Answers: June 12, 2003
Here are the answers I've emailed out to some of the questions you have asked. As you'll see, I don't always know the correct answer but hope to at least provide a hint to steer the person asking in the right direction. If you can clarify, or want to dispute, any of the answers- be sure to contact me and I'll follow up. Every so often I'll add a new page of answers so check back often!
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CMT Answer Update:
Alert reader Matthew provided an extra answer to June 5th's question of "What other movie other than Finding Nemo has the song 'Beyond the Sea' playing over the end credits?" He wrote: The song “Beyond The Sea” plays over the end credits of the underrated Andrew Dice Clay movie “The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane”. Directed by Renny Harlin and costarring: Ed O’ Neill, Robert Englund, Sheila E, Wayne Newton, Morris Day, Vince Neil, and Lauren Holly.

Good catch, Matthew.

What was the title of an independent movie about a retiring jewelry salesman who traveled about rural Pennsylvania to show his collection to jewelry stores.
-Bonnie
CMT Answer:
That would be the low-budget indie "Diamond Men" starring the great character actor Robert Forster ("Jackie Brown", "Mullholand Dr." and Donnie Wahlberg (you know it... New Kids on the Block). A pretty cool movie with believable characters and a nice mini-twist in the end.
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Who said "You're gonna need a bigger boat" and what movie was it?
-Melissa

CMT Answer:
That classic line came from Roy Scheider in the Spielberg action / horror classic "Jaws". The line was said while the three main characters Martin Brody (Scheider), Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and Quint (Robert Shaw), were out looking for Jaws in Quint's little tug. Scheider was bored and not too happy about having to chum the waters, when behind him we see Jaws come right out of the water and make his first full-fledged appearance. It's that scene that's the basis for the "Jaws" portion of the tour at Universal Studios. Scheider is the only one who has seen the monster so he stumbles into the cabin and delivers the classic line to Shaw..
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Who was the voice of HAL the computer in 2001 and 2010? Thanks.
-George P. Shanks
CMT Answer:
The voice of the deranged computer (well, deranged in "2001" anyways) was provided by the actor Douglas Rain. A Canuck, Rain hasn't really appeared in too much else other than what looks like some CBC television dramas. But being the voice of HAL is a pretty cool claim-to-fame all by itself.
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What was the address of the family that Mary Poppins lived with?
-David Fogel
CMT Answer:
The address of the Banks family in the 1964 classic is 17 Cherry Tree Lane.
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I want to know what kind of bicycle Elliott rode on in the movie "ET". It appeared to be a popular bike when the movie was released. THANKS.
-Needy
CMT Answer:
The bicycles were originally supposed to be Schwinns, but the company didn't want to be involved with the movie production. (Two words: big mistake). In it's place, Kuwahara's were used- supplied from the Japanese bicycle company. I remember always wanting a 'Kuwie' about the time the film was released, but I wasn't aware at that time that it was the E.T bicycle.
Here's a link detailing the whole process of how they got the bikes and what kind of special versions they constructed for the movie:
http://www.cinefex.com/et/et21.html
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Could you please tell me the movie and character from this movie line:
" I don't believe in Beatles: I just believe in me."
Hint: I do know that the actor was born in March 1962 and also starred in another film involving computer hackers.
-Ann Jones
CMT Answer:
The movie was 1986's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and the star of the flick, Matthew Broderick, said the line. He was the computer hacker in your hint in another 80's classic, "War Games", before going onto starring in pap like "Godzilla" and "Inspector Gadget". The line in the movie refers to a lyric from the John Lennon song "God", which goes:

"I don't believe in Beatles --
I just believe in me
Yoko and me -- and that's reality
The dream is over -- what can I say?
The dream is over -- yesterday"
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What 1982 movie had the most extras of all time?
-Richard

CMT Answer:
When you hear 'most extras', you'd think of Academy Award winning epics like "Ben-Hur" that have massive crowd scenes in some of the big set pieces. You'd be right in this case too, as the winner of the the movie-with-most-extras-award goes to the 1982 Best-Picture Oscar winner "Gandhi". The Ben Kingsley starrer featured over 300,000 extras used in production, a feat that is virtually guaranteed to never-again happen as it is now much cheaper to use special effects or computer-generated crowds than it is to have to deal with over a quarter of a million extras..
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I'm sure this isn't the first time someone has asked this, but......What was in the briefcase in the movie Pulp Fiction?
-John Szabo

CMT Answer:
There is no definitive answer to this question, although theories abound: gold, jewels (the stolen diamonds from 'Reservoir Dogs', and one theory that has many fans is Marcellus Wallace's soul.

Gold is thought of basically because the contents are obviously very valuable and reflect a golden light when looked upon. Jewels again because of their value and because of a few of Pulp Fiction's tie-ins with Reservoir Dogs. Marcellus' soul because: Marcellus obviously wants the case very badly, the contents seem to hold whoever looks at it in awe, Marcellus has a bandaid on the back of his head (perhaps from where the devil took his soul), and the briefcase combination is 666.

However, I have read Tarantino's response to the question and he said there was nothing that was specifically supposed to be in there. Basically, it's a McGuffin- a movie term used to describe 'something' that is the motivation for the characters to do what they do. What that something is, is not important.
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You've probably been asked this before, but I couldn't find it on your site...but I need to know (if you can find out or know offhand) what movie had the most occurrences of the "f word"? My husband was watching "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" when this question came to mind.
-Nichole
CMT Answer:
The Guinness record holder is "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut". The movie featured 399 offensive words, including 60 alone in the musical number "Shut Your F**kin Face Uncle F**ker". I don't know what percentage of those
399 were specifically the F word, but I would say definitely more than 50%.
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I would like to settle a bet. Was this 1970's movie filmed in Modesto, Calif or Petaluma, Calif? I have information on both. Thanks.
-?
CMT Answer:
George Lucas' 1973 classic was set over the course of one night in Modesto, California. However, filming was not done there as the town was deemed to have changed too much since the year (1962) the story was to have taken place. Instead, filming began in San Rafael, California- but because of problems shooting there the production was moved to Modesto, Ca. Filming completed in less than a month, and the town is still strongly associated with the nostalgia trip.
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In Kevin Smiths "Dogma" Bartlbe says "This coming from the guy who said which would be bigger E.T. or Krush Groove!" to which Loki responds "hey, time will tell on that." (I think that's the quote if not close enough). Is Krush Groove a Run-DMC movie or just a movie with a Run-DMC song as the title?
-Daniel Dunbar
CMT Answer:
Krush Groove is a 1985 rap flick that not only featured Run (Joseph Simmons) DMC (Darryl McDaniels), Jam Master Jay, but the Fat Boys and New Edition (featuring Bobby Brown!!) to boot. The three RUN DMC boys also appeared in 1988's "Tougher Than Leather", a blaxploitation-Western hybrid that bombed at theaters, and not in a good 'DA BOMB' kind of way.
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Who wrote the BOOK (not the screenplay) which Clint Eastwood turned into "Sudden Impact"? What was the title of that book? Was it originally a Harry Callahan novel?
-Michael Dawson

CMT Answer:
The 'Go ahead, make my day' flick has the screenplay credited to Joseph Stinton, based on a story by Earl E. Smith and Charles B. Pierce. This normally means the producer chose the story Smith and Pierce wrote for production, or they were asked to write the story for the movie. The screenwriter than crafts the story into an actual screenplay to be used for shooting. In this case, it does not appear that the story for the movie was originally a novel at all- there were no 'based on novel / book' credits anywhere that I could find.

Also, I came across a site on the 1976 flick "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", which was directed by Pierce and written by Smith and it mentions the two as having 'written the story for the Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact', but makes no mention of it being first published as a book. Lastly, there was a novelization of the movie written by Joseph Stinton, who wrote the screenplay. This was a pure movie tie-in book, and not an original novel.
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What movie did the quote, "Are you on the pot?" come from?
-Donna
CMT Answer:
Hmph- beats me. Sounds like a "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" kind of quote, but a Google search turned up absolutely zero. The phrase "Are you on pot" paired with the word 'movie' brought back only two returns, and none of them had to do with an actual movie quote. The phrase has undoubtedly been used in more than a few flicks, but I don't think it's one of those "I'll be back" type-phrases that strongly originated from a single movie.
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