Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #208 :: July 18•24

DiNovi Pictures

It was another big week for new movie premieres with one major film of 1934 credited for making its lead actress a star. 1944 saw a popular married couple appear in their first film together. 1964 gave us a new Hitchcock thriller and another ‘Beach Party’ movie, while 1974 gave Charles Bronson his signature role. 1984 produced a film that was ahead of its time and has become a cult favorite, while 1994 and 2004 gave us films that are considered among the worst ever made. Meanwhile 2014 had two sequels at opposite ends of the spectrum, from family to horror. Scroll down to see the list of films that opened this week across the decades and tell us if any of your favorites are celebrating milestone anniversaries!

1924

• July 20 – Her Marriage Vow (USA, Warner Bros. Pictures)
• July 20 – Her Own Free Will (USA, Eastern Productions)
• July 20 – The Girl in the Limousine (USA, Chadwick Pictures Corporation)
• July 20 – Western Vengeance (USA, Independent Pictures)
• July 21 – The Arab (USA, Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation)
• July 21 – The Desert Sheik (USA, A.C. Bromhead Productions)

A print of Her Marriage Vow is preserved in Filmarchiv Austria.

Her Own Free Will was based on a novel of the same name by the British writer Ethel M. Dell. The film is considered lost. The Girl in the Limousine is based on the 1919 play of the same name by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. It is also a lost film.

The Arab is based on a 1911 play by Edgar Selwyn. The film was shot in North Africa just before Metro-Goldwyn merged with Louis B. Mayer’s company and was edited under the new regime. Director Rex Ingram was not happy with the interference, so he moved to the French Riviera where all of his subsequent films were made. This is one of 12 films starring Alice Terry that survive with prints in the Gosfilmofond archive in Russia and the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. A digitally preserved print is archived in the Library of Congress.

The Desert Sheik is inspired by the 1898 novel The Tragedy of the Korosko by Arthur Conan Doyle.

1934

RKO Radio Pictures

• July 18 – Shoot the Works (USA, Paramount Pictures)
• July 20 – Blind Date (USA, limited, Columbia Pictures)
• July 20 – Grand Canary (USA, Fox Film Corporation)
• July 20 – Of Human Bondage (USA, RKO Radio Pictures)
• July 20 – Shock (USA, W.T. Lackey Productions)
• July 20 – The Notorious Sophie Lang (USA, Paramount Pictures)
• July 21 – Here Comes the Navy (USA, Warner Bros. Pictures)
• July 21 – The Return of Bulldog Drummond (AUS, British International Pictures)
• July 21 – Those Were the Days (AUS, British International Pictures)
• July 24 – Little Friend (UK, Gaumont British Picture Corporation)

The Return of Bulldog Drummond opened in the UK in general release on October 22, 1934 but has no known US theatrical release date. Those Were the Days opened in the UK in general release on October 1, 1934 but has no known US theatrical release date. Little Friend opened in general release in the US on November 18, 1934.

Shoot the Works is based on the Gene Fowler and Harold Hecht 1932 play The Great Magoo. It is not a remake of the 1931 musical revue of the same title. The film was released two days before the Hollywood Production Code went into effect.

Grand Canary is an adaptation of A. J. Cronin’s 1933 novel of the same title.

Of Human Bondage is based on the 1915 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is regarded as the film that made Bette Davis a star. Davis came to the attention of John Cromwell from her performance in 1932’s The Cabin in the Cotton. Davis begged Jack L. Warner to allow her to appear in the RKO film, but he insisted she appear in such forgotten films as Fashions of 1934, The Big Shakedown, Jimmy the Gent and Fog Over Frisco as she continued to harass Warner, who felt the role of a slatternly waitress would destroy the glamorous image the studio was trying to create for her. It was the same reason Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne and Ann Harding turned down the role. Warner only agreed because the studio wanted RKO player Dunne for Sweet Adeline so the studios agreed on a swap. Davis hired an English housekeeper to help with the Cockney accent, but the film’s British stars were upset that an American actress was cast in the role. Davis also designed her own makeup for the final stages of the character’s illness, which was changed from syphilis to tuberculosis to appease the Production Code. Nervous about her performance, Davis did not attend a preview of the film, but her husband and mother did. Later her husband told Davis her performance was sincere but might harm her career. Studio execs did not expect to hear laughter during the film and blamed the score by Max Steiner, who wrote a new score with a motif for each of the main characters. Warner execs were upset by the rave reviews, embarrassed that their contract player was being acclaimed for another studio’s film and tried to avoid mention of it in any publicity about Davis. Davis was not on the Academy Awards ballot for Best Actress, which many thought was a sure thing, so angry voters wrote her in. It was later announced she came in third. Claudette Colbert won for It Happened One Night.

The Notorious Sophie Lang is the first of three Sophie Lang films with Gertrude Michael.

Here Comes the Navy is also known as Hey, Sailor. The film was produced with the full cooperation of the US Navy, with Naval personnel appearing as extras. A portion of the film was shot aboard the battleship Arizona, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Other scenes include shots of the dirigible Macon, a year before an accident destroyed the airship and killed two crew members.

The Return of Bulldog Drummond was based on the 1922 novel The Black Gang by H.C. McNeile and was the fourth of 25 Bulldog Drummond films.

Those Were the Days was based on Arthur Wing Pinero’s 1885 farce The Magistrate. It was the first major screen role for Will Hay, and featured music hall acts of the time that were not usually seen on film.

Little Friend was based on a novel by Ernst Lothar and adapted for the screen by Margaret Kennedy and Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood based his novel Prater Violet (1945) on his experience of working with director Berthold Viertel and others on the production of Little Friend.

1944

• July 19 – Mr. Winkle Goes to War (USA, Columbia Pictures)
• July 20 – Silver City Kid (USA, Republic Pictures)
• July 20 – Since You Went Away (USA, Selznick International Pictures)
• July 20 – The Adventures of Mark Twain (Mexico, Warner Bros. Pictures)
• July 21 – Allergic to Love (USA, Universal Pictures)
• July 22 – Block Busters (USA, Sam Katzman Productions)
• July 22 – Hare Force (USA, short, Leon Schlesinger Studios)
• July 22 – The Bodyguard (USA, short, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• July 22 – Three of a Kind (USA, Sam Katzman Productions)
• July 24 – For Those in Peril (UK, Ealing Studios)
• July 24 – The Seventh Cross (USA, Loew’s)
• July 24 – Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X (USA, Twentieth Century Fox)

The Adventures of Mark Twain was released in the US on July 22, 1944. For Those in Peril has no known US theatrical release date.

Mr. Winkle Goes to War was based on the 1943 novel by Theodore Pratt.

Since You Went Away was adapted from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. The film earned nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture, winning one for Max Steiner’s original score. The farewell scene between Jones and Walker at the railway station was parodied in the film Airplane!

The Adventures of Mark Twain was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Max Steiner’s score.

Block Busters is Bill Chaney’s only film as an East Side Kid, and the last film released in Harry Langdon’s lifetime. Leo Gorcey’s wife Kay Marvis has a supporting role, and his father Bernard has a role as the gang’s baseball team sponsor, Lippman.

The title Hare Force is an obvious play on Air Force, but has nothing to do with the military.

Tom the cat and Spike the dog both speak in The Bodyguard. It was the first time Spike spoke.

For Those in Peril marked the directorial debut of Charles Crichton. The film was produced with a documentary feel and an element of wartime propaganda. Real sailors were used in the action scenes.

Hume Cronyn earned a Supporting Actor nomination for his work in The Seventh Cross, which was adapted from the 1942 novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. It was the first film in which he appeared with his wife Jessica Tandy, and one of the first films directed by Fred Zinnemann. It was one of the few films made during World War II that dealt with the existence of Nazi concentration camps. Refugees from Nazi Germany played many small roles. Hugh Beaumont has an uncredited role as a truck driver.

Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X is also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight. The film was Oscar nominated for Original Screenplay. The story was based on Stanley Johnston’s Queen of the Flat Tops, which Fox tried to acquire but the rights were not obtained. The US Navy exercised so much control over the film it was considered a ‘semi-official’ production.

1954

• July 18 – Young and Willing (USA, Marble Arch Productions)
• July 19 – Man with the Steel Whip (USA, serial, Republic Pictures)
• July 21 – Valley of the Kings (Egypt, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• July 22 – The Gay Dog (UK, Coronet Films)
• July 23 – Living It Up (USA, York Pictures Corporation)
• July 23 – Silver Lode (USA, Benedict Bogeaus Productions)
• July 24 – Ring of Fear (USA, Batjac Productions)

Young and Willing originally opened in the UK on February 4, 1954 as The Weak and the Wicked. Valley of the Kings was released in the US on July 23, 1954. The Gay Dog has no known US theatrical release date.

Young and Willing was based on the autobiographical novel Who Lie in Gaol by Joan Henry, who would marry the film’s director, J. Lee Thompson (who left his wife and children), in 1958.

Man with the Steel Whip uses a considerable amount of stock footage from Republic serials Zorro’s Black Whip, The Painted Stallion and Daredevils of the West. As a result, the costume and body shape of the hero El Latigo change between scenes, even becoming female in scenes taken from Zorro’s Black Whip. The serial was Republic’s most expensive of 1954. The working title was Man with a Whip. Barbara Bestar occasionally refers to the lead character Jerry Randall as Dick, the nickname for his portrayer, Richard Simmons.

Valley of the Kings was ‘suggested by historical data’ in the 1949 book Gods, Graves and Scholars by C. W. Ceram. Vittorio Gassman was to be the male lead, but several delays caused him to drop out. Howard Keel was a possible replacement, but the role went to Robert Taylor, who had recently appeared with female lead Eleanor Parker in the successful Above and Beyond. The film premiered in Egypt, a first for an American film.

The Gay Dog was based on the 1952 play of the same title by Joseph Colton.

Living It Up was based on the musical Hazel Flagg (1953) by Ben Hecht, which was in turn based on the story ‘Letter to the Editor’ by James H. Street. The film starred Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. An earlier version of the story was filmed in 1937 as Nothing Sacred. Sig Ruman played the role of Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer in both films.

Circus star Clyde Beatty and author Mickey Spillane appear as themselves in Ring of Fear.

1964

Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

• July 18 – False Hare (USA, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)
• July 22 – Bikini Beach (USA, American International Pictures)
• July 22 – Good Neighbor Sam (USA, David Swift Productions)
• July 22 – Marnie (USA, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions)
• July 22 – Shock Treatment (USA, Arcola Pictures)

Marnie originally opened in the UK on July 9, 1964.

False Hare was the last production completed by the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, and is also the last to feature the ‘target’ opening and closing title cards, and the long-familiar version of ‘The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down’ theme. It is also the last appearance of Bugs Bunny during the Golden Age of American Animation that ended in the 1960s when animated theatrical shorts lost their popularity because of television, where the shorts were produced with cheaper budgets and limited techniques. Bugs was not seen in a big screen short again until February 8, 1991 in Box-Office Bunny.

Bikini Beach is the third in a series of ‘Beach Party’ movies produced by American International Pictures. Director William Asher claimed the film was written for The Beatles, but their popularity grew and the budget could no longer afford them so Frankie Avalon’s dual role as an English singer named ‘The Potato Bug’ was created to replace the group. Asher’s claims are suspect, though, because The Beatles had already signed a three picture deal with United Artists in 1963. Don Rickles plays Big Drag in the film, but one character tells him he looks familiar. Big Drag then admits he was once Jack Fanny, the character Rickles played in Muscle Beach Party. Donna Loren and Little Stevie Wonder make their second ‘Beach Party’ appearances. Val Warren, billed as Teenage Werewolf, won his role from a Famous Monsters of Filmland makeup contest (he beat Rick Baker, who went on to win three Oscars for his makeup artistry). Peter Lorre was to reprise his character from Muscle Beach Party, but he died before he could film his scenes. Boris Karloff replaced him but was only seen from the back until the end, which led viewers to believe it was actually Vincent Price.

Good Neighbor Sam is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Jack Finney. TV writers James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum made their motion picture screenplay debut with the film. Bernie Kopell has an uncredited role.

Marnie is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham. It was the last film to feature a ‘Hitchcock blonde’ in a central role. It was also the last collaboration for Hitchcock with editor George Tomasini, who died shortly after the film’s release, cinematographer Robert Burks, who died in 1968, and composer Bernard Herrmann, who was fired during production on Hitchcock’s next film, Torn Curtain. Hitchcock’s cameo comes five minutes into the film as he enters from the left of a hotel corridor after Marnie passes by. Grace Kelly, by then the Princess of Monaco, was to appear in the film but withdrew when the citizens of Monaco objected to her appearing in a film, especially as a sexually disturbed thief. She had also not fulfilled her contract to MGM when she married Prince Rainier, which may have prevented her from appearing in a rival studio film. Because she withdrew from the film, Hitchcock put it aside and did The Birds instead and returned to Marnie after its completion. Marilyn Monroe sought the role of Marnie, and a Paramount executive suggested Lee Remick. Hitch also considered Vera Miles, who was under contract to him. Eva Marie Saint, who starred in North by Northwest unsuccessfully pursued the role. He eventually settled on Tippi Hedren, whom he had discovered and cast in the starring role in The Birds. Sean Connery only accepted the male lead if the part was not a variation on a spy, wanting to get away from his James Bond image.

Shock Treatment is based on Winfred Van Atta’s 1961 novel of the same name. Lauren Bacall called the film the worst of her career.

1974

• July 21 – The White Dawn (USA, American Film Properties)
• July 24 – Death Wish (USA, Dino De Laurentiis Corporation)
• July 24 – The Internecine Project (USA, MacLean and Company)

The White Dawn is based on the 1971 novel The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga by James Archibald Houston, who co-wrote the screenplay. It includes authentic Inuit language dialogue. The film featured female nudity but the hunting scenes earned the film an R-rating, which baffled many in the industry. The Movie Report told its readers to ignore the rating. It was appealed but the MPAA refused to revise the rating, however it did later reduce it to a PG.

Death Wish is loosely based on the 1972 novel of the same title by Brian Garfield. Welcome Back, Kotter star Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs has an uncredited role as a mugger. 227‘s Helen Martin plays the victim of a mugging. Christopher Guest makes one of his earliest film appearances. Sonia Manzano, better known as Maria on Sesame Street, also has an uncredited role as a supermarket checkout clerk. Jeff Goldblum makes his film debut as one of the ‘freaks’ who assaults Kersey’s family early in the film. Sidney Lumet was originally to have directed, with Jack Lemmon starring as Paul Kersey and Henry Fonda as Ochoa. Lumet left the project for Serpico. Peter Medak was considered but he wanted Fonda for the Kersey role. Michael Winner was eventually selected. Winner then considered different actors for the lead and settled on Charles Bronson, who felt he was miscast as the character is described as ‘meek’ in the novel. Winner also wanted to cast Bronson’s wife Jill Ireland as Kersey’s wife, but Bronson didn’t want his wife to be humiliated by the actors playing muggers. He wanted someone who looked like Hope Lange, so Winner hired Hope Lange. United Artists had to drop the picture when the producers liquidated their rights. Dino De Laurentiis then acquired the project, who then suggested bringing the film to Paramount, which handled domestic distribution while Columbia Pictures took international distribution rights.

The Internecine Project star Lee Grant felt the film’s script was ‘flimsy’ but took the part because of the money — she and her husband were about to adopt two children — and a chance to work with James Coburn, whom she admired.

1984

• July 19 – The Settlement (AUS, Queensland Film Corporation)
• July 20 – Best Defense (USA, Cinema Group Ventures)
• July 20 – Electric Dreams (USA, Virgin Pictures Ltd.)

The Settlement has no known US theatrical release date.

Best Defense was intended to be solely a Dudley Moore vehicle and did not originally feature the Eddie Murphy character. Test screenings went poorly so it was suggested to add Murphy, who was at the top of his career at the time. Murphy’s character is almost completely disconnected from the rest of the film and never interacts with the main cast. One scene filmed during re-shoots did feature Murphy and Moore but it was ultimately cut from the film. Footage of David Rasche in the film was used as a screen test for his lead role in the TV series Sledge Hammer!

Electric Dreams was the feature directorial debut of Steve Barron, who had made over 100 music videos prior. Barron’s mother was working on continuity for the film Yentl and showed the videos to the producers who offered the directing job to Barron. Bud Cort provided the voice of the computer, but Barron didn’t want the actors to see him so he recorded his lines in a padded box on a sound stage. Boy George, who sang the movie’s theme song ‘Love is Love’, did get to meet Cort and got an autograph as he was a fan of Harold & Maude.

1994

• July 20 – The Client (USA, New Regency Productions)
• July 22 – Hammers Over the Anvil (AUS/USA, The South Australian Film Corporation)
• July 22 – Lassie (USA, Broadway Pictures)
• July 22 – North (USA, Castle Rock Entertainment)

The Client is based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. The film marked the screen debut of Brad Renfro as Mark. 6,000 actors auditioned for the role. Susan Sarandon earned Oscar and BAFTA nominations for Best Actress. The film spawned a TV series that starred JoBeth Williams and John Heard, with Ossie Davis reprising his role of Judge Harry Roosevelt.

Hammers Over the Anvil is based on the novel of the same name by Alan Marshall. The full title of Lassie is Lassie: Best Friends are Forever.

North is based on the 1984 novel North: The Tale of a 9-Year-Old Boy Who Becomes a Free Agent and Travels the World in Search of the Perfect Parents by Alan Zweibel, who wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film. Nine-year-old Scarlett Johansson makes her film debut in a small role. It was the final film of Alexander Godunov, who died the year after the film’s release. John Candy was originally cast as Pa Tex but dropped out and was replaced with Dan Aykroyd. The film was a bomb, earning just $12 million against a $40 million budget, and is considered one of the worst films of all time. The film earned six Golden Raspberry Awards nominations including Worst Picture, Actor (Bruce Willis), Supporting Actor (Aykroyd), Supporting Actress (Kathy Bates), Director (Rob Reiner) and Screenplay.

2004

• July 20 – Thunderbirds (UK, Working Title Films)
• July 23 – A Home at the End of the World (USA, limited, Hart Sharp Entertainment)
• July 23 – Before Sunset (UK, Detour Filmproduction)
• July 23 – Catwoman (USA, DiNovi Pictures)
• July 23 – The Bourne Supremacy (USA, Kennedy/Marshall)
• July 23 – Cowboys & Angels (Ireland, Wide Eye Films)

Thunderbirds was released in the US and Canada on July 30, 2004. Before Sunset opened in the US on July 30, 2004. Cowboys & Angels was released in the US on September 17, 2004.

Thunderbirds, directed by Jonathan Frakes, was a live-action adaptation of the 1960s Supermarionation TV series. Critics unironically called the performances ‘wooden’ and series co-creator Gerry Anderson said it was ‘the biggest load of crap’ he’d ever seen. His wife Sylvia, however, called it a ‘great tribute’ to the original series. This was the third theatrical adaptation of the series, but the only one that used actors instead of marionettes. Original series concept artist Mike Trim created designs for the film, including a new pod vehicle, but his work went unseen. Peter Hewitt was the film’s original director, but after four drafts which the studio felt would not play well in the US, Hewitt left the production and was replaced with Frakes, who was a lifelong fan of the series. The time setting of the film has been debated. The studio’s own website stated the film is set in 2010, however other promotional material, and Frakes himself, have stated the film is set in 2020. Based on the ages of the characters, this seems the more accurate setting as the original series is set in 2026. Frakes noted that this was intentional as not to mess with the series timeline.

A Home at the End of the World is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Cunningham, who also wrote the screenplay. The film earned a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film in Wide Release. Colin Farrell was nominated for the Irish Film Award for Best Actor.

Before Sunset is the second film in Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Trilogy’, following Before Sunrise and preceding Before Midnight. Linklater co-wrote the screenplay with stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. The film was shot entirely in Paris and takes place in real time. The first concept for the film was to be set in four locations with a much larger budget, but funding was difficult to secure and the project languished for nine years (the same amount of time that has passed in the film). The movie was filmed in 15 days. The original screenplay received an Oscar nomination. The film includes a Steadicam shot that lasts for 11 minutes. The film was shot mostly in sequence as the screenplay was still being developed. Keeping the story in real time was a challenge because of Paris’ fast-changing temperate climate, making it difficult to match the color and intensity of the sky and ambient light from scene to scene. Delpy also contributed two original songs for the film, and a third was used during the closing credits.

At the time of its release, Catwoman was considered one of the worst films of all time. The film received seven Razzie nominations, winning four: Worst Picture, Worst Actress (Halle Berry), Worst Director (Pitof) and Worst Screenplay. A Catwoman film was announced in 1993, while Warner Bros. was developing Batman Forever, with Tim Burton to direct and Michelle Pfeiffer set to reprise her role from Batman Returns. By 1994, Burton was unsure if he would direct the film or an adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher. The screenplay was submitted to the studio the same day Batman Forever was released. Pfeiffer remained committed to the film as late as 1995 but suggested her priorities may be challenged due to motherhood and commitment to other projects. The project languished in Development Hell until 2001, with Ashley Judd attached to star, but she dropped out and Nicole Kidman was considered. Warner Bros. had cancelled a Batman vs. Superman movie in 2004 and decided to quickly produce Catwoman as a replacement, now with Berry set to star after the cancellation of the James Bond spin-off movie Jinx, in which she was to reprise her role from Die Another Day. Berry and Pitof helped design the Catwoman outfit. Berry began fitness training in June 2003, received cat-like choreography, trained in Capoeira, and learned to crack a whip.

The Bourne Supremacy takes its title from the second Jason Bourne thriller by Robert Ludlum, but has a completely different plot. It is the second film in the Bourne series starring Matt Damon. Brian Cox and Julia Stiles also return, with Joan Allen joining the cast. The first film’s director, Doug Liman, was replaced due to difficulties he had with the studio while making the first film and their unwillingness to work with him again. Paul Greengrass was hired as his replacement. The film was shot in reverse chronological order, but two weeks before its release Greengrass and Damon came up with a new ending that would require an additional $200,000 and pulling Damon from the set of Ocean’s Twelve for the re-shoots. The studio reluctantly agreed and the film tested ten points higher with the new ending.

2014

Disneytoon Studios

• July 18 – Fanny (USA, Les Films Alain Sarde)
• July 18 – I Origins (USA, limited, Verisimilitude)
• July 18 – Planes: Fire & Rescue (USA, Disneytoon Studios)
• July 18 – Sex Tape (USA, Columbia Pictures)
• July 18 – The Purge: Anarchy (USA, Platinum Dunes)
• July 18 – Tiger Orange (USA, Picture Stable)
• July 23 – The Way He Looks (France, Lacuna Filmes)

Fanny, an adaptation of the 1931 play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol, originally opened in France on July 10, 2013. The Way He Looks originally opened in Brazil on April 10, 2014, and was released in the US on November 7.

I Origins was director Mike Cahill’s second film after Another Earth, both starring Brit Marling. The film’s original title was simply I, but Cahill found it difficult to crack some aspects of the story. With Fox Searchlight owning the rights to any I sequels or prequels, Cahill decided to make the prequel I Origins independently and the studio allowed him to do so, eventually buying the rights to the film as well.

Planes: Fire & Rescue is a sequel to Planes, which was a spin-off from Pixar’s Cars movies. Production on the film began six months after the start of production on the first film. Nearly a year of research was done on the world of air-attack teams working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the US Forest Services before work was started on the story.

Sex Tape was nominated for three Razzie Awards including Worst Screen Combo (Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel) and Worst Screenplay, with Diaz winning Worst actress for this film and The Other Woman.

The Purge: Anarchy is the second film in the Purge franchise. Tyler Osterkamp and Nathan Clarkson reprise their roles as Freak Purgers from the first film in an uncredited capacity.

Tiger Orange star Frankie Valenti earned praise from critics for his performance, which many felt was unexpectedly strong for an actor previously known for his work in gay and bisexual pornography (under the name Johnny Hazzard).

The Way He Looks is based on director Daniel Ribeiro’s 2010 short film I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone.