Does anyone recall the enormous cannon that was the centrepiece of the move "The Pride and the Passion"? Well, rumor has it that that very cannon was modeled on none other than...Eroll Flynn's willy! Yes, the mightiest tool in the history of Hollywood lived on in the symbolic form of a fabled iron-hard instrument of war that was considerably longer than it was wide! It really is surprising that Sophia Loren fell for Carey Grant during the making of the film, considering what was sitting right there in front of her all the while...

She must have been blind.

If you get a chance, rent the film. It's worth seeing just to observe one of the worst miscastings in history: Frank Sinatra portraying a Napoleonic-era Spanish guerilla leader. His quasi-Spanish accent is dreadful and he is in no way convincing as the character "Miguel".

"By all accounts, Frank Sinatra was at his most obstreperous throughout the making of this film. Among other things, he refused to use the car supplied him by the studio, insisting upon having his Ford Thunderbird flown all the way to Spain at the studio's expense. In addition, he almost caused an international incident when he hung a banner from his hotel room window reading "Franco is a Fink", referring to Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco. In hindsight, Sinatra referred to the whole experience as "underwhelming".

Aren't we lucky that Frank Sinatra never got to portray General Custer in a movie....or Crazy Horse, for that matter?

The made-for-TV movie "Son of the Morning Star" is a very good film of Custer's life, adventures, and death, plus a good look at the Plains Indians he fought against.