The Wings of Eagles was based on World War I aviator Frank “Spig” Wead, who after a debilitating accident, became a screenwriter.
The screenplays he wrote included Air Mail (1932), The Citadel (1938), and They Were Expendable (1945).
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker directed Airplane! (1980). David and Jerry are brothers.
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…
It was a stand-in who stabbed Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960), a young woman wearing a wig, not Anthony Perkins.
Walter Brooke tells Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967) the one word: “Plastics”.
Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck appeared together in three movies: His Brother’s Wife (1936), This Is My Affair (1937), and The Night Walker (1965). The two were married in 1939 and divorced in 1952.
Jack Schaefer wrote the book Shane, which was also movie.