Lady Ice (1973)

Interesting facts

Lady Ice is a 1973 American crime film directed by Tom Gries, and starring Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill and Robert Duvall. The story concerns an insurance investigator who becomes involved with a wealthy young woman he suspects of fencing stolen jewelry.

Production

The movie was made by a company called Tomorrow Entertainment, a subsidiary of General Electric. Tomorrow specialised in television production but had moved into features with Lady Caroline Lamb.

The film was based on an original script by Alan Trustman called The Master. Richard Colla was the first director announced.

Terrence Malick wrote a version of the script. His agent, Mike Medavoy, sold for $50,000 to help finance his first film, Badlands. Malick chose to go uncredited on Lady Ice.

George Lucas was offered the chance to direct but he turned it down in favor of focusing on finding a studio for American Graffiti.

Filming started in Miami with Donald Sutherland and Susan George in the leads. Filming was chaotic. The first director was fired. A second director was brought on - original choice of Harrison Starr, the producer - but he insisted on stopping the production and rewriting the script which Tomorrow refused to do so so he quit. $500,000 was spent before the film was shut down.

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