Val Kilmer was considered for the role of Buck.
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Richard Harris was cast in the lead male role in the film but withdrew due to having contracted pneumonia during the final days of shooting Orca (1977).
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The film has often mistakenly referred to being Ingmar Bergman's first English language picture. For example, trade paper 'Variety' erroneously stated that it was Bergman's first English film. This is not the case. It was Bergman's second, his first having being The Touch (1971).
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The movie had an international cast unlike most Ingmar Bergman films whose casts were regularly Swedish / Scandinavian.
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First of two pictures that Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman made in West Germany. The second was From the Life of the Marionettes (1980).
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Ingmar Bergman's screenplay in Swedish was translated into English for this movie.
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This is Ingmar Bergman's only film completely shot in English as one version of "The Touch" The Touch (1971) is partially in Swedish.
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Actors Dustin Hoffman, Richard Harris, Peter Falk and Robert Redford were all considered for the lead male role of Abel Rosenberg which in the end was cast with David Carradine.
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Ingmar Bergman: [name] Last name Vergerus.
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A documentary about the making of this film, Away from Home (2004), is featured on the DVD for the movie.
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Ingmar Bergman had planned to have a horse killed on camera to show the desperation of the German people during the Weimar Republic's inflation crisis of 1923. David Carradine said he would walk off the film if Bergman went ahead with his plans. Bergman compromised, and the horse was killed off-screen, but the corpse is shown, as an impoverished a woman offers up handfuls of offal to Carradine's character.
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Dustin Hoffman was offered the lead male role of Abel Rosenberg but turned it down.
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FilMs that were an inspiration to [IngMar BergMan](/category/1282/ingMar-bergMan) for this picture were Fritz Lang's M (1931) and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) / The Blue Angel (1930).
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Actor James Whitmore was a last minute replacement for John Huston.
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The film was a critical and commercial failure at the box-office.
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The picture has been considered an Ingmar Bergman "film noir".
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The picture was the biggest budget Ingmar Bergman film at least to the time that this movie was made.
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One of several collaborations of director Ingmar Bergman with actress Liv Ullmann and cinematographer Sven Nykvist.
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Serpent's Egg - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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