History Trivia / Inchon

** The film's script went through multiple drafts, each more divergent from history than the last. The first version that was submitted to the Pentagon when the filmmakers were seeking their financial support was historically accurate enough and gave a favorable enough portrayal of the U.S. military to receive their support. Because of the many differences from history in the final draft, the filmmakers had to agree to include a disclaimer in the film stating that certain events had been fictionalized.

* FakeAmerican: Creator/LaurenceOlivier as General Douglas [=MacArthur=]. The awful Creator/WCFields-esque accent mentioned in the main article? That was ''deliberate'', being based on a description of The Old Soldier's accent from someone who claimed to have known him, but who apparently never listened to his farewell speech to Congress. ''[[CriticalResearchFailure The same speech that is played at the end of this film.]]''

* AllStarCast: The lead actors are Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/JacquelineBisset, Ben Gazzara, and Creator/RichardRoundtree, with supporting roles by Creator/DavidJanssen, Gabriele Ferzetti, Creator/RexReed, Creator/OmarSharif and legendary Japanese actor Creator/ToshiroMifune.
* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/DavidJanssen and Ben Gazzara accepted their parts in the film in order to work with Creator/LaurenceOlivier.

** As the premiere approached, rumors about the involvement of Rev. Moon and the Unification Church started circulating, resulting in protests by the public. The cast and crew claimed to have been kept in the dark about Moon's involvment in the project and not to have been told until eight weeks after filming had started; some crew members stated that they wouldn't have signed up for working on the film if they had known about it. The press releases given by the filmmakers didn't endear the movie to many; one of them included a story of how a B-29 pilot supposedly had photographed the face of Jesus appearing in the middle of a group of bomber planes during the war and claimed that [=MacArthur=] himself supported the movie - even though '''he had passed away in 1964'''.[[note]]This was apparently the result of one of the film's producers being told this by a psychic.[[/note]] Along with critical thrashings (including many [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]]), the movie made only $2,000,000 in theaters and has never been released on video, rivaling ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' and ''Film/JohnCarter'' as an all-time box office bomb.

* FakeNationality: Creator/ToshiroMifune (Japanese) as a ''Jaehan Ilbonin'' (Japanese-born expatriate to South Korea) and Gabriele Ferzetti (Italian) as a Turkish general.

** The film is only available on bootlegs, It was pulled from theaters as fast as it came in, and the production company -- which got most of its finances from religious leader Sun Myung Moon -- won't even give it the dignity of a home video release. The now-defunct [=GoodLife=] TV, which was owned by Moon, played the film a few times, but it has not been seen since. It's the only [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie]] Worst Picture without an official release.

* AllStarCast: The lead actors are Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/JacquelineBisset, Ben Gazzara, and Creator/RichardRoundtree, with supporting roles by Creator/DavidJanssen, Namkoong Won, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rex Reed, Creator/OmarSharif and legendary Japanese actor Creator/ToshiroMifune.

** Film critic Rex Reed, who played a small role in the film, was among the many critics who panned it upon release.

** Music/JerryGoldsmith averted this. In fact, he was the only one that hasn't got his reputation tainted by this picture, continuing to write film scores until his death.

* GenreKiller: No major Hollywood studio has made a film about the Korean war since this film was released, and many industry insiders say it is because of this film's spectacular box-office failure.[[note]]However, the war has obviously been portrayed in Korean cinema, including a movie about the Battle of Inchon, ''Film/OperationChromite'', produced by a Korean company, Taewon Entertainment[[/note]]

** However, Music/JerryGoldsmith's score to the film was popular enough to warrant a few releases (including a special edition CD from Creator/{{Intrada}} in 2006. This was the second release of the score from the label - the first was an expanded release, the second was a 2-CD set featuring the original album presentation on one disc and the complete score on the other).
* MoneyDearBoy: The TropeNamer. This is the only reason why Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier accepted a role in this movie. He even had the bonuses paid out to him (due production going over schedule) delivered to him personally in actual [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney briefcases full of money]] by helicopter.

* AllStarCast: The lead actors are Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Creator/JacquelineBisset, Ben Gazzara, and Creator/RichardRoundtree, with supporting roles by Creator/DavidJanssen, Namkoong Won, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rex Reed, and legendary Japanese actor Creator/ToshiroMifune.

** The producers had trouble securing a director - supposedly psychic Jeane Dixon advised Moon to pick Creator/TerenceYoung after the original director, Andrew V. [=McLaglen=], dropped out. Creator/LaurenceOlivier agreed to play Douglas [=MacArthur=] for a $1.25 million salary plus overtime pay (it's no surprise the movie was his inspiration for the famous MoneyDearBoy quote). Being in his 70s, he suffered from heat stroke and exhaustion and had to rest between shots to make it through the filming. Due to poor health, he later refused to return to Korea for re-shoots; as such, a reshooting of the final scene had to be done in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}} instead.
** The film's script went through several drafts, each more divergent from history than the last. The first version that was submitted to the Pentagon when the filmmakers were seeking their financial support was historically accurate enough and gave a favorable enough portrayal of the U.S. military to receive their support. Later, the name and identity of the main character was changed because the man he was based on, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Eugene F. Clark, was depicted as having an extramarital affair and thus wouldn't sign a release allowing him to be portrayed in the film. The filmmakers eventually had to agree to including a disclaimer in the film stating that certain events had been fictionalized.
** Eventually, Moon himself [[ExecutiveMeddling got personally involved in making the film]], even taking part in the editing and reshots made because of changes to the script. In the finished movie, Moon is listed in the opening credits as "Specially Advised By". Because of the film's several reshots, the filmmakers had to return to South Korea three times and to Rome and UsefulNotes/LosAngeles twice to work on the film. One of the reshots in question was of a scene near the end where [=MacArthur=] steps out of a limo, which was redone because the crowd in the original shot was said to be too small. Other scenes featuring David Janssen were also reshot when he died because it was thought that his presence in the movie would make it feel dated (though his scenes were included in the last known version of the movie). And at least one Korean extra [[FatalMethodActing was killed filming the battle scenes]] when a jeep crashed on top of him.

* GenreKiller: No major Hollywood studio has made a film about the Korean war since this film was released, and many industry insiders say it is because of this film's spectacular box-office failure.

* CreatorCouple: The blonde war photographer, Marguerite, is played by Sabine Sun, the wife of director Terence Young.

** After directing this film, Terence Young (known for three Franchise/JamesBond films) never directed another internationally released film.

** The producers had trouble securing a director - supposedly psychic Jeane Dixon advised Moon to pick Terence Young after the original director, Andrew V. [=McLaglen=], dropped out. Creator/LaurenceOlivier agreed to play Douglas [=MacArthur=] for a $1.25 million salary plus overtime pay (it's no surprise the movie was his inspiration for the famous MoneyDearBoy quote). Being in his 70s, he suffered from heat stroke and exhaustion and had to rest between shots to make it through the filming. Due to poor health, he later refused to return to Korea for re-shoots; as such, a reshooting of the final scene had to be done in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}} instead.

* AllStarCast: The lead actors are Creator/LaurenceOlivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, and Creator/RichardRoundtree, with supporting roles by Creator/DavidJanssen, Namkoong Won, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rex Reed, and legendary Japanese actor Creator/ToshiroMifune.

** The U.S. military agreed to support the film after reading the initial script, which was submitted in 1978 and was more broadly accurate to history than the final version was, because it gave a positive portrayal of U.S. armed forces and presented a story built on BlackAndWhiteMorality in which the good guys (the U.S. and Western military) defeat the bad guys (the Communistic North Korean forces) and help save the day, a portrayal that had become uncommon in UsefulNotes/{{Hollywood}} because of the public backlash over UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. The filmmakers were allowed to film on the USS ''Cleveland'' and the Department of Defense loaned them 1,500 soldiers from the Army and Marine Corps to serve as extras in the film. However, as the premiere drew closer and the involvement of Sun-Myung Moon and his church sparked controversy, not to mention the film's lack of historical accuracy, the DOD asked the film company behind it to remove all mention of their assistance from the film's credits.

** As the premiere approached, rumors about the involvement of Rev. Moon and the Unification Church started circulating, resulting in protests by the public. The cast and crew claimed to have been kept in the dark about Moon's involvment in the project and not to have been told until eight weeks after filming had started; some crew members stated that they wouldn't have signed up for working on the film if they had known about it. The press releases given by the filmmakers didn't endear the movie to many; one of them included a story of how a B-29 pilot supposedly had photographed the face of Jesus appearing in the middle of a group of bomber planes during the war and claimed that [=MacArthur=] himself supported the movie - even though '''he had passed away in 1964'''.[[note]]This was apparently the result of one of the film's producers being told this by a psychic[[/note]] Along with critical thrashings (including many [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzie Awards]]), the movie made only $2,000,000 in theaters and has never been released on video, rivaling ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' and ''Film/JohnCarter'' as an all-time box office bomb.

* DeletedRole: Zigzagged. Creator/DavidJanssen plays David Feld, the head of [[MrExposition the team of journalists]] that appears throughout the movie. However, because he died in 1980 and the producers didn't want the film to seem dated, the scenes with him in it were cut after the film's 1981 premiere, which cut roughly 35 minutes in total. However, Janssen's scenes are still in the 140 minute cut that was aired on the Good Life Network, one of the only times that the movie was ever aired on TV and the source for the bootlegs that make the only available copies of the film nowadays.

** Eventually, Moon himself [[ExecutiveMeddling got personally involved in making the film]], even taking part in the editing and reshots made because of changes to the script. In the finished movie, Moon is listed in the opening credits as "Specially Advised By". Because of the film's several reshots, the filmmakers had to return to South Korea three times and to Rome and Los Angeles twice to work on the film. One of the reshots in question was of a scene near the end where [=MacArthur=] steps out of a limo, which was redone because the crowd in the original shot was said to be too small. Other scenes featuring David Janssen were also reshot when he died because it was thought that his presence in the movie would make it feel dated (though his scenes were included in the last known version of the movie). And at least one Korean extra was killed filming the battle scenes when a jeep crashed on top of him.