What were “oaters”?
“Oaters” were Westerns, particularly low-budget Westerns.
Alfred Hitchcock wrote the foreword to the first edition of Hall-well’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1965). Leslie Halliwell, pioneer film encyclopedist, died in January, 1989.
Yes. There was no double when Paul Newman rode the bicycle himself in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Mae Murray played the title role in The Merry Widow (1925) directed by Erich von Stroheim. Her character, Sally O’Hara, was the widow of Baron Sadoja (Tully Marshall).
Props or scenery such as barroom tables and walls that are constructed to break easily during action sequences are called breakaways.
“Bruce” was the nickname the crew gave to the mechanical shark used in Jaws (1975). The shark was designed by Joe Alves.
“Beautiful Dreamer,” sung by Terry Moore to the giant gorilla Joe Young, tamed the savage beast in Mighty Joe Young (1949). The song reappears in Batman (1989) as the theme song for the Joker.