Comin' at Ya! (1981) on Netflix
H.H. Hart, a bank robber, marries Abilene, and outlaw brothers ride into the ceremony, kill nearly everyone there and carry her off. Wounded, he sets out after them.
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Plot summary
Outlaw brothers break up the wedding of the bank robber H.H. Hart and Abilene, shooting almost everyone there and carrying the bride away. Hart, who has only a flesh wound, saddles a horse and follows with a Scottish preacher, hoping to reach her before the brothers sell her and other captured women at an auction to brothel owners in Mexico. The film was made for 3-D, its makers having spent four years testing the technology; shooting began in Spain in September 1980, ran three months, and postproduction was in Rome. Its producers came from an office supply business, chose a Western rather than a horror film, and raised the money themselves.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Comin' at Ya! (1981)
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- Demand for 3-D glasses was so strong that the order for them was increased to five million pairs, and the Hudson Printing Company in Manhattan put its employees on overtime to turn out the disposable polarized glasses.
- Before Comin' at Ya!, Gene Quintano and his business partner Lupo were Xerox salesmen who ran their own office supply firm, and they were publishing partners with Tony Anthony, a filmmaker who had made a number of spaghetti westerns.
- Gene Quintano and his partners spent four years developing and testing the 3-D technology, chose a Western over a horror film because they thought the horror market was over-saturated, and after landing a distribution deal had to raise the money themselves, which took three months.
- Comin' at Ya was shot in the over-and-under single-strip 35 mm 3-D format, with left-eye and right-eye Techniscope frames stacked in one 'Scope frame for a 2.39:1 ratio. Its Optimax III lenses were notorious for vertical parallax error because the twin lenses' optical axes were not level; Bill Bukowski of Optimax III was 3D technical advisor.
- Filmways president Robert Meyers, who had once been in business with the film's sales representative, offered to buy it for US release if it had no other offers. It sold well internationally but no other offers came, so he honored his promise.
- The film's success kicked off a spate of 3-D movies, among them Jaws 3-D, Amityville 3-D, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Abra Cadabra, Parasite and Friday the 13th Part III.
