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The Italian Job: 50 Things You Don't Need to Know
Here's more (mostly) useless trivia, this time about the 1969 heist classic, The Italian Job. My favorite nuggets... I had no idea how many ways The Italian Job has impacted pop culture, from books to music and even to video games. Let's blow the bloody doors off of this one!
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The Longest Day: 75 Things You Don't Need to Know
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In honor of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, I'm taking a look at my favorite D-Day movie... The Longest Day. Also, unlike most of my other videos, there are some things in here I think you do need to know. Number one on that list is to hear some of the true stories of the men and women featured in this movie. They, along with hundreds of thousands of other heroes and heroines, saved...
Modern Times: On Location in 360
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This is a 360 video, so be sure to use your mouse to move your view around to see what you want. If you're watching on your phone, you can control what part you see just by moving your phone around. "Modern Times" is one of my favorite Charlie Chaplin movies, and for years I've wanted to find the spot at the end of the movie where we see Chaplin and Paulette Goddard head off into their less tha...
Hoosiers: 15 Things You Don't Need to Know
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Everyone loves an underdog, and with this year's March Madness coming to an end, I'm channeling Jimmy Chitwood and taking a shot with one of my favorite underdog movies... Hoosiers.
Butch, Sundance, and the Bolivian Army Ending
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Occasionally, a movie does a trope so well that the name for that trope is forever linked with that movie. This week I’m taking a look at the 1969 classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and the trope that movie helped define … The Bolivian Army Ending.
4 Christmas Songs Written for Classic Movies
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Some of our most popular Christmas songs were actually written for the movies. Today, I'm exploring the history of four of these songs and the films that introduced them to us.
Escape From Alcatraz: 7 Things You Don't Need to Know
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The first titles of movies that will be screened at the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival have been announced, and it includes one of my favorite Clint Eastwood films - Escape from Alcatraz. Join me as I dig into big stars getting their first breaks, the challenges of shooting on The Rock, which stunts the stars performed themselves, and so much more. And, if you're interested in learning more abo...
Dr. No: 14 Things You Don't Need to Know
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Shake up a martini because it's time to explore some useless trivia about the first James Bond movie to hit the big screen - Dr. No. From the theme song, to stolen art, to Ursula Andress' bikini... I'm uncovering it all.
12 Words the Movies Helped Redefine
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Going beyond just classic catchphrases, movies have given us new definitions for words and, in several cases, brand new words. Join me as I crack open the dictionary to discover 12 words that came from the movies.
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein: 10 Things You Don't Need to Know
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Join me as I pry open the lid on one of the first and most successful genre mashup movies of the classic era... the 1948 comedy-horror classic, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
6 Costumes for Men Inspired by Classic Movies
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I'm taking you through how to pull together costumes for Carl Spackler from "Caddyshack", James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause", Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver", The Dude from "The Big Lebowski", Quint from "Jaws", and Claude Rains in "The Invisible Man".
6 Costumes for Women Inspired by Classic Movies
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In this episode, I walk through how to pull together costumes for Holly Golightly from "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Baby Jane Hudson from "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", Tippi Hedren in "The Birds", Carrie from "Carrie", Sally Bowles from "Cabaret", and Annie Hall from "Annie Hall" Happy Halloween!
5 Couples Costumes Inspired by Classic Movies
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This Halloween, why would you settle for dressing up as a pirate or a nerd when you can dig a little deeper and create a costume inspired by a classic movie instead? In this episode, I walk through how to pull together costumes for Mary Poppins and Bert from "Mary Poppins", the Grady Twins from "The Shining", the Droogs from "A Clockwork Orange", Smokey and the Bandit, and Bonnie and Clyde. Hap...
Arsenic And Old Lace: 13 Things You Don't Need to Know
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Kicking off October with one of my favorite Halloween movies. Lots of great (and useless) facts, including how Cary Grant felt about his performance, a special tombstone in the graveyard, and the real-life murders that are thought to have inspired the story.
WarGames: 16 Things You Don't Need To Know
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This week I'm hacking through some more (mostly) useless trivia - this time about WarGames. My favorite nugget... I'll tell you how they recorded the computer voice for Joshua. So, shall we play a game?
Bye Bye Birdie: 11 Things You Don't Need to Know
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Bye Bye Birdie: 11 Things You Don't Need to Know
Strangers On A Train: The Doubles Motif
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Strangers On A Train: The Doubles Motif
Office Space: Flix Degrees of Separation
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Office Space: Flix Degrees of Separation
The Bad News Bears: Flix Degrees of Separation
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The Bad News Bears: Flix Degrees of Separation
Grease: Flix Degrees of Separation
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Grease: Flix Degrees of Separation
Rear Window: Flix Degrees of Separation
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Rear Window: Flix Degrees of Separation
Lucille Ball: Flix Degrees of Separation
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Lucille Ball: Flix Degrees of Separation
The Spy Who Dumped Me: Flix Degrees of Separation
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The Spy Who Dumped Me: Flix Degrees of Separation
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Flix Degrees of Separation
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Flix Degrees of Separation
5 Directors Influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing
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5 Directors Influenced by Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing
Who is the Mystery Man at the End of "After Hours"?
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Who is the Mystery Man at the End of "After Hours"?
Scarface + Scarface | Trailer Mashup
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Scarface Scarface | Trailer Mashup
Are Bull Durham and Major League the Same Movie?
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Are Bull Durham and Major League the Same Movie?
First Thoughts About the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
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First Thoughts About the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival

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  • @jamesdicks5069
    @jamesdicks5069 День тому

    This outstanding. Thank you.

  • @mattburley3189
    @mattburley3189 2 дні тому

    Is that true about firewall?? That’s amazing if so.

  • @michaelmorgan9824
    @michaelmorgan9824 3 дні тому

    Bonnie Lynn Fields from the Mickey Mouse Club supposedly is in this dance productions but i have not found her yet!

  • @2989andyd1
    @2989andyd1 5 днів тому

    Great video. As a Coventrian, I often tell my friends about the sewer scene. For 100% authenticity, please note that "Sowe" valley is pronounced locally like "sow" [a female pig], not like "sow" [as in seeds].

  • @moow950
    @moow950 9 днів тому

    Love Ally Sheedy 🥰

  • @kevinhealey6540
    @kevinhealey6540 12 днів тому

    The big time people, like the producer or the director, who make these spectacular big time films, do not care that the average movie goer believes why these films were so great, was because of the actors in the film. The people who make these blockbusters feel fulfilled when the film starts and the credits roll on the screen and their name come in the very beginning of the film. That being the case, they know their name will live on after they're dead and buried. They're satisfied that the people in the know like film historians, know that they're the reason why the film was so successful.

  • @cybernautadventurer
    @cybernautadventurer 12 днів тому

    Would You Like To Know More?

  • @M27UNDERGROUND
    @M27UNDERGROUND 23 дні тому

    Black coat man is an extension of charcter later used in Martin Scorseses short of Amazing Stories

  • @alessandrapirelli7040
    @alessandrapirelli7040 24 дні тому

    Hanks, Damon, and Sizemore are good actors but c'mon.... they pale in comparison to the1962 classic with the DUKE, Burton, Steiger, Mitchum, Mineo, Wagner, Buttons, McDowell, Albert....

  • @doug2078
    @doug2078 26 днів тому

    Great Job !!! The 3 years I played little league in the early 70's were the best summers of my childhood.

  • @stevewilson7060
    @stevewilson7060 27 днів тому

    Barf is not only a take-off on BART, but Barf is also the tall dude on Harold's team (fagabefe!). So many quotable moments in this film.

  • @Ignats75
    @Ignats75 Місяць тому

    The Milan Miracle Museum in Milan is a neat little stop that covers the real Milan championship. its a must stop whenever I go visit my daughter and granddaughter who live about 20 minutes away.

  • @canuck_gamer3359
    @canuck_gamer3359 Місяць тому

    They mention that only 6% of the paratroopers landed in their intended areas. That turned out to be a fortunate mistake as there are dozens of accounts that state the Germans assumed they were facing a much larger force, coming down over a much larger area as a result of the missed drops.

  • @Leo-ii9cm
    @Leo-ii9cm Місяць тому

    Suggest other movies like war games

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams Місяць тому

    Thanks for letting me know that I don't need to know this stuff, you saved me 23:59 that I can use for more productive activities. I look forward to the next video I can skip.

  • @connietreloar2102
    @connietreloar2102 Місяць тому

    The soundtrack was awesome.

  • @jonathanvince8173
    @jonathanvince8173 Місяць тому

    Canadians were also involved in the Dday landings.

  • @ironjade
    @ironjade Місяць тому

    The Longest Day won the Oscar in 1962 for best black and white production. The separate black and white category was dropped a few years later.

  • @CombatSecurityPolice85
    @CombatSecurityPolice85 Місяць тому

    Once you get out of the perimeter,you Escaped. Then you are caught. Many Inmates in the World,have Escaped. But they are caught later.

  • @madamplatypus313
    @madamplatypus313 Місяць тому

    Seriously, horror comedy is pretty much as old as film itself, and yet nowadays people complain whenever they’re used together. Like bro, when were they apart?

  • @user-ir3ob9nk2e
    @user-ir3ob9nk2e Місяць тому

    I was living in London in, I think, 1974, the year, I think, that this film was released, and I went to see it five nights in a row. I now own the dvd, and i.never tire of it.

  • @Voyageur-de-la-Rouge
    @Voyageur-de-la-Rouge Місяць тому

    The Canadians at Juno beach got totally ignored in this film

  • @ziban837
    @ziban837 Місяць тому

    All I understand is that John Wayne never served.

  • @formicaforever
    @formicaforever Місяць тому

    On the right sleeve of death it looks like he is carrying a sickle too... It is the sleeve tie but is curved like a sickle. Your explanation makes total sense.

  • @patrickgabriel4351
    @patrickgabriel4351 Місяць тому

    It’s a wonderful life Without a doubt is my favorite movie of all time and now I know why I don’t get to see you in a half 1 million times at Christmas!

  • @kenhutchingame2606
    @kenhutchingame2606 Місяць тому

    Things I don't need to know? Why publish this at all then?

  • @curbozerboomer1773
    @curbozerboomer1773 Місяць тому

    Three versions of "cute" girls were featured...Cindy Williams was the very essence of what cuteness was like...the cheerleader look!...Then there was Candy Clark, who exuded that type of cuteness, that also suggests a certain amount of ditzy availability--just the type of gal a guy would want to pick up in his car!...Finally, Suzanne Sommers was the extreme "Blonde Cuteness", that the media of those times were influencing the teen world with. How sad, really, that most all of us lose our cuteness, and pretty quickly, by the time we are in our thirties!

  • @iantaylor3393
    @iantaylor3393 Місяць тому

    A relative of mine was in the first wave at omaha etc etc.

  • @landiahillfarm6590
    @landiahillfarm6590 Місяць тому

    Christopher Lee was a BADASS, how ironic they refused to cast him. He had to have been hurt by that.

  • @colinpayn8948
    @colinpayn8948 Місяць тому

    The sequence where Bruno murders Miriam at the funfair as seen through her dropped glasses on the grass was way ahead of its time. Hitchcock was always ahead of the game

  • @SPMech1
    @SPMech1 Місяць тому

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @robbylock1741
    @robbylock1741 Місяць тому

    okay at 3:45 into this video you see a German scanning the horizon with field glasses. Printed in WHITE are the words in English "Made in Germany", beyond that the movie was, is and always will be one of my favorites.

  • @paulolenski9431
    @paulolenski9431 Місяць тому

    GREAT INSIGHTS INTO HOOSIERS. When I was in HS in Chicago, our UHF TV sets started pulling in Indiana HS basketball. And their State HS Championship. We got to watch Jimmy Rahl who was Mr. Basketball in Indiana, then went on to become an All-American at Indiana University. I heard his son had a bit part in Hoosiers on one of the opposing teams.

  • @tallsoldier
    @tallsoldier Місяць тому

    I try and turn people onto this movie as much as I can.

  • @petebeatminister
    @petebeatminister Місяць тому

    Fun fact: the 4 notes from Beethoven - ..._ - standing for V (Victory), was also in the jingle of the BBC foreign service for France. Which was basically the message board for the Frech resistance. As shown in the movie.

  • @PeterPan-iz1kk
    @PeterPan-iz1kk Місяць тому

    Hurdy, hurdy, hurdy burr. And burr. I'd like to have that in plain English, if you please!

  • @Rileys20
    @Rileys20 Місяць тому

    Thanks

  • @bemore1134
    @bemore1134 Місяць тому

    I didn't watch this because I was told I didn't need to know.

  • @dmnemaine
    @dmnemaine Місяць тому

    Just for the record, Marjorie Reynolds was not a singer, so was dubbed in "Holiday Inn".

  • @assessor1276
    @assessor1276 Місяць тому

    Sorry, but Minis - and ALL cars in fact - certainly does have a differential. This is the component that enables the drive wheels to turn at different speeds while cornering. In the Mini, the “diff” is housed inside the front-mounted transaxle and not, as you stated, in the middle of a rear axle.

  • @cagii45
    @cagii45 Місяць тому

    I love Cary in the movie, in every one of his movies. I fell in love with him on first sight. ❤

  • @tomg5304
    @tomg5304 Місяць тому

    Sadly, US forces were still segregated during WW II. On the US side, I don’t believe any African American troops were involved in the initial D-Day fighting. Hopefully, the filmmakers were not trying to be racist, but accurate.

  • @johnfranklin8319
    @johnfranklin8319 Місяць тому

    FYI: John Steele never hung from the church steeple in Sainte Mere Eglise, it’s BS story.

  • @davkatjenn
    @davkatjenn Місяць тому

    I love "The Longest Day" and for the past 8-10 years I have watched it on June 6th to remember what all those brave and wonderful soldiers, sailors and airmen did for us. God bless them all. I look forward to the day that I get to see those beaches for myself.

  • @the_real_stan_pines3024
    @the_real_stan_pines3024 Місяць тому

    There is actually a scene with a bird in the film, an imposing stone eagle on the foreground who watches over the tennis match near the film's climax. Amazing how Hitchcock repeats his motifs!

  • @lanceh.8657
    @lanceh.8657 Місяць тому

    The steady cam camera ran out of film because they were moving so fast shooting they gambled on having enough stock for the take. It ran out, they knew it was the best take so the put a guy in a black coat and wanted him to cross and black out the frame so they could continue with an extension of the shot. This is what they did in Hitchcock’s Rope. The extra crossed early. There was no video feed and they didn’t realize the cross didn’t work. They stuck with the best steady cam take they had and said screw it and left the jump cut. Also, they came back to do this scene because the original ending with the van speeding off with Paul encased in the plaster tested terribly so they needed a “happy ending” or at least a “happier ending”. So, there is the truth. Also, we landed on the moon.

  • @user-yu5pf7zg5l
    @user-yu5pf7zg5l Місяць тому

    Great video! Caught this 1 day after watching the movie again! Found the material about Richard Todd exceptional.

  • @lastpme
    @lastpme Місяць тому

    I think they drowned.

  • @ericthered760
    @ericthered760 Місяць тому

    That's Hans Christian Blech shown at 3:46, not the actor shown @ 9:47.

  • @arthuroldale-ki2ev
    @arthuroldale-ki2ev Місяць тому

    When I was a young man in the 1960s I worked on many jobs with men who had been on those beaches in 1944 and watched the film The longest Day a few times, once with two men who had been there. Saving Private Ryan, I know that those Guys would not of liked it. I know that they would of thought the graphic violence unnecessary and the lack of the human element, that dominate films made after the 60s. Folk were different back then, far more caring and dare I say it , interesting!