Chuck Bail, the Hollywood man of action who portrayed the stunt coordinator in the Peter O’Toole-starring The Stunt Man and directed frenetic films including The Gumball Rally and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, has died. He was 85.
Bail died Wednesday in a hospital in Tyler, Texas, his friend and fellow former stuntman Gary Kent told The Hollywood Reporter. Bail had heart and gall bladder issues and then contracted Covid-19, he said.
A strapping 6-foot-4, Bail served as the stunt double for Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies and for Peter Breck on The Big Valley, and he threw punches as henchmen ...
Bail died Wednesday in a hospital in Tyler, Texas, his friend and fellow former stuntman Gary Kent told The Hollywood Reporter. Bail had heart and gall bladder issues and then contracted Covid-19, he said.
A strapping 6-foot-4, Bail served as the stunt double for Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies and for Peter Breck on The Big Valley, and he threw punches as henchmen ...
- 11/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Chuck Bail, the Hollywood man of action who portrayed the stunt coordinator in the Peter O’Toole-starring The Stunt Man and directed frenetic films including The Gumball Rally and Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, has died. He was 85.
Bail died Wednesday in a hospital in Tyler, Texas, his friend and fellow former stuntman Gary Kent told The Hollywood Reporter. Bail had heart and gall bladder issues and then contracted Covid-19, he said.
A strapping 6-foot-4, Bail served as the stunt double for Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies and for Peter Breck on The Big Valley, and he threw punches as henchmen ...
Bail died Wednesday in a hospital in Tyler, Texas, his friend and fellow former stuntman Gary Kent told The Hollywood Reporter. Bail had heart and gall bladder issues and then contracted Covid-19, he said.
A strapping 6-foot-4, Bail served as the stunt double for Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies and for Peter Breck on The Big Valley, and he threw punches as henchmen ...
- 11/26/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Zehra Phelan
Remakes, reboots, reimaginings – call them what you will, but 2017 is certainly turning out to be the year that Hollywood has decided to barrage us with the news that one film or another is being remade. The latest in a long line comes in the form of the 1981 Cannonball Run franchise.
Warner Bros have jumped on board to revive the franchise after acquiring the rights from the original copyright owners and are currently looking at the Central Intelligence director Rawson Thurber to take the helm with Reno 911 stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant in talks to tackle a new and improved script for the 21st century.
Back in 1981, Cannonball Run burst onto the scene with an all-star cast, Burt Reynolds took the lead as Jj McClure, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. All starred as well as the late James Bond actor...
Remakes, reboots, reimaginings – call them what you will, but 2017 is certainly turning out to be the year that Hollywood has decided to barrage us with the news that one film or another is being remade. The latest in a long line comes in the form of the 1981 Cannonball Run franchise.
Warner Bros have jumped on board to revive the franchise after acquiring the rights from the original copyright owners and are currently looking at the Central Intelligence director Rawson Thurber to take the helm with Reno 911 stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant in talks to tackle a new and improved script for the 21st century.
Back in 1981, Cannonball Run burst onto the scene with an all-star cast, Burt Reynolds took the lead as Jj McClure, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. All starred as well as the late James Bond actor...
- 6/13/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cars! Cars! Cars! What climate accord, when we’re celebrating the internal combustion engine! One of the best of the breezy ’70s action comedies, this cross-country road race picture gave us early looks at Gary Busey and Raul Julia in the midst of an always-amusing ensemble of car crazies, out to go from Manhattan to the Pacific in less than two days, at speeds up 175 mph! No 55 speed limit, no catalytic converters!
The Gumball Rally
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1976 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Raul Julia, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats,
Tim McIntire, Joanne Nail, J. Pat O’Malley, Tricia O’Neil, Nicholas Pryor, Vaughn Taylor, Wally Taylor, Colleen Camp, Lazaro Perez, Med Flory, Lauren Simon, .
Cinematography: Richard C. Glouner
Film Editors: Stuart H. Pappé Gordon Scott, Maury Wintrobe
Original Music: Dominic Frontiere
Written by Chuck Bail,...
The Gumball Rally
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1976 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 107 min. / Street Date June 13, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Raul Julia, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Harvey Jason, Steven Keats,
Tim McIntire, Joanne Nail, J. Pat O’Malley, Tricia O’Neil, Nicholas Pryor, Vaughn Taylor, Wally Taylor, Colleen Camp, Lazaro Perez, Med Flory, Lauren Simon, .
Cinematography: Richard C. Glouner
Film Editors: Stuart H. Pappé Gordon Scott, Maury Wintrobe
Original Music: Dominic Frontiere
Written by Chuck Bail,...
- 6/3/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
With this weekend's release of the video game adaptation Need for Speed, the cross-country auto-race movie is back. So, let's get out our copies of The Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and other similar movies and see which one darts to the front of the pack. If not those two Burt Reynolds vehicles, then how about the related semisequel Speed Zone? Or one of the earlier, unrelated movies based on the same race, The Gumball Rally or Cannonball? And before that, don't forget the cult classic Two-Lane Blacktop, which was a major inspiration on the real Cannonball contest. Not all movies of the genre and that time period dealt with coast-to-coast races, though. Vanishing Point and the Smokey and the...
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- 3/12/2014
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
For those that live in Los Angeles know that the L.A. River is sort of a misnomer. While it was once the city's water source, the L.A. River is mostly a dry, concrete channel that snakes its way through most of the county towards the ocean (though it is possible to kayak through parts of it). Of course, if you're new in town like Michael "The Angry Ginger" Kittrell and the rest of his family, you may try to go fishing in the L.A. River like Michael and his Uncle "Big" John did in a recent episode of Reelz's Hollywood Hillbillies. Little did they know that the river is more commonly known as a location for movie shoots.
Hundreds of movies have used the L.A. River as a location, so we decided to narrow that down a bit and reveal some of our favorite movie classics...
Hundreds of movies have used the L.A. River as a location, so we decided to narrow that down a bit and reveal some of our favorite movie classics...
- 2/10/2014
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
Warner Bros. and Chernin Entertainment are developing an action movie about the famous British Gumball 3000 race—a race that was itself inspired by the 1976 movie The Gumball Rally, and has already been adapted into a Burt Reynolds-narrated film in 2003. Billed as a caper pic in the vein of Ocean's 11, this new, as-yet-unnamed film will dramatize the annual 3,000-mile long race, which covers whole continents using public roads, each year following a different route. (In 2013, for example, the week-long race started in Copenhagen before running through Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw ...
- 10/2/2013
- avclub.com
Normally, this isn't the kind of thing we review here, but I posted the announcement a couple of months ago, and after having watched this film on Blu-ray, I have to put my two cents in. The Cannonball Run is awesome. This update of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World crossed with The Gumball Rally is hilarious, thanks in no small part to an outstanding ensemble cast. HBO Home Entertainment have delivered a quality Blu-ray release here, with significant improvements in detail and color over the DVD. There is only one extra, but the whole film is such comedic overload, that it doesn't really bother me that much. Get this one!The Cannonball Run brings Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise,...
- 11/7/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Start your engines up and beat the traffic in our Grease-lightning race through Hollywood's car chase hotspot
Anyone who's seen a Hollywood car chase over the last 30 years will recognise the 51-mile structure that runs from San Fernando Valley through to Long Beach. While most action films will set a high-speed pursuit in a congested city – swerving and screeching around rush-hour traffic – the La river is the go-to location for directors seeking a less metropolitan buzz. A one-on-one drag race perhaps? Or a battle between warring alien robots?
The river's dystopian expanse allows cinematographers to get creative and infuse the action with swooping aerial shots to accompany the spectacle of an automobile revving up its slanted walls. It's been featured in almost too many films, TV shows and music videos to count, but here are my favourite and most memorable La river races:
1) The river was renamed "Thunder Road" for Randal Kleiser's Grease,...
Anyone who's seen a Hollywood car chase over the last 30 years will recognise the 51-mile structure that runs from San Fernando Valley through to Long Beach. While most action films will set a high-speed pursuit in a congested city – swerving and screeching around rush-hour traffic – the La river is the go-to location for directors seeking a less metropolitan buzz. A one-on-one drag race perhaps? Or a battle between warring alien robots?
The river's dystopian expanse allows cinematographers to get creative and infuse the action with swooping aerial shots to accompany the spectacle of an automobile revving up its slanted walls. It's been featured in almost too many films, TV shows and music videos to count, but here are my favourite and most memorable La river races:
1) The river was renamed "Thunder Road" for Randal Kleiser's Grease,...
- 8/3/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Netflix has revolutionized the home movie experience for fans of film with its instant streaming technology. Netflix Nuggets is my way of spreading the word about independent, classic and foreign films being made available by Netflix for instant streaming. Important Note: There may be some films that do not become available on the specified dates. This is merely a report of the most accurate release dates I can find, but is not directly confirmed by Netflix themselves.
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010)
Streaming Available: 06/29/2011
Synopsis: Since his tragic death from cancer at age 32, comedian Bill Hicks’s legend and stature have only grown, and this unique documentary tells his story, blending live footage, interviews and animation to fill in the details of a life cut short. A comic’s comic and unflagging critic of hypocrisy and cultural emptiness, Hicks was one of a kind, a Lenny Bruce for the late 20th century,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Updated through 4/23.
"Michael Sarrazin, a tall, dark-eyed Canadian actor who starred opposite Jane Fonda in Sydney Pollack's 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, died of cancer Sunday," reports Claire Noland in the Los Angeles Times. He was 70. Noland quotes from a 1994 interview given to the Toronto Star in which Sarrazin recalled working on Horses: "You could have paid me a dollar a week to work on that. It hits you bolt upright; I still get really intense when I watch it. We stayed up around the clock for three or four days.... We stayed in character. Pollack said we should work until signs of exhaustion. Fights would break out among the men; women started crying."
"Sarrazin was one of the last actors to come up through the old studio system, signing with Universal in 1965," writes John Griffin in the Montreal Gazette. "After an indifferent start in television and movies-of-the week,...
"Michael Sarrazin, a tall, dark-eyed Canadian actor who starred opposite Jane Fonda in Sydney Pollack's 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, died of cancer Sunday," reports Claire Noland in the Los Angeles Times. He was 70. Noland quotes from a 1994 interview given to the Toronto Star in which Sarrazin recalled working on Horses: "You could have paid me a dollar a week to work on that. It hits you bolt upright; I still get really intense when I watch it. We stayed up around the clock for three or four days.... We stayed in character. Pollack said we should work until signs of exhaustion. Fights would break out among the men; women started crying."
"Sarrazin was one of the last actors to come up through the old studio system, signing with Universal in 1965," writes John Griffin in the Montreal Gazette. "After an indifferent start in television and movies-of-the week,...
- 4/23/2011
- MUBI
Actor Michael Sarrazin, whose star rose in the 1960s, has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. The charismatic and handsome Sarrazin found stardom almost as soon as he entered the film business, with a prominent co-starring role with George C. Scott in the 1967 comedy The Flim Flam Man. Other prominent roles in the 60s and 70s included The Sweet Ride, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, For Pete's Sake, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Gumball Rally and most prominently, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Sarrazin was said to have been the first choice for the role of Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy, but Jon Voight ultimately rode to stardom in the role. Sarrazin's career went into decline by the late 1970s but he continued to work in low-budget films and on television. Click here for more...
- 4/19/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Actor Michael Sarrazin has died after a battle with cancer. He was 70.
The Canadian star, who found fame starring opposite Jane Fonda in 1969 movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, passed away on Sunday in Montreal, Canada with his family by his side.
Sarrazan, real name Jacques Michel Andre Sarrazin, was best known for playing a director in the Sydney Pollack drama opposite Fonda, who portrayed a suicidal woman who heads to Hollywood.
He also notably starred in Journey to Shiloh opposite Harrison Ford, The Flim-Flam Man, Sometimes A Great Notion and The Gumball Rally.
Director George Mihalka, who cast Sarrazin in 1993's La Florida, says, "Michael was one of the most talented, generous and committed actors I have ever worked with. He never stopped surprising me with his wit, charm and, above all, his humility and simple decency."...
The Canadian star, who found fame starring opposite Jane Fonda in 1969 movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, passed away on Sunday in Montreal, Canada with his family by his side.
Sarrazan, real name Jacques Michel Andre Sarrazin, was best known for playing a director in the Sydney Pollack drama opposite Fonda, who portrayed a suicidal woman who heads to Hollywood.
He also notably starred in Journey to Shiloh opposite Harrison Ford, The Flim-Flam Man, Sometimes A Great Notion and The Gumball Rally.
Director George Mihalka, who cast Sarrazin in 1993's La Florida, says, "Michael was one of the most talented, generous and committed actors I have ever worked with. He never stopped surprising me with his wit, charm and, above all, his humility and simple decency."...
- 4/19/2011
- WENN
Just stop, for a moment, and think about the following two words: summer movie. Okay, we all know what that phrase means: big-tent, maximum-escape entertainment, the pop-cornier the better. It’s sort of remarkable, though, that regardless of how big our blockbusters get — how much the budgets soar, the special effects dazzle, the buzz turns all but inescapable — the term summer movie has never quite outgrown its beguilingly casual, beach-party American innocence. It’s a term that reaches all the way back to an age when people went to the movies in the summer in no small part for the air conditioning.
- 7/7/2010
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW.com - The Movie Critics
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