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United Artists films

  • The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)Ralph Bakshi used footage of actors in Orc costumes walking to lunch in his 1978 Lord of the Rings film.
  • Rocky (franchise)The Rocky franchise has renamed part of a real building. The entrance to the Philadelphia Museum of Art is now widely known as the Rocky Steps. Sylvester Stallone created the series around Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer from that city,…
  • The Good, the Bad and the UglyA misheard signal blew up the bridge early in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, destroying three cameras.
  • Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola bet his house and car on Apocalypse Now. He also put up his Godfather profits as security.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed in a working psychiatric hospital. Real patients joined the crew.
  • Let It Be (1970 film)George Harrison told the Beatles he was leaving, but the film Let It Be leaves that out.
  • City LightsCity Lights premiered as a silent film in 1931, four years into the talking-picture era.
  • Annie HallAnnie Hall began as a murder mystery, not a romantic comedy. Woody Allen's 1977 film dropped the murder plot.
  • Help! (film)A 1965 Beatles film was nearly called Eight Arms to Hold You. Ringo Starr proposed that title.
  • Paths of GloryBy his own account, Kirk Douglas threw a script across a room over the ending of Paths of Glory.
  • High NoonIn High Noon, a marshal asks every friend in town for help and is refused. A killer arrives on the noon train.
  • The General (1926 film)Critics called Buster Keaton's The General a flop in 1926, and it cost him his creative independence.
  • The Horse SoldiersThe Horse Soldiers paid John Wayne and William Holden a record $750,000 each.
  • Yellow Submarine (film)One voice actor in Yellow Submarine was arrested before he finished recording George's lines.

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