Guinness Movie Facts & FeatsBackground stories, statistics, superlatives, photographs, survey results, successes and flops from the cinema world. New to this edition are features on the real locations of famous film scenes, the top-billing ratio of male and female stars, and scenes which seem faked but were real. |
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