I was one of the 16 assistant editors on The Fugitive. You brought up so many memories I forgot about. Thanks. It was a wild ride.❤

Demanding a love interest for Kimble while he is mourning his murdered wife must be in the Top3 of "Dumbest studio mandates of all time".

I can't believe this had a troubled production. This looks like a perfect movie, which had a solid plan

The Fugitive is such a rewatchable movie. Might not be the greatest movie ever, but it’s certainly one of the most entertaining.

There's folks on YouTube making videos called "I eat a £1000 hotdog!!!", in which all they do is eat a hotdog while saying "Wow, I'm eating an expensive hotdog!" and 243 million people will devote fifteen minutes of their life to watch. Those videos make thousands, even millions of dollars. This channel makes interesting, informative, actually entertaining documentaries for a fraction of the audience and royalties. There's no justice.

You watch the movie and think: 'Great script, very well written, beautiful natural dialog, very nice pacing, great tension arc, and a very satisfying ending. They really thought this one and put a lot of effort in it' ...and then you see this video 😂

This blows my mind because the movie is SO good. Props to the actors for coming up with fantastic dialogue on the fly.

Wow, one of the best youtube movie breakdowns around. So engaging. Great narration. Cool editing. I was hooked. I want more. SUBSCRIBED!

Worked on the post crew - arrived on The Lot late May, introduced to a few people and then handed a stack of about 14 vhs tapes. Checked into my to my hotel and watched an almost 4 hour cut of The Fugitive. It was awesome. Always wish Andy could put out a Director’s Cut showing that beast. A few fairly substantial subplots were cut that were only winked at in order to make the 2 hour runtime. Post was massive and lots of great people worked with only one weekend of break. Outstanding experience. The thrill of later watching it in a theater and when the audience was on it’s feet cheering as the train crashed... to have contributed to making something so powerful is amazing ....getting goosebumps writing this.

Since the fugitive was originally a TV show, with his count as a “sh*t show based on a hit show”… it’s catchy title lol

Such tight and effective writing. The video flew by in what felt like 3 minutes. Great work!

The improvised dialogue, especially among the Marshals, is really what makes the movie so memorable. It'd still be good with more paint-by-numbers writing, but those scenes with the Marshals are actually entertaining as a result rather than just filling time between chase/action scenes. 10/10 film. Will drop everything to finish it if I ever catch it on TV.

I always wonder why the dialog seemed so "pure" and authentic. That is you actually believe that each character was unique as if someone else wrote each of the character's lines. Now I see that each character just wrote their lines themselves and that's why the chemistry seems so solid.

Your videos are really fantastic, I’m so pleased when there’s a new one. They take longer than a lot of other channels I watch but good lord is it worth it!

I never would've guessed The Fugitive had such a troubled production. The final product was a really good action movie with excellent performances. Great video my dude! 👍

This film is a prime example of the importance of the recent writer's strike. Having the script writer on set during the entirety of filming was a saving grace that prevented this from being an absolute (if you'll excuse the pun) train wreck

In the Operating Room scene, Harrison Ford enters and is greeted by the surgeon, played by Jim McKinsey MD. Ford and McKinsey knew each other, as Ford had observed McKinsey and Dr. Bruce Gewertz, both vascular surgeons, to research the part. In the movie, McKinsey greets Ford by calling him "Harrison" instead of the character's name, "Richard," and they left it in the final cut. Listen carefully, and you can catch McKinsey's flubbed line.

True story: I saw this opening night in East Hampton NY. In the theater was Stephen Spielberg and family. He was walking out behind me at the end and said it was one of the best films he had ever seen, and wished he had directed it.

30 years ago, a friend and I would watch this movie twice in the same theater, over two consecutive days! One of the slowly dying genre of analogue action movies, where the script, tight direction, freezing Chicago grey weather and totally believable actors made it an instant hit, and still has a repeat watchable factor!

Wonderful work as always, but that closing speech? Couldn’t have said it better.