![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Anne has moved into a new city after clearing out her bank account and taking on a new identity. The Mafia head honcho Avoca (Vincent Price) sends his best hitman, Milo (Dennis Hopper) to kill her. In this disguise, Anne walks out unnoticed by Luponi and the Pinella waiting outside.Ĭarelli is not happy she’s not dead yet, and he SHOUTS a lot (as he’s played by an uncredited (his decision) Joe Pesci. ![]() With luck, when she’s in there, she manages to buy a wig and a coat from another woman (who for plot convenience) happens to have both. Luponi follows her as she bolts for it, but she heads for the ladies’ toilets (and safety). She’s not happy as she spots one of the mob members John Luponi (Dean Stockwell) at the police station. They hope to incarcerate Carelli if she will testify against them. After she tells them Carelli is involved, the police try to offer her a place on the witness protection programme. Bob is shot dead as he sleeps upstairs (and it’s Goodbye Charlie Sheen).Īnne visits the police headed by Pauling (Fred Ward). However, Anne is downstairs and she hides as she hears them enter her home. They head for her bedroom upstairs believing she’s there. But at night, two of the mobsters, Greek (Tony Sirico) and Pinella (John Turturro) break into their house. Then after visiting the Justice Department, she goes home with her supportive boyfriend Bob (Charlie Sheen). ![]() They spot her observing them and shoot, as she makes a run for it but. She walks home and on her journey she witnesses a double murder by some mobsters, headed by Carelli (Joe Pesci) and his men. After discussing the publicity for her upcoming exhibition, she gets a flat tyre on her journey home. Dennis Hopper released a Director’s Cut of this movie also naming it Backtrack two years later.īacktrack tells of Anne (Jodie Foster), an artist who makes art by writing challenging statements and displaying them on LED screens. However just to confuse things, this edited film was released in theatres as Backtrack in America and Catchfire in the UK and the rest of Europe. This was after Hopper proved he had no creative control over his finished project. ![]() He was given the right to rename the film’s director Alan Smithee for this film. This film is the (Alan Smithee) version of the film I am reviewing today.īoth these reasons led to Hopper suing the bankrupt film company. However, Vestron Pictures kept Hopper’s name attached to this now shorter and edited film released in 1990. This act was reported without Hopper’s permission. This film’s final running time was three hours, so the completed film was edited to an hour and a half by the film company. Just over 20 years later, Dennis Hopper made his film project Catchfire (1990).Ĭatchfire was another film in which he proudly took this dual role. This was in 1969 for Easy Rider(1969) a film he also starred in where he won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best First Work. There this pseudonym was used for the TV edited versions of both these movies.Ī year after this, often actor and sometimes director Dennis Hopper earned acclaim at Cannes for his first stab at directing movies. Smithee’s name has been used by prolific – and not so famous – directors names including David Lynch for Dune (1984) and Michael Mann for Heat (1995). Since 1968, Alan Smithee has been a pseudonym used by directors who are not happy with their finished movies and in using this name they effectively disown it. Backtrack (1990) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers, Movieclips Classic Trailers and photos © Vestron Pictures ![]()
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