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The Blue Max picture

Trivia: The number of the Berlin hotel room Bruno Stachel stays in the night before he is to be awarded the Blue Max is '22', which equals the number of planes he has shot down. He needed only 20 to win the award, but he had to shoot down two more in order to make up for Willy's kills that he claimed as his own earlier in the film.

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Flags of Our Fathers picture

Trivia: This movie was filmed back-to-back with Letters from Iwo Jima, a fictional account of the battle of Iwo Jima that looks at it from the Japanese soldier's perspective.

Joel Amos Gordon

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The Last Airbender picture

Trivia: This is the first adaption M. Night Shyamalan directed.

Jeffy

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness picture

Trivia: The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness tells the story of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary in China. The casting of Ingrid Bergman in the role was quite amazing, especially considering that Gladys Aylward was still alive at the time. Ingrid Bergman, who exuded glamour throughout the movie, was 5' 9" tall, had blonde hair and retained her native Swedish accent. Gladys Aylward was of rather plain appearance, stood a mere 4' 10" tall, had black hair and spoke with a cockney accent.

Rob Halliday

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Dunkirk picture

Trivia: When the destroyer is bombed next to the mole, the shots of it sinking are of the corvette Compass Rose from The Cruel Sea.

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More American Graffiti picture

Trivia: When Lance is thrown on the bar during the bar brawl, he yells the Wilhelm scream.

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The Man Who Never Was picture

Trivia: Because of this "trick" on the Germans, when a complete plan of Operation Market Garden fell into the German hands later in the war, the Germans thought it was another trick, and ignored it.

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55 Days at Peking picture

Trivia: The Chinese extras cast in this film were almost all Spanish residents, especially in Madrid. This was done to such an extreme extent that some Chinese restaurants and other Chinese-Spanish-owned businesses in the Madrid area especially were forced to close for a few days due to lack of personnel.

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Foreign Correspondent picture

Trivia: Hitchcock's cameo comes twelve minutes into the movie - he can be seen wearing a hat and coat and reading a newspaper after Joel McCrea leaves the hotel.

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Seven Beauties picture

Trivia: Lina Wertmuller became the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director with this film.

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Shogun picture

Trivia: In the documentary The Making of Shogun, it is stated that the rise of Japanese food establishments in the US (particularly sushi houses) is attributed to Shogun.

Sangie

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Trivia: Esmond P. Knight, the actor who portrayed Captain Leach of the battleship "Prince of Wales" was a crew member on the ship during the real battle where he was badly injured, suffering a period of blindness.

Larry Redfield

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare picture

Trivia: Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, is a character in the movie. When he is introduced, he introduces himself as "Fleming, Ian Fleming", which is a nod to how James Bond has introduced himself throughout the years.

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Draftee Daffy picture

Trivia: When Daffy is saluting the portrait of General MacArthur, along the bottom of the painting you can read the artist's name: Cornett Wood. Wood was a layout artist for Warner Brothers.

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