Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

I was just looking at Brewster's Millions on IMDb and I learn that the Richard Pryor version was actually the fourth filming of this movie in the United States (and it has been done nine times total worldwide). Interesting lesson on inflation:

1985 - $30 million in 30 days for $300 million.
1945 - $1 million in 60 days for $8 million.
1926 - $1 million in 60 days for $5 million (Miss Brewster's Millions)
1921 - $2 million in 365 days for $10 million.

How extravagant the British 1935 version (500,000 pounds in 60 days for 6 million) must have seemed in the middle of a global depression.