Franz Waxman wrote the music for Universal’s Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials in the 1930s.
It is actually the same score he wrote for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), often recycled in low-budget Universal productions.
Chuck Courtney was Billy the Kid in Billy the Kid vs Dracula (1966). John Carradine was Dracula. William Beaudine directed.
No, Bonfire of the Vanities wasn’t the biggest box-office flop of 1990. It lost only $15 million. Havana was the worst, it lost $35 million.
Dirty Harry said he was called dirty because he does “every dirty job that comes along.” Clint Eastwood played Harry Callahan.
Charlie Chaplin shared a cooked boot in The Gold Rush (1925) with Mack Swain, playing Big Jim McKay.
The renegade androids in Blade Runner (1982) were called Replicants. “Blade runners” were the people assigned to hunt them down.
Marty, played by Ernest Borgnine, was a butcher in the Bronx in the 1955 movie.