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The term “fugitive” calls to mind Bonnie and Clyde-type sensational stories, or high-profile criminals who have escaped police custody. In reality, not all fugitives are armed and dangerous...
- There Were About 25 Drafts of The Screenplay
- None of The Main Actors Had Ever Seen The TV Show It Was Based on
- They Really Crashed A Train Into A Bus For The Film
- It’S The only TV to Movie Adaptation to Be Nominated For The Best Picture Oscar
- They Filmed During A Genuine St. Patrick’s Day Parade
- It Was The First New Us Movie to Be Screened in China For Decades
- It Was A Massive Commercial and Critical Success
- It Was Nominated For Seven Oscars and Won One of Them
- There Was A Spin-Off Movie in 1998
- The Villains Have Very Specific Names
In spite of the film having become a stone cold classic, production for The Fugitive was infamously difficult. According to The Fugitive’s producer Arnold Kopelson, developing the movie’s screenplay was a lengthy process which took about five years and involved nine different writers penning around 25 different drafts. In oneof the drafts, it was r...
As much as it might seem like the film released only yesterday, The Fugitive is actually more than 25 years old. So you’d forgiven for not even realising that it’s based on a TV series that from the 1960s. Airing between 1963 and 1967, it starred David Janssen as itinerant physician Richard Kimble who – much as in the film – is wrongly convicted of...
Remember the scene where Dr Richard Kimple narrowly escapes his crashed prison bus, mere moments before it is ploughed into by a train? Well, in the days before photo realistic computer generated effects, a real train (with its engine removed) was used for the scene. [rtk_adunit_top] While the original plan was to replicate the crash using miniatur...
At time of going to press, The Fugitive is the only movie based on a regular TV series that has ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, a remarkable achievement in a year that also featured The Piano, The Remains of the Day, and the eventual winner: Steven Spielberg’sSchindler’s List. [rtk_adunit_top] It’s a distinction that com...
You may remember the scene where Kimble and Gerard engage in a cat and mouse chase through a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago, but you may not have realised that the parade was a genuine one and not staged. [rtk_adunit_top] The inclusion of the parade scene was a last minute change to the film that Andrew Davis, a Chicago native, pushed for. Dav...
The Fugitive made history by being the first major US movie to be shown in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for decades, after the country lifted its restriction on foreign movies. [rtk_adunit_top] Looking at a film industry that is now squarely aimed at the Chinese market, with several projects flopping in the West but earning billions oversea...
The Fugitive was a massive success with both critics and cinema goers, going on to make over $368 million worldwide, which made it the third highest grossing movie of 1993. Desson Howe from the The Washington Post described it at the time as “a juggernaut of exaggeration, momentum and thrills … pure energy, a perfect orchestration of heroism, villa...
Most critics singled out Tommy Lee Jones for his performance as a wise-cracking cop who is the tactical equal to Harrison Ford’s non-stop doctor, so it was no surprise when the Oscars came calling for a Best Supporting Actor nod. Drawing inspiration from Les Miserables’ Javert, an inspector fatally in pursuit of Jean Valjean, Jones’ performance is ...
It seems like everything is getting a sequel these days, even cinematic stinkers like Angry Birds (2016) and Peter Rabbit (2018) – enigmatically subtitled ‘The Runaway’ – but in the early 90s endless sequels were far from guaranteed. Especially since the plot had resolved so neatly, it would have been difficult to pick up exactly where the film had...
You might think that the villains in action movies are just given generally evil-sounding names, but in the case of The Fugitive there are very specific reasons why the villains are called what they are. [rtk_adunit_top] Charles Nichols, the traitorous doctor who employs the One Armed Man, is named for the Walter Matthau character in the Howard Zie...
Jul 29, 2023 · The Fugitive's cast, director, screenwriter, and more revisit the film 30 years after its release. Read the oral history from Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano, Andrew Davis, and more.
Jul 20, 2016 · The movie features investigators who clearly did not look beyond planted and circumstantial evidence of Kimble’s supposed guilt, and employs the police procedural trademark of the smug prosecuting attorney who arrogantly preys upon the emotions of the jury, regardless of how sound the evidence against the defendant actually is.
Mar 2, 2022 · With fugitive I can do this without quitting vim (who knowns how to do that anyway ?). Here I’ll present most of the important features of fugitive and how I use them. Basics. git status is available with the command :Git. It opens a new window with all the information returned by git status.
Aug 29, 2017 · Created by Roy Huggins, The Fugitive premiered September 17, 1963. The premise: en route to death row, a train wreck frees Kimble, who sets off in search of the One-Armed Man. Meanwhile, Kimble...
Aug 6, 2018 · We're celebrating the Fugitive 25th anniversary by exploring Harrison Ford's lead performance, which may be his final great role.
