These Are The Top-Rated Movies In The History of Film

The Maltese Falcon

This film noir from the 1940s was written and directed by john Huson and is an adaptation of the 1930 novel by Dashiell Hammett. It received three Academy Award nominations. Warner Bros. also attempted to make a sequel, but couldn't get the original cast together.

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The More You Know

  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
  • For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
  • Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.
  • Often derided as a mega-flop, Waterworld actually took home nearly $90m more in worldwide box office than its estimated budget.
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