The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
2010 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 583 VOTES · DIR. Thom Zimny
Overview
The ninety-minute film combines never-before-seen footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978—including home rehearsals and studio sessions — with new interviews with Springsteen, E Street Band members, manager Jon Landau, former-manager Mike Appel, and others closely involved in the making of the record.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,002 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 All right. Let me think here.
00:06:31 that any of us had any connection to ever.
00:09:14 I enjoyed it plenty along the way
00:11:39 basically all the essentials about
00:15:51 My sense of his reaction to this roadblock in his career
00:19:20 because without them, at that time, I felt I had no life.
00:22:02 One, two, three
00:25:32 the way to get it just the way he wanted
00:29:03 that sounded, you know, like live, like we hear in our heads
00:32:05 so when you sat down it wasn't just by rote
00:35:25 If something wasn't complete
00:40:52 a lot of the things that ended up on Tracks.
00:43:43 I thought, "Well, I'll listen to that darn song."
00:46:37 you had the artist who's also a producer
00:49:30 and he finds some very constructive and helpful way
00:52:40 It builds to that one big moment...
00:56:38 He nodded his head and...
00:59:46 How do you deal with it?
01:03:06 "locating anything in between dull and shrill."
01:05:42 It's not a grand, smooth open space.
01:08:58 He would have four or five sequences
01:12:01 It was just like...
01:16:35 That's what ups the ante and makes some of these records...
01:20:36 that's what most of those songs were about.
Cast & Characters
Mike Appel
Self - Manager 1972-1977
Roy Bittan
Self - E Street Band
Clarence Clemons
Self - E Street Band
E Street Band
Themselves
Danny Federici
Self - E Street Band
Jimmy Iovine
Self - Recording Engineer
Jon Landau
Self - Manager-Producer
Nils Lofgren
Self - E Street Band
Thom Panunzio
Self - Recording Engineer
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,002
Dialogue density11.8 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:20:36
Production Record
DirectorThom Zimny
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes583