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Ragtime (1981) was James Cagney's last theatrical film. He came out of a 20 year retirement to film it and was wheelchair-bound during the production.
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The name of Harrison Ford's character in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was originally Indiana Smith, but the last name was changed to Jones during the first day of production.
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The scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), where Indy (Harrison Ford) threatens to blow up the Ark with a bazooka as it is being carried through a canyon was filmed in the same canyon in Tunisia used in Star Wars (1977) when R2-D2 is captured by Jawas.
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The hat and jacket worn by Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and both of its sequels can be seen on display at the Smithsonian.
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During the filmimg of Rain Man (1988), both Dustin Hoffman (Raymond) and Tom Cruise (Charlie) doubted the the movie's potential for success and would jokingly call it, "Two Schmucks in a Car".
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The character, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), in Rain Man (1988) was originally supposed to be a happy and friendly, mentally retarded individual, but Hoffman was able to get the character changed to being a withdrawn autistic savant.
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Although The Remains of the Day (1993) is a love story in many respects, there is not a single romance scene in the entire film.
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Some of the actors that auditioned for the role of Remo Williams in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), claimed to be skilled in the martial art of Sinanju. Unfortunately for them, Sinanju is a fictional martial art from the novels of The Destroyer on which the movie was based.
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In Richard III (1955) there is a murder scene in the Tower of London which could have been filmed in one day, and would have been, except one of the actors in the scene was out of work at the time and Director Laurence Olivier stretched the filming out for three days to help him out.
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Richard III (1955) was the first film to have its U.S. premiere in theatres and on TV on the same day, although its world premiere and initial run in London had already been held several months earlier.

Road to Singapore (1940) was the first of the famous Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "road" movies and The Road to Hong Kong (1962) was the last one. They made a total of seven road movies over 22 years.
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The boxing match scene in Rocky (1976) was filmed in reverse oder, starting with the fifteenth round and with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) and Carl Weathers (Apollo) in heavy make-up. As the filming proceeded, the make-up was slowly removed until they were down to round one.
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Roger & Me (1989) was about the economic hard times in Flint, Michigan caused by the closing of the General Motors plant there. Due to those same economic bad times, by the time the movie was released, there were no movie theaters left open in the city so the film could not be shown there.
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Roman Holiday (1953), which starred Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck was the first American film to be filmed entirely in Italy.
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Despite her role as Juliet, Olivia Hussey was not legally allowed to attend the London premier of Romeo and Juliet (1968) since she was under 18 and the film contained nudity (her own).
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During filming of The Saint (1997), the Bodleian Library, which is the main library at The University of Oxford, was closed to the public for several days. Unfortunately, a large percentage of students were studying for exams at that time and so resulted in a lot of complaints from the students.
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The three soldiers that were part of the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima and who survived the battle for the island, were among the actors reenacting the flag raising in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949).
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) was inspired by the true story of the Niland brothers. Although 3 of them were initially thought to have died during WWII, 2 actually survived. The second survivor turned out to be alive in a Japanese POW camp.
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Steven Spielberg refused to accept a salary for directing Schindler's List (1993), because he felt it would be "blood money".
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Schindler's List (1993) is the only black and white movie to win the Best Picture Oscar since The Apartment (1960) in 1961.
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The cartoons shown on grown up Walter's (Josh Lucas) desk near the end of Secondhand Lions (2003) were drawn by Berkeley Breathed, who is the creator of the Bloom County comic strip.
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During the filming of Secondhand Lions (2003), Josh Lucas (Walter) was attacked by the pig used in the movie. Although the lion in the film had a number of trainers and handlers, nobody had considered that the pig might pose a danger.
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MGM studios restricted the budget for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) so more money could be put into the production of Rose Marie (1954) and Brigadoon (1954) - each of which MGM had greater expectations for. However, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was by far the most commercially and critically successful, as well as being the best remembered of the three.
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For the roles they played in Seven Years in Tibet (1997), both Brad Pitt (Heinrich Harrer) and David Thewlis (Peter Aufschnaiter) were banned from from China.
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Jetsun Pema is the real life sister of the Dalai Lama. In Seven Years in Tibet (1997) she plays the role of her own mother (the mother of the Dalai Lama).
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Although The Shawshank Redemption (1994) did rather poorly at the box office after its release, as a video rental it became one of the most successful video rentals ever.
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During the production of Shrek (2001), the principal actors never met in person. Each read their parts separately with a reader feeding them their lines.
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The word Shrek (2001) is Yiddish for 'monster'.
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With just over 16 minutes of screen time in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Anthony Hopkins performance as Dr. Hannibal Lecter was the shortest ever to win the Oscar for Best Actor .
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Gene Kelly (Don Lockwood) was suffering from a 103-degree fever when he performed the famous title song dance scene for Singin' in the Rain (1952).
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The script for Singin' in the Rain (1952) was written after the songs, which meant the plot had to be created around the songs, rather than the usual method of writing the music to fit the plot.
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Reportedly, Debbie Reynolds (Kathy Selden) once said that making Singin' in the Rain (1952) and surviving childbirth were the two hardest things she had ever done.
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Buford T. Justice, Jackie Gleason's character in Smokey and the Bandit (1977), was the name of a real Florida Highway Patrolman known to Burt (the Bandit) Reynolds' father (a former Chief of Police in Jupiter, Florida).
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According to writer David W. Peoples, Soldier (1998) is a "side-quel" to Blade Runner (1982) (which was also written by Peoples) in that it takes place in the same universe. The movie does contain references to places and things in Blade Runner.
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While filming the opening scene on top of the mountain in The Sound of Music (1965), Julie Andrews has said she was continually knocked down by the downdraft from the helicopter that was filming the scene. (Fact)
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In The Sound of Music (1965), the von Trapp family hiked over the Alps to Switzerland in the end of the movie in order to escape the Germans. In real life, the von Trapp family actually walked to the local train station and took a train to Italy.
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All of the children in the roles of the von Trapp children in The Sound of Music (1965) grew a lot during the making of the film. Consequently, various tricks had to be continually applied to make their heights appear to remain constant during the movie.
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In Space Cowboys (2000) Clint Eastwood (Frank), Tommy Lee Jones (Hawk), Donald Sutherland (Jerry) and James Garner (Tank) all appear together on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In real life the four actors appeared together on The Tonight Show to promote the movie. (Fact)
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Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (1960), which makes him the only actor to ever win an Oscar for a Stanley Kubrick film.
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During the filming of Spider-Man (2002), Tobey Maguire's stunt double fractured his leg when he slammed in to a brick wall while attempting a stunt and a welder building sets for the movie was killed when a crane fell over onto a construction basket he was riding in.
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Spider-Man's webbing in Spider-Man (2002) was made out of foam and fishing line, with some CGI effects added.
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In Spider-Man (2002) and its sequels, Spider-Man's webbing is created by his body, but in the original comics the webbing is produced by little mechanical devices fitted around the wrists, invented by the fictional Peter Parker after he gained his spider powers. (Fact)
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In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Peter (Tobey Maguire) asks Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) at one point if she is still in the village. Kirsten Dunst dropped out of a role in The Village (2004) to make both this second Spiderman movie and Elizabethtown (2005).
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Alfred Molina, who played Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004), actually named his four mechanical tentacles. He called them Larry, Harry, Flo, and Moe.
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Spider-Man 3 (2007) set new box office records for the biggest first day receipts ($59 million) and the biggest weekend opening (151 million).
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Although the supervillain played by Topher Grace (Edward 'Eddie' Brock) in Spider-Man 3 (2007) is never explicitly given a name, in the comic books he is named "Venom".
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Director John Ford liked the Monument Valley location used to film Stagecoach (1939) so much that the stagecoach journey shown in the movie actually consists of three trips across Monument valley.
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William Holden won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953). His acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ceremony was, and still is, the shortest in the history of the Academy Awards. He said, "Thank you."
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Paul Verhoeven, who directed Starship Troopers (1997), has said he never finished reading the novel that the movie was based on. He said that by the time he read through the first few chapters, he was bored and depressed.
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In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), James Cromwell (Dr. Zefram Cochrane) became the first actor in the entire history of Star Trek to actually use the phrase "star trek".
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Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was so pleased with the main theme music to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) that he used it later for the theme of the television series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987).
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Most of the extras in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) were Star Trek fans who were asked to appear in the film. Most of their paychecks were never cashed and presumably were kept as souvenirs.
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In Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Kahn's (Ricardo Montalban) last words to Captain Kirk (William Shatner) are: "To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." This is a quote from Captain Ahab's final words in "Moby Dick" as he speaks to the whale. (Fact)
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In Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Khan (Ricardo Montalban) says he remembers Chekov (Walter Koenig) from the Enterprise (refering to when Khan appeared in the original TV series). However, the character of Chekov was added to the TV series after the episode in which Khan appeared.
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Star Wars (1977) was the first feature film to be screened in Dolby Stereo and the first to gross over $300 million.
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In Star Wars (1977), the majority of the crowd watching the main characters receive their medals at the end of the film are cardboard cutouts.
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James Caan, Al Pacino and Burt Reynolds all three turned down the chance to play Han Solo in Star Wars (1977).
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The background spectators in the stadium watching the pod race in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), were actually Q-Tips that were painted and filmed on a miniature stadium set. (Fact)
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) owes part of its name to the Flash Gordon comics. "Phantom Menace" was the name of one of the villains in those comics.
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Not only did Stargate (1994) lead to the creation of a highly successful television series, but it was also the first Hollywood movie to have an official website.
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Director Richard Lester, an American expatriate who was living in England at the time, claims he had never heard of Superman before being hired to direct Superman II (1980).
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Althouugh Superman III (1983) was the third time Christopher Reeve had played the main charactor of Superman, it was the first Superman movie in which he was given top billing.
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To help promote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a farce website for Lacuna Inc. (the memory erasing company in the film) was set up at www.lacunainc.com. This website still exists/existed in 2007. Webmasters: place our "Movie Trivia of the Day" on your site

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