Baby Brass Ring

Postby Tony » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:46 am

Here is a URL for info about a short called "The Big Brass Ring" and it really is short: about 6 minutes long. It has Malcolm McDowell as Kim Menaker, and it was directed (in 1997) by George Hickenlooper, who directed the feature BBR.

Has anyone seen this Baby Brass Ring?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283261/
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Postby RayKelly » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:53 pm

It was on a DVD collection called SHORTS a few years ago.
I believe it was made as a means of selling the film to potential investors. If my memory is correct, I read once that William Hurt did not want McDowell in the final film.
I like the short better than the full film. The scene is faithful to Welles script except Hickenlooper changed one of the Menaker dialogue bits. The reference to Harvard was replaced with Yale (Hickenlooper's alma mater).
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Postby Store Hadji » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:49 pm

Personally I would have preferred McDowell to Hurt. And the original screenplay.
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Postby Tony » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:50 pm

But McDowell played Menaker in the short... ???
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