FILM 1340: POINT BLANK
TRIVIA: During a rehearsal taking
place in the home of Lee Marvin,
he hit John Vernon so hard that
it made Vernon cry.
Lee Marvin faked the
recoil from the .44 Magnum when he shoots in Lynne's bed. These were in fact
blanks, but afterward when shooting in Alcatraz they tried with real bullets
and there was no recoil at all. Marvin said to director John Boorman,
"Fiction overtakes reality". Marvin's revolver was a Smith &
Wesson Model 19. It's a .38/.357 Magnum, not a .44 Magnum.
This was the first major picture to
film on location at Alcatraz Island after the closure of the federal prison in
1963.
The house where Walker (Lee Marvin) meets Brewster
(Carroll O'Connor) was an
actual house in the Hollywood Hills that was rented as a filming location. The Beatles once stayed in
this house while visiting L.A. It was the basis for their song "Blue Jay
Way", which is the name of the street on which the house sits.
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