Spying on a secret ceremony

First CinemaScope / VistaVision

The Robe 1953 - first CinemaScope release

White Christmas 1954 - first VistaVision release

Credited in both:

1. Dean Jagger as Justus and Major General Thomas F. Waverly
2. Percy Helton as Caleb the Wine Merchant and Train Conductor

Forrest Kovic

"Cinemalarities" between Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Forrest Gump (1994):

1. awkward beginnings with blonde childhood sweetheart leads to lifelong crush
2. mother inspires son to greatness
3. grainy black & white JFK
4. military recruits protagonist at his school
5. rainy meeting with crush outside school
6. leg braces
7. walking with soldiers in Viet Nam
8. carried off the field of battle
9. character loses use of legs
10. protagonist attends 60's protest
11. wheelchair bitterness
12. visiting a fellow soldier's grave (picture above; tree hovers on the left in both shots)
13. grainy Richard Nixon
14. four generations of U.S. military service
15. she is a folk singer
16. goodbye to crush before heading to war
17. sweeping musical score interspersed with pop hits of the era

Homestead tragedy

The Searchers (1956)

Star Wars (1977)

Aiming high

Judge Dredd (1995)

Dune (1984)