What was Clint Eastwood’s first screen appearance?
Clint Eastwood’s first screen appearance was as a lab assistant in Revenge of the Creature (1955).
His second appearance was as “Jonesy” in Francis in the Navy (1955).
A montage is the assembling together of images in a film, usually in quick succession, often dissolving into one another. It can be used to convey action and the passage of time, newspaper headlines and theater marquees flying by as a dancer rises to stardom, or, as in the work of Sergei Eisenstein, to evoke…
Beach Party (1963) was Annette Funicello’s and Frankie Avalon’s first movie together. Their arch-nemesis in that film was Eric Von Zipper, the would-be tough biker, played by Harvey Lembeck.
Raymond Massey played Abraham Lincoln twice. In Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and in How the West Was Won (1962).
Stay-Put Lipstick brought adman Rock Hunter to sudden fame, which was endorsed by sex symbol Rita Marlowe (Jayne Mansfield).
No, Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was not Peter O’Toole’s first film. O’Toole played several secondary roles in Ombre Bianche, Les Dents du Diable, The Savage Innocents, The Day They Robbed the Bank of England, and Kidnapped (all 1960). He did not become famous until he appeared as T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
Schlockthropus was the name of the prehuman species resurrected in Schlock (1973). The Schlockthropus is played by twenty-two-year-old John Landis in his directorial debut. The film is also known as The Banana Monster.