When the anthology film “Twilight Zone: The Movie” opened on June 24, 1983, reviews were mixed; The New York Times’s Vincent Canby deemed it “a flabby, mini-minded behemoth,” and that was a fairly representative view.
Chased by a military helicopter, Morrow’s character was to carry two Vietnamese children across a river to safety as a village exploded behind them.
But the sequence was poorly planned and barely rehearsed, and the explosions damaged the rotor blades of the chopper, causing the pilot to lose control.
As investigators examined the crash, they discovered that the children’s mere presence on the set had been illegal.
A production secretary recalled Landis joking of the scheme, “We’re all going to jail!”
Persons:
York Times’s Vincent Canby, John Landis, Vic Morrow, —, dismembering Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, Renee Shin, Yi Chen, Renee Shinn Chen, Landis, George Folsey Jr
Organizations:
Klan
Locations:
York, Nazi Germany, Vietnam