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Title: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 20, 2017, 03:01:53 PM
I wonder if anybody else thinks of interesting facts (that really don't matter) about movies...?  Here's one I think of every time I see one of these actors; for 5 years in a row, Hollywood lost an iconic leading man each year:   

HUMPHREY BOGART died in 1957 
TYRONE POWER died in 1958 
ERROL FLYNN died in 1959 
CLARK GABLE died in 1960 
GARY COOPER died in 1961 

Got any interesting tidbits? 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 23, 2017, 10:39:29 PM
It does echo in here... 

GEORGE REEVES (the original TV Superman) makes an early appearance at the beginning of GONE WITH THE WIND.   


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on May 24, 2017, 11:59:41 AM
Early on Disney had a rough breakup with his distributor, Pat Powers. (No, not a romantic breakup, silly.)

Obviously that creates legal trouble. Disney had already lost the rights to Oswald; he didn't want to loose Mickey too. He needed a lawyer.

He found an old lawyer who had defended Pancho Villa. "If he defended Pancho Villa, he's who we need!"

It worked; he didn't loose a 2nd character.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: indianasmith on May 24, 2017, 04:29:20 PM
KING KONG was one of Hitler's favorite movies.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 25, 2017, 12:55:54 AM
KING KONG was one of Hitler's favorite movies.
:bouncegiggle:  You right!  Now you talkin'!!! 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on May 25, 2017, 01:08:49 AM
The movie Space Mutiny was not filmed in a studio but in a large Johannesburg warehouse, therefore the brick walls and the windows.  :wink:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on May 25, 2017, 02:57:51 AM
Mussolini admired Laurel and Hardy.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: claws on May 25, 2017, 04:14:37 AM
The Idolmaker (1980) was one of Prince's favorite movies and inspiration for his career choices.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on May 25, 2017, 02:05:14 PM
Mussolini admired Laurel and Hardy.

Hal Roach almost partnered with Mussolini's son. http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/7/4/0/p237404_index.html (http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/7/4/0/p237404_index.html)

Walt Disney, or maybe his brother Roy, met Mussolini.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: HappyGilmore on May 25, 2017, 07:58:56 PM
James Woods fired his agent after learning at a screening of Reservoir Dogs that Woods was offered a role in the film but the agent turned it down without consulting him first.



Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: indianasmith on May 26, 2017, 03:53:39 AM
Sir Christopher Lee was the only cast member in THE LORD OF THE RINGS movies to have met Professor Tolkein in person.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 26, 2017, 02:07:29 PM
MARGARET HAMILTON was badly burned during her first exit in a puff of smoke and fire in THE WIZARD OF OZ


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 28, 2017, 12:48:32 PM
FRANK MORGAN who played the title role in THE WIZARD OF OZ put on a jacket that was a thrift shop costume find for his character as the Wizard.  Inside, the breast pocket had a label on it that read: L. Frank Baum... (BAUM had lived in California at the time of his death in 1919).   


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Chainsawmidget on May 28, 2017, 02:30:09 PM
Adam West was offered the role of James Bond.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: bob on May 29, 2017, 02:33:03 PM
Hitler laughed at The Great Dictator


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on May 30, 2017, 09:59:58 AM
An early draft of Back to the Future Part II was set in the 60's, not the 50's, and had Marty's parents as hippies.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on May 30, 2017, 11:59:38 PM
FRANK LANGELLA exposed himself off the set of DRACULA (1979) to LAURENCE OLIVIER ...who laughed... 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on May 31, 2017, 08:25:48 AM
Republic picked their leads for serials based on how closely the actor resembled Republic's main stunt man.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on May 31, 2017, 09:08:10 AM
There is a South African film archivist who claims to know the makers of Nukie, Space Mutiny and The Demon. Personally.  :buggedout: :wink:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: claws on May 31, 2017, 11:04:04 AM
In order to get funding for a scene in Alien: Resurrection (1997) that Fox didn't like to begin with, Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder barged in on a chairman meeting at 20th Century Fox. They sat on executives' laps playfully begging for more money. Their stunt was a success and Fox paid the money for the scene.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on June 01, 2017, 09:03:31 AM
In an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was powered by Coca-Cola.

This is referenced at the end of the movie; where Doc Brown pours a cola into "Mr. Fusion" to power the machine.  :cheers:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: AoTFan on June 01, 2017, 06:25:19 PM
There is a South African film archivist who claims to know the makers of Nukie, Space Mutiny and The Demon. Personally.  :buggedout: :wink:

How'd they (the guys from Space Mutiny) feel about their movie being picked for a MST3K ep? 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: AoTFan on June 01, 2017, 06:43:06 PM

I may have mentioned this bit of trivia on another thread, but still, it's pretty neat and (I think) worth repeating.

One of the most iconic scenes in The Godfather is Don Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) sitting in a chair stroking a white cat while talking.  Interestingly, the cat is NOT in the script for the film, nor is it in the book on which the movie is based.  The cat was just a stray that hung around the movie set that Marlon befriended.  He told the director he felt Don was the type of guy who'd own a cat like that and so they wrote it into the movie.  Many of the scenes with the cat had to be redubbed though, as he was purring so loud some of the dialogue couldn't be heard.

Another neat Godfather fact, in the wedding scene there's a fellow sitting in a chair reciting his speech that's he's going to give Don.  The same actor later gives the speech but flubs his line due to being nervous about acting with Marlon Brando.  Coppola kept the flub in the scene though, figuring in real life a guy would be nervous talking to a man of Corleone's power.

Another one straight from imdb.com. Gianni Russo used his organized crime connections to secure the role of Carlo Rizzi, going so far as to get a camera crew to film his own audition and send it to the producers. However, Marlon Brando was initially against having Russo, who had never acted before, in the film; this made Russo furious and he went to threaten Brando. However, this reckless act proved to be a blessing in disguise, because Brando thought Russo was acting and was convinced he would be good for the role.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 01, 2017, 08:54:36 PM

http://youtu.be/-qHXloT9FNk (http://youtu.be/-qHXloT9FNk)


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on June 02, 2017, 02:26:36 AM
There is a South African film archivist who claims to know the makers of Nukie, Space Mutiny and The Demon. Personally.  :buggedout: :wink:

How'd they (the guys from Space Mutiny) feel about their movie being picked for a MST3K ep? 

One of the producers asked me if we held any material on this film - we don't, not even a VHS - and she asked me if it was true that it had been spoofed on an American TV show with robots. I said, yes, it had and the film has taken on a life of its' own. Apparently they were not aware of this.  :question:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on June 03, 2017, 09:44:10 AM
An early draft of Star Wars listed Splinter of the Mind's Eye as a sequel. While it was never made as a film, Alan Dean Foster was commissioned to write a novel, which the film would've been based on. The novel was released, so you can get an idea of  what the Star Wars universe might've been like had things gone differently. Hint: Luke and Leia might not have been siblings. 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Chainsawmidget on June 03, 2017, 10:10:25 PM
The studios at one point where interested in making Jay and Silent Bob meet Hellraiser saying it would be like a modern Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. 

Kevin Smith turned them down.   

At one point Micheal Jackson wanted to star in a film adaption of Phantom of the Opera.  I would have watched it. 

Godzilla vs Satan and Godzilla vs Batman were both pitched as potential sequels. 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 03, 2017, 10:44:16 PM
Most of the electrical equipment in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was the same equipment used in the original FRANKENSTEIN.   


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Paquita on June 03, 2017, 11:01:27 PM
I share a birthday with Harrison Ford (July 13, both born in Chicago, he was born exactly 40 years before me).  I've noticed in a couple of his movies possible nods to July 13.  I swear there were at least 2 I knew for sure, but I can only remember one from the library in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade the number of the markers VII, X and III (7 and 10+3=13).  I'll alert everyone when I remember the other.





Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: claws on June 04, 2017, 02:24:56 AM


At one point Micheal Jackson wanted to star in a film adaption of Phantom of the Opera.  I would have watched it. 



MJ also wanted to play Edward in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

MJ was a frequent visitor on the set of The Goonies.

Nancy Allen was supposed to play Carrie White in Carrie, and Brian de Palma wanted Sissy Spacek to play Chris. However, Spacek's audition for Carrie White blew everyone away so de Palma switched Allen and Spacek's parts.

An oldie but always worth mentioning: Michelle Pfeiffer was first choice to play Clarice in The Silence of the Lambs, but she turned down the offer.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: indianasmith on June 04, 2017, 02:00:24 PM
Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the LOEF OF THE RINGS FILMS but turned it down because he did not want to commit to a two year shoot - and because he had never read the books and didn't know what a "hobbit" was!


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on June 05, 2017, 07:15:13 AM
the LOEF OF THE RINGS FILMS

I'm not familiar with that film series  :wink:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: indianasmith on June 05, 2017, 11:08:22 AM
&&/#*¥#!!  cell phone!


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on June 05, 2017, 11:33:50 AM
&&/#*¥#!!  cell phone!
What's worse than autocorrect? No autocorrect.  :wink:


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: claws on June 09, 2017, 04:17:11 AM
Exploitation and B-Film producer and owner of Film Ventures International - FVI - (Mutant, The Dark, Pieces, Mortuary, Grizzly, Day of the Animals) Edward L. Montoro disappeared in 1984 after taking over one million dollars from the FVI bank accounts. Film Ventures International officially closed its doors in 1985. To this day, Montoro's whereabouts remain unknown, though it is believed he fled to Mexico in early 1987 under a false name.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Trevor on June 09, 2017, 06:35:55 AM
Exploitation and B-Film producer and owner of Film Ventures International - FVI - (Mutant, The Dark, Pieces, Mortuary, Grizzly, Day of the Animals) Edward L. Montoro disappeared in 1984 after taking over one million dollars from the FVI bank accounts. Film Ventures International officially closed its doors in 1985. To this day, Montoro's whereabouts remain unknown, though it is believed he fled to Mexico in early 1987 under a false name.

This guy also produced the film Kill and Kill Again in South Africa which was directed by my friend Ivan Hall: one of the biggest SA box office hits ever.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Pacman000 on June 09, 2017, 09:06:38 AM
Forbidden Planet (1956) was the 1st sci-fi film to cost over a million dollars.

While Forbidden Planet was produced by MGM, the FX animation (glowing lights, the Id Monster) was done by Walt Disney Studios.

About 20 years later, when Lucas was producing Star Wars, ILM was having trouble animating shadows for Luke's Landspeeder. Failing to produce a good shadow themselves, they outsourced the work to Disney.

Watch Star Wars (1977) then watch Battlestar Galactica (1978) Take note of the matte work. Battlestar Galactica's space ships have more obvious matte lines.  When John Drykstra, head of FX for Star Wars, left to form his own company he took some of ILM's employees, but the matte/compositing artist stayed with Lucas.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: WingedSerpent on June 15, 2017, 04:44:30 PM
Groundhog's Day was filmed in reverse chronological order.  The director was aware of Bill Murray's acting habits, so they filmed the scenes at the end, where the main character is happy at the beginning when Murry was still into the project, and the opening scenes at the end when Bill was tired and his character was still a downer.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: claws on June 22, 2017, 12:33:10 PM
Cristina Raines, who retired from acting in 1991 to become a nurse, doesn't have fond memories of filming The Sentinel (1977). Director Michael Winner was acting like a madman on the set, making everyone feeling miserable - especially Raines who was left crying every day even though her co-stars stood up for her. At one point Raines needed the protection of the New York Teamsters who were working as a crew on the film. She claims they saved her life when things got out of hand with Winner.

Besides that Winner tried to make Ava Gardner look awful by lighting her bad on purpose. Raines and the cameraman would secretly work together by distracting Winner and resetting the camera. Winner was also unkind to the disabled people who appeared in the movie's gruesome finale. He would also change the script without the approval of Universal or Jeffrey Konvitz, which led to more drama on set. The film was shot in the actual brownstone building which Raines claims was really haunted. Weird and unexplained things and strange coincidences would happen every day. Raines has never seen the finished movie. She watched it for the first time in 2016 while recording a commentary for the blu-ray release.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: AoTFan on June 22, 2017, 10:57:10 PM
Exploitation and B-Film producer and owner of Film Ventures International - FVI - (Mutant, The Dark, Pieces, Mortuary, Grizzly, Day of the Animals) Edward L. Montoro disappeared in 1984 after taking over one million dollars from the FVI bank accounts. Film Ventures International officially closed its doors in 1985. To this day, Montoro's whereabouts remain unknown, though it is believed he fled to Mexico in early 1987 under a false name.

This guy also produced the film Kill and Kill Again in South Africa which was directed by my friend Ivan Hall: one of the biggest SA box office hits ever.

Well, if he shows up where you're at there might still be a reward for him! 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Chainsawmidget on June 24, 2017, 04:37:15 PM
Boris Karloff Facts!

Boris Karloff's first Broadway play was "Arsenic and Old Lace".  He played a man named John Brewster who's face was surgically altered to look like Boris Karloff. 

His daughter was born on his 51st birthday.  He was filming Song Of Frankenstein at the time and rushed to the hospital wearing his full Monster make up and costume. 

He always carried a roll of dimes with him so he could use payphones to conduct Screen Actors Guild business.  He knew his own home phones had been tapped. 

He was Christopher Lee's next door neighbor for years. 

Beginning in 1940, Karloff dressed up as Santa Claus every Christmas to hand out presents to physically disabled children in a Baltimore hospital.

He has TWO stars on the Hollywood walk of fame.  One for his motion picture work, one for his TV work. 


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: retrorussell on June 26, 2017, 04:11:00 PM
In MODERN PROBLEMS, Chevy Chase was briefly electrocuted in a flying dream scene, and lost consciousness for a short while, narrowly avoiding death.  Wiring short-circuited through his arm, back and neck.

In Lucio Fulci's horror film THE BEYOND, the final sequence features sand-covered corpses lying on the ground; these were naked homeless people that were paid for their appearance in alcohol.

Both FRIDAY THE 13TH's and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET's franchises primary antagonists are named after childhood bullies of the writer and director, respectively.

The hand stabbing Judith Meyers in HALLOWEEN and the twitching hands of the decapitated Pamela Voorhees in FRIDAY THE 13TH belonged to a member of the opposite sex of the character-- producer Debra Hill in HALLOWEEN and special effects maker Taso Stavrakis for FRIDAY THE 13TH.

The head witch in SUSPIRIA who is killed by the protagonist Suzy at the end was actually a 90-year old hooker director Dario Argento found on the streets of Rome.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: AoTFan on June 26, 2017, 08:55:21 PM
The head witch in SUSPIRIA who is killed by the protagonist Suzy at the end was actually a 90-year old hooker director Dario Argento found on the streets of Rome.

You mean "former" hooker, right?  Right?? 

Oh, please, say, "Right."


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: indianasmith on June 26, 2017, 08:58:03 PM
The head witch in SUSPIRIA who is killed by the protagonist Suzy at the end was actually a 90-year old hooker director Dario Argento found on the streets of Rome.

You mean "former" hooker, right?  Right?? 

Oh, please, say, "Right."

Well, he did find her "on the streets."


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 30, 2017, 02:48:03 PM
Just found out that Gal Gadot was four months pregnant at the end of principal photography for WONDER WOMAN. During reshoots, they put a green cloth over her belly and green-screened out her bump.


Title: Re: Interesting movie tidbits
Post by: AoTFan on June 30, 2017, 11:44:43 PM

There's a scene in Silence of the Lambs where Dr Lecter mocks Agent Starling (Jodie Foster)'s southern accent.  This was actually not in the script, it's something Hopkins did on the fly figuring it was something Lecter would do to try and rattle the young agent.  At first, Jodie was angry about it, thinking Hopkins was mocking her performance, but later thanked him, saying it added a great deal to the film.