Who designed the electrical machinery used to create life in Frankenstein (1931)?
Special-effects man Ken Strickfaden designed the electrical machinery used to create life in Frankenstein (1931).
Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss was the piece that plays during the space ballet in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Meryl Streep’s theatrical film debut was Julia (1977).
The queen of diamonds is the card that triggers the brainwashed killer’s hypnotic obedience in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The killer’s name was Raymond Shaw, played by Laurence Harvey.
In 1940, when producer Sam Katzman brought some of the kids to Monogram Pictures. The kids (who eventually included Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Billy Halop, and others) had started out as the “Dead End Kids” in Dead End (1937, Samuel Goldwyn). They had gone on to work for Warner Brothers and Universal. Their…
The brand that Tom Dunson (John Wayne) draws at the end of Red River (1948) was a river with a D on the top and an M on the bottom. The D is for Dunson, the M is for Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift). Dunson tells Garth, “You’ve earned it.”
Charlton Heston’s number as a galley slave in Ben-Hur was forty-one.