Russian Roulette Helicopter Scene

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Title

Russian Roulette Helicopter Scene

Contributor(s)

Borkent, Peter (Photographer)

Project Title

Hollywood North

Type of Resource

still image

Genre

photographs

Date Created

1974-1975

Description

1974-1975 film 'Russian Roulette' - With scenes filmed On the very top of the Vancouver Hotel. The highlight of this part of the film is a gunfight taking place on the roof of the hotel between George Segal (Shaver) and the bad guy Bo Brundin (Vostik) a rouge Soviet, set on killing Kosygin, the Premiere of Soviet Union, on a visit to Vancouver (fictional of course). In front of the Courthouse building, a helicopter is forced to land with the other villains, one is drugged and has a bomb wrapped around him. But our hero George saves the day, by shooting him before the bomb goes off. The whole sequence of these scenes took over 2 weeks to be filmed and with the gunfight, fall, and helicopter, it added only approximately 5 minutes to the film.

Form

Photograph

Digital Origin

Reformatted Digital

Subject(s)

Motion picture industry
Vancouver Courthouse
Cinematography - Special effects
Explosives
Helicopters

Location(s)

British Columbia - Vancouver - 750 Hornby Street
British Columbia - Vancouver - Downtown

Time Period

1970s

Use and Reproduction

Copyright not evaluated. For information about how you can use this item, see https://vpl.arcabc.ca/thisvancouver/use-reproduction

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