The Last Shot You Hear

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The Last Shot You Hear
The Last Shot You Hear (1969) poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gordon Hessler
Screenplay byTim Shields
Based onThe Sound of Murder
(play)
by William Fairchild
Produced byJack Parsons
Starring Hugh Marlowe
Zena Walker
Patricia Haines
William Dysart
CinematographyDavid Holmes
Edited byRobert Winter
Music by Bert Shefter
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • May 14, 1969 (1969-05-14)
(United States)
  • February 1970 (1970-02)
(United Kingdom)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Last Shot You Hear is a 1969 British thriller film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines, and William Dysart. [1] The screenplay was by Tim Shields based on William Fairchild's 1959 playThe Sound of Murder.

Contents

The film marked the end of the association between Robert L. Lippert and 20th Century Fox which produced over 200 films. [2] It was Marlowe's last film appearance. [3]

Cast

Production

Filming started November 1967. [4] Its original working title was The Jolly Girls. [5] The Shaggy Pups wrote the theme song. [6] Lippert announced he had purchased an original story by Hessler, Genoa. However, when Lippert and Fox ended their relationship the film was not made. [2] [7]

Reception

Critical

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "In striking contrast to the panache he brought to Scream and Scream Again , Gordon Hessler's direction of this earlier thriller is largely constructed round an endless repetition of prolonged close-ups, which only serve to emphasise the hackneyed theatricality of the characters and situations. The actors, perhaps because of the dialogue they are given, simply cannot stand up to this kind of scrutiny, and the result is something approaching the surreal, as though the whole surface of ie film is about to crumble away before our eyes. An obviously low budget may be partly to blame, 'but it's difficult to see what anyone could have done with the sheer, undiluted banality of the material." [8]

Box Office

According to Fox records the film required $450,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $290,000 so made a loss to the studio. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Last Shot You Hear". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 "'Last' to end lippert association with 20th". Los Angeles Times. 23 February 1968. ProQuest   155851742.
  3. ↑ "LAST SHOT YOU HEAR, the". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 37. 1970. p. 81. ProQuest   1305826314.
  4. ↑ Martin, B. (8 November 1967). "MOVIE CALL SHEET". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest   155720946.
  5. ↑ Martin, B. (2 December 1967). "MOVIE CALL SHEET". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest   155787640.
  6. ↑ Martin, B. (22 December 1967). "MOVIE CALL SHEET". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest   155808620.
  7. ↑ Martin, B. (9 January 1968). "MOVIE CALL SHEET". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest   155802364.
  8. ↑ "The Last Shot You Hear". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 37 (432): 81. 1 January 1970 – via ProQuest.
  9. ↑ Silverman, Stephen M (1988). The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox . L. Stuart. p.  327.
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