1:09:04
Francis offered to direct the film.
How could I refuse?
1:09:09
Francis directing it, Mario writing it,
me producing it.
1:09:13
What a shot of touching magic.
1:09:15
Hey, we didn't do too bad on
The Godfather, did we?
1:09:20
Was I wrong!
1:09:22
The production was a disaster.
Over-budget, over-schedule. And me?
1:09:28
I was barred from the set
by the prince himself.
1:09:30
It was the hottest movie drama
in Los Angeles today...
1:09:33
... and it took place
in a downtown federal courtroom.
1:09:36
The legal battle was over who would control
production of the film The Cotton Club.
1:09:41
The Cotton Club has been a subject
of intense interest and backstairs gossip.
1:09:47
The Cotton Club, a production
of Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola...
1:09:52
... is the subject of a vicious...
1:09:54
You say Evans would second-guess you
if he was back in command?
1:09:57
Evans, that's his middle name.
That's what he does, all these years.
1:10:01
- Will the picture be a success?
- Francis' work on it is brilliant.
1:10:05
I hope we'll be working together.
We've fought before, only it wasn't in court.
1:10:10
I hope we have the same luck
as we had on The Godfather.
1:10:13
Despite an expected
lengthy court battle...
1:10:15
.... the film is expected
to open in theaters in December.
1:10:19
The Cotton Club opened later that month.
1:10:22
While some of the critics praised the film,
others just didn't get it.
1:10:26
Neither did the audiences.
The picture quickly faded away...
1:10:33
...thus ending the first half of the '80s.
The good half.
1:10:38
I had no idea what lay ahead.
1:10:45
Two days ago, a badly decomposed body was
found in this dry riverbed in Copco Canyon...
1:10:50
... near Gorman,
in northern Los Angeles County.
1:10:52
An autopsy indicated the victim died
of a single gunshot wound.
1:10:56
In a remote area north of Los Angeles,
a beekeeper made a grisly discovery.