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Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands.
Lancaster, now 42, who was an acrobat for five years (for the Kay Brothers Circus, nightclub shows and Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus), then bounced through two tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers (The Crimson Pirate, The Flame and the Arrow). He tried directing (The Kentuckian) with indifferent success, plans in future...
The Fun of It. Paddy Chayefsky's Bachelor Party, which went on location in New York last week, will be the first of 14 new films to be made by the Hecht and Lancaster Companies (it will be Hecht, Hill & Lancaster next year, when onetime Scriptwriter James Hill joins...
With success apparently assured, the partners show no inclination to relax. They keep a seven-days-a-week, ten-hour-a day schedule when a picture is hot. And Lancaster stays in condition with 6 a.m. sprints around the U.C.L.A. track when he is in town.
Says Producer Lancaster: "We've reached the point now where we've stopped thinking about money. Our success has done a nice thing for us. We have the bread and butter. It's been a healthy operation, and it doesn't matter if we have $250...