Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Directed by George Kaczender
Produced by Robert Lantos
Stephen J. Roth
executive
Mario Kassar
Andrew Vajna
Written by Leila Basen
Ian McLellan Hunter
Based on novel by Romain Gary
Starring Richard Harris
George Peppard
Jennifer Dale
Jeanne Moreau
Music by Michel Legrand
Cinematography Miklós Lente
Production
company
Films RSL
Release dates
1981
Country Canada
Language English
Budget $6 million[1]

Your Ticket is No Longer Valid is a 1981 Canadian film starring Richard Harris. Harris later regarded the movie as one of the biggest artistic disappointments of his career.[1]

Plot

A businessman (Richard Harris) has a younger girlfriend who loves him. He struggles to be able to perform in bed. He gets aroused however at the thought of his girlfriend being made love to by a handsome thief. The businessman becomes obsessed with tracking down the thief.

Production

The film was based on a novel by Romain Gary which was optioned by producer Robert Lantos. His assistant Leila Basen wrote a draft of the script. She later recalled:

If the book was totally sexist, the first draft screenplay written by an American writer was even more misogynist... There never was a script contract. Robert continued to pay me my executive assistant salary of $350 a week. I sat in my usual desk in a room with the other four secretaries. But instead of writing lunch orders, I was writing what was to become the biggest-budget Canadian film of that time... In lieu of money, I got an IBM Selectric II, a free trip to Paris, where some of the film was shot, and tons of experience screenwriter-wise. I learned how to sit in silence in a read-through, even when your dialogue was being massacred. I learned what it means when a director says no one cares what you think because “you’re only the writer.” And I learned that when Richard Harris wanted a line change there was no point arguing with him because he was going to change it on set anyway.[2]

Harris' fee was $1 million. The film was shot in 1979 in Canada and Paris.[1] It was part financed by Carolco Pictures.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Callan, Michael Feeney (2004). Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movies : an Intimate Biography. Robson. p. 256. ISBN 1861057660.
  2. Basen, Leila. "My First Break". Writers Guild of Canada. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
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