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...screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently got the message. His latest film is a low-cost western called There Was A Crooked...
...Clemente was just another sleepy oasis on the luxuriant Southern California coast, a little-known haven for retired naval officers, wealthy businessmen and occasional refugees from smog-bound Los Angeles. Its most well-known citizen was Patrolman Bruce Crego, a red-haired giant known as "the Red Rider" for his prodigious feats with the summons pad. Until his retirement three years ago, Patrolman Crego handed out more than 5,000 speeding tickets a year to motorists passing through town on El Camino Real highway, which links Los Angeles with San Diego...
These dreams of glory are made possible largely by the success of a hardedged, modest movie called Joe (TIME, July 27), an attempt to dramatize the bitter frustrations of Spiro Agnew's hardhats. Made on a starvation budget of $300,000 (even Easy Rider cost $100,000 more), Joe has already grossed that much in New York City box-office revenue alone. "We didn't think it was going to do this well," admits Cannon President Christopher Dewey. Considering their youth and collegiate looks, this is probably the first time that Dewey and his partner, Dennis Friedland...
...Bull. Dewey and Friedland are interested in making good movies. But they also talk about "markets" and "products" just as coolly as any grizzled veteran of the Hollywood studios. "The horror market is wide open," Chris Dewey says. "What we'd really like to do is the Easy Rider of horror movies." Cannon even adopts the big-studio system of cutting movies, and even reshooting and adding scenes if the film maker's version doesn't please them...
...discovering that Chris played a major role in persuading Stanford to create a coed dormitory. "The kids were more orderly and serious about their studies, so I've changed my mind." Even so, Harte is still cool about some of Chris's other passions, such as the film Easy Rider. "I thought it was just corny as hell," he says. As for Woodstock: "If you don't dig that music ?and I don't?it's a long three hours, I can tell...