rec.arts.movies.past-films

Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <13qjs6qlkijml1b@>,
> "Frank . Maloney" wrote:
>
>> Howard Brazee wrote:
>>> We all know Krakatoa isn't East of Java - but there are other titles
>>> that really don't make sense.
>>>
>>> I was wondering about the title _It Happened One Night_. Where did
>>> they get that title?
>>>
>>> Share some other titles that really don't fit.
>> _Across the Pacific_ (1942) with Bogart, Astor, and Greenstreet. The
>> story takes the principals via a Japanese freighter from Canada to the
>> Panama Canal and in fact never enters the Pacific. But the reason for
>> this is in itself interesting.
>>
>> The original story called for them to in fact cross the Pacific as far
>> as Pearl Harbor, but WW II intervened and the script had to be rewritten
>> from a plot to blow up Pearl to one to blow up the Canal.
>
> 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. The sea isn't that deep -- if you went
> 20,000 leagues down, you'd come right out the other side!
>

I assume that it was made clear in the novel (which I still haven't
gotten around to reading, shame on me!) that this was the length of the
voyage of the Nautilus, not the depth to which it dived, but it is
totally ignored in the Disney film.

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Frank in Seattle
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