The 1970s Mastodon Mega Movie Poll
First Round. Match-up #11. Result: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 25% v 75% Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Votes 74 - 224*.
*This is a record combined vote and individual vote surpassing Casablanca and Lawrence of Arabia in our Golden Age semi-final.
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Match-up #12. Please vote for your favourite movie below
Originally, A Clockwork Orange was projected to star The Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger as Alex, and Ken Russell enlisted to direct.
According to the book Cinema by the Bay, published by LucasBooks, George Lucas named the film after his telephone number while in college: 849-1138—the letters THX correspond to the numbers 8, 4, and 9 on the keypad. Another theory is that THX represents “sex".