Remake of ‘Bambi’ Shuts Down--Stars End Up as Dinner
A Yalta film studio’s production of “Bambi” has been thrown off schedule after three of the four deer used in the filming ended up on someone’s dinner table, a Soviet newspaper reported today.
After the deer vanished from the movie set in the Crimea, where Felix Salten’s children’s book is being filmed, police found they had been stolen by three “notorious freeloaders” who slaughtered them for a birthday feast, the daily Selyskaya Shisny reported.
The three deer slayers were sentenced to four to six years in prison, and the film studio was awarded about $6,000 in damages for the loss of its stars, the newspaper said.
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