Trivia: "West Side Story" was the first film to win the Best Picture Academy Award for two directors (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins).
Trivia: Jeffrey Hunter was 33 years old when he played Jesus. This is the same age Jesus was when he died.
Trivia: In 1973, Paul Newman played Henry Gondorff in "The Sting." Jackie Gleason later played the same role in the film's sequel, "The Sting II."
Trivia: At the very end of the film when Gregory Peck and David Niven are standing on the deck of the warship watching the explosions, you can see a very distinctive injury on Niven's upper lip. During the filming of the sequence where the commandos climb the cliffs he was slammed into the rock face by the water dumped on them to simulate the waves breaking over them. The resulting infection put him in hospital. He complains about the indifference of the film's producers in his book "The Moon's A Balloon."
Trivia: Audrey Hepburn gave birth to a nine pound baby three months before filming this movie yet she's still amazingly thin in the film.
Trivia: Michael Hordern plays Charlton Heston's father in the movie. In real-life, Hordern was only 12 years older than Heston.
Trivia: The cartoon ends with no "That's All Folks!" title card. Just "Merrie Melodies: A Warner Bros. Cartoon. A Vitaphone Release" on a black background.
Trivia: Although they play mother and son, Claudia McNeil was only 10 years older than Sidney Poitier.
Trivia: Mrs Kidder, the afternoon help, is played by the actress Joan Hickson, who went on to play Miss Marple herself in many films.
Trivia: The earliest verifiable feature film to utilize the "found-footage" technique, that was later popularised by horror movies such as "Cannibal Holocaust", "The Blair Witch Project", and "Paranormal Activity".