The Stone Killer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[violet]

Actress Kelley Miles is the daughter of legendary American actress Vera Miles.

[oscar]

John Ritter and Norman Fell play police officers in this film. Three years later they would team up again in the hit TV series Three's Company (1976).

[michele]

Michael Winner used many creative camera angles in all his films, especially the ones with Charles Bronson, including the very first shot which is intentionally symbolic of beauty being replaced with urban decay: The first thing we see is an extreme closeup of a fresh-green leaf from a tree: then the camera backs up quickly to the grungy streets, where Bronson parks his vehicle.

[frederick]

Although the title of the movie is "The Stone Killer", on the film leaders before each reel the title is given as "Stone Killers".

[mathew]

In the novel, the main character is called Derek Torry, not Lou, and the entire story is set in the UK.

[kenzi]

Though Charles Bronson plays a violent cop, he also distances himself from being violent for no reason when he mentions the kid he killed (in the very beginning) was afraid, and trying to climb over "the white wall" of society. Also, he separates himself from the racist cop (Ralph Waite) by telling him "you're Southern hostilities are showing" as well as shooting the cop dirty looks when he makes racist comments about an African American perpetrator.

[carla]

Ralph Waite and John Ritter, who share a scene together, both playing cops, would be reunited on the TV series The Waltons. The same goes for John Ritter and Norman Fell on Three's Company.

[morris]

Second and final [to date, April 2017] filmed adaptation of a John Gardner novel. The first had been the The Liquidator (1965) which had debuted around eight years earlier.

[chad]

Most of the hit team are using the Smith & Wesson Model 76 9mm submachine gun. A number of them were purchased by Hollywood in the early 1970's. It bears a resemblance in both appearance and function, to the Swedish K submachine gun.

[clayton]

A "stone killer" is an underworld term for a professional hitman who kills with no remorse or conscience.

[cameron]

The helicopter Lou takes out to the desert is a 1961 Bell 47J-2 Ranger, registration N73202, serial number 1850. In 1988 it was sold to a party in Australia, registered there as VH-NHR and was still registered there as of 2017.

[janice]

Gus Lipper is the name of the hoodlum who gets busted, and his last name, "Lipper", is spoken ten times despite the fact he's in the movie under 10-minutes. John Ritter, who plays the arresting officer, contributed to at least 6 of those. And we're counting the last name in plural form as well since Charles Tyner describes young hoods to Charles Bronson as possibly becoming "A Generation of Lippers."

[maureen]

Final theatrical feature film of actor Walter Burke.

[amber]

The film's French title for this film is "Le Cercle Noir" which translates into the English language as "The Black Circle". Three years before this film was made, French director Jean-Pierre Melville made a gangster movie called Le Cercle Rouge (1970), which translates into the English language as "The Red Circle".

[kylie]

Available as a limited edition Twilight Time Blu Ray along with other Charles Bronson movies like The Mechanic and Chato's Land (also directed by Michael Winner) and Cannon Films' Murphy's Law and 10 to Midnight.

[kristen]

Third of six films that Charles Bronson made with director Michael Winner. Prior to this film they made Chato's Land (1972) and The Mechanic (1972) and after-wards they collaborated on Death Wish (1974), Death Wish II (1982) and Death Wish 3 (1985).

[kristen]

The film was based on the novel "A Complete State of Death" (1969) by John Gardner, but for this film, the title was changed to "The Stone Killer", the lead character's name was changed from Derek Torry to Lou Torrey, and the setting was changed from the UK to the USA.

[janice]

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[arthur]

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