Word: morituri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point; it was one of the few times he was forced to go this route to promote his films. He is painfully conscious of the demeaning role he is in, and at times he seems ready to explode at the idiocy of it all, as when the interviewers praise Morituri, and then confess under his questioning that they actually hadn't seen the movie...
...movies he did make were sometimes indifferent (A Countess from Hong Kong, Morituri) and sometimes disastrous (Appaloosa, Bedtime Story). More and more, people began believing the stories that had long circulated of his behavior on the set: that he was a moody, intractable mumbler, a troublemaker whose whims sent budgets and blood pressures skyrocketing, a brilliant burden who dragged everything down with his sagging box office appeal. In fact, there was more and more truth to the stories. In 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty almost literally lived up to its title when Brando worked against the grain of the production...