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Event
Gone with the Pope (1975/2010) at midnight
Friday, May 10, 2013 at midnight:
Eric Caidin and Brian Quinn with Grindhouse Releasing
present The Grindhouse Film Festival:
Duke Mitchell Birthday Celebration!
GONE WITH THE POPE
1975/2010, USA, 83 minutes, 35mm, Grindhouse Releasing
Written and directed by Duke Mitchell
Starring Duke Mitchell, Lorenzo Dardado, Jim LoBianco,
Peter Milo
Fri: midnight (11:59 pm)
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"It's gloriously, hilariously offensive..."
- L.A. Weekly
"Ridiculously entertaining!"
- Film Radar
Synopsis courtesy of Grindhouse Releasing:
Duke Mitchell was an Italian Rudy Ray Moore, a popular nightclub performer, singer, actor, and self-proclaimed "Mr. Palm Springs" whose long-running Martin & Lewis-style comedy act with partner Sammy Petrillo was featured in BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA. Mitchell went on to use his talents and show business connections to produce two of the most entertaining films of the Seventies, which he wrote, directed, produced, scored and starred in.
GONE WITH THE POPE stars Duke Mitchell as Paul, a gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the pope and charge "a dollar from every Catholic in the world" as the ransom. Shot in 1975 as KISS THE RING, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981.
Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing rediscovered GONE WITH THE POPE in 1995 and vowed to save it from obscurity. Academy Award-winning film editor Murawski (THE HURT LOCKER, SPIDER-MAN 1,2 & 3) spent 15 years completing GONE WITH THE POPE from the surviving film elements.
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Screening format: 35mm
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7165 W. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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