Big Trouble (1986)Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband. Director:John CassavetesWriter:Andrew Bergman |
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Big Trouble (1986)Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband. Director:John CassavetesWriter:Andrew Bergman |
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Peter Falk | ... |
Steve Rickey
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| Alan Arkin | ... |
Leonard Hoffman
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| Beverly D'Angelo | ... |
Blanche Rickey
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| Charles Durning | ... |
O'Mara
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| Robert Stack | ... |
Winslow
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| Paul Dooley | ... |
Noozel
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| Valerie Curtin | ... |
Arlene Hoffman
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| Richard Libertini | ... |
Dr. Lopez
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Steve Alterman | ... |
Peter Hoffman
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Jerry Pavlon | ... |
Michael Hoffman
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| Paul La Greca | ... |
Joshua Hoffman
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| John Finnegan | ... |
Det. Murphy
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Karl Lukas | ... |
Police captain
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Maryedith Burrell | ... |
Gail
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Edith Fields | ... |
Doris
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Insurance agent plots with client to kill her nutty husband.
I worked on this film in 1986, in a scene that was ultimately left on the cutting room floor. When I auditioned for the film, I met with the director, who was in fact, Andrew Bergman (credited solely as the writer). Several weeks went by before I actually worked, and by that time, Bergman had been replaced by John Cassevetes. What I was told at the time, was that Bergman had been fired, and that Falk, a friend of Cassevetes, recommended that Cassevetes come in to finish the job. I don't know how much of the film was already in the can at that point, but I know that Cassevetes changed the script a bit. In the scene I was involved in, Falk and Arkin go into a hardware store to buy dynamite to blow up a building (An insurance office, as I recall). I played the Hardware store clerk. I remember the script being pretty much thrown out the window, and improvising much of the dialog, which included Falk explaining that the dynamite was need for a luau. "My Wife," he said, "makes a suckling pig, that'll knock your eye out. First you baste it" "With clarified butter," Arkin chimes in. "Then blast the sh*t of it with dynamite." As the clerk, I apologize that the store doesn't carry dynamite, and end up selling them a hundred pounds of charcoal briquettes instead.
Funny.
And you will likely never see this scene.
Ah well.