The story of J.J. Brown accidentally burning his money after Molly hid it in the stove didn't really happen. It was made up by a Denver journalist after Molly Brown became a hero on the Titanic. When asked by her daughter why she didn't refute the false story, Molly Brown supposedly replied, "It's better that they write something about me than nothing." (Kathy Bates, as Molly Brown, repeats the story in James Cameron's Titanic (1997).) Molly Brown is also said to have reported the story with a slightly different ending. Molly did hide money in the potbelly stove in their Leadville cabin, and Johnny unknowingly started a fire on a particularly cold night. That's in keeping with the other version, but the end of the story, as told by Molly and reported in newspapers interviews during her lift, was a little different. Her addition was "Just think if it had been paper money!" The "money" was gold and silver coin which melted and melted to the stove. Miners didn't trust paper money in those years. The stove had to be broken apart and resmelted to separate the iron, gold and silver.
Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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In the Dredd comics, tradition dictates that Dredd does not take off his helmet, thus his face has mostly only fleetingly appeared in full, but the producers obviously would not allow an expensive performer, such as Sylvester Stallone, to never show his face clearly.
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The "flying bike" scenes features three seconds where Dredd is a computer generated image. This is the part where he swoops low over a crowd of punks.
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The warden at the Aspen prison facility is called Miller. In Mel Brook's Star Wars spoof Spaceballs (1987) the warden of the Spaceballs prison which Princess Vespa and Dot Matrix have been imprisoned in is called Warden Miller. Sylvester Stallone whom plays Judge Dredd had auditioned for Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), but lost out to Harrison Ford.
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Danny Cannon had a poster for a Judge Dredd film that he created himself published in Prog 534 of 2000 A.D. dated August 8, 1987. The poster featured Harrison Ford as Judge Dredd, Daryl Hannah as Judge Anderson, and Christopher Walken as an additional co-star. Ridley Scott was listed as the director.
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RoboCop (1987) borrowed so much from the Judge Dredd comics that it delayed this production for years. It was so successful and similar that the producers had to wait before going ahead with this movie.
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In the comics, the judges always wear their armored shoulder pads and gloves on duty, in this film when they aren't on the streets they wear an indoor uniform without armor or gloves. The higher ranking judges wear black and gold shoulder rank devices, these were created for this film and aren't seen in the comics.
Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Judge Dredd - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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