CMT Answer Update: HOLY BLUTO did I get crucified on the 'D-Day' question from last column. Yes, yes, you are right- I dropped the ball and missed the fact that 'D-Day' is a character from Animal House. In my defense, I like the movie but probably haven't seen it for 15 years, so when I was searching for the answer 'Fortress' came up on two separate sites first. Anyhoo, thanks to Kory, bmjk, Matt, T Ladd, Daddyjaxx and anyone else I've missed who wrote in pointing out the mistake.
I'll also update the question on that page so I (hopefully) don't get any more mail on it...
CMT Answer Update: In our May 31st column, we had a question asking what did someone from the crowd yell out that made Eddie Murphy laugh during the taping of the "Delirious" movie. An anonymous reader wrote in :
In Eddie Murphy's Delirious, the guy in the crowd yells out "Shut up Bitch", in response to a woman who just before that hollers "Take it off!".
Thanks, anon!
CMT Answer Update: In our June 12th column, someone asked what movie the quote "Are you on the pot?" was from. Timothy Ladd wrote "It stuck with me because I thought I knew the answer......and then it came to me...or at least a possibility. George Seagal asked Matthew Broderick (his son), "Are you taking the pot?", when he picked him up from jail in the Cable Guy." Sounds like that could definitely be it, thanks Tim.
Apparently, anyone who's seen the movie can never forget it, if for no other reason than the motorcycle scene you mention. .
CMT Answer: 1921's "The Kid" has definitely got to be one of the earliest, and is at least the earliest well-known dream sequence. In researching your question, I learned the Chaplin actually married the angel from the dream sequence of the movie a few years later.
However, the earliest movie I could find to predate Chaplin's work was a British horror short from 1911 called "Jones' Nightmare". The description on IMDB is "A man has a nightmare of being chased by demons and a giant lobster and then being shot to the Moon."- the same kind of dreams I get after eating pizza before going to sleep. I haven't seen this movie but it may be a safe guess to say this fulfills both your requirements- although you wouldn't actually hear panting (maybe a Gasp Gasp title card), we probably do see poor Jones wake up at the end.
Anyhow, there may be an earlier dream and/or nightmare sequence somewhere, but not one I could find. .
WWII- 1428 entries WWI- 666 entries Vietnam War- 60 entries under "Vietnam War", 225 entries under "Vietnam" American Civil War- 116 entries Korean War- 60 entries
I also checked a few other 'War movie databases' on the net, and while not as extensive as IMDB, they all had by far the most number of listings for the Second World War. Also, on a strictly personal note, lots of the old classics based on WWII are some of the best flicks around. They just don't make movies like The Dirty Dozen, The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, or The Eagle Has Landed anymore. Dammit, they should though. .
CMT Answer: I tracked down an answer for you and verified it from a few sites, and the answer is probably not who you'd expect. In fact, you'd might be surprised to learn it was in fact an actress who first earned a million dollars before any actor, and that actress was Mae West. She was the original 'dumb blonde', paving the way for Marilyn Monroe and many others, but she was also a very shrewd businesswoman. She didn't start acting until we she was almost forty (in 1932's "Night After Night"), and was known for delivering such classic lines as "Come up and see me sometime" or "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." Hey, a classic line I can agree with...
CMT Answer: IMDB, which is quite definitive, lists no cameo for Walt in any movie. It gives his 'Actor' credits with over 100 animation shorts where he provided the voice of Mickey Mouse, a couple of other miscellaneous shorts, and his TV hosting duties, but nothing else. I also checked Google but couldn't come up with anything, so I would say that no, he did not cameo in any movie. . .
1) My Darling Clementine 1946 Earp-Henry Fond Doc-Victor Mature 2) Gunfight at the O.K Corral 1957 Earp-Burt Lancaster Doc-Kirk Douglas 3) Doc 1961 Earp-Harris Yulin Doc-Stacy Keach 4) Hour of the Gun 1967 Earp-James Garner Doc-Jason Robards 5) Tombstone 1993 Earp-Kurt Russell Doc-Val Kilmer 6) Wyatt Earp 1994 Earp-Kevin Costner Doc-Dennis Quaid
I left off 1994's "Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone" which was basically spliced scenes from the "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" with some new footage of Tombstone added. I'd never heard of this movie or TV show before, but it must have been made to take advantage of the mini-Earp boom when Tombstone and the inferior Costner flick both were released within a few months of each other. .
Tom DiNapoli in 1974's football-prison classic "The Longest Yard": "How do you like them apples? Superstar." Brother Theodore in a 1956 short called "Midnight Cafe": "How do you like them apples?"
Anyhow, hope that helps. If any CMT readers write in with other "apples" movies I'll let you know. Man, I hope there's no "apples" quote in Animal House or I'll never hear the end of it... .
CMT Answer: Sounds like the movie you're after is "The Naked Runner", which starred Sinatra and was released in 1967. Here's a plot summary:
Sam Laker, an American businessman (in furniture design!), resident in London and a widower, with a 14 year old son Patrick, is contacted by an old British wartime colleague Martin Slattery. Slattery is now part of British secret intelligence. Another British agent is about to 'defect' and pass on critical information, so Slattery requests that Laker (an expert marksman during the war), with business cover, and about to visit the Leipzig fair with his son, assassinate this 'rogue agent'. Laker refuses, but does agree to deliver a letter to the defecting agent as aid to an underground worker - Karen -who had helped him in WWII. However once in Leipzig, upon return to his hotel after delivery of the letter, Laker finds his son has been abducted. He now has a desperate decision to make ..... I couldn't find a specific reference to the sweat in the eye bit, but other user comments I came across on IMDB seemed to echo a 'disappointing ending', which if it ends simply with the wrong target in the car some people may walk away underwhelmed. I haven't seen it but it sounds cool, though. . .
CMT Answer: Good question. Without a doubt, most movie buffs will know that the first 'talkie' was Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer". However, the first color movie is a little more obscure. The most well-known movies to use color were "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone With the Wind", both from 1939.
However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1918 silent film called "Cupid Angling". This is the accepted 'first' color feature-length film, and is also the oldest listed on IMDB as color. IMDB also has heaps of color shorts which predate even this, the earliest listed is from 1902. The actual first filming process was called Kinemacolor, and was invented in 1908 by a Brit named Charles Urban. The more well-known Technicolor corporation was founded in 1918. Prior to 1908, the 'color' movies produced were with hand-tinted frames painted by color artists.| .
