What does hatari mean?
Hatari is Swahili for “danger.”
Hatari! was a 1962 film starring John Wayne and Elsa Martinelli.
Edmond O’Brien is an accountant dying of radiation poisoning (caused by iridium) in the original D.O.A. (1950). In the 1988 remake, Dennis Quaid is a college professor also dying of radiation poisoning.
The Life of an American Fireman (1903), by Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), was the first movie to rely heavily on film editing. Porter was the first person to piece together strips of film containing different scenes in order to tell a story. Before Porter, most movies were shot in one take from one camera position.
Meryl Streep’s theatrical film debut was Julia (1977).
Werner Krauss played the title doctor in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919). Conrad Veidt played Cesare, the somnambulist controlled by Dr. Caligari.
The name of the ship in Mister Roberts was the USS Reluctant.
Roman Polanski played a spoons player in his film Repulsion (1965). Polanski also played the man with the knife who cuts Jack Nicholson’s nostril in his film Chinatown (1974).