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How cool are the opening credits for this film?

posted 13 years ago by Mr_Blonde3
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Not for any visual style mind you, but for the name after name after name. Then, after it goes, "In a Michael Winner film", you think the best is over, but then NO, "Also starring Christopher Walken". Then you think, "Ok, he was the special billing." Nope, then you get Beverly D'Angelo, and then, just when you're breathing a sign of relief, all the sudden here pops JERRY ORBACH.

But the fun doesn't stop there. You start going, "Hey! That was Jeff Goldblum with no audible lines in the opening montage." Then Goldblum pops up again, sounding dubbed. Then you recognize William Hickey, who was Carlton Blanchard with all the questions in "Wings" And if you saw "Marathon Man", you recognize that the actor that plays the lead girl's father got his throat slit by Olivier in the closing stages of that film. And then you see an uncredited Richard Dreyfuss, But they still aren't done, cameoing the chick from "Star Trek DS9" and...No...It CAN'T be, but it is. Tom Berenger!

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[–] Visioneer 13 years ago

I think I'll watch it again because of this description alone :)) Thanks!!!!!

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[–] donidarko-1 13 years ago

This film had more cameos of up and coming talent than any other movie made in the 1970s. This is an unbelievable little shocker.

[–] Mr_Blonde3 12 years ago

It's like an Irwin Allen Disaster film, minus the disaster (Unless of course, you didn't like it, in which case he film itself is the disaster.)

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[–] westal_sage 10 years ago

Where was Dreyfuss? Are you sure it's him? I didn't notice him.

[–] SuCue 7 years ago

It's a great bridge film for playing the Kevin Bacon game.