilante movies and for a movie about gang violence there's just no graphic violence at all but also more tellingly No One ever swears in this movie! I mean in this setting with these characters. Seriously.
Still a nice little movie.
The parties-at-same-building thing was planned didn't just HAPPEN. Watch again.
Haven't these people ever watched The Nanny? And yes you can watch it volume off.
IMdB is full of silly mistakes. John Schneider's character is listed in the movie end credits as "Cannonballer #1". It's not listed as "Donato" or "Donnato" or whatever. That's just some bizarre submitted trivia after someone had too many drinks or a strange dream. Naturally no one at IMdB bothered to check if that piece of "trivia" is actually true.
John Ryder didn't have motive either
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Well, the voice on the phone from the silo said: "Forget everything you just heard and go back to sleep."
People don't get that the director indeed didn't agree with having the dream ending slapped in your face like the studios originally wanted BUT he *did* want the whole thing to be ambiguous.
"....getting a direct flight would be a nightmare."
Exactly. You got the movie right...
Yes it is! With a few Bergman-ish themes thrown in.
There's only one episode where, as The Man said, the hero is in complete control of the twilight zone. So yeah.
Agree with "ballerina" Susan Harrison from season 3 ep. Five Characters in Search of an Exit. Ethereal.
Yes, strangely retired from acting at the age of just 25, the TZ episode was her penultimate appearance. What a beauty.