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Trivia: The New Orleans graveyard scene was filmed without a permit. You can hear the very real police cars coming to arrest the cast, sirens blaring. They got out fast.

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Trivia: Dennis Hopper modelled his character's look after his good friend David Crosby of the group The Byrds.

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Trivia: The interior set for the Bates home is the same set that was used by Hitchcock for "The McKittrick Hotel" in Vertigo two years earlier.

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Trivia: The McKittrick Hotel was a very real building in San Francisco. The indoor set was the same one used by Hitchcock two years later in the film "Psycho."

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Visible crew/equipment: During Picket's charge, shadows of camera trucks can be seen a lot.

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Trivia: George C Scott was to play Robert E Lee, but had recurring health problems and Martin Sheen took over on very little notice.

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Trivia: David Jassen's nickname around the set was "Klutzy." He couldn't walk three feet without falling over something.

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Trivia: Many real veterans of Vietnam who were stationed at Bragg (among them my father) refused to talk to Wayne at any time.

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Trivia: The shooting script for the film was written in three weeks.

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Trivia: The hat band on John Wayne's hat once belonged to Gary Cooper. It was a gift to John from Cooper.

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Trivia: For good luck, John Wayne wore a new eye patch every day.

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Trivia: There were two versions of the film released in America, The 1962 release had all the actors speaking English, After the re-release in 1964, all the Germans spoke German.

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Trivia: The director filmed five different deaths of Crockett for the film. The one used is based on a letter from a Mexican officer found in Texas in 1935 and has been called a fake by histories of The Alamo.

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Factual error: A marker at the real Alamo says that Travis and Bowie blew up the buildings that day. David Crockett never left the Alamo.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Cleopatra enters Rome sitting on top of the platform pulled by the slaves, you can see the head of the guy driving it through a small window in the front.

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Trivia: The film was to have run six hours with two intermissions, but it was cut down to four with one.

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Trivia: Judy Garland was 16 when she did the film and under California law she was a minor. She could only work four hours a day and had to go to school on the lot every day.

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Trivia: Like in most western films made by John Ford, real Native Americans were used and were paid union scale.

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Factual error: Dan White did not attend Harvey Milk's birthday party at City Hall as in the movie. It never took place.

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Visible crew/equipment: When they are filming near the area of 305 South Van Ness and near by Mission Street, you can see in the background two SFPD officers directing traffic away from the set.

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