Here are 10 trivia facts about M*A*S*H from 1970, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have missed.
1. This movie could be considered in three genres.
M*A*S*H is primarily a dark comedy. However, it fits neatly into both the drama and war genres.
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Here are 10 trivia facts about The Big Lebowski from 1998, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have missed.
1. A popular sport is played in the film.
The Dude and Walter would always rather be bowling. Although there are many scenes in the bowling alley, The Dude is never actually seen bowling. The bowling alley scenes were filmed at the Holly Star Lanes in Los Angeles. It has since been torn down and a new elementary school was built on that spot.
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Saving Private Ryan from 1998, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have missed.
1. The movie takes place in the past and the present.
The backbone of the movie is the WWII sequences and the scenes at Arlington National Cemetery are in the present. Incidentally, the part of Old Mrs. Ryan was played by Kathleen Byron in her last film. Fans of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger will recognize her from her brilliant appearances in Stairway To Heaven and Black Narcissus.
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Inherit The Wind from 1960, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have missed.
1. Betrayal was a subplot of the film.
In the movie, Bertram Cates is engaged to Rev. Brown's daughter, and Matthew Brady used the relationship to manipulate her to give damaging testimony at the trial. Those scenes are entirely fictional. The real-life John Scopes (portrayed as biology teacher Cates in the film) reportedly was not engaged nor did he have a girlfriend at the time of his trial.
Here are 10 trivia facts about Bye Bye Birdie from 1963, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about the movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might have missed.
1. Most of this movie takes place in a small town.
The little town of Sweet Apple, Ohio is where most of the action take place. Kim McAfee was the lucky teenager chosen to kiss Conrad Birdie on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include two very different supernatural thrillers, The Box and Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. Also, a very fine remake of an Italian film, Everybody's Fine with a great ensamble cast, and John Hurt is back as Quentin Crisp in An Englishman In New York, a "sort of" sequel to The Naked Civil Servant. There are new TV series, including the complete first season of Nurse Jackie but it's the older entries that take the spotlight: George Bernard Shaw on Film includes three classic masterpieces from Shaw, who was both a Nobel Prize-winner and Oscar-winner. Along with these other older classic films is Make Way For Tomorrow, a highly requested tearjerker from director Leo McCarey.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Gerard Butler in the riveting crime thriller, Law Abiding Citizen and there's lots of laughs in Black Dynamite, a send-up of the 1970's blaxploitation movies -- and Josh Brolin doesn't know whether to laugh or cry in the comic drama, Women In Trouble. Also truth seems like fiction in the gruesome thriller, Freeway Killer and the life story of fashion icon Coco Chanel is played out by Audrey Tautou and Marie Gillain -- truth be told, it's all been done before but this new French drama, Coco Before Chanel is a crowd pleaser. Clint Eastwood fans will be glad to see Clint get his due in the new Warner Brothers box set, Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years which, as expected, contains lots of "good stuff." TV shows are newly released this week like Buddy Ebson's Barnaby Jones and Chuck Connors' Branded plus a very fine Italian feature film release from 1975, Profumo Di Donna, is sure to please movie enthusiasts who haven't had the pleasure of seeing the original version of Al Pacino's Scent Of A Woman.
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Jerry Frebowitz | Talkin' The Oldies
Some old movies had great casts, where they were headliners of their day but in many cases, they weren't the real stars of the film.
What happens when three big stars appear together in a cat-and-mouse murder mystery? Back in 1949, you would have expected a lot from The Man On The Eiffel Tower, considering we're talking about Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone and Burgess Meredith, the latter also directed. It is unfortunate this film isn't as top notch as expected, especially when it was made at a time when movie theatres were competing with that new-fangled interloper called television.
Three big stars, a favorite literary character (Inspector Maigret), a new color process called Ansco Color (which hasn't held up very well through the years), a famous actor-turned-director and from all of that, audiences were disappointed with the results. Meredith supposedly replaced original director Irving Allen at the insistence of Charles Laughton, who helped with directing efforts as well. However, nothing seemed to help box office receipts although the film has quite a following today ... but wait, do the screen credits actually say that this movie also stars "The City of Paris?"
Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Vince Vaughn in the romantic and very funny comedy Couples Retreat, Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in The Time Traveler's Wife and action fans will be happy to see the return of Steven Seagal in A Dangerous Man... plus one of the most controversial films from The Coen Brothers will cause viewers to decide if A Serious Man is the best work to date from Joel and Ethan or is this one movie that is way over the top?
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Woody Harrelson having lots of fun in Zombieland, gorgeous Jennifer Aniston in the romantic comedy Love Happens, and two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart in Amelia - plus The Incredible Hulk is back, albeit in animated form, in Planet Hulk. Classic movies from the vault at Universal Studios take the spotlight this week with the exclusive release of Cary Grant: The Early Years containing 3 of Cary's movies from the 1930s, "Devil and the Deep," "The Eagle and the Hawk," and "The Last Outpost."
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include Drew Barrymore's very funny roller derby movie Whip It, and Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames appear together again in Surrogates, the recent sci-fi thriller. Along with this week's full slate of new-to-video releases is last summer's mega-hit, Michael Jackson's This Is It which includes the last performances from the "King of Pop." And a classic trio of Foreign wartime movies makes it way to DVD: Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy from the 1940s.
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Jerry Frebowitz | New Releases This Week
New DVD Releases for this week include the recent thriller Gamer, starring TV's Dexter, Michael C. Hall, the suspenseful Whiteout with Kate Beckinsale and the Dennis Quaid sci-fi shocker Pandorum. Also new this week: Jennifer Garner fans will rally round The Invention Of Lying and one of Brittany Murphy's last movies is the 2009 noirish movie, Across The Hall plus an interesting Foreign release, My Fuhrer from Germany, will have people talking and laughing. Benicio Del Toro stars as "Che" Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's Che from 2008 and a pre-Priceline William Shatner is back in the re-release of Kingdom Of The Spiders. Yikes!
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