100 Fun Facts About 1960s Movies

Who plays the shy motel proprietor Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)?

Anthony Perkins played Norman Bates, a role he returned to in Psycho II (1983); Hitchcock shot Psycho in black and white with the crew of his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Which Billy Wilder comedy, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, won Best Picture for 1960?

The Apartment won Best Picture for 1960; Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine starred, and it inspired the 1968 Broadway musical Promises, Promises.

Who replaced the original director of Spartacus (1960) after Kirk Douglas removed him?

It was the only Kubrick film where he lacked complete artistic control; Douglas also broke the blacklist by crediting screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Which 1961 musical won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, from 11 nominations?

West Side Story won 10 Oscars from 11 nominations for 1961, including Best Picture and Best Director for co-directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins; Robbins also received an honorary award for his choreography.

Who wrote 'Moon River' with Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)?

Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics to Henry Mancini's melody for 'Moon River', which won the Best Original Song Oscar for 1961; the pair won again the next year for 'Days of Wine and Roses'.

Which actor made his debut as James Bond in Dr. No (1962)?

Sean Connery first played James Bond in Dr. No (1962), directed by Terence Young, and went on to play 007 in six more films, the last being Never Say Never Again (1983).

Who played T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (1962)?

Peter O'Toole played T. E. Lawrence, earning the first of his eight Best Actor nominations; Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for David Lean.

Gregory Peck won his Best Actor Oscar for playing which lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)?

Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, won Gregory Peck the Best Actor Oscar for 1962; the American Film Institute later ranked Atticus the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.

Elizabeth Taylor signed on to Cleopatra (1963) for what record-setting salary?

Elizabeth Taylor was paid $1 million plus a share of the gross for Cleopatra; the shoot began at Pinewood in 1960, shut down, and restarted in Rome under Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1961.

Which 1963 Best Picture winner starred Albert Finney as Henry Fielding's roguish foundling?

Tom Jones, Tony Richardson's adaptation of Fielding's novel scripted by John Osborne, won four Oscars from ten nominations, including Best Picture for 1963 and Best Director.

Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) is set in which northern California town?

The Birds is set in Bodega Bay, a fishing village on the Sonoma County coast where Hitchcock shot on location; it introduced Tippi Hedren, and Evan Hunter built a new story around Daphne du Maurier's premise.

Who became the first Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar, for Lilies of the Field (1963)?

Sidney Poitier won Best Actor for 1963 as Homer Smith, a handyman who builds a chapel for East German nuns in the Arizona desert; he was the first Black winner of that award.

Steve McQueen's motorcycle jump is the famous stunt from which 1963 POW film?

The Great Escape's motorcycle jump was actually performed by stuntman Bud Ekins, McQueen's friend; McQueen won Best Actor at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival for the role.

Ray Harryhausen's fight between the hero and seven skeleton warriors comes from which 1963 film?

Jason and the Argonauts' skeleton fight took Ray Harryhausen over four months to animate; Bernard Herrmann composed the score, and Harryhausen called it his finest film.

In Dr. Strangelove (1964), how many different characters does Peter Sellers play?

Peter Sellers plays three roles: President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove himself and RAF Group Captain Mandrake; he was also cast as Major Kong but a leg injury handed that part to Slim Pickens.

Goldfinger (1964) turned which car into the biggest-selling toy of the year via Corgi?

Goldfinger's gadget-laden Aston Martin DB5, with ejector seat and revolving number plates, became Corgi's best-selling toy in 1965; the film was the first Bond to gross over $100 million.

Mary Poppins (1964) was the feature-film debut of which actress, who won the Best Actress Oscar for it?

Julie Andrews made her film debut as Mary Poppins and won Best Actress for 1964, the same year she had been passed over for the screen version of My Fair Lady, her own Broadway role.

Who played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady?

Audrey Hepburn played Eliza Doolittle, with Marni Nixon dubbing most of her singing; Rex Harrison repeated his stage Higgins and won Best Actor as the film took eight Oscars for 1964.

Clint Eastwood's first leading role was in which 1964 spaghetti western?

A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone's unofficial remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, gave Clint Eastwood his first lead for a fee of $15,000; Kurosawa's lawsuit won him a share of the worldwide gross.

Who directed the Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night?

Richard Lester directed A Hard Day's Night, shot in black and white in spring 1964 as a fictional day and a half in the band's life; Lester directed the Beatles again in Help! (1965).

Which 1965 film overtook Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film ever?

The Sound of Music, released in March 1965, passed Gone with the Wind in 1966 to become the highest-grossing film to that point; Robert Wise won Best Director and the film took Best Picture.

Because Pasternak's novel was banned in the USSR, where was Doctor Zhivago (1965) mostly filmed?

Doctor Zhivago was shot mainly in Spain: a Moscow street set was built outside Madrid and the winter scenes were filmed near Soria; Maurice Jarre's score, with 'Lara's Theme', won an Oscar.

Thunderball (1965) was the first Bond film shot in which widescreen format?

Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in anamorphic Panavision, giving it a 2.35:1 widescreen frame; about a quarter of its running time is underwater, and it was Terence Young's last Bond.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) starred which real-life married pair as George and Martha?

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, married in 1964, played the warring George and Martha; Taylor won Best Actress for 1966, and all four credited cast members were Oscar-nominated.

Who played Sir Thomas More in the 1966 Best Picture winner A Man for All Seasons?

Paul Scofield, who had created Sir Thomas More on the West End stage in 1960, won Best Actor for the film; Robert Shaw played Henry VIII and John Hurt was Richard Rich.

In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), who plays 'the Ugly'?

Eli Wallach played Tuco, 'the Ugly', alongside Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef; the Italian title, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, actually orders them good, ugly, bad.

Which duo recorded the soundtrack for The Graduate (1967), including 'Mrs. Robinson'?

Simon & Garfunkel supplied the songs, and 'Mrs. Robinson' went to number one in 1968 and won the Grammy for Record of the Year; Mike Nichols won Best Director for The Graduate.

Who played Clyde Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and also produced the film?

Warren Beatty produced Bonnie and Clyde and starred as Clyde Barrow opposite Faye Dunaway; Estelle Parsons won the film's only acting Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress.

Which 1967 Best Picture winner gave us the line 'They call me Mister Tibbs!'?

In the Heat of the Night won Best Picture for 1967; the line is detective Virgil Tibbs's retort to Rod Steiger's Mississippi police chief, and Steiger won Best Actor.

Which actor, who died 17 days after filming ended, made his ninth and final film with Katharine Hepburn in 1967?

Spencer Tracy died on 10 June 1967, 17 days after completing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, his ninth film with Katharine Hepburn; she said she never watched it because the memories were too painful.

Cool Hand Luke (1967) stars Paul Newman as a nonconformist convict in a prison camp in which state?

Cool Hand Luke is set in a Florida road-prison camp, drawn from Donn Pearce's own time on Florida chain gangs; it was filmed in California's San Joaquin Delta near Stockton on a replica of a Florida road prison.

The Jungle Book (1967) was the last animated feature personally produced by whom?

Walt Disney died in December 1966 while The Jungle Book was in production, making it the last animated feature he personally supervised; Terry Gilkyson's 'The Bare Necessities' was the only song kept from the scrapped first version.

The Dirty Dozen (1967) was inspired by a real WWII demolition unit with what nickname?

The Filthy Thirteen was a demolition section of the 101st Airborne's 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, famed for its Mohawk haircuts on D-Day; E. M. Nathanson's novel, filmed with Lee Marvin in charge, drew on their legend.

Who voices the computer HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?

Rain was the narrator of a documentary called Universe that Kubrick admired; the film premiered on 2 April 1968.

What do the astronauts find at the end of Planet of the Apes (1968), revealing where they really are?

The Statue of Liberty, half-buried on the beach, reveals the planet is Earth; Rod Serling co-wrote the script with Michael Wilson, and the desert scenes were shot around Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border.

Who plays the newlywed Rosemary in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968)?

Mia Farrow played Rosemary Woodhouse; Frank Sinatra had her served with divorce papers on set during filming, and Ruth Gordon won Best Supporting Actress as the sinister neighbour Minnie Castevet.

Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) was shot mainly in which state?

Night of the Living Dead was shot around Evans City, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh, where the crew used a condemned farmhouse they were free to wreck; the film calls its monsters 'ghouls', never zombies.

Bullitt (1968), with its famous car chase, is set in which city?

Bullitt is set in San Francisco, where the chase was shot on the city's hills at speeds over 100 mph; Steve McQueen's Solar Productions made the film and Lalo Schifrin wrote the jazz score.

Barbra Streisand's Best Actress Oscar for Funny Girl (1968) was unusual for what reason?

It was a tie: Streisand and Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) each received 3,030 votes, the first dead heat in Best Actress history; Streisand had already played Fanny Brice on Broadway.

Which musical based on Charles Dickens won Best Picture for 1968?

Oliver!, Lionel Bart's musical of Oliver Twist, won Best Picture for 1968 and Best Director for Carol Reed, whose nephew Oliver Reed played Bill Sikes; it was shot at Shepperton.

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau played Felix and Oscar in which 1968 Neil Simon comedy?

The Odd Couple, adapted by Neil Simon from his 1965 Broadway play, paired Jack Lemmon as fussy Felix Ungar with Walter Matthau as slob Oscar Madison, a role Matthau had won a Tony for on stage.

Jane Fonda played a space traveller hunting Dr. Durand Durand in which 1968 film?

Barbarella was directed by Jane Fonda's then-husband Roger Vadim from Jean-Claude Forest's French comic strip; the villain Durand Durand later gave the band Duran Duran its name.

Who wrote the screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)?

William Goldman wrote the script and won his first Oscar for it (the second came for All the President's Men); Paul Newman and Robert Redford's outlaws flee to Bolivia, and the AFI later ranked it the seventh-greatest western.

Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only Best Picture winner to have carried which rating?

Midnight Cowboy was rated X on release in 1969 and re-rated R in 1971 with no cuts; Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman play the hustlers Joe Buck and 'Ratso' Rizzo.

Easy Rider (1969) earned about $60M worldwide on a budget of roughly how much?

Easy Rider cost roughly $400,000, much of it raised by producer Bert Schneider, and grossed about $60 million worldwide; Jack Nicholson earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination as the lawyer George Hanson.

In which Italian city does Michael Caine's gang steal the gold in The Italian Job (1969)?

The heist takes place in Turin, where the Minis race through the city and across the rooftop test track of the Fiat Lingotto factory; Noel Coward made his last film appearance as Mr Bridger.

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) follows an ageing outlaw gang in what year?

The Wild Bunch is set in 1913, with the ageing outlaws crossing into a Mexico torn by revolution and facing the new century's automobiles and machine guns; Peckinpah shot it around Parras, Coahuila.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was released in the middle of which real-world Cold War standoff?

The Manchurian Candidate opened on 24 October 1962, in the second week of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Angela Lansbury, barely older than Laurence Harvey, played his monstrous mother and won a Golden Globe.

Who played jewel thief 'The Phantom' opposite Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther (1963)?

David Niven played Sir Charles Lytton, the gentleman thief known as the Phantom, and was the film's top-billed star; the Pink Panther of the title is a diamond, with the cartoon cat appearing only in the credits.

Which 1962 Kubrick film cast 14-year-old Sue Lyon opposite James Mason?

Lolita starred Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze opposite James Mason's Humbert Humbert, with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty; Nabokov received sole screenplay credit and an Oscar nomination for it.

How much did Psycho (1960) cost to make, roughly?

Psycho cost about $800,000, kept low by shooting in black and white with Hitchcock's television crew; it grossed roughly $50 million worldwide and earned Hitchcock a Best Director nomination.

Which 1960 John Sturges Western is an Old West remake of a 1954 Akira Kurosawa film?

Kurosawa's Seven Samurai had itself first been released in the United States under the title The Magnificent Seven.

In The Hustler (1961), Jackie Gleason plays which legendary pool player?

Jackie Gleason played Minnesota Fats, the champion Paul Newman's Fast Eddie Felson challenges in a marathon match; the real-life hustler Rudolf Wanderone adopted the name Minnesota Fats after the film.

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) presents a fictionalized version of which 1947 Nuremberg proceeding?

The Judges' Trial of 1947 prosecuted sixteen German jurists and lawyers; the film reduces them to four defendants, led by Burt Lancaster's Ernst Janning, and grew from a 1959 Playhouse 90 episode.

Which D-Day assault had The Longest Day (1962) cast member Richard Todd actually taken part in?

Richard Todd, a 7th Parachute Battalion officer, landed by parachute on D-Day and reinforced John Howard's glider troops at Pegasus Bridge; in The Longest Day he played Major Howard himself.

Lee Marvin won the Best Actor Oscar for a dual role in which 1965 Western comedy?

Cat Ballou won Lee Marvin Best Actor for 1965 as both drunken gunfighter Kid Shelleen and silver-nosed killer Tim Strawn; Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye sing the story as wandering minstrels.

Which Academy Award did Mel Brooks win for his directorial debut, The Producers (1967)?

Mel Brooks won Best Original Screenplay for The Producers, beating 2001: A Space Odyssey among others; its 'Springtime for Hitler' premise was controversial on release, but the AFI later ranked it eleventh among the funniest American films.

John Wayne won his only competitive Oscar for playing which marshal in True Grit (1969)?

John Wayne played one-eyed U.S. Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn and won Best Actor for 1969; he reprised the role in the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn opposite Katharine Hepburn.

Which two future directors did Leone recruit to devise the plot of Once Upon a Time in the West?

Sergio Leone worked out the story with the young Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci before Sergio Donati wrote the script; Charles Bronson took the lead after Clint Eastwood declined, and the shortened U.S. cut flopped.

Who composed the score for Zorba the Greek (1964)?

Mikis Theodorakis composed the score, including the sirtaki 'Zorba's Dance' to which Anthony Quinn's Zorba and Alan Bates's Basil dance on a Cretan beach at the film's end.

Who plays both twins in The Parent Trap (1961)?

Her double-tracked single 'Let's Get Together', credited to 'Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills', reached number 8 on the US charts.

Who played Blanche opposite Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)?

Joan Crawford played the wheelchair-bound Blanche Hudson opposite Bette Davis's Jane; their much-publicised feud helped sell the film, which earned Davis her tenth Best Actress nomination.

Who played the vengeful ex-convict Max Cady in the original Cape Fear (1962)?

Robert Mitchum played Max Cady, who stalks Gregory Peck's lawyer Sam Bowden; Mitchum returned as a different character, Lieutenant Elgart, in Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake with Robert De Niro as Cady.

What is unusual about every line of dialogue in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)?

It is entirely sung: Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand set even casual conversation as recitative, and the film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1964.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) adapts a novel by which author?

John le Carré's 1963 novel, written while he was serving as an MI6 officer, was filmed by Martin Ritt; its burnt-out agent Alec Leamas is sent to East Germany on a mission that turns out to be a cynical double-bluff.

In the Beatles' Help! (1965), a cult pursues which band member over a sacrificial ring?

Ringo Starr wears the sacrificial ring of the goddess Kaili, sent by a fan, and Clang's cult chases the band from the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas, with mad scientist Foot also after the ring.

What racing number does Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle wear in The Love Bug (1968)?

Herbie wears number 53, chosen by producer Bill Walsh, a Dodgers fan, in tribute to pitcher Don Drysdale's jersey; the film was the top-grossing release of 1969 in North America.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) is set at what gruelling Depression-era event?

A dance marathon on a seaside pier is the setting, with couples shuffling for weeks and periodic 'derbies' eliminating the slowest; Gig Young won Best Supporting Actor as the MC Rocky.

Who played Tracy, the woman Bond marries in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)?

Diana Rigg, fresh from playing Emma Peel in The Avengers, was Tracy di Vicenzo, whom Bond marries near the end of the film; Brigitte Bardot had been approached first but chose to make Shalako instead.

Inherit the Wind (1960) is a fictionalized account of which real 1925 court case?

The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial of 1925 saw Dayton, Tennessee teacher John Scopes convicted of teaching evolution; the film's duelling lawyers are modelled on Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, and the playwrights aimed it at McCarthyism.

Who co-starred with Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas (1964)?

Ann-Margret played Rusty Martin opposite Elvis's racing driver Lucky Jackson; the pair began a widely reported romance during filming, and she remained a friend until his death in 1977.

Born Free (1966) follows Joy and George Adamson raising which orphaned animal in Kenya?

A lioness named Elsa, orphaned as a cub when George Adamson shot her mother, was raised by the Adamsons and released into the wild; Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, a real married couple, played them.

Which copying process let One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) skip hand-inking its cels?

Xerography, adapted by Ub Iwerks with a modified Xerox camera, transferred the animators' pencil drawings straight onto cels, skipping the inking department and giving the film its sketchy line.

In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), who really fired the fatal shot?

Tom Doniphon, John Wayne's rancher, fires a rifle from a side alley at the same instant as James Stewart's Ransom Stoddard, then lets the lawyer take the credit and the political career.

How the West Was Won (1962) was one of only two dramas shot in which three-strip process?

Cinerama used a trio of synchronised cameras and projectors on a deeply curved screen; How the West Was Won and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm were the only narrative features made in the full process.

Who won an Oscar at 16 for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962)?

Patty Duke, who had played Helen Keller on Broadway, won Best Supporting Actress at 16, then the youngest competitive winner; Anne Bancroft won Best Actress as the teacher Annie Sullivan.

What does the title of Fellini's 8½ (1963) refer to?

His tally of films directed: Fellini reckoned his previous output at seven and a half, counting shorts and a co-directed film as halves, so this became his eighth and a half; the working title was La bella confusione.

Clouseau's manservant Cato, who ambushes him at home, first appears in which 1964 film?

A Shot in the Dark, the second Clouseau film, introduced both Burt Kwouk's Cato and Herbert Lom's Commissioner Dreyfus; it was adapted from a stage farce that originally had no Clouseau at all.

In Wait Until Dark (1967), criminals hunt a blind woman’s doll stuffed with what?

Heroin is sewn inside the doll, which a drug courier passed to the heroine's photographer husband at an airport; Alan Arkin plays Roat, the killer who terrorises blind Susy Hendrix in her darkened home.

Which children's author wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice (1967)?

Roald Dahl, a friend of Ian Fleming, kept little of the novel beyond its Japanese setting; he then wrote the screenplay for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), also from a Fleming book, for the same producer.

Which Oscar-winning song came from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)?

'The Windmills of Your Mind', by Michel Legrand with lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, won Best Original Song for 1968; Noel Harrison, son of Rex Harrison, sang it over the film's glider sequence.

Roger Corman's The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) shot its interiors in how many days?

Two days (plus a night) was all Corman spent on the interiors, using sets left standing from A Bucket of Blood; a young Jack Nicholson plays the pain-loving dental patient Wilbur Force.

In Where Eagles Dare (1968), the Schloss Adler fortress can be reached only by what?

A cable car is the only way up to the Schloss Adler, and its roof hosts the film's knife fight; the mission to free a captured general is really a ploy to expose double agents inside MI6.

The Misfits (1961) was the last completed film for Marilyn Monroe and which leading man?

Clark Gable died of a heart attack in November 1960, days after filming wrapped and before the February 1961 premiere; Arthur Miller, then Monroe's husband, wrote the script.

Zulu (1964) depicts which 1879 battle between a small British garrison and the Zulu army?

Rorke's Drift, 22-23 January 1879, saw about 150 British soldiers hold a mission station against some 4,000 Zulus, and eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded; Michael Caine's Lieutenant Bromhead was his first major role.

Which British director’s career was wrecked by the reception of Peeping Tom (1960)?

Michael Powell, co-creator of The Red Shoes with Emeric Pressburger, saw his British career collapse after critics savaged Peeping Tom; Martin Scorsese championed the film's revival in the late 1970s.

Who plays Catherine, the woman at the centre of the love triangle in Jules and Jim (1962)?

Jeanne Moreau played Catherine, loved by both Oskar Werner's Jules and Henri Serre's Jim, in Francois Truffaut's adaptation of Henri-Pierre Roche's novel; she also sings the film's song 'Le Tourbillon'.

Who won Best Actress as the housekeeper Alma in Hud (1963), opposite Paul Newman?

Patricia Neal won Best Actress for 1963 as Alma, despite under 22 minutes of screen time; Melvyn Douglas won Best Supporting Actor and James Wong Howe took the black-and-white cinematography Oscar.

Who played shoe-blade villain Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love (1963)?

Lotte Lenya, the Vienna-born singer and widow of composer Kurt Weill, played SPECTRE's Rosa Klebb, whose poisoned shoe blade nearly kills Bond; she had won a Tony for The Threepenny Opera in 1956.

Which 1964 Lumet nuclear thriller was held back so Dr. Strangelove could open first?

Fail Safe, Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the Burdick and Wheeler novel, was bought by Columbia after a plagiarism suit by the makers of Dr. Strangelove and released in October 1964, months after Dr. Strangelove's January opening.

Who directed The Battle of Algiers (1966)?

Gillo Pontecorvo directed and co-wrote the score with Ennio Morricone; the newsreel look was so convincing that US prints carried a notice that 'not one foot' of newsreel footage was used.

Which band, with Jeff Beck smashing a guitar, plays a club scene in Blow-Up (1966)?

The Yardbirds, then featuring both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, play 'Stroll On', a reworked 'Train Kept A-Rollin''; Antonioni rebuilt Windsor's Ricky-Tick club at Elstree for the scene.

Steve McQueen’s only Oscar nomination came for which 1966 film set on a Yangtze gunboat?

The Sand Pebbles, directed by Robert Wise, cast McQueen as engineer Jake Holman aboard the USS San Pablo in 1926 China; it earned eight Oscar nominations, including McQueen's only one, for Best Actor.

Swiss Family Robinson (1960) was filmed on which Caribbean island?

Tobago stood in for the castaways' island, with the famous treehouse built in a giant saman tree near Goldsborough Bay; Ken Annakin directed, and a replica of the treehouse opened as a Disneyland attraction in 1962.

Stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed filming which 1965 film about a crashed cargo plane?

The Flight of the Phoenix's makeshift aircraft, the Tallmantz Phoenix P-1, broke apart during a touch-and-go pass for the cameras on 8 July 1965, killing Paul Mantz; the film carries a dedication to him.

In Breathless (1960), Jean Seberg's Patricia sells which newspaper on the Champs-Élysées?

Patricia hawks the New York Herald Tribune, its Paris edition, along the Champs-Elysees in Godard's jump-cut debut; Jean-Paul Belmondo became a star as Michel, the hood who apes Humphrey Bogart.

How many credited directors worked on the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale?

Five directors were credited: John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish and Joseph McGrath, each handling a segment, while Richard Talmadge staged the finale uncredited; the budget spiralled to around $12 million.

Which 1969 Costa-Gavras film was up for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film?

Z won Best Foreign Language Film for 1969 and was only the second non-English film nominated for Best Picture, after Grand Illusion (1938); it also won Best Film Editing.

Why did Charade (1963) fall into the US public domain the moment it was released?

The on-screen notice omitted the word 'Copyright' or a © symbol, which US law then required; the music, registered separately, stayed protected.

In The Time Machine (1960), the traveller stops beside a sphinx in which far-future year?

The year is 802,701 AD, when Rod Taylor's inventor finds the gentle Eloi living above ground and the cannibal Morlocks below; the film won the Oscar for special effects.