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The Producers, 1967.


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Roger Ebert recounted how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in New York City after the film premiered. A woman got onto the elevator, recognized him and said, "I have to tell you, Mr. Brooks, that your movie is vulgar." Brooks replied, "Lady", he said, "it rose below vulgarity."

Mel Brooks has said that one of his "lifelong jobs" is "to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler." The film was a way to enact vengeance through comedy. "The only real way I could get even with Hitler and company was to bring them down with laughter", Brooks said.

Mel Brooks cannot read music. "Springtime for Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" (as were all the songs Brooks writes for his films) were hummed into a tape recorder and transcribed by an expert. When Brooks adapted the movie into a stage musical, he wrote the entire score by himself using the same method.

Mel Brooks was so surprised to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, he collected the award without a speech prepared.

Innerspace, 1987. This is the only film directed by Joe Dante to win an Academy Award. It won the Best Visual Effects award.


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John Hora, who had previously worked as Joe Dante's cinematographer on all of his movies, was cast as Ozzie after Steven Spielberg suggested him to play the absent minded professor. Director Dante and producer Michael Finnell were very skeptical about that idea and Spielberg insisted that they give him a screen test to just to see and was cast after impressing Dante and Finnell.

Murder Most Foul, 1964. Directed by George Pollock.


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Like Murder at the Gallop (1963), this movie was adapted from an Hercule Poirot novel, the 1952 book "Mrs. McGinty's Dead"

Miss Jane Marple's audition piece for the Cosgood Players is her dramatic rendering of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", a 1907 poem by Robert W. Service. Dame Margaret Rutherford was especially fond of the piece and reportedly once intended to give a reading of it at a women's prison to cheer up the inmates. (I'm sure they'd have been thrilled :rolleyes:)

Some nonsense now with Nuns On The Run, 1990.



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The picture was actor-comedian Eric Idle second major movie which made light of religious subject matter, the first having been Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), which had debuted just over a decade earlier. Ironically, the first name of Idle's character in Nuns on the Run (1990) was Brian. This film generated far less controversy than the earlier one, and, in fact, some of the promotional video contains interviews with actual nuns who saw and liked the movie. Moreover, the film was one of two religious parodies as well featuring co-star Robbie Coltrane, who would later star in the following year's The Pope Must Die (1991).

'The Pope Must Die' was retitled 'The Pope Must Diet' for North America. Which makes no sense in relation to the plot.

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'The Pope Must Die' was retitled 'The Pope Must Diet' for North America. Which makes no sense in relation to the plot.

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ad agencies and all the rest etc were all shit scared to offend catholics. bizzare as if it had been about a protestant leader they wouldnt have batted an eyelid:D

He Walked By Night, 1948. Loosely based on the real-life 1946 crime spree of Erwin "Machine Gun" Walker (1917-2008). Unlike the character in the film, Walker was captured, tried, and sentenced to death for first-degree murder. On 4/14/1949, two days before his scheduled execution, Walker attempted suicide, and the execution was postponed. A psychiatric board pronounced him insane, and he was sent to the Mendocino State Hospital for the next 12 years. Declared sane again in 1961, his sentence was commuted by the governor to life without parole. From 1970-74,he filed several motions to appeal his case, twice making it to the California Supreme Court. The second time, the court vacated the "without parole" part of his sentence. Walker applied for, and was granted, parole in 1974. He then legally changed his name and worked as a chemist. He died in 2008.



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Technical advisor for the film was Sgt. Marty Wynn of the Los Angeles Police Dept. During the course of shooting, he fell into conversation with Jack Webb, then the star of radio's "Jeff Regan, Private Investigator", who had a small part in the film. Wynn suggested that Webb do a radio series based on actual police files. Thus was born the idea for "Dragnet," which debuted on NBC radio about four months after this film was released.

The three fired cases were head-stamped 380 AP RMC which means .380 Automatic Pistol Remington Metallic Cartridge. At that time, that cartridge was fired in a Colt 1903 semi-automatic pocket pistol and several European semi-autos. It is not fired in a revolver and was not a common cartridge.

In Time, 2011. In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in "time capsules". Several major areas called Time Zones exist; Dayton is the poorest, a manufacturing "ghetto" where people rarely have over 24 hours on their clocks, whereas in New Greenwich, people have enough time to be essentially immortal. (so whats new?)


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Many of the character names are those of famous, and not so famous, watchmakers. The name Weis is pronounced the same as the watchmaker Albert Wajs.

Strange premise. Why would it be necessary?

keeps the poor working hard for the rich and keeps ovrall population down i guess. great way to control a people' tho. also the rich live forever and all stay youngish and healthy