LIEUTENANT MURPHY: Now listen, Mike. Listen carefully. I’m going to pronounce a few words. They’re harmless words. Just a bunch of letters scrambled together. But their meaning is very important. Try to understand what they mean. Manhattan Project. Los Alamos. Trinity.
[Hammer hands over the key]
HAMMER: I didn’t know.
LIEUTENANT MURPHY: Would you have done anything differently if you had?
Ah, the film Raiders of the Lost Ark ripped off.
Yeah, if Indy was a “sleazy, narcissistic bully”, and a blackmailer, who beat up anyone he crosses paths with, for any or no reason.
features the major film debut of the great Cloris Leachman. Mostly known for being Phyliss, but great in this and The Last Picture Show. Orson Wells had a term for a part like hers in Kiss Me Deadly, a character who has very little screen time, like Harry Lime in The Third Man , but who is a major plot point. Can’t remember it
Cloris Leachman was best known for her role in Young Frankenstein imo.
A “star part”.
Orson Welles on Mr. Wu:
"In theatre, you know, the old star actors never liked to come on until the end of the first act. Mister Wu is a classic example—I’ve played it once myself. All the other actors boil around the stage for about an hour shrieking, ‘What will happen when Mr. Wu arrives?,’ ‘What is he like, this Mr. Wu?,’ and so on. Finally a great gong is beaten and slowly, over a Chinese bridge, comes Mr. Wu himself in full mandarin robes. Peach Blossom, or whatever her name is, falls on her face and a lot of coolies yell, ‘Mister Wu!!!’ The curtain comes down, the audience goes wild, and everybody says, ‘Isn’t that guy playing Mr. Wu a great actor!’ That’s a star part for you! "
Mr. Wu was filmed several times, the best known version being released in 1927 with Lon Chaney, Sr.
Mr. Chaney played Mr. Wu’s grandson in the same film.