14 Movies That Sneakily Reused Props And Sets
Hollywood magic or hand-me-downs?
![14 Movies That Sneakily Reused Props And Sets](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/5/754545_320x180.jpg?v=2)
It would perhaps be nice to think that props are made with love and care for each movie production. That, however, is often not how things go. Film productions are usually desperate to save a buck any way they can, which means they reuse props and sets all the time. For example:
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein used the lab from the 1931 Frankenstein.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/7/754557.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Many of Monty Python and the Life of Brian's sets and costumes](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/1/754561.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Star Trek used The Andy Griffith Show's set (while it was still on air).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/5/754555.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - One item links bi-Wan Kenobi and Superman.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/4/754554.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - 2011's The Muppets was filmed on a 1920s opera set.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/0/754560.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Blade Runner took a bunch of neon signs from a musical fantasy movie.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/9/754559.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - A Blade Runner car ended up in Back to the Future ll.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/9/754549.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - The Starship Troopers armor has been reused everywhere.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/8/754558.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Raiders of the Lost Ark's sub was a loan from Das Boot.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/3/754553.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - The Matrix reused stuff from 1998's Dark City.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/1/754551.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - The exact same teddy bear appears in Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/2/754552.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - Les Miserables' barricade set is Harry Potter's Diagon Alley (after a makeover).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/0/754550.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - They used goomba boots from the Super Mario Bros. movie in Face Off.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/8/754548.jpg?v=2)
![Iconic Movies You Didn’t Know Reused Their Props And Sets - They Live! uses Ghostbusters' PKE meter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/7/754547.jpg?v=2)