In a triumph of odd casting, Desi Arnaz, Jr., played Marco Polo and Zero Mostel played Kublai Khan, for the musical adaptation of Marco Polo’s journey to the Orient.
Two Vietnamese extras, six-year-old Renee Chen and seven-year-old Myca Dinh Lee, died with actor Vic Morrow during the filming of Twilight Zone The Movie (1983). All were killed while a helicopter scene was being shot for the segment by John Landis.
There were four Jaws movies: Jaws (1975) Jaws 11 (1978) Jaws 3-D (1983) Jaws: The Revenge (1987) The third Jaws movie starred Dennis Quaid, Jaws 3-D (1983). The fourth and last, Jaws: The Revenge (1987) starred Michael Caine.
Lakota, the language of the Sioux is the Indian language spoken in Dances With Wolves (1990).
Charlton Heston’s son, Fraser played the infant Moses in The Ten Commandments.
Twentieth Century-Fox owned the copyright to the wide-screen process known as CinemaScope. The Robe (1953) was the first film made using CinemaScope. Paramount developed VistaVision. The first film to use VistaVision was Ben-Hur (1959).