News Summary

• ‘Sorcerer’ may be his best film, and it made almost nothing.
• The film grossed just under $6 million domestically, and barely broke nine million worldwide.
• Tensions between the actors, crew, and Friedkin in general were such that positions were dismissed and replaced upwards of half a dozen times throughout production.
• It was so overwhelming that Friedkin fled to Paris to both recover from malaria and evade the barrage of hatred coming down on him from every corner of the business.