This movie was shot in just thirty-five days, using some of the sets from Quo Vadis (1951), which were dismantled, flown from Rome to Hollywood and then re-assembled for this film. Producer John Houseman confirmed that it was never intended that the movie be shot in color, as he and Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted it to have the urgency of a newsreel, not to look like a costume epic.
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Although father and son in real-life, Clint Eastwood and Kyle Eastwood do not appear as such in this movie. Instead, they are uncle and nephew.
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This movie was released two years after its source novel of the same name by Clancy Carlile was published. Carlile also wrote the screenplay.
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During the making of this movie Clint Eastwood met Megan Rose, a story editor and analyst with whom he began an intermittent affair. Rose told biographer Patrick McGilligan that she had been intimate with Eastwood "twelve to fifteen times" over a five-year span.
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Marty Robbins: The country and western music legend as Smoky.
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In 1961, Clint Eastwood cut a single, "Unknown Girl", the first of three, the two others being recorded over the next two years, along with a full long-play 1963 album titled "Rawhide (1959)'s Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites". The other singles were called "Rowdy" and "For You, For Me, For Evermore". Later, in 1981, Eastwood released a single titled "Cowboy in a Three Piece Suit".
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James Stewart was first choice for the role of Grandpa, but turned it down.
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The opening sequences were very similar to the Clint Eastwood movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
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Ray Price: The country and western music legend as a Bob Wills Singer.
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Clint Eastwood sings in this movie and previously sang in Paint Your Wagon (1969), where he sang the songs "Elisa", "Gold Fever", "I Talk to the Trees", and a duet with Lee Marvin called "Best Things". According to ClintEastwood.Net, the songs "were mostly staged and sometimes simply played over the other action, almost as if they were a kind of narration." Eastwood is also heard on the soundtrack for Kelly's Heroes (1970), where he sings the songs "Burning Bridges" and its B-side, "When I Loved Her". Eastwood's voice can also be heard on such country and western recordings as Randy Travis' "Smokin' the Hive" and T.G. Sheppard's "Make My Day".
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In the documentary Biography: Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994), Eastwood states how this was the first movie he ever made about a loser, a person who didn't want to be a winner, a theme he says he has visited several times since.
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One of two Clint Eastwood movies released in 1982. The other being Firefox (1982).
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Clint Eastwood's second movie as a producer and ninth movie as a director.
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The name of the record company was "Burnside Records".
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Porter Wagoner: The country and western music legend as Dusty.
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Second of two Hollywood movies in a year with the wording "Honkytonk" in the title. The first being Honky Tonk Freeway (1981).
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Honkytonk Man - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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