A small clip exists of a rehearsal that shows the full cast. Harpo out of character without the wig and coat. He is wearing a bathrobe. The clip is in color.
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Upon seeing Fats for the first time, Sir Anthony Hopkins was allowed to take the doll home to work with it. However, he wound up being so unnerved by it that he called the consulting ventriloquist in the middle of the night, threatening to throw Fats into the canyon if someone didn't come and get the doll immediately. Director Sir Richard Attenborough ended up going to Hopkins' house to calm him down.
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Many movie posters featured a preamble that read: "Abracadabra, I sit on his knee. Presto, change-o, and now he's me! Hocus Pocus, we take her to bed. Magic is fun; we're dead". All three magic terms in this text block, "Abracadabra", "Presto change-o" and "Hocus Pocus", have been the titles of other movies.
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After Young Winston (1972) and A Bridge Too Far (1977), this is the third consecutive movie directed by Sir Richard Attenborough that featured Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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For this movie, William Goldman was awarded the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay from the Mystery Writers of America.
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This is the third of five films directed by Richard Attenborough that featured Anthony Hopkins. The others were Chaplin (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Young Winston (1972) and A Bridge Too Far (1977).
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Gene Wilder was the original choice for Corky, and director Sir Richard Attenborough and writer William Goldman wanted him, but producer Joseph E. Levine refused, on the grounds he wanted no comedians in the movie to distract from the serious nature of the story.
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After the success of A Bridge Too Far (1977), Joseph E. Levine wanted to work with William Goldman and Sir Richard Attenborough again, and bought the rights to Goldman's book with the intention of having Attenborough direct it. Attenborough accepted the assignment because he could use it to finance Gandhi (1982).
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The Northern Irish rock band Therapy? sampled a line from this movie in their song "Dancin' with Manson".
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This movie was R.L. Stine's inspiration for the dummy "Slappy" in his children's horror story series Goosebumps. In the television adaptation of the books, Slappy has the same sounding voice as Fats.
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The "Fats" dummy was created specifically to look like Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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This movie has often been likened to Dead of Night (1945), which featured a tale with a ventriloquist and his dummy. This movie was released a year after that movie's television remake, Dead of Night (1977), but the television movie didn't feature a segment with a dummy and ventriloquist.
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Magic - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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