Francis Ford Coppola Pictures

30 Aug 2012

Throwback Thursday: "The Outsiders"

Francis Ford Coppola and Matt Dillon

Throwback Thursday is a weekly update that we do here on Caught on Set. Every Thursday we post pictures from the set of a movie you haven’t seen in a while, or possibly ever.

Today we take a look at a film that is not only a cinema classic, but also a literary one as well. The Outsiders is an amazing book and movie. I don't even like books, or reading for that matter, and I loved this story. If you've never seen this movie, or read the book you have to go and do both now. Right now. Go ahead, I'll wait...You loved it didn't you?

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I can explain how awesome this movie without any descriptive words. Here's all you need to know about it. Novel written by S.E. Hinton. Movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane. If those names don't sell you on how great this movie is, I don't know what to tell you. Actually I was going to have you read a review of the movie, but it turns out that Roger Ebert didn't think to highly of it. So do your own research or just take my word for it and watch the damn movie.

4 The Outsiders* pictures total in the gallery:

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9 Aug 2012

Throwback Thursday: "The Godfather"

Al Pacino and Marlon Brando

Throwback Thursday is a weekly update that we do here on Caught on Set. Every Thursday we post pictures from the set of a movie you haven’t seen in a while, or possibly ever.

Today we get to see pictures from the set of The Godfather. Francis Ford Coppola's Mob classic stars Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton among many others. Released in 1972 it was based on the novel and screenplay written by Mario Puzo.

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The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The AFI named the movie the #2 greatest film of all time. I completely agree with that ranking for The Godfather, although it should be #2 behind Casablanca not Citzen Kane, but that's a conversation for another time. This story, writing, acting, directing and editing are so great even the sequel won the Oscar for best picture in 1975.