I like a big boss. On the Dark Side was a very dirty, sexy song to me. It wasn't a script I liked, but I remember my agent at the time saying, "Look, you only have to work two weeks, and they're going to pay you a lot of money. [4] He wrote the screenplay with Arlene Davidson and decided to use a Citizen Kane-style story structure. on the Internet. I wind up finding these guys and go up to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where theyre were about a day away from getting day jobs. Leaning over Frank, Eddie said, "What I want is songs that echo. Come on. Alright? In addition, the music producer/supervisor for the film, Kenny Vance, appears on screen as Lew Eisen, the 1964 record company executive who refuses to accept the band's second album. Eddie's startling good looks (in the John Travolta-Matt Dillon street-kid style) and his energetic sound (the songs are by John Cafferty, who also does Eddie's singing) are accompanied by enough artistic self- importance to make the character less sympathetic than he might be. He was understandably upset and a couple of days later he went out to dinner and met a secretary who had worked on his first film. Eddie's music sounds good, but it also sounds a lot like Bruce Springsteen's, and it would not have been the rage in 1963. Maggie is seen watching old tape of Eddie and the band sing "On the Dark Side", at Frank's college. The role of Eddie almost went to someone else. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Eddie read enough of Rimbaud to make an album called ''Season in Hell,'' and his friends wonder if he didn't, like the poet, willfully vanish. All of a sudden, groans Vance, Eddie lives, and hes Robert Goulet., As Berenger remembers it, a scene filmed in a roadhouse features the Cruisers watching TV as the Fab Four lands in the United States. on April 1, 2022. "The original novel," he says, "had this great whodunit element that really propels the plot. Berenger, choking back tears off-set after his real-life marriage fell apart, served as the tightly wound Frank Ridgeway, the wordman. He would soon star in Platoon and Major League. Pantoliano played crooked manager Doc Robbins. Kluge's novel with his own money and at great financial risk. A lot of the actual high school students were used as extras in the movie and the high school was used for several shots as well. A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader Eddie Wilson may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released albu A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader Eddie Wilson may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.