Interesting Film Facts

[GringoTex]

Post them here.


Walt Disney and the great Soviet propagandist filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein were best buds and had tremendous admiration for each other's work.

[fiddlestick]

There's a playboy centerfold in the cockpit of Princess Leia's transport at the opening of Star Wars. That's directly from a book put out by Lucasfilm that I've got, I don't have it w/ me at work.
C-3P0 and R2 are allegedly in the heiroglyphics in the Well of Souls in "Raiders" but didn't make it into the final cut. Again from same book.

[Dante]

In A New Hope, there's a scene in the Millenium Falcon cockpit where there's a pair of dice hanging. Chewbacca hits them when he gets up. They don't appear in any other scene.

[bungadiri]

In the film "His Girl Friday," the scene where Rosalind Russell throws her purse at Cary Grant's head and he ducks it was ab-libbed. As were many other moments in that film.

[GringoTex]

Contrary to popular belief, Andrei Tarkovsky never had a single frame of film changed or suppressed by Soviet censors.

[bungadiri]

When John Huston and Errol Flynn got bored/drunk enough at Hollywood parties, they would go out back and do a little bare-knuckle boxing.