This flying kick by actor Song Kang-ho was improvised and hilarious as hell.

salesonfilm:

Buster and the crew formed a baseball team and played during the many long weather delays. 

unknownskywalker:

On Set: Empire Strikes Back

When Darth Vader (David Prowse) revealed his secret to Luke, Hamill was hanging onto a pinnacle above mattresses placed on cardboard boxes about 30 feet off the ground.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, Lucasfilm is releasing a comprehensive history of the making of the groundbreaking film, aptly titled The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by author J.W. Rinzler. The book is packed with hundreds of rarely seen behind the scene photographs which you can preview here.

(via Vanity Fair)

Dad just recounted a wonderful story he read in some magazine long ago that Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Charles Bronson all lived around the same Beverly Hills neighborhood and that they would get together and drink beers in front of one of their homes (he can’t remember which).

Afterwards, they would roll their empty beer cans down the hilly street where they’d collect in front of Pat Boone’s home.

hellyeahtomhanks:

A League Of Their Own

Tom Hanks gained 30 pounds for the role of Jimmy Dugan.

yelhsaadnama:

Australian actor Errol Flynn was frequently banned from drinking on the set. Necessity being the mother of invention, the savvy star soon developed a solution: Injecting oranges with vodka and eating them during his breaks.

Dad set me on a task to find out if the car in The Karate Kid (1984) is the same model car that Marty drives Lorraine in to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance in Back to the Future (1985). 

Um, thank goodness for: Internet Movie Cars Database!!!

The answer: The Karate Kid car (above) is a 1948 Ford Super De Luxe. The BTTF car (below) is a 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria.

kavalierandclay:

The Wilhelm Scream of props

herooftheproletariat:

Will’s brothers:

Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian.

Trivia time:

Roger Ebert asked in his “Movie Answer Man” column for suggestions as to who Will’s brothers Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian were named after. Gina Dante of Minneapolis suggested that they were “directors whom Ben Affleck and Matt Damon would like to work with”: Marc Rocco, Richard Attenborough, Danny Boyle, Terry Gilliam, Mikael Salomon, David Fincher, Tim Burton, Tom Hanks, Joel Schumacher, Robert Redford, John Woo, and Brian De Palma. 

oldfilmsflicker:

According to Robert Osborne when he introduced the film on TCM, it was in Gergory Peck’s contract that he have sole above-the-title billing for this movie because Audrey Hepburn at the time was a relative unknown, aside from her starring turn in Gigi on Broadway. However, after they began filming, Peck realized that Hepburn was going to steal the film and Peck thought it would be ridiculous if he had sole billing. He suggested, much to the chagrin of his agent, that the two stars have equal above-the-title billing. In the end Peck got his way and Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Academy Award for performance in the film.

I must also add that Peck ad-libbed his hand being bitten off in the “mouth of truth” scene with director William Wyler’s permission. Audrey Hepburn’s reaction and surprise at the joke was completely genuine, and the scene was finished in one take. This is one of my favorite films as a child.

It’s D-Day. Dad woke up, hung the flag, and put on The Longest Day (1962). Some trivia:

• Sean Connery, who made his debut as James Bond also in 1962, acted in the movie along with Gert Fröbe and Curd Jürgens - two future Bond villains. 

• With a $10,000,000 budget, this was the most expensive black & white film ever made until Schindler’s List (1993).

• One of the very first World War II films made by an American studio in which the members of each country spoke nearly all their dialog in the language of that country: the Germans spoke German, the French spoke French, and the Americans and the British spoke English. There were subtitles on the bottom of the screen to translate the various languages. 

• While clearing a section of the Normandy beach near Ponte du Hoc, the film’s crew unearthed a tank that had been buried in the sand since the original invasion. Mechanics cleaned it off, fixed it up and it was used in the film as part of the British tank regiment.

• 1963 Oscar winner for Best Cinematography (B&W), and Best Effects (special effects)