Best movie trivia of 1962

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Trivia: Bill Millin, Lord Lovat's piper, earned the nickname 'Mad Piper' due to the fact that he was spared by German snipers on D-Day because they thought him to be crazy playing bagpipes in the middle of a war.

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Trivia: The teenage neighbour to the Hudson sisters is Bette Davis' real-life daughter, Barbara Merrill.

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Trivia: In the scene in Dr No's apartments, Bond does a double-take at a painting displayed on an easel. It was in fact a copy of Goya's "The Duke of Wellington", the original of which had been stolen in a raid on a museum shortly before filming began. Producers thought that it would be interesting to conceive that "Dr No" himself had arranged for the real-life theft.

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Trivia: Peter Lawford, who plays a U.S. Senator, was the brother-in-law of three Senators in real life (Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy).

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Trivia: There is not a single speaking role for a woman in the entire film.

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Trivia: Mary Badham was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Scout. At the age of nine, Badham became the youngest ever nominee in that category.

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Trivia: Shirley Jones was pregnant during the movie. She wore a special corset to conceal this. Director Morton DaCosta did not want anyone else involved in the movie to be aware of her pregnancy. He was so successful, that it was not until the kissing scene on the bridge that Robert Preston (Harold Hill) found out, when he was shocked to feel Jones' baby kicking him in the stomach.

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Trivia: This was the only film that director Herk Hervey ever made.

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Trivia: The first Carry On filmed in colour.

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Trivia: When Humbert first sees Quilty in the mansion, he asks him if he is Quilty, to which Quilty replies with "No, I'm Spartacus. Have you come to free the slaves or something?" This is a reference to the scene from the movie Spartacus, where the slaves who have been recaptured by the Romans all announce that they are Spartacus to try and protect Spartacus when he tries to announce who he is. This is also serves as an in-joke as it was Stanley Kubrick's previous movie, which he made before doing Lolita. (00:03:36)

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Trivia: Fletcher Christian did not die as a result of a fire on board the Bounty, as shown in the film. He was killed much later by Tahitians during a conflict in 1793.

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Trivia: In the film, The Birdman never actually kept birds at Alcatraz; he kept them at other prisons, but not Alcatraz.

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Trivia: When Sylvester and Junior are watching television at the start of the cartoon, they see a local fisherman called Treg Brown who landed a big one. Treg Brown was the sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in the Warner Brothers' Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

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Trivia: Towards the end of the film, in various scenes involving trains & railways, if you look carefully, you can quite see that no attempt has been made to disguise the loco's etc. into German locos. You can quite see in various shots 'British Railways' and the British Railways roundel etc. If you know your train stuff, you can quite see all the locos, coaches, wagons etc. are British Railways stock. Also, in the scene in the big station before Dirk Bogarde is captured, and put into a room out the back with his fellow escapees, if you look closely in the background, the station is London Victoria by the way, you can quite see a SR suburban EMU waiting in one of the bay platforms.

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Trivia: For a long time, it was rumored among fans that there were two different endings: one where Godzilla wins for the Japanese release and one where King Kong wins for the American release. This rumor was a myth. In reality, only one ending exists: the one where King Kong and Godzilla fall into the sea, and then a moment later, only Kong is shown coming out.

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Trivia: Before the election begins, Tom says, "Herbert, you're too young to vote. Back to school." The actor who played teenaged Herbert was O.Z. Whitehead, and he was approximately 50 years old at the time of filming. Additionally, the actor who played Herbert's father, Amos, was Denver Pyle, and he was 9 years younger than Whitehead. (01:08:05)

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