Capt Quirk
10-11-2008, 06:18 AM
We got all the Pay Channels for a 3 month trial when we got our HD Satellite package, and I've been getting hooked on the Encore Western Channel lately... Maverick is becoming an addiction :) Anyways, they have been promoting Navajo Joe with Burt Reynalds, including the back story of the movie.
It seems Burt met a big Producer through Clint Eastwood, who told him about the role. He jumped at the chance to work on it when he found out Sergio would be Directing, and flew out to Spain to meet with him. That is when he found that he wasn't working with the great Sergio Leoni, but Sergio Corbucci. Corbucci took Burt out to the middle of nowhere to look at the location... and left him there to find his own way back to town! After all that, I can't believe Burt still went through with the film! I'm going to have to check it out when it comes on :)
It seems Burt met a big Producer through Clint Eastwood, who told him about the role. He jumped at the chance to work on it when he found out Sergio would be Directing, and flew out to Spain to meet with him. That is when he found that he wasn't working with the great Sergio Leoni, but Sergio Corbucci. Corbucci took Burt out to the middle of nowhere to look at the location... and left him there to find his own way back to town! After all that, I can't believe Burt still went through with the film! I'm going to have to check it out when it comes on :)