Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off · My Life in Cult Movies

Overture: 'And the winner is...'? -- Robin Hood, the goons and the nudist boom -- Getting The knack -- Hollywood UK -- Gearing up for The Italian job -- White-knuckle ride: making The Italian job -- The greatest film I never made, and the hellish one that I did -- Mr. Wilson, and his plans for British film -- Don't look now, or The prudery of Warren Beatty, and The wicker man, or The Wrath of Christopher Lee -- British business -- Soaring high, almost crashing: The man who fell to Earth -- The lion's last gasp -- Peckinpah, Convoy and a blizzard of cocaine -- A national them: The deer hunter -- Low grade -- Power, vainglory and Michael Cimino -- Blade runner- incept date: 1979 -- Blade runner- t-shirt wars -- Blade runner- waiting for Vangelis -- A form of retirement -- Coda;Mode of access: Internet

One man links The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell To Earth. Producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fight wars to get these movies made, from defending the legendary sex scene of Don't Look Now from a disapproving Warren Beatty to seizing control of Convoy from a cocaine-ridden Sam Peckinpah. This is a no-holds-barred look at the true stories behind some of the greatest cult movies ever made.