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MOVIE MISC

(74 ENTRIES)

01)
US cartoon legend Walt Disney, got his idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in the garage where he was working. He initially named Mickey Mouse, Mortimer Mouse.

02)
Mickey Mouse received 800,000 fan letters in 1933.

03)
Director Erich von Stroheim used real prostitutes to play prostitutes in the 1927 film "The Wedding March".

89)
If you look closely at the film "Ben Hur" you can see that some of chariot racers are wearing wristwatches.

04)
In director Samuel Fuller's 1980 film "Big Red One" about a concentration camp, all of the Nazi guards are played by jews.

05)
In the epic Nazi film "Kolberg" there were 187,000 extras involved in the filming, including many soldiers recalled from the front. When the film was screened fewer people watched it than appeared in it.

06)
When the film "Titanic" was made the total production cost was 200 million dollars. It would cost about 123 million dollars to actually build the real ship, in today's terms.

07)
When the film "The Wizard Of Oz" was being made the actor who originally played the tin man nearly died because the make up made him so sick. The producers changed the makeup and fired the actor.

08)
In the film "Star Wars" Luke Skywalker's surname was changed from "Starkiller" because it sounded too violent.

09)
The film "As Good As It Gets" starring US actor Jack Nicholson, is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop".

10)
In India there are over 13,000 cinemas across the country. On a daily basis 15 million people go to the movies there.

11)
Movie producer George Lucas was planning to be a racing driver until he suffered a near fatal car crash two days before his high school graduation. After that he decided to get into the movies instead.

12)
In the 1932 film "Hell's Highway" the extras hired to play convicts were in fact all genuine ex-cons.

13)
In the classic western "Stagecoach" car tyre tracks can be spotted on the ground.

14)
In the 1966 comedy "The Wrong Box" based in Victorian London, in the distance can be seen TV aerials on the roofs of houses.

15)
When films first appeared in Hong Kong the people were so alarmed that the first cinema audiences had to be paid to go in.

16)
Director Cecil B. Demille once spent $100,000 to send a team on a trip to Egypt to study the colour of the Pyramids for his 1934 epic film "Cleopatra". The film was actually made in black and white.

17)
The 1968 Czech film "Happy End" runs backwards.

18)
MGM pictures once had the menstrual cycles of all it's actresses plotted on a wall chart so that movies could be planned around them.

19)
In the Charlie Chaplin film "City Lights" one scene required 342 takes to get right.

20)
Although cartoonist Walt Disney had a moustache, he didn't allow any of his employees to grow one.

21)
In the classic film "The Sound Of Music", an orange box in the background clearly says "Produce Of Israel". The film was set in 1938, 10 years before Israel was founded.

22)
British film director Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton. It was sewn up after he had surgery.

23)
No films showing bikinis were allowed to be shown on screens in Malta before 1964.

24)
In the Clarabelle Cow cartoons, the cow's udders were always covered by an apron.

25)
The film "Silkwood" starring singer/actress Cher, had over half an hour of the film cut by censors in Mexico in which Cher was depicted as a lesbian.

26)
The 1950's film "Rebel Without A Cause" starring actor James Dean was initially banned in Britain and Spain because authorities feared it would incite violence among young people.

27)
When the TV series "Baywatch" was at it's peak it's audience exceeded the population of Muslims throughout the world.

28)
The Tom and Jerry cartoons were condemned in the 1970's for their mindless violence.

29)
The first US sitcom couple to be seen regularly in bed together were Herman and Lily Munster.

30)
Recently it was revealed that in the 1948 Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Rabbit Who Came To Dinner", there is a scene where Bugs Bunny climbs out of the shower and his testicles can be seen.

31)
In the Disney film "The Little Mermaid" if you look closely, one of the artists has slyly painted an undersea tower in the background which is in the shape of an erect penis.

32)
Some of the biggest blockbusting films had some very oddball titles before eventually being changed.
These include:
"Halloween" which was going to be called "The Babysitter Murders"
"As Good As It Gets" which was going to be called "Old Friends"
"Gattaca" which was going to be called "The Eighth Day"
"Saturday Night Fever" which was going to be called "Saturday Night"
"Star Wars" which was going to be called "The Adventures Of Luke Starkiller"
"Pretty Woman" which was going to be called "$3000"
"ET" which was going to be called "A Boy's Life"
"Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" which was going to be called "Watch The Skies"
"Scream" which was going to be called "Scary Movie"
"Blade Runner" which had four previous names "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", "Android",
"Mechanismo" and "Dangerous Days"

33)
US film producer, Don Simpson, was a bit of a romantic as far as women were concerned. He and his friends would hire prostitutes, dress them in PVC "gimp" suits and make them drink from the toilet.
They would then kick the prostitutes up the arse and finally urinate all over the poor whore's heads.

34)
Hollywood produced the very first false eyelashes which were made out of human hair woven onto little stripsof cloth and then stuck onto the eyelid.

35)
In the 1982 film 'Inchon' British actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who played General Macarthur, was in one scene where his trousers changed colour three times without the editors noticing.

36)
The western film 'The Terror of Tiny Town', which was made in 1938, featured a cast of midgets riding shetland ponies.

37)
US Cartoonist Walt Disney was once declared bankrupt.

38)
Spain has a patron saint for the cinema.

39)
Howard Hughes's movie 'Hell Angels' used so much film that if it had been shown unedited it would have lasted for 23 days.

40)
When the film 'The sound of music' was released in Germany most of the scenes showing nazis were cut out.

41)
Charlie Chaplin's film 'Limelight' was banned in the USA for 20 years because of Chaplin's political beliefs. When it was eventually shown in 1972 it won an Oscar.

42)
The Redgrave family have been involved in the acting profession for four generations.

43)
The very first screen kiss in an Indian movie was in 1978!

44)
In the movie "Caligula" one of the orgy scenes that was filmed was real!

45)
Louis B. Mayer, once the greatest movie mogul in the world, would cry like a baby if any of his movie stars tried to rebel against him until they changed their minds.

46)
When the Classic musical "Grease" first arrived in the cinemas of Venezuela, South America, the promoters had to change the title of the movie as the word "grease" literally meant "fat" in Spanish.
Instead, "Grease" appeared as "Vaseline".

47)
The best selling movie poster of all time is from the film "Casablanca".

48)
When Fritz Lang was making the classic 1926 movie 'Metropolis' bald men were suddenly in demand. He hired 1,100 hairless men for the film.

49)
In the 2000 film "Charlie's Angels" Drew Barrymore lifted up Lucy Liu and spun her round to kick the villain. Drew then called out "Lucy" to get her attention even though Lucy's character's name is "Alex".

50)
In the 1991 film "The Doors" Meg Ryan called Val Kilmer "Val" instead of "Jim". Kilmer was playing Jim Morrison.

51)
In the 1989 film "The War Of The Roses" Michael Douglas addressed Danny Devito's character as "Devito".

52)
In the 1954 film "Rear Window" James Stewart had a cast on his leg throughout the entire movie. In one scene however the cast switched legs.

53)
In the 1966 film "The Bible" the actor playing Adam has a bellybutton.

54)
In the 2002 film "Spiderman" Peter shoots a lump of web at a lamp, pulls it across the room, smashes it but seconds later it is back on the dresser all in one piece again.

55)
In the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" the sheriff used the expression "10:30". There were no clocks during the 12th century.

56)
In the 1985 film "Commando" a Porsche sports car is wrecked and stood up on it's side. Arnold Swarzenegger then pushes it over, drives away and it is perfectly fine.

57)
In the 2001 film "Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone" Harry sits down at the table next to Ron during the start of term feast. When the food is served Harry is seen sitting on the other side of the table next to Hermione.

58)
In the 1957 film "The Bridge On The River Kwai" Sir Alec Guinness, who received an Oscar for the role, had his name misspelled in the final credits. It was spelt "Guiness".

59)
In the 2000 film "The Perfect Storm" the crew are watching the film "Bladerunner (The Directors Cut)". The directors cut was released in 1992 but this film was set in 1991.

60)
In the 2000 film "Gladiator" during a battle scene a chariot gets turned over and you can plainly see a gas cylinder in the back.

61)
In the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon" Humphrey Bogart slaps Peter Lorre across the face. As he does this Lorre's bow tie changes from polka dots to stripes.

62)
In the 1994 film "Speed" Jeff Daniels is shot in his left leg by Keanu Reeves but shortly after he is seen limping on his right leg.

63)
In the 1998 film "The Wedding Singer" the wedding was meant to have taken place on Sunday, 5th August 1985. The 5th August 1985 fell on a Monday.

64)
In the 1988 film "The Last Temptation Of Christ" you can clearly see a label in Jesus's robe.

65)
In the 1946 film "It's A Wonderful Life" the old man's cigar vanishes as he tells young George to deliver a prescription.

66)
In the 1960 film "Spartacus" a vaccination scar can clearly be seen on Kirk Douglas's arm.

67)
In the 1991 film "The Silence Of The Lambs" Jodie Foster has blue eyes but the actress playing her as a young girl has brown eyes.

68)
In the 1997 film "My Best Friend's Wedding" the woman trying on her wedding dress is wearing a white bra but instantly this changes to a black bra.

69)
In the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor" Kate Beckinsale is seen wearing a bikini. The bikini would not be invented until 1946, five years later.

70)
In the 1991 film "The Commitments" Angelina Ball goes away on a caravan holiday with her family to the Isle Of Man. The Isle Of Man bans all caravans.

71)
In the 1982 film "48 Hours" Eddie Murphy is handcuffed one minute, then the handcuffs disappear and then they reappear again.

72)
In the 2000 film "O Brother Where Art Thou?" the gangster Babyface Nelson is seen being arrested in Mississippi and taken to the electric chair.
In real life he was never arrested in Mississippi and he wasn't electrocuted. He died of gunshot wounds after a shootout with the police near Chicago.

73)
In the 1989 film "Born On The Fourth Of July" the song "American Pie" can be heard in the background. This song was not released until 3 years after the film was set.

74)
In the 2003 film "The Matrix-Reloaded" there is a scene during a powercut where some car headlights also go out as well.

75)
US movie director Spike Lee's real name is Shelton Lee.