Menahem Golan

Everyone involved in this movie had a silly name, I gotta say.

There's Globar and Golan and...

Yoram Globus? Yeah.

David Gerfinkel?

Menahem Golan...

Yeah, music by Giorgio Moroder.

I got nothing bad to say about Giorgio Moroder.

Absolutely.

Jewish actor, by the way.

which is a classic of the Golan Globus 80s anti-terrorism movies.

And then also, what's that really bad Arnold spy comedy from the 90s?

Oh,

We've got these twins under contract and we're going to use them.

And that's why Menachem Golan is one of my favorites now.

And he didn't even really do that.

That's just my own make-believe world, and I'm still happy for him.

I want to welcome everybody to the Elders of Zionism podcast here with Guy Goldstein, Golan Ramraz, and this is Protocol 35.

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And if he wasn't my, a friend and it, I would like get offended by that question.

Cause we get asked it so much because yes, you want to turn it back on people and go, why the F in this, why the, you know, it's like, why are we getting grilled on this one question? But again, it's where we are in our times right now,

Golan.

Look, the thing is there is a difference between the Jews who voted Democrat when, let's say, Clinton was in office.

If you were a Republican or you were conservative, you could say, I disagree with their perspective.

This was a, a sort of a surprise film, and, uh, we had very little money to make it with.

We, um, made a deal with Menahem Golan to make the film, start the film the day before we were to leave for Cannes and the film festival to pre-sell territories.

We disagreed on reimbursing me for the story we had chosen, and on principle he said, "I can't reimburse you." And I said, "Well, then, uh, we can't make this film." And he said, "Well, do you have any other title?" And I'd always liked the title 10 to Midnight, and he said he loved it.

"We'll go there, and we'll sell 10 to Midnight."

And that, I think, that's one of the strong points of this movie.

That's why it works so well, I think.

And, and because this movie made money for the financier, for Menahem Golan, Golan-Globus, it enabled us to keep making more.

Um-

The later Bronson Cannon movie, Murphy's Law, also originally began with a non-Bronson scene, but it was re-edited to open with a scene with the star.

The Cannon Group was a film company that was run by the Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

In nineteen eighty-two, Cannon had their first big hit with the Bronson movie Death Wish Two.

Naturally, Golan and Globus wanted to make another Bronson movie, and they started raising money for it immediately.

And Grand National is off.

But Like Menachem Golan, Albertson has big ideas and he has big grandiose ideas for the company.

And it's just not the point.

that James Cagney and Jack Warner are having an impact.

You're of my vintage.

Menachem Golan.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

And that can either work for you or it can work against you depending on the actor, the screenplay, or even the genre sometimes.

So, well, let's talk about the people who made the film, starting with the people behind the camera and Menachem Golan as director and producer.

We have talked to him ad nauseum because Canon film groups, especially for our podcast, when you're talking about movie bombs, you can't talk about movie bombs.

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According to the Arm Wrestling Archive's History of the Sport...

After earlier efforts to get the project financed stalled, Conway eventually sold the screenplay to Canon.

Menachem Golan liked the concept but wanted Sylvester Stallone rather than Conway in the starring role.

The film credits Gary Conway and David C. Engelbach with story while Sterling Siliphant and Sylvester Stallone received the screenplay credit.