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The movie had several working titles, including "The Last Score", "St. Ives' Big Score", "St. Ives' Last Score", and "The Procane Chronicle", with the latter also being the name of the film's source novel by Ross Thomas (Oliver Bleeck).
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J. Lee Thompson replaced Dick Richards as the movie's film director.
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The New York Times said that this movie had a central character which was "the kind of private eye role that Humphrey Bogart used to do."
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This Charles Bronson movie was theatrically released between his pictures From Noon Till Three (1976) and The White Buffalo (1977).
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The film shares the same title of an unrelated unfinished 1897 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which has also been filmed about five times, including at least three versions for television. It's full title is "St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England".
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Of Charles Bronson in this movie, The New York Times remarked that his "sagging eyes and mustache make him look more and more like Fu Manchu." In film history, Bronson never played the Fu Manchu character in motion pictures.
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Debut writing credit for a theatrical feature film for the movie's source novelist Ross Thomas (Oliver Bleeck), who later became a television writer and a screenwriter.
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This movie represented the first of nine teamings of director J. Lee Thompson with Charles Bronson. The others being The White Buffalo (1977), Cabo Blanco (1980), 10 to Midnight (1983), The Evil That Men Do (1984), Murphy's Law (1986), Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), Messenger of Death (1988), and Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989).
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Maximilian Schell and Jacqueline Bisset received "guest star" credits.
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"The Video Vacuum" has said of this film: "In the wake of Chinatown (1974)'s success, Hollywood went detective crazy. When they weren't remaking movies, old detective movies like Farewell, My Lovely (1975), they were doing flicks that channeled the detective films of the 1930s and 1940s. St. Ives (1976) is such a film. The main character isn't exactly a detective, but he's involved in a case that isn't too far removed from the sort of predicament Phillip Marlowe frequently found himself in."
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This movie was released five years after the Ross Thomas novel "The Procane Chronicle" had been published. Thomas wrote the novel under the pseudonym "Oliver Bleeck".
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"Wider Screenings" has called this movie a "detective film noir homage", which "features a dense detective plot in the manner of classic 1940s film noir private eye stories."
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One of two Charles Bronson movies that have a title, which is also the name of a work of literature, but is unrelated to that literary property. Hard Times (1975) is also the name of a 1854 Charles Dickens novel called "Hard Times", and St. Ives (1976) is also the name of a 1897 Robert Louis Stevenson short story named "St. Ives". The latter's full title is "St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England".
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"The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Gangster Film" book states that Swedish auteur Director Ingmar Bergman visited the set during production, and apparently exclaimed that the movie's star Charles Bronson was "scandalously underestimated".
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The meaning and relevance of this movie's title is that it refers to the last name of the movie's central character, Raymond St. Ives, played by Charles Bronson. The main American movie poster boasted that "Charles Bronson is Ray St. Ives" in its tagline. Bronson's earlier movie, Mr. Majestyk (1974), had also featured his character's surname as its movie title, but with the courtesy title of "Mr." included. Interestingly, the French version of this movie is called "Monsieur St. Ives", which translates into the English language as, "Mr. St. Ives".
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The movie's closing credits declare that the picture was: "Filmed at The Burbank Studios, Burbank, California."
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Charles Bronson plays a "Denver Tribune" crime reporter in Messenger of Death (1988), evoking the crime writer character of Raymond St. Ives he played in this movie. Both films were directed by J. Lee Thompson.
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In the novel, the main character is called Phillip St. Ives, where in the film he is called Raymond St. Ives.
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The lobby of the Hotel Lido, where Ray St. Ives lives, may look familiar to Eagles fans. It was the location for the gatefold photo of their "Hotel California" album, released in December 1976.
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