Movie "Double Negative" (1980)

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    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 36 min
    Budget CA$ 3 400 000
    Premiere: World November 30, 1981
    Production Companies Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)Quadrant FilmsUdo Communications
    Also Known As
    Deadly Companion United States

    Description

    Mentally tortured photojournalist Michael Taylor and his lover Paula West attempt to track down his wife’s murderer and cross paths with kinky blackmailer Lawrence Miles in this Canadian thriller.

    Сast and Crew

    Production

    A 1979 article in The Globe and Mail on the film's production revealed that the script process was chaotic, saying that the film was "directed by George Bloomfield from a script by three Toronto writers who have adapted a Ross McDonald novel. The cast is in turn adapting the work of the three writers. 'This is one of those things that's in progress,' Miss Clark says, plonking herself on the floor in the corridor, 'so it's a big question mark. The three writers seemed to be coming from three different places. We have improvised: the locations have stayed the same, and so has the intent of the individual scenes, but...'"

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