Movie trivia

IMDB naturally is a great source for this. Nevertheless, there are times you feel "that's quite clever".

In Die Hard, every terrorist you see handle a weapon is killed. The only two terrorists you see without are both knocked out (the computer wizard and one removing bonds from the safe in the endgame)

In Twelve Angry Men, after a racist rant, Ed Begley's character is told to sit down and shut up. He doesn't speak for the rest of the film, even just nodding when the acquittal vote goes around the table.

Beau Bridges appears as (unexpectedly racist) Frank Cushman's father in Jerry Maguire but possibly uneasy at the content, goes uncredited despite having a pivotal role.

Interesting.

Star wars is based on a true story that really did occur many lights years ago in a galaxy far, far, away.

Robert Patrick was the first (and may indeed still be the only) actor on screen to be killed by all three of the Planet Hollywood owners (in the Terminator series, the Die Hard series and Cop Land)

all I remember of him was his ears.they looked massive on the big screen.

morning_glory wrote:all I remember of him was his BLANK. It looked massive on the big screen.

Les Dawson never died...

and when he was shot he had custard tart tins stuck on his chest.

The iconic leg in the poster for "The Graduate" was not Anne Bancroft's. It was Linda Gray's, though (Sue Ellen in Dallas). Anne Bancroft, meanwhile, had to be made up to look older - she is only six years older than Dustin Hoffman and only eight years older than her screen daughter, Katharine Ross

The rain in "Singin' In The Rain" doesn't show up on camera. To get around this, an agent was added to the water to make it visible.

They added milk. Under the hot lights, the set, and more importantly, the piss-wet through and sick at the time Gene Kelly fucking stunk as a result. And his suit shrank.

"I'm singing in the milk, just singing in the milk"

The villain in Die Hard, Hans Gruber, had the same name as the villain in Our Man Flint

The hand with the knife in the shower scene in Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's

The coat worn by the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz was bought from a second hand shop as it fitted the intention of it being a garment that although had been of high quality, fitted the ""grandeur gone to seed" look they were looking for. When they checked the coat, the previous owner's name for whom it had been tailored was found. Quite coincidentally, it was from an "L Frank Baum", the man who wrote the book "The Wizard of Oz"

Mickey Rooney's father was a Scottish-born vaudevillian. Alicia Silverstone's father is an East End Londoner. WC Fields's father was from South Yorkshire. Consequently all three are/were, despite their American fame, nevertheless British.

Fuck all to do with movies but Gil Scott Heron's dad was the first black Celtic player.

Nobby Cheese wrote:Fuck all to do with movies but Gil Scott Heron's dad was the first black Celtic player.

His first appearance would not be televised

After the success of "The Jolson Story", Hollywood went back to the well and did a further biopic "Jolson Sings Again". As it was to revolve around his later life, Jolson auditioned and screen tested for the part but didn't get it.

Midnight Cowboy is the only "X" to ever win a Best Picture Oscar

NotBert wrote:Midnight Cowboy is the only "X" to ever win a Best Picture Oscar

The wife and I had been married two weeks when we went to see this in Streatham in October 1969.

Show a girl a good time, Tone - "He sucks men off in toilets and he dies on the bus just as he gets away from it all. Fancy a shag?"

Given Joan Fontaine has just passed away, onefor the estranged sisters.

They are the only siblings ever to each win a "Best Leading" Oscar.

Only three films in history have had the entire cast nominated for Oscar. Give 'Em Hell Harry, a one man show where the cast of James Whitmore plays Harry S Truman, Sleuth with the all British cast of Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, with its two British leads of Burton and Taylor alongside George Segal and Sandy Dennis.

The last doubles up as one of only two films that was nominated in every eligible category (a total of 13) in its year (the other was a Western, Cimarron in 1931, nominated for 7, and unlike the reception of the other, is roundly considered to be "fucking shit")

The only actor other than Harrison Ford to have appeared in the original first three Indiana Jones movies was...

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

That in Star Wars, Carrie Fisher has bigger boobs than you'd think.

True, but even truer is that because of it being the fourth film in the series, a young Obi Wan Kenobi is played in some the first three by Ewan McGregor whereas one of the rebel fighter pilots in the fourth film is his uncle, Denis Lawson. Consequently, he played a role aged 34 [2005] that would be "succeeded" in the film timeline by a role played by his uncle aged 20 [1977], despite his uncle being 24 years older than him.

Growing up as a teenager in a fledgling video age, I can confirm that the greatest film debut ever was that of Michelle Johnson in Blame It On Rio.  There is no truth in the rumour that Michael Caine (who played a young Demi Moore's father) accepted the role for "no fee, in fact no, I'll pay you to play Matthew, fucking hell, have you seen her?"

There are men around the age of fifty who remember the bed scene and the luckiest bunch of flowers ever to have lived (which you only notice on about the forty-fifth viewing).  Here's a still.  You can find the video yourself and replicate the teenage me in watching it in real time and pausing, rewinding and repeating and bear in mind at the age I was everything was raging and you'd get an erection after sitting down in the warm arse print of a pensioner who'd just got up to get off a bus or at the sight of any black bra strap under a white shirt which you could spot up to a half mile away...

TOP LEFT and BOTTOM RIGHT, same sequence:

I have had to put a spoiler on there because of its atavistic nature - it would be inappropriate of me to be popping a stiffy at a page of movie trivia about Al Jolson (although when I was fifteen, I was on a bus with him...)

*As an afterthought, hats off to this bloke who spent a far more productive 80s...
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