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| Vic Morrow's death on the set of the Twilight Zone movie |
| Dick Peabody, Mountain Democrat, May 23, 1991. "... During the interview, Vic made what turned out to be a poignant point. He said ['Combat!'] had the best special effects team in the business, headed by A.D. Flowers, the first special effects man to win an Academy Award (Tora! Tora! Tora! ). Thanks to A.D. and his team, all of the actors felt secure, despite potentially dangerous explosions going on around us. Vic praised A.D. Flowers and our directors for never putting us in jeopardy during the five years of production. Ten years later, Vic was dead..." |
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| Bullets, Blood and Bad Guys |
| markshostromfx.com. "The first effective use of bullet hits to an actor’s skin was done by Dick Smith in THE GODFATHER for the restaurant scene in which Al Pacino shoots Sterling Hayden in the forehead and neck. Dick also made prosthetics for Hayden’s hand and palm which are not in the final edit of the film. The forehead shooting of Al Lettieri in the same scene was handled by special effects expert A.D. Flowers. ..." |
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| Rick Jason: Making Combat! |
| "... A.D. Flowers was our head of special effects. He’d been at MGM for twenty-five years and Frankie Trott and Frank van Luden were his hand-picked assistants on Combat!. Both were also MGM veterans, and boy, they knew their business! In five years of making the show, not one person was ever injured by an effect. That has to stand as something of a record. And the tragic thing is that Vic was killed, years later, in a special effects foul-up that never should have happened, at a time when greater safeties were available than ever before. Several years after Combat! finished, A.D. went on to win Oscars for special effects in two feature films. I spoke with him on the phone a short while ago. He told me it was the opportunity he had to show his stuff on Combat! that had brought him to the attention of producer Irwin Allen. And there were no accidents on those shows, either. " |
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| Words from Woody |
| Jim Schembri, The Age, March 3, 2006. Woody Allen on Sleeper: "We had a wonderful special effects man called A.D. Flowers who had done all the special effects for The Godfather. I needed some kind of slimy substance that moved around and would wend its way across the table top. He came up with some kind of strange ichor that did that - and to this day I have no idea if it was harmful or dangerous or gave me lung cancer for the future! I just don't know!" |
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