Connection with the previous post (BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID): George Roy Hill directed both films.
RATINGS: IMDB ―7.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes ― 77%, ME ― 68%
Paul Lazzaro: He's a kraut.
Roland Weary: He don't look like one.
Billy Pilgrim: I'm not, I'm an American.
Paul Lazzaro: Prove it
[finger in Billy's face]
Roland Weary: [to Billy] Who plays third for the Tigers?
Billy Pilgrim: The Tigers?
Roland Weary: The Detroit Tigers...
Billy Pilgrim: [no answer]
Paul Lazzaro: [to Roland] Who is it?
Roland Weary: I don't know.
Paul Lazzaro: [smacks Weary] Whadya ask 'im for?
Ron Liebman as Paul Lazzaro, Kevin Conway as Roland Weary, and Michael Sacks and Billy Pilagrim
Trivia (From IMDB):
Although Vonnegut's renown refrain, "So it goes", appears over 100 times in his novel, it does not occur, even once, in the movie version.
The character of Howard Campbell Jr. appears in the film and speaks to the American P.O.W.s before the bombing of Dresden. Vonnegut wrote an entire novel about this character called "Mother Night", later made into a film by Keith Gordon starring Nick Nolteas this same character.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of the book this film was adapted from, was a prisoner of war in World War II. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division on December 22, 1944, and used these experiences in his novel when Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. Vonnegut also lived through the bombing of Dresden and used that experience in the book.
Michael Sacks, who plays Billy Pilgrim, is eleven months older than his on-screen daughter, played by Holly Near, and he is actually four months younger than Perry King, who plays his son.
In an early scene when Billy's mother is visiting him in the hospital, she is talking about Billy's Dresden experience to Elliot Rosewater - the title character from Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel, "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", and a character who was later portrayed by Ken Hudson Campbell in 'Breakfast of Champions (1999)'.
Sharon Gans was only six years older than Perry King, who played her son, and seven years older than Holly Near, who played her daughter.
The music of the movie that the Pilgrim family watches in the drive-in is Rimksy-Korsakov's Sheherazade.
Dirk Benedict auditioned for the part of Robert Pilgrim but director George Roy Hillpreferred Perry King.
The aircraft used in the movie was owned by the 3M Company.
Film debut of Michael Sacks.
Although Vonnegut's renown refrain, "So it goes", appears over 100 times in his novel, it does not occur, even once, in the movie version.
The character of Howard Campbell Jr. appears in the film and speaks to the American P.O.W.s before the bombing of Dresden. Vonnegut wrote an entire novel about this character called "Mother Night", later made into a film by Keith Gordon starring Nick Nolteas this same character.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of the book this film was adapted from, was a prisoner of war in World War II. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division on December 22, 1944, and used these experiences in his novel when Billy Pilgrim is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. Vonnegut also lived through the bombing of Dresden and used that experience in the book.
Michael Sacks, who plays Billy Pilgrim, is eleven months older than his on-screen daughter, played by Holly Near, and he is actually four months younger than Perry King, who plays his son.
In an early scene when Billy's mother is visiting him in the hospital, she is talking about Billy's Dresden experience to Elliot Rosewater - the title character from Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel, "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", and a character who was later portrayed by Ken Hudson Campbell in 'Breakfast of Champions (1999)'.
Sharon Gans was only six years older than Perry King, who played her son, and seven years older than Holly Near, who played her daughter.
The music of the movie that the Pilgrim family watches in the drive-in is Rimksy-Korsakov's Sheherazade.
Dirk Benedict auditioned for the part of Robert Pilgrim but director George Roy Hillpreferred Perry King.
The aircraft used in the movie was owned by the 3M Company.
Film debut of Michael Sacks.
From IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Google.
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