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Trivia: Gert Frobe who played Goldfinger at the time spoke very little English and all his lines had to be dubbed in later.

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The Spy Who Came in From the Cool - S1-E5

Trivia: The knock out dance number was latter repeated on another show as they did a new dance called "The Karate" with more dancers, but was edited out and replaced with a music number.

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Trivia: The famous shoot out between Duke and the outlaws in the valley was done twice. The long shots and most of the riding was done for Duke by his stunt double Chuck Roberson. Duke came back an did all the close ups on a horse being pulled by a camera.

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Trivia: This was 20 year old singer Bobby Rydell's movie debut. He admitted later that the film turned him off from working in films, and he did not like working with Ann-Margret at all. He would not do another film until 1975.

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Trivia: This was the first film that Ann-Margret got "paid" for She had done two films before but was still under the law a minor. She turned 21 just before the shooting began.

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Trivia: Dick Van Dyke and Paul Lynde were the only members of the original 1960 Broadway cast to do the film.

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Trivia: Florance Henderson's hair style on the show was done on purpose. Few knew that since the 1950's she lost all hearing in both ears. The left hearing came back, but she had a hearing aid over her right ear.

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Trivia: The film cost $107m to make and earned only $26m worldwide. It is considered one of the all time movie flops.

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Trivia: It was during the filming that Elvis first heard of The Beatles when someone had their first English LP on the set. He took it into his room and listened to it for hours. He then banned their music from the set.

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Trivia: After the filming, Ann-Margret told the press that she and Elvis were lovers and were going to get married. Tom Parker put an end to the story. Elvis sent her a red heart shaped bed, but the two never spoke again.

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Trivia: The Reno gang is based on fact. On October 6, 1866 they held up for the first time a moving train and got about $10,000 in cash. Before that only trains that stood still were held up.

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Trivia: Actor Neville Brand who kills Elvis at the end of the film for years had young girls come up to him on the streets and yell at him, "You Killed Elvis!"

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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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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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