Sabotage (1936, UK; released in the U.S. as A Woman Alone).
It was based on Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent.
It is not to be confused with Hitchcock’s The Secret Agent, released earlier that year and based on Somerset Maugham’s novel Ashenden.
The rear window in Rear Window (1954) was located in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Dorothy Gish started making movies with An Unseen Enemy in 1912 and ended with The Cardinal in 1963.
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.
Robert Taylor was born Spangler Arlington Brugh. He was born in Filley, Nebraska, in 1911.
Ann Sheridan was “The Oomph Girl”. Veronica Lake was “The Peekaboo Girl”. Lizabeth Scott was “The Threat”.
The Big Clock (1948) was the basis for No Way Out (1987), set in the world of magazine publishing instead of at the Pentagon. Ray Milland played the role later taken by Kevin Costner and Charles Laughton played the Gene Hackman role.