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Brewster McCloud

Year:

1971

Duration:

105 min

Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy

IMDB rate:

Director:

Robert Altman

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1971-08-18

Filming Locations: Astrodome - 8400 Kirby Drive, Houston, Texas, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Sally Kellerman

Bud Cort

Brewster McCloud

Michael Murphy

Det. Lt. Frank Shaft

William Windom

Weeks

Shelley Duvall

Suzanne Davis

Rene Auberjonois

The Lecturer

Stacy Keach

Abraham Wright

John Schuck

Officer Johnson

Margaret Hamilton

Daphne Heap

Jennifer Salt

Hope

Corey Fischer

Officer Hines

G. Wood

Det. Capt. Crandall

Bert Remsen

Officer Douglas Breen

Angelin Johnson

Mrs. Breen

Dean Goss

Officer Ledbetter

William Baldwin

Bernard

William Henry Bennet

Band Conductor

Gary Chason

Camera Store Clark (as Gary Wayne Chason)

Ellis Gilbert

Butler

Verdie Henshaw

Feathered Nest Sanitarium Manager

Robert Warner

Asst. Manager, Camera Store

Keith V. Erickson

Professor Aggnout

Thomas Danko

Color Lab Man

W.E. Terry Jr.

Police Chaplain

Ronnie Cammack

Wendel

Dixie Taylor

Manager, Tanninger's Nursing Home (as Dixie M. Taylor)

Pearl Coffey Chason

Nursing Home Attendant

Amelia Parker

Nursing Home Manager

David Welch

Green jr.

Richard Burch

Singing D.J. on Radio (voice) (uncredited)

Molly Vernon

Extra (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The railroad viaduct where part of the chase scene took place is a former Houston Belt and Terminal rail line located west of Ardmore Street in the Riverside subdivision; this particular location was decommissioned (and demolished) in the early 1980s when State Highway 288 was under construction.

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Brian McKay did a great deal of rewriting on the film without credit, and there was, as usual, a great deal of last-minute improvisation by director Robert Altman and the actors.

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Suzanne's apartment features a poster for MASH (1970), also directed by Robert Altman.

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Goofs

Shaft's Camaro Z28 changes from a Z28/Rally Sport (a.k.a. Z28/RS) to a base Z28 during the chase. A base 1970 Camaro Z28 has the parking lights below the headlights; the Z28/Rally Sport has the parking lights next to the headlights, as well as an open-aired grille.

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The license plate "BRD SHT" would have been disallowed; Texas had a long list (in about five languages) of things you could not have on custom plates.

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In the scene where Brewster is supposed to have achieved independent flight while wearing birdlike apparatus, in a few places you can clearly see suspension cables attached to his bird costume.

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Quotes

Officer Douglas Breen: [At the zoo: throwing Brewster, with his expensive camera, into some bushes] Get over in there!

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The Lecturer: I forgot the opening line.

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Det. Capt. Crandall: I know birdshit when I see it! Now I suggest we drop this birdshit shit and settle down to some old-fashioned policework!

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