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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher.[[note]]Quite possibly also explaining the rest of A-list cast member's presence in this B-list film..[[/note]] In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".

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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher.[[note]]Quite possibly also explaining the rest of A-list cast member's presence in this B-list film..[[/note]] In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".
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** The rest of the A-list cast in this B-list film (e.g. Creator/OliverReed) were almost certainly there for the same reason.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher.[[note]]Quite possibly explaining the rest of the cast's presence..[[/note]] In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".

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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher.[[note]]Quite possibly also explaining the rest of the cast's presence..A-list cast member's presence in this B-list film..[[/note]] In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".
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* AsHimself: Averted in a roundabout way with David Ball, curator of reptiles and expert snake handler at the London Zoo. He's portrayed in-universe by Creator/MichaelGough, while the real Ball served as the snake handler for the scenes with the black mamba and had a brief cameo on set.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher. In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".

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* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher. [[note]]Quite possibly explaining the rest of the cast's presence..[[/note]] In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".
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* HeAlsoDid: Screenwriter Robert Carrington also scripted the 1967 film version of ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark''. This was on the other hand, one of Music/MichaelKamen's first major movies.

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* ExtremelyLengthyDevelopment: This was originally set up by Paramount around 1977 with Creator/SeanConnery lined up to star. David Sherwin wrote the first script treatment.




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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: This was originally set up by Paramount around 1977 with Creator/SeanConnery lined up to star. David Sherwin wrote the first script treatment.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: While making the movie, Creator/OliverReed and Creator/KlausKinski absolutely hated each other. The jovial, fun-loving Reed would often provoke the intense, humorless Kinski into losing his temper (which wasn't a difficult task). The pair came to blows at least once.

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* CreativeDifferences: Original director Creator/TobeHooper quit because of "creative differences". The original cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond also quit for the same reason after ten days of shooting.
* ExtremelyLengthyDevelopment: This was originally set up by Paramount around 1977 with Creator/SeanConnery lined up to star. David Sherwin wrote the first script treatment.
* HostilityOnTheSet: While making the movie, Creator/OliverReed and Creator/KlausKinski absolutely hated each other. The jovial, fun-loving Reed would often provoke the intense, humorless Kinski into losing his temper (which wasn't a difficult task). The pair came to blows at least once.once.
* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/KlausKinski chose to do this film instead of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' because the salary was higher. In his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, he also stated that the script for that movie was "moronically shitty".
* RomanceOnTheSet: Actress Cornelia Sharpe and producer Martin Bregman were married in the same 1981 year that this movie was first released.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: While making the movie, Creator/OliverReed and Creator/KlausKinski absolutely hated each other. The jovial, fun-loving Reed would often provoke the intense, humorless Kinski into losing his temper (which wasn't a difficult task). The pair came to blows at least once.

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