LIST: MOVIE TRIVIA: in-jokes, cameos, signatures

[Murray Chapman]

Archive-Name: movies/trivia-faq
Version: 1.4 (June 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.

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Additions and suggestions welcome. Please read notes at end before you submit
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CONTENTS
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1. Director's Trademarks
2. Film Trivia
- DIRCAMEO: Directors appearing in their own films
- DIRTRADE: Director's trademark
- ACTTRADE: Actor's trademark
- CAMEOS: cameos roles
3. 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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*IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT*

I HAVE DECIDED THAT I WILL NO LONGER BE UPDATING THE "CRAZY" CREDITS SECTION
OF THIS FAQ, DUE TO A LACK OF TIME. IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN TAKING THIS
OVER, PLEASE CONTACT ME.

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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.

Kenneth Branagh
- frequently casts his wife Emma Thompson.

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 Barbeau

James Cameron
- strong female characters.
- 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
- frequently casts Charles Napier
- frequently casts Chris Issak
- frequently casts Buzz Killman in a cameo role
- frequently uses Tak Fujimoto as his director of photography

Brian DePalma
- many Hitchcock homages
- frequently casts wife Nancy Allen

Clint Eastwood
- frequently casts ex-partner Sondre Locke

Alfred Hitchcock
- has a cameo in most of his films

Ron Howard
- frequently casts brother Clint in small roles

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.

John Milius
- frequently casts Gerry Lopez

George Miller
- subliminals, often of eyeballs bulging

Jerry Paris
- frequently appears in a small (often one scene) role.

Harold Ramis
- frequently casts himself in bit parts
- frequently casts fellow SCTV alumni: Bill Murray, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd,
Mary Gross, Eugene Levy, etc.

Rob Reiner
- His production company is called "Castle Rock Productions", named after
"Castle Rock", a fictitious town where many Stephen King stories are set.
(Reiner's _Misery_ was based on the book by King).

Ken Russell
- frequent snake imagery

Martin Scorsese
- frequently casts Robert DeNiro, a student of his from film school in New
York.
- his mother appears in most of his films.

Henry Yaglom
- usually makes films about himself, sometimes about himself making 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 Nielsen
- David and Jerry's mother is frequently cast in a small role.

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FILM TRIVIA

# 'Crocodile' Dundee
- The wild and ferocious buffalo that Mick Dundee pacified was drugged.

# 1900
- Original uncut version is 5.5 hours long, and features pornographic sequences
with Robert DeNiro, Gerard DePardieu, and a woman.

# 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.

# About Last Night...
- The original title of this film was "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" (taken
from the play it is based on). The title was changed after many newspapers
and TV stations refused to run ads for a film with such a title.

# 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 8th 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.

# Aladdin (1992)
- The genie portrays the following people: Jack Nicholson, Arsenio Hall,
William Buckley (?), Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Rodney Dangerfield, Ed Sullivan.
- The stack that Jasmine's father plays with is sitting on a toy of the
Beast from _Beauty and the Beast (1991)_, another Disney animated movie.
Sebastian from _The Little Mermaid_and Pinocchio can also be spotted.
- The two men in the crowd the genie pushes through are caricatures of a
couple of the animators; the original plan was to use film critics Gene
Siskel and Roger Ebert, but they couldn't get permission. [Source:
Animation magazine]

# 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.
- In the scene where Dallas, Kane and Lambert are leaving the ship, the actual
actors walking past the Nostromo's landing struts are 3 children (two of
which were Ridley Scott's children) dressed in scaled down spacesuits. This
has the effect of making the ship look even bigger.
- A sex scene between Dallas and Ripley (!) was in the script, however was
not filmed. [source: _ALIEN_ box set]
- The front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a real human
skull. [source: _ALIEN_ box set]
- 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.
- Apparently, in the final scene with Ripley and the Alien, the sounds of
people having sex can be heard. [can anyone confirm this?]
- 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?]

# Alien 3
- Multiple proposed scripts caused misleading advertising which inferred that
the movie would be set on Earth: "In 1979, no one can hear you scream in
space. On Earth in 1992, everyone can hear you scream."

# Aliens
- A draft of the script had Gorman being paralized by a stinger on the tail
of an alien, rather than being clobbered by falling equipment.
- Laserdisc verions includes extra scenes: Newt's parents discovering abandoned
alien ship on LV-426, scenes of Ripley discussing her daughter, Hudson
bragging about his weaponry, robot sentry guns repelling first alien raid,
Hicks and Ripley exchaning first names.
- The mechanism used to make the facehuggers thrash about in the stasis tubes
in the science lab came from one of the "flying piranahs" in one of director
James Cameron's earlier movies _Piranah II - The Spawning_. It took 9 people
to make the face hugger work, one person for each leg and someone for the
tail.
- Hicks was originally played by actor James Remar, but Michael Biehn
replaced him a few days after principal photography began, due to "artistic
differences" between Remar and Cameron.
- "She thought they said 'illegal aliens' and signed up..." - Hudson
This quote (directed towards Vasquez) was in "inside joke" to the actors
of the movie. (quoted without permission from an interview with Jeanette
Goldstein [Vasquez] that appeared in STARLOG magazine)
''...she answered an ad for a film role in the local trades. It
read simply, "Genuine American actors, British Equity, for
feature film, ALIENS, 20th Century Fox," she relates, over lunch
near the old homestead in Beverly Hills.
"I had seen ALIEN, but I had NO idea this was a sequel.
It had been so long ago, it didn't even occur to me.
"I thought it was about actual aliens, you know,
immigrants to a country. I was wondering why they wanted
Americans. I figured the movie was about lots of different
immigrants to England."
Since she didn't have an agent at the time, she answered
the ad on her own, with rather surprising results. "I actually
came in wearing high heels and lots of makeup, and I had
waist-length hair," she says.
Other auditioners, who had advance notice from THEIR
agents, were decked out in military fatigues --- Goldstein's
first inkling she would be reading for the role of a marine...''
- The laserdisc version includes the sound of a face-hugger scurrying from left
to right as the final credits fade.

# Alive
- Director 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."
- CAMEO(John Malkovich): The narrator.

# All the Right Moves
- Tom Cruise and Lea Thompson had body doubles for the sex scene.

# Altered States
- Author Paddy Chayefsky 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".
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): snake imagery- dream sequence

# Amazon Women on the Moon
- Subtle crossovers between sketches [...]
- The name "Don Simmons" keeps popping up.
- The "release date" for the movie keeps changing: "We now return to our
feature film, the 1957 [19XX] classic, Amazon Women on the Moon...".
[Lots of cameos]

# American Graffiti
- License plate on John Milner's (Paul LeMat) car is "THX-138" _THX-1138_ is 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.

# Annie Hall
- Sigourney Weaver's first film role. She can be seen in an extreme long shot
as Alvy's date when he meets Annie again near the end of the film.

# 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 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.

# Army of Darkness
- CAMEO(Bridget Fonda): Linda
- The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are "Klaatu,
Barada, Nikto"--the same words used to command the robot Gort in _The Day
the Earth Stood Still_.

# 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.

# Awakenings
- Robin Williams accidentally broke Robert DeNiro's nose during a rehersal of
the scene where Dr Sayer tries to get Leonard to go back on the drug.

# Back to School
- CAMEO(Kurt Vonnegut): himself

# Back to the Future
- Eric Stoltz originally cast as Marty McFly, but changed becuase he didn't act
enough like a teenager.
- 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_
- Crispin Glover played George McFly in the original, but was replaced by [?]
in Part II and Part III

# 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_
- Crispin Glover played George McFly in the original, but was replaced by [?]
in Part II and Part III

# Bad and the Beautiful, The
- Lana Turner plays an actress whose career started as a movie extra. Lana
Turner started her own career as an extra in _A Star is Born_.
- Director Vincente Minelli and star Kirk Douglas also teamed up in another
movie about Hollywood, _Two Weeks in Another Town_.
- James Lee (Dick Powell) won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "A Woman of
Taste", about his late wife Rosemary (Gloria Grahame).

# Bagdad Cafe
- The shadow of the camera crew is visible while the credits for the
cinematographer are on the screen.

# Bambi
- Some scenes of woodland creatures and the forest fire are unused footage from
Pinocchio.

# Barfly
- CAMEO(Charles Bukowsky): in the bar where Henry and Wanda meet for the first
time.

# Barry Lyndon
- Stanley Kubrick did not use any artificial lighting when he shot this film.

# Basic Instinct
- Kim Basinger was originally cast as Catherine Tremain.
- Michael Douglas' character watches _Brain_.

# 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 Bob Kane, 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.
- Bob Kane was scheduled to make a cameo appearance, but he couldn't make the
shoot. The drawing that the newspaper report holds up of the "Bat-Man" was
drawn by Kane.
- CAMEO(Prince): rumour unconfirmed as of yet.

# Batman Returns
- Danny DeVito forbidden to describe The Penguin's makeup to anyone, including
his family.
- The bad guy's name is Max Schreck. Max Schreck played the vampire in the
_Nosferatu (1922)_.
- The film has been branded 'anti-semetic' because of the Jewish references in
The Penguin character/storyline:
- He has a big nose
- He likes to eat herrings
- He is discovered floating down the underground river in a basket, much
like Moses
- He plans to kill the first born of all the elite citizens of Gotham,
reminiscent of the passover story
- Sean Young very much wanted the role of The Catwoman. During pre-production
she arrived at the studio in a catwoman costume to confront the makers of the
movie. She used other people scouting the studio grounds, using
walkie-talkies to communicate, to track down the producers.
- There is a sign in Michelle Pfeiffer's character's flat that reads "HELLO
THERE". Later in the film, after she becomes Catwoman, the "o" and the "t"
aren't lit, making the sign read "HELL HERE"

# Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- The Tiny Toon Adventure script writer Sheri Stoner was used as the model for
Belle. See also _The Little Mermaid_.

# 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.

# Beverly Hills Cop
- Axel Foley originally going to be played by Sylvester Stallone.

# Big Chill, The
- Flashback scenes with Kevin Costner as Alex filmed, but cut.

# Big Steal, The
- A TV can be heard to be showing _Malcolm_, which has the same producers.

# Big Trouble in Little China
- Some of the lightning forms a chinese symbol as it disappates. The symbol
translates as "carpenter". This film was directed by John Carpenter.

# Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
- The original title of this film was "Bill and Ted go to Hell" but was changed for obvious reasons.

# 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.
- The poster for the movie said: "THE BIRDS IS COMING!" irritating English
teachers nationwide.

# 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 as
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/movies/bladerunner-faq.

# 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.

# Bloodsport (1987)
- Jean-Claude Van Damme was European Kickboxing champion, but an unknown in
Hollywood. He spotted producer Menahem Golan coming out of a restuarant
and getting into his car. He introduced himself, and then did a 360 degree
spinning kick, narrowly missing Golan's head. Golan signed him immediately
for _Bloodsport_.

# Blues Brothers, The
- Has many famous people in the cast:
Frank Oz: prison officer
Cab Calloway: friend of the curch
James Brown: minister
Irene Cara: church soloist [Chaka Khan?]
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 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
years 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". Whitney Houston is Diana Ross' niece.
- Rachael's mansion is 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
- CAMEO(Abbie Hoffman): a war/draft protestor.
- 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 $5,000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for
the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $20,000 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'".
- Hal Wallis nearly made the character "Sam" a female. Hazel Scott, Lena
Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald were tested for the role.
- Dooley Wilson (who played Sam) was a professional drummer who faked playing
the piano. Because the music was recorded at the same time as the film,
the piano playing was actually performed by Elliot Carpenter.
- 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.
- The budget was so small they couldn't use a real plane in the back ground at
the airport. Instead, it is a small cardboard cutout. To give the illusion
that the plane was full-sized, they used midgets to portray the crew
preparing the plane for take-off.
- This film was rewritten daily during filming, made on a shoestring budget,
hastily released, and expected to bomb.
- Based on a play called "Everybody Comes To Rick's".

# Charley Varrick
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): a table tennis player.

# Cheyenne Autumn
- Director John Ford deliberately only allowed one take, so that actors would
remain nervous.

# Chinatown
- DIRCAMEO(Roman Pollanski): the hood who slits Jake's nose.

# City Slickers
- Billy Crystal co-wrote the story, but is not given on-screen credit.
- 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.
- The cow-giving-birth scene was real, and Billy Crystal actually assisted
in the birth. The calf also actually "bonded" to Billy. [I believe he
did in reality keep the calf... anyone?]

# Cliffhanger
- Set in the Colorado Rockies, but filmed in the Italian Dolomites.
- 31 climbers were signed up, including Ron Kauk and the late Wolfgang Gullich.
Gullich performed many of the film's stunts.
- Kauk was Sylvester Stallone's stunt double and really had to bulk up. He ate
5 carbohydrate-heavy meals a day and pumped a lot of iron. The trainer wanted
to have him eat a sixth meal in the middle of the night. Kauk also doubled
for Leon, a 6'3" black actor, and Janine Turner, the female lead.
- An avid golfer, Stallone found that climbing roughed up his hands and
consequently messed up his game. He did have a net on the set for practice.
The models he was dating complained about his rough hands.
- Electrical storms hit during filming, knocking down 5 crew members. Climber
Earl Wiggins was hit 3 times, but was only slightly injured. During a later
storm, crew members had fun taking pictures of each other with their hair
standing on end while the climbers pointed out the wisdom of evacuating.

# 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. One of the girls that Alkex talks to mentions the
group "The Heaven 17". This was the inspiration for the early 80's group
"Heaven 17"'s name.
- 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 genitals.
- Patrick MacGee's bodyguard was played by professional bodybuilder David
Prowse. Even so, he was near exhaustion after the repeated takes of him
carrying MacGee and his wheelchair down the stairs.
- Many phallic symbols: snake crawling between the legs of the woman in the
poster.

# Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Barry is shown to be surprised by the extraterrestrials. Director Stephen
Spielberg dressed up in a gorilla suit and was off camera while actor Carey
Guffey's surprise reaction was filmed.
- In the original version, there is a long scene of Roy Neary tears up his and
a neighbor's back yard for materials with which to build a model of Devil's
Tower. This scene is not in "The Special Edition" but was replaced by a
scene (the night before) in which his wife discovers him crying, fully
clothed, under a running hot shower. A family fight ensues, but this entire
scene was not seen in the original version. Also, additional footage was
shot for 'The Special Edition' that shows Roy Neary inside the alien
mothership at the end of the movie.
- SFX man Douglas Trumbull created the could effects by injecting white paint
into tanks of salt and fresh water.
- In the scene where the mothership does a close flyby over Devil's Mountain,
it is possible to see an upside down R2-D2 (from _Star Wars_, etc) in part
of the craft. The SFX people needed more detail, and so supposedly there are
many more such jokes.

# Coal Miner's Daughter
- Beverly D'Angelo and Sissy Spacek did all their own singing.

# Coming Home
- Jane Fonda had a body double for her sex scene with Jon Voight.

# 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.
- Director John Milius is an avid surfer. Sandahl Bergman and Gerry Lopez are
professional surfers.
- 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
- DIRCAMEO(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 is rampant: Albert Spica (the thief) drives a Jaguar, the
big sign above the restuarant says "P&A" (panda).

# Creepshow
- CAMEO(Stephen King): Jordy Verril (man covered in moss).
- CAMEO: (Joe King [son of Stephen]): The boy at the beginning (avid collector
of Creepshow magazine and voodoo dolls).

# 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_.

# Curse, The
- Set in Tennessee, filmed in Italy.
- Wil and Amy Wheaten, real-life brother and sister, played on-screen brother
and sister.
- Wil Wheaten once said that the only good thing about the movie was that his
sister got a job on it.

# Cyborg
- All the major characters are named after guitar brand names.

# Dave
- Author Gary Ross appears as Policeman #2.
- Many U.S. Congressmen and political commentators appear in this
film as themselves.
- CAMEO: (Arnold Schwarzzenegger): himself
- CAMEO: (Larry King): himself
- CAMEO: (Oliver Stone): himself

# Dead Again
- CAMEO(Robin Williams):

# Death Becomes Her
- Goldie Hawn went on an eating binge and a crash diet to make her weight
fluctuate during this film.
- In the scene where Goldie Hawn's character sits down onto a shovel handle,
she didn't sit in the way she was expected to do, so the SFX people had to
morph the image to make it look like the shovel handle was pushing up into
her chest.

# 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 (1990)
- 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.
- ACTTRADE(Clint Eastwood): "Go ahead. Make my Day" (first)

# 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.
- Val Kilmer wore special contact lenses which made his pupils seem dilated
in the scenes where Morrison was stoned
- Closeup shots use Kilmer's voice, long distance shots use Morrison's.
- 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 concrete proof of it being released. A book by Frank Herbert himself
claims that 12 hours of footage was filmed. They cut it to 6, considered
releasing it as a mini-series, but decided to cut it down to 2 and released
it theatrically.
- 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): A radio operator on the mining ship that Paul and
Duke Leto Atreides rescue from a sandworm.

# E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- ET's face was modeled after poet Carl Sandburg and Albert Einstein.
- Harrison Ford played the school principal, but his scenes were cut. There
is a rumor that you can still see his back.
- The M&M's are really Pete's pieces.
- The extraterrestrial's plant collection includes a triffid (from _The Day
of the Triffids_).
- This movie has earned a total of $965 million by 1989.

# 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.

# Elephant Walk
- Vivian Leigh was originally cast. Her mental illness begun affecting things
during filming, and so she was replaced by by Elizabeth Taylor. Many long
shots and shots from behind are still of Leigh.

# Empire Strikes Back, The
- Lighting for SFX was so strong that several models melted.
- The AT-AT's were based on ship loading structure in an Oakland, California
shipyard. Walking patterns of elephants were studied to make the movements
seem as realistic as possible.
- Further scenes with the Wampa Ice Creatures were shot, and later cut. R2-D2
encountered one within the Rebel base, where it was killed by troopers.
Later, the beasts were lured into a prison within the complex. In the
completed film, a medical droid is seen examining the wounds of a Tauntaun
killed by a Wampa, and Princess Leia mentions the "creatures" while
discussing the Imperial Probe Droid.
- There is a rumour that one of the asteriods is actually a potato.
- Wedge Antilles (Rebel pilot who trips an AT-AT walker) is played by Dennis
(two "n"s) Lawson. See also _Star Wars_ and _Return of the Jedi_
- Security surrounding this movie was so intense that George Lucas had regular
reports about "leaks" from actors. Lucas was so determined that the ending
be kept secret that he had actor David Prowse (Darth Vader) say "Obi Wan
Kenobi is your father", and dubbed it later to be "I am your father".
- Captain (later Admiral) Piett is left in command of the Imperial fleet by
the end of the film, and is still in charge during _Return of the Jedi_.
- The designers at ILM wanted a radical design for Boba Fett's ship. They
ended up using the end of a lamp post from the stree outside the ILM
building.

# Evil Dead II
- one of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is called
"A Farewell to Arms".
- A glove belonging to _A Nightmare on Elm Street_'s Freddy Krueger can be
seen hanging near the steps in one of the cellar scenes. This was in
response to the use of _The Evil Dead_ on a television screen in _A
Nightmare on Elm Street_.

# Evil Dead, The
- total budget for this film was $50,000. Investors were initially annoyed
when the film appeared to be a comedy although they were told it would be a
horror story. As of 1988, the investors have had a 150% return.

# Ewok Adventure, The (TV)
- One of the matte paintings includes Winnie the Pooh sitting in a tree.

# Exorcist III, The
- CAMEO(C Everett Coop [Surgeon General]): in the restuarant
- CAMEO(Larry King): in the restuarant

# 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.

# Explorers
- The "city lights" model includes a suburb that looks suspiciously like a
circuit diagram, complete with logic gates and an integrated circuit.

# 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.
- Alex starts the film wearing white, but gradually switches to be wearing
black at the end.

# 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.

# Frankenstein (1931)
- In one scene, the monster (Boris Karloff) walks through a forest and
comes upon a little girl, Maria, who is throwing flowers into a pond. The
monster joins her in the activity but soon runs out of flowers. At a loss
for something to throw into the water, he looks at Maria and moves toward
her. In all American prints of the movie, the scene ends here. But as
originally filmed, the action continues to show the monster grabbing
Maria, hurling her into the lake, then departing in confusion when Maria
fails to float as the flowers did. This bit was deleted because Karloff -
objecting to the director's interpretation of the scene - felt that the
monster should have gently put Maria into the lake. Though Karloff's
intentions were good, the scenes omission suggests a crueler death for
Maria, since a subsequent scene shows her bloddied corpse being carried
through the village by her father.

# 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.
- During post-production, Brando claimed this film would be the biggest turkey
of all time, but subsequently changed his mind, saying 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.
- In the scene in the blasted city ruins where the sargeant is dying from
gunshot wounds, there is a rock in the background that looks very much like
the monolith from Kubrick's _2001_. Kubrick says it wasn't intentional, but
was noticed later, after filming, while watching the "rushes".

# 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.

# Ghostbusters
- The eggs which fry themselves are sitting next to a package of "Stay-Puft"
marshmallows.
- 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
- There is a rumour that Burt Reynolds was originally cast as Michael Corleone,
but Marlon Brando wouldn't act with him, considering him more a TV star.
- Lawrence Olivier was considered for the role of Vito Corleone.
- Frank Sinatra was considered for the role of Johnny, but this role went to
Al Martino when it became apparent that there were too many similarities
between Johnny and Sinatra himself.
- 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. Brando's mouthpiece is on
display at the prop and costume museum at Universal Studios.
- 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 filming. (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.

# Good Earth, The
- The only film with on-screen credit given to MGM executive Irving Thalberg.

# GoodFellas
- Director Martin Scorsese's mother plays Tommy's mother.

# Gothic
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): snake imagery

# Grand Canyon (1991)
- DIRCAMEO(Lawrence Kasdan): tries to interest Steve Martin's
character in a film.

# Great Escape, The
- Actor Donald Plesance was actually a POW during WWII.

# Great Mouse Detective, The
- When this film was originally released it's title was "The Great Mouse
Detective." When Disney re-released it years later they gave it the title
of "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective." When the film was
released on video a few months later, the title on the box was back to "The
Great Mouse Detective" but the title on the film itself read "The Adventures
of the Great Mouse Detective."

# 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_).
- The main character (can't remember his name) crosses the street and
calls hello to the town's doctor -- Doctor Moreau, from the H.G. Wells
story of the same name.
- Robbie the Robot is in a couple scenes. In one, he's talking on a
phone in a phone booth wearing a hat. His lines are his end of the
conversation with the cook of the C57-D in "Forbidden Planet" where
Cookie is trying to get him to produce booze.

# 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.

# Groundhog Day
- Punxatawney [sp?], PA is actually Woodstock, Illinois.
- In one scene, Phil Connors (Bill Murray) throws himself from the bell tower
of a high building. This building is actually an opera house in Woodstock,o
Illinois. Local legend has it that a young girl once committed suicide by
throwing herself from the same bell tower. Her ghost is supposed to haunt
the opera house.
- Bill Murray was bitten by the groundhog twice during the filming of this
movie.
- Two of Bill Murray's brothers have small parts in this film.

# 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.

# Head (1968)
- CAMEO(Jack Nicholson): after Peter Tork punches a guy in drag.

# Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- There is a very gruesome scene, shot on videotape, where Henry and Otis kill
a family in their home. After filming the scene, the actress who plays the
mother went into shock.

# 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.

# History of the World - Part 1
- Richard Pryor was originally cast in the part eventually taken by Gregory
Hines. Just before filming was to begin, Pryor had is now famous drug-
related accident, catching fire and getting severely burnt.

# 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 Tootles 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?]
- There were frequent good-natured "battle of the wits" exchanges between Robin
Williams and Dustin Hoffman. In one incident, Hoffman was not happy with his
performance and asked the scene to be re-shot. Williams' quipped "Try
acting": a reference to the Hoffman/Olivier exchange on the set of _ Marathon
Man_.
- CAMEO(Phil Collins): Police Inspector.
- CAMEO(David Crosby): pirate
- CAMEO(Glenn Close): (male!) pirate locked in the chest with the 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
- Kevin Costner originally cast as Jack Ryan.
- Klaus-Maria Brandauer originally cast as Marko Ramius.
- $20,000 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. See also: _Working Girl_.
- 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.
- CAMEO(Frank Marshall [producer]): a tourist in the background in the
airport scene at the beginning.
- DIRCAMEO(Steven Spielberg): a tourist in the background in the airport scene
at the beginning.

# Innerspace
- Repeated rabbit motif: Tuck's apartment, etc [more!]
- The computers in the lab display Apple ][ assembly language listing from the
ROM monitor.

# 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!]

# Jacob's Ladder
- All SFX were filmed live, with no post-production.

# Jaws
- Sterling Hayden was the original 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.
- A midget in a miniature cage and a real shark were used to get some shots
correct.
- Apparently, technicians lost control of one of the mechanical sharks, and it
was lost at sea.
- In many scenes, actors Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Shaw had to look
in amazement at the shark, when it was not there are all.

# JFK
- 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.

# King Kong (1933)
- The original King Kong was released four times between 1933 and 1952,
and each release saw the cutting of additional scenes. Though many of the
outtakes - including the censored sequence in which Kong peels off Fay
Wray's clothes - were restored in 1971, one cut scene has never been
found. It is the clip in which Kong shakes four sailors off a log bridge,
causing them to fall into a ravine where they are eaten alive by giant
spiders. When the movie - with spider sequence intact - was previewed in
San Bernardino, Calif., in late January, 1933, members of the audience
screamed and either left the theatre or talked about the grisly sequence
throughout the remainder of the film. Said the film's producer, Merian C.
Cooper, "It stopped the picture cold, so the next day back at the studio,
I took it out myself".
- The model of King Kong only came up to Fay Wray's Navel.

# 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.

# Lair of the White Worm, The
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): snake imagery

# 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).

# Limelight (1952)
- Charlie Chaplin's film about a vaudeville comic on the decline features
a scene in which Chaplin, as the elderly Calvero, makes his comeback in a
music hall sketch. The routine, which originally ran 10 minutes, has
Calvero performing onstage with an old colleague, played by Buster Keaton.
It has been said that while Chaplin was good, Keaton was sensational.
Consequently, Chaplin allowed only a small portion of the scene to remain
in release prints.

# 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.
- The Tiny Toon Adventure script writer Sheri Stoner was used as the model for
Ariel. See also _Beauty and the Beast (1991)_. [or was it Alissa Milano?]

# Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
- CAMEO(Bill Murray):
- CAMEO(John Belushi):
- CAMEO(John Candy):
- CAMEO(Christopher Guest):
- DIRCAMEO(John Waters):

# 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.

# Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- George Raft was originally cast as Sam Spade.

# 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 right-angles, do a sharp turn, and then hit the
ramp at a predetermined speed. The car had modified suspension, and 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.

# Man With Two Brains, The
- The voice of the disembodied brain that Steve Martin falls in love
with was provided by an uncredited Sissy Spacek.

# Manchurian Candidate, The
- Angela Landsbury plays the lead character's mother, even though she is
actually younger than him.

# Manhunter (1986)
- This film is a prequel to _The Silence of the Lambs_. Although there are
several characters common to both films, there are only two actors who appear
in both movies. Ironically, they both play different characters in both films.
Frankie Faison plays Lt Fisk in _Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of
the Lambs_, and Dan Butler plays an FBI fingerprint expert in _Manhunter_,
and an entymologist in _The Silence of the Lambs_.

# Marathon Man
- Dustin Hoffman (being a "method actor") stayed up all night to play a
character who has stayed up all night. Arriving on the set, Sir Laurence
Olivier asked him why he looked they way he did. Hoffman told him, to which
Olivier replied: "Why not try acting? It's much easier."

# 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 comeback in the title role,
but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
playing a compulsive thief.

# Maximum Overdrive
- DIRCAMEO(Stephen King): man who the ATM swears at.

# Mean Streets
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): the hitman who shoots Robert DeNiro's character.

# Meatballs Part II
- Cheryl (Kim Richards) is asked if she comes from another planet (due to her
lack of experience with boys). Cheryl replies that she sort of is. Kim
Richards played a young alien girl, marooned on earth, in two Disney movies:
_Escape to Witch Mountain_, and _Return from Witch Mountain_.

# Metropolis
- Some versions of this silent film have been colorized, and feature a
soundtrack produced by Georgio Moroder, featuring (among others) Freddie
Mercury.

# Midnight Express
- Robert DeNiro spent time with bounty hunters as part of his preparation for
this role.

# 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.
- At the beginning of the "Bring out your dead" scene, two nuns with gigantic
mallots can be seen. The original script called for them to be pounding on a
man tied to a cart, but the scene was cut and that glimpse is all that
remains.

# 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
- Jim Henson spent an entire day in a 50 gallon steel drum submerged in a
pond for the opening scene of Kermit in the swamp.

# 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.

# National Lampoon's Animal House
- A character named Babs becomes a tour guide at Universal Studios. The
credits for this film (and other John Landis films) include an advertisement
for a tour at Universal Studios. The ad contains the words "Ask for Babs".

# Nice Dreams
- CAMEO(Paul Reubens):
- CAMEO(Timothy Leary):

# Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A
- CAMEO(Dick Cavett):
- CAMEO(Zsa Zsa Gabor):

# 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
- Freddy Kruger bleeds green.
- Just before Johnny Depp's character is pulled into the bed, the television
station announces its name: "KRGR".
- Freddy Kruger's colors of red and green are contrasted throughout the movie.
- The movie Nancy watches to stay awake is _The Evil Dead_. See also _Evil
Dead II_.

# 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.
- Producer David O. Selznick 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).

# Omen, The
- According to director Richard Donner, a number of parents went home after the
film and shaved their childrens' heads, looking for a "666" birthmark.

# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ken Kesey, who wrote the original novel, said he will never watch the movie
version.
- Many extras were authentic mental patients
- There is a rumour that Jack Nicholson underwent ECT therapy during the
scene were his character does.

# 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.

# Patriot Games
- Alec Baldwin played Jack Ryan in _The Hunt for Red October_, but Harrison
Ford replaced him for this and future Tom Clancy films due to Baldwin's
"unprofessional behaviour" during the making of _The Hunt for Red October_.
- The novel on which it was based (by Tom Clancy) had the Prince and Princess
of Wales as the target of the attempted kidnapping.

# 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 spontaneous.
- 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.
- The poetry that young Pink was caught with during "The Happies Days of Our
Lives" is the second verse from "Money", off Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the
Moon". Far from being "absolute rubbish", this album stayed longer on the
Billboard chart than any other album: more than 700 weeks.
- 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."
Parker refers to this film as "the most expensive student film ever made."
- The lyrics sung by Pink as he huddled in the bathroom stall later
resurfaced in "Moment of Clarity" in Roger Waters' solo album: "The Pros and
Cons of Hitch-Hiking" [if anyone can translate the line before he switches to
"I wanna go home," etc, I'd appreciate it]. Waters originally presented the
band with the concepts for both "The Wall" and "Pros and Cons", and the band
decided to do "The Wall".
- The shot during Pink's destruction of his hotel room of him grabbing the
jagged glass in the window is real. Geldof also cut his hand while ripping
apart the closet doors.
- Real skinheads used in the neo-nazi segment.
- The scene in which Pink is calling his home from the United States and is
very depressed to hear a man's voice was made by actually placing a call to
England through a random, unsuspecting AT&T operator. The conversation
was recorded and played over the filmed sequence.
- During the crowd devotion scenes there was going to be a shot of members
of the audience's heads exploding as they wildly cheered, loving every
minute of it. Alas, Waters decided that it could not be accomplished
without making it comic.
- CAMEO(Roger Waters): Roger Waters is supposedly in the brief shot of Pink's
wedding during "Another Brick in the Wall Pt III"
- Song changes from album:
When the Tygers Broke Free - added
In the Flesh? - extended/re-recorded
The Thin Ice - extended/re-mixed
Another Brick in the Wall 1 - unchanged
The Happiest Days of Our Lives - re-mixed
Another Brick in the Wall 2 - re-mixed
Mother - re-recorded/lyrics changed
Goodbye Blue Sky - re-mixed
Empty Spaces - re-recorded/lyrics changed to
match the original album sleeve.
What Shall We Do Now? - added
Young Lust - unchanged
One of My Turns - unchanged
Don't Leave Me Now - changed
Another Brick in the Wall 3 - re-recorded
Goodbye Cruel World - unchanged
Hey You - not included
Nobody Home - unchanged
Is There Anybody Out There? - unchanged
Vera - unchanged
Bring the Boys Back Home - extended
Comfortably Numb - unchanged
The Show Must Go On - not included
In the Flesh - re-recorded
Run Like Hell - shortened
Waiting for the Worms - shortened
Stop - re-recorded
The Trial - unchanged
Outside the Wall - re-recorded.

# Pinocchio (1940)
- Cut scenes:
- Extended scene of Pleasure Island.
- Geppetto tells Pinocchio about his grandfather, an old pine tree.
- Scenes of the woodlands and the forest fire later used in _Bambi_.

# 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
- Contrary to popular belief, Bela Lugosi did not die during the making of the
film. His brief scenes are actually stock footage left over from one of
director Ed Wood Jr.'s uncompleted projects. After Lugosi's death, Wood
wrote his _Plan 9_ screenplay to incorporate this footage.
- Lugosi's part was taken over by the director's wife's chiropractor, who was
significantly taller than Lugosi, and played the part with a cape covering
his face.
- Wood's original (and preferred) title for his masterpiece was _Grave Robbers
from Outer Space_.
- 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
- The opening long tracking shot included people talking about famous long
tracking shots in old movies.
- The following people appear as themselves: Steve Allen, Richard Anderson,
Rene Auberjonois, Harry Belafonte, Shari Belafonte, Karen Black, Michael
Bowen, Gary Busey, Robert Carradine, Charles Champlin, Cher, James Coburn,
Cathy Lee Crosby, John Cusack, Brad Davis, Paul Dooley, Thereza Ellis, Peter
Falk, Felicia Farr, Kasia Figura, Louise Fletcher, Dennis Franz, Teri Garr,
Leeza Gibbons, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Elliot Gould, Joel Grey, David
Alan Grier, Buck Henry, Anjelica Huston, Kathy Ireland, Steve James, Maxine
John-James, Sally Kellerman, Sally Kirkland, Jack Lemmon, Marlee Matlin,
Andie MacDowell, Malcolm McDowell, Jayne Meadows, Martin Mull, Jennifer Nash,
Nick Nolte, Alexandra Powers, Bert Remsen, Guy Remsen, Patricia Resnick, Burt
Reynolds, Jack Riley, Julia Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Annie Ross, Alan Rudolph,
Jill St. John, Susan Sarandon, Adam Simon, Rod Steiger, Joan Tewkesbury,
Brian Tochi, Lily Tomlin, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Bruce Willis, Marvin
Youn. Scenes with Jeff Daniels playing golf in a surgeon's gown at a
hospital and Patrick Swayze showing off karate moves were filmed but cut.
- The rushes from the movie being filmed were filmed while the actors were
rehearsing the scene.

# Pleasure Garden, The
- Alfred 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 $25,000.

# Poltergeist III
- Heather O'Rourke (who played the little girl in all three movies) died
shortly before this film was released.

# 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
- The movie was originally titled "2000".
- 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.
- CAMEO(Larry Miller): head salesman at a clothing store.

# 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 million.
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).
- 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 closeup of Janet Leigh's dead body and the pullback scene is a still
frame. Hitchcock's wife saw the original version and told her husband "You
can see her breathing", so he changed it.
- 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.
- The skull superimposed over Norman's face at the film's conclusion is that
of "Mother."
- 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".
- 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.

# Purple Rose of Cairo, The
- Michael Keaton was originally cast in the lead role, and footage was shot.
Director Woody Allen decided it wasn't working, and replaced Keaton with
Jeff Daniels.

# Quo Vadis? (1951)
- CAMEO(Elizabeth Taylor): an extra
- CAMEO(Sophia Loren): an extra

# Raging Bull
- Sound effects for punches landing were made by squshing melons and tomatoes.
Sound effects for camera flashes going off were sounds of gunshots. The
original tapes were deliberately destroyed by the sound technicians, to
prevent then being used again.
- The scene by the chain link fence where Robert DeNiro's and Rebecca
DeMonray's characters meet was ad-libbed.
- DeNiro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib in a sparring scene. This shot
appears in the film: DeNiro hits Pesci in the side, Pesci groans, and there
is a quick cut to another angle.
- DeNiro gained over 50 pounds to play the older LaMotta. It took many years
before he got back down to his original weight.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): asking Jack to go on stage.

# Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Tom Selleck originally cast as Indiana Jones.
- 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.
- Jock's airplane at the beginning has the registration number "OB-3PO",
refering to Obi-wan and C-3PO from _Star Wars_.
- 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.
- The hieroglyphics in the map room include engravings of R2-D2 and C-3PO (from
_Star Wars_, etc), however they do not appear on film.

# Rain Man
- The scene where Raymond explains that every major airline except Qantas
has had a crash is cut from the version shown on every major airline except
Qantas.
- 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/Leila 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.
- Jabba's sail barge was filmed in Yuma, Arizona. The film crew had problems
avoiding the 35,000 dune buggy enthusiasts in the area. To preserve secrecy,
the producers claimed to be making a horror film called "Blue Harvest (Horror
beyond your imagination)", and even had caps and t-shirts made up for the
crew. A chain-link fence and a 24-hour security service could not prevent
die-hard fans from entering the set and sneaking some photographs.
- Experiments with a computer to generate a random but logical language for
some creatures produced a dialect of Greek.
- Carrie Fisher's birthmark (near the small of her back) is visible in the
desert scene where she turns her back to the camera to swing around a
mounted laser gun.
- 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.
- Dennis (two "n"s) Lawson, who played Wedge Antilles in _Star Wars_ and
_The Empire Strikes Back_ was unavailable for this movie. A new actor was
hired in England, given the name Denis (one "n") Lawson, filmed on a secred
sound stage (all his lines are from within a fighter cockpit).
- Among the aliens in Jabba the Hutt's entourage are ones named "Klaatu,"
"Barada" and "Nikto," after the command given to the robot Gort in _The Day
the Earth Stood Still_. The aliens are not referred to by name in the film,
nor do they have any lines.
- The name "Ewok" is never used to refer to the teddy-bear creatures in the
film, though it does appear in the credits.
- The Endor shots were filmed near Crescent City, California. Forest work was
especially hard on the Ewok actors. Production Assistant Ian Bryce arrived
on the set one day to find a note from the Ewok actors saying that they had
all had enough and they were on their way to the airport. Bryce tried to
drive to the airport, but got a flat tire not far from the set. He found
another car and was about to leave when the Ewok's bus pulled up, and all
the Ewok actos got off wearing "Revenge of the Ewok" t-shirts.
- One of the songs that the Ewoks sing sounds like: "Det luktar flingor har",
which is Swedish for "It smeels of cereal here."
- 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".
- Portions of the partially completed Death Star model resemble the San
Francisco skyline.

# Right Stuff, The
- CAMEO(Chuck Yeager): the bartender.

# Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- CAMEO(Sean Connery): King Richard. Connery got $250,000 for two days
work. He donated it to charity.

# Robocop
- The point-of-view shots from Robocop include references to MS-DOS

# Robocop 2
- The point-of-view shots from Robocop include references to MS-DOS, while the
point-of-view shots from Robocop 2 feature a Apple MacIntosh-style interface,
with a skull instead of the Apple logo.

# 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.
- The film lasts 80 minutes, and covers a time frame of 80 minutes.
- 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)
- Game show host Damon Killian is played by Richard Dawson, long-time host of
the American game show "Family Feud".
- 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.

# Saturday Night Fever
- Originally rated R, edited re-released as PG.

# 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

# Scent of a Woman (1992)
- Al Pacino was helped by a school for the blind in his preparation for this
role.
- The judge presiding over the hearing tells Pacino's character "You are out of
order!", a famous line told to another of Pacino's characters in _...And
Justice for All_.

# 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?".
- The [?] hotel in Colorado was used for the exteriors, but all the interiors
were specially built.
- The book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence ("All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy") repeated over and over. Kubrick had each page
individually typed.
- Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive was unworkable, so
he opted for a hedge maze instead.
- 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_, which also starred Joe Turkel.

# Shock to the System, A
- Graham (Michael Caine) said his father was a London bus driver. Michael
Caine's real father was a London bus driver.

# Sign of the Cross, The
- Third film in Cecil B DeMille's biblical trilogy, following _The Ten
Commandments_ and _The King of Kings_.
- Originally released as a 124 minute feature. After the Hays Code was
instituted, some of the more "sinful" scenes were cut for the film's
re-release in 1944.

# Silence of the Lambs, The
- This film is a sequel to _Manhunter_. Although there are several characters
common to both films, there are only two actors who appear in both movies.
Ironically, both actors play different characters in both movies. Frankie
Faison plays Lt Fisk in _Manhunter_, and Barney in _The Silence of the
Lambs_, and Dan Butler plays an FBI fingerprint expert in _Manhunter_, and an
entymologist in _The Silence of the Lambs_.
- Two of the "neighbors" from the U.S. public television children's series
_Mister Rogers' Neighborhood_ appear in the film. Don Brockett (aka "Chef
Brockett") is the "friendly psychopath" in the opening ward sequence.
Charles Aber (aka "Neighbor Aber") is an FBI medical examiner performing an
autopsy on one of the victims.

# 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

# Snow White and the Seven Dwarfes
- Cut scenes:
- The queen holds the prince in the dungeon and uses her magic to make
skeletons dance for his amusement.
- Fantasy sequence accompanying "Some Day My Prince Will Come" in which
Snow White imagines herself dancing with her prince in the clouds beneath a
sea of stars
- Dwarves building Snow White a bed with help from woodland creatures.
- The song "Music in Your Soup" where the dwarves sing about the soup that
Snow White had just made them.

# Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Marilyn Monroe required more than 30 takes to get "Where is the bourbon?"
correct.

# Spaceballs
- The "chestbuster" scene in the interstellar diner features John Hurt, who
suffered the same fate in _Alien_. In an obscure joke, the creature emulates
the singing frog in the classic Warner Brothers cartoon _One Froggy
Evening_.
- One of the ships parked at the diner is the the Millenium Falcon from _Star
Wars_.

# Spartacus
- Of the 167 days it took Stanley Kubrick to shoot Spartacus, six weeks
were spent directing an elaborate battle sequence in which 8,500 extras
dramatised the clash between the Roman troops and Spartacus's slave army.
Several scenes in the battle drew the ire of the Legion of Decency and
were therefore cut. These include shots of men being dismembered (Drawfs
with false torsos and an armless man with a phony "break-away" limb were
used to give authenticity.) Seven years later, when the Oscar winning film
was reissued, an additional 22 minutes were chopped out, including a scene
in which Varinia (Jean Simmons) watches Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) writhe in
agony on a cross. Her line "Oh, please die, my darling" was excised, and
the scene was cut to make it appear that Spartacus was already dead.

# 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 for 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.
[Many famous directors appear in this movie.... credited?]

# 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]):

# Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- As filmed, Splendor in the Grass included a sequence in which Wilma Dean
Loomis (Natalie Wood) takes a bath while arguing with her mother (Audrey
Christie). The bickering finally becomes so intense that Wilma jumps out
of the tub and runs nude down a hallway to her bedroom, where the cammera
cuts to a close-up of her bare legs kicking hysterically on the mattress.
Both the Hollywood censors and the Catholic Legion Of Decency objected to
the hallway scene, finding Miss Wood's bare backside unsuitable for public
display. Consequently, director Elia Kazan dropped the piece, leaving an
abrupt jump from tub to bed.

# Stage Fright (1950)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
Marlene Dietrich's maid.

# Stagecoach (1939)
- Director John Ford deliberately only allowed one take, so that actors would
remain nervous.
- Ford refused to place the camera on a movable dolly, insisting that all shots
were pans from a stationary camera.
- The first "camera in a hole with a train going over" shot.

# Stakeout
- Richard Dreyfus starred in _Jaws_, but his character doesn't recognise the
quote from it during the trivia contest.

# Stand by Me
- The names of all the towns in the movie (set in Oregon) are real places in
both Oregon (where author Stephen King grew up) and Maine (where he lives).
- CAMEO(Richard Dreyfuss): in a framing device [?]

# 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.
- CAMEO(Bob Sarlatte): waiter in the restuarant.

# 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 Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- William Shatner was distressed when he saw how wide his butt was in
the scene where he walks across the bridge (away from the camera).
He had them airbrush the entire scene to make his butt look narrower.

# 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.
- The episode number and subtitle "A New Hope" did not originally appear in
the film's opening crawl. These were added in a later re-release to be
consistent with those seen in _The Empire Strikes Back_.
- 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.
- The Tatooine scenes were filmed in Tunisia. There is a town in Tunisia
called "Tatahouine".
- A small pair of metal dice can be seen hanging in the cockpit of the
Millenium Falcon as Chewbacca makes preparations to depart from Mos Eisley.
They don't appear in subsequent scenes.
- 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".
- Scenes featuring Luke and his Tatooine friend "Biggs" were cut from the
film. Biggs was a young pilot who left the Imperial Academy to join the
Rebellion. Luke mentions him to his "aunt" and "uncle" during the breakfast
scene, and the character later shows up as a Rebel pilot who accompanies Luke
down the final run on the Death Star trench (and is killed by Darth Vader).
- Cardboard cutouts are used for some of the background starfighters in the
Rebel hanger bay. A matte painting by Ralph McQuarrie is also used to enlarge the long shots of the bay, and another fills out the ranks of the Rebels
seen in the closing processional sequence.
- Luke's other wingman on the trench run is named Wedge Antilles, and is
played by Dennis (two 'n's) Lawson. See also _The Empire Strikes Back_ and
_Return of the Jedi_
- 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.

# Sunset Boulevard
- Billy Wilder's film classic about an aging Hollywood film queen and a
down-on-his-luck screenwriter originally incorporated a framing sequence
which opened and closed the story at the Los Angeles County Morgue. In a
scene described by Wilder as one of the best he'd ever shot, the body of
Joe Gillis (William Holden) is rolled into the Morgue to join three dozen
other corpses, some of whom - in voice-over - tell Gillis how they died.
Eventually Gillis tells his story, which takes us to a flashback of his
affair with Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). The movie was previewed with
this opening, in Illinois and Long Island. Because both audiences
inappropriately found the morgue scene hilarious, the film's release was
delayed six months so that a new beginning could be shot in which police
find Gillis's corpse floating in Norma's pool while Gillis's voice
narrates the events leading to his death.

# Superman
- Marlon Brando received $4 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.
- CAMEO (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.
- CAMEO(Rex Reed): himself
- CAMEO(Larry Hagman):

# 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.

# Tarzan and His Mate
- Considered by many to be the best of the Tarzan films, Tarzan and His
Mate included a scene in which Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), standing on a
tree limb with Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), pulls at Jane's scanty outfit
and persuades her to dive into a lake with him. The two swim for a while
and eventually surface. When Jane rises out of the water, one of her
breasts is fully exposed. Because various groups, including official
censors of the Hays Office, criticised the scene for being too erotic, it
was cut by MGM

# Taxi Driver
- The scene where Travis Bickle is talking to himself in the mirror was
completely ad-libbed by Robert DeNiro.
- DeNiro worked as a taxi driver as part of his preparation for this role.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): sitting down, behind Betty as she walks into
the Palantine campaign headquarters in slow-motion.
- 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
- Sarah Connor was to have a dream where Reese appears and tells her that she
has to save him. He disappears, replaced with a T-800 who walks with her to
the door that leads to a playground where kids are killed by the nuclear
holocaust. This was cut because it's similar to her dream sequence at the
ranch. Scene with Reese was used in the previews.
- Scenes in the screenplay but not filmed:
-Extended Future War sequence where the resistance won and enter
a SkyNet lab where they find the time-portal and a storage
facilities of Arnolds. You also see Reese talking to John.
-Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive thearpy
and voltage is pumped into her.
-Missile dream sequence. Takes place before the dream at the
ranch. First she dreams of kids playing, then the ground
shakes, a lid raises from the ground, and missiles launch
while the bodies of kids explodes into bones and tissues
from the rocket engines.
-Salceda's death sequence. Sal's dog starts barking, Sal goes
out tries to shoot the T-1000 and fails. T-1000 uses the
pointed finger/sword trick to Sal's shoulder blades saying
"I know this hurts. Where is John Connor". Sal curses him
and his hands searchs around the ground near some crates
that held gernades. He kills himself and hopefully the T-1000
with one. No luck. T-1000 head falls off but like the little
piece in the asylum escape sequence, it oozes back into his
boots. Yolanda sees this and hugs the baby as T-1000 steps
closer. T-1000 picks up the baby and gets the info from
her as where John and others had gone.
-Gant Ranch. This section was a longer version of Sal's and
refers to Travis Gant, "crazy ex-Green Beret" that John
mentions his mother seeing before she was caught. Longer
and has romantic notions between the two. After Sarah, John
& the T-800 left, T-1000 kills Gant as he did like with John's
"Mom". Disguised as Gant's lover, he easily stepped up to him
and tortured him for answers before killing him.
-Dyson's Vision Sequence. Dyson, the creator of the new processor
had a dream sequence before he died and dropped the book on the
trigger. In it he saw a picture of his family before a nuclear
explosion turned it to ash. He sees his family running and then
a scene of the sun as it pulls back to reveal Dyson's dying eye
before he closes it and drops the book.
- The T800's "point-of-view" scenes at the biker's bar identify a Harley
Davidson "Fatboy", and a carcinogen in the cigar smoke.
- The T800 carries a gun in a box of roses. Some of the soundtrack was written
by "Guns 'n Roses".
- 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 right 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 right-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.
- The T1000 tells the helicopter pilot to "Get out!". This is an interesting
parallel to _The Terminator_, in which the T800 gives the same command to
a truck driver under similar circumstances.
- The T1000 has at least three hands when it is flying the helicopter.
- 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_. This was not in the script, but ad-libbed.
- Schwarzeneggar said during the making of this film that he would never play
another evil character again.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzeneggar): "I'll be back!"
- A "T800" is a parallel CPU usually found running OCCAM.

# Terminator, The
- Michael Biehn originally cast as the terminator, with Arnold Schwarzeneggar
as the hero. Schwarzeneggar read the script, and asked to play the
terminator instead.
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple ][+ assembly code, taken
from _Nibble_, a computing magazine. Other code visible is written in COBOL.
- Arnold Schwarzeneggar has only 14 lines in the entire movie.
- 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.

# Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
- The actress who was chased by Leatherface through the undergrown actually
cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the blood on her body
and clothes is real.
- The actress whose character was hung up on a meathook was actually held up
by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.

# This Is Spinal Tap
- Director Rob Reiner plays rockumentary maker Marti DiBergi.

# Three Men and a Trunk
- DIRCAMEO(Roman Polanski): the young brute that beats up someone.

# Throw Momma from the Train
- Loosely based on _Strangers on a Train_, a film mentioned by Owen.
- 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.

# Tommy
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): snake imagery- crawling out of the skeleton's pelvis.

# Tootsie
- CAMEO(Bill Murray):
- 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 $4 million to make, but
taking less than $1 million.
- 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.

# Tron
- The map of the "computer world" has a stationary, munching "pac-man" on the
left hand side.

# 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
- DIRCAMEO(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.

# Unforgiven (1992)
- The script floated around Hollywood for nearly 20 years, during which time
Gene Hackman read and rejected it, only to be later convinced by Clint
Eastwood to play a role.

# 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
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....."

# Wall Street
- DIRCAMEO(Oliver Stone): in a telephone booth during the montage of deals
being made.

# War of the Roses, The
- Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) cuts the heels off his wife's (Kathleen Turner)
shoes. In _Romancing the Stone_, Jack Coulton (Douglas) cut the heels off
Joan Wilder's (Turner) shoes.

# WarGames
- Kevin Costner turned down the lead role for a part in _The Big Chill_ which
was eventually cut.
- The "TRS-80 Model I" used to break into NORAD was programmed to make the
correct words appear on the screen, no matter which keys were pressed.
- When David comes home the day after the NORAD computer break-in, the
newscaster on the television is talking about a condom recycling center.
- The exteriors 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: Judgment Day_.
- The "Stairway to Heaven" guitar riff was changed for the international,
cable, and videotape releases to a generic lick because of disputes in
obtaining rights to the five notes played in the debut release.

# 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
- Some versions have an extra scene: Eddie Valiant had gone into Toontown,
ambushed by the weseals and had a pig's head "tooned" onto his. He went home
and took a shower during which Jessica walks into his apartment.
- A scene where Jessica pulls or pulls off her stocking as she was sitting
cross-legged was cut.
- Bob Hoskins watched his young daughter to learn how to act with imaginary
characters. He later had problems with hallucinations.
- Some scenes of Eddie Valliant in the taxi are actually drawings of Eddie
Valliant instead of the actor Bob Hoskins.

# Wild Orchid
- Mickey Rourke and Carrie Otis were a "couple" at the time this film was made,
and there is a persistent rumour that the sex scenes were not faked.

# Wizard of Oz, The
- The title role was written with W C Fields in mind. Producer LeRoy wanted
Ed Wynn, who turned it down. Composer Harburg and studio executive Freed
wanted Fields, and offered him $75,000. Fields supposedly wanted $100,000.
According to a letter from Fields' agent (and supposedly written by Fields)
Fields turned down to role to devote his time to writing the script for "You
Can't Cheat an Honest Man"
- Terry (Toto) was stepped on by one of the witch's guards, and had a double
for two weeks. A second double was obtained, becuase it resembled Toto more
closely.
- The Cowardly Lion's facial makeup included a brown paper bag. Actor Lahr
couldn't eat without ruining his makeup. Tired of eating soup and
milkshakes, he decided to eat lunch and have his makeup redone.
- Buddy Ebsen was the original choice for the Scarecrow. Ray Bolger was
originally brought in as the Tin Woodsman. Bolger wanted to play the
Scarecrow (his childhood idle was Fred Stone who had played the original
Scarecrow in the 1902 Baum play "The Wizard of Oz". Bolger had seen him
in "Jack O Lantern" in 1919 or 1920.) He was insistant and was eventually
given the Scarecrow role. Ebsen was given the Tin man. Ebsen got sick from
the makeup, but that was not the sole cause: his symptoms were not consistent
with aluminum powder poisoning, but were an alergic reaction to either
the aluminum or the other chemicals in the makeup. (he probably would have
gotten sick anyway, but this speeded the process). The makeup method was
changed when Jack Haley took over (the aluminum was originaly put on as a
powder, they switched to mixing the aluminum in a paste), so Haley did not
inhale the aluminum as much. Haley did not find out what had happened to
Ebsen until after the movie. He assumed that Ebsen had been fired.
- "Over the Rainbow" was nearly cut.
- The Wizard of Oz originally contained an elaborate production number
called "The Jitter Bug", which cost $80,000 and took five weeks to shoot.
In the scene, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly lion, and the Tin
Woodsman are on their way to the Witch's castle when they are attacked by
"jitter bugs" - furry pink and blue mosquitolike "rascals" that give one
"the jitters" as they buzz about in the air. When, after its first
preview, the movie was judged too long, MGM officials decided to sacrifice
the "Jitter Bug" scene. They reasoned that it added little to the plot
and, because a dance by the same name had just become popular, they feared
it might date the picture. The Witch still refers to the bug in the final
film, just before telling the Monkeys to "Fly!" Only home movies of the
filming of "The Jitterbug" survive, though the song is on current versions
of both the soundtrack CD and the recent anniversary edition videotape. The
sequence was also incorporated into a recent stage version of the musical.
- When filming first started, Judy Garland wore a blond wig and heavy,
"baby-doll" makeup; when George Cukor assumed the role of intermediate
director (after the producer took the original director off the picture, and
before they found a replacement), he got rid of the wig and most of the
makeup and told her to just be herself.
- The "tornado" was a thirty-five foot long muslin stocking, photographed with
miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields.
- The Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) was off the film for more
than a month after being severaly burned during her disappearance from
Munchkinland. Her stand-in was also injured when a broom exploded during a
stunt shot.
- Frank Morgan's Professor Marvel coat was taken from a rack of second-hand
clothing purchased by the studio wardrobe department; he was astounded when,
just by chance, he turned out the coat's pocket and found the name L. Frank
Baum (the Oz books' author) sewn into the lining. Baum's widow and the
tailor who made the coat confirmed that the coat had, indeed, been his.
- 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.
- Rumors of the Munchkin actors' wild drunken orgies and other escapades are
greatly exagerated.
- There is a rumour that a man committed suicide on the set, and that his body
can be seen hanging from a tree in the background.

# 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. See also: _Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade_.

# 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.

# 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.

# Young Sherlock Holmes
- The "stained glass knight" was the first computer animation to appear in any
theatrical movie.

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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

# Aliens
- The laserdisc version includes the sound of a face-hugger scurrying from
left to right as the final credits fade.

# 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. This line does not appear in the movie, and some
versions of the film don't include these outtakes.

# Better Off Dead
- David Ogden Stiers fixing the garage door
- 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

# 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).

# 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.

# 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
- 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.

# Great Muppet Caper, The
- Gonzo takes a picture of the whole audience

# 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!"

# Highway 61
- Assistant Sound Editor ... Velcrow Ripper
ADR Recordist ... Velcrow Ripper

# Hot Shots Part Deux
- Interesting Fact: Actor Richard Crena invented tartar sauce.
- Interesting Fact: Darryl Strawberry spends his winters thinking up
new excuses.
- Secret of The Crying Game...............She's a Man
- A voice at the end of the credits says "Hot Shots Part Deux was filmed
in Hollywood before a live studio audience."

# 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?"

# 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.

# Masters of the Universe
- Skeltor says "I'll be back!".

# 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

# 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
- 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
- Worst Boy: Adolf Hitler
- In Case of Tornado: South-west corner of cellar
- 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

# Rain Man
- Throughout the movie, Raymond is taking pictures. The pictures that he takes
are shown as the background for the credits.

are shown as the background

# Raising Arizona
- Baby Wrangler

# Repo Man
- Credits scroll down instead of up

# Roadkill
- Hardly any animals were killed during the filming of this movie

# 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!"

# Scanners
- Assistant to Mr Heroux ... Kim Obrist
Kim Obrist is the name of the lead female character.

# 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.

# Sister Act
- Newspaper and magazine clipping of the nun choir.

# 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
- Brooke Adams holding a container of Stuff as in a commercial: "Enough is
never enough."

# Summer Job
- Court Jester ........... Kim Kennedy

# THX-1138
- Credits roll up instead of down, and are at the beginning of the movie.

# Top Secret
- Focus Puller Tony Strachan
Clapper Loader John Fletcher
Focus Loader Jack Williams
Clapper Puller Tom Brown
Puller Clapper Joe Taylor
Clapper Clapper Edward Davis
Flipper Flapper Jane Thomas
- Hey Diddle Diddle The Cat And The Fiddle
- Foreez A Jolly Good Fellow
- This Space For Rent [ this is in the middle of an otherwise blank screen ]

# 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

Please send trivia to:

muz...@cs.uq.oz.au

It will be much easier for me if you mail me entries in the following format:

# Movie Name, The
- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
- blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:

I can't remember the movie, but perhaps someone else you know can.
There is a scene in a science fiction movie where the star is wandering
around in some type of store or flea-market setting. In the background,
for only a few seconds, you can see someone sit down on the original
model of the time machine. When the camera pans back to the same
background, the time machine is gone.

THANKS TO:
Col Needham (c...@otter.hpl.hp.com)
Kevin Arvin (ar...@cup.portal.com)
Phineas (ph...@west.darkside.com)

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-- Brisbane, Australia Oevfonar, Nhfgenyvn --

[Lawrence C Smith]

In article <movies/trivia-faq...@GZA.COM>, muz...@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) writes:

># Ben-Hur (1959)
I've not yet caught it myself, but I've heard it rumoured that in one
particularly ferocious scene during the climactic chariot race, you can
see part of someone's Corvette parked near the track.

># 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_).
>- The main character (can't remember his name) crosses the street and
> calls hello to the town's doctor -- Doctor Moreau, from the H.G. Wells
> story of the same name.
>- Robbie the Robot is in a couple scenes. In one, he's talking on a
> phone in a phone booth wearing a hat. His lines are his end of the
> conversation with the cook of the C57-D in "Forbidden Planet" where
> Cookie is trying to get him to produce booze.

You missed a lot of in-jokes in this one. In the same scene where Robbie
is doing his lines, the original Time Machine from the George Pal movie of
the same name is visible over the inventor's shoulder. The Time Machine's
great clock is a-whirling away and the machine in bouncing a little. Then
there is a cut to the inventors wife talking on the phone, and when the
camera cuts back, the Time Machine is gone, there is a thin smoke in the
area, and several people are peering around with bewildered looks on their
faces. I nearly died, and _no_one_else_ in the whole theatre noticed it!

There is a clear reference to Margret Hamilton and the witch of the East from
The Wizard of Oz when the nasty old lady confronts the hero in the bank ("and
your _dog_, too!").

How about this one for Jurassic Park: the park software is written in
Pascal, a program is clearly visible in one of the monitor closeups on
the Unix system.

># Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
>- CAMEO(Bill Murray):

A reprise of the Jack Nicholson role in the original movie.

>- CAMEO(John Belushi):

Not John, JIM, his brother.

>- CAMEO(John Candy):

Candy did _all_ the voices on the radio, and switched at least once
while Seymore was in the studio.

># Live and Let Die
>- The power-boat jump over the causeway broke the world record for distance.

I've also heard the collision with the cop car of the next boat was
unintentional, but the script was modified to adapt it.

># 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.
>- At the beginning of the "Bring out your dead" scene, two nuns with gigantic
> mallots can be seen. The original script called for them to be pounding on a
> man tied to a cart, but the scene was cut and that glimpse is all that
> remains.

Some mention might also be made of the cat abuse going on in many scenes.
During the "bring out your dead" sequence, and occasional "meOW, meOW" can
be heard, and a glimpse seen of a man pounding a cat against the castle wall.
There are many others.

># Return of the Jedi

>- 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.

But the foreshadowing as they were preparing to leave the rebel fleet in
the stolen shuttle ("...like I might never see her again...") was left in.

>UNANSWERED QUESTIONS:

>I can't remember the movie, but perhaps someone else you know can.
>There is a scene in a science fiction movie where the star is wandering
>around in some type of store or flea-market setting. In the background,
>for only a few seconds, you can see someone sit down on the original
>model of the time machine. When the camera pans back to the same
>background, the time machine is gone.

Heh! Well, now you know.

Larry Smith (sm...@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron. Need you ask?
-
Liberty is not the freedom to do whatever we want,
it is the freedom to do whatever we are able.

[Peter B. Juul]

In <1vlc4u...@ctron-news.ctron.com> sm...@ctron.com (Lawrence C Smith) writes:

>There is a clear reference to Margret Hamilton and the witch of the East from
>The Wizard of Oz when the nasty old lady confronts the hero in the bank ("and
>your _dog_, too!").

Has anyone ever made statistics for HOW many movies has referenced to
Wizard of Oz. My favourite among these are still Good Morning Vietnam,
but then again that one is rather obvious.

>How about this one for Jurassic Park: the park software is written in
>Pascal, a program is clearly visible in one of the monitor closeups on
>the Unix system.

Next time you watch 'The Terminator', be aware that the readouts
flashing over Arnies internal screens are obviously 80x86 assembler coding.

Peter

[Marko Niinim{ki]

cor...@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter B. Juul) writes:
:
: Next time you watch 'The Terminator', be aware that the readouts

: flashing over Arnies internal screens are obviously 80x86 assembler coding.

:
As I recall, this has been discussed in alt.folklore.computers and
people there suggested that the readouts come from an Apple
computer. This was probably mentioned in the LIST as well, but I
don't seem to have access to it anymore.

Marko
--
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C=fi ADMD=Fumail PRDM=inet O=uta S=csmani * Life is serious, computers are fun.
Addr: Somewhere in Manchester.

[Guillaume Laurent]

In article <1993Jun17....@uts.uni-c.dk>, cor...@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter B.
Juul) writes:

|> Next time you watch 'The Terminator', be aware that the readouts
|> flashing over Arnies internal screens are obviously 80x86 assembler coding.

I'm pretty sure those were Apple II (6502) screens.

Guillaume.

[Murray Chapman]

csmani@vuokko (Marko Niinim{ki) writes:

>cor...@uts.uni-c.dk (Peter B. Juul) writes:
>:
>: Next time you watch 'The Terminator', be aware that the readouts
>: flashing over Arnies internal screens are obviously 80x86 assembler coding.
>:
>As I recall, this has been discussed in alt.folklore.computers and
>people there suggested that the readouts come from an Apple
>computer. This was probably mentioned in the LIST as well, but I
>don't seem to have access to it anymore.

# 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.

>Marko

Murray

--

[Anthony Horan]

In article <1vlc4u...@ctron-news.ctron.com>, Lawrence C Smith writes:

> ># Gremlins

> the same name is visible over the inventor's shoulder. The Time Machine's
> great clock is a-whirling away and the machine in bouncing a little. Then
> there is a cut to the inventors wife talking on the phone, and when the
> camera cuts back, the Time Machine is gone, there is a thin smoke in the
> area, and several people are peering around with bewildered looks on their
> faces. I nearly died, and _no_one_else_ in the whole theatre noticed it!

I noticed, but I probably wasn't in the same theatre you were in! :-) That
is one of my favorite funny cinematic moments of all time, classic Joe
Dante...

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"Something about this place makes me lose a grip on time and space..."
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