Myth

“The Devil's Rain premiered in 1974.”

Wrong
Correction

Shot in late 1974, released in June 1975.

Shatner's 2019 tweet said the film "premiered in 1974." It was filmed in Durango and Mexico City in late 1974 and released in 1975. The slip doesn't change his point about the 1975 mask.

Sources 21

What people actually said
“The Star Trek mask was created & sold in 1975 and Devil's Rain premiered in 1974.”
X (Twitter) — 2019-01-291

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Sources on this page
  1. first-hand · 2019-01-29
    William Shatner on X, Jan 29, 2019 — X (Twitter) — William Shatner ↗
  2. secondary
    The Devil's Rain (film) — Wikipedia ↗

Grades: Established multiple independent sources incl. first-hand or documentary evidence · Reported one credible source or the filmmakers’ standard retelling · Disputed the people involved contradict each other · Myth widely repeated, no source, contradicted by first-hand accounts.