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Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude
The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwriter was working as a pool boy and driver for the producer; the director was considered an “acid freak” by the studio heads; the star was a 74-year-old actress who didn’t know how to drive a car. The film flopped upon release but later became one of the great cult successes of all time. This is the fascinating, never before told story of the making of Harold and Maude, shot guerrilla-style in the San Francisco Bay Area by a crew of “New Hollywood” filmmakers in the winter of 1971.
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Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude
The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwriter was working as a pool boy and driver for the producer; the director was considered an “acid freak” by the studio heads; the star was a 74-year-old actress who didn’t know how to drive a car. The film flopped upon release but later became one of the great cult successes of all time. This is the fascinating, never before told story of the making of Harold and Maude, shot guerrilla-style in the San Francisco Bay Area by a crew of “New Hollywood” filmmakers in the winter of 1971.
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Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude

by James A. Davidson
Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude
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Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude

Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude

by James A. Davidson

Overview

The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwriter was working as a pool boy and driver for the producer; the director was considered an “acid freak” by the studio heads; the star was a 74-year-old actress who didn’t know how to drive a car. The film flopped upon release but later became one of the great cult successes of all time. This is the fascinating, never before told story of the making of Harold and Maude, shot guerrilla-style in the San Francisco Bay Area by a crew of “New Hollywood” filmmakers in the winter of 1971.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781476623856
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 02/11/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

James A. Davidson has written a number of articles for Images Film Journal and Taste of Cinema and is co-owner of Second Sight Video & Multimedia. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
Introduction 5
Cast of Filmmakers 9
1. The Chauffeur, the Pool Boy and the Screenwriter 13
2. The Harold and Maude Script 26
3. Selling the Script 39
4. The Accidental Director 50
5. The Kid Stays in the Picture 60
6. The Most Difficult Part of Making a Film 68
7. I Feel I Could Make This Film About as Funny as the Vietnam War 82
8. Bay Area Bound 90
9. The Rosecourt 105
10. The Motorcycle Cop, the Ambulance and the Railcar 118
11. Cat Stevens 133
12. Editing the Film 143
13. Dropping a Bomb and Rising from the Ashes 157
14. After Harold and Maude: Hal Ashby 168
15. After Harold and Maude: The Rest of the Cast and Crew 179
16. The Legacy of Harold and Maude 189
Chapter Notes 197
Bibliography 205
Index 207
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