As far as that goes, it may even be a case of theer not even being that much advertising for the movie in question to begin with. Why? Who knows; maybe the studio never believed it had a chance to begin with so they decided to shunt it off to obscurity as quickly and as quietly as possible.
Makes sense, financially. But artistically? Hmmm....
Anyway, let's get to this month's movie that I'm pretty comfortably certain many of my faithful few probably never knew existed and, if they did, never got a chance to see it. I know I never did.
And our title this time is:
2) Surrender (1987)
director: Jerry Belson / writer: Jerry Belson / actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg
Yeah. You've heard of these people, haven't you? You probably even remember seeing the poster in the "Coming Soon" queue at your local theater as you trotted off to watch Hellraiser or something. How did something like this get so obscure?What we have here is one of those screwball rom-coms where a successful writer (Michael Caine) pretends to be poor to woo a cute commercial artist (Sally Field) who is also suffering from an insecure boyfriend (Steve Guttenberg) who refuses to let her go.
Folks, this would be forgettable if it starred Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh and Danny Kaye.
What sunk this, I think, is the fact that the lack of advertising that Cannon Pictures (yes, Cannon Pictures) combined with a lackluster story to give us something that only served as another notch in Caine's hundreds of thousands of movie roles in the Eighties. You gotta wonder, though, what the conversations on set were like between Caine, Field and Guttenberg...at least Guttenberg was on his fourth Police Academy at the time.
Plus, one of the producers was Aaron Spelling.
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See what happens during off-time from "Falcon Crest"?
That's all for this installment. I'll see what I can dig up next time. Literally, I'll have to get out the ol'shovel for this next one to find something more obscure than THIS.
Dope out.
- TGWD