The Osterman Weekend - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[nora]

Buddy Joe Hooker: The stuntman as a kidnapper.

[sandra]

The mustache that Craig T. Nelson wore throughout this movie was glued on. Sam Peckinpah apparently hated it, and would rib Nelson constantly about it during the shoot.

[linda]

This movie is dedicated to actor Helmut Dantine.

[harry]

The main poster featured a female archer with a bow and arrow, and was a similar image to what had appeared on the cover of some editions of the dust jackets of the novel.

[camila]

Director Sam Peckinpah apparently put as much of Alexander Haig into Burt Lancaster's character Maxwell Danforth as he dared he could.

[kenzi]

Meg Foster hit Helen Shaver hard by accident in one scene, and welted her, connecting with her jaw and hitting her. Shaver then got up, and the two then did another take.

[camila]

According to the documentary Alpha to Omega: Exposing 'The Osterman Weekend' (2004), Sam Peckinpah hated Robert Ludlum's novel, and he did not like the screenplay for the movie either. But regardless of his dislike for the book, Peckinpah still accepted the director's job, as he was desperate to re-establish his legendary director position within the Hollywood film community.

[sara]

According to "The Espionage Filmography", "(Sam) Peckinpah claimed the film was botched in the final edit." In the February 1984 edition of Photoplay (U.K.), Director Sam Peckinpah said he was happy with the final cut, despite six minutes of scenes with humor being cut out, which he said balanced the violence. According to wikipedia.com, "The producers changed the opening sequence, and deleted other scenes they deemed unnecessary. (Sam) Peckinpah proclaimed that producers had once again sabotaged his film, a complaint he made after filming Major Dundee (1965) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973). He was less vocal this time, mindful that studios and producers were keeping an eye on his behavior."

[jesus]

Burt Lancaster and Craig T. Nelson were very keen and excited about doing the movie, and working with Sam Peckinpah.

[fred]

Composer Lalo Schifrin had to sit by Director Sam Peckinpah's sick bed in order to spot the movie and decide which scenes did or did not need music.

[brent]

In his diary, Charlton Heston wrote that he was offered the script in the early 1970s.

[jamie]

Chris Sarandon's wife was pregnant throughout the filming of this movie. He said that the added tension provided his character with a little more depth. His wife gave birth shortly after filming wrapped.

[javier]

Sam Peckinpah asked the producers to do re-write work on the script, and was given permission to do so, but after submission of his first few pages, the producers relented, and forbade Peckinpah from doing any more re-writes.

[bessie]

The Finnish title of this movie is "Verinen Viikonloppu", which means "Bloody Weekend" in English.

[veronica]

Sam Peckinpah was fired when he refused to re-edit this movie after it was screened for a test audience on May 25, 1983, and met with a confused and mixed reaction. Producers Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer took over editing, with the assistance of Editor Edward M. Abroms, and drastically altered the opening and ending sequences.

[ruby]

First feature film adaptation of a Robert Ludlum novel. It was the second Ludlum adaption overall for any filmed production, as The Rhinemann Exchange (1977) had been made-for-television. This movie was the first of three 1980s movies based on Ludlum novels. The others were The Holcroft Covenant (1985) and The Bourne Identity (1988).

[bryan]

This movie was shot during November and December 1982 and January 1983.