In what movie did Clint Eastwood say, “Go ahead. Make my day”?
Clint Eastwood said, “Go ahead. Make my day” in the movie Sudden Impact (1983).
The six models used in the filming of King Kong (1933) were each eighteen inches tall. They were made of rubber flesh and rabbit fur on a metal skeleton, and filmed in stop-motion animation. For close-ups, the filmmakers used a full-scale mechanical hand and a twenty-foot bust of Kong’s head and shoulders, covered with bear…
Rachel, Rachel (1968) was Paul Newman’s directorial debut. The movie starred his wife, Joanne Woodward.
Rouben Mamoulian was the original director of Cleopatra (1963). After he was fired, Alfred Hitchcock was offered the job, but refused. Joseph L. Mankiewicz eventually took over.
Best Foreign Language Film was introduced as a regular category in the Academy Awards in 1956. The first winner was La Strada (Italian, 1954), directed by Federico Fellini.
Jean Harlow was working on the film Saratoga (1937) when she died.
Each second of screen time, projected at the normal sound speed of 24 frames per second, takes up 1.5 feet of 35-millimeter film. A two-hour movie uses 10,800 feet of film, or a little over two miles.