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This 27-minute documentary provides a pretty entertaining and illuminating portrait on the making of the oddball Charles Bronson vehicle "Cabo Blanco." Director J. Lee Thompson reveals that he likes to delay the first shot of a film for as long as possible and mentions a subplot concerning a giant squid that was ultimately dropped from the picture. Dominique Sanda admits that American movies tend to be more superficial than European ones. Fernando Rey discusses the necessity for being well prepared and confesses that he prefers working in a studio lot over working on location. Jason Robards points out that that stage acting is far more demanding and exhausting than film acting. Moreover, we also learn that the main character Giff Hoyt's bar was a set that had to be built for the movie, several key action scenes are staged, rehearsed, and filmed, and Bronson even flubs a line during the shooting of a pivotal confrontation scene with Robards. Worth a watch for fans of the film.