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Article: Even in Chino, Polanski kept directing
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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- October 13, 2009
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ROMAN POLANSKI'S 42 days in the Chino prison from December 1977
to January 1978 were recounted here the other day, prompting a note
from a prison employee at the time (whom I know) with a fascinating
insider story.
It seems that during Polanski's stay, the director of "Rosemary's
Baby" and "Chinatown" didn't get rusty. He was enlisted to help make
- why not? - a Department of Corrections training film.
The prison's training manager was assigned to produce a film
about prison gangs for department use.
"The training manager got the bright idea that Roman Polanski
would be a great help in the production and direction of this film,"
my source says.
Cameras rolled in the prison's East facility, ...