Freedonia and Sylvania were the mythical countries in Duck Soup.
The mythical country in Million Dollar Legs ( 1932 ) was Klopstokia.
The mythical country in The Mouse That Roared ( 1959 ) was The Duchy of Grand Fenwick.
According to Mr. Memory, “The Thirty-Nine Steps is an organization of spies, collecting information on behalf of the foreign office of…” At this point, he was shot.
W. K. L. Dickson (1860-1935), Thomas Edison’s assistant, was the first film director. He directed Edison’s first films in 1889.
Bwana Devil (1952) was the first film in 3-D.
George Hamilton played Robert Cole, a character based on Raskolnikov, in this strange version of Feodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment set in Santa Monica, California. It was Hamilton’s screen debut.
David Niven played James Bond in the movie Casino Royale (1967). His nephew, Jimmy Bond, was played by Woody Allen.
Born in Vienna in 1890, the director Fritz Lang came to Hollywood in 1934. Fritz Lang’s first American film was Fury (1936), for MGM. His last was Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), for RKO. After that, the director quit making films in the United States, fed up with the trials and tribulations of the studio…