Weekly Trivia

Click movie title to link to the Movies page   The Wild Bunch (1969)  -  #1 During a screening in New York, Sam Peckinpah invited Jay Cocks, of Time magazine, who brought his friend Martin Scorsese. They sat in an empty Warner Bros. screening room with only two other critics, Judith Crist and Rex Reed. That final scene knocked them out of their seats. Recalled Scorsese, "We were mesmerized by it; it was obviously a masterpiece. It was real filmmaking, using film in such a way that no other form could do it; it couldn't be done any other way....

Bitter Victory (1957) In his private diaries, Richard Burton records that he and Nigel Green got into a fistfight during filming. He implies that the reasons were boredom, alcohol and irritation at being "stuck together" on-set for so long, rather than serious animosity.   The Indian Fighter (1955) Kirk Douglas did most of his own horse riding and, at one point, broke his nose attempting a stunt that called for him to make his horse fall. Instead of leaning back in the saddle when yanking the horse's head around to the side, Douglas leaned forward and took the full force...

Click movie title to link to the Movies page   Solomon and Sheba (1959) Star and co-producer Tyrone Power had shot more than half of the film when he collapsed during a dueling scene with George Sanders and died a few minutes later. Yul Brynner replaced Power as Solomon, and reshot all of Power's scenes. Power is still visible in some long shots. Mister Roberts (1955) The script contained a stunt in which a motorcycle goes off a pier, but the stuntman hired for it refused to do the stunt. So John Ford hired a bystander, a young Marine named...

 Click movie title to link to the Movies page   The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) .Liberal drinking of alcohol, a mainstay of the first four "Thin Man" movies, was curtailed for this movie due to wartime liquor rationing.   Undercurrent (1946) This was Robert Taylor's first movie since returning from military service in World War II.   The Pawnbroker (1964) The first American film to deal with the subject of the Holocaust from the point of view of a survivor, it was also the film debut of Morgan Freeman and composer Quincy Jones's first major motion picture score.  ...

 Click movie title to link to the Movies page   Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957) Dean Martin's first film without Jerry Lewis.   Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) The roles played by Charles Dale and Joe Smith were orginally intended for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had to drop out of the film due to an illness contracted by Laurel while filming Utopia (1950).   Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) James Dean was signed to play Rocky Graziano, but the part was given to Paul Newman after Dean was killed in an automobile accident on September 30, 1955.  ...