LIST: MOVIE TRIVIA: in-jokes, cameos, signatures
Murray Chapman
Version: 1.1 (March 1993)
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MOVIE TRIVIA
Frequently Asked Questions
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Compiled by Murray Chapman (muz...@cs.uq.oz.au), from sources too numerous too
mention. Thank-you one and all.
INTRODUCTION
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This is a list of interesting trivia, "did you notice"-type things for
movies.
The list will be posted monthly to: alt.cult-movies, rec.arts.movies, rec.arts
sf.movies, rec.answers, news.answers.
This, and MANY other FAQs are available for anonymous FTP wherever news.answers
is archived, for example:
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/movies/bladerunner-faq
Sites in Europe include:
nic.switch.ch
cnam.cnam.fr
ftp.win.tue.nl
The followup field is set to rec.arts.movies.
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This list is now compatible with the other r.a.movies lists and is supported
by Col Needham's movie database package. All the lists are available via
anonymous ftp from boulder.colorado.edu [128.138.240.1] in the directory
pub/tv+movies/lists. The latest version of the database package (v2.5) is in
pub/tv+movies/lists/tools. The files are also mirrored at ftp.coe.montana.edu
[192.31.215.0] in pub/mirrors/tv_movies/lists.
The following table gives further details of the other lists:
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Plot Summaries | 03/02/93 | Colin Tinto <col...@spider.co.uk> | Weekly
Trivia | 03/??/93 | Murray Chapman <muz...@cs.uq.oz.au> | April
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CONTENTS
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1. Director's Trademarks
2. Selected Cameos
- Directors appearing in their own films
- Miscellaneous Cameos
3. Film Trivia
4. Crazy Credits
A NOTE ABOUT CAMEOS:
A "cameo" is a small, unbilled role. If their name appears in the credits,
it's NOT a cameo. A cameo is NOT defined a famous person with a small role,
despite the fact that this may be interesting. If they are billed, then
please don't send it in as a "cameo", but decide if it's siginifcant enough
to be included in the trivia secion.
THIS FILE CONTAINS SPOILERS
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DIRECTOR'S TRADEMARKS
Woody Allen
- often makes films about a director making films, casts himself in lead role.
- frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker.
- frequently casts Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow.
- often talks to the camera directly
Mel Brooks
- frequently casts himself, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, and Madeline Khan
Tim Burton
- his films often have a Gothic feel to them
John Carpenter
- often casts Kurt Russell
- often casts his wife, Adrianne Barbeay
James Cameron
- strong female characters (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2)
- frequently casts Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, and Bill Paxton.
- his films frequently feature scenes filmed in deep blues.
David Cronenberg
- films often include explicit carnage
Joe Dante
- always casts Dick Miller in a cameo or supporting role. His films are
therefore good for playing the "spotting Dick Miller" game.
- frequently has films/TV shows with themes similar to the movie in various
scenes.
Jonathan Demme
- generally gives Charles Napier a role
Clint Eastwood
- frequently casts ex-partner Sondre Locke
Alfred Hitchcock
- has cameo in most of his films (see below)
Stanley Kubrick
- his films have a common theme of dehumanization
- symmetric image composition and long "zooming out" and "zooming in"
sequences. (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
John Landis
- the phrase "See You Next Wednesday": check out the rec.arts.movies FAQ.
- airport scenes in _Into The Night_ and _Coming To America_ have a call over
the PA system for a "Mr Frank Ozkerwitz" to pick up the white courtesy phone.
This is Frank Oz's real name. Landis has a fetish for Oz and The Muppet
Show.
- Music: "The Girl from Ipanema": elevator music in The Blues Brothers. [more?]
Spike Lee
- all his films examine black people and their lives.
- has appeared in every single one of his films, usually as a weak character,
contrasting the strong lead character.
David Lynch
- frequently casts: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Jack Nance, Everett McGill
- Finds small-town USA fascinating
- has a predelection for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rotting envi-
ronments, distorted characters and a polarised world (angles vs demons,
madonnas vs whores.)
Jerry Paris
- frequently appears in a small (often one scene) role.
Martin Scorsese
- frequently casts Robert DeNiro, a student of his from film school in New
York.
- his mother appears in most of his films.
Robert Zemeckis
- generally finds a role for Wendie Jo Sperber and/or Marc McClure
David Zucker
- his films usually feature puns, slapstick, and visual gags.
- frequently casts Leslie Neilson
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SELECTED CAMEOS
DIRECTORS APPEARING IN THEIR OWN FILMS:
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(Does not include directors in major roles)
Francis Ford Coppola:
# Apocalypse Now: filming a war documentary
David Cronenberg
# The Fly: obsetrician who delivers the maggot baby.
Cameron Crowe
# Singles: in the video dating service office
Alfred Hitchcock
- The undisputed champion in this field
- Check out the rec.arts.movies FAQ for a near-complete list
Lawrence Kasdan:
# Grand Canyon: tries to interest Steve Martin's character in a film
John Huston
# The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: man who Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) begs money
from three times early in the film.
Stephen King:
# Maximum Overdrive: man who the ATM swears at.
John Landis
# Into The Night: a terrorist.
Barry Levinson:
# Rain Man: psychiatrist determining if Raymond should stay with Charlie or not
David Lynch
# Dune
# Fire Walk With Me
Paul Mazursky
# Scenes from a Mall: promoting Bette Midler's book on TV.
# An Unmarried Woman: attempting to place an order in a restaurant.
Alan Parker:
# The Commitments: the record producer in the studio near the end of the film.
His cardboard cut-out can be seen in the background in a video shop, and
cassettes of his films are on the shelves.
Sydney Pollack:
# Tootsie: Michael/Dorothy's agent (George Fields).
Roman Polanski:
# Chinatown: the hood who slits Jack Nicholson's nose.
# Three Men and a Trunk: the young brute that beats up someone.
John Schlesinger
# Pacific Heights: man in the hotel elevator.
Martin Scorsese:
# After Hours: shining a spotlight from a platform in the club.
# Mean Streets: the hitman who shoots Robert DeNiro
# Raging Bull: asking Jake to go on stage.
# Taxi Driver: man who tells Bickle about the .357 Magnum.
Don Siegel
# Edge of Eternity: man at a hotel pool
# The Killers: cook at a diner
# Coogan's Bluff: man in an elevator
# Dirty Harry: man running down the street
John Singleton
# Boyz N the Hood: the mailman
Mel Smith
# The Tall Guy: the backstage drunk who congratulates and then collapses.
Sylvester Stallone
# Staying Alive: bumps into John Travolta on the street.
Oliver Stone:
# Platoon: An officer at the bunker which gets destroyed by a suicide runner.
# Wall Street: A face in a telephone booth during the montage of deals being
made.
# Born on the Fourth of July: TV-reporter on TV.
# The Doors: Morrison's film professor.
Charles Walters
# Torch Song Trilogy: auditions as Joan Crawford's dancing partner.
John Waters
# Hairspray: the psychiatrist
MISCELLANEOUS CAMEOS:
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# Around the World in Eighty Days
- origin of the term "cameo"
- Cameos from 44 stars
- Red Buttons
- Frank Sinatra
# Back to the Future
- Huey Lewis: the high-school band judge
# Back to School
- Kurt Vonnegut: himself
# Batman
- Bob Kane: man with a drawing of Batman
# The Blues Brothers
- although not strictly cameos, the following famous personalities make
appearances:
- James Brown: minister
- Cab Calloway
- Ray Charles: proprietor of "Ray's Music Exchange"
- Aretha Franklin: proprietor of the "Soul Food Cafe"
- John Lee Hooker: street performer
- Irene Cara: church soloist
- Frank Oz: prison officer
- Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman): wine waiter
- Stephen Spielberg: Cook County Assessor
- Twiggy: blonde in sports car
- Joe Walsh (lead guitarist of The Eagles): first prisoner to jump up and start
dancing
# Boomerang
- Reginal Hudlin (director): hustler
- Washington Hudlin (producer): hustler
# Creepshow
- Stephen King: Charlie Varrik (man covered in moss)
# Creepshow 2
- Stephen King: truck driver in "The Hitcher"
# Earthquake
Walter Matthau: the drunk: "Whatta ya gotta do to get a drink around here?"
# Deliverance
- James Dickey (author): sheriff
# Electric Dreams
- Georgio Moroder (songwriter): radio station executive (at very end)
# Hook
- Phil Collins: Police Inspector
- David Crosby: pirate
- Glenn Close: (male) pirate locked in chest with scorpions
# House Party
- Reginal Hudlin (director): thief chased by Doberman
- Washington Hudlin (producer): thief chased by Doberman
# Into The Night
- John Landis: terrorist
- David Kronenburg
- Jonathan Demme
- Jim Henson
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Jonathan Lynn
- David Bowie: British hitman who puts a gun in Jeff Goldblum's mouth.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Dan Aykroyd: meets Indiana at the airport at the beginning.
# Jaws
- Peter Benchley (author): reporter on the beach
# LA Story
- Woody Harrelson: Harris' boss at the TV station
- Rick Moranis: the gravedigger
- Chevy Chase: important guest (Christopher [???]) at L'Idiot
# The List of Adrian Messenger
- Frank Sinatra
[more?]
# Made in Heaven
- Debra Winger: Emmert, the apparently male entity who "runs things" in heaven.
# It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- dozens of cameos:
- Jimmy Durante
- The Three Stooges
- Jerry Lewis
- Joe E Brown
- Jack Benny
[more?]
# The Fisher King
- Tom Waits: crippled begger in the wheelchair in the train station
# The Muppet Movie
- Mel Brooks (credited?)
# Nice Dreams
- Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)
- Timothy Leary
# Nightmare on Elm Street 4, A
- Johnny Depp: in a TV commercial
# Pacific Heights
- Bevery D'Angelo: Michael Keaton's character's girlfriend at the beginning
# Pet Sematary
- Stephen King: minister at funeral
# The Player
[lots. Does anyone have the complete list?]
# Quo Vadis?
- Elizabeth Taylor: an extra
- Sophia Loren: an extra
# The Right Stuff
- Chuck Yeager: the bartender
# Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Sean Connery: King Richard. Connery got $US250 000 for two days work. He
donated it to charity.
# Sleepwalkers
- Stephen King: the cemetary keeper. Talks to...
- Tobe Hooper (directed _Poltergeist_): technician
- Clive Barker: another technician
# Spies Like Us
- BB King: CIA agent at the drive-in
# Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Christian Slater: an ensign
# Throw Momma from the Train
- Rob Reiner: Bill Crystal's agent.
# 2010: Odyssey Two
- Arthur C Clarke: sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons.
# Young Guns
- Tom Cruise: bad guy with moustache who walks out of a door and is shot.
[more!]
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FILM TRIVIA
# 2001: A Space Odyssey
- This film was made before man walked on the moon.
- director Stanley Kubrick originally planned narration for the prehistoric
scenes.
- The complex toilet instructions were a deliberate joke.
- Incrementing each letter of "HAL" gives you "IBM". Arthur C Clarke claims
this was unintentional, and if he had noticed it before it was too late, he
would have changed it.
- Kubrick had several tons of sand imported, washed, and painted for the moon
surface scenes.
- There are references to birthdays: Dr Floyd's daughter, Frank Poole, HAL.
# 3 Men and a Baby
- When Jack's mother comes to look at Mary, you can see in the background what
appears to be a little boy standing in a doorway. There is a rumor that this
is the ghost of a little boy who used to live where the film was shot. This
rumor is untrue: the "ghost" is actually a cardboard cut-out of Jack wearing
a tuxedo. This prop appears later in the film, when Mary's mother comes to
collect her.
# 39 Steps, The (1935)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 7 minutes in, tossing some litter as
Robert Donat and Lucie Manheim run from the music hall.
- The film was remade in 1959 and 1978.
# Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, The
- Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this scene was
cut.
# Adventures of Robin Hood, The
- There is a rumor that Flynn raped co-star Olivia DeHaviland on the set of
this film.
# Alien (1979)
- The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) is
similar to the life-cycle of the tsetse fly.
- The images that the computers display during the Nostromo's separation from
the Mother ship are re-used in _Blade Runner_ (also directed by Ridley Scott)
- Much of the dialog was ad-libbed.
- Only John Hurt and the crew knew exactly what was going to happen during the
stomach-bursting scene, so reactions are totally genuine. Veronica
Cartwright gets hit in the face by some "blood" (visible in the movie), and
is quite shaken. When Scott called "cut" at the end of the scene, the
cameraman turned around and vomited. The script originally had Cartwright's
character the hero of the story, but after this incident, Sigourney Weaver's
Ripley became the hero.
- Extra scenes where Ripley finds Brett and Parker cocooned were cut due to
pacing problems. These extra scenes were not restored to the extended
version, probably for this reason, but possibly because it would conflict
with the subsequently released _Aliens_' view of the alien's life-cycle.
[More trivia on recent FOX CAV LD. ANYONE?]
# Altered States
- Author Paddy Chayefski [sp?] disowned this movie.
- The book was partially based on dolphin researcher John Lilly, who invented
the isolation tank, and first started taking drugs while "tanking".
# American Graffiti
- License plate on John Milner's (Paul LeMat) car is "THX-138" THX-1138 is the
name of a film also directed by George Lucas.
# Apocalypse Now
- Francis Ford Coppola proposed this film ten years before he was given funds
to do it. The studio didn't think he could handle such a large production,
so he went and made _The Godfather_ and _The Godfather Part II_, becoming
extremely famous, rich, and respected.
- Originally scheduled to be shot over six weeks, ended up taking 16 months.
- Martin Sheen's scenes in his hotel room were intentionally perfomed drunk,
and were entirely ad-libbed. Sheen did not mean to smash the mirror with his
hand; this was a result of his drunken stupor.
- Harvey Keitel originally cast as Captain Willard. Two weeks into shooting,
Coppola replaced him with Martin Sheen.
- A cyclone destroyed sets, causing a delay of several months.
- Filmed in the Philippines, where the Ferdinand Marcos agreed to supply the
helicopters and pilots. Helicopters were withdrawn to fight a civil war.
- Marlon Brando paid $1 million in advance. Threatened to quit and keep the
advance. Director Coppola told his agent that he didn't care, and if they
couldn't get Brando, they would try Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and then
Al Pacino. Brando eventually turned up late, drunk, 40kg overweight, and
admitted he hadn't read the script or even "Heart of Darkness", the book it
was based on. Read Coppola's script, and refused to do it. Argued for days
over single lines of dialog. They eventually agreed on an ad-lib style
script, and this was shot.
- Martin Sheen had a heart attack during the filming; some shots of Willard's
back are actually of someone else.
- Sam Bottoms ("Lance") was on "speed" during the shooting of parts of the
movie.
- Denis Hopper was originally going to play Willard's predecessor, but he was
too affected by drugs to play a military type, so Coppola wrote him a part as
a crazy photo-journalist. Hopper and Coppola argued over whether it was
possible to forget your lines when you didn't learn them in the first place.
- Scenes of animal slaughter were inserted after Coppola saw the extras
performing this as a part of a religious ceremony.
- Coppola invested several million dollars of his personal wealth after the
film went severely over budget.
- Coppola threatened suicide several times during the making of the film.
- The 70mm and the 35mm versions have different endings. In the 35mm verison,
there is an air-strike at the end, and the credits roll over burning jungle.
- Entire set of scenes cut, where Willard and company find a river-side French
colony. Made the "journey back through time" symbolism more apparent:
Vietnam War --> French Colony --> Jungle Culture.
- Carmine Coppola (director's father) wrote the score for this film.
- Coppola's wife Eleanore secretly filmed and recorded the making of this film,
and has been released as a feature film called "Hearts of Darkness: A
Filmmaker's Apocalypse".
# Assault on Precinct 13
- The editor was James T. Chance, which was also the name of the John Wayne's
character in _Rio Bravo_, on which this film was based.
# Back to the Future
- The mall where Marty McFly meets Dr. Brown for their time travel experiment
is called "Twin Pines Mall". Dr. Brown comments that ol' farmer Peabody
used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there. When Marty goes back
in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree. When he comes back to the
mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall now identifies the mall as
"Lone Pine Mall".
- Farmer Peabody's son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy
time traveler in one segment of Jay Ward's cartoon show, "The Rocky &
Bullwinkle Show." The dog who owned his time machine was named Mr. Peabody.
- The radio in Marty's room plays "Back in Time", by Huey Lewis and the News.
# Back to the Future Part II
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part III_. In the five years
since the original was made, Michael J Fox had forgotten how to ride a
skateboard.
- Needles is played by Flea, the bassist of the _Red Hot Chili Peppers_
# Back to the Future Part III
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part II_. In the five years
since the original was made, Michael J Fox had forgotten how to ride a
skateboard.
- Needles is played by Flea, the basist of the _Red Hot Chili Peppers_
# Bagdad Cafe
- The shadow of the camera crew is visible while the credits for the
cinematographer are on the screen.
# Batman (1989)
- Adam West (the star of the TV series) wanted to play Batman, but Michael
Keaton was given the role after getting the nod from the creator of the
original Batman comic strip.
- Heavy security surrounded The Joker's makeup.
- Sean Young originally cast as Vicki Vale, dropped after arguments with the
producers. Rumors that she sent co-stars dead animals.
- Most shots of Batman in costume are a stunt double.
- Spanish subtitles convert "6 foot" and "108 (lbs)" to metres and kilograms.
# Batman Returns
- Danny DeVito forbidden to describe The Penguin's makeup to anyone, including
his family.
# Beetlejuice
- Title role originally written for Sammy Davis Jr.
# Ben-Hur (1959)
- The rumor that the Stephen Boyd's double was killed during the chariot race
is false.
- The chariot race segment was directed by legendary stunt-man, Yakima Canutt.
One of Canutt's sons doubled for Charlton Heston. During one of the crashes,
in which Judah Ben-Hur's horses jump over a crashed chariot, the younger
Canutt was thrown from his chariot onto the tongue of his chariot. He
managed to climb back into his chariot and bring it back under control (his
only injury was a cut on the chin). The sequence looked so good that it was
included in the film, with a close-up of Heston climbing back into the
chariot. The cut on Canutt Jr's chin was the only injury in the incredibly
dangerous sequence. Canutt Sr won a lifetime achievement Oscar for this work
- the only stunt man ever to win an Oscar.
# Big Chill, The
- Flashback scenes with Kevin Costner as Alex filmed, but cut.
# Birds, The
- Hitchcock make his cameo appearance at the start of the film walking two
dogs past the pet shop (the dogs were actually his own).
- Hitchcock tried to hire Joseph Stefano (writer of Psycho) to write the
script, but he wasn't interested in the story.
- Hitchcock spotted Tippi Hedren in a diet drink commercial.
- The scene where Tippi Hedren is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie
took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to Tippi's clothes by long
nylon threads so they could not get away.
- The film does not finish with the usual "THE END" title because Hitchcock
wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
# Blackmail (1929)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance being bothered by a small boy on the
subway.
- The film was Hitchcock's and England's first talking picture.
- Anny Ondra's voice was dubbed by Joan Barry because she had a thick German
accent. Barry had to stand just of the set and read Ondra's lines into a
microphone as the film was shot.
# Blade Runner
- LOTS of stuff: check out the Blade Runner FAQ in rec.arts.movies,
alt.cult-movies, news.answers, etc. Available by anonymous FTP from
rtfm.mit.edu.
# Boys in Company C, The
- Drill Instructor played by R Lee Ermey, a former US Marines Drill Instructor.
# Brainstorm (1983)
- Natalie Wood died before filming was complete, thus the ending had to be
changed.
# Brazil (1985)
- Jack's daughter Holly played by director Terry Gilliam's daughter.
- lots of significant names:
- Mr Kurtzman (German for "short man"): small in stature and success. Named
after the editor of "Help" (Harvey Kurtzman), a magazine that Gilliam
worked for in the mid-60s. It was at a photo shoot for this magazine that
Gilliam met John Cleese, who would later invite him to join the Monty
Python team.
- Mr Helpman: "helped" Sam
- Mr Warren: works in a rabbit-warren style place: a maze of corridors
# Bugsy Malone
- Jodie Foster's singing was dubbed. Director Alan Parker regrets this later,
when Foster goes on to be a major star.
# Cape Fear (1991)
- Robert DeNiro paid a dentist $US5000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for
the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $US20000 to have them fixed.
- Gregory Peck, who starred in the 1962 version, appears as Cady's lawyer.
- Robert Mitchum, who played Max Cady in the 1962 version, appears as a
policeman.
- Martin Basalm appears in both versions.
- Scene in highschool auditorium totally ad-libbed by DeNiro and Juliette
Lewis, and done on the first take.
# Casablanca
- Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it
for her, you can play it for me. Play it!"
- Ingrid Bergman complained that she didn't know who her character was supposed
to be in love with.
- Two contradicting endings were scheduled to be filmed, but the first one
worked so well that they used it.
- This film was rewritten daily during filming, made on a shoestring budget,
hastily released, and expected to bomb.
# City Slickers
- Some trailers feature a scene where someone's spurs are caught on a rail, but
this scene is not in the movie.
- "Pregnant" check-out girl that appears at the party is played by Yeardly
Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa Simpson.
# Clockwork Orange, A
- _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly
visible in record store.
- The photo-montage when Alex clobbers the old lady is rumored to have split-
second shots of great interest. [Anyone?]
# Coming to America
- The bums that pickup the money that the Prince (played by Eddie Murphy) drops
are the "Duke Brothers" from _Trading Places_ (also directed by John Landis).
In _Trading Places_, Billy Ray Valentine (played by Eddie Murphy) was
responsible for them losing their fortune.
- The predatory woman in the bar was played by Arsenio Hall.
- All characters in the barber shop (including the caucasians) are played by
Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and another black comedian.
# Conan the Barbarian
- Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Sandahl Bergman did their own stunts, as they
couldn't find suitable body doubles.
- Schwarzeneggar had to tone down his workout, as his arm/chest muscles were
so big that he couldn't wield a sword properly.
- The man who played Conan's sword master trained the actors in the art of
swordplay.
- The fake blood used in the film came in the form of a concentrate which had
to be mixed with water prior to use. Due to the cold weather, it was mixed
with vodka (as an anti-freeze) instead. In the scenes in which the actors
were supposed to spit the blood, they would swallow it instead, then go back
to the special effects man for more.
- The Mattel Toy Company started to make some Conan action figures, but after
viewing the film, the executives realized that they couldn't afford to be
associated with a film with such graphic sex and violence. They gave their
doll blonde hair, called him "He-man", and thus created the "Masters of the
Universe".
# Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The
- Costumes change as characters walk from room to room.
- Animal symbolism rampant: Albert Spica (the thief) drives a Jaguar, the big
sign that says "P&A" (panda).
# Cyborg
- All the major characters are named after guitar brand names.
# Devil and Daniel Webster, The
- Shortly after filming had begun, Thomas Mitchell (playing the title role)
managed to break a leg, and was replaced by Edward Arnold. Not many scenes
had been shot, none were reshot, so Mitchell is still visible in some scenes.
# Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 13 minutes into the film, on the left
side of the reunion photograph.
- The movie was shot in 3-D although it was never released that way until
after Hitchcock's death.
- Hitchcock arranged to have Grace Kelly dressed in bright colours at the
start of the film and made them progressively darker as time goes on.
# Dick Tracy
- The only colors in the film are the six that the original comic strip
appeared in.
# Dirty Harry
- The title role was originally intended for Frank Sinatra.
- After Harry has foiled the bank robbery at the beginning of the film, he
strides over to the one surviving robber. In doing so, he walks in front of
a theatre which is showing "Play Misty For Me", which Clint Eastwood directed
and starred in.
# Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- An entire day was spent shooting the trailer, which does not appear in the
film. The trailer shows Caine and Martin walking along the boardwalk,
politely moving out of the way of other people, etc, with a voice saying
something like "There are numerous distinguised gentlemen in the world...
refined, cultured gentlemen.... <etc> nice men.... <etc>... but nice men
finish last". As these last few lines are spoken, Martin pushes an old lady
into the water, and Caine shoves an kid's face into his ice cream.
# Doors, The
- Prior to the audition, Val Kilmer memorised the lyrics to all songs written
by Jim Morrison.
- Patricia Kennealy Morrison played the High Priestess in the handfasting scene
- John Densmore (The Doors drummer) was the recording engineer
- Bonnie Bramlett (of 60's group Delaney and Bonnie) played the bartender
# Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Nick Nolte spent five weeks as a homeless person in preparation for his role.
# Dr. No
- Sean Connery morbidly afraid of spiders. Shot of spider in his bed was
originally done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, but when
this didn't look realistic enough, the scene was re-shot with stuntman
Bob Simmons.
# E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Harrison Ford played the school principal, but his scenes were cut. There
is a rumor that you can still see his back.
# Easy Virtue
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a tennis court carrying
a walking stick.
# Empire Strikes Back, The
- Lighting for SFX was so strong that several models melted.
# Evil Dead II
- one of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is called
"A Farewell to Arms".
# Evil Dead, The
- total budget for this film was $US50 000. Investors were initially annoyed
when the film appeared to be a comedy, when they were told it would be a
horror story. As of 1988, the investors have had a 150% return.
# Family Plot
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in silhouette 45 minutes into the film
behind the door at the registrar of births and deaths.
- Roy Thinnes was originally hired to play William Devane's character, but
Hitchcock was dissatisfied with his performance and fired him one month
into the filming.
# Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Original ending had Alex committing suicide, and Michael Douglas' character
being arrested for her murder. Changed when preview audiences felt that
justice was not served onto Alex.
# First Blood
- "Hope, USA", is actually "Hope, BC, Canada".
# Fisher King, The
- A poster for "Brazil" (also directed by Terry Gilliam) appears in the first
video store scene.
# Fog, The
- There is a rumor that most of the characters were named after cast and crew
members in director John Carpenter's previous film "Halloween".
# Forbidden Planet
- Borrowed its plot from Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
# Foreign Correspondent
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the movie walking past Joel
McCrea's hotel reading a newspaper.
- Albert Basserman who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer couldn't speak a
word of English and learnt all his lines phonetically.
# Frankenhooker
- Single shot of the Doctor running out of his house and down the street has
parked cars which change positions.
# Frankie and Johnny (1991)
- One scene called for actor Al Pacino to be surprised after opening a door.
_Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country_ was filming in a nearby studio, so
the director arranged for Kirk and Spock be on the other side of the door
that Pacino opened.
# Frenzy (1972)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the first moments of the film in
the crowd - he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
- Elsie Randolph who plays a worker at the hotel last appeared in a Hitchcock
film 40 years earlier as the old maid in 1932's Rich and Strange.
- This was the first film Hitchcock shot in England since 1950's Stage Fright.
# Freshman, The (1990)
- Marlon Brando's first role in many years, playing a man who they supposedly
modeled Don Corleone from _The Godfather_ after. After the movie was made,
he claimed it would be the biggest turkey of all time, then changed his mind
and said it would be reasonable.
# Full Metal Jacket
- Drill Instructor played by R Lee Ermey. A former US Marines Drill Instructor,
Ermey was supposed to be a consultant on how to drill USMC style, but he
lobbied director Stanley Kubrick for the part.
# Ghostbusters
- Had two trailers, one of which ended with a slime monster rushing at the
camera.
# Godfather, Part III, The
- Sofia Coppola (daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola) plays Michael
Corleone's daughter, a role she played as a baby in _The Godfather_.
# Godfather, The
- Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog", so he
stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the screen test. For actual filming,
he wore an appliance made by a dentist. Al Pacino also wore a dental
appliance. This was to hold his jaw out of alignment, to appear as though it
had been broken by McCluskey and not reset.
- Author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola deliberately removed all
instances of the word "Mafia" from their screenplay.
- Scene of Don Corleone's death in the tomato garden was ad-libbed.
- Sofia Coppola (daughter of director) appears as Michael Corleone's baby
daughter in the christening scenes.
# Gone with the Wind
- First scene to be shot was the fires in Atlanta. If there was a major
mistake during the filming, the entire film might have been scrapped. What
they actually burned were a whole lot of old sets on the studio backlot,
including the "Great Gate" from _King Kong_.
- The last scene to be shot was Scarlett on the porch of Tara: the first scene
in the movie.
- When filming began, the part of Scarlett O'Hara had not yet been cast.
Vivien Leigh was introduced to producer David O. Selznik by his brother,
Myron Selznik, during the filming of this scene. Therefore, the actress in
the long shots during the burning of Atlanta is a double.
- The public demanded Bette Davis for the part of Scarlett, she was film tested
for the part, and the footage of her as Scarlett still exists.
- Female costumes were made complete with petticoats, although they wouldn't
have been missed had they not been there.
- Went through several changes of director, finally finished by Victor
Fleming, who had just finished _The Wizard of Oz_.
- George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred
Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent,
and Reeves played Stuart.
- the scene where Scarlett digs up a turnip then retches and gives her "As God
is my witness" line, the vomiting sounds were actually made by Olivia de
Havilland since Vivien Leigh could not produce a convincing enough retch.
# GoodFellas
- Director Martin Scorsese's mother plays Tommy's mother.
# Great Escape, The
- Actor Donald Plesance was actually a POW during WWII.
# Gremlins
- The theater marquee in reads "A Boy's Life", which was the running title for
Spielberg's _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial_
# Gremlins II: The New Batch
- Two different version of this film: one for the theatre, one for video. The
difference is that in the theatrical version, it appears that the film begins
to burn, however, in the video version, this segment is replaced by a segment
which simulates a broken VCR machine.
# High Anxiety
- Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. References to: Spellbound, Vertigo, Psycho,
The Birds, North by Northwest [others?]
# Highlander
- MacLeod says "It's a kind of magic", which is the name of the Queen album
which contains songs from the film.
- The Vietnam vet who tries to machine-gun Kurgan has the Queen song _Hammer
to Fall_ playing in his car.
# Hook (1991)
- Bob Hoskins (Smee) bought beer for 300+ extras after a lengthy and
complicated scene was cut.
- The young Peter Pan is played by Dustin Hoffman's son.
- When the old dude floats out the window at the end, he says "Seize the Day",
which has significance for Robin Williams, who starred in _Seize the Day_,
and _Dead Poet's Society_ (for which this was a catch-cry).
- Smee says "Goooooooood morning Neverland!", a reference to Williams in _Good
Morning Vietnam_.
- [reference to Awakenings, anyone?]
# Howling, The
- All the characters have the names of "wolfman-movie" directors.
# Hunt for Red October, The
- $US20 000 spent on Sean Connery's hairpiece.
# I Confess
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance crossing the top of a staircase during
the opening credits.
- Anne Baxter was one of the actresses tested by Hitchcock for the leading
role in Rebecca (she was 16 at the time).
# Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Shows origin of Jones' fear of snakes in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
- Harrison Ford cut his chin in a car accident in Northern California when he
was about 20. In the movie, this cut is explained by young Indiana Jones
cutting his chin with a whip.
- The dog barking when young Indy passes with the cross in his hand is an
Alaskan malmute, the same type of dog the Lucas's owned in the late 1970s.
- Walter Donovan was played by Julian Glover, and Donovan's wife was played by
Glover's wife.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- The club at the beginning is called "Club Obi Wan", a reference to a _Star
Wars_ character.
- Shots of mining-car roller-coaster ride done with models and a 35mm camera
modified to hold extra film.
- Suspension bridge only shown from one side, to avoid showing the Grand Coulee
Dam.
- Rehash of the "shooting the swordsman" joke from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
# It Happened at the World's Fair
- Kurt Russell (in his screen debut) kicks Elvis' shins. Goldie Hawn was also
in this film, and they married each other much later.
# Jaws
- Sterling Hayden was the first choice for the role of Quint. Hayden, however,
was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service for back taxes. All
Hayden's income from acting was subject to a levy by the IRS, so there was an
attempt to circumvent that. Hayden was also a writer, so one idea was to pay
him union scale for his acting, and buy a story from him (his literary income
wasn't subject to levy) for a large sum. It was concluded that the IRS would
see through this scheme, so Robert Shaw was cast instead.
- The live shark footage was shot at Seal Rocks, Australia. A real white
pointer was cut up and "extended" for the close-up shots.
# JFK
- Jim Garrison (the real Jim Garrison) plays Earl Warren.
# Joe Versus the Volcano
- The company logo appears frequently: the path leading up to the factory, the
bolt of lightning which sinks the ship, and the lava flow down the side of
the volcano, the crack in Joe's apartment.
# Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance near the end of the movie at Victoria
Station wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
- The movie was remade in 1979.
# Last Starfighter, The
- All shots of spacecraft, space, etc generated on a CRAY computer. Some
objects had over 300 000 polygons, but the entire movie took only eight hours
to generate.
# Lifeboat
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in "before" and "after" pictures in a
newspaper advert for Reduco the Obesity slayer. The pictures were genuine
as Hitch had just been on a crash diet (although not with the fictional
Reduco).
# Little Mermaid, The (1989)
- Some versions of the videotape had the likeness of a penis on the cover.
# Live and Let Die
- The power-boat jump over the causeway broke the world record for distance.
# Lodger, The (1926)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance at a desk in the newsroom early in the
film. Some people claim he also appears later in the crowd watching the
arrest.
- Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't
allow it to be implied that Ivor Novello might actually be the murderer.
# Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
- The power-boat jump in this movie broke the world record for distance,
previously set during the making of _Live and Let Die_.
# Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the Moroccan marketplace watching
the acrobats with his back to the camera just before the murder.
- Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the
orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
and consists of 124 shots.
# Man with the Golden Gun, The
- J W Pepper (Clifton James) is a sherrif from Lousiana that James Bond met
in _Live and Let Die_. While chasing Scaramanga, Bond teams up with Pepper,
who is on holidays in Thailand.
- The stunt where Bond and Pepper do a barrel role in a car was included after
a group of university students came up with the idea and used a computer to
calculate the necessary environment. Although the bridge halves look
dilapidated, they were constructed to exacting specifications. The stunt car
had to approach the ramp at a certain speed, and had a special fuel system so
that it wouldn't stall as it rolled over.
- Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love" album has a song "Man With the Golden Gun"
on it. The CD version includes notes claiming it was to be the theme
song of the movie, but the producers chickened out.
# Manhunter (1986)
- This film is a prequel to _The Silence of the Lambs_. Although there are
several characters common to both films, the only actor to appear in both
movies is Frankie Faison. Ironically, he plays two different characters:
Lt Fisk in _Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of the Lambs_.
# Marnie
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 5 minutes into the film, in the hotel
corridor as Tippi Hedren walks by.
- The production company created for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley" was named
after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
- Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren had a major falling out during the filming and
by the end he directed her through intermediaries.
- Bruce Dern can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.
- Hitchcock wanted Grace Kelly to make her screen come back in the title role,
but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
playing a compulsive thief.
# Misery
- A video of _When Harry Met Sally_ (also directed by Rob Reiner) is visible
in the general store.
# Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- When Arthur rides into the village where the "Witch" is about to be burnt, a
man is holding a coconut slung between two swallows.
# Mountain Eagle, The
- No prints of this film (Hitchcock's second) are known to have survived and
no one has seen it since the late 1920s.
# Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about half way through the movie passing
Robert Montgomery in front of his building
- Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole
Lombard.
# Murder!
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the movie walking past the
house where the murder was committed.
- A German version called "Mary" was filmed at the same time using German
actors, but the same sets.
- The scene where Herbert Marshall thinks out loud in front of a mirror had to
be filmed with a recording of Marshall's lines and an orchestra hidden
behind the set as it was not possible to dub the soundtrack later.
# Nightmare on Elm Street, A
- Kruger bleeds green.
- Freddy Kruger's colors of red and green are contrasted throughout the movie.
# North by Northwest
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance missing a bus at the end of the opening
credits.
- Jessie Royce Landis played Cary Grant's mother, yet he was 10 months
older than her.
- The shot of Cary Grant entering the UN building had to be filmed with a
hidden camera as Hitchcock wasn't able to get permission to shoot there.
- At one point the movie's title was to be "The Man in Lincoln's Nose",
referring to the final chase sequence on Mount Rushmore.
# Notorious (1946)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in, drinking champagne
at the party in Claude Rains' mansion
- Hitchcock claimed that the FBI had him under surveillance for three months
because the film dealt with Uranium for the A-bomb.
- The films producer, David O. Selznick had originally wanted Vivien Leigh
for Ingrid Bergman's role.
- The original story, "The Song of the Dragon" was first published in the
Saturday Evening Post in November 1921.
- It was remade in 1992 as a TV-movie.
# Octopussy
- Maude Adams (Octopussy) is the only female actress (besides the actress that
played Miss Moneypenny) to appear in more than one James Bond film (_The Man
With the Golden Gun_ was the other).
# Paradine Case, The
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance getting off a train at the Cumberland
station carrying a cello (see also his cameo in Strangers on a Train).
- An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for
the court scenes.
# Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The actress who played the groupie in Pink's caravan/apartment wasn't told
that Bob Geldof would be throwing that object at her, so he reaction of
ducking was totally unrehearsed.
- Scene for the song "Hey You" was filmed. It showed British police in riot
gear facing off against a mob. Roger Waters asked this reel to be cut.
- Director Alan Parker walked out on this project many times, probably due to
and ego clash with Roger Waters. Waters was annoyed at Parker, who didn't
like the way that he wanted to make it a cult film. Pink Floyd's next
album _The Final Cut_ contains the following lyrics (written by Waters):
"Not now John, we've gotta get on with the film show:
Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow.
Who cares what it's about, as long as the kids go?
So not now John I've gotta get on with the show."
# Piranha II: The Spawning
- This turkey, featuring mechanical flying piranhas, was directed by James
Cameron, who later went on to make Terminator 1 and 2, Aliens, and The
Abyss.
# Play Misty for Me
- Don Siegel played the bartender, and directed Clint Eastwood (director of
this film) in _Dirty Harry_
# Pleasure Garden, The
- Hitchcock's first film was almost doomed when Austrian customs officials
confiscated the film stock on the journey to do some location shooting.
- Although shot a year before, the film wasn't actually released until
after "The Lodger" was a massive hit.
# Point Break
- "Warchild" (the surf nazi who shoots himself in the foot) is played by
Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the _Red Hot Chili Peppers_.
- One of the places that Utah follows Bodie (Patrick Swayze) to is "Patrick's
Roadhouse". Patrick Swayze previously starred in _Roadhouse_.
# Poltergeist
- Movie on the TV in an early bedroom scene is the first version of "Heaven Can
Wait", possibly indicating the intermediate state of the film.
- The house which gets sucked into a black hole at the end was actually a
model about 4 feet across. The model took several weeks to complete. The
scene was shot as follows: camera placed directly above model, which was
mounted over an industrial strength vacuum generator (the front door was
facing directly up, straight at the camera). The model also had about 100
wires attached to various points of the structure. These wires went down
through the back of the house, and down through the vacuum collection sack.
The camera was turned on, and took 15 seconds to wind up to the required
300 frames per second. When ready, the cameraman gave the cue. The vacuum
was turned on, the wires were yanked suddenly, and several SFX guys blasted
the house with pump-action shotguns.
The entire scene was over in about two seconds, and they had to wait until
the film was developed before they knew if they would have to do it again.
When played back at 24 fps, would take approximately 12 seconds for the house
to collapse. Luckily, they got it right on the first go.
Finished scene was sent to Stephen Spielberg, who was on location shooting
_ET_. He gave it to a projectionist, who assumed it was just the "dailys"
from ET. Scene came on, projectionist said "Holy shit! What was that!".
Spielberg had the remains of the model encased in perspex, and it is now
sitting on his piano. The model itself was worth well over $25000.
# Poltergeist III
- Heather O'Rourke (who played the little girl in all three movies) died
shortly before this film was released.
# Predator 2
- the skull of a creature that resembles the ones in _Alien_ and _Aliens_
is on the wall in the Predator's trophy room.
# President's Analyst, The
[Supposed to be lots in this movie]
# Pretty Woman
- Julia Roberts had a body double for the intimate shots.
- Julia Roberts' head was superimposed on her body double for the poster.
Richard Gere's hair is brown on the poster, but greying in the movie.
# Psycho
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 4 minutes in wearing a cowboy hat
outside Janet Leigh's office.
- The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40,000,000.
Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money. In
1962 exchanged the rights to the film and his TV-series for a huge block
of MCA's stock (he became their third largest stockholder).
- Robert Bloch's original novel was inspired by the notorious serial killer
Ed Gein who was also one of the inspirations for the character of Hannibal
Lector (The Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter).
- Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for
just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to
keep the ending a secret.
- The shower scene has over 90 splices in it, and was not directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. The production designer [?] had such a good idea for the scene
that Hitchcock let him direct it.
- During the shooting of the shower scene, Hitchcock arranged for the water to
suddenly go ice-cold when the attack started.
- Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent,
but Bernard Herrmann went ahead and scored it anyway and Hitch immediately
changed his mind.
- The blood in the shower scene is actually chocolate sauce.
- The shot of Janet Leigh flushing the toilet is believed to be the first
such shot in American cinema history.
- Hitchcock tested the "fear factor" of mother's corpse by placing it in
Janet Leigh's dressing room and listening to how loud she screamed when
she discovered it.
- There is a rumor that the MPAA refused to pass this film because they
claimed to be able to see Janet Leigh's nipple during the shower scene.
Hitchcock didn't edit it out, but merely sent it back, (correctly, it seems)
assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or miss it the second
time.
- Hitchcock insisted that audiences should only be allowed to see the film
from the start so as not to ruin the surprise. This was unheard of back
then as people were used to just coming in at any point during a movie.
- After the film's release Hitchcock received an angry letter from the
father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Diabolique and now
refused to shower after seeing Psycho. Hitch sent a note back simply
saying "Send her to the dry cleaners".
# PT 109
- President Kennedy's person choice of actor to portray him was Warren Beatty.
# Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Frank Marshall (the film's producer) played the airline pilot. [?????]
- Fred Sorenson (Jock, the airline pilot) flew the producer of _Jurassic Park_
(directed by Stephen Spielberg) off Kaui just before the hurricane hit.
- Script originally included a long fight between a swordsman and Indiana with
his whip. Actor Harrison Ford was suffering diarrhea at the time, and asked
"Why don't I just shoot him?", so they did this instead.
- The truck that didn't have Marion in it was flipped over by firing a section
of a telephone pole through the floorboards.
- There is a rumor that the hieroglyphics in the map room include engravings
of R2-D2 and C-3PO, from _Star Wars_.
# Rear Window
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the film, winding the
clock in the songwriter's apartment.
- At the time the set was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios.
- The film was unavailable for many years owing to a dispute with Cornell
Woolrich's estate over the rights to the original story.
- Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play the villain because he
looked like his old producer David O. Selznick.
- Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead
dog all the shots in the movie originate from Stewart's apartment
# Rebecca
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a phone booth just after
George Sanders makes a call in the final part of the movie.
- The first film Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a
best picture Oscar (and even that went to the film's producer).
- Just as in the original novel, Joan Fontaine's character has no first
name.
- Over 20 actresses were tested for the role that eventually went to Joan
Fontaine.
# Repo Man
- All the main characters are named after beers: Bud, Lite, Miller, [more?]
[Is Otto a beer?]
- All cars (plus the police motorcycle) have xmas-tree air fresheners.
- The Repo Man's code is a parody of Issac Asimov's "Laws of Robotics".
- The man who drives around with the bomb in his car looks like Asimov.
- William S Burroughs/Naked Lunch allusions: "Paging Dr Benway" in the hospital
and mentioning Bill Lee.
- Miller talks about the cosmic unconsciousness: "You'll be thinking about
a plate of shrimp, and all of a sudden someone will say plate, or shimp,
or plate of shrimp. ..." Later the two Latinos who've stolen the bomb car
park outside a diner which features a huge sign in one of its windows
reading: PLATE O' SHRIMP $2.95.
- Lite gives Otto a book called "Diuretics" to "help change your life"
- The movie was made by "edge city productions" - edge city is a recurring
theme in Ken Kesey's "Electric Kool-Ade Acid Test".
# Return of the Jedi
- SFX crew claim to have included a "sneaker" as one of the spaceships in a
complex dog-fight scene.
- Experiments with a computer to generate a random but logical language for
some creatures produced a dialect of Greek.
- Rumor has it that Nien Numb speaks a Kenyan dialect, and one of his lines
is "One thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot".
- Lando Calrissian and The Millenium Falcon originally scripted to perish in
the Death Star explosion, but this was changed after a poor preview audience
reception.
- The title "Revenge of the Jedi" was leaked early in production, so that
pirated merchandise could be easily spotted when the film was released. The
official reason for the change was that "...a Jedi would not take revenge".
# Rope
- Hitchcock's trademark can be seen on a neon sign in the view from the
apartment window.
- The film was shot in a series of 8 minute continuous takes (the maximum
amount of film that a camera could hold). At the end of each segment the
camera zooms in on a dark object, ready to zoom out for the start of the
next segment. Most of the props were on castors and the crew had to wheel
them out of the way as the camera moved around the set.
- Hitchcock only managed to shoot roughly one segment per day. The last 4 or 5
segments had to be completely re-shot because Hitch wasn't happy with the
colour of the sunset.
# Roxanne
- This movie is a remake of _Cyrrano de Bergerac_. Martin's character (C D
Bailes), has the same initials.
- "Nelson, USA" is actually "Nelson, BC, Canada"
- C D Bailes is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 19, he asks
"How many's that?", to which he is told "Fourteen!". He goes on to tell
another six, making 25 in total.
# Saboteur
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in standing in front of
Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car stops.
# Scanners
- bullet impacts are normally simulated by explosives. The exploding head was
done by shooting a life-size gelatin model with a shotgun.
# Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance on the train to Santa Rosa playing
cards. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic
ace.
- It was remade as "Step Down to Terror" in 1958 and as a TV movie in 1991.
# She's Having a Baby
- The BMW's license plate is "SHAB" which is an acronym of the title.
# Shining, The
- Stanley Kubrick had a large stack of books that he was looking through to
find a movie project. For a couple of hours, his secretary could hear
him pick up a book, read it for about a minute, and then hurl it into the
wall. She then noticed that this hadn't happened in a while, so she went
in to check on him, and found him reading Stephen King's "The Shining".
Stephen King says that this is really strange, because the start of that
book is very slow, and doesn't have much to do with the rest of the story.
- During the making of the movie, Kubrick would call King at 3am and ask him
questions like "Do you believe in God?".
- Rumor has it that Jack Nicholson had to be physically restrained after
working himself into a frenzy during the scene where he axes the door.
- The axe used in some shots is made from rubber.
- Out-takes of scenery were used in the studio-imposed ending of _Blade Runner_
# Silence of the Lambs, The
- This film is a sequel to _Manhunter_. Although there are several characters
common to both films, the only actor to appear in both movies is Frankie
Faison. Ironically, he plays two different characters: Lt Fisk in
_Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of the Lambs_.
# Singin' in the Rain
- Jean Hagen's voice can be heard through the overdubbed Debbie Reynolds.
# Spaceballs
- Numerous references to _Star Wars_ and other SF films.
# Spellbound
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 40 minutes in, coming out of the
elevator at the Empire hotel carrying a violin.
- One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
- The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dali, and was originally
supposed to run to 20 minutes. It included a scene with Ingrid Bergman
covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in
the release version.
- The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel
pointing at Ingrid Bergman was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant
gun to get the perspective correct.
# Stage Fright (1950)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance turning to look at Jane Wyman in her
disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid.
# Stakeout
- Richard Dreyfus starred in _Jaws_, but his character doesn't recognise the
quote from it during the trivia contest.
# Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- The punk on the bus is Kirk Thatcher (executive producer, son of former
British PM Margaret), who also wrote and performed the song that is playing
on his stereo at the time.
# Star Wars
- George Lucas had trouble getting funding for this movie, most studios
thinking that people wouldn't go to see it.
- A great deal of the film was shot by vintage 1930's VistaVision cameras,
because they were of higher quality than any others available. After the
film was released, the prices of these cameras skyrocketed.
- Scene of escape pod leaving Leia's ship was the first ever done by ILM.
- C-3PO originally scripted as a "used car salesman" type.
- Han and Luke "transfer" Chewbacca from cellblock 1138: George Lucas made a
film called _THX-1138_.
- Harrison Ford deliberately didn't learn his lines for the intercom
conversation in the cell block, so it would sound spontaneous.
- When the stormtroopers enter the room where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding, one
of them "accidentally" bumps his head on the door, complete with sound
effects. The lead stormtrooper then says: "See to him".
- Most of the crowd watching the heroes receive their medallions are cardboard
cutouts.
# Strangers on a Train
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film boarding a train
carrying a double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off the train (see
also his cameo in The Paradine Case).
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
to keep the price down and got them for just $7,500
- Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was
almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.
- The movie was remade as "Once you Kiss a Stranger" in 1969.
# Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Marlon Brando's nose was broken by Jack Palance (his understudy) during back-
stage horseplay.
# Superman
- Marlon Brando received $US4 million for his two minutes on screen.
- Credits sequence cost more than most films made up to that point.
# Suspicion (1941)
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 45 minutes in, mailing a letter at
the village post office.
- In the scene where Cary Grant brings a glass of milk up to Joan Fontaine,
Hitch had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Grant to be guilty, but the studio insisted
that the public wouldn't accept him as a murderer.
- It was remade as a British TV movie in 1987
# Tall Guy, The
- The name "Ron Anderson" is remarkably similar to the name of the actor who
plays him: Rowan Atkinson.
- One of the other contenders for the award that Anderson won was Griff Rhys-
Jones, the "Jones" half of the comedy duo "Alas Smith and Jones". The
"Smith" half (Mel Smith) directed the film.
# Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Scenes with Kyle Reece (Michael Biehn) cut prior to release.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances
at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome.
- The T800's bike jump into the stormwater drain was performed by a stuntman
Peter Kent. The motorbike was supported by 1-inch cables, so that when they
hit the ground, the bike and rider only weighted 180 pounds. The cables were
later digitally erased.
- More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed.
- SFX crew had to incorporate Robert Patrick's football-injury limp in their
animation of the T1000.
- The morphing software and digital images requied 150 gigabytes of storage.
- For the truck scene, they modified a normal truck to hide the usual steering
wheel, and added a cosmetic steering wheel on the left side. In addition,
the truck had a mirror-image licence plate and other necessary stuff.
Then, they filmed the stuff with the T1000 pretending to be driving from
the lefthand steering wheel (wearing a mirror-image police uniform),
while the real driver was hidden under a black hood at the lowered real
steering wheel. For the final film, the scenes were flipped left-to-right
to make it all look right and combined with footage shot with a normal
truck driving in the drain. This was done so that actor Robert Patrick could
concentrate on acting rather than driving.
- Linda Hamilton's twin Leslie played the T1000 when it was imitating Sarah
Connor.
- Identical twins Don and Dan Stratton played the hospital security guard and
the T1000.
- The T-800 says "I need a holiday", which Arnold Schwarzeneggar previously
said in _Kindergarten Cop_.
# Terminator, The
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show 6502 assembly code, taken from a
British computing magazine. Other code visible is COBOL.
# Tess
- Set in England but filmed in France, as director Roman Polanski was wanted
on sex-related charges in England.
# This Is Spinal Tap
- Director Rob Reiner plays Marti DiBergi
# To Catch a Thief
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 10 minutes in, sitting next to Cary
Grant on a bus.
- The road where Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are pursued by the police is
the same one where Kelly died in a car crash 27 years later.
# Topaz
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 30 minutes in at the airport getting
out of a wheelchair.
- The film was Hitchcock's biggest flop, costing over $4M to make, but taking
less than $1M
- Leon Uris wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but Hitch declared it
unshootable at the last minute and called in Samuel Taylor (writer of
Vertigo) to rewrite it from scratch. Some scenes were written just hours
before they were shot.
# Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Actor Jason Robards was actually present at the bombing of Pearl Harbor on
12-7-1941.
# Torn Curtain
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film sitting in a hotel
lobby with a baby on his knee.
- The scene where agent Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult
it really can be to kill a man.
- Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the
script.
- Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal executives convinced
Hitch that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitch and Herrmann had a major
disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.
# Trouble with Harry, The
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 20 minutes in, walking past the
limousine of a man looking at the paintings.
- Bernard Herrmann's score was the first of a long collaboration with
Hitchcock that lasted nearly nine years.
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
for just $11,000.
# Under Capricorn
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance five minutes into the movie in the
town square wearing a coat and a brown hat. Ten minutes later he is one of
three men on the steps of government house.
# Vertigo
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 11 minutes in wearing a gray
suit walking past Gavin Elster's shipyard.
- The film is based upon the novel "D'Entre les Morts" which was written
specifically for Hitchcock after the authors heard that he tried to
buy the rights to their previous novel "Diabolique".
- San Juan Batista, the Spanish mission which features in key scenes in the
movie doesn't actually have a bell tower - it was added with trick
photography. The mission originally had a steeple but it was demolished
following a fire.
- The screenplay is credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, but Coppel
didn't write a word of the final draft. He is credited for contractual
reasons only. Taylor read neither Coppel's script nor the original novel,
he worked solely from Hitchcock's outline of the story.
- Hitchcock reportedly spent a week filming a brief scene where Kim Novak
stares at a portrait in the Palace of the Legion of Honor just to get the
lighting right.
- Hitchcock invented the famous combination of forward zoom and reverse
tracking shot to convey the sense of vertigo to the audience. The view
down the mission stair well cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of
screen time.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Vera Miles to play Madeleine, but she got
pregnant and was therefore unavailable.
# Viva Max!
- Refers indirectly to the John Wayne film _The Alamo_ by showing a painting of
John Wayne as Davy Crockett defending the Alamo. Normally there is a
disclaimer which states "all characters depicted in this motion picture are
ficticious and any similarity......", etc. In this film, the disclaimer
reads "all characters depicted in this motion picture except John Wayne are
ficticious and any similarity to actual persons....."
# WarGames
- Kevin Costner turned down the lead role for a part in _The Big Chill_ which
was eventually cut.
# Warlock (1989)
- Scene in the theatrical previews indicating that the Warlock was the satanic
Messiah was cut some time before video distribution.
# Wayne's World
- Robert Patrick appears as a motorcycle cop who looks and acts similarly to
the T-1000 in _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_.
# West Side Story
- Borrowed its plot from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
# When Harry Met Sally...
- The woman who says "I'll have what she's having" after Sally's faked orgasm
is director Rob Reiner's mother.
# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Bob Hoskins watched his young daughter to learn how to act with imaginary
characters. He later had problems with hallucinations.
# Wizard of Oz, The
- The title role was written especially for W C Fields, who intended to play
him as a cynical con-man. Frank Morgan got the role, however, when the
studio refused to pay Fields the outrageous fee he demanded: $75 000.
- Several "Toto"s died during filming.
- The Lion's facial makeup included a brown paper bag.
- The original Tin Man got metal poisoning from the facial makeup, and several
scenes had to be re-filmed with the new Tin Man actor.
- "Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut.
- The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with jelly crystals. The
relevant scenes had to be shot quickly, before the horses started to lick
it off.
- There is a rumor that the Munchkin actors had wild orgies on the set.
# Working Girl
- Harrison Ford cut his chin in a car accident in Northern California when he
was about 20. [How is this explained in the movie?]
# Wrong Man, The
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance narrating the film's prologue. The only
time he actually spoke in any of his films.
- Although based on a true story, Hitchcock deliberately left out some of the
information that pointed to Manny's innocence to heighten the tension.
- The "right" man (the real culprit) can be seen several times during the
film: outside the Stork Club, in the Victor Moore arcade and near one of
the liquor stores where the police take Manny.
# Young and Innocent
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance outside the courthouse holding a camera
as Derrick de Marney escapes.
# Young Guns (1988)
- Tom Cruise was disguised with a beard and mustache and has a cameo as
a bad guy that walks out of a door and is shot. He was added because he
was visiting the set and said he had never been in a film gunfight.
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CRAZY CREDITS
This section lists funny credits, or scenes which are shown during or after
the credits.
# Adventures In Babysitting
- Shot of the thug who chased the little girl outside of skyscraper whimpering
about being stuck out there.
# Airplane!
- Gripology ................................. Pete Papanickolas
- Generally in charge of a lot of things .... Mike Finnell
- Author of A Tale of Two Cities ............ Charles Dickens
- This motion picture is protected under the laws of the
United States and other countries. Unauthorized duplica-
tion, distribution, or exhibition may result in civil
liability or criminal prosecution. So there.
- Man (Howard Jarvis) in taxi abandoned by Robert Hays looking at his
watch: "Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it!"
# Airplane II: The Sequel
- Gaffer (What's a Gaffer?) ... Larry Gilhooly
- Best Boy (Electric) ......... Frank McKane
- Worst Boy ................... Adolf Hitler
# Being There
- Peter Sellers repeating a line in the hospital-bed scene, but laughing
uncontrollably each time.
# Better Off Dead
- the successful launch of Badger's space shuttle, made from household items.
- "the film's over... you can go home now."
# Big Business
- Seen about two-thirds of the way through the credits: "Don't Go, It's Almost
Over"
# Bird on a Wire
- Credits scroll down instead of up
# Chopping Mall (aka Killbots)
- Robot rolls up to camera and says: "Thank you. Have a nice day."
(Movie's plot is that security robots run amuck at a shopping mall and
that's what they said after they'd killed somebody).
# Fatal Skies
- The doddering old sheriff draws his guns and aims that at the audience:
"Halt! Don't make a move! You can avoid me, but you can never escape!"
# Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Ferris comes out of bathroom: "You're still here? It's over. Go home."
# Field Of Dreams
- The Voice ................ Himself
# F/X 2
- Shot of helicopter flying and exclamations of non-pilot crook trying to keep
it in the air.
# The Gate II
- At the end of the movie the hero is raised from the dead at his funeral, and
then two others who were also killed climb out of the coffin. After the
credits a hamster that was sacrificed earlier in the movie crawls out of the
coffin as well.
# Glitch!
- Bra Wrangler ............. Woops Mygod
- Zit Remover .............. Lucienne Pimpel
- Orange Juice Squeezer .... Big Hand Luke
- Palm Reader .............. Madame Ortega III
- Negative Cutting ......... Supercuts (Ha! Ha!)
- (No, Seriously...) ....... Mary Duerstein
- Look for the soundtrack album in your neighborhood
record store and if you cannot find it, write to your
senator or bring a tape recorder to the theater
the next time you see this movie.
- The producers wish to thank all those who didn't smoke
on the set and to express their sympathy to those
who did smoke and were fired thereafter.
(Heart and Lung Association, eat your heart out!)
- Our gratitude must be extended to all those who did
not do drugs on the set. The list is too long to mention.
Those who did do drugs are listed separately in police
and morgue files.
- We appreciate the participation of Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola,
Dr. Pepper, Seven-Up, Shasta, Miller Beer, etc., etc.,
in making this picture cooler.
- WARNING
This picture is protected by all kinds of stuff. Tamper with it,
go to jail. Before you make a copy to send to your aunt in
Podunk, look out the window. The Feds are gonna get you.
And for all those foreign !@#$%$ who hate movies,
remember Mr. Dubois? He's working for the producers now.
- The characters, names, cars, homes, bikinis, limos, goons, and
Mafia families in this motion picture are absolutely fictitious.
Any similarity with characters, names, cars, homes, bikinis,
limos, goons, and Mafia families, dead, alive, or anywhere
in between is strictly coincidental.
# Gone With The Wind
- George Reeves is credited as playing the part of Brent Tarleton, and Fred
Crane is billed as Stuart Tarleton. This is incorrect: Crane played Brent,
and Reeves played Stuart.
# Lethal Weapon 3
- During the credits you can hear that another bomb has been discovered. When
Martin and Roger show up in their car, they have this discussion again
whether or not to go in. Just as they stop at the building, the whole
building explodes and you can hear Martin saying, while backing up the car,
"I hope nobody saw us".
# The Linguini Incident
- Rabbits ................ Hugh & Heff
- Special Effects Bras by Bart Trickel
# Look Who's Talking Too
- Sperm Wrangler ......... Blair Clark
- Mikey's little sister Julie falls down. Roseanne Barr's voice: "Oh, my tush
hurts."
# Married To The Mob
- Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine dancing on the steps outside a building.
# Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- M0nti Pyth0n lk den H0lie Grailen
- R0tern nik Akten Di
- Wik
- Als0 wik
- Wi n0t trei a h0liday in Sweden this yer?
- See the l0veli lakes
- The wonderful teleph0ne system
- And mani interesting furry animals
- The Producers would like to thank The Forestry Commission
Doune Admissions Ltd, Keir and Cowdor Estates, Stirling
University, and the people of Doune for their help in the
making of this film.
The Characters and incidents portrayed and the names used
are fictitious and any similarity to the names, characters,
or history of any person is entirely accidental and
unintentional.
Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
- Including the majestic m00se
- A M00se once bit my sister ...
- No realli! She was Karving her initials on the m00se
with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian m0vies: "The H0t Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge M0lars of Horst
Nordfink".
- We apologise for the fault in the
subtitles. Those responsible have been
sacked.
- Mynd you, m0se bites Kan be pretty nasti...
- We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those
responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked
have been sacked.
- M00se trained by TUTTE HERMSGERV0RDENBR0TB0RDA
- Special M00se Effects OLAF PROT
M00se Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL
M00se Choreographed by HORST PROT III
Miss Taylor's M00ses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME
M00se trained to mix
concrete and sign com-
plicated insurance
forms by JURGEN WIGG
M00ses' noses wiped by BJORN IRKESTOM-SLATER WALKER
- Large m00se on the left
half side of the screen
in the third scene from
the end, given a thorough
grounding in Latin,
French and "O" Level
Geography by BO BENN
- Suggestive poses for the
M00se suggested by VIC ROTTER
Antler-care by LIV THATCHER
- The directors of the firm hired to
continue the credits after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to
be known that they have just been
sacked.
- The credits have been completed
in an entirely different style at
great expense and at the last
minute.
- Executive Producer
JOHN GOLDSTONE & "RALPH" The Wonder Llama
Assisted by
EARL J. LLAMA
MIKE Q. LLAMA III
SY LLAMA
MERLE Z. LLAMA IX
Directed By
40 SPECIALLY TRAINED
ECUADORIAN MOUNTAIN LLAMAS
6 VENEZUELAN RED LLAMAS
142 MEXICAN WHOOPING LLAMAS
14 NORTH CHILEAN GUANACOS
(CLOSELY RELATED TO THE LLAMA)
REG LLAMA OF BRIXTON
76000 BATTERY LLAMAS
FROM "LLAMA-FRESH" FARMS NEARE PARAGUAY
and
TERRY GILLIAM AND TERRY JONES
# The Muppet Movie
- Close-up of Animal shouting "Movie over! Go Home! Go Home!"
# Mutant On The Bounty
- Outtake of actors cracking up over scene where dead alien splatters all over
their spaceship cabin.
# The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear
- Sound Mixer ................ Richard Bryce Goodman
Mr. Goodman's Hearing Aid .. Beverly Hills Ear Boutique
- Hairdressers ........
Set Dressers ........
Cross Dressers ...... George LoCash
...... Vance Collins
- Film Loader ......... Steven Robert Lund
Loaded Filmer ....... Phil Elberg
- Secretary to Mr. Weiss ..... Mimi Wolan
Wardrobe for Mr. Weiss ..... Beverly Hills High, Wide and Handsome
- Crane Grip .................. Lloyd Barcroft
Dolly Grip .................. Jon Falkengren
Poli-Grip ................... Martha Raye
What the Hell is a Grip? .... Person responsible for maintenance and
adjustment to equipment on the set
- General Foreman ...... John Hoskins
General Schwarzkopf .. Welcome Home
Foremen .............. Guy A. MacLaury
.............. Joseph Santre
.............. Bernard McPherson
.............. Michael Bunch
George Formen ........ 6'4" 250 lbs. Age: 42 Won: 60 Lost: 3 KO's:65
- Production Painters ..... Nick Bridwell
..... Donnie R. Puga
Impressionist Painters .. Vincent Van Gogh
.. Edgar "Skip" Degas
- Driver Captain ....... Ray McLaughlin
Co-Captain ........... Dan Brooks
Navigator ............ Rabbi Brian Thau
Bombardier ........... Alan Ladwig
- Deep Sea Drivers ..... Steve Brodsky
..... Jimmy Ferrara
..... Wayne Campbell
..... Gina August
- Stock Librarian ...... Suzy Lafer
Stock Answer ......... "I'll have it ready in the morning"
- Stunts:
Phil "Kamikaze" Adams
"Crazy" Bruce Barbour
"Reckless" Dwayne McGee
David "Headlong Plunge" Powledge
Jeff "Thud" Ramsey
Don "Headfirst" Pulford
"Dangling" Kaye Wade
Charlie "White Knuckles" Brewer
Eugene "Splat" Collier
Mickey "This Guy's Really Nuts!" White
Jimmy "Tailspin" Jue
Eric "Aaarrrgggghhhh" Norris
Lobster Stunt Breast ........ Miss V
Mr. Griffith's Stunt Butt ... Chuck Le Fever
- Voice of George Bush (John Roarke): "All right, let's see if I've got this
straight now. Energy efficiency - good. Drilling in arctic national wildlife
refuge - bad."
[A knock]
Voice: "Uh, Mr. President, is everything okay in there?"
President: "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." [sound of toilet flushing]
# Netherworld
- Two well-dressed corpses sitting at a table. One sips a drink and asks "What
is this tafia shit anyway?" (referring to the drink). The other one says, "I
don't know."
# Oscar
- Face on the Cutting Room Floor ........ Joe Dante
# Planes, Trains & Automobiles
- Advertising exec William Windom examining a bunch of pictures.
# Promised Land
- Best Dog ... Cheetah
# The Running Man
- Announcer's voiceover: "The Running Man has been brought to you by: Breakaway
Paramilitary Uniforms, Orville Pure Procreation Pills, and Cadre Cola - it
hits the spot.
Promotional considerations paid for by Elton Flame Throwers,
Wainright Electrical Launchers, and Hammand & Gates Chain Saws.
Damon Gillian's wardrobe by Chez Antoine, 19th century
craftsmanship for the 21st century man.
Cadre trooper and studio guard's sidearms provided by Colt
Chester, the pistol of patriots.
Remember, tickets for the ICS studio tour are always available
for class A citizens in good standing.
If you'd like to be a contestant on The Running Man, send a
self-addressed, stamped envelope to ICS Talent Hunt, care of your local
affiliate, and then go out and do something really despicable!
I'm Bill Hilgen. Good night and take care!"
# She's Having A Baby
- Various stars suggesting baby names -
Kirstie Alley, Harry Anderson, Jay and Michael Astin, Dan Aykroyd, Matthew
Broderick, John Candy, Dyan Cannon, Belinda Carlisle, Ted Danson, Judi Evans,
Woody Harrelson, Robert Hays, "Magic" Johnson, Michael Keaton, Joanna Kerns,
Penny Marshall, Bill Murray, Roy Orbison, Cindy Pickett, Annie Potts,
John Ratzenberger, Ally Sheedy, Lyman Ward, Wil Wheaton.
# Smokey And The Bandit II
- Outtakes during the credits.
# Splash
- Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah swimming and coming to an underwater city.
# Strange Brew
- Bob and Doug talk about their movie.
# The Stuff
- Brooke Adams holding a container of Stuff as in a commercial: "Enough is
never enough."
# Summer Job
- Court Jester ........... Kim Kennedy
# Double Exposure (aka Terminal Exposure)
- Beverly Hills Unit:
Psychiatric Consultant .. Dr. Edmond Nutz
Chiropractic Consultant . James Rolf
Tanning Consultant ...... U.V. Red
Palimony Consultant .... Marvin Rippolfson
Silicone Consultant ..... B.G. Brest
Japanese Gardening ...... Kurosawa Klippers
Spago Liaison ........... Tom Kaplan
Executive in Charge of Croissants .. Georges Bide
Executive in Charge of Pool Cleaning .. Gary Sweep
- The makers of this motion picture consumed mass quantities
of pizza, orange juice and water during the production. They
never used drugs and have no intention of doing so in the future.
Say "no" to drugs and have a long and happy life. Unless,
of course, you are run over by an RTD driver, in which case
you will have a short but happy life.
- Any similarity between asses portrayed in this motion picture
and real asses, living or dead, are purely coincidental.
- The Producers would like to assure that no animals were injured
in the making of this motion picture. Unfortunately, the same
cannot be said of some of our actors.
- But seriously, folks...
Any unauthorized duplication, distribution and exploitation
of this motion picture will result in criminal prosecution
and for all you video pirates out there, that means get your
hands off our movie or we'll come after you with a loaded gun.
- When in California, visit the Omega Studios. The tour lasts
only 30 seconds and is cheap, especially for blondes over
5 ft. 8 in. with blue eyes, who may win an intimate dinner
for two with the producer of this motion picture.
# Top Secret
- This space for rent.
# Uncle Buck
- John Candy's voice shouts, "Wake up!"
# Viva Max!
- "all characters depicted in this motion picture except John Wayne are
ficticious and any similarity to actual persons....."
# Wayne's World
- Wayne: "Right, excellent movie. All right!"
Garth: "Good one!"
[Fade in to Wayne and Garth on their basement couch]
Wayne: "All right. Well that's all the time we have for our movie.
We hope you found it entertaining, whimsical and yet relevant, with an
underlined revisionist conceit that belie the film's emotional attachments
to the subject matter."
Garth: "I just hope you didn't think it sucked!"
Wayne: "Okay, so thank you for coming. Good night and party on!"
Garth: "Party on, Wayne!"
Wayne: "Party on, Garth!"
[Fade to black]
- [Fade in to Wayne and Garth on their couch looking at magazines]
Garth: "You know, I don't think anyone's going to tell us when to
leave."
Wayne: "Yeah, good call Garth. Uh, I bet we're just going to sit
here and when they're finished they'll fade to black."
[Fade to black]
Garth: "I can't believe they did that."
Wayne: "I told ya."
# Young Sherlock Holmes
- Old lady: "Can I help you?"
Man: "I'd like a room please."
Old lady presents register: "You sign here."
Man signs the name "Moriarty".
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NOTES
Which movies does Arnie say "I'll be back" in?
Terminator, T2, Commando, Twins, Predator?, The Running Man
In which movie did Marilyn Monroe require 30+ takes to get one line right?
Which movie had "Woman on the cutting room floor" in the credits?
Thanks to:
Kevin Arvin (ar...@cup.portal.com)
-- Murray Chapman Zheenl Punczna --
-- muz...@cs.uq.oz.au zhm...@pf.hd.bm.nh --
-- University of Queensland Havirefvgl bs Dhrrafynaq --
-- Brisbane, Australia Oevfonar, Nhfgenyvn --
Greg Bole
> Archive-Name: movies/trivia-faq
> Version: 1.1 (March 1993)
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> INTRODUCTION
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>This is a list of interesting trivia, "did you notice"-type things for movies.
> # Adventures of Robin Hood, The
> - There is a rumor that Flynn raped co-star Olivia DeHaviland on the set of
> this film.
Ok, this is *REALLY* starting to piss me off...
I am a big fan of Errol Flynn, and I think this kind of stuff is really,
really stupid. First of all I *don't* believe this. Second of all, even
if this was true, WHY THE HELL IS IT IN A LIST OF MOVIE TRIVIA?
*takes a deep breath*
Ok, this list has appeared quite a few times. The first time I saw it, I
mailed Murray Chapman with a very short, polite letter saying "Rumors of
rape have nothing to do with movie trivia, please remove this." Murray
agreed and assured me by mail that he would. I told him I'd supply him with
plenty of real triva about Errol Flynn, stuff ABOUT his MOVIES.
Then the list was posted again, with the same article. I wrote him another,
slightly more strongly worded letter about my feelings, and yet it was still
not removed...
Let's review the facts:
1) Flynn and de Havilland appeared together in _The Adventures of Robin Hood_
in 1938...they went on to make five more films together after this.
_Four's a Crowd_ (1938) Curtiz
Flynn: Robert Kensington Lansford
de Havilland: Lorri Dillingwell
_Dodge City_ (1939) Curtiz
Flynn: Wade Hatton
de Havilland: Abbie Irving
_The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex_ (1939) Curtiz
Flynn: Earl of Essex
de Havilland: Lady Penelope Gray
_They Died with Their Boots On_ (1942) Raoul Walsh
Flynn: George Armstrong Custer
de Havilland: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
_Thank Your Lucky Stars_ (1943) David Butler
Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
2) She wrote very fondly of him after his death...saying she wrote him
a letter but never got to send it to him.
3) In November, 1942, Flynn was charged with statutory rape, arrested and
brought to trial, then acquitted. He was charged with having sexual
intercourse with two girls under the age of 18. (He was 33 at the time)
According to "The Complete Films of Errol Flynn" (1969):
"It was Flynn's belief that the Los Angeles district attorney had made
him a scapegoat for Hollywood in order to discipline the film community."
SO...somebody decided to start a rumor that he raped Olvia de Havilland,
and where better than on the set of their most popular movie. Of course
she never told anyone, and of course she still made 5 more films with him.
Now, putting all that aside. What they hell are "rumors of rape" doing
in a list of FILM TRIVIA??? Are nasty rumors of the private lives of famous
people fit info for a list of interesting little facts about movies?
There are tons and tons of rumors and confirmed facts about film stars
sorted goings on, but I don't consider that trivia. Why choose this rumor
and not the millions of other ones floating out there? There are many
documented cases of abuse, rape, incest, you-name-it in Hollywood...are
you really trying to emass them all Mr. Chapman?
How can I get this one single item removed from being posted time and time
again? Do I have to save this post of mine and tack it onto your list every
time you post it?
Greg Bole "You are guests in my corn field!"
bo...@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu Kevin Costner in _Field of Dreams_
Murray Chapman
Version: 1.2 (April 1993)
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MOVIE TRIVIA
Frequently Asked Questions
Copyright (C) 1993 Murray Chapman
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Compiled by Murray Chapman (muz...@cs.uq.oz.au), from sources too numerous too
mention. Thank-you one and all.
INTRODUCTION
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This is a list of interesting trivia, "did you notice"-type things for
movies.
The list will be posted monthly to: alt.cult-movies, rec.arts.movies, rec.arts
sf.movies, rec.answers, news.answers.
This, and MANY other FAQs are available for anonymous FTP wherever news.answers
is archived, for example:
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/movies/trivia-faq
Sites in Europe include:
nic.switch.ch
cnam.cnam.fr
ftp.win.tue.nl
The followup field is set to rec.arts.movies.
Additions and suggestions welcome. Please read notes at end before you submit
anything.
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CONTENTS
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1. Director's Trademarks
2. Film Trivia
- Directors appearing in their own films
- Cameos
3. Crazy Credits
THIS FILE CONTAINS SPOILERS
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DIRECTOR'S TRADEMARKS
Alfred Hitchcock
- has a cameo in most of his films
Stanley Kubrick
- his films have a common theme of dehumanization
- symmetric image composition and long "zooming out" and "zooming in"
sequences.
- constructs three-way conflicts.
John Landis
- the phrase "See You Next Wednesday": check out the rec.arts.movies FAQ.
- airport scenes in _Into The Night_ and _Coming To America_ have a call over
the PA system for a "Mr Frank Ozkerwitz" to pick up the white courtesy phone.
This is Frank Oz's real name. Landis has a fetish for Oz and The Muppet
Show.
- Music: "The Girl from Ipanema"
Spike Lee
- all his films examine black people and their lives.
- has appeared in every single one of his films, usually as a weak character,
contrasting the strong lead character.
David Lynch
- frequently casts: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Jack Nance, Everett McGill
- Finds small-town USA fascinating
- has a predelection for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rotting envi-
ronments, distorted characters, a polarised world (angels vs demons,
madonnas vs whores.), and debilitating damage to the skull or brain.
Jerry Paris
- frequently appears in a small (often one scene) role.
Martin Scorsese
- frequently casts Robert DeNiro, a student of his from film school in New
York.
- his mother appears in most of his films.
Robert Zemeckis
- generally finds a role for Wendie Jo Sperber and/or Marc McClure
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahms.
- films usually feature puns, slapstick, and visual gags.
- frequently casts Leslie Neilson
- David and Jerry's mother is frequently cast in a small role.
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FILM TRIVIA
# 2001: A Space Odyssey
- This film was made before man walked on the moon.
- director Stanley Kubrick originally planned narration for the prehistoric
scenes.
- The complex toilet instructions were a deliberate joke.
- Incrementing each letter of "HAL" gives you "IBM". Arthur C Clarke claims
this was unintentional, and if he had noticed it before it was too late, he
would have changed it.
- Kubrick had several tons of sand imported, washed, and painted for the moon
surface scenes.
- There are references to birthdays: Dr Floyd's daughter, Frank Poole, HAL.
- DIRTRADE (Stanley Kubrick): long zooming sequences
- DIRTRADE (Stanley Kubrick): three-way conflict: MAN vs HAL vs ALIENS
# 2010
- CAMEO (Arthur C Clarke): sitting on a park bench in front of the White House,
feeding the pigeons.
# 3 Men and a Baby
- When Jack's mother comes to look at Mary, you can see in the background what
appears to be a little boy standing in a doorway. There is a rumor that this
is the ghost of a little boy who used to live where the film was shot. This
rumor is untrue: the "ghost" is actually a cardboard cut-out of Jack wearing
a tuxedo. This prop appears later in the film, when Mary's mother comes to
collect her.
# 39 Steps, The (1935)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 7 minutes in, tossing some litter as Robert
Donat and Lucie Manheim run from the music hall.
- The film was remade in 1959 and 1978.
# Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
- CAMEO (Sting): Soldier who was executed for being too brave.
- CAMEO (Robin Williams): the King of the moon.
# Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, The
- Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this scene was
cut.
- Supposedly this movie was inspired a great deal from Thomas Pinchon's book
"The Crying of Lot 49".
# After Hours
- DIRCAMEO (Martin Scorsese): shining a spotlight from a platform in the club.
# Alien (1979)
- The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) is
similar to the life-cycle of the tsetse fly.
- The images that the computers display during the Nostromo's separation from
the Mother ship are re-used in _Blade Runner_ (also directed by Ridley Scott)
- Much of the dialog was ad-libbed.
- Only John Hurt and the crew knew exactly what was going to happen during the
stomach-bursting scene, so reactions are totally genuine. Veronica
Cartwright gets hit in the face by some "blood" (visible in the movie), and
is quite shaken. When Scott called "cut" at the end of the scene, the
cameraman turned around and vomited. The script originally had Cartwright's
character the hero of the story, but after this incident, Sigourney Weaver's
Ripley became the hero.
- Extra scenes where Ripley finds Brett and Parker cocooned were cut due to
pacing problems. These extra scenes were not restored to the extended
version, probably for this reason, but possibly because it would conflict
with the subsequently released _Aliens_' view of the alien's life-cycle.
[More trivia on recent FOX CAV LD. ANYONE?]
# Alive
- Producer Frank Marshall was discussing the film on his carphone, when he was
cut off my a truck with a bumper sticker that read "Rugby Players Eat Their
Dead". Marshall decided to make the film, saying "You have to go with those
kinds of things."
# Altered States
- Author Paddy Chayefski [sp?] disowned this movie.
- The book was partially based on dolphin researcher John Lilly, who invented
the isolation tank, and first started taking drugs while "tanking".
# American Graffiti
- License plate on John Milner's (Paul LeMat) car is "THX-138" THX-1138 is the
name of a film also directed by George Lucas.
# American Werewolf in London, An
- All the songs in this film have "moon" in the title.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is the name of the porno
film where David meets Jack and his zombie friends. A poster for the film
appears in the London Underground when the man is killed.
- Coppola's wife Eleanore filmed and recorded the making of this film, and has
been released as a feature film called "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's
Apocalypse".
- DIRCAMEO (Francis Ford Coppola): filming a war documentary.
# Around the World in 80 Days
- Origin of the term "cameo"
- CAMEO (Red Buttons):
- CAMEO (Frank Sinatra):
[more cameos... 44 in total. C'mon, people!]
# Assault on Precinct 13
- The editor was James T. Chance, which was also the name of the John Wayne's
character in _Rio Bravo_, on which this film was based.
# Back to School
- CAMEO (Kurt Vonnegut): himself
# Back to the Future
- Influenced by _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension_:
the speed: 88mph, oscillation overthruster vs. flux capacitor.
- The device in Doc Brown's lab that Marty plugs his guitar into is labeled
"CRM-114", which was the name of the message decoder on the B-52 in _Dr
Strangelove_.
- Doc Brown's dog is named Einstein. This may be a vague reference to _Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang_, where the inventor of a miracle car owned a dog named
Edison.
- The mall where Marty McFly meets Dr. Brown for their time travel experiment
is called "Twin Pines Mall". Dr. Brown comments that ol' farmer Peabody
used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there. When Marty goes back
in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree. When he comes back to the
mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall now identifies the mall as
"Lone Pine Mall".
- Farmer Peabody's son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy
time traveler in one segment of Jay Ward's cartoon show, "The Rocky &
Bullwinkle Show." The dog who owned his time machine was named Mr. Peabody.
- The radio in Marty's room plays "Back in Time", by Huey Lewis and the News.
- CAMEO (Huey Lewis): the high-school band judge.
# Back to the Future Part II
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part III_. In the five years
since the original was made, Michael J Fox had forgotten how to ride a
skateboard.
- Needles is played by Flea, the bassist of the _Red Hot Chili Peppers_
# Back to the Future Part III
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part II_. In the five years
since the original was made, Michael J Fox had forgotten how to ride a
skateboard.
- Needles is played by Flea, the basist of the _Red Hot Chili Peppers_
# Bagdad Cafe
- The shadow of the camera crew is visible while the credits for the
cinematographer are on the screen.
# Barfly
- CAMEO (Charles Bukowsky): in the bar where Henry and Wanda meet for the first
time.
# Batman (1989)
- Adam West (the star of the TV series) wanted to play Batman, but Michael
Keaton was given the role after getting the nod from the creator of the
original Batman comic strip.
- Heavy security surrounded The Joker's makeup.
- Sean Young originally cast as Vicki Vale, dropped after arguments with the
producers. Rumors that she sent co-stars dead animals.
- Most shots of Batman in costume are a stunt double.
- Spanish subtitles convert "6 foot" and "108 (lbs)" to metres and kilograms.
- CAMEO (Bob Kane [creator of Batman]): man with a drawing of Batman.
# Batman Returns
- Danny DeVito forbidden to describe The Penguin's makeup to anyone, including
his family.
# Beetlejuice
- Title role originally written for Sammy Davis Jr.
# Ben-Hur (1959)
- The rumor that the Stephen Boyd's double was killed during the chariot race
is false.
- The chariot race segment was directed by legendary stunt-man, Yakima Canutt.
One of Canutt's sons doubled for Charlton Heston. During one of the crashes,
in which Judah Ben-Hur's horses jump over a crashed chariot, the younger
Canutt was thrown from his chariot onto the tongue of his chariot. He
managed to climb back into his chariot and bring it back under control (his
only injury was a cut on the chin). The sequence looked so good that it was
included in the film, with a close-up of Heston climbing back into the
chariot. The cut on Canutt Jr's chin was the only injury in the incredibly
dangerous sequence. Canutt Sr won a lifetime achievement Oscar for this work
- the only stunt man ever to win an Oscar.
# Big Chill, The
- Flashback scenes with Kevin Costner as Alex filmed, but cut.
# Birds, The
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): at the start of the film walking two dogs past
the pet shop (the dogs were actually his own).
- Hitchcock tried to hire Joseph Stefano (writer of Psycho) to write the
script, but he wasn't interested in the story.
- Hitchcock spotted Tippi Hedren in a diet drink commercial.
- The scene where Tippi Hedren is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie
took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to Tippi's clothes by long
nylon threads so they could not get away.
- The film does not finish with the usual "THE END" title because Hitchcock
wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
# Blackmail (1929)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): being bothered by a small boy on the subway.
- The film was Hitchcock's and England's first talking picture.
- Anny Ondra's voice was dubbed by Joan Barry because she had a thick German
accent. Barry had to stand just of the set and read Ondra's lines into a
microphone as the film was shot.
# Blade Runner
- LOTS of stuff: check out the Blade Runner FAQ in rec.arts.movies,
alt.cult-movies, news.answers, etc. Available by anonymous FTP from
rtfm.mit.edu.
# Blazing Saddles
- Mel Brooks plays a character called "LePetomaine" [sp?], which is the name
of a popular French performer at the beginning of the 20th century. His
specialty was telling stories punctuated with flatulence.
# Blues Brothers, The
- Has many famous people in the cast:
Frank Oz: prison officer
Cab Calloway
James Brown: minister
Irene Cara: church soloist
John Lee Hooker: street performer
Aretha Franklin: proprietor of the "Soul Food Cafe"
Ray Charles: proprietor of "Ray's Music Exchange"
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman): wine waiter
Twiggy: blonde in sports car
Stephen Spielberg: Cook County Assessor
Joe Walsh (lead guitarist of The Eagles): first prisoner to jump up and start
dancing
- The "Blues Brothers Band" consists of already well-respected musicians, who
have recorded and sritten with the likes of Eric Clapton and Otis Redding.
- John Belushi was extremely disappointed at the film's reception, and it is
rumoured that this contributed to his "accidental" (?) death from cocaine.
The film went on to become a definitive "cult" movie, still drawing crowds
decades later. Recently, the authentic "Blues Brothers Band" has been
touring the world,
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "The Girl from Ipanema" is the music in the elevator.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is the message on the
billboard that the cops were hiding behind.
# Bodyguard, The (1992)
- This film was originally proposed in the mid-70's, starring Diana Ross, but
was rejected as "too controversial".
- Filmed in the same mansion as the "horse's head in the bed" mansion in _The
Godfather_.
# Bonfire of the Vanities, The
- Alan Arkin (Judge Myron Kovitzky) was replaced late in preproduction by
Morgan Freeman and the character renamed; mostly because of scheduling
problems, this decision cost over $2 million.
- The production is extensively documented in "The Devil's Candy" by Julie
Salamon (ISBN 0-385-30824-8)
# Boomerang (1992)
- DIRCAMEO (Reginald Hudlin): hustler
- CAMEO (Washington Hudlin [producer]): hustler
# Born on the Fourth of July
- DIRCAMEO (Oliver Stone): a TV reporter.
# Boys in Company C, The
- Drill Instructor played by R Lee Ermey, a former US Marines Drill Instructor.
# Boyz N the Hood
- DIRCAMEO (John Singleton): the mailman
# Brainstorm (1983)
- Natalie Wood died before filming was complete, thus the ending had to be
changed.
# Brazil (1985)
- Jack's daughter Holly played by director Terry Gilliam's daughter.
- lots of significant names:
- Mr Kurtzman (German for "short man"): small in stature and success. Named
after the editor of "Help" (Harvey Kurtzman), a magazine that Gilliam
worked for in the mid-60s. It was at a photo shoot for this magazine that
Gilliam met John Cleese, who would later invite him to join the Monty
Python team.
- Mr Helpman: "helped" Sam
- Mr Warren: works in a rabbit-warren style place: a maze of corridors
- US television release is reworked, removing many of the fantasy scenes, and
with a "happy Hollywood" ending: no cut back to Sam in the interrogation
room.
# Bugsy Malone
- Jodie Foster's singing was dubbed. Director Alan Parker regrets this later,
when Foster goes on to be a major star.
# Cape Fear (1991)
- Robert DeNiro paid a dentist $US5000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for
the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $US20000 to have them fixed.
- Gregory Peck, who starred in the 1962 version, appears as Cady's lawyer.
- Robert Mitchum, who played Max Cady in the 1962 version, appears as a
policeman.
- Martin Basalm appears in both versions.
- Scene in highschool auditorium totally ad-libbed by DeNiro and Juliette
Lewis, and done on the first take.
# Casablanca
- Humphrey Bogart never says "Play it again, Sam." He says: "You played it
for her, you can play it for me. Play it!". Ingrid Bergman says "Play it,
Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'".
- Bergman complained that she didn't know who her character was supposed to be
in love with.
- Two contradicting endings were scheduled to be filmed, but the first one
worked so well that they used it.
- This film was rewritten daily during filming, made on a shoestring budget,
hastily released, and expected to bomb.
# Charley Varrick
- DIRCAMEO (Don Siegel): a table tennis player.
# Chinatown
- DIRCAMEO (Roman Pollanski): the hood who slits Jack Nicholson's character's
nose.
# City Slickers
- Some trailers feature a scene where someone's spurs are caught on a rail, but
this scene is not in the movie.
- "Pregnant" check-out girl that appears at the party is played by Yeardley
Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa Simpson.
# Clockwork Orange, A
- Alex appears to toast the audience at the beginning with his moloko plus.
- _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly
visible in record store.
- The photo-montage when Alex clobbers the old lady are mostly the paintings
the old lady has hanging in her room, but also include graphic shots of
female genitalia.
# Coming to America
- airport scenes in _Into The Night_ and _Coming To America_ have a call over
the PA system for a "Mr Frank Ozkerwitz" to pick up the white courtesy phone.
This is Frank Oz's real name.
- The bums that pickup the money that the Prince (played by Eddie Murphy) drops
are the "Duke Brothers" from _Trading Places_ (also directed by John Landis).
In _Trading Places_, Billy Ray Valentine (played by Eddie Murphy) was
responsible for them losing their fortune.
- The predatory woman in the bar was played by Arsenio Hall.
- All characters in the barber shop (including the caucasians) are played by
Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and another black comedian.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is on a movie poster in the
subway station (the movie claims to star Jamie Lee Curtis, who appeared in
Landis' _Trading Places_).
# Commando (1985)
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back, Bennet!"
# Commitments, The
- DIRCAMEO (Alan Parker): the record producer in the studio near the end of the
film. A cardboard cut-out of him can also be seen in the background in a
video shop, and cassettes of his films are on the shelves
# Conan the Barbarian
- Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Sandahl Bergman did their own stunts, as they
couldn't find suitable body doubles.
- Schwarzeneggar had to tone down his workout, as his arm/chest muscles were
so big that he couldn't wield a sword properly.
- The man who played Conan's sword master trained the actors in the art of
swordplay.
- The fake blood used in the film came in the form of a concentrate which had
to be mixed with water prior to use. Due to the cold weather, it was mixed
with vodka (as an anti-freeze) instead. In the scenes in which the actors
were supposed to spit the blood, they would swallow it instead, then go back
to the special effects man for more.
- The Mattel Toy Company started to make some Conan action figures, but after
viewing the film, the executives realized that they couldn't afford to be
associated with a film with such graphic sex and violence. They gave their
doll blonde hair, called him "He-man", and thus created the "Masters of the
Universe".
# Coogan's Bluff
- DIRECTOR'S CAMEO (Don Siegel): man in an elevator.
# Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The
- Costumes change as characters walk from room to room.
- Animal symbolism rampant: Albert Spica (the thief) drives a Jaguar, the big
sign that says "P&A" (panda).
# Creepshow
- CAMEO (Stephen King): Jordy Verril (man covered in moss).
# Creepshow 2
- CAMEO (Stephen King): truck driver in "The Hitcher".
# Crow, The
- Brandon Lee died during a mishap on the set. Lee was carrying a bag of
groceries which contained explosives used as SFX. A stage hand fired a
pistol supposedly containing a blank round at Lee. A .44 cartridge was
actually in the barrel of the pistol, and killed Lee. Brandon Lee is the
son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, who died during the making of _Game of
Death_.
# Cyborg
- All the major characters are named after guitar brand names.
# Death Becomes Her
- Goldie Hawn went on an eating binge and a crash diet to make her weight
fluctuate during this film.
# Devil and Daniel Webster, The
- Shortly after filming had begun, Thomas Mitchell (playing the title role)
managed to break a leg, and was replaced by Edward Arnold. Not many scenes
had been shot, none were reshot, so Mitchell is still visible in some scenes.
# Dial M for Murder (1954)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 13 minutes into the film, on the left side
of the reunion photograph.
- The movie was shot in 3-D although it was never released that way until
after Hitchcock's death.
- Hitchcock arranged to have Grace Kelly dressed in bright colours at the
start of the film and made them progressively darker as time goes on.
# Dick Tracy
- The only colors in the film are the six that the original comic strip
appeared in.
# Dirty Harry
- The title role was originally intended for Frank Sinatra.
- After Harry has foiled the bank robbery at the beginning of the film, he
strides over to the one surviving robber. In doing so, he walks in front of
a theatre which is showing "Play Misty For Me", which Clint Eastwood directed
and starred in.
- DIRCAMEO (Don Siegel): man running down the street.
# Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- An entire day was spent shooting the trailer, which does not appear in the
film. The trailer shows Caine and Martin walking along the boardwalk,
politely moving out of the way of other people, etc, with a voice saying
something like "There are numerous distinguised gentlemen in the world...
refined, cultured gentlemen.... <etc> nice men.... <etc>... but nice men
finish last". As these last few lines are spoken, Martin pushes an old lady
into the water, and Caine shoves an kid's face into his ice cream.
# Doors, The
- Prior to the audition, Val Kilmer memorised the lyrics to all songs written
by Jim Morrison.
- Patricia Kennealy Morrison played the High Priestess in the handfasting scene
- John Densmore (The Doors drummer) was the recording engineer
- Bonnie Bramlett (of 60's group Delaney and Bonnie) played the bartender
- DIRCAMEO (Oliver Stone): Morrison's film professor.
# Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Nick Nolte spent five weeks as a homeless person in preparation for his role.
# Dr. No
- Sean Connery morbidly afraid of spiders. Shot of spider in his bed was
originally done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, but when
this didn't look realistic enough, the scene was re-shot with stuntman
Bob Simmons.
# Duellists, The
- The swords were hooked up to batteries to produce the sparks, and Harvey
Keitel said he was heavily shocked more than once.
# Dune
- There are rumours of a 6-hour long director's cut, but there has never been
any proof of it existing.
- After this film was released, Sting said that he would never again play a
character who used violence to achieve his objectives.
- There is a television cut of this film, which director David Lynch disowned.
He would not allow his name to appear as director, and so the director is
given as "Alan Smithee", the standard name used in situations such as this.
- DIRCAMEO (David Lynch): [where is it?]
# E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Harrison Ford played the school principal, but his scenes were cut. There
is a rumor that you can still see his back.
# Easy Rider
- CAMEO (Phil Spector): the cocaine dealer.
# Easy Virtue
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): walking past a tennis court carrying a walking
stick.
# Edge of Eternity
- DIRCAMEO (Don Siegel): man at a hotel pool
# Electric Dreams
- CAMEO (Georgio Moroder): radio station executive at the very end.
# Empire Strikes Back, The
- Lighting for SFX was so strong that several models melted.
# Evil Dead II
- one of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is called
"A Farewell to Arms".
# Evil Dead, The
- total budget for this film was $US50 000. Investors were initially annoyed
when the film appeared to be a comedy, when they were told it would be a
horror story. As of 1988, the investors have had a 150% return.
# Exorcist, The
- There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the priest
is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is a single
frame shot of a face, painted black and white, grimacing.
# Family Plot
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in silhouette 45 minutes into the film behind the
door at the registrar of births and deaths.
- Roy Thinnes was originally hired to play William Devane's character, but
Hitchcock was dissatisfied with his performance and fired him one month
into the filming.
# Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Original ending had Alex committing suicide, and Michael Douglas' character
being arrested for her murder. Changed when preview audiences felt that
justice was not served onto Alex.
# Few Good Men, A
- Someone can be seen reading a copy of "Misery's Revenge", a novel written
in _Misery_, also directed by Rob Reiner.
# First Blood
- "Hope, USA", is actually "Hope, BC, Canada".
# Fisher King, The
- A poster for "Brazil" (also directed by Terry Gilliam) appears in the first
video store scene.
- CAMEO (Tom Waits): the crippled beggar in the wheelchair in the train
station.
# Fitzcarraldo
- Mick Jagger and Jason Robards were replaced by Klaus Kinski.
- The production is documented by the film "Burden of Dreams" by Les Blank.
# Fly, The (1986)
- DIRCAMEO (David Cronenberg): obsetrician who delivers the maggot baby.
# Fog, The
- There is a rumor that most of the characters were named after cast and crew
members in director John Carpenter's previous film "Halloween".
# Forbidden Planet
- Borrowed its plot from Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
- First appearance of "Robbie the Robot".
# Foreign Correspondent
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the movie walking past Joel McCrea's
hotel reading a newspaper.
- Albert Basserman who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer couldn't speak a
word of English and learnt all his lines phonetically.
# Frankenhooker
- Single shot of the Doctor running out of his house and down the street has
parked cars which change positions.
# Frankie and Johnny (1991)
- One scene called for actor Al Pacino to be surprised after opening a door.
_Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country_ was filming in a nearby studio, so
the director arranged for Kirk and Spock be on the other side of the door
that Pacino opened.
# Frenzy (1972)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in the first moments of the film in the crowd -
he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
- Elsie Randolph who plays a worker at the hotel last appeared in a Hitchcock
film 40 years earlier as the old maid in 1932's Rich and Strange.
- This was the first film Hitchcock shot in England since 1950's Stage Fright.
# Freshman, The (1990)
- Marlon Brando's first role in many years, playing a man who they supposedly
modeled Don Corleone from _The Godfather_ after. After the movie was made,
he claimed it would be the biggest turkey of all time, then changed his mind
and said it would be reasonable.
# Full Metal Jacket
- Drill Instructor played by R Lee Ermey. A former US Marines Drill Instructor,
Ermey was supposed to be a consultant on how to drill USMC style, but he
lobbied director Stanley Kubrick for the part.
# Game of Death (1979)
- Bruce Lee died during the making of this film. The official verdict was a
brain edema, but many people believe there is more to the story than this.
One persistent rumor is that he was killed by Ninja masters for revealing too
many of their secrets.
# Grand Canyon (1991)
- DIRECTOR'S CAMEO (Lawrence Kasdan): tries to interest Steve Martin's
character in a film.
# Great Escape, The
- Actor Donald Plesance was actually a POW during WWII.
# Gremlins
- The theater marquee is showing a double bill: "A Boy's Life" (the working
title for Spielberg's _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial_), and "Watch the Skies"
(the working title for Spielberg's _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_).
# Gremlins II: The New Batch
- Two different version of this film: one for the theatre, one for video. The
difference is that in the theatrical version, it appears that the film begins
to burn, however, in the video version, this segment is replaced by a segment
which simulates a broken VCR machine.
# Hairspray
- DIRCAMEO (John Walters): the psychiatrist.
# Halloween
- Director John Carpenter was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In one scene,
the subtitle on the screen depicts the location as "Smiths Grove, Illinois."
Smiths Grove, Kentucky is a small town of about 600 people 15 miles from
Bowling Green. In another scene, a man mentions going to Russellville, which
is another town near Bowling Green.
- Due to its shoestring budget, the prop department had to use the cheapest
mask ithat they could find in the costume store: a William Shatner mask.
They later spray-painted the face white, and teased out the hair.
# High Anxiety
- Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. References to: Spellbound, Vertigo, Psycho,
The Birds, North by Northwest [others?]
# Highlander
- Christopher Lambert spent time with a dialog coach, developing an accent
which sounded unspecifically foreign.
- MacLeod says "It's a kind of magic", which is the name of the Queen album
which contains songs from the film.
- The Vietnam vet who tries to machine-gun Kurgan has the Queen song _Hammer
to Fall_ playing in his car.
# Hook (1991)
- Bob Hoskins (Smee) bought beer for 300+ extras after a lengthy and
complicated scene was cut.
- The young Peter Pan is played by Dustin Hoffman's son.
- When the old dude floats out the window at the end, he says "Seize the Day",
which has significance for Robin Williams, who starred in _Seize the Day_,
and _Dead Poet's Society_ (for which this was a catch-cry).
- Smee says "Goooooooood morning Neverland!", a reference to Williams in _Good
Morning Vietnam_.
- [reference to Awakenings, anyone?]
- CAMEO (Phil Collins): Police Inspector.
- CAMEO (David Crosby): pirate
- CAMEO (Glenn Close): (male!) pirate locked in chest with scorpions.
# Hot Shots! (1991)
- Some previews contains this scene, which was not in the movie:
Valeria Golino asks Cary Elwes if there's a cue ball in his pocket, or is he
just glad to see her, and Elwes produces a cue ball.
# House Party
- DIRCAMEO (Reginald Hudlin): thief chased by the doberman.
- CAMEO (Washington Hudlin [producer]): thief chased by the doberman.
# Howling, The
- All the characters have the names of "wolfman-movie" directors.
# Hunt for Red October, The
- $US20 000 spent on Sean Connery's hairpiece.
# I Confess
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): crossing the top of a staircase during the
opening credits.
- Anne Baxter was one of the actresses tested by Hitchcock for the leading
role in Rebecca (she was 16 at the time).
# Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Shows origin of Jones' fear of snakes in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
- Harrison Ford cut his chin in a car accident in Northern California when he
was about 20. In the movie, this cut is explained by young Indiana Jones
cutting his chin with a whip.
- The dog barking when young Indy passes with the cross in his hand is an
Alaskan malmute, the same type of dog the Lucas's owned in the late 1970s.
- Walter Donovan was played by Julian Glover, and Donovan's wife was played by
Glover's wife.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- The club at the beginning is called "Club Obi Wan", a reference to a _Star
Wars_ character.
- Shots of mining-car roller-coaster ride done with models and a 35mm camera
modified to hold extra film.
- Suspension bridge only shown from one side, to avoid showing the Grand Coulee
Dam.
- Rehash of the "shooting the swordsman" joke from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
- CAMEO (Dan Aykroyd): meets Indiana at the airport at the beginning.
# Innocent Blood
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is advertised on the marquee
across the street from the Melody Lounge exotic dance bar. The "car crash at
the Shadyside gas station" scene was filmed in Squirrel Hill, and the nearby
multiplex cinema changed its marquee to be "See You Next Wednesday" every
night after closing. The movie itself featured no footage of that theatre
(or the street on which it resides), although it is possible that it was
edited out.
# Into the Night
- airport scenes in _Into The Night_ and _Coming To America_ have a call over
the PA system for a "Mr Frank Ozkerwitz" to pick up the white courtesy phone.
This is Frank Oz's real name.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "The Girl from Ipanema" is the music during the strip
scene.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" appears on two posters in
the office where [Goldblum and Pfeiffer] make the phone call.
- DIRCAMEO (John Landis): the leader of the terrorists.
- CAMEO (David Cronenberg): a terrorist
- CAMEO (Johnathan Demme): a terrorist
- CAMEO (Lawrence Kasdan): a terrorist
- CAMEO (Jonathan Lynn): a terrorist
- CAMEO (David Bowie): British hitman who puts a gun in Jeff Goldblum's
character's mouth.
- CAMEO (Don Siegel):
- CAMEO (Waldo Salt): the scriptwriter blacklisted for his socialist views.
# It Happened at the World's Fair
- Kurt Russell (in his screen debut) kicks Elvis' shins. Goldie Hawn was also
in this film, and they became a de faco couple much later.
# It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- CAMEO (Jimmy Durante): the man who "kicks the bucket".
- CAMEO (The Three Stooges): firemen
- CAMEO (Jerry Lewis):
- CAMEO (Joe E Brown):
- CAMEO (Jack Benny):
- CAMEO (Buster Keaton):
- CAMEO (Sid Caesar):
- CAMEO (Buddy Hackett):
- CAMEO (Jim Backus):
[more!]
# Jaws
- Sterling Hayden was the first choice for the role of Quint. Hayden, however,
was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service for back taxes. All
Hayden's income from acting was subject to a levy by the IRS, so there was an
attempt to circumvent that. Hayden was also a writer, so one idea was to pay
him union scale for his acting, and buy a story from him (his literary income
wasn't subject to levy) for a large sum. It was concluded that the IRS would
see through this scheme, so Robert Shaw was cast instead.
- The live shark footage was shot at Seal Rocks, Australia. A real white
pointer was cut up and "extended" for the close-up shots.
- CAMEO (Peter Benchley): reporter on the beach.
# JFK
- Jim Garrison (the real Jim Garrison) plays Earl Warren.
# Joe Versus the Volcano
- The company logo appears frequently: the path leading up to the factory, the
bolt of lightning which sinks the ship, and the lava flow down the side of
the volcano, the crack in Joe's apartment, a constellation.
- The mask worn by the Waponi who is representing the evil spirit resembles
the factory where Joe used to work.
# Kentucky Fried Movie, The
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is the title of the "Feel-a-
Rama" movie.
# Killers, The (1964)
- DIRCAMEO (Don Siegel): a cook at a diner
# King and I, The
- Deborah Kerr's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
# L.A. Story
- CAMEO (Woody Harrelson): Harris' boss at the TV station
- CAMEO (Rick Moranis): the gravedigger
- CAMEO (Chevy Chase): important guest (Christopher ???) at L'Idiot.
# Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): near the end of the movie at Victoria Station
wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
- The movie was remade in 1979.
# Last Boy Scout, The
- The movie that Darian is watching on TV is Lethal Weapon.
# Last Starfighter, The
- All shots of spacecraft, space, etc generated on a CRAY computer. Some
objects had over 300 000 polygons, but the entire movie took only eight hours
to generate.
# League of Their Own, A
- Tom Hanks gained much weight in preparation for his role.
# Lifeboat
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in "before" and "after" pictures in a newspaper
advert for Reduco the Obesity slayer. The pictures were genuine, as he had
just been on a crash diet (although not with the fictional Reduco).
# List of Adrian Messenger, The
- CAMEO (Frank Sinatra):
[more!]
# Little Mermaid, The (1989)
- Some versions of the videotape had the likeness of a penis on the cover.
# Live and Let Die
- The power-boat jump over the causeway broke the world record for distance.
# Lodger, The (1926)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): a desk in the newsroom early in the film. Some
people claim he also appears later in the crowd lynch scene.
- Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't
allow it to be implied that Ivor Novello might actually be the murderer.
# Made in Heaven
- CAMEO (Debra Winger): Emmert, the apparently male entity who "runs things" in
heaven.
# Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
- The power-boat jump in this movie broke the world record for distance,
previously set during the making of _Live and Let Die_.
# Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in the Moroccan marketplace watching the acrobats
with his back to the camera just before the murder.
- Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the
orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
and consists of 124 shots.
# Man with the Golden Gun, The
- J W Pepper (Clifton James) is a sherrif from Lousiana that James Bond met
in _Live and Let Die_. While chasing Scaramanga, Bond teams up with Pepper,
who is on holidays in Thailand.
- The stunt where Bond and Pepper do a barrel role in a car was included after
a group of university students came up with the idea and used a computer to
calculate the necessary environment. Although the bridge halves look
dilapidated, they were constructed to exacting specifications. The stunt car
had to approach the ramp at a certain speed, and had a special fuel system so
that it wouldn't stall as it rolled over.
- Alice Cooper's "Muscle of Love" album has a song "Man With the Golden Gun"
on it. The CD version includes notes claiming it was to be the theme
song of the movie, but the producers chickened out.
# Manhunter (1986)
- This film is a prequel to _The Silence of the Lambs_. Although there are
several characters common to both films, the only actor to appear in both
movies is Frankie Faison. Ironically, he plays two different characters:
Lt Fisk in _Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of the Lambs_.
# Marnie
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): 5 minutes into the film, in the hotel corridor as
Tippi Hedren walks by.
- The production company created for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley" was named
after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
- Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren had a major falling out during the filming and
by the end he directed her through intermediaries.
- Bruce Dern can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.
- Hitchcock wanted Grace Kelly to make her screen come back in the title role,
but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
playing a compulsive thief.
# Maximum Overdrive
- DIRECTOR'S CAMEO (Stephen King): man who the ATM swears at.
# Mean Streets
- DIRCAMEO (Martin Scorsese): the hitman who shoots Robert DeNiro's character.
# Metropolis
- Some versions of this silent film have been colorized, and feature a
soundtrack produced by Georgio Moroder, featuring (among others) Freddie
Mercury.
# Misery
- A video of _When Harry Met Sally_ (also directed by Rob Reiner) is visible
in the general store.
# Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- When Arthur rides into the village where the "Witch" is about to be burnt,
Bedivere is holding a coconut slung between two swallows.
# Mountain Eagle, The
- No prints of this film (Hitchcock's second) are known to have survived and
no one has seen it since the late 1920s.
# Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about half way through the movie passing Robert
Montgomery in front of his building.
- Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole
Lombard.
# Muppet Movie, The
- CAMEO (Mel Brooks): movie executive at the very end. [credited?]
# Murder!
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about an hour into the movie walking past the
house where the murder was committed.
- A German version called "Mary" was filmed at the same time using German
actors, but the same sets.
- The scene where Herbert Marshall thinks out loud in front of a mirror had to
be filmed with a recording of Marshall's lines and an orchestra hidden
behind the set as it was not possible to dub the soundtrack later.
# My Fair Lady
- Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
# Nice Dreams
- CAMEO (Paul Reubens):
- CAMEO (Timothy Leary):
# Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A
- CAMEO (Johnny Depp): in a TV commercial. Depp played a character in _A
Nightmare on Elm Street_ who was killed when he fell asleep watching TV.
# Nightmare on Elm Street, A
- Kruger bleeds green.
- Freddy Kruger's colors of red and green are contrasted throughout the movie.
# North by Northwest
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): missing a bus at the end of the opening credits.
- Jessie Royce Landis played Cary Grant's mother, yet he was 10 months
older than her.
- The shot of Cary Grant entering the UN building had to be filmed with a
hidden camera as Hitchcock wasn't able to get permission to shoot there.
- At one point the movie's title was to be "The Man in Lincoln's Nose",
referring to the final chase sequence on Mount Rushmore.
# Notorious (1946)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about an hour in, drinking champagne at the party
in Claude Rains' mansion.
- Hitchcock claimed that the FBI had him under surveillance for three months
because the film dealt with Uranium for the A-bomb.
- The films producer, David O. Selznick had originally wanted Vivien Leigh
for Ingrid Bergman's role.
- The original story, "The Song of the Dragon" was first published in the
Saturday Evening Post in November 1921.
- It was remade in 1992 as a TV-movie.
# Octopussy
- Maude Adams (Octopussy) is the only female actress (besides the actress that
played Miss Moneypenny) to appear in more than one James Bond film (_The Man
With the Golden Gun_ was the other).
# Pacific Heights
- DIRCAMEO (John Schlesinger): man in the hotel elevator.
- CAMEO (Beverly D'Angelo): Michael Keaton's character's girlfriend at the
beginning.
# Paradine Case, The
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): getting off a train at the Cumberland station
carrying a cello (see also his cameo in _Strangers on a Train_).
- An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for
the court scenes.
# Pet Sematary
- CAMEO (Stephen King): minister at the funeral.
# Pink Floyd - The Wall
- The actress who played the groupie in Pink's caravan/apartment wasn't told
that Bob Geldof would be throwing that object at her, so he reaction of
ducking was totally unrehearsed.
- Scene for the song "Hey You" was filmed. It showed British police in riot
gear facing off against a mob. Roger Waters asked this reel to be cut.
- Director Alan Parker walked out on this project many times, probably due to
and ego clash with Roger Waters. Waters was annoyed at Parker, who didn't
like the way that he wanted to make it a cult film. Pink Floyd's next
album _The Final Cut_ contains the following lyrics (written by Waters):
"Not now John, we've gotta get on with the film show:
Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow.
Who cares what it's about, as long as the kids go?
So not now John I've gotta get on with the show."
# Piranha II: The Spawning
- This turkey, featuring mechanical flying piranhas, was directed by James
Cameron, who later went on to make Terminator 1 and 2, Aliens, and The
Abyss.
# Plan 9 from Outer Space
- Bela Lugosi died two days into the shooting of this turkey. He was replaced
by the director's wife's chiropractor, who was significantly taller than
Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering his face.
- Internationally recognized as the worst movie ever made.
# Platoon
- DIRCAMEO (Oliver Stone): An officer at the bunker which gets destroyed by a
suicide runner.
# Play Misty for Me
- Don Siegel played the bartender, and directed Clint Eastwood (director of
this film) in _Dirty Harry_
# Player, The
- [lots of cameos]
# Pleasure Garden, The
- Alfred Hitchcock's first film was almost doomed when Austrian customs
# Predator
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!"
# Predator 2
- the skull of a creature that resembles the ones in _Alien_ and _Aliens_
is on the wall in the Predator's trophy room.
# President's Analyst, The
[Supposed to be lots in this movie]
# Pretty Woman
- Julia Roberts had a body double for the intimate shots.
- Julia Roberts' head was superimposed on her body double for the poster.
Richard Gere's hair is brown on the poster, but greying in the movie.
# Psycho
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 4 minutes in wearing a cowboy hat outside
Janet Leigh's office.
- The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40,000,000.
Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money. In
1962 exchanged the rights to the film and his TV-series for a huge block
of MCA's stock (he became their third largest stockholder).
- Robert Bloch's original novel was inspired by the notorious serial killer
Ed Gein who was also one of the inspirations for the character of Hannibal
Lector (The Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter/The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
- The last shot of Norman Bates' face has a still frame of a human skull
inserted in it.
# PT 109
- President Kennedy's person choice of actor to portray him was Warren Beatty.
# Quo Vadis? (1951)
- CAMEO (Elizabeth Taylor): an extra
- CAMEO (Sophia Loren): an extra
# Raging Bull
- DIRCAMEO (Martin Scorsese): asking Jack to go on stage.
# Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Frank Marshall (the film's producer) played the airline pilot. [?????]
- Fred Sorenson (Jock, the airline pilot) flew the producer of _Jurassic Park_
(directed by Stephen Spielberg) off Kaui just before the hurricane hit.
- Script originally included a long fight between a swordsman and Indiana with
his whip. Actor Harrison Ford was suffering diarrhea at the time, and asked
"Why don't I just shoot him?", so they did this instead.
- The truck that didn't have Marion in it was flipped over by firing a section
of a telephone pole through the floorboards.
- There is a rumor that the hieroglyphics in the map room include engravings
of R2-D2 and C-3PO, from _Star Wars_.
# Rain Man
- DIRCAMEO (Barry Levinson): psychiatrist determining if Raymond should stay
with Charlie or not.
# Rear Window
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about an hour into the film, winding the clock in
the songwriter's apartment. The songwriter is real-life songwriter Ross
Bagdasariam.
- At the time the set was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios.
- The film was unavailable for many years owing to a dispute with Cornell
Woolrich's estate over the rights to the original story.
- Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play the villain because he
looked like his old producer David O. Selznick.
- Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead
dog all the shots in the movie originate from Stewart's apartment
# Rebecca
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): walking past a phone booth just after George
Sanders makes a call in the final part of the movie.
- The first film Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a
best picture Oscar (and even that went to the film's producer).
- Just as in the original novel, Joan Fontaine's character has no first
name.
- Over 20 actresses were tested for the role that eventually went to Joan
Fontaine.
# Red Heat (1988)
- First western film crew to be allowed to film in Moscow's Red Square.
# Repo Man
- All the main characters are named after beers: Bud, Lite, Miller, [more?]
[Is Otto a beer?]
- All purchaseable items are labelled generically: "Food", "Beer", etc. This
came about after the producers failed to attract any offers of payment for
product placement.
- All cars (plus the police motorcycle) have xmas-tree air fresheners.
- The Repo Man's code is a parody of Issac Asimov's "Laws of Robotics".
- The man who drives around with the dead aliens in his car looks like Asimov.
- William S Burroughs/Naked Lunch allusions: "Paging Dr Benway" in the hospital
and mentioning Bill Lee.
- Miller talks about the cosmic unconsciousness: "You'll be thinking about
a plate of shrimp, and all of a sudden someone will say plate, or shimp,
or plate of shrimp. ..." Later the two Latinos who've stolen the "Asimov" car
park outside a diner which features a huge sign in one of its windows
reading: PLATE O' SHRIMP $2.95.
- Lite gives Otto a book called "Diuretics" to "help change your life"
- The movie was made by "edge city productions" - edge city is a recurring
theme in Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Ade Acid Test". The destination placard
on the bus that Otto takes back to his folks' house reads "Edge City".
# Return of the Jedi
- SFX crew claim to have included a "sneaker" as one of the spaceships in a
complex dog-fight scene.
- Experiments with a computer to generate a random but logical language for
some creatures produced a dialect of Greek.
- Rumor has it that Nien Numb speaks a Kenyan dialect, and one of his lines
is "One thousand herds of elephants are standing on my foot".
- Lando Calrissian and The Millenium Falcon originally scripted to perish in
the Death Star explosion, but this was changed after a poor preview audience
reception.
- The title "Revenge of the Jedi" was leaked early in production, so that
pirated merchandise could be easily spotted when the film was released. The
official reason for the change was that "...a Jedi would not take revenge".
# Right Stuff, The
- CAMEO (Chuck Yeager): the bartender.
# Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- CAMEO (Sean Connery): King Richard. Connery got $US250 000 for two days
work. He donated it to charity.
# Rope
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): on a neon sign in the view from the apartment
window.
- The film was shot in a series of 8 minute continuous takes (the maximum
amount of film that a camera could hold). At the end of each segment the
camera zooms in on a dark object, ready to zoom out for the start of the
next segment. Most of the props were on castors and the crew had to wheel
them out of the way as the camera moved around the set.
- Hitchcock only managed to shoot roughly one segment per day. The last 4 or 5
segments had to be completely re-shot because Hitch wasn't happy with the
colour of the sunset.
# Rose, The
- Loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin.
# Roxanne
- This movie is a remake of _Cyrrano de Bergerac_. Martin's character (C D
Bailes), has the same initials.
- "Nelson, USA" is actually "Nelson, BC, Canada"
- C D Bailes is challenged to tell 20 nose jokes. After he tells 19, he asks
"How many's that?", to which he is told "Fourteen!". He goes on to tell
another six, making 25 in total.
# Running Man, The (1987)
- Damon Killian is played by [?], host of the American game show [?].
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!"
# Saboteur
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about an hour in standing in front of Cut Rate
Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car stops.
# Scanners
- bullet impacts are normally simulated by explosives. The exploding head was
done by shooting a life-size gelatin model with a shotgun.
# Scenes from a Mall
- DIRCAMEO (Paul Mazursky): promoting Bette Midler's character's book on TV
# Schlock
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is promoted twice during the
newscasts for the "movie at 6 on 6", and on a poster in a theatre lobby.
# Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): on the train to Santa Rosa playing cards. He has
the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic ace.
- It was remade as "Step Down to Terror" in 1958 and as a TV movie in 1991.
# Shakes the Clown
- CAMEO (Robin Williams): the mime instructor.
# She's Having a Baby
- The BMW's license plate is "SHAB" which is an acronym of the title.
# Shining, The
- Stanley Kubrick had a large stack of books that he was looking through to
find a movie project. For a couple of hours, his secretary could hear
him pick up a book, read it for about a minute, and then hurl it into the
wall. She then noticed that this hadn't happened in a while, so she went
in to check on him, and found him reading Stephen King's "The Shining".
Stephen King says that this is really strange, because the start of that
book is very slow, and doesn't have much to do with the rest of the story.
- During the making of the movie, Kubrick would call King at 3am and ask him
questions like "Do you believe in God?".
- Rumor has it that Jack Nicholson had to be physically restrained after
working himself into a frenzy during the scene where he axes the door.
- The axe used in some shots is made from rubber.
- Out-takes of scenery were used in the studio-imposed ending of _Blade Runner_
# Silence of the Lambs, The
- This film is a sequel to _Manhunter_. Although there are several characters
common to both films, the only actor to appear in both movies is Frankie
Faison. Ironically, he plays two different characters: Lt Fisk in
_Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of the Lambs_.
# Singin' in the Rain
- Jean Hagen's voice can be heard through the overdubbed Debbie Reynolds.
- Francois Truffaut claims that Alfred Hitchcock's favourite scene in any movie
is the one where, after Debbie Reynolds, Donald O`Connor and Gene Kelly dance
the `Goodmorning, goodmorning' scene, they land on an overturned sofa. As
she falls, Reynold's skirt lands a little too high up her thighs, and she
quickly flips it back over her knees.
# Sleepwalkers
- CAMEO (Stephen King): the cemetary keeper
- CAMEO (Tobe Hooper): technician
- CAMEO (Clive Barker): technician
# Spaceballs
- Numerous references to _Star Wars_ and other SF films.
# Spellbound
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 40 minutes in, coming out of the elevator
at the Empire hotel carrying a violin.
- One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
- The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dali, and was originally
supposed to run to 20 minutes. It included a scene with Ingrid Bergman
covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in
the release version.
- The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel
pointing at Ingrid Bergman was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant
gun to get the perspective correct.
- When Grant's character is on the stairway with the milk, a light was
submerged in the milk to make it glow white.
# Spies Like Us
- CAMEO (BB King): CIA agent at the drive-in.
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is on the recruitment poster
behind the desk of the commander of the army training post.
# Spirit of 76, The
- Production team includes a number of relatives of famous movie people. One
of the executive producers is Roman Coppola (son of Francis Ford). Sofia
Coppola is credited for costume design. Produced/casting by Susan Landau
(daughter of Martin).
- CAMEO(Barbara Bain [wife of Martin Landau]):
- CAMEO(Carl Reiner [father of director]):
- CAMEO(Rob Reiner [brother of director]):
# Stage Fright (1950)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
Marlene Dietrich's maid.
# Stakeout
- Richard Dreyfus starred in _Jaws_, but his character doesn't recognise the
quote from it during the trivia contest.
# Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- The punk on the bus is Kirk Thatcher (executive producer), who also wrote and
performed the song that is playing on his stereo at the time.
# Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
- The movie was originally to be an extension of an episode of the original
television series. In the movie, they would be searching for the villian.
During filming, they changed to the "Search for God".
# Star Wars
- George Lucas had trouble getting funding for this movie, most studios
thinking that people wouldn't go to see it.
- Derived from (among other things) a Japanese movie called _Hidden Fortress_.
Obi Wan Kenobi was modelled after a Samurai warrior type, and C-3PO and R2-D2
are derived from a couple of petty crooks he conscripted to help rescue a
princess.
- A great deal of the film was shot by vintage 1930's VistaVision cameras,
because they were of higher quality than any others available. After the
film was released, the prices of these cameras skyrocketed.
- Scene of escape pod leaving Leia's ship was the first ever done by ILM.
- C-3PO originally scripted as a "used car salesman" type.
- Han and Luke "transfer" Chewbacca from cellblock 1138: George Lucas made a
film called _THX-1138_.
- Harrison Ford deliberately didn't learn his lines for the intercom
conversation in the cell block, so it would sound spontaneous.
- When the stormtroopers enter the room where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding, one
of them "accidentally" bumps his head on the door, complete with sound
effects. The lead stormtrooper then says: "See to him".
- Most of the crowd watching the heroes receive their medallions are cardboard
cutouts.
# Staying Alive
- DIRCAMEO (Sylvester Stallone): bumps into John Travolta's character on the
street.
# Strangers on a Train
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the film boarding a train carrying a
double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off the train (see also his cameo
in _The Paradine Case_).
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
to keep the price down and got them for just $7,500
- Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was
almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.
- The movie was remade as "Once you Kiss a Stranger" in 1969.
# Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Marlon Brando's nose was broken by Jack Palance (his understudy) during back-
stage horseplay.
# Superman
- Marlon Brando received $US4 million for his two minutes on screen.
- Credits sequence cost more than most films made up to that point.
- Christopher Reeve worked out so much during the making of the film that the
travelling matte shots taken of him at the beginning of the shoot did not
match the later shots, and had to be re-taken.
- CAMEOS (Kirk Alyn [played Superman in the Saturday afternoon serials] and
Noel Neill [played Lois Lane in both the serials and the TV series]): the
young Lois Lane's parents on the train.
# Suspicion (1941)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 45 minutes in, mailing a letter at the
village post office.
- In the scene where Cary Grant brings a glass of milk up to Joan Fontaine,
Hitch had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Grant to be guilty, but the studio insisted
that the public wouldn't accept him as a murderer.
- It was remade as a British TV movie in 1987
# Tall Guy, The
- The name "Ron Anderson" is remarkably similar to the name of the actor who
plays him: Rowan Atkinson.
- One of the other contenders for the award that Anderson won was Griff Rhys-
Jones, the "Jones" half of the comedy duo "Alas Smith and Jones". The
"Smith" half (Mel Smith) directed the film.
- DIRCAMEO (Mel Smith): the backstage drunk who congratulates and then
collapses.
# Taxi Driver
- DIRCAMEO (Martin Scorsese): man who tells Bickle about the .357 Magnum.
# Tempest (1982)
- DIRCAMEO (Paul Mazursky): First guest to be greeted by the architect at the
New Year's Eve party.
# Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Scenes with Kyle Reece (Michael Biehn) cut prior to release.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances
at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome.
- The T800's bike jump into the stormwater drain was performed by a stuntman
Peter Kent. The motorbike was supported by 1-inch cables, so that when they
hit the ground, the bike and rider only weighted 180 pounds. The cables were
later digitally erased.
- More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed.
- SFX crew had to incorporate Robert Patrick's football-injury limp in their
animation of the T1000.
- The morphing software and digital images requied 150 gigabytes of storage.
- For the truck scene, they modified a normal truck to hide the usual steering
wheel, and added a cosmetic steering wheel on the left side. In addition,
the truck had a mirror-image licence plate and other necessary stuff.
Next, they filmed the stuff with the T1000 pretending to be driving from
the left-hand steering wheel (wearing a mirror-image police uniform),
while the real driver was hidden under a black hood at the lowered real
steering wheel. For the final film, the scenes were flipped left-to-right
to make it all look right and combined with footage shot with a normal
truck driving in the drain. This was done so that actor Robert Patrick could
concentrate on acting rather than driving.
- Linda Hamilton's twin Leslie played the T1000 when it was imitating Sarah
Connor.
- Identical twins Don and Dan Stratton played the hospital security guard and
the T1000.
- The T-800 says "I need a vacation", which Arnold Schwarzeneggar previously
said in _Kindergarten Cop_.
- Schwarzeneggar said during the making of this film that he would never play
another evil character again.
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!"
# Terminator, The
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple ][+ assembly code, taken
from _Nibble_, a computing magazine. Other code visible is written in COBOL.
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!" (first)
# Tess
- Set in England but filmed in France, as director Roman Polanski was wanted
on sex-related charges in England.
# This Is Spinal Tap
- Director Rob Reiner plays Marti DiBergi
# Three Men and a Trunk
- DIRCAMEO (Roman Pollanski): the young brute that beats up someone.
# Throw Momma from the Train
- CAMEO (Rob Reiner): Billy Crystal's character's agent.
# To Catch a Thief
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 10 minutes in, sitting next to Cary Grant
on a bus.
- The road where Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are pursued by the police is
the same one where Kelly died in a car crash 27 years later.
# Tootsie
- DIRCAMEO (Sydney Pollack): Michael/Dorothy's agent, George Fields
# Topaz
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 30 minutes in at the airport getting out of
a wheelchair.
- The film was Hitchcock's biggest flop, costing over $4M to make, but taking
less than $1M
- Leon Uris wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but Hitch declared it
unshootable at the last minute and called in Samuel Taylor (writer of
Vertigo) to rewrite it from scratch. Some scenes were written just hours
before they were shot.
# Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Actor Jason Robards was actually present at the bombing of Pearl Harbor on
12-7-1941.
# Torch Song Trilogy
- DIRCAMEO (Charles Walters): auditions as John Crawford's caracter's dancing
partner.
# Torn Curtain
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the film sitting in a hotel lobby with a
baby on his knee.
- The scene where agent Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult
it really can be to kill a man.
- Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the
script.
- Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal executives convinced
Hitch that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitch and Herrmann had a major
disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.
# Trading Places
- DIRTRADE (John Landis): "See You Next Wednesday" is on a poster in the
apartment.
# Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
- DIRCAMEO (John Huston): the man who Dobbs begs money from three times early
in the film.
# Trouble with Harry, The
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 20 minutes in, walking past the limousine
of a man looking at the paintings.
- Bernard Herrmann's score was the first of a long collaboration with
Hitchcock that lasted nearly nine years.
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
for just $11,000.
# Twilight Zone - The Movie
- Actor Vic Morrow, plus two juvenile Asian actors were killed during an
accident on set. SFX caused a helicopter to crash, killing all three
instantly. Director John Landis and four others were found not guilty of
involuntary manslaughter.
# Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
- DIRECTOR'S CAMEO (David Lynch): [where is it?]
# Twins
- ACTTRADE (Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!"
# Under Capricorn
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about five minutes into the movie in the town
square wearing a coat and a brown hat. Ten minutes later he is one of three
men on the steps of government house.
# Unmarried Woman, An
- DIRCAMEO (Paul Mazursky): attempting to place an order in a restuarant.
# Vertigo
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 11 minutes in wearing a gray suit walking
# Wall Street
- DIRCAMEO (Oliver Stone): in a telephone booth during the montage of deals
being made.
# WarGames
- Kevin Costner turned down the lead role for a part in _The Big Chill_ which
was eventually cut.
- When Matthew Broderick's character comes home the day after the NORAD
computer break-in, the newscaster on the television is talking about a condom
recycling center.
- The exteriore were all filmed in Western Washington state. The NORAD HQ
set was built in the Cascades, the "Oregon" airport was really Boeing Field,
"Goose Island" is really Anderson Island, WA (in the southern part of Puget
Sound). The last ferry off the island really is at 6:30, and you really are
stuck there if you miss it.
# Warlock (1989)
- Scene in the theatrical previews indicating that the Warlock was the satanic
Messiah was cut some time before video distribution.
# Warriors, The (1979)
- Loosely based on Xenophon's "Anabasis".
# Wayne's World
- Robert Patrick appears as a motorcycle cop who looks and acts similarly to
the T-1000 in _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_.
# West Side Story
- Borrowed its plot from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
- Natalie Wood's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
# When Harry Met Sally...
- The woman who says "I'll have what she's having" after Sally's faked orgasm
is director Rob Reiner's mother.
# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Bob Hoskins watched his young daughter to learn how to act with imaginary
characters. He later had problems with hallucinations.
# Wizard of Oz, The
- The title role was written especially for W C Fields, who intended to play
him as a cynical con-man. Frank Morgan got the role, however, when the
studio refused to pay Fields the outrageous fee he demanded: $75 000.
- Several "Toto"s died during filming.
- The Lion's facial makeup included a brown paper bag.
- The original Tin Man (Buddy Ebsen) got metal poisoning from the facial
makeup, and several scenes had to be re-filmed with the new Tin Man actor.
[There is a dispute over who was the original Tin Man: Ray Bolger (re-cast
as the Scarecrow), or Buddy Ebsen. Opinions, evidence?]
- "Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut.
- The horses in Emerald City palace were colored with jelly crystals. The
relevant scenes had to be shot quickly, before the horses started to lick
it off.
- The actress who played Aunt Em committed suicide by suffocation.
- There is a rumor that the Munchkin actors had wild orgies on the set.
# Working Girl
- Harrison Ford cut his chin in a car accident in Northern California when he
was about 20. In the movie, his character says that he was piercing his ear
as a teen, and fainted and hit his chin on the toilet.
# Wrong Man, The
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): narrating the film's prologue. The only time he
actually spoke in any of his films.
- Although based on a true story, Hitchcock deliberately left out some of the
information that pointed to Manny's innocence to heighten the tension.
- The "right" man (the real culprit) can be seen several times during the
film: outside the Stork Club, in the Victor Moore arcade and near one of
the liquor stores where the police take Manny.
# Young and Innocent
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): outside the courthouse holding a camera as
Derrick de Marney escapes.
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CRAZY CREDITS
# American Werewolf in London, An
- ...any similarity to persons living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental"
# Being There
- Peter Sellers repeating a line in the hospital-bed scene, but laughing
uncontrollably each time.
# Better Off Dead
- David Ogden Stiers fixing the garage door
- the successful launch of Badger [Scooter?]'s space shuttle, made from
household items.
- "the film's over... you can go home now."
# Big Business
- Seen about two-thirds of the way through the credits: "Don't Go, It's Almost
Over"
# Bird on a Wire
- Credits scroll down instead of up
# Blues Brothers, The
- Woman on the Cutting Room Floor
# Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- TV interviews with people who were at the dance attacked by vampires.
- Amilyn (Paul Reubens) revives to go through some more death throes.
# Chopping Mall (aka Killbots)
- Robot rolls up to camera and says: "Thank you. Have a nice day."
(Movie's plot is that security robots run amuck at a shopping mall and
that's what they said after they'd killed somebody).
# Fatal Skies
- The doddering old sheriff draws his guns and aims that at the audience:
"Halt! Don't make a move! You can avoid me, but you can never escape!"
# Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Ferris comes out of bathroom: "You're still here? It's over. Go home."
# Field Of Dreams
- The Voice ................ Himself
# F/X 2
- Shot of helicopter flying and exclamations of non-pilot crook trying to keep
it in the air.
# Gate II, The
# Guyver, The
- No Zoonoids were injured in the making of this movie.
# Great Outdoors, The
- Subtitled conversation between two raccoons --
Raccoon #1: "Why's Jody sitting in the lake?"
Raccoon #2: "You didn't hear? She got shot in the ass!"
Raccoon #1: "Oh no! Don't tell me..."
Raccoon #2: "Yup... She's bald on both ends now!"
# I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
- Kung Fu Joe (Steve James) crawls up to a cop at the scene of the film's final
confrontation: "Slade. I must find Slade." [rips off his shirt]
"Kung Fu Joe is here!"
Cop: "Sorry buddy. They've already gone." [walks away]
Kung Fu Joe: [calls after him] "Yo brother, do you got a bandaid?"
# Innocent Blood
- The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production
are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, vampires, places,
buildings and products is intended or should be inferred.
# League of Their Own, A
- Shots of the real AAGABL old-timers playing baseball.
# Lethal Weapon 3
- During the credits you can hear that another bomb has been discovered. When
Martin and Roger show up in their car, they have this discussion again
whether or not to go in. Just as they stop at the building, the whole
building explodes and you can hear Martin saying, while backing up the car,
"I hope nobody saw us".
# Linguini Incident, The
- Rabbits ................ Hugh & Heff
- Special Effects Bras by Bart Trickel
# Look Who's Talking
- James brings Mikey to see his new sister:
Mollie: "Hi honey."
James: "Mikey, this is your sister Julie."
Mollie: "Hi Julie."
Mikey: "Hi Julie."
Julie (voice of Joan Rivers): "Don't start with me kid. I've had a day you
wouldn't believe. Can we talk?"
Signed RICHARD M. NIXON
# Muppet Movie, The
- Close-up of Animal shouting "Movie over! Go Home! Go Home!"
# Mutant On The Bounty
- Outtake of actors cracking up over scene where dead alien splatters all over
their spaceship cabin.
# Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear, The
# Raising Arizona
- Baby Wrangler
# Repo Man
- Credits scroll down instead of up
# Running Man, The
- Announcer's voiceover: "The Running Man has been brought to you by: Breakaway
Paramilitary Uniforms, Orville Pure Procreation Pills, and Cadre Cola - it
hits the spot.
Promotional considerations paid for by Elton Flame Throwers,
Wainright Electrical Launchers, and Hammand & Gates Chain Saws.
Damon Gillian's wardrobe by Chez Antoine, 19th century
craftsmanship for the 21st century man.
Cadre trooper and studio guard's sidearms provided by Colt
Chester, the pistol of patriots.
Remember, tickets for the ICS studio tour are always available
for class A citizens in good standing.
If you'd like to be a contestant on The Running Man, send a
self-addressed, stamped envelope to ICS Talent Hunt, care of your local
affiliate, and then go out and do something really despicable!
I'm Bill Hilgen. Good night and take care!"
# She's Having A Baby
- Various stars suggesting baby names -
Kirstie Alley, Harry Anderson, Jay and Michael Astin, Dan Aykroyd, Matthew
Broderick, John Candy, Dyan Cannon, Belinda Carlisle, Ted Danson, Judi Evans,
Woody Harrelson, Robert Hays, "Magic" Johnson, Michael Keaton, Joanna Kerns,
Penny Marshall, Bill Murray, Roy Orbison, Cindy Pickett, Annie Potts,
John Ratzenberger, Ally Sheedy, Lyman Ward, Wil Wheaton.
# Singles
- Outtakes after credits on video version
- Steve (Campbell Scott) goes to a house looking for Linda (Kyra Sedgwick), but
a woman at the house (Debbie Mazar) tells him that she's moved out to live
with some guy.
- Steve walks down the street past the mime (Eric Stoltz) to the magazine stand
where the magazines on the rack start talking to him, giving him advice. He
goes home to his apartment.
- David (Jim True) walks down a street. His voiceover says that Steve's search
for the perfect girl is a trap, and that he lives his own life like a French
movie where everyone is cool and no attachments are made. He enters a
beatnik club where a woman (Lara Harris) recites a poem in French. She sits
down with him for a brief conversation in French and they leave together.
# Smokey And The Bandit II
- Outtakes during the credits.
# Splash
- Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah swimming and coming to an underwater city.
# Strange Brew
- Bob and Doug talk about their movie.
# Stuff, The
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NOTES
It will be much easier for me if you mail me entries in the following format:
# Movie Name, The
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WANTED:
In which movie did Marilyn Monroe require 30+ takes to get one line right?
THANKS TO:
David Carroll
> Version: 1.2 (April 1993)
>
> - DIRCAMEO (David Lynch): [where is it?]
He's a radio operator on the mining ship that Paul and Co rescue from
a sandworm. (His voice is the main indication).
> # Exorcist, The
> - There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the priest
> is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is a single
> frame shot of a face, painted black and white, grimacing.
>
Have they been kept subliminal? My copy has them, but they look reasonably
obvious. I thought they may have increaded the length to get round
subliminal legislation (if there is any such thing).
^o^
Rich Travsky
Carroll) writes:
> In article <movies/trivia-faq...@GZA.COM>, muz...@cs.uq.oz.au
(Murray Chapman) writes:
>> Archive-Name: movies/trivia-faq
>> Version: 1.2 (April 1993)
>> - There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the
>> priest is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is
>> a single frame shot of a face, painted black and white, grimacing.
>>
>
> Have they been kept subliminal? My copy has them, but they look reasonably
> obvious. I thought they may have increaded the length to get round
> subliminal legislation (if there is any such thing).
>
They are also visible when broadcast on tv (as opposed to played from video).
Perhaps the medium differences (i.e., tv vs. movie theatre) makes them more
apparent on tv. I don't recall them when I first saw it in the theatre, but
then it has been _years_.
One thing from the theatre medium that probably wouldn't carry over to tv
is the soundtrack "subliminals", the buzzing of bees that I read were
dubbed in to heighten tension.
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Gary Bradley
In article <C5Esv...@quark.ansto.gov.au>, dav...@quark.ansto.gov.au (David
Carroll) writes:
> In article <movies/trivia-faq...@GZA.COM>, muz...@cs.uq.oz.au
(Murray Chapman) writes:
>> Archive-Name: movies/trivia-faq
>> Version: 1.2 (April 1993)
>> [...]
>> # Exorcist, The
>> - There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the
>> priest is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is
>> a single frame shot of a face, painted black and white, grimacing.
>>
>
> Have they been kept subliminal? My copy has them, but they look reasonably
> obvious. I thought they may have increaded the length to get round
> subliminal legislation (if there is any such thing).
>
These scenes never were subliminal. They are definately more than one
frame. The 2 clips both show the face of the demon. One appears during
the dream sequence that symbolises the death of Karras' mother (as
mentioned above), and the other during the exorcism. The scenes are very
apparent in the cinema too... I have seen this film a dozen times on the
big screen, twice within the last 6 months.
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Running Man
- Richard Dawson of Family Feud fame played the bad guy
Bob Rye
> >> # Exorcist, The
> >> - There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film: when the
>
> These scenes never were subliminal. They are definately more than one
> frame. The 2 clips both show the face of the demon. One appears during
> the dream sequence that symbolises the death of Karras' mother (as
> mentioned above), and the other during the exorcism. The scenes are very
> apparent in the cinema too... I have seen this film a dozen times on the
> big screen, twice within the last 6 months.
I slo-mo'd through this the other night, and I think I know why the
dream-face impressed me so much. The face doesn't just appear and then
blink off again. The whole face scene is a tiny sequence:
black screen
face
white screen
face
black screen
I think that's all there is to it, but it works rather well... :)
Bob
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Tushar Agarwal
out there. I think that this would definitely qualify as a cult movie, and I'm surprised no one
has posted about it - at least I didn't see anything. I'd really appreciate any trivia on the
movie, I just saw it recently for the first time. I guess whether you like the movie depends
on whether you like Pink Floyd's music - I absolutely love it.
- Tushar Agarwal
Gary Bradley
much earlier stuff). As far as trivia goes...
1. I believe over 18 hours of film were shot in total then reduced to
just over 1 and a half which is the finished film. I think I heard there
was a lot of falling out and a real sense of "getting close to insanity"
on the set.
2. Joanne Whaley (Kilmer) is one of the groupies.
Allen Petlock
: hi, I'm a newcomer to this group. I was wondering if there are any fans of "The Wall"
I don't know any trivia about the movie, but I did love it. What was
great about it (aside from the music), was that it was a true piece of art
that left itself to interpetation. Truly a great piece of filmmaking. I
haven't seen it in a theatre (I would love to), but I'll have to settle with
my letterboxed laserdisc. ;) Even if one dosen't like Pink Floyd's music,
the movie is still worth seeing.
-Allen
Travis Bickle
If you're on drugs, you'll understand it. If you aren't on drugs, this
film takes you on an acid trip.
Easy questions: Who played Pink's manager?
Who played Pink and what band was he originally from?
What song is included in the movie's soundtrack that
isn't on the original album?
What song is longer in the film than on the original
album?
From what Pink Floyd song does the teacher read?
What does one groupie do to get backstage?
What is young Pink doing in the church?
Reply if you want. I know you'll get them right.
-Hitch
Keith Meng-Wei Loh
this year of my most memorable viewing experience. I created another
subject header because I thought others might want to tell us their
favourite movie going stories. Here's mine:
THE DRUGGED OUT NUDE FOOD FIGHT AT PINK FLOYD'S 'THE WALL'
A new rep theatre had opened up in town and one of its opening flicks on
premiere night was a midnight showing of 'The Wall.' I had seen the Wall
before but on video and I jumped at the chance to see it in 70mm Dolby.
When I went down to the new theatre in Vancouver my only fears were that the
film and sound quality would have deteriorated, also that my friend (ex-gf)
wouldn't like it. There was little foreboding in the air, though it was
freezing cold.
I should have known that it would be a memorable night. After all, we were
going to a theatre called 'The Caprice.' I had confidently predicted that
*no-one* would be showing up to a midnight showing of The Wall. I was proved
wrong by the immense crowd that was winding around the corner. A quick walk
from the ticket box (rather, a looong walk) to the end of the line provided
an interesting cross section of people. The majority were young high school
kids who were trying bravely to look like street people. They tell me it's
the 'grunge look' but there were too many labels still hanging out of the
collars. Others were older, balding thirty-something weight gainers who
had taken out their tattered jean jackets and boots for some reminiscing.
I respected them before tonight. My first Pink Floyd experience was at a
local laser lights show. It was another premiere and I sat three from the
front of the line with an old Floyd fan who assured me that I 'didn't know
nothing.' I didn't help that when I was asked which album I thought was
the greatest, I replied: 'the one with the paddling across the lake.' By
this time, I had reordered my priorities.
The line kept on growing behind us as we shivered and tried to stay awake.
A couple cop cars prowled the street more than twice, watching the riff raff
as they swayed and milled about on the sidewalk in a brownian motion. A
few were bored enough that they had taken to singing a few songs. Others were
playing waste basket-ball. I was square before and I'm square now. It took the
third person who asked if I wanted any speed before I realized what the hell
they wanted.
It was 12:10 and they still weren't letting anyone in. People were stamping
their feet and others were lighting up already. Finally, the SINGLE usher
walked down the line saying that there was room only for 500 (forgot the
exact number) people but not bothering to count us or to offer to buy back
the tickets they had sold in excess. On the way back up the line he warned
us: "anyone who lights up, gets kicked out." At that time most of the men
started sizing him up. Weenie!
Nothing happened between 12:10 and 12:20. A nearby bar opened up and the
rowdies started a shouting war across the street. If they had been in
any condition to cross the street, there would have been a brawl. The
police stopped and asked: "What's playing, guys?" Answer: "Read the
sign, ya fucking..." The police moved on.
The line began moving at 12:21! The crowd was obviously over capacity and
the line soon dissolved into a mass rush. As I dragged my ex through the
press I was yelling: "the movie's a decade old for chrissakes!" The usher
did not seem capable to stop us to check tickets but then we caught sight
of the owner of the theatre. She was a huge woman and wore a tent. Her
arms were bigger than my thighs. The crowd slowed down and met decorum.
We got reasonable seats near the front in the middle of a band of rowdy
pseudo thugs who seemed to know people in every corner of the theatre.
"Hey Joey! Hey Chrysta!" The inside of the theatre was new, and looked
to be ripped off of a myriad of different multiplexes. There were plants
painted on the walls which looked like cannabis. The screen curtain looked
like a shimmery night club deal. It also looked very flammable. The seats
were comfortable but lacked a ridge in the back you could rest your foot
on. The usher went up and down the aisles trying to maintain order.
Things would have come out normally if they had started the film immediately
after everyone settled in. But they did not. We counted off the minutes.
Five .. ten... People began getting restless. A single penny cast from the
back of the theatre sparked a barrage of coinage from the front row. The
usher came down to crush the revolt, temporarily. Then he got to the
front and announced that the film would be starting a ten minutes! The food
war started.
Then *five minutes* later the film started without warning. It took half
a minute for them to realize that the curtain was still down. It was raised
half way through the opening tracking shot and the fat maid was coming out
of the room. Then people realized: "backwards! The film's backwards!"
Others were yelling "there's no sound! No sound!" Of course, those of us
knew that there was little sound in the beginning (until after the foot
comes down). People in the know answered: "there's no sound right now
ya fucking..." The film stopped.
The usher announced, rather sheepishly, that "some idiot rewound the film
backwards" and that it would take *fifteen* minutes to get it wound
forwards. A collective scream rose from the audience. The usher said that
those who wanted refunds could go ahead. A quarter of the crowd stood
and rushed for the ticket counter. It was now twenty to one. People began
lighting up. My ex whispered to me: "that's not marijuana is it?" I started
sniffing the air. "What?" My ex: "No, the man beside you." Surely, enough,
a doobie was being passed around. No thanks. A pipe followed. An old man
whom we called 'the Amish guy' was walking up and down the aisles. He
looked like he was born in the turn of the century and dressed like it.
In the corner of the theatre we heard sudden applause. And then a pale
body dashed across the front of the theatre. A streaker! The audience
erupted! It was great. He even stopped in front and bowed. The huge
mother of a manager stepped in his way. We booed and hollared as he
explained himself as he stood there, nude and limp. He was allowed to
walk back to his seat. Major cheers. By then the marijuana was thick
in the air and the usher was sneezing heavily.
The film started again. "Sound! Sound!" The sound was turned up until
our ears bled. Then: "The track's backwards! Sound! Sound!" The
projectionist (who would have been lynched eventually) did something
and suddenly the sound was all right. "Focus! Focus!" We were still
grinning over the streaker. People were strangely very happy. The
film quality was so-so but the sound was there. Pretty soon people
were singing openly.
Then the next reel. "BACKWARDS! BACKWARDS!! BACKWARDS!!" Another
fifteen minute break. Half the audience was left by then. The
usher had taken off his jacket. Most of the pot had been smoked but
it was still circulating in the currents. While the film was
running you could see storms of it circling in the light of the
projector. People began doing the stomp and clap: "We will we will
..rock you... we will we will..."
A better time has yet to come my way. However, I haven't been back.
Jason Austin
-> In article <1993Apr29.1...@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
-> c16...@po.berkeley.edu (Tushar Agarwal) writes:
-> > hi, I'm a newcomer to this group. I was wondering if there are any
-> fans of "The Wall"
-> > out there. I think that this would definitely qualify as a cult movie,
-> and I'm surprised no one
-> > has posted about it - at least I didn't see anything. I'd really
-> appreciate any trivia on the
-> > movie, I just saw it recently for the first time. I guess whether you
-> like the movie depends
-> > on whether you like Pink Floyd's music - I absolutely love it.
-> >
-> > - Tushar Agarwal
->
->
-> If you're on drugs, you'll understand it. If you aren't on drugs, this
-> film takes you on an acid trip.
I understood it without ever having taken any drugs. They
don't add anything to your mind that's not already there.
-> Easy questions: Who played Pink's manager?
Bob Hoskins
-> Who played Pink and what band was he originally from?
Forgot his name
-> What song is included in the movie's soundtrack that
-> isn't on the original album?
I seem to remember there was more than one. There was the
song at the beginning that was reprised later when young Pink finds
his father's revolver, and I thinks it called ``When the Tigers Broke
Free''. There was also the song where the animated wall is ripping
through the landscape, and I don't know the name of that one. I would
love to get both of these on CD. Does anyone know if they're
available?
How about the songs on the album that aren't in the movie? I
don't remember hearing Hey You anywhere in the movie.
-> What song is longer in the film than on the original
-> album?
In the Flesh would be my guess, but I think several songs were
different lengths.
-> From what Pink Floyd song does the teacher read?
Money.
-> What does one groupie do to get backstage?
Blows a guard.
-> What is young Pink doing in the church?
Don't remember this one.
--
Jason C. Austin
j.c.a...@larc.nasa.gov
Anthony Horan
When I spoke to Alan Parker (the director of "The Wall") during a promo
visit to Australia for "The Commitments" he told me he hates the film, and
called it "The most expensive student film ever made"!
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Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - ant...@xymox.apana.org.au
"Stereo? I don't think so. I like good mono!" - Hal Hartley, March 1993
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Andrew Marks
>Bob Hoskins
>Forgot his name
Bob Geldof - from the Boomtown Rats
>-> What song is included in the movie's soundtrack that
>-> isn't on the original album?
> I seem to remember there was more than one. There was the
>song at the beginning that was reprised later when young Pink finds
>his father's revolver, and I thinks it called ``When the Tigers Broke
>Free''. There was also the song where the animated wall is ripping
>through the landscape, and I don't know the name of that one. I would
>love to get both of these on CD. Does anyone know if they're
>available?
Weren't there a couple?
> How about the songs on the album that aren't in the movie? I
>don't remember hearing Hey You anywhere in the movie.
>-> What song is longer in the film than on the original
>-> album?
> In the Flesh would be my guess, but I think several songs were
>different lengths.
>-> From what Pink Floyd song does the teacher read?
>Money.
>-> What does one groupie do to get backstage?
>Blows a guard.
>-> What is young Pink doing in the church?
I think he's playing with a model airplane on the pews (seats)
>Don't remember this one.
>--
>Jason C. Austin
>j.c.a...@larc.nasa.gov
--
Andrew Marks
Master by Research
Department of Software Development
ING1035
>ja...@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:
>>Bob Hoskins
>>Forgot his name
>>Money.
>>Blows a guard.
>--
I'm crazy about Piink Floyd in general and I was thrilled when
the movie was broadcast on our national TV, after it's been banned from
about 1978 (or thereabouts). I've never seen anything remotely like it. Did
it recieve any awards ? It surely deserves some.
(In case your'e wondering, I'm a South African.)
Dianne Cosner
: Easy questions: Who played Pink's manager?
Bob Hoskins s
: Who played Pink and what band was he originally from?
Bob Geldof (sp?) - BoomTown Rats
: What song is included in the movie's soundtrack that
: isn't on the original album?
: What song is longer in the film than on the original
: album?
The wall l
: From what Pink Floyd song does the teacher read?
Money y
: What does one groupie do to get backstage?
Gives a guard a blowjob BTW this is Joanne Whaley Kimler
: What is young Pink doing in the church?
He's with his mother after his father died.
More trivia - Did you know that they hired actual skinheads for the scenes
with the riots?
I can just see it...
"Ok, you there, with the swasitka on your forehead, go and act like
your beating up that fag..."
"
jeremy holstein
SUPPOSED to be Bob Kane (creator of Batman) but wasn't. He couldn't
make it on the day of the shoot, so someone subed in. The drawing is
by Kane, tho'...
--
This is my sig file.
Nicholas Monitto
>: Easy questions: Who played Pink's manager?
> Bob Hoskins s
>: Who played Pink and what band was he originally from?
> Bob Geldof (sp?) - BoomTown Rats
>: What song is included in the movie's soundtrack that
>: isn't on the original album?
> I've forgotten the title...but it goes, "Goodbye blueskies.." "
Actually, that's from "Goodbye, Blue Sky" which is on the album. I believe the
song in question here is "When the Tigers Broke Free", which shows up in two
parts (at the beginning and when Pink is searching the drawers).
>: What song is longer in the film than on the original
>: album?
> The wall l
"What Shall we do Now?". On the album, this was replaced by the shorter "Empty
Spaces". One interesting note- the lyrics on the album list the full lyrics for
"What Shall we do Now?". Apparently the decision to substitute "Empty Spaces"
was made after the text went to print.
>: From what Pink Floyd song does the teacher read?
> Money y
>: What does one groupie do to get backstage?
> Gives a guard a blowjob BTW this is Joanne Whaley Kimler
>: What is young Pink doing in the church?
> He's with his mother after his father died.
Wandering around the church flying a small model airplane.
> More trivia - Did you know that they hired actual skinheads for the scenes
> with the riots?
> I can just see it...
> "Ok, you there, with the swasitka on your forehead, go and act like
> your beating up that fag..."
It was almost like that. Alan Parker (I think) commented that one day during
filming a bunch of the extras showed up with the hammer logo shaved into their
hair on the sides. This was particularly scary for him, since they seemed to
be taking things all too seriously.
Even more trivia- they shot a reel for "Hey You" featuring British police in
full riot gear. This occurred a few months before the police used the gear in
an actuall incident (don't remember what). Supposedly Parker met Roger Waters
in a pub during the editing and asked what he wanted cut. Waters said, "Cut
reel [##]", which was the one with "Hey You". Parker replied, "Ok, what else?"
--
The producer of "Alive" was discussing it on his carphone when he was cut off
by a truck with the bumper sticker 'Rugby Players Eat Their Dead'. He decided
to make the film, saying, "You have to go with those kinds of things."
Nick Monitto (mon...@rpi.edu)
st88...@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
who was also a real life game show host. The answer is:
RICHARD DAWSON who was the host for the 1970s show FAMILY FEUD!
If you already knew the answer and I was just late, Sorry just trying to
help :)
Anita