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The Formula (1980) More at IMDbPro »

• This is the only time that Marlon Brando and George C. Scott, the only two actors that refused to accept their Oscars, worked together.
  
  
• George C. Scott and Marlon Brando played chess together during waits during the shooting. In his PLAYBOY interview of December 1980 (Vol. 27, Iss. 12, pg. 81-138), Scott told Lawrence Grobel - who had conducted the famous interview with Brando for PLAYBOY a year earlier - that Marlon was not that good a player. Many years later, Christiane Kubrick would level the same charge against Scott, who was beaten regularly by her late husband Stanley Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) between setups.
  
  
• Marlon Brando told Lawrence Grobel ("Conversations with Brando") that this film, which he only made for the money as he was broke, was ruined in the editing room, with the humor of his scenes cut out.
  
  
• Despite "also starring" billing, John Gielgud has only one scene.
  
  
• Faithful to his reputation of not learning his lines before coming to the set, Marlon Brando did not use his usual prompt boards on that film. The hearing aid he wears as part of his costume helped him deliver his dialog as it was prompted by an assistant directly into his ear.
  
  
• In his autobiography, Marlon Brando, Scott's co-star in the film The Formula (1980) - in a caption for a picture from the film - recounts that Scott asked him during the shooting of the film whether he, Brando, would ever give the same line-reading twice. Brando replied, "I know you know a cue when you hear one."
  
  

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