Great movies that never were

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Banned
PHONE BOOTH (1967)

Starring:

Tony Curtis – Don Kestrell
Martin Balsam – Captain Frank Dooley
Julie Andrews – Faye Ramey
Eva Marie Saint – Judy Kestrell

Bruce Dern – Sergeant Powers
Robert Duvall – Lonnie (The Pimp)
Perry Lopez – Delivery Man
Harrison Ford – Fritz (Don's Assistant)

John Forsythe – The Voice

Director of Photography – Robert Burks, A.S.C.

Pictorial Designs – Albert Whitlock
Color by Technicolor

Film Editor – Carl Lerner
Assistant Director – James H. Brown
Associate Producer – Herbert Coleman

Selected Themes Composed by Bernard Herrmann
Music by Lalo Schifrin

Ms. Andrews and Ms. Saint’s Costumes Designed by Edith Head
Production Designed by Robert Boyle
Titles Designed by Saul Bass

Written by Larry Cohen & Ernest Lehman

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Released through Universal Pictures

Premiere: February 10, 1967 (New York)
Wide Release: April 6, 1967
 
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Rendezvous With Rama(1983) – Stanley Kubrik revisits the scifi genre with Arthur C. Clarke's '72 novel. Like Kubrik's earlier 2001(1968), Rendezvous With Rama anticipated later techniques and hardware used by space programs world wide. The film is also credited with starting the real life Spaceguard program by NASA in 1984. Other than Joe Dante's mediocre, RAMA II(1988), no other books in the series have been optioned for filming.


Not sure if Kubrik would have gone with named or unknown actors and actresses. Also decided to put the film between "The Shining" and "Full Metal Jacket". There's a 7 year gap there. Not sure why.
 

Stolengood

Banned
You misspelled "pothole". :p

Onwards...


MOONRAKER (1967)

Starring:

Sean Connery – James Bond
Sylva Koscina – Gala Brand
Wolfgang Kieling – Krebs
George Pravda – Kutze
Annette Andre -- Mary Ann Russell

Peter Ustinov – Nico Zographos
Lois Maxwell – Miss Moneypenny
Desmond Llewellyn – Q
Peter Burton – DI Vallance
Bernard Lee – M

John Huston – Hugo Drax
Philip Stone – SPECTRE #5, Masters
(Anthony Dawson) – Ernst Stavro Blofeld

Second Unit directed by Anthony Squire
Edited by Peter Hunt

Color by Technicolor
Filmed in Panavision

Main Title Designed by Maurice Binder

Music composed, conducted, and arranged by John Barry
Additional Cues by Brian Wilson

Title Song by The Beach Boys
Composed by Brian Wilson and John Barry
Lyrics by Van Dyke Parks

Additional Story Material by James Doran
Screenplay by Richard Maibaum & John Huston
From the novel by Ian Fleming

Production Designed by Ken Adam

Director of Photography Edward Scaife, B.S.C.

Produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli

Directed by John Huston

Released through United Artists

Premiere: June 26, 1967 (London)
Worldwide Release: July 10, 1967
 
How Few Remain (2010)

Stonewall Jackson - Bruce Willis
JEB Stuart - Benedict Cumberbatch
William Rosecrans - Nathan Fillion
George Armstrong Custer - Tom Cruise
Teddy Roosevelt - Jude Law

Abe Lincoln - ???
Longstreet - ???
 
Westboro (2008)

Fred Phelps - Clint Eastwood
Shirley Phelps-Roper - Beth Grant
Margie Phelps - Meryl Streep
Nathan Phelps - Leonardo DiCaprio
 
"The Opening of Japan"
(1947 - Warner Brothers)

Heavily politicized black-and-white picture, outlining the opening of the Japanese archipelago by the Americans under the Perry Expedition. Whilst at the time it was critically acclaimed, now it is regarded as a propaganda piece by the MacArthur administration.

Commodore Matthew C. Perry: Frank Sinatra
President Millard Fillmore: Walter Huston
Philipp Franz von Siebold: Gene Kelly

Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Howard Koch
Music: Miklós Rózsa
 

Stolengood

Banned
Can you guess which OTL movie this ATL Christmas classic might've been...?

THE GREATEST GIFT (1947)

Starring:

Cary Grant – George Pratt
Teresa Wright – Mary Pratt
David Niven – Clarence
Monty Woolley – Mr. Herbert

Director of Photography – Gregg Toland, A.S.C.

Edited by Monica Collingwood

Music by Hugo Friedhofer

Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett
From the short story by Philip Van Doren Stern

Directed by William A. Seiter

Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Released November 23, 1947
 
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