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24 April 2009
Film Still Trivia→[More:]
It's a game, sort of. Images from movies, with or without hints, any genre, any era, name that flick.
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The set is shallower than it seems. The furniture is actually smaller towards the back, as are the extras, including midgets and children in the back rows.
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The little tramp liked the pound mutt he picked for a costar so much that he took her home and kept her.
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What I love about this is that these two guys just stood around and watched while this angry man tore the headlight from their car.
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When movies stopped being silent, this guy's German accent got in the way so he went and made Nazi propaganda, retired to Austria, died of cancer.
It's Ursula Jeans, and that's Michael Redgrave closing the door in The Dam Busters (1955). I'm sure the decor in there matches a certain region of English country house, but that standing lamp with the umbrella shade? Big fan, I'm a very big fan.
Yes, that big crowd scene and the tilted-table peasant scene are both from Sunrise. And that's A Dog's Life, right before he goes and stands by the drum and the dog's tail wags and plays the drum through the hole in his pants. I think I've seen it a dozen times.
Sunrise
A Dog's Life
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Rough House
Big Business
Herr Tartüff
[another shot from Sunrise]
The Dam Busters
Kid Commotion
Iron Man