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IMDB Trivia Strikes Again.

posted 8 years ago by dannieboy20906
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I expect people to make mistakes. I make more than my share of my own. But, it really locks my jaws when some fool writes in the trivia section a statement that if obviously false on its face and is easily disproved.

The trivia section for "My Reputation" includes a claim that the movie was filmed in 1943, but not released until 1946. I would like the person who wrote that to back it up with a source.

There is a scene where a party guest refers to George Brent's character as a "professional soldier." The statement does not make sense unless he is making a career of the army. I do not remember if such is stated elsewhere in the dialogue, but such a conclusion by the guest suggests that the war is over.

Also, the telegram calling for Major Landis to New York for reassignment says that he is being assigned to occupation duty in Japan. No one was predicting when the war would end in 1943. Even statements that we would win were said more with hope than certainty. It is obvious from the dialogue and other plot points that the war was over when this was filmed. It had to be no earlier than September 1945 when the filming occurred.

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[–] xerses13 8 years ago

dannieboy20906: From our information the film was made in 1944, but not released until 1946. Not a unusual procedure if the Studio had a backlog of films to be released. Changes would be made with retakes to update it to the then release date.

[–] dannieboy20906 8 years ago

If I did not misread the telegram or mishear the dialogue, that's impossible.

There was information about the war in the film that could not be available to the film makers until after both VE Day and VJ Day. I may have made a mistake, but I recommend that you check your source.

I have frequently seen contradictory statements in the trivia section for various movies. I have also seen "warring" posts, one viewer posts one item, then who I would assess to be a different viewer makes a post correcting or denying the earlier one.

I have also seen posts in the goofs section that defy the laws of physics.

If you would like, I will write down the posts I find that appear not just wrong, but absurd.

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[–] xerses13 8 years ago

dannieboy20906; STARRING MISS BARBARA STANWYCK by Ella Smith references the movie being filmed after DOUBLE INDEMNITY 1944 and having its U.S.A. release in 1946. There are other sources, the Wikipedia in '1946 in film' also supports the 1946 release. Do not consider this a 'warring' issue. As previously stated films are withheld from release from there production year. This is not unusual, nor for retakes to update the film, neither defy the laws of physics.

[–] dannieboy20906 8 years ago

I have no doubt that the movie was release in 1946. I find that credible and for anything earlier to be extremely unlikely.

What I find impossible to accept is that the movie I saw was filmed, edited, scripted, or even had a complete story line written before September 1945.

The original statement in the IMDB Trivia for "My Reputation," claims that the movie was 'filmed' in 1943, but not released until 1946. Here is the situation in 1943, depending on when in 1943 one is talking. Let us go all the way to December:

The United States and the United Kingdom had succeeded in retaking and ejecting the Italian and German armies from North Africa. We had invaded Sicily in July and went through it in a week. Pretty small potatoes, but a significant step forward in taking back Europe. We invaded Italy in September but were bogged down in the mountains and taking heavy casualties all winter.

The Russians were holding on to Stalingrad, but they were only just beginning to push the Germans back. The 8th Army Air Force was losing the air war, at least it looked like it at the time. There was no hint on the horizon that we would recover and be able to prosecute the invasion of mainland Europe through France anytime in 1944. So, the war in the ETO was in extreme doubt.

In the western Pacific the New Guinea Campaign had gone well. I would need to check where we were, but I think all of New Guinea and most of the Solomon Islands were entirely in United States and Allied hands. The Japanese may have still held on to Rabaul. But we had just gone into the Northern Marianas Islands and were only holding our own in China. We had no idea when the war would end. In fact, we were determined to win, hoped to win, and few Americans could imagine a world in which God would not demand that the allies would win. But we were still frightened with doubts.

We had not yet invaded France. We had not yet invaded any of the Japanese home islands. And we were not taking ground in China. Yet this movie makes two distinct statements about the end of the war.

I read where the novel was written in 1942. The heroine (during the war with gas rationing and intense competition for space on the railroads) takes a vacation from the Midwest to Lake Tahoe. She should have been horsewhipped, but that is a different topic. Obviously, changes were made from the novel.

Wikipedia does not list any source for their claim that the movie was made in 1944 and they do not state that it was made in 1943.

If you claim that the film was made in 1944, you are already admitting that the entry in IMDB Trivia is wrong and was not properly fact checked. Now, we are arguing about how wrong it is.

You write as though you have some authority at IMDB. Use it to apply proper fact checking and editorial oversight of the Trivia and Goofs sections.

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