You need $40,000 and a one-way ticket to Jamaica. Friedkin, himself, took over the camera work, as he didn't want to risk their lives, and they went for it! The Pontiac Le Mans rigged with three cameras, tore up the streets and the train tracks, driven by stuntman Bill Hickman, "We couldn't afford a camera car."įriedkin explains how to gain permits to shoot on the train itself. Randy Jurgensen, the NYPD detective who would later consult on Friedkin's controversial Cruising and Donnie Brasco, films based on his cases, was on set to flash his badge when they were questioned by authorities during filming. a supreme confidence, a kind of sleepwalker's assurance As successful as the film was, I wouldn't do that now. "I was like Captain Ahab pursuing the whale. Starting with that car chase, Friedkin admits that it was obviously done illegally.
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