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City Slickers is a 1991 American Western comedy film directed by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby and Jack Palance, with supporting roles by Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater and Noble Willingham, and Jake Gyllenhaal making his acting debut.
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
- Jack Palance Was Billy Crystal’s Original Choice to Play Curly.
- Crystal Got The Idea For The Movie Watching A Show About Fantasy Vacations.
- Ganz and Mandel Did All of Their Research Via Telephone.
- Rick Moranis Was Set to Play Phil.
- Charles Bronson Was Angry Over Being Asked to Play Curly.
- Palance Got Into An Argument with The Director on The First Day of Shooting.
- Palance Read Poetry During The Actors' downtime.
- Daniel Stern Bought His Own Cattle Ranch.
- The Film Marked Jake Gyllenhaal’s Film Debut.
- Bruno Kirby Was Allergic to Horses.
When Crystal first came up with the seed of the idea for City Slickers, he immediately thought of Jack Palance as the crusty bad guy with the heart of gold. He thought of him because the first movie he had ever seen was the 1953 movie Shane, where Palance played the bad guy. The actor left a lasting impression on Crystal, who was seven years old at...
Crystal was at home watching TVwhen he stumbled upon a show about a group of middle-aged friends raving about their trip to a scuba diving resort, and how it changed them. Shortly thereafter he plotted out the movie and handed off screenwriting duties to Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.
While producers wanted the Oscar-nominated screenwriters—who have written or co-written nearly 20 produced feature screenplays together, including Splash, Parenthood, and A League of Their Own—to go out to Montana to look into cattle drives, they wrote the first draft of the script first, then called the person who ran the cattle drive there to ask...
Daniel Stern was a last-minute replacement for Moranis, who had to drop out after his wife was diagnosed with liver cancer. (She passed away the following year.)
Jack Palance initially turned down the role of Curly, as he was committed to another project. So Crystal offered the part to Charles Bronson, who was not pleased. He cursed Crystal outbecause "I'm dead on page 64!" Palance, of course, ended up taking the role (and the rest is history).
The veteran actor yelled at Ron Underwood over his first direction, but everything went smoothly after that. When Crystal asked what had happened, Palance explained that he always gets nervous on his first day of shooting. Sure enough, Tim Burton told a similar story about Palance snapping at him on his first day of shooting on Batmanover how he wa...
It was his own work. Daniel Stern remembers listening to him for half an hour.Palance also inspired Stern to begin sculpting again.
Stern enjoyed the City Slickers experience so much that he bought a 500-acre cattle ranch. "I loved the life so much that I kind of bought into it," Stern told The A.V. Club. "I have 70 herd of cattle myself now, and horses and tractors and ATVs. I’ve got my own small cattle operation. That’s how much I was inspired by that movie. I bought into the...
Jake Gyllenhaal was just 10 years old when he was cast as Crystal’s son, Danny Robbins. Crystal remembered Gyllenhaal singing showtunes from South Pacificon the set.
Whenever Kirby was facing a day of shooting with a horse, he took an injection of allergy medication.
- Roger Cormier
City Slickers - Full Cast & Crew. Billy Crystal and Jack Palance make for an odd couple in this comedy about New Yorkers who sign up for a cattle drive at a western ranch.
- Ron Underwood
Oct 30, 2014 · Remember Billy Crystal’s son in City Slickers that was so ashamed of his father’s ad sales job that he told his class he was a submarine commander? That was a 10-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal.
City Slickers: Directed by Ron Underwood. With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig. On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.
