Cutting Loose (documentary film)

Cutting Loose
Directed byJames Lipscomb
Produced byJerry Adler
CinematographyJames Lipcomb
Production
company
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$700,000

Cutting Loose is an American documentary film from James Lipscomb about five teenagers sailing from California to Singapore starting in 1971.[1]

Lipscomb had made Blue Water, White Death (1971) for Cinema Center Films which agreed to finance Cutting Loose for $700,000. The film was shot and edited over a year.[1]

The film was described by Los Angeles Times as "big, exciting, personal and in its way inspiring."[1] However it struggled to find a distributor and was never released theatrically.[1] Lipscomb adapted the story into a book which was published in 1974.[2][3]

Notes

  • Lipscomb, James (1974). Cutting Loose. Little Brown and Company.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Warga, Wayne (4 December 1977). "Cutting Loose: a film that never made it". Los Angeles Times. p. 46.
  2. ^ Review of book at Kirkus
  3. ^ Review of book at Time Magazine