We all love watching movies but what about those amazing movie facts that baffle and amuse you? You love them too? Alright, let’s check out a few then.

Do You Know These Amazing Movie Facts?

Casablanca and the, Err, Drummer

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I’m not going to tell you that Humphrey Bogart didn’t say “Play It Again, Sam” because if you don’t already know movie facts like that then you don’t even deserve to be told. Instead, I am going to tell you that the piano player Sam couldn’t even play the darned piano. He was played by actor Dooley Wilson, who was really a drummer. The real piano player was off-screen and good old Dooley just copied what he did with his hands. For this iconic role Dooley was paid either $350 or $500 per week, depending upon which unreliable, probably completely made up website you believe.

The Lord of the Rings Actor Who Really Met JRR Tolkien

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Which of the Lord of the Rings actors do you think really met author JRR Tolkien? The fact that the writer of the books died in 1973 kind of narrows it down a little. If you’ve given up already then I can reveal that it was Christopher Lee who met him. Having first read The Hobbit in 1945 he says that he was delighted to see the author wander into a pub he was in one day. 

The Citizen Kane Movie Facts Conundrum

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Some people will look you in the eye very earnestly and tell you that Citizen Kane is the finest film ever made. They might be right for all I know. However, there is a conundrum at the heart of the movie. The plot basically follows a journalist trying to find out why the main character said “Rosebud” just as he died. Yet, there appears to have been no-one in the room when the word was spoken. Some people will tell you that the butler was in the room at the time but off-screen. Not everyone is convinced. 

Godfather and the Unexpected Horse’s Head

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Actor John Marley does a fantastic job of acting surprised and shocked at finding a real horse’s head in his bed, doesn’t he? So he freaking should, as he was expecting a plastic prop. Francis Ford Coppola got in a real head from a dog food company without telling the actor.

The Pulp Fiction Clocks

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One of most intriguing movie facts has to do with the clocks in Pulp Fiction. No, really. Virtually all of them are stuck at 4:20, which a slacker friend tells me is some sort of slang for smoking marijuana.

The Potential Scarlett O´Hara Actresses

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It’s just as well that Vivien Leigh did such a memorable job as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind; she had to beat off 1,400 other actresses who were interviewed for the part.

Raiders of the Lost Ark with Star Wars Characters

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What did you think of our old buddies R2D2 and CP30 in Raiders of the Lost Ark? No, I haven’t gone nuts, lost my marbles or gone flipping barking mad. When Indy finds the Ark of the Covenant (sorry if you haven’t seen it yet and that spoils it for you but this is 2014 after all. Where have you been all these years? ) the robotic buddies can be seen on hieroglyphics in the scene.

The Psycho Toilet Flush

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Movies facts about bathroom habits are few and far between. However, your inner movie geek will be delighted to find that Psycho was the first film shown in the USA that had a flushing toilet shown in it.