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Andre De Toth: Work
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Neither Lang's The Blue Gardenia nor Toth's Crime Wave is at all sympathetic to the police, depicting them as bullies and sneaks. Some other common Lang and Toth aspects of their depiction of the police: both films show police women working along side the police men. Both films show the police as completely oblivious to romance. This is especially striking in Crime Wave, where Sterling Hayden gets top billing, but no love interest. Hayden is depicted as a threat to Nelson's home and marriage. The dialogue suggests that both the crooks and police exist in a common, crime oriented world, one of which is completely alien to the world of "squares": ordinary people who get married and have families, like Nelson and his wife.
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During this European sojourn, de Toth took time to work as an uncredited consultant on David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The exact nature of his contributions remains murky; de Toth said he found locations, but conceded he shot some footage, although how much of his work found its way into the final cut is unknown. Nicholas Roeg, who worked as an assistant director on the film, said that he proposed an idea for the climactic massacre scene (filmed in Morocco), where bags of blood behind mirrors would be machine-gunned, splattering the screen with blood. Lean rejected this idea... and de Toth left the project shortly thereafter.
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The location did give de Toth trouble. One morning they awoke to a storm on Whitney with fog and snow and not much better in the valley. While the Warner's man said no way, de Toth decided to film. And film they did but "UP" (Under Protest) by the man who de Toth elegantly referred to as "Twopants," because he wore two pair in the bitterly cold altitude. The cameraman, who de Toth called Marblehead, agreed with Twopants. The weather held enough to get the work done, and Gary Cooper said if Warner tried to fire de Toth, Cooper would stand by him.
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