Variety
By Joseph Lapid
October 25, 1972
Tel Aviv, Oct. 24
Shooting of
“Billy Two Hats,” a western starring Gregory Peck, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Jack
Warden with David Huddleston and Sian Barbara Allen, started at “Sarcoville”
near Tel Aviv Oct. 15 and will continue for eight weeks. Other locations are
the desert between Ashkelon and Beer-Sheba, which represents a homestead in
Nevada, and the area near the Red Sea port of Eliat. The film will be released
in the late spring of ’73.
“Billy Two
Hats” is $1,100,000 production of Algonquin Film, a London-based production
company set up by Norman Jewison and Patrick Palmer. Algonquin is making the
film for United Artists, which will distribute it. The chose the Israeli
location on the insistence of Jewison, who is simultaneously directing “Jesus
Christ Superstar” here (for Universal).
Director is
Ted Kotcheff, and the original screenplay was written by Scotsman Alan Sharp.
Fifty percent of the production unit is Israeli, as well as the
Berkey-Pathe-Humphrey processing laboratories and the Birns & Sawyer camera
and lighting equipment.
[submitted by Michael Ferguson]
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