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Lawrence Butler - visual effects supervisor


There's a good story I heard that Larry Butler shot the miniatures of the volcano at his ranch and Columbia financed the digging of a lake on his property. I also heard he was the one who had to crawl through the tunnel beneath the volcano to set the charges. Butler was a real unsung hero of visual effects.

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I thought this was a passable movie and planned on giving it 6 stars, but bumped it up to 7 stars just for the impressive special effects sequences. My impression was that the bulk of the budget probably went to the salary of Frank Sinatra & Spencer Tracy, but the FX deptartment certainly made use of every dollar they were allocated.

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