watching rest of this... top stuff tbh. amazing photographyQuote:
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watching rest of this... top stuff tbh. amazing photographyQuote:
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The Woman in the Window, 1944. Stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Wanley's (Robinson)car is a 1937 Cadillac Series 65 Touring sedan. MSRP new was $2,190 ($31,900 in 2020). Only 7,003 of this model were made.
For the transition at the end out of the dream, Edward G. Robinson wore a tear-away suit over the original suit he wore in the beginning of the film, and while the camera was focused on his face that suit was removed and all of the set around him was changed in one unbroken shot.
A bit of Python now, and The Holy Grail from 1975.
"your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries"
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During one of the first screenings of this movie in front of a live audience, co-writer and co-director Terry Jones noticed that when music was played during the jokes, there was a marked reduction of laughter from the audience. He went back and edited the music out whenever a punchline was delivered. At subsequent screenings, he noticed a dramatic increase in the audiences' positive reactions to the jokes. From that point on, whenever he directed, he remembered to stop the music for the funny parts
I watched that again the other day. Didn't 'click' with me this time and I lost interest unfortunately.Quote:
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Sadly it never 'clicked' with me. :( Unlike 'Life of Brian'. :)Quote:
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tis a classic but to a particular taste i guess. life of brian was a different animal really. both great films tho
The Old Dark House, 1932.. golden oldie pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale.
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In a 1988 interview, Gloria Stuart recalled that Boris Karloff ran back and forth across the stage to achieve the desired effect of being out of breath. She asked him, "Can't you just FAKE it?" and he said that wasn't the way he worked.
The Old Dark House (1932) was withdrawn from circulation when the remake The Old Dark House (1963) by William Castle Productions was released. This film was considered to be lost until director Curtis Harrington discovered a printable negative.
A movie poster for The Old Dark House sold at Christie's in New York in December 1991 for $48,400, making it at the time the most valuable poster ever sold.
Always, 1989. directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman.
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This was Audrey Hepburn's final film before her death on January 20, 1993 at the age of 63. She accepted the role of Hap because she wanted to work with Steven Spielberg.
The incident where Dorinda mistakes Ted's John Wayne imitation for Henry Fonda actually occurred between Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson during filming. Steven Spielberg found the incident so comical that he reproduced it in the film.
During production, Steven Spielberg confided that while making Jaws (1975), he and Richard Dreyfuss had traded quips from A Guy Named Joe (1943), which they both wanted to remake. As an "inside joke," a clip from the film is included in a scene in Poltergeist (1982), which Spielberg had produced. Dreyfuss had seen the 1943 melodrama "at least 35 times." For Spielberg, who recalled seeing it as a child late at night, "it was one of the films that inspired him to become a movie director," creating an emotional connection to the times that his father, a wartime air force veteran had lived through. The two friends quoted individual shots from the film to each other and when the opportunity arose, years later, were resolved to recreate the wartime fantasy.
I have A Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy)in my collection; must revisit it soon.
The Rock, 1996. directed by Michael Bay.
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There were tensions during shooting between director Michael Bay and Walt Disney Studios executives who were supervising the production. On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection DVD, Bay recalls a time when he was preparing to leave the set for a meeting with the executives and was approached by Sir Sean Connery in golfing attire. Connery, who also produced this movie, asked Bay where he was going, and when Bay explained that he had a meeting with the executives, Connery asked if he could accompany him. Bay complied, and when Bay arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear behind him. According to Bay, Connery then stood up for him, and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left alone.
Some of the Navy SEALs in this movie were played by real Navy SEALs. Michael Biehn, who has played Navy SEALs or some variation thereof on multiple occasions, apparently grew unsure of himself while acting for the first time here against real SEALs He told Michael Bay he was freezing up pretending to be the leader in front of them, as well as in Sir Sean Connery's presence.
The Woman in Green, 1945... sherlock holmes mystery...
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The Breen Office ordered two cuts from the original script. First, the victims were supposed to be young girls. That was ordered to be changed to young women although Dr. Simnell's bizarre doll fetish may be a leftover from the initial concept. In addition, during the scene in the Mesmer Club, Watson was supposed to take off his pants, not just roll up his pant leg.
Dark Passage, 1947. Directed by Delmer Daves.
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The third of four films made by husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The other three are To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and Key Largo (1948).
The photo of Vincent before surgery is shown in the newspaper and elsewhere. It represents the height of photomanipulation of the day, with carefully masked double-exposures and careful airbrushing. The lower half of the face is that of character actor [linkKenneth MacDonald. The upper half, from just below the bridge of the nose, is that of Bogart himself.
we're no angels, 1955.. Bogey again with Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.
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Based on the play "My Three Angels" by Sam and Bella Spewack, which opened on Broadway March 11, 1953 at the Morosco Theatre, where it ran for 344 performances. The roles played by Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov were originated on stage, respectively, by Walter Slezak, Darren McGavin and Jerome Cowan. The roles portrayed by Leo G. Carroll and Joan Bennett were played by Henry Daniell and Joan Chandler.
A Guy Named Joe, 1943. Directed by Victor Fleming and stars Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson.
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Reportedly Steven Spielberg's favorite movie, he remade it in 1989 as Always (1989). The remake included the three main characters (Pete Sandich, Durinda Durston and Al Yackey), plus the characters of "Ted" and "Nails."
Although she appears to be wearing an RAF uniform and pilot wings, Dorinda (Irene Dunne) is actually wearing the uniform of a third officer in the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), as can be seen by her wings and shoulder rank flash. The ATA was a British government organization whose pilots were not qualified for combat, either through disability or because they were women. They were charged with ferrying airplanes around for the British military, freeing up line pilots for combat duty. Their uniforms were modeled on the RAF, but they were not military. It should be noted that in 1943, at the time this film was made, the women were paid the exact same salary as their male counterparts. Meanwhile, women transport pilots in the U.S. were receiving only 2/3 of a man's pay.
The P-38 Lightning, featured in this film, was one of the best planes of WW2 in the Pacific since it was faster than most Japanese planes, highly maneuverable and could accept heavy damage and still fly. It featured forward firing guns, including 20mm cannon, rather than the angled wing guns on most planes. It had two bad features. First, it was not suited to cold weather at high altitudes in Europe, which kept it out of air-to-air fighting there and limited its participation to low-level strikes. Second, when bailing out a pilot had to roll the plane and fall out rather than crawling out and jumping since the horizontal stabilizer between the two tails frequently would hit the pilot as he jumped.
Two-Way Stretch, 1960. directed by Robert Day and stars Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries and Bernard Cribbins.
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Liz Fraser (Ethel) was still learning to drive at the time the film was made. In the scene where Ethel follows the army convoy in an Aston Martin, she kept stalling as she set off on cue, so ropes were attached to the front of the car, out of shot, and it was towed.
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The gates of the former South Cavalry Barracks in Aldershot stood in for the prison gates in the film
That was great fun and a real comedy classic of its time. Brilliant cast and acting!Quote:
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yup one of sellers earlier films and it i think boosted his star valueQuote:
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The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998.
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Although Louis XIV, who was a real king, is a prominently featured character in the movie, the closing credits state that all characters are fictitious. This statement involves a loophole common to movies of this nature. The film portrayal diverges considerably from authentic descriptions of the real person, so the character is fictitious in the sense that the words and actions of the character are not claimed to be things that the real person said and did.
Stargate, 1994. stars Kurt Russell.
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The early pre-release screenings of the movie were disastrous. The percentage of the audience who liked the movie fell into the mid-30s, and executive producer Mario Kassar realized the main problem was that the plot made zero sense. His solution: have the Ra character's dialogue subtitled, and made into information that presented a clear storyline. When these changes were made, the subsequent test screenings produced an overwhelming majority of positive reviews, and this carried the movie into becoming one of the surprise hits of fall 1994.
Saw that at the cinema when it came out. Starts well but gets progressively worse as it goes on is my only recollection.
Hard to believe that's almost 30 years ago.
Private's Progress, 1956. Directed by John Boulting and stars Ian Charmichael, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and Dicky Attenborough.
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In addition to playing a German Officer in this movie (mostly speaking in English), Sir Christopher Lee dubbed the voice of the Dennis Price character in the scenes where he is speaking in German.
William Hartnell made a career out of playing tough military NCOs in movies and on television. However, in real-life, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps in World War II, but was invalided out within eighteen months, due to a nervous breakdown. (Tanks I believe)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, 1973.
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Sam Peckinpah's alcoholism was so advanced during the making of this film that he would have to start the day with a large tumbler of neat vodkas to stop his shakes. By mid afternoon, he would have moved onto grenadine. After that, he was too drunk to work. James Coburn recalled that Peckinpah was only really coherent for four hours a day. Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah had several heated arguments during the making of the film, and others on the set often thought it would end up in a fight. Peckinpah, always very confrontational, wanted to fight Kristofferson but said that he feared Kristofferson, a former Army Airborne Ranger, would "kill him". Kristofferson answered, "Yeah, Sam, I think you're right". In spite of this, Peckinpah referred to Kristofferson as a "fucking great guy" and said that working with him was "one of the greatest experiences of my life".
Murder by Decree, 1979. Christopher Plummer stars as Holmes in this Jack the Ripper film.
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One of the last actors cast was James Mason. Director Bob Clark had to travel to Spain, where Mason was shooting another movie, to meet with him. Mason agreed to play Watson if he could make him a serious character, not the "silly ass" buffoon character which was the rule. Mason re-wrote two scenes, including the famous "pea scene".
The Masonic signs Sherlock Holmes makes to the Chief Inspector are: the Duegard of the Entered Apprentice (right hand palm down over left hand palm up), the Sign of the Entered Apprentice (drawing the right hand from left to right across the throat), a variation of the Real Grip of a Master Mason (the handshake with the thumb and little finger extended), and finally the Sign of a Fellow Craft (drawing the right hand across the body from the left breast to the right hip). The Signs all refer to the penalties associated with the divulging of the Order's secrets to outsiders, for example, having the throat slit and the chest opened and the heart torn out. The Duegard refers to the gesture of holding the Bible during the initiation ritual in the left hand, with the right resting upon it.
The Apartment, 1960. Directed by Billy Wilder.
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The film was lauded by Soviet-bloc critics as an indictment of the American system and a story that could only have happened in a capitalistic city like New York. At a dinner honoring him in East Berlin, Billy Wilder said the movie "could happen anywhere, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, London." When Wilder said the one place it could not have happened was Moscow, the East Germans broke into thunderous applause and cheers. When the ovation died down, Wilder continued: "The reason this picture could not have taken place in Moscow is that in Moscow nobody has his own apartment." The remark was met with grim silence. :D
In the scene, where Karl punches Baxter, Jack Lemmon was supposed to mime being punched, he failed to move correctly and was accidentally knocked down. Billy Wilder chose to use the shot of the genuine punch in the film.
Another Wilder film now, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1957... Jimmy Stewart plays the part of Charles Lindbergh.
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The alpha-numerical ID for the Spirit was NX-211. In aviation nomenclature this indicates that the plane is American, and is an experimental model.
In Charles Lindberghs first view of Ireland, he flies over 'Skellig Island', this is the same island featured in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), when Rey (Daisy Ridley) meets Luke (Mark Hamill) for the first time.
Even though Jimmy Stewart was a decorated World War II bomber pilot, all the aerial sequences were piloted by, Paul Mantz. Years later, Mantz would team up with fellow ace pilot, Frank Tallman. Together they were involved in a number of hit films including the spectacular airplane stunts preformed in, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) Tragically, both would die in separate plane crashes. Mantz, while preforming a routine "Touch 'n Go" scene for the movie, The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).
The film was one of Warners' biggest failures; many felt it was due to Stewart being twice the age of the character he was playing, and just wasn't right for the part.
The Big Sleep, 1946. Directed by Howard Hawks. Watched this recently but I like it.lol
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Warner Bros. studio chief Jack L. Warner gave Howard Hawks $50,000 to purchase the rights for "The Big Sleep." Hawks bought the rights for $5,000 and pocketed the rest. According to film historian Jon Tuska the purchase price was actually $10,000.
Chisum, 1970. John Wayne plays title role which is directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Its a pretty loose play on history but most of Holywood was. People then wanted the legend not the truth.
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Speaking metaphorically, Chisum says he's a pretty good chess player. In real life, Wayne actually was.
When Billy the Kid and companions break into McSween's store, McSween comes down the stairs in the dark, asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" These similar to are what legend relates as being the last words of Billy the Kid, who spoke them in Spanish in a dark room just moments before he was killed. As quoted by a witness, he said, Quien es? Quien es? (Who is it? Who is it?)
Watched this recently, although it was a fairly old print dvd. This is the remastered bluray i just got as a pressie. The Picture is well cleaned up thankfully.
Rogue Male, 1976, from the novel by Geoffrey Household. Stars Peter O'Toole.
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Regarding the name of the cat, Asmodeus. Asmodeus is a demon who specializes in spreading lust. He preys on common people and royalty and even divine beings.
That's one I've been meaning to get and the book. Read the book and vaguely recall the movie from many years ago.
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if i can find the dvd i will send it to you mateQuote:
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Nice! :thumbsup:Quote:
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Preston Sturges, 1941 classic, Sullivan's Travels. Stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. Remastered bluray via Arrow..
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Cinematographer John Seitz admired Preston Sturges' unconventional approach to his work. The opening scene comprised ten pages of dialogue to cover about four and a half minutes of screen time. It was scheduled for two complete days of shooting. On the morning of the first day, Seitz found Sturges inspecting the set with a viewfinder, looking for where he could cut the scene and change camera set-ups. Seitz dared him to do it all in one take. Never one to refuse a dare, Sturges took him up on it, although the nervous Seitz had never attempted to complete a two-day work schedule in one day. With the endorsement of McCrea and the rest of the actors, Sturges pressed on, determined to set a record. The first take was fine, but the camera wobbled a little in the tracking shot following the men from screening room to office, so they tried again. They did two or three takes at the most and that was it - two full days work by 11 a.m. on the first day, a feat that had the entire studio buzzing.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970. written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.
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The subplot in which Sherlock Holmes is approached by a famous ballerina who wishes him to father her child is inspired by a real-life incident. George Bernard Shaw was once approached by the notorious dancer Isadora Duncan, who told him that, if they had a child together, it would have "my beauty and your brains"; Shaw rebuffed her quickly, saying, "Ah, yes, dear lady, but what if it has my beauty and your brains instead?" In this movie, Sherlock Holmes uses a rather different method of putting the lady off.
Originally, the scenes featuring the Loch Ness Monster were intended to be filmed in the actual Loch. A life-size prop was built which had several Nessie-like humps used to disguise flotation devices. The humps were removed, however, at Billy Wilder's request. Unfortunately, during a test run in Loch Ness, the Monster-prop sank and was never recovered. A second prop, a miniature with just the head and neck, was built, but was only filmed inside a studio tank. Geneviève Page said of this in the biography "Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder" by Charlotte Chandler): "When we lost our Loch Ness monster, he (Wilder) wasn't too concerned, even though he was also the producer. He was more concerned about how the man who made it felt when all his work sank to the bottom of the Loch Ness. He went over and comforted him." The original monster prop was located on the bottom of Loch Ness in April 2016 during a survey of the loch by an underwater robot.
Jack The Ripper, 1959. British version....(both on bluray.) The film is put together from various sources as a complete copy wasnt available. This is as close as it gets. A classic of its day.
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The British version is the Director's version of the movie. There was also a "continental version," which included nudity and more violent murder shots. According to the director's commentary on the Bluray, this was done for purely financial reasons, to get distribution in places that would otherwise be uninterested in it. The continental version ran 88 minutes, includes: a changing room scene with several girls having their breasts exposed; Maggie (Dorinda Stevens) and Hazel (Jane Taylor) join two gentlemen in a private room, then one of these pours champagne over Maggie's chest, and as he kisses the champagne off her chest, her dress is pulled down to expose a breast; Hazel is accosted by the Ripper in an alleyway, her breast is shown, and later there is a shot of her topless corpse; close-up shots of knives and victims faces, and items such as repeated knife thrusts vs. single thrusts, are added to the murder scenes.
The US version has a new score composed by Jimmy McHugh and Pete Rugolo.
This film was well remembered by horror and thriller fans from this period. The massive advertising campaign generated huge ticket sales and a high number of holdover dates. But, according to Joseph E. Levine, the film was a failure in the U.S. He claimed, "We dropped dead in every one! You'd think somewhere, a small town maybe, someplace, it would have done business. But no. That's a record they'll never come close to."
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Earlier, The Eagle Has Landed, 1975..
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In his autobiography, Sir Michael Caine confessed to being somewhat disappointed with the end product: "The picture was being directed by the Hollywood old-timer John Sturges, and we were all very pleased that this illustrious veteran had agreed to direct our film. That is, until one day when I was talking to him between set-ups and he informed me that, now that he was older, he only ever worked to get the money to go fishing, which was his passion. Deep-sea fishing off Baja, California, he added, which was very expensive. The moment the picture finished, he took the money and went. Producer Jack S. Wiener later told me that he never came back for the editing nor for any of the other post-production sessions that are where a director does some of his most important work. The picture wasn't bad, but I still get angry when I think of what it could have been with the right director. We had committed the old European sin of being impressed by someone, just because he came from Hollywood."
My Man Godfrey, 1936... The Criterion Collection remastered bluray.
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William Powell suggested his ex-wife Carole Lombard for the leading role with the explanation that his real -life romance with her had been much the same as it was for the characters of Godfrey and Irene. Carole Lombard had a habit of ad-libbing by inserting swear words into the dialogue, which necessitated the re-shooting of several scenes. Although stars William Powell and Carole Lombard had been divorced for three years by the time they made this, when offered the part Powell declared that the only actress right for the part of Irene was Lombard.
When William Powell and director Gregory La Cava had a disagreement over how Godfrey should be played, they talked it out over a bottle of Scotch in Powell's dressing room. The next day, LaCava returned to the movie set with a major headache, but Powell was not there. The director received a telegram from his star: "We may have found Godfrey last night but we lost Powell. See you tomorrow."
Great Expectations, 1946.
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This film has a 100% rating based on 28 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue, 1970... directed by Sam Peckinpah.
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Production on the film fell weeks behind schedule due to bad weather. When filming was suspended, director Sam Peckinpah, along with cast and crew, would drink. When filming finally wrapped, the bar bill came to over $70,000 (equivalent to over $483,000 in 2021).
The chaotic filming wrapped 19 days over schedule and $3 million over budget, terminating Sam Peckinpahs tenure with Warner Bros./Seven Arts, and caused permanent damage to his career. The critical and box office hits Deliverance (1972) and Jeremiah Johnson (1972) were in development at the time, and Peckinpah was considered the first choice to direct them. His departure from Warner Brothers left him with a limited number of directing jobs. Peckinpah was forced to do a 180-degree turn from this film, and travelled to England to direct Straw Dogs (1971), one of his darkest and most psychologically disturbing films. This was the favorite film of the director. Often, when asked to speak about his work, he brought a print of this film to show, instead of one of his more famous works.
Stella Stevens said in a 2004 interview that she adored Jason Robards Jr., but David Warner, on the other hand, was very strange. He had just come over from England and it was his first big film in the United States. She described a scene where he was supposed to be leaning on her as she helps him into the house, but he wouldn't touch her or really lean. And director Sam Peckinpah yelled at her saying "What are you doing? What's the matter with you?" She said "Warner wasn't really leaning; he was pretending. Actors are not pretenders. We are be-ers. We do not pretend. And he pretended. That did not sit well with me. When you see me trying to throw that pitcher at him, I mean it!" (I love Stella; lol)
Everyone loved Stella Stevens. I think every bloke on the planet fancied her.
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Air America, 1990.
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The sequence where Robert Downey, Jr. is seen hanging from a rope flying across the skies above Thailand, including a Buddhist temple, was done for real, with Downey performing the stunt himself after director Roger Spottiswoode had rejected doing it using such alternative techniques as blue screen or back projection.
In the Special Edition DVD "Making of" documentary, there is a discussion as to how much of Air America's plot is true and how much is false. Some of the real-life pilots interviewed claim that Air America did smuggle guns and drugs for the CIA, while others deny it, saying that the service only shipped food, medicine, and supplies. However, a historian in the documentary asserts that only certain pilots were involved in the illegal activities. The characters of Gene and Billy are a perfect example of this. Gene, who is a bit crazy, cynical, and shady, has no problem getting involved in the illegal smuggling, so he, and pilots like him, would have been used for the real-life illegal smuggling. Whereas Billy, who is young, honest, and idealistic, would be used only for the straight supply drops, and would not be trusted for such illegal activities.
Some of the stunt fliers declined to perform some of the more difficult and dangerous flying stunts. They used veteran stunt fliers, aged around sixty, to perform some more of the more difficult and dangerous flying stunts seen in the film.
Me, Myself & Irene, 2000. directed by the Farrelly brothers.
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The scene where Renée Zellweger kicks Jim Carrey over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes, but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
In the breast-feeding scene, Jim Carrey suckled on Shannon Whirry's real breast which had milk in them. He was so humiliated that he had to clear the set as well as apologized to her before each take.
Jim Carrey ad-libbed the moment when he asks his sons to kiss him before he leaves. One of them looks obviously surprised.
M*A*S*H, 1970. directed by Robert Altman.
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The fourteen-year-old son of director Robert Altman, Mike, wrote the lyrics to the theme song "Suicide is Painless". Because of its inclusion in the subsequent television series, he continued to get residuals throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for directing, but his son eventually made about $2 million in song royalties, with payments continuing, from first syndication through the present day/2020, as M*A*S*H (1972) continues in syndication around the world.
Tom Skerritt recalled that the dialogue was about 80% improvised. In order to create a different kind of atmosphere, Robert Altman cast some of the parts from improvisational clubs who had no previous movie or TV experience.
The first take of the shot where Hot Lips is revealed in the shower didn't work because Sally Kellerman anticipated the reveal, and was already lying on the floor when the tent flap went up. To distract her, Robert Altman and Gary Burghoff entered the shower tent and dropped their trousers while the shot was rolling outside. While Kellerman was staring at them, the tent flap was raised, resulting in her genuine surprise and shock when she realized what had happened. In the Special Edition double disc DVD, they say that Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) had been standing naked beside the camera, and that's the reason why Sally Kellerman looks so surprised when the flap was raised.
During the opening titles, when the soldier carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher trips and falls down, it had not been scripted by Ring Lardner Jr.. It was actually an accident by the actor who tripped over something. Robert Altman decided that instead of editing it out, to use it to foreshadow the dark humor theme as the movie's first small, but real, laugh.
When studio executives first saw the dailies, they complained to Robert Altman that the soldiers looked dirty compared to the soldiers in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Patton (1970). Altman, a veteran of World War II, replied that soldiers in war are dirty. The next day, the executives told the producers of those two films to make their soldiers look dirtier.
Roger Bowen (who portrayed Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake in the movie) died on February 16, 1996. McLean Stevenson, who portrayed the role of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake on M*A*S*H (1972) for the first three seasons, died on February 15, 1996.
According to Robert Altman, Ring Lardner Jr. was very upset with the liberties taken with his script. Lardner later won an Academy Award for his screenplay. Lardner allegedly told Elliott Gould, "There's not a word that I wrote on screen." Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. was the only Academy Award winner out of the movie's five nominations. Before winning the award, Lardner had practically disowned the movie when he saw that very little of his original script made it into the final cut.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991. directed by Nicholas Meyer.
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Frankie and Johnny (1991) was being filmed in the same studio, and required Al Pacino to have a surprised expression on his face after opening a door. Director Garry Marshall arranged for Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) be on the other side of the door that Pacino opened.
Nicholas Meyer met with Gene Roddenberry following a rough cut screening, to fulfill Roddenberry's role as creative consultant. Roddenberry, who was in failing health at the time, was bound to a wheelchair, and had to be hooked up to an oxygen tank. Despite his frailty, Roddenberry demanded certain cuts to the film and, according to Meyer, engaged him in a heated argument. Roddenberry died several days after the meeting, and Meyer has expressed deep regret over his behavior in the meeting, not realizing just how sick Roddenberry really was at the time.
The Terminator, 1984. Directed by James Cameron.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with guns every day for a month to prepare for the role. The first two weeks of filming he practiced weapons stripping and reassembly blindfolded until the motions were automatic, like a machine. He spent hours at the shooting range and practicing with different weapons without blinking or looking at them when reloading or cocking. He also had to be ambidextrous. He practiced different moves up to 50 times. He wound up garnering a compliment in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine for his realistic handling of the guns on camera (whereas the magazine usually lampoons movies for their inaccurate depictions of weapons use).
While shooting this film, James Cameron often resorted to what he called "guerilla filmmaking" as a way of getting around acquiring permits needed to film certain scenes. This involved the production crew and actors quickly arriving at a specified location, shooting the scene and leaving before the police arrived. As a result, some of the people seen in a few shots are actual everyday citizens completely unaware they're in a movie. This was also used for re shoots with Cameron even calling and waking Arnold Schwarzenegger once at 3am to meet him at a location already in full costume to quickly re-shoot a scene. Cameron also used this tactic to film the very last scene where Sarah drives off into the desert. This almost backfired, however, when the police came sniffing around.
a bit lighter now with The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941. Directed by Sam Wood.
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Careful inspection of the interior set of Merrick's mansion reveals it to be the Xanadu set of the recently shot RKO picture 'Citizen Kane'. The fireplace behind the Merrick's desk with its unique herring-bone brick pattern is the tip-off.
The wine which John Merrick/Tom Higgins takes to the beach is a 1903 Romanée-Conti which has been called "one of the greatest wines of the world and the most perfect as well as the most expensive of Burgundy". The wine has been highly regarded for centuries. However, it's unlikely that the 1903 vintage yielded only 24 bottles, although Europe recorded particularly chilly weather that year.
3 Days Of The Condor, 1975. Directed by Sydney Pollack.
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In her biography "Looking for Gatsby", Faye Dunaway says of this film: "Now I'm sorry but the idea of being kidnapped and ravaged by Robert Redford was anything but frightening. [At one point, after Redford temporarily left the set and director Pollack took over his role for Dunaway's reaction shots] the cameras were rolling, I was in position, and suddenly Sydney lunged at me, growling 'I AM GOING TO GET YOU!'. I'm tied up at this point, unable to get away or move much at all, but Sydney kept moving toward me, his eyes glaring at me as he went on detailing all the horrible things he was going to do to me, and let me tell you, Sydney has an inventive mind. He is also a great actor, and he scared the hell out of me. Sydney kept the camera rolling and he was relentless".
The van sent to the murder scene once the CIA acts to cover up the murders is labeled "Augean Cleaning Service." This is a reference to one of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, where he was required to clean the stables in which King Augeas kept 3000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for 30 years, in one day. Hercules did this by diverting the river Alpheus through the stables.
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Zulu, 1964. Directed by Cy Endfield.
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Director Cy Endfield wanted a camera crane that was lightweight when disassembled, so it could be packed and transported through the African bush. Ken Eddy designed the first Filmair Giraffe camera crane for the job, starting the world's best-known camera crane company. This key piece of gear is still used in the film industry.
One of this movie's technical advisors was a Zulu Princess, and the tribe's historian. She knew the battle strategy perfectly, and drew it on the sand. Director Cy Endfield shot it exactly as she drew it. Many Zulu extras laughed at Michael Caine because of his long blond hair. Their nickname for him was "Lady" in Zulu. The technical advisor, a Zulu princess and historian, told the extras to stop right away. They did
During the performance of his one-man show, Michael Caine said he auditioned for Lieutenant Bromhead, but was rejected. A few months later, he was at a cocktail party that Joseph E. Levine was also attending. Levine asked Caine if he still wanted the part. Caine reminded him that his audition was considered "terrible". Levine replied that the original actor was very ill, and the crew was leaving for South Africa the next morning. Caine shook Levine's hand, left the party, and went home to pack his bags.
After the battle, British troops finished off the wounded Zulu warriors with bayonets and gunfire.