hamradio Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Has TCM ever showed "Tiefland" (1954) and "Thief and The Cobbler" (1993). Talk about production time, "Tiefland took 20 years and "Thief" took 34 years to produce! I hope those movies were worth the wait. LOL! Animator must had one SLOW hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 What about Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 courtesy of Brando? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 When he died of an overdose River Phoenix was working on a Film called Dark Blood. It was left unfinished and the footage was stored in a vault somewhere in Europe. Roughly 19 years go by. The people who own the vault are about to dispose of the footage. The director of the film, (I can't remember his name) is sick and decides he want to save his work. The man somehow gets a hold of it and manages to make a complete film, (using voiceover narration, I can't explain it better than that.) From what I last heard it played some film festivals. Edited by: sfpcc2 on Oct 1, 2013 12:40 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matey Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 wow this is interesting... the actors grow old and probably die in 23 or 30 years...heh and the child actors become something else (most of the time they leave acting when they hit teen age yrs) heh I like to see more info about this really...thanks for the thread. Edited by: matey on Sep 30, 2013 5:05 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Most Pixar films take at least four years to make. However, I think the originator of the post is thinking a lot longer than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimpole Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 What would be the longest production that wasn't abandoned for years at a time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 One of the most laughable amount of time to make a movie is "The Manson Family" (2003). Took 15 years?? Not exactly a who-done-it type of mystery. To add insult to injury, its running time is only about 84 min and took in a more laughable $19,140 at the box office. *Film stock* cost more than that! The only thing slashed besides the victims were the cinema profits. Oh the humanity. *Rated R for ridiculous.* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 skimpole wrote: << What would be the longest production that wasn't abandoned for years at a time? >> More likely "Pakeezah" (1972) too much drama with the director and staff costing 14 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasilBruce Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Well Lawrence of Arabia had around a year and a half just in filming. I heard that they had a party after filming rapped and Peter O'Toole dropped plently of expletitives to show his happines over it being finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Peter O'Toole probably added more expletitives when he found out TV used pan and scan for the Super Panavision 70 masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 n/t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 >Peter O'Toole probably added more expletitives when he found out TV used pan and scan for the Super Panavision 70 masterpiece. *On MOVIES! twice tonite...seems to be letterboxed. looks much better than on TCM.*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 O'Toole probably didn't care. He got his pay and accolades, and had moved far on before "Lawrence" was ever shown on TV. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dothery Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 The production time for "The Thief of Baghdad" was pretty long, because the war intervened and shortages of materials and difficulties in traveling to locations made it a nightmare to produce. I remember reading that the sea scenes where Conrad Veidt whips up the wind and causes Abu and Ahmed to sail into a hurricane were shot in a field in Sussex. Hardly any of it was filmed at sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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