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Volcano
There are 1,500 active volcanoes that we know about...and one that we don't.
( Action / Drama / Thriller )


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US Runtime: 104 min

Premiere Date:
Apr 25, 1997   [USA]
 
Director: Mick Jackson
 
Writer: Billy Ray   [screenplay]   [screenplay]
 
Producer: Martha R Cotton
 
Music by Alan Silvestri
 
Cinematography: Theo van de Sande
 
Edited by: Don Brochu
Michael Tronick
 
Production Companys: 20th Century Fox
Donner/Schuler-Donner Productions
Fox 2000 Pictures
Moritz Original
 


Special Effects:

Anatomorphex
Digiscope
Digital Magic Company
Light Matters Inc.
 
Pixel Envy
POP Film
Video Image
 

Miscellaneous Companies:

Carpenter Camera Cars
camera cars
Skywalker Sound
post-production sound services
 
Stirber Visual Effects Network Inc.
action miniatures
Video Image
computer and video displays
 
 

Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 

Tech Info:

Budget:
$90,000,000 (USA)
Camera:
Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Color Info:
Color (DeLuxe)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm
Film Length:
2925 m

Quotes:

  • Amy: Sometimes this can form a fissure and magma can find its way up to the surface.
    Roark: Magma?
    Rachel: Lava.
    Roark: There a history of this happening in the downtown area?
    Amy: Well, to---
    Rachel: Paricutin.
    Roark: What?
    Rachel: Mexico, 1943. Farmer notices smoke coming from the middle of his cornfield. A month later there's a volcano over a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.
     
  • [His phone rings]
    Roark: That'll be my little girl wanting a tattoo.
     
  • [Museum personnel are moving paintings from a threatened museum.]
    1st. Guard: Man, this Hieronymus Bosch stuff is heavy!
    2nd. Guard: That's because it deals with man's inclination towards sin, and defiance of God's will.
    1st. Guard: That's not what kind of heavy I was talking about.
     
  • [Roark ordered 200 Jersey barriers to redirect the lava.]
    Roark: Where's the rest of 'em?
    Truck driver: What "rest of 'em?" This is it!
    Lt. Fox: Hey, there only seems to be eighty here!
    Truck driver: Eighty-two; everything else is stuck on the 5 and the 10.
    Lt. Fox: We're trying to keep the city in one piece, pinhead. Eighty rails ain't gonna do it!
    Truck driver: So what are you blaming me for?
    Lt. Fox: Convenience, all right!?!?
     
  • Roark: We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people! Let me tell you what's south of us: no more department stores, no more museums, just homes! People! If we turn and run, they're going to be defenseless! You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me a better one, but don't tell me we're backing out!
     

Trivia:

  • The ash was made mostly of ground newspaper.
     
  • The lava was primarily made of methylcellulose, the thickening agent used in fast-food milkshakes.
     

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