Watch UK Trailer For Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies

We always celebrate the filmmakers, the actor involved in many of the greatest films ever made. In Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies it’s time to celebrate one of the greatest collaborators behind modern American cinema Allan Ladd Jr.

Today Central City Media have released the UK Trailer for the indie documentary about the producer and former 20th Century Fox chairman. The untold story of the movie mogul who green lit Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien, Police Academy. We could go on and on and one.

The film is directed by his daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones, and was originally premiered a way back in 2017. Her dad may not be a name many of us would recognize, however the films you will and many actors and filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Sigourney Weaver all share their tributes to the man they knew as ‘Laddie’.

We all know about many of the greats through other films, books, it’s great to see someone with importance to Hollywood get his 15 minutes of fame, looks a fascinating film…

Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies is the story of one daughter’s journey to see her father not just as “Dad”— the man whose success and endless hours devoted to work loomed large over her childhood—but the way his collaborators do—as a doyen of modern American cinema. Through interviews with George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Affleck, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Mel Brooks, Richard Donner, and more, Amanda Ladd-Jones endeavours to better understand her father, Alan Ladd, Jr. Known to all as Laddie, he is the understated studio chief and Oscar-winning producer behind such films as Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots Of Fire, Police Academy, Braveheart, The Omen, Thelma and Louise, Young Frankenstein and Gone Baby Gone, whose intelligence, kindness, and unflagging faith in the people he hired turned him into one of the most successful movie moguls in Hollywood history.

Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies will be released in the UK on Digital HD for rent or to download on 26th April.

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