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Post by Jep Gambardella on Oct 22, 2021 23:22:26 GMT
I have a vague recollection of a movie (or possibly an episode of a TV show) where a killer replaces a blank with a real bullet during the shooting of a movie in order to kill an actor or actress. Does anybody remember that?
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 22, 2021 23:49:39 GMT
I have a vague recollection of a movie (or possibly an episode of a TV show) where a killer replaces a blank with a real bullet during the shooting of a movie in order to kill an actor or actress. Does anybody remember that? Perry Mason (TV Series) The Case of the Final Fade-Out (1966) www.imdb.com/title/tt0673265/reference
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Post by mgmarshall on Oct 23, 2021 23:06:03 GMT
That happens to Bruce Lee at the beginning of the "finished" version of Game of Death, presumably to explain why he turns into a different actor for the majority of the movie. Pointless, really, since he then turns back into Bruce Lee for the 20-30 minutes of new footage that makes up the finale...
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Post by Penn Guinn on Nov 4, 2021 1:48:02 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 25, 2021 6:41:51 GMT
1932's The Death Kiss, a brisk and breezy little whodunit that opens with a scripted shooting becoming all too real, is the earliest of which I know, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were earlier uses of the same device. Movies about making movies go back almost as far as movies themselves.
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Post by mikef6 on Nov 28, 2021 16:50:28 GMT
"Murder At Midnight" (1931). While playing a charade game that involved acting a scene and shooting a gun with blanks, a man is killed when the gun turns out to have real bullets.
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