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I don't believe the Professor and Mary Ann characters were settled on when the original opening theme was produced, hence "and the rest".

Just about the tightest, plot-setting opening credit sequence evah. However, even as a small kid circa 1960 I recognized the rest was low-budget cheese. Such as the Daily Planet being just about the only newspaper in film with only 3 reporters, each with a private office, so the producers di...

Syndicate in Europe and Asia? They barely had B&W TV in 1952.

The original song WAS the Sam Cooke "don't know much..." song. Due to rights/licensing issues it's been replaced in various TV broadcasts and DVD releases.

I saw this in the theater as a UC Berkeley frat rat. Everything in the movie happened at some point in the UCB greek system, although over...

"Express Yourself" was from 1989?????? Gawd I feel old....

I can see unconscious plagarism happening if the original wasn't that big a hit in the first place, as with "He's So Fine" vs. "My Sweet Lord". The melody get's stuck in the mind for a long time and you forget it came from somewhere e...

Notice they're wearing ties! Oh, this was probably the biggest FX picture of the 1940's. The SF Bay Area stood in for Japan. They reach land over Point Lobos, fly over rice fields near Sutter Buttes and wind up bombing the crud out of Alameda.

Lawson was broke when the ship left port and planned on hawking the cartons of cigarettes after reaching China..which didn't quite work out.

Note that if you step-frame at around 2:06 in this segment the face of the actual pilot next to Spencer Tracy is blurred out, apparently with a combination of a gauze mask and blurring FX. That's how seriously this movie production was taken at the time.