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                                MOVIE TRIVIA

                          Frequently Asked Questions

                       Copyright (C) 1993 Murray Chapman

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Compiled by Murray Chapman ([e-mail]), from sources too numerous too
mention.  Thank-you one and all.

                               INTRODUCTION
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This is a list of interesting trivia, ``did you notice''-type things for
movies.

The list will be posted monthly to: alt.cult-movies, rec.arts.movies, rec.arts
sf.movies, rec.answers, news.answers.

This, and MANY other FAQs are available for anonymous FTP wherever news.answers
is archived, for example:

        rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/movies/trivia-faq

Sites in Europe include:
        nic.switch.ch
        cnam.cnam.fr
        ftp.win.tue.nl


The followup field is set to rec.arts.movies.

Additions and suggestions welcome: if you can confirm any rumors, or dispute
any ``facts'', then please do so!  Just read the notes at end before you submit
anything.  Thanks!

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This list is now compatible with the other r.a.movies lists and is supported
by Col Needham's movie database package. All the lists are available via
anonymous ftp from cathouse.org in the directory pub/cathouse/movies/database

The latest version of the database package is in pub/cathouse/movies/tools.

The following table gives further details of the other lists:

 List            | Last Post | Maintained by                        | Next Post
 ----------------|-----------|--------------------------------------|----------
 Composers       | 08/03/93  | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>  | October
 Plot Summaries  | 09/03/93  | Colin Tinto <[e-mail]>    | November
 Actresses       | 09/14/93  | Andy Krieg <[e-mail]>     | UNKNOWN
 Directors       | 09/15/93  | Col Needham <[e-mail]>     | November
 Dead            | 09/28/93  | Col Needham <[e-mail]>     | November
 Character Names | 10/07/93  | Steve Hammond <[e-mail]>| FTP only
 Trivia          | 10/11/93  | Murray Chapman <[e-mail]>  | November
 Biographies     | 10/15/93  | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>  | November
 Crazy Credits   | 10/15/93  | Mark Harding <[e-mail]>  | November
 Cinematographers| 10/25/93  | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>  | December
 Movies          | 10/25/93  | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>  | FTP only
 Alt. Titles     | 10/25/93  | Michel Hafner <[e-mail]>  | FTP only
 Actors          | 10/28/93  | Col Needham <[e-mail]>     | December
 Writers         | 11/02/93  | Jon Reeves <[e-mail]>      | January
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Searching the lists
-------------------
The lists can now be searched via a mail-server interface. For details
send a message with a subject HELP to <[e-mail]>.

Alternatively, the movie database package uses the information contained on
the lists to create and search a massive movie database. The latest version
includes a new program which takes all the trouble out of installing and
maintaining the database. It also supports the new biographies and crazy
credits lists.

The package is available via anonymous FTP as follows:

  cathouse.org  in  /pub/cathouse/movies/database/tools/movie2.7.tar.Z

  ftp.uu.net    in  /usenet/rec.arts.movies/database/tools/movie2.7.tar.Z

  ftp.funet.fi  in  /pub/culture/tv+film/lists/tools/movie2.7.tar.gz

see the README file in the same directories for information on how to
get started.


Finally, if you have access to a WWW browser such as 'xmosaic', the database
is available via the document:

  http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk:80/Movies/moviequery.html

This interface can also be accessed by an experimental text based browser:
telnet into info.cern.ch, and the movie database is under Subject/Movies


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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 [with tag]
                   - ACTTRADE: Actor's trademark
                   - CAMEO: cameo role
                   - SMITHEE: see below
                   - BOOTH: see below

The ``Crazy Credits'' section has been removed.  It is now being looked after
by Mark Harding ([e-mail]).


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 signifcant enough
to be included in the trivia section.

A NOTE ABOUT ``SMITHEE''.
The DGA contracts that directors operate under require that a name be given for
the director of a film.  If the actual director of the film wishes to disown
the film, he or she typically uses the name ``Alan Smithee'' (An anagram for
``The alias men'').

A NOTE ABOUT ``BOOTH''
Writers who refuse to have their name appear in the credits typically use the
the standard pseudonym ``Judas Booth'' (derived from ``Judas'' and ``John
Wilkes Booth'').


A NOTE ABOUT ``GOOFS''
There is a separate list for technical and plot errors in movies.  It is kept
by Michael Gaines ([e-mail]).  Please send goofs to him.


                        THIS FILE CONTAINS SPOILERS

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DIRECTOR'S TRADEMARKS


# Abrahms, Jim
- See _David Zucker_.


# Allen, Woody
- 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.


# Argento, Dario
- all the killers' hands shown in murder scenes in his films are his own.
- all narration in his films is his own voice.


# Branagh, Kenneth
- frequently casts his wife Emma Thompson.
- frequently gives small roles to Patrick Doyle, his composer. [doyle]


# Brooks, Mel
- frequently casts himself, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Rudy Deluca, and
  Madeline Kahn.


# Burton, Tim
- his films often have a Gothic feel to them.
- frequently [always?] uses composer Danny Elfman.


# Carpenter, John
- often casts Kurt Russell.
- often casts his wife, Adrianne Barbeau.
- Likes to name characters after real life people: directors, etc [names]


# Cameron, James
- strong female characters.
- frequently casts Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Jeanette
  Goldstein.
- his films frequently feature scenes filmed in deep blues.
- likes to make nice/effective cuts [nice cut]
- likes to show close-up shots of feet or wheels, often trampling things [feet]


# Cronenberg, David
- films often include explicit carnage.
- frequent references to ``the flesh'' [flesh]


# Crowe, Cameron
- Promised to give eric Stoltz a part in every one of his movies.


# Dante, Joe
- 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.


# Demme, Jonathan
- frequently casts Charles Napier.
- frequently casts Chris Isaak.
- frequently casts Buzz Killman in a cameo role.
- frequently uses Tak Fujimoto as his director of photography.


# DePalma, Brian
- many Hitchcock homages, using similar locations and camera techniques.
- frequently casts wife Nancy Allen.


# Eastwood, Clint
- frequently casts one-time partner Sondre Locke.


# Harlin, Renny
- includes references to Finland, his country of birth [finland]


# Hitchcock, Alfred
- has a cameo in most of his films.


# Howard, Ron
- frequently casts brother Clint in small roles.


# Huston, John
- frequently gives his father (Walter Huston) a small role [father]


# Kubrick, Stanley
- his films have a common theme of dehumanization.
- symmetric image composition and long ``zooming out'' and/or ``zooming in''
  sequences [zoom].
- constructs three-way conflicts [three-way]


# Landis, John
- the phrase ``See You Next Wednesday''.  Supposedly, the phrase is the title
  of a film that Landis had an idea for at the age of 15.  He describes the
  film as the kind of movie that a 15 year old adolescent boy would have made.
  He sometimes uses ideas from this movie, and when he does he puts the phrase
  in as a ``homage''.  It is not in all of his movies [SYNW].
- 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''. [ipanema]


# Lee, Spike
- 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.


# Lynch, David
- frequently casts: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Jack Nance, Everett McGill.
- Finds small-town USA fascinating.
- has a taste for low/middle frequency noise, dark and rotting environments,
  distorted characters, a polarized world (angels vs demons, Madonnas vs
  whores), and debilitating damage to the skull or brain.
- frequently casts Isabella Rosselini.


# Milius, John
- frequently casts Gerry Lopez.


# Miller, George
- subliminals, often of eyeballs bulging.


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


# Raimi, Sam
- Raimi is a huge fan of The Three Stooges.  He made many super-8 films that
  blatantly ripped-off classic Stooge shorts.  He uses Stooge-like sequences
  in many of his movies. [3-stooges]
- Often credits a character called a ``Shemp'', a homage to the Three Stooges.
  Most frequently it is a ``Fake Shemp'', a reference to the Three Stooges
  shorts where a stunt man was used in place of Shemp Howard. [shemp]


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


# Reiner, Rob
- 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, Reiner's _Stand By Me_ was
   based on ``The Body'' by King, and featured a place called ``Castle Rock'').


# Russell, Ken
- frequent snake imagery [snake].


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


# Spielberg, Steven
- frequently uses music by John Williams [music]


# Yaglom, Henry
- usually makes films about himself, sometimes about himself making films.


# Zemeckis, Robert
- generally finds a role for Wendie Jo Sperber and/or Marc McClure.
- likes to cite/imitate famous movies/commercial spots [citation].


# Zucker, David
- films usually feature puns, slapstick, and visual gags.
- frequently cast Leslie Nielsen and Lloyd Bridges.
- David and Jerry's mother is frequently cast in a small role.


# Zucker, Jerry
- see _David Zucker_





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FILM TRIVIA

# 'Crocodile' Dundee
- The wild and ferocious buffalo that Mick Dundee pacified was drugged.
- The ``quotes'' around ``Crocodile'' in the title were added for the American
  release to ensure people didn't think that Dundee was a crocodile.


# 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- Columbus is an Italian, living in Spain, played by a French actor speaking
  English.


# 1900
- Original uncut version is 5.5 hours long, and features pornographic sequences
  with Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, and Stefania Casini.  It also featured
  prepubescent boys examining each other's erections which would probably
  qualify as child pornography in the US.


# 200 Motels
- Filmed in the same studio as _2001: A Space Odyssey_.  The black monolith
  from that film is visible.


# 2001: A Space Odyssey
- This film was made before man walked on the moon.
- The first hour of the film contains no dialog.
- Director Stanley Kubrick originally planned narration for the prehistoric
  scenes.
- Kubrick planned to have Alex North (who wrote the score for Kubrick's
  _Spartacus_) write a musical score especially for the film.  During filming,
  Kubrick played classical music on the set to create the right mood.
  Delighted with the effect, he decided to use classical music in the finished
  product.  North's score has subsequently been released as ``Alan North's
  2001'' (Varese/Sarabande 5400).
- Universally panned by critics when first released.  Kubrick subsequently cut
  20 minutes for its public release, but still failed to win over the film
  critics.  Public reaction however, was completely different.
- Incrementing each letter of ``HAL'' gives you ``IBM''.  Arthur C Clarke
  co-screenwriter) claimed 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.
- Multiple references to birthdays: Dr Floyd's daughter, Frank Poole, HAL.
- CAMEO(Vivienne Kubrick [daughter of Stanley]): Dr Floyd's daughter.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [zoom]: retrieving Frank Poole's body.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [three-way]: man vs HAL vs aliens


# 2010
- One of the characters is ``Kirbuck'', which is an anagram of ``Kubrick''.
  Stanley Kubrick directed _2001: A Space Odyssey_.
- CAMEO(Arthur C Clarke): sitting on a park bench in front of the White House,
  feeding the pigeons.
- CAMEO(Arthur C Clarke): on the cover of Time Magazine, as the American
  President.
- CAMEO(Stanley Kubrick): on the cover of Time Magazine, as the Soviet premier.


# 3 Men and a Baby
- When Jack's mother comes to visit 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 died in the apartment in which the
  film was shot.  This rumor is false, as the interiors were all shot on a
  sound stage in a movie studio.  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.


# 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.


# Abyss, The
- A special edition is available on videotape, featuring an extra 28 minutes
  of footage, which includes a subplot about a tidal wave which threatens the
  coast of the USA.
- Fluid breathing is a reality: the rat actually did breathe liquid.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: at the beginning of the movie, the
  blue ``Y'' from the opening credits extends and then fades to the underwater
  scenery with the submarine.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: when the soldiers arrive at the supply
  ship and jump out of the helicopters.  See also _Aliens_.


# Accidental Hero
- CAMEO(Chevy Chase): owner of the TV station.


# Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
- Robin Williams played the King of the Moon.  The credits list ``Ray
  Ditutto''. This is the English transliteration of the Italian phrase ``Re di
  Tutto'', which means ``King of Everything'', which was how the King of the
  Moon introduces himself to the Baron.  Williams performed the part as soon
  as he arrived in England after a trans-Atlantic flight.


# 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 Pynchon's book
  ``The Crying of Lot 49''.


# After Hours
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): shining a spotlight from a platform in the club.


# Age of Innocence, The (1993)
- Originally to be relased in fall of 1992, but was held back by over a year to
  allow directory Maritn Scorsese more time to edit.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): the photographer taking May's wedding picture.


# Aladdin (1992)
- The genie impersonates the following people: Jack Nicholson, Arsenio Hall,
  William F. Buckley Jr, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, Ed
  Sullivan, and Robert De Niro.
- 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.
- When the Genie changes Abu into a car, the license plate reads ``ABU 1''.
- The lyrics of the opening song, ``Arabian Nights'', were changed for the
  video release due to pressure from groups who were offended by the original
  lyrics.  The original lyrics were: ``Where they cut off your ear if they
  don't like your face.  It's barbaric, but hey it's home.'' The new lyrics
  are: ``Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric,
  but hey it's home''.
- 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.


# 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.
- Much of the dialog was ad-libbed.
- An early draft of the script did not specify Ripley's gender.
- 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
  whom were Scott's children) dressed in scaled down spacesuits. This has the
  effect of making the ship look bigger.
- A sex scene between Dallas and Ripley was in the script, however was not
  filmed.
- The front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a real human
  skull.
- 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.  There is a persistent rumor that the
  script originally had Cartwright's character the hero of the story, but after
  this incident, Sigourney Weaver's Ripley became the hero.
- ``Nostromo'' is the title of a Joseph Conrad book.  See also _Aliens_.
- 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 re-released
  version, probably for this reason, but possibly because it would conflict
  with the subsequently released _Aliens_' view of the alien's life-cycle.
- Ridley Scott described the film thus: ``There's a dreadful alien lose on the
  spaceship, excuse me while I go in this dark room, on my own, for a moment.''
[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.  William Gibson (who wrote ``Neuromancer'')
  drafted a script in which Ripley spent most of the film in a coma.


# Aliens
- A draft of the script had Gorman being paralyzed by a stinger on the tail
  of an alien, rather than being clobbered by falling equipment.
- The ``special edition'' 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 exchanging 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.
- The APC was modeled after an airplane tug.
- ``Sulaco'' is the name of the town in Joseph Conrad's ``Nostromo''.  See also
  _Alien_.
- 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...'' said Hudson.
  This line (directed towards Vasquez) was in inside joke amongst the actors.
  Jeanette Goldstein (who played Vasquez) had gone to the audition thinking
  the film would be about illegal immigrants.  She arrived with waist-long
  hair and lots of makeup.  Everyone else was wearing military fatigues.
- The ``special edition'' includes the sound of a face-hugger scurrying from
  left to right as the final credits fade.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: a few minutes into the movie, we see
  Ripley lying in the cryo-tube, and then the scene fades to the picture of
  the earth; the earth directly fits into the silhouette of Ripley's face.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When the soldiers arrive on LV426 and
  jump out of the armored vehicle.  See also _The Abyss_.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When Ripley drives the APC, she crushes an
  alien's head under one of the wheels.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: close-ups of the power-lifter's feet.


# Alive
- Director Frank Marshall was discussing the film on his car phone, 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]: the dream sequence


# Always (1989)
- When Dorinda returns home in the plane, she is dressed like Ripley from
  _Aliens_, and similarly, she has a ginger tom cat.  The cat, however, is
  named ``Linda Blair''.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Amazon Women on the Moon
- Subtle crossovers between sketches [...]
- The name ``Don 'No Soul' 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.
- There is a rumor that while George Lucas and a co-worker were editing the
  film, the co-worker asked Lucas for ``Reel Two, Dialog Two'', which
  abbreviated to ``R2D2'', a name which surfaced in Lucas' later film
  _Star Wars_.


# American Werewolf in London, An
- All the songs in this film have ``moon'' in the title.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: the porno film showing when David meets Jack
  and his zombie friends.  A poster for the film appears in the London
  Underground when the man is killed.


# Annie Hall
- The working title was ``Anhedonia'' (the inability to feel pleasure).


# Another Stakeout
- Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar for his role in _The Goodbye Girl_.  One of his
  lines in that movie was ``And I don't like the panties hanging on the rod''.
  In _Another Stakeout_, Dreyfuss' character repeats this line, while standing
  in front of a line of drying panties.


# 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 performed 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, claiming Keitel was ``too
  assertive''.
- A typhoon destroyed sets, causing a delay of several months.
- Filmed in the Philippines, where Ferdinand Marcos agreed to supply the
  helicopters and pilots.  Marcos's government also needed them for fighting
  the rebels, and sometimes withdrew them during filming, sending different
  pilots not familiar with the filming.
- 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, LSD, and marijuana 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.
- Kurtz's Montagnards were played by Ifugao people.  Coppola's wife Eleanor
  saw them performing animal sacrifice, and convinced her husband to use this
  in the film.
- 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.
- There are three different treatments of the ending and credits.  In the 35mm
  version, the credits roll over surrealistic explosions and burning jungle
  as the air strike occurs.  The 70mm version has none of this, no credits,
  nothing but a one-line copyright notice at the end.  The home video version
  has credits on a plain background.
- There are no opening credits or titles.  The title of the movie appears as
  graffiti late in the film.
- 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 to French Colony to Jungle Culture.
- Carmine Coppola (director's father) wrote the score for this film.
- Harrison Ford's character wears a name badge which reads ``G. Lucas''.
  George Lucas directed Ford in _American Graffiti_ and _Star Wars_, two films
  which made Ford famous.  G. D. Spradlin's character is named ``R. Corman'',
  after producer Roger Corman.
- DIRCAMEO(Francis Ford Coppola): filming a war documentary.
- 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''.  It includes clips from the movie, as well as later interviews.


# Army of Darkness
- 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_.
- Director Sam Raimi shot a different ending than the one that was shown in
  the US and which is on videotape.  The alternate ending had Ash imbibing a
  secret potion that would make him sleep one century for each drop of the
  potion he drinks.  He then goes to a cave to sleep.  However, he drank one
  drop too and wakes up to find a barren post-apocalyptic landscape.  The
  final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a red sky.  It is unknown why Raimi
  changed the ending (the one now has Ash battling a she-demon in a department
  store in present time) but he presumably changed the original ending (which
  left the movie open for a sequel) because he didn't want to continue the
  series further.  Apparently, the original ending was shown in Asian
  countries, and perhaps Europe when it was in theatrical release.
- CAMEO(Bridget Fonda): Linda
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [shemp]:
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [3-stooges]: The skeletons do a classic routine.


# Around the World in 80 Days
- Origin of the term ``cameo'', meaning in this case a small part by a famous
  person.
- The following famous people appear in small parts in the film, and are
  credited: Red Buttons, A.E. Matthews, Alan Mowbray, Andy Devine, Basil
  Sydney, Beatrice Lillie, Buster Keaton, Cesar Romero, Charles Boyer, Charles
  Coburn, Col Tim McCoy, Edmund Lowe, Edward R. Murrow, Evelyn Keyes,
  Fernandel, Finlay Currie, Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Gilbert Roland, Glynis
  Johns, Harcourt Williams, Hermione Gingold, Jack Oakie, Joe E. Brown, John
  Carradine, John Mills, Jose Greco, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Marine Carol,
  Marlene Dietrich, Melville Cooper, Mike Mazurki, Noel Coward, Peter Lorre,
  Red Skelton, Reginald Denny, Richard Wattis, Robert Morley, Ronald Colman,
  Ronald Squire, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Sir John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Victor
  McLaglen.


# Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- In the scene where Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) is sitting on a tombstone
  in the graveyard outside his Aunt's home, one of the headstones behind him
  says ``Archie Leech''.  Grant's real name is Archie Leach.  See also
  _His Girl Friday_.


# Assault on Precinct 13
- The editor is credited as James T. Chance, which was the name of the John
  Wayne character in _Rio Bravo_, on which this film was based, but the actual
  editor was John Carpenter.


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


# Back to School
- CAMEO(Kurt Vonnegut): himself [credited?]


# Back to the Future
- Eric Stoltz originally cast as Marty McFly, but changed because he didn't act
  enough like a teenager.
- Time travel inevitably creates paradoxes.
- The ``main street'' is the same one used in _Gremlins_.
- 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 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_.
- 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 old 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 on the Peabody's property.
  When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall
  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.
- When Marty gets back to 1985, he spots a bum on the bench.  He calls him
  ``Red'': ``Red Thomas'' was mayor in 1955.
- The radio in Marty's room plays ``Back in Time'', by Huey Lewis and the News,
  who wrote and performed some songs for the film.
- The ``Mr Fusion Home Energy Converter'', which is sitting on the DeLorean
  when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups
  coffee grinder.
- CAMEO(Huey Lewis): the high-school band judge.
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): [rumor] The driver of the pickup truck that gives
  Marty a lift to school.


# 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.
- A movie theatre advertises ``Jaws 19'', directed by ``Max Spielberg''.
  Steven Spielberg, who directed _Jaws_, has a son Max.
- 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
  Jeffrey Weissman in Part II and Part III.  There is a rumour that Glover had
  some emotional/mental problems which caused this.
- When Marty arrives in 2015, he looks in the window of an antique store, where
  there is a Roger Rabbit doll.  _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ was also directed by
  Robert Zemekis.  The old man who wishes he had bet on the Cubbies is played
  by Charles Fleischer, who did Roger Rabbit's voice.


# 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
  Jeffrey Weissman in Part II and Part III.  There is a rumour that Glover had
  some emotional/mental problems which caused this.
- The sign at the train crossing in 1985 identifies the location as ``Eastwood
  Plain''.  Marty used the name ``Clint Eastwood'' in 1885.
- References to _Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang_: the train sprouts fins similar to
  the Professor's car.
- DIRTRADE (Robert Zemeckis): [citation]: When Marty walks along the railroad
  tracks and finally reaches the town, he comes to the railway station.
  Then he walks into the town, while the camera slowly rises up above the
  station and finally shows Marty at a large distance walking into the town.
  This scene is shot exactly the same way as the scene in
  _Once Upon A Time In The West_, when Claudia Cardinale arrives at the
  station.


# 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 Bukowski): 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.


# Barton Fink
- John Turturro plays the title role.  In _Miller's Crossing_ (also directed
  by Joel Coen), Turturro played a character who met a man at an apartment
  building called ``The Barton Arms''.


# Basic Instinct
- Kim Basinger was originally cast as Catherine Tramell.
- Michael Douglas' character watches [_Hellraser_ or _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 metric.
- 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): rumor 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 was been branded `anti-semetic' in an opinion piece in the New York
  Times because of the Jewish references in The Penguin's character:
   - 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 preproduction
  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.


# Battle Beyond the Stars
- Plot borrowed from _The Magnificent Seven_, which borrowed the plot from
  _The Seven Samurai_.


# Beaches
- CAMEO(Hector Elizondo): Justice of the Peace


# Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- ``Be Our Guest'' was originally animated with Maurice (not Belle) as the
  guest, but they decided not to waste such a wonderful song on a secondary
  character.
- ``Chip'' originally had only one line, but the producers liked the voice so
  much that they had extra lines written.
- The Tiny Toon Adventure script writer Sheri Stoner was used as the model for
  Belle.  See also _The Little Mermaid_.


# Bed and Bread
- CAMEO(Jacques Tati): Monsieur Hulot [note: M. Hulot is the main character of
  many classic Tati's movies].


# Beetlejuice
- Title role originally written for Sammy Davis Jr.


# Being There
- Every contract of Peter Sellers includes a clause which stipulates that his
  accommodation must allow his bed to face East-West.  His character says:
  ``I like to sleep with my head facing North''.  The attorney he's with says
  ``But this bed is facing west!''


# 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 Picture, The
- CAMEO(Martin Short): agent


# 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 disappears.  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.
- Bill's grandmother, ``Gramma S. Preston, esquire'' is played by Alex Winter.
- William Sadler (``Death''), also plays a bit role as an Englishman when we
  see various spots around the world when the Battle of the Bands is shown.
- William Sadler wrote the ``Reaper Rap''.
- There are statues of David Niven and Michael Powell in heaven.
- References to _A Matter of Life and Death_.


# Billion Dollar Brain
- Michael Caine performed most of his own stunts.  During the final ice flow
  scene, he almost slipped and fell into the water which is at 30C below zero.
- Caine had originally signed a five picture deal, but when Caine was
  reluctant to return to the role, producer Harry Saltzman let him out of the
  contract.


# 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.  The final screenplay (from
  a Daphne Du Maurier story) was written by Evan hunter, best known to
  detective story fans under his pen name ``Ed McBain''.
- 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.
- An intended final shot with the Golden Gate bridge covered in birds was
  not filmed because of cost.
- The poster for the movie said:  ``THE BIRDS IS COMING!'' irritating English
  teachers nationwide.
- Star Tippi Hendren's daughter Melanie Griffith claims she was given a present
  by Hitchcock during the filming.  It was a doll of her mother in a coffin,
  which Hitchcock intended as a joke.


# Black Widow (1986)
- CAMEO(David Mamet): playing poker with Debra Winger


# 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 off 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
- Scriptwriter Andrew Bergman originally named the lead character ``Tex X''.
- Mel Brooks plays a character called ``Le Petomane'', which is the name
  of a popular French performer at the beginning of the 20th century.  His
  specialty was telling stories punctuated with flatulence.
- The ``stinkin' badges'' line is from _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_.
- The TV release has two extra scenes that weren't in the theatrical release.
   When Sheriff Bart is trying to capture Mongo, after he delivers the
   ``CandyGram for Mongo'', it then shows a ``draw on the dummy sheriff'' game
   that fires a cannon at Mongo, and then a scene Bart convinces Mongo to
   go diving down a well for Spanish Doubloons and Bart stops pumping air
   to the diving suit because it's time for his lunch break.
- Everyone in the town of Rockridge's last name is 'Johnson'.
- CAMEO(Count Bassie and band): the jazz band in the desert.
- DIRCAMEO(Mel Brooks): the aviator in the bad-guy queue.


# Blind Date (1984)
- Madonna and Sean Penn were approached to star together in this movie, but
  producers wanted to cast Bruce Willis in the male lead, so Madonna backed
  out.


# Bloodbath at the House of Death
- References to: _An American Werewolf in London_ [more!]


# 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_.


# Blue Iguana, The
- CAMEO(Dean Stockwell):


# Blues Brothers, The
- Has many famous people in the cast:
 - Frank Oz: prison officer
 - Cab Calloway: Curtis
 - James Brown: the Reverend of the First Rock Church
 - Irene Cara [Chaka Khan?]: church soloist
 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman): wine waiter
 - John Lee Hooker: musician on Maxwell Street
 - Aretha Franklin: proprietor of the ``Soul Food Cafe''.  The three backing
   singers are her sisters.
 - Ray Charles: Ray from ``Ray's Music Exchange''
 - Twiggy: blonde in sports car
 - Steven 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 written with the likes of Eric Clapton and Otis Redding.
- John Belushi was extremely disappointed at the film's reception, and it is
  rumored 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, playing gigs after showing the film.
- Every time we see the window in Elwood's apartment a train goes past.
- ``Murph and the Magictones'' have a pink Cadillac with the name of the band
  painted on the side.  After they re-join the Blues Brothers, the car has
  ``The Blues Brothers'' crudely spray-painted on it.
- Elwood never takes off his sunglasses, and Jake never takes off his hat.
- This film holds the world record for the number of cars crashed.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [ipanema]: the music in the elevator.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: 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 and
  Steve McQueen, but was rejected as ``too controversial''.
- Rachel's mansion is the same mansion as the ``horse's head in the bed''
  mansion in _The Godfather_.
- Rachel and [Kevin Costner] go and see _Yojimbo_, which was released in the
  United States as ``The Bodyguard''.


# 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.
- CAMEO(F. Murray Abraham): Bronx D.A.
- 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 protester.
- CAMEO(Ron Kovic): WWII veteran in the parade at the beginning.
- DIRCAMEO(Oliver Stone): a TV reporter.


# Boy and His Dog, A
- Screenplay started by Harlan Ellison, who wrote the novella on which it is
  based.  Ellison encountered writer's block, and so producer Alvy Moore and
  L.Q. Jones took over and wrote the script.  Ellison saw nothing of the film
  until the premier, at which he was sitting next to Moore.  Ellison praised
  the film, to the relief of Moore, but there are rumors that Ellison later
  condemned the film.


# Boy Friend, The
- CAMEO(Glenda Jackson):


# 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.


# Brain Eaters, The
- CAMEO(Leonard Nimoy):


# Brainstorm (1983)
- Natalie Wood died before filming was complete, thus the ending had to be
  constructed from scenes shot earlier.


# 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 Warrenn: works in a rabbit-warren style place: a maze of corridors
- Gilliam had trouble with studio producers over the black ending he wanted on
  the film.  The producers wanted a ``happy Hollywood'' film which eliminated
  (among other things) the final transition and a critical line of dialog which
  reveals the fate of Jill.  These changes were made, and this ``butchered''
  version was shown on US television at least once.  Gilliam threatened to
  disown the film, and consequently the cinematic release and all videotape
  versions show the film essentially as he intended it to be seen (although
  the US cinematic release still omitted the line about Jill).
- The ``young Mrs Lowry'' was played by both Kim Griest and Katherine Helmond.
- Gilliam tested more than a half-dozen actresses to play the part of Jill,
  interviewing or testing Jamie Lee Curtis, Rebecca De Mornay, Rae Dawn Chong,
  Joanna Pakula, Rosanna Arquette, Kelly McGillis, Ellen Barkin, and he even
  considered Madonna.  Gilliam's personal favorite was Ellen Barkin.
- The book ``The Battle of Brazil'' details the production of this movie.
- References to _Potemkin_.
- DIRCAMEO(Terry Gilliam): the smoker in the Shangri-La tower who bumps into
  Sam.


# Bringing Up Baby
- Katherine Hepburn's character pretends that she and Cary Grant's characters
  are gangsters.  The underworld nickname she gives police for Grant's
  character is ``Jerry the Nipper'': a nickname that Grant's character had in
  _The Awful Truth_.


# Broadcast News
- CAMEO(Jack Nicholson): TV Anchorman [credited?]


# Broadminded
- CAMEO(Bela Lugosi): man whose hot dog was stolen.


# Bugsy Malone
- Jodie Foster's singing was dubbed.  Director Alan Parker regrets this later,
  when Foster goes on to be a major star.


# Cadillac Man
- CAMEO(Elaine Stritch): widow.


# Cape Fear (1991)
- Robert De Niro 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.
- De Niro was tattooed with vegetable dyes, which fade after a few months.
- 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 Balsam appears in both versions.
- Scene in high school auditorium totally ad-libbed by De Niro and Juliette
  Lewis, and done on the first take.


# Caprice
- [Doris Day] (Doris Day) goes to see a Doris Day film.


# Career Opportunities
- CAMEO(John Candy):


# 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'''.
- Dooley Wilson (Sam) was a professional drummer who faked playing the piano.
  As the music was recorded at the same time as the film, the piano playing
  was actually performed by Elliot Carpenter behind a curtain.
- Hal Wallis nearly made the character ``Sam'' a female.  Hazel Scott, Lena
  Horne, and Ella Fitzgerald were tested for the role.
- Bogart's wife continually accused him of having an affair with Bergman,
  often confronting him in his dressing room before a shot.  Bogart would come
  onto the set in a rage.
- Ronald Reagan and George Raft was on the shortlist for the role of Rick.
- 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.
- The actors who played the Nazis were Jewish.
- The timely real-life invasion of Casablanca was used to promote this film,
  and undoubtedly contributed to its success.
- Based on a play called ``Everybody Comes To Rick's''.


# CB4
- References to: _Wayne's World_, _The Silence of the Lambs_,
  _Boyz N the Hood_, _Colors_ [more?]


# 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.


# China Syndrome, The
- Although widely panned by ``experts'' as too far fetched to be credible,
  a few weeks after the film's release the plant at Three Mile Island in
  Pennsylvania suffered a disaster almost identical to that described in the
  movie.  In one scene of the movie, Wells and Adams estimate that a meltdown
  would contaminate a state ``the size of Pennsylvania''.


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


# Chopping Mall
- CAMEO(Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov): they appear briefly as the same
  characters they played in _Eating Raoul_, another Roger Corman production.


# Church, The
- [Thomas Arana] opens a door with a key.  The key ring is one of the ones
  given away as a promotion for _The Adventures Baron Munchausen_, for which
  director Michele Soavi was the second unit director.


# 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.
- The cow-giving-birth used a puppet calf, as several takes were wanted.  The
  shot of Norman getting to his feet was real footage taken just after birth.
  Billy Crystal actually assisted in the delivery. The calf also actually
  ``bonded'' to Billy. [I believe he did in reality keep the calf... anyone?]


# Cliffhanger
- 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.
- To demonstrate his faith in the safety equipment, director Renny Harlin
  put on a harness and flung himself out on a cable over a cliff.
- An avid golfer, Stallone found that climbing roughed up his hands and
  consequently messed up his game. He had 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.
- The background for many of the scenes was generated by an IBM Power
  Visualization System.
- Sneak-preview audiences saw a scene where a rabbit gets killed by gunfire.
  Their reaction was strong enough for Sylvester Stallone to invest $100000 of
  his own money to have the scene re-shot so that the rabbit escaped.
- The credits include a message which explains that the Black Diamond harness
  used in the opening scene was specially modified so that it would fail.
- The stuntman who did the air-to-air transfer (Simon Crane) actually couldn't
  get inside the second plane, but good editing gives the appearance that he
  does.
- One of the buckles on the horse's bridle is a piece of climbing equipment.
- DIRTRADE(Renny Harlin): [finland]: one of the parachutes looks like the
  Finnish flag.


# Clockwork Orange, A
- The slang that the youths speak is based on Russian.
- _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (also directed by Stanley Kubrick) soundtrack highly
  visible in record store.
- The book that the author is working on when the youths break into is home
  is called ``A Clockwork Orange''.  Author Anthony Burgess uses a pun on
  the Malay word ``Ourang''.  Burgess lived for several years in Malaya.
- 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 Magee'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, the popsicles held by the girls in the record store, the tip of
  Alex's walking stick, the object used by Alex to kill the woman.
- Kubrick deliberately made continuity errors just before the author worked
  out who Alex is.  The dishes on the table move around to give a feeling of
  disorientation to the viewer.
- The film was withdrawn voluntarily by Kubrick from the United Kingdom after
  being criticized as too violent.  Kubrick has stated that the film will be
  released there only after his death.
- The film leaves out the last chapter of the book, where Alex starts thinking
  about getting married and settling down.  Reportedly, this is one of the
  reasons that angered Burgess and caused him to criticize the film as one
  that glorifies violence.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [three-way]: Alex vs Government vs Subversives.


# Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The working title was ``Watch the Skies''; the closing words from
  _The Thing From Another World_.
- Barry is shown to be surprised by the extraterrestrials.  Director Steven
  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 cloud effects by injecting white paint
  into tanks of salt and fresh water.
- It is possible to see an upside down R2-D2 (from _Star Wars_, etc) in part
  of the large spacecraft that flys over Devil's Mountain.  The SFX people
  needed more detail, and so supposedly there are many more such items, such as
  a shark from _Jaws_ (Also directed by Spielberg), etc.  R2-D2 is visible as
  Barry's mother first sees the mothership up close from her hiding place in
  the rocks.
- The watch that Roy Neary wears only shows the time when he presses a button
  on it. During filming the watch remains blank. This is to avoid continuity
  errors.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Clue
- The actor who plays Mr. Body is the lead singer of the punk band ``Fear''.


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


# Cold Feet (1989)
- CAMEO(Jeff Bridges): bartender


# Color of Money, The
- The voice explaining 8-ball is director Martin Scorsese's.


# Comfort and Joy
- Mark Knopfler, lead singer of Dire Straits, wrote the soundtrack for this
  film.  Lyrics from a previous Dire Straits album ``Love Over Gold'' are used
  as dialog in the film: ``I hear the terrible twins came to call on you'' is
  similar to: ``I hear the seven deadly sins came to call on you'', and ``The
  bigger they are, baby, the harder they fall on you'' are both lyrics from the
  song ``It Never Rains''.


# 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 (Eddie Murphy) was
  responsible for The Dukes 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): [SYNW]: 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 Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back, Bennet!''


# Commitments, The
- The producers wanted Andrew Stong's father to audition for one of the roles.
  He brought his 16-year old son along, and he got the lead role.
- One of the audition songs is ``Fame'', from _Fame_ (also directed by Alan
  Parker).
- 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 Schwarzenegger 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.
- Schwarzenegger 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''.


# Conversation, The
- CAMEO(Robert Duvall): man who hires Harry Caul.


# 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 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''.


# Crimes and Misdemeanors
- CAMEO(Daryl Hannah):


# Crimewave (1985)
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [3-stooges]: many, including the bowling balls rolling
  off the shelf onto the man's head.


# Cross Creek
- CAMEO(Malcom Mc Dowell): Maxwell Perkins


# 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_.
  A rumor surrounding the circumstances of Brandon Lee's death is as follows:
  The tech crew put a real bullet in the gun for a close-up shot, then removed
  most of the gunpowder and fired it.  The bullet lodged in the barrel and was
  forgotten when the gun was loaded with blanks.  The blanks fired, expelling
  the bullet.


# Curse, The
- 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.


# Dam Busters, The
- The RAF supplied most of the aircraft, at a cost of 130 pounds per hour.
  This expense consumed 10% of the film's budget.
- An cut of the film was spiced up for the American market. Additional scenes
  of a plane crashing were later removed after it was spotted that Warners had
  used WW2 footage of a Flying Fortress (the RAF used Lancasters).
- The film premiered 12 years to the day from the original raid.  The raid was
  one of the most effective operations of WW2 (the German government were
  still mopping up after the original raid when the film was in production).
- Gibson's dog ``Nigger'' was dubbed into ``Trigger'' for the US market.


# Dances with Wolves
- On the video release of this film that was sold as a McDonalds promotion at
  Christmas '92, there is not a single picture of Kevin Costner on the box.
  Yet on all other video releases of the film, Costner is pictured.


# Dark Half, The
- In the prologue of this Stephen King adaptation, Thad Beaumont wants to
  become a writer and is shown writing stories. The title of his first
  typewritten story is ``Here There Be Tygers'', which is also the real title
  of the first short story Stephen King wrote in his career. The story can be
  found in King's ``Skeleton Crew'' anthology.


# Dark Star
- John Carpenter directed, edited, and wrote the music for the film, but he
  uses pseudonyms in the credits for editing and the music.


# Darkman
- Director Sam Raimi wanted high-school friend Bruch Campbell to play the lead
  role, but the producers didn't think that Campbell could handle it.  Campbell
  played Ash in _The Evil Dead_ and _Evil Dead II_, both also directed by
  Raimi.
- CAMEO(Jenny Agutter):
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [shemp]: Last shemp: Bruce Campbell.


# Dave
- Author Gary Ross appears as Policeman number 2.
- Many U.S. Congressmen and political commentators appear in this film as
  themselves.


# Dawn of the Dead
- DIRCAMEO(George Romero): the director in the television studio.
- CAMEO(? Romero [wife of George]): director's assistant in the television
  studio.


# Days of Thunder
- Many real-life NASCAR drivers (including Rusty Wallace) appear in the film.
- NASCAR driver Greg Sacks did most of Tom Cruise's stunt driving.  Cruise
  wanted to do his own stunt driving, but wasn't allowed to for insurance
  reasons.  The Chevrolets were prepared by Rick Hendrick's racing team, which
  later used some of the movie cars in real races.  35 cars were wrecked
  during filming.
- The scene where [Randy Quaid] approaches [Robert Duvall] on a tractor was
  filmed on NASCAR legend Junior Johnson's farm.
- The scene where Cole Trickle and [Michael Rooker] race rental cars on the
  beach shows birds scattering out of the way.  The birds were lured onto the
  beach by birdseed, and in the first take most of them were run over.


# Dead Again
- The number on Roman's prison uniform, 25101415, stands for ``25 October
  1415'', the date of the Battle of Agincourt, fought by Henry V, subject of
  director Kenneth Branagh's previous film, _Henry V_.  Branagh's birthday
  (December 10) is shown on the first newspaper clipping in the opening
  sequence.
- The cover of the LIFE magazine in Mr. Madson's shop shows Laurence Olivier
  in Hamlet; another Shakespeare reference is on the bridge where Mike and the
  Campbell Scott character fight (it reads ``Shakespeare Bridge,'' the real
  name of a bridge in L.A. where the movie was filmed).
- Two additional double roles (besides Mike/Roman and Grace/Margaret) are in
  the film:  the nun at the orphanage turns up as a snooty starlet at a party
  in the 1940s, and the cop at the mental hospital is seen again as an
  obnoxious party guest.
- Derek Jacobi's stuttering as Frankie/Mr. Madson is an in-joke reference to
  his famous role as the stuttering Claudius in _I, Claudius_.
- Mike's apartment contains several pictures of pianists and piano keyboards,
  giving away his true identity to the careful viewer.
- Lots of subtle similarities between Roman/Margaret and Mike/Grace.
- DIRTRADE(Kenneth Branagh): [doyle]: bored cop in the elevator, and obnoxious
  guest at Otto's party.


# Dead Pool
- CAMEO(Slash): half and hour after the funeral scene.  The Guns 'n Roses' song
  ``Welcome to the Jungle'' is used in the film.


# Dead Zone, The
- Director David Cronemberg had to reshoot the scene in which John Smith
  has his first premonition. It showed a little girl's room burning and a small
  E.T. doll could be seen on one of the shelves. The scene had to be reshot
  when Universal Pictures threatened to sue.


# Death Becomes Her
- 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.
- DIRTRADE (Robert Zemeckis): [citation]: The shots in the psychiatric clinic
  where Goldie Hawn is brought look exactly like those in
  _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_.


# Death of a Salesman (1985) (TV)
- Dustin Hoffman called this his favorite acting experience.


# Deer Hunter, The
- Robert De Niro claims this was his most physically exhausting film.
- John Cazale barely finished the film, dying of cancer soon after its
  completion.
- De Niro and John Savage did their own helicopter stunt.


# Deliverance
- The Sherrif is played by James Dickey, who wrote the novel on which the
  film was based.


# Devil and Daniel Webster, The
- Shortly after filming had begun, Thomas Mitchell 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 colors at the
  start of the film and made them progressively darker as time goes on.


# Diamonds Are Forever
- After the failure of _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_, EON was desperate to
  get Connery back to save the series. When he refused, the producers
  considered Roger Moore then Timothy Dalton before unexpectedly signing an
  unknown American actor John Galvin.  UA chief, David Picker, was not not
  impressed with the choice of Galvin and the order went out to get Connery at
  any price. Connery was finally lured back with an unprecedented deal making
  him the highest paid actor to date.  The final contract involved Connery
  getting $1.25 million up front, 12.5% of the gross and a commitment from UA
  to finance two non-Bond films of Connery's choice.  Connery later donated his
  fee to the Scottish International Trust.
- Actresses considered for the role of Tiffany Case included: Rachel Welch,
  Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. Jill St. John had originally been offered the
  part of Plenty O'Toole but landed the female lead after impressing the
  director Guy Hamilton during screen tests.
- The original plot had Gert Frobe returning as Auric _Goldfinger_'s twin
  and seeking revenge for the death of his brother.
- The death of Bond's wife Tracy was originally planned for the opening
  sequence of _Diamonds are Forever_, but was later added to the end of
  _On Her Majesty's Secret Service_ to ``tidy up lose ends''.
- Upon release, it breaks Hollywood's three day gross record.
- Willard Whyte is obviously based on Howard Hughes. Hughes, however, played
  a more substantial role behind the scenes allowing EON to film inside
  his casinos and at his other properties. His fee was reputed to be one
  16mm print of the film.
- Connery turned down, the then astronomic sum, of $5.5 million to return
  in the next Bond film _Live And Let Die_.


# Dick Tracy (1990)
- The only colors in the film are the six that the original comic strip
  appeared in.
- CAMEO(Dustin Hoffman): Mumbles
- CAMEO(Paul Sorvino): Lips Manlis
- CAMEO(Alan Garfield): a reporter
- CAMEO(James Caan):


# Die Hard 2
- The General is from ``Valverde'', the fictitious Latin-American country used
  in _Commando (1985)_.
- DIRTRADE(Renny Harlin): [finland]: ``Finlandia Hymn'' by Jean Sibelius is
  used in some scenes.


# Diplomatic Courier
- CAMEO(Lee Marvin):
- CAMEO(Charles Bronson):


# 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.
- Andrew Robinson (Scorpio) had to get an unlisted phone number, and has
  received a death threat.
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): man running down the street.


# Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- An entire day was spent shooting the trailer, which does not appear in the
  film.  The trailer shows Caine and Martin walking along the boardwalk,
  politely moving out of the way of other people, etc, with a voice saying
  something like ``There are numerous distinguised gentlemen in the world...
  refined, cultured gentlemen.... nice men.......  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.


# Dog Day Afternoon
- Director Sidney Lumet claims that Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon's phone
  conversation was improvised.


# Doors, The
- Prior to the audition, Val Kilmer memorized 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.
- Director Oliver Stone's son plays the young Jim Morrison in the accident
  scene.
- 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
- Thunderball was originally going to be the first 007 movie, but legal
  wrangles with its co-author lead to _Dr. No_ being chosen instead.
- Author Ian Fleming wanted his cousin Chrisopher Lee to play Dr. No.  See also
  _The Man With the Golden Gun_.
- The budget was only $1,000,000 but when costs over run by $100,000
  United Artists wanted to pull the plug fearing they would never recoup
  its outlay.
- Author Ian Fleming originally asked Noel Coward to play the part of Dr No,
  Coward replied in a telegram ``Dr No? No! No! No!''.
- Actors considered for the lead role included: Cary Grant, David Niven,
  Trevor Howard, Rex Harrison, and Roger Moore.
- Connery was chosen for the part of 007 after Cubby Broccoli's wife saw him
  in Disney's _Darby O'Gill and the Little People_.
- After the film's release in Italy, the Vatican issued a special communique
  expressing its disapproval at the film's moral standpoint.
- The voice of Honey Rider is not that of Ursula Andress.
- Sean Connery is 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.
- A painting of the Duke of Wellington, stolen in 1960 and never recovered,
  can be seen on the wall of Dr. No's headquarters.
- The rights to the famous theme song were bought from Monty Norman for a
  ridiculously low sum of money, and subsequently appeared in many later Bond
  films.


# Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Peter Sellers plays three roles, and was to play Captain Kong as well.  He
  became sick, so the role went to Slim Pickens.


# Drop Dead Fred
- CAMEO(Bridget Fonda): [rumor] Annabella.


# 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 rumor 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.
- SMITHEE(David Lynch): disowned the television cut.
- BOOTH(???): disowned the television cut.
- 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.  Ford's wife Melissa Mathison
  wrote the screenplay.
- The M&M's people refused to allow their product appear in the film, so the
  producers got ``Reese's Pieces'' instead.  Sales for ``Reese's Pieces''
  skyrocketed after the movie's release.
- The extraterrestrial's plant collection includes a triffid (from
  _The Day of the Triffids_).
- ET's voice was performed by Debra Winger.
- This movie has earned a total of $965 million by 1989.  As a token of their
  appreciation for the movie's success, Universal Studios gave Spielberg some
  studios in California, which are now occupied by Amblin (Spielberg's
  production company).
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Easy Rider
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson were really smoking marijuana
  on camera.
- 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


# El Mariachi
- This film cost $7000.  Director Robert Rodriguez raised $3,000 of the $7,000
  by volunteering to be a human ``laboratory rat''. He was used to test a
  cholesterol reducing drug.  Paid $100 a day for 30 days, he wrote most of the
  script while locked in the lab.  A fellow ``rat'' was cast in the lead role.
  Most of the $7,000 was spent on film for the camera.
- Rodriguez claims the other actors were ``innocent'' passers by. He gave them
  lines as and when they were needed.
- For the moving camera shots, Rodriguez sat in a broken hospital wheelchair
  and was pushed around.
- The movie was intended to go 'straight to video'.
- Sound was recorded with an ordinary cassette recorder and mike.
- Rodriguez says he made the movie to ``practise''.
- Rodriguez was producer, director, writer, special-effect man, ...
  the only job he didn't do was act, as there would be no one else to operate
  the camera.


# 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 of the Sun
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# 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.
- Before this film was made, Mark Hamill (Luke) was driving his BMW along a
  highway.  Realizing was missing his turn, he swung sharply, but ended up
  rolling his car and suffering facial scarring.  Despite the efforts of
  plastic surgeons, his appearance was noticeably different.  For this reason,
  the scene where Luke receives facial scars from a Wampa was written.
- 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.  A scene filmed but cut had Han, Leia
  and C-3PO running through a corridor.  Han went to take a short-cut through
  a door with a sign on it, but Leia warned him ``that's where those creatures
  are kept''.  They run off, but not before C-3PO rips off the sign, hoping
  that the stormtroopers will enter the room.
- Luke cuts off the Wampa's hand.  C-3PO loses an arm when blasted by the
  Stormtroppers.  Darth Vader cuts off Luke's hand.  See also _Star Wars_ and
  _Return of the Jedi_.
- There is a rumor that one of the asteroids is actually a potato.
- The following characters ``have a bad feeling about this'': Leia.  See
  also: _Star Wars_ and _Return of the Jedi_.
- 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_ [rumor]
- 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 street outside the ILM
  building.
- This is Carrie Fisher's favorite movie of the trilogy.  Despite this, there
  were claims that she was heavily into drugs at the time.  The scene where
  Han Solo was to be carbon frozen was a long a complex scene which required
  many takes.  Eventually, Leia says ``I love you'' to Han Solo.  Harrison
  Ford had heard this line so many times that he changed the scripted ``I love
  you too'' to ``I know''.  George Lucas didn't want to film the scene again,
  and thought it read much better that way, so it remained.
- FTP site wpi.wpi.edu is the official rec.arts.sf.starwars archive.


# Enemy Mine
- Shot in Hungary, where labour was cheap enough to build the sets.


# Enter the Dragon
- In the underground fight scene, one of Han's bodyguards gets his neck
  broken by Lee. This bodyguard was played by none other than 17 year-old
  Jackie Chan, who was cast as a stuntman at the time and later starred in
  his own martial arts films.


# Escape from New York
- DIRTRADE(John Carpenter): [names]: Cronenberg, Romero.


# Evil Dead II
- One of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is ``A Farewell
  to Arms''.
- This film is essentially a remake of _The Evil Dead_.
- 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
- Director Sam Raimi and star Bruce Campbell were friends from high-school,
  where they made many super-8 films together.  They would often collaborate
  with Sam's brother Ted.  Campbell became the ``actor'' of the group, as ``he
  was the one that girls wanted to look at''.
- Filmed in a real-life abandoned cabin.
- 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.
- There is a ripped poster of _The Hills Have Eyes_ visible.  See also:
  _The Hills Have Eyes_, _A Nightmare on Elm Street_.
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [3-stooges]:


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


# Exorcist III, The
- Totally ignores _Exorcist II: The Heretic_, starting off right at the end of
  _The Exorcist_.
- Brad Dourif plays a character in jail.  Asked how he is able to get in and
  out of jail without being seen, he replies: ``It's child's play''.  Dourif
  plays the voice of Chucky in _Child's Play (1988)_, _Child's Play 2_, and
  _Child's Play 3_.
- 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.
- CAMEO(William Peter Blatty [screenwriter]): producer of the film that [Ellen
  Burstyn] is acting in; he's seen talking to Jack McGowran.


# Explorers
- The view of the ``city lights'' is a model which includes a suburb that looks
  suspiciously like a circuit diagram, complete with logic gates and an
  integrated circuit.
- A newspaper headline is ``Kingston Falls Mystery Still Unsolved''.  Kingston
  Falls was the town in _Gremlins_, which Joe Dante also directed.
- The school is named after animator Chuck Jones.


# Fabulous Baker Boys, The
- Madonna was originally approached for the role which was picked up by
  Michelle Pfieffer.  Madonna turned it down because the plot was 'too mushy'.


# Fail-Safe
- The film shows many US Air Force bombers, but they are all actually all shots
  of the same plane, taken from a stock piece of film after the Department of
  Defense declined to cooperate with the filmmakers.
- _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ has
  a remarkably similar plot, and was being made by Stanley Kubrick at the same
  time.  Kubrick threatened legal action, claiming plagiarism.  The issue was
  settled when Columbia Pictures agreed to push Kubrick's film at the expense
  of _Fail-Safe_, which subsequently bombed at the box office.


# Falling Down
- The stripper for Pendergast [Robert Duvall] is named ``Susie''.  When she
  starts dancing, someone says ``Susie Q'', a reference to _Apocalypse Now_,
  which also starred Duvall.


# 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.


# Fantasia
- The demon in ``Night on Bald Mountain'' was supposedly modeled on Bela
  Lugosi.
- Scenes of nymphs with naked breasts, and donkey centaurs based on ``Uncle
  Tom'' stereotypes were originally included but have since been deleted.
- The soundtrack was re-recorded for the film's 50th anniversary, but was
  dropped as they couldn't co-ordinate the soundtrack with the visuals, which
  were designed for the old soundtrack.


# Far and Away
- Director Ron Howard wasn't happy with Nicole Kidman's facial reaction during
  the shooting of the scene where her character lifts the bowl covering [Tom
  Cruise]'s crotch.  Without telling Kidman, he asked Cruise to remove the his
  underwear.  Howard got the reaction he wanted, and it appears in the film.


# Far Out Man
- CAMEO(Cheech Marin): ???.  Marin was director Thomas Chong's former partner
  in comedy duo Cheech & Chong.


# 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.  This ending still appears in the Japanese
  release.
- Alex starts the film wearing white, but gradually switches to be wearing
  black at the end.


# Few Good Men, A
- Two ``Misery'' novels can be seen beside Danny's typewriter while he watches
  a ball game.  _Misery_ was also directed by Rob Reiner.


# Firm, The
- CAMEO(Paul Sorvino):


# First Men in the Moon
- CAMEO(Peter Finch):


# Fish Called Wanda, A
- John Cleese's character is called ``Archie Leach'', which is Cary Grant's
  real name.


# Fisher King, The
- A poster for ``Brazil'' (also directed by Terry Gilliam) appears in the first
  video store scene.
- CAMEO(Tom Waits): the beggar in the wheelchair at 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.


# Flash Gordon (1980)
- There is a rumor that the monitor behind Hans Zarkov (Topol) as he is having
  his memory dumped shows scenes from Topol's previous movies.


# Flight of the Navigator
- Reference to _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial_: David gets out of the spaceship
  at the gas station to ``phone home''.


# Fly, The (1986)
- DIRCAMEO(David Cronenberg): obstetrician who delivers the maggot baby.


# Fog, The
- DIRTRADE(John Carpenter): [names]: characters named after cast and crew of
  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 learned all his lines phonetically.


# Fortress (1993)
- Filmed on the same set as _Highlander II: The Quickening_
- Filmed at the Warner Brothers Studios at the Gold Coast, Australia.  No
  reference is made of this in the credits, probably because the producers
  feared it would not be taken seriously if it became known that it was filmed
  outside of Hollywood.


# Four Musketeers, The
- Filmed at the same time as _The Three Musketeers_.
- Director Richar Lester was sued by the actors who claimed they were tricked
  into thinking the film was to be part of _The Three Musketeers_.  They won
  their case in court, but did not receive as much money as they would have if
  they were paid separately for both films.


# 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 bloodied corpse being carried
  through the village by her father.  This scene is restored in the
  videocassette reissue.


# 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.


# Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
- 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.


# Freebie and the Bean
- CAMEO(Valerie Harper): [Alan Arkin]'s wife.


# 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.  Bruno Kirby (who plays
  Brando's nephew) played the young Clemenza in _The Godfather Part II_.
- 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''.


# From Russia with Love
- The budget was $2,000,000 (double that of Dr No).
- Chosen as the second 007 film after President Kennedy listed the book in his
  top ten favorite novels of all time.
- Daniela Blanchi was 1960's Miss Universe, but being Italian her voice
  was dubbed.
- ``Q'' played by Desmond Llewelyn appears for the first time.
- Pedro Armendariz was terminally ill during filming. Towards the end of
  shooting Terence Young had to double for the actor. Shortly after the
  film wrapped Armendariz committed suicide.
- During the helicopter sequence towards the end of the film, the inexperienced
  pilot flew too close to Sean Connery, almost killing him.
- The title of the film is ``Hearty Kisses From Russia'' in France and
  ``Agent 007 Sees Red'' in Sweden.


# Fugitive, The (1993)
- Harrison Ford has never seen a single episode of the TV series upon which
  the film was based.
- A destination indicator on a subway train reads ``Kimbal'', and the next shot
  tracks over a building which has a sign reading ``Harrison''.


# 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.
- Ermey was involved in a jeep accident during the making of the movie. He got
  away with a broken arm, and in many scenes he doesn't move his injured arm
  at all.
- In the scene in the blasted city ruins where the sergeant 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.  There is also a large advertisement for ``Stay-Puft''
  marshmallows (complete with the marshmallow man) visible on the side of
  a building.


# Ghostbusters II
- CAMEO(Chloe Webb): cable TV show guest interviewed by Bill Murray


# Ghosts Can't Do It (V)
- CAMEO(Donald Trump): himself


# Glory (1989)
- CAMEO(Jane Alexander): [Matthew Broderick]'s mother.


# 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_.
  Winona Ryder was originally cast, but she withdrew due to exhaustion.
- Twin girls with long dark hair are shown in a close-up pan in the crowd at
  Michael's party.  In _The Godfather_, similar girls were shown when Don
  Vito Corlenone was brought back from the hospital.
- Martin Scorsese's mother is one of the women that stops Vincent to complain
  about the poor care of the neighborhood.  See also _Goodfellas_.


# Godfather, The
- There is a rumor 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 Captain McCluskey and not reset.  Brando's mouthpiece is
  on display at the prop and costume museum at Universal Studios.
- During the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo Rizzi, James Caan (Sonny)
  actually broke some of [?]'s ribs.
- 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.


# Goldfinger
- The budget was $4,000,000 (it eventually grossed $40,000,000).
- Recent surveys have indicated that over 80% of the movie going public
  has seen Goldfinger.
- Honor Blackman had previously appeared as female agent Cathy Gale in British
  TV's ``The Avengers''.
- Connery hurt his back during the fight sequence with Odd Job in Fort Knox.
  The incident delayed filming and some say that Connery used the injury
  to get a better deal out of the producers for the next 007 film.
- The image of Jill Masterson's body coated in gold paint became an icon
  of the sixties when it appeared on the cover of Life magazine.
- Connery has only seen the film twice: once at its premiere and again
  when his granddaughter insisted he watch his favorite Bond film with her.


# Gone in 60 Seconds
- 93 cars are crashed in the 97 minute movie.


# 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.)  Leigh wanted the role so much that she
  read the novel and several volumes on the Civil War.
- 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.


# Good Morning, Vietnam
- Robin Williams ad-libbed all of Adrian Cronauer's broadcasts.


# Goodbye, Columbus
- The wedding scene, as filmed, included a magnificent 10-minute speech by
  Monroe Arnold as Uncle Leo -- a real tour de force.  But it didn't fit the
  mood of the rest of the picture, and was cut to 45 seconds.  It was a bitter
  blow to Arnold, and helped him decide to retire from acting not longer
  afterward.


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


# Gothic
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): [snake]


# 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.''


# Great Muppet Caper, The
- Re-released on video in 1993, with changes to the soundtrack.
- CAMEO(Jim Henson): the man that Gonzo takes a photo of in the restuarant.
- CAMEO(Richard Hunt): Cab driver.
- CAMEO(Jerry Nelson): man with daughter in the park.


# Greatest Show on Earth, The
- CAMEO(Bob Hope): circus spectator
- CAMEO(Bing Crosby): circus spectator


# Greed
- Twenty-three grips and two assistant directors lost their lives during the
  filming of a particularly elaborate tracking shot involving a cable car, two
  delivery trucks and a dentist's office.  This scene was edited out of the
  final version of the film by Irving Thalberg, and has never been seen.


# Gremlins
- The theatre 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_).
- Billy 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.
- While the father is talking on the phone from the inventor's convention, the
  machine from _The Time Machine_ can be seen in the background winding up to
  full power. The scene cuts to the house, and when we cut back again, the
  machine has gone, leaving only a wisp of colored smoke.
- The old lady in the bank is a homage to the Wicket Witch of the East from
  _The Wizard of Oz_.
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): man in the time machine.
- rumored CAMEO(George Lucas): in the same scene, riding a bicycle.
- CAMEO(Chuck Jones): The man who looks at Billy's cartoon in the bar.  There
  is a Warner Brothers cartoon playing on the TV.


# 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.
- [Christopher Lee] can be seen carring a pod from
  _Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)_.


# Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Andie McDowell's voice was dubbed by Glenn Close.


# Groundhog Day
- Punxsutawney, PA is actually Woodstock, Illinois, even though there is a
  Punxsutawney, PA which has a Groundhog Day festival.
- 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,
  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.
- CAMEO(Robin Duke): waitress in the diner.  Robin Duke was with the
  Second City comedy troupe. [credited?]


# Hairspray
- DIRCAMEO(John Waters): 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 that they could find in the costume store:  a William Shatner mask.
  They later spray-painted the face white, and teased out the hair.
- The kids watch the opening of _The Thing (?)_ on TV.  Carpenter would later
  re-make this film himself in 1982.


# Handmaid's Tale, The
- CAMEO(David Dukes): a doctor


# Hannah and Her Sisters
- CAMEO(Tony Roberts):
- CAMEO(Sam Waterston):


# Happy New Year (1987)
- CAMEO(Claude Chabrol): ???.  Claude Chabrol is the director of
  _Happy New Year (1973)_, the French comedy on which this John Avildsen
  remake is based.


# Hard Day's Night, A
- DIRCAMEO(Richard Lester): seen briefly at the back of the stage while
  the Beatles perform ``Tell Me Why''.


# Hard, Fast and Beautiful
- CAMEO(Robert Ryan):
- DIRCAMEO(Ida Lupino):


# Havana
- CAMEO(Raul Julia): Lena Olin's husband.


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


# Helpmates
- Stan Laurel gives his real phone number (OXford-0614).


# 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_, _Suspicion_ [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.
- The castle where Connor MacLeod lived is the same castle used for the
  interior shots for _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_.
- Non-American versions of this film include a WWII flashback sequence showing
  MacLeod meeting Rachael, where he tells her ``It's a kind of magic''.


# Highlander II: The Quickening
- Grossly contradicts _Highlander_, its prequel.


# Hills Have Eyes, The
- There is a ripped poster of _Jaws_ visible.  See also: _The Evil Dead_,
  _A Nightmare on Elm Street_.


# Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- This film pioneered the use of jump cutting to and from a flashback, and of
  very brief flashbacks to suggest obtrusive memories.


# His Girl Friday
- [ary Grant] refers to some horrible fate suffered by the last person who
  crossed him: Archie Leech.  Grant's real name is Archie Leach.  See also
  _Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)_.
- [Grant] tries to describe a character played by Ralph Bellamy.  He ends up
  saying that he ``looks like that film actor, Ralph Bellamy''.


# 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.


# Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
- Rosebud from _Citizen Kane_ and the Ark of the Covanent from
  _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ are visible in the government warehouse.


# Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Reference to _The Wizard of Oz_.


# 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_.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# 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.
- References to: _Top Gun_, _Nine 1/2 Weeks_, _Gone with the Wind_, _Superman_,
  _Dances With Wolves_, _Marathon Man_, _The Godfather_, _The Right Stuff_.


# Hot Shots! Part Deux
- Charlie Sheen worked out for eight hours a day to build up his body, as he
  decided that he would have felt embarrassed at the film's premiere if he had
  to sit amongst people laughing while looking at him on screen in a singlet.
- Richard Crenna plays Denton Walters.  In the TV series ``Our Miss Brooks'',
  Crenna played a character called ``Walter Denton''.
- References to: _Rambo: First Blood Part II_, _Rambo III_, _Kickboxer_,
  _Basic Instinct_, _No Way Out_, _The Godfather_, _Lady and the Tramp_,
  _Apocalypse Now_, _Missing in Action_, _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_,
  _Star Wars_, _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, _The Wizard of Oz_.


# House Party
- DIRCAMEO(Reginald Hudlin): thief chased by the doberman.
- CAMEO(Washington Hudlin [producer]): thief chased by the doberman.


# How to Marry a Millionaire
- Lauren Bacall mentions ``that old man in _The African Queen_'', who is her
  husband (Humphrey Bogart), and Betty Grable's character does not recognize
  a recording by her bandleader spouse Harry James.


# Howling, The
- All the characters have the names of ``wolfman-movie'' directors.
- CAMEO(John Sayles [screenwriter]): morgue attendant


# Hudson Hawk
- The tones that the telephones make are the same as the ones used in
  _Our Man Flint_ and _In Like Flint_.  James Coburn appears in all three
  movies.


# 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.
- The teddy bear that Jack Ryan carries with him on a plane at the very end of
  the film is the same one that John McClane (Bruce Willis) is carrying with
  him on the plane at the beginning of _Die Hard_, also directed by John
  McTiernan. The end credits list him as ``Stanley (as Himself)''


# 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).


# I Love You to Death
- CAMEO(Phoebe Cates): one of Joey's girlfriends.  Joey is played by Kevin
  Kline, who is married to Phoebe Cates.


# Ice Pirates, The
- CAMEO(Max Von Sydow):


# In the Line of Fire
- John Malkovich improvised the scene where he puts his mouth into the gun.
  Director Wolfgang Peterson liked it so much he left it in the film.
- The 63-year old Clint Eastwood (with the help of a safety belt) actually did
  hang six stories above the ground on the ledge scene, although stuntmen did
  the jump and the fall onto the fire escape.


# In This Our Life
- CAMEO(Walter Huston): bartender
- DIRTRADE(John Huston): [father]


# Indecent Proposal
- Demi Moore's character is reading ``The Firm'', which was to be Paramount
  Pictures' next big film.  The secretary at the real-estate office where
  she works is reading ``Backlash'', a book which criticizes director Adrian
  Lyne for his portrayal of women in previous films.


# Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Begins with a shot of a rock in Utah which is reminiscent of the Paramount
  Pictures logo.  See also (_Raiders of the Lost Ark_, and
  _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_)
- 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_.
- When making _Star Wars_, George Lucas owned a dog named ``Indiana''.
- 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.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Begins with a shot of a mountain on a gong which is reminiscent of the
  Paramount Pictures logo.  See also (_Raiders of the Lost Ark_, and
  _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_)
- Short Round was named after screenwriter Willard Huyck's dog, which was named
  after the orphan in _The Steel Helmet_.
- 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.
- Rehash of the ``shooting the swordsman'' joke from _Raiders of the Lost Ark_.
- Suspension bridge only shown from one side, to avoid showing the Grand Coulee
  Dam.
- Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg are married.
- 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.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Innerspace
- Repeated rabbit motif: Tuck's apartment, etc [more!]
- The computers in the lab display Apple 2 assembly language listing from the
  ROM monitor.


# Innocent Blood
- Renamed ``A French Vampire in America'' in some countries, after a bad
  reception in the US (and to cash in on Landis'
  _An American Werewolf in London_). [Australia, Italy, and which other
  countries?]
- One scene shows a TV set that is showing Alfred Hitchcock's cameo in
  _The Paradine Case_.
- CAMEO(Dario Argento [art director]): the nurse in the ambulance. [credited?]
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: 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): [ipanema]: the music during the strip scene.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: 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): [Jeff Goldblum]'s boss.
- CAMEO(Johnathan Demme): FBI agent
- CAMEO(Lawrence Kasdan): FBI agent
- CAMEO(Jonathan Lynn): FBI agent
- CAMEO(David Bowie): British hit man who puts a gun in Jeff Goldblum's
  character's mouth.
- CAMEO(Don Siegel):
- CAMEO(Jack Arnold): the guy in the elevator whose dog gets shot. [credited?]
- CAMEO(Waldo Salt): the scriptwriter blacklisted for his socialist views.
- CAMEO(Roger Vadim):
- CAMEO(Amy Hecklerling): waitress at the Ship's Restuarant.


# Invaders from Mars (1986)
- A remake of _Invaders from Mars (1953)_.  The alien from the first film
  appears as a prop in the school basement, and Jimmy Hunt reappears as a
  middle-aged cop, saying ``I haven't been here since I was a kid''.


# Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- CAMEO(Don Siegel): taxi driver.  Siegel directed the original film, of
  which this film is a remake.
- CAMEO(Kevin McCarthy): man asking for help.  McCarthy was the star of the
  original film, of which this film is a remake.
- CAMEO(Robert Duvall): the priest on the swing.


# Ipcress File, The
- Christoper Plummer was originally considered for the lead role, but dropped
  out to star in _The Sound of Music_.
- In the Len Deighton novels the name of the lead character is never revealed.
  Caine suggests ``Harry'' and the film's executives put forward ``Palmer''.
- Palmer is the first action hero to wear glasses (Caine is short sighted in
  real life).
- IPCRESS is derived from ``Induction of Psychoneuroses by Conditioned Reflex
  under streSS''.


# Irma la Douce
- CAMEO(James Caan):


# Ironweed
- Jack Nicholson's contract included a clause which allowed him to leave the
  shooting location to attend all Los Angeles Lakers' basketball games.


# 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 facto couple much later.


# It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
- The following famous people have small roles:  Jimmy Durante, The Three
  Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Joe E Brown, Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Sid Caesar,
  Buddy Hackett, Jim Backus.


# It's a Small World
- DIRCAMEO(William Castle): cop


# Jacob's Ladder
- All SFX were filmed live, with no post-production.
- CAMEO(Macaulay Culkin): dead son of Jacob Singer.


# Jaws
- Sterling Hayden was the original choice for the role of Quint.  Hayden,
  however, was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid tax.
  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.
- The helicopter used for flying patrol is an Enstrom ``Tigershark''.
- 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.
- Preview audiences screamed when the head of a shark victim appears in the
  hole in the bottom of the boat.  Spielberg re-shot the scene in his swimming
  pool because he wanted them to ``scream louder''.
- Spielberg says that Dreyfuss is his alter ego.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# JFK
- The real Jim Garrison plays Earl Warren.
- In _Bull Durham_, Kevin Costner's character states ``...I believe Lee Harvey
  Oswald acted alone...''.


# Jigsaw (1949)
- CAMEO(Marlene Dietrich):
- CAMEO(Henry Fonda):
- CAMEO(John Garfield):
- CAMEO(Burgess Meredith):


# 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.


# Judgment at Nuremberg
- CAMEO(Judy Garland): Nazi victim [credited?]


# Judgment in Berlin
- CAMEO(Sean Penn): witness at trial. Sean Penn is the son of Arthur Penn,
  who directed this film.


# Jurassic Park
- William Hurt was offered the role of Dr Grant, but turned it down without
  reading the book or the script.
- The park software is written in Pascal; a program is clearly visible in one
  of the monitor closeups on the UNIX system.  The graphical interface
  recognized as a UNIX system is Silicon Graphics' ``3D File System
  Navigator''.
- Director Steven Spielberg was worried that ``computer graphics'' meant
  ``Nintendo'' type cartoon quality.  He originally only wanted the herd of
  gallimimus dinosaurs to be computer generated, but upon seeing ILM's
  T-Rex animation, he decided to shoot nearly all the dinosaur scenes using
  this method.  The animation was first plotted on an Amiga Toaster, and
  rendered for the film by Silicon Graphics' Indigo workstations.
- The full-sized animatron of the Tyrannosaurus Rex weighed about 13,000 to
  15,000 pounds.  During the shooting of the initial T-Rex attack scene which
  took place in a downpour and was shot on a soundstage, the latex that
  covered the T-Rex 'puppet' absorbed great amounts of water making it much
  heavier and harder to control.  Technicians worked throughout the night with
  blow driers trying to dry the latex out.  Eventually, they suspended a
  platform above the T-Rex, out of camera range, to keep the water off of it
  during filming.
- A baby triceratops was built for a scene where one of the kids rides it.
  Special effects technicians worked on this effect for a year but the scene
  was cut at the last minute as Spielberg thought it would ruin the pacing of
  the film.
- ``Dennis Nedry'' is an anagram of ``Nerdy Sinned''.
- Ellie Sattler says ``Something went wrong'' to Dr Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum).
  In _The Fly (1986)_, [Geena Davis] said this to Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum).
- In the egg-hatching scene, a new-born baby Triceratops was originally
  supposed to come out of the egg, but it was changed to a velociraptor.
- The film's original ending had Sam Neill's character [Horner?] left behind
  on the island.
- Scenes of the T-Rex attacking Horner and the kids while they ride down a
  river and through a running waterfall were apparently filmed, but Spielberg
  cut them as he thought they were not realistic enough.
- There was so many wires and rigging to control the velociraptor animatrons
  in the kitchen stalking scene that the child actors had to literally step
  over and around them while the scene was being filmed.  The kitchen set was
  greatly expanded from the original design to accommodate the velociraptors.
- Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about 10 feet tall, which was taller
  than they were known to be.  During filming, scientists discovered 10 feet
  tall velociraptors.
- A scene of Ellie pulling the leaf off an extinct plant appeared in the
  film trailers but not the film itself.
- Fred Sorenson was the pilot who flew the crew off Kaui when the hurricane
  hit during production.  He played ``Jock'', the pilot who flew Harrison Ford
  (as Indiana Jones) away in the opening scene of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_,
  also directed by Spielberg.
- Spielberg was so confident with this film that he started making his next
  film (_Schindler's List_), placing post-production in the hands of George
  Lucas.  Computer animation was still being done in the week that the movie
  was released.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Kelly's Heroes
- The film's working title was ``The Warriors''.
- Director Brian G. Hutton (who had previously worked with Clint Eastwood on
  _Where Eagles Dare_) was forced to make a number of cuts to suit the then
  MGM boss James Aubrey.


# Kentucky Fried Movie, The
- In the ``Feel-a-rama'' movie theatre, there is a poster advertising
  _Schlock_, also directed by John Landis.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: the title of the ``Feel-a-Rama'' movie.


# Killers, The (1964)
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): a cook at a diner


# Kindergarten Cop
- John Kimball swears in German as he carries his colleague into the house
  (``Das macht mich stinksauer! Jetzt bin ich sauer!'', which means ``I'm
  pissed as hell! Now I am pissed!'')


# 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.


# Knightriders
- CAMEO(Stephen King):
- CAMEO(Tabitha King):


# L.A. Story
- Harris (Steve Martin) quotes poems that Martin previously quoted in
  _The Man with Two Brains_.
- John lithgow played the part of Harry Zel, a movie agent that Harris contacts
  after being fired.  The part was cut, but there are still references to his
  character in the film: during the freeway shoot-out, and in the "California
  Cuisine" luncheon.
- Scenes where Harris is told that ``skipping is the perfect compromise'', and
  where Harris skips across the street were shown in trailers but not in the
  movie.
- CAMEO(Woody Harrelson): Harris' boss at the TV station
- CAMEO(Rick Moranis): the grave digger.
- CAMEO(Chevy Chase): important guest (Christopher Carlos) at L'Idiot.
- CAMEO(Terry Jones): Sara's mother (voice only)


# Lady in Red, The
- CAMEO(Robert Forster):


# Lady L
- DIRCAMEO(Peter Ustinov):


# 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]


# Last Action Hero
- References to: _Die Hard_, _Commando_, _The Terminator_,
  _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, _Basic Instinct_, _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial_,
  _Amadeus_, _The Running Man_, _Total Recall_, _Jurassic Park_,
  _Blade Runner_.
- Many of the ``props'' in the film are made by ``Acme''.
- Contains intentional continuity errors.
- The words ``A Franco Columbu film'' appear on the screen at the beginning of
  Jack Slater IV.  Columbu is a legendary bodybuilder friend of
  Schwarzenegger's.
- The schoolteacher who praises Laurence Olivier's performance was played by
  [?], who is Olivier's widow.
- After [Charles Dance] murders the car mechanic and wants to ``confess'', you
  can see someone in the background carrying a pair of recently stolen shoes.
- The following people are listed in the credits as having a cameo appearance:
  Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Tina Turner,
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!''


# Last Boy Scout, The
- The movie that Darian is watching on TV is _Lethal Weapon_, which was also
  written by Shane Black.
- Damon Wayan's character's comment about traveling back in time if the BMW
  keeps up its speed is a reference to _Back to the Future_.


# 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.


# Lawnmower Man, The
- Early versions of the film alluded that they were related to a Stephen King
  work.  King did write a short story called ``The Lawnmower Man'', but it was
  completely different to the movie.  King sued the film makers, and had his
  name removed from the film.


# Lawrence of Arabia
- Although more than 200[?] minutes long, no women have speaking roles in this
  film.


# League of Their Own, A
- John Lovitz had a more substantial role, but it was cut.
- Debra Winger was originally going to appear in the film, but backed out when
  Madonna was signed.
- Tom Hanks gained much weight in preparation for his role.
- The old Dottie and Kit are played by other actresses, but their voices
  are dubbed over by Geena Davis and Lori Petty.
- The characters at the hall of fame and seen playing after the game are
  real players from the league portrayed in the film.


# Let's Make Love
- CAMEO(Gene Kelly):
- CAMEO(Bing Crosby):
- CAMEO(Milton Berle):


# Lethal Weapon 3
- Director Richard Donner is an animal-rights and pro-choice activist, and
  placed many posters and stickers for these causes in the film.  Of note are
  the T-shirt worn by one of Murtagh's daughters (the actress' idea), and
  an 18-wheeler with an anti-fur slogan on the side.
- Murtagh and Riggs drive past a cinema advertising _Radio Flyer_, also
  directed by Richard Donner.


# Licence to Kill
- The film's working title was ``License Revoked'' but was later changed when
  it was found to confuse test audiences in America.  Titled ``The Cancelled
  License'' in Japan.
- The film was originally to be set in China but production difficulties
  became insurmountable.
- CAMEO(Pedro Armendariz Jr.): Kerim Bay's son.  Pedro Armendariz Sr. played
  Kerim Bay in _From Russia with Love_.
- David Henderson returns as Felix Leiter [sp?], a role he first played in
  _Live and Let Die_.
- At the end of the film, the credits say ``James Bond will return''.



# Life of Brian
- Numerous title changes: ``Monty Python's Life of Brian'', etc.
- More footage of the Judean People's Front crack suicide squad was filmed but
  not included.  Also edited out was a section during the kidnapping of
  Pilate's wife where she thumps Brian on the head.
- CAMEO(George Harrison): Mr Papadopolous, owner of ``The Mount'', who shakes
  hands with Brian and gives a very Liverpudlian ``'ullo''.


# Lifeboat
- Much of the cast caught pneumonia from constant exposure to cold water.
- 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).


# Light Sleeper
- In one scene, John Letour (Willem Dafoe) is shown sitting on his bed
  watching old photographs and listening to some CDs. One of the CDs is the
  soundtrack from Walter Hill's _Streets of Fire_, which was Willem Dafoe's
  first starring role.
- The film briefly shown on TV in Susan Sarandon's home at the beginning is
  Kenneth Anger's cult movie _Scorpio Rising_.


# Limelight
- 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 on stage 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.


# Limit Up
- CAMEO(Sally Kellerman): night club singer


# Little Mermaid, The (1989)
- Some versions of the videotape had the likeness of a penis on the cover.
  It's the highest tower in the middle of the castle in the background.
- 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 Alyssa Milano?]


# Live and Let Die
- Roger Moore's first appearance as James Bond.
- UA wanted an American to play Bond: Burt Reynolds, Paul Newman and Robert
  Redford were all considered. Producer Cubby Broccoli, however, insisted that
  the part should be played by a Briton and puts forward the name of Roger
  Moore.  Sean Connery had previously turned down $5.5 million to play the
  role.
- Moore should not have been available for the part since he was currently
  committed to Sir Lew Grade's ``The Persuaders'' with Tony Curtis, but when
  The show flopped in the US he was prematurely released from his contract.
- All of Roger Moore's contracts include an unlimited supply of hand rolled
  Monte Cristo cigars (in one 007 movie the final bill comes to 3176.50
  pounds).
- Live and Let Die is the first 007 score not to involve John Barry, former
  Beatles producer George Martin does the job instead.
- Unlike the previous four Bond movies, Live and Let Die is not filmed in
  Panavision.
- The film is titled ``The Dead Slave'' in Japan.
- The power-boat jump over the causeway set the world record for distance:
  110 feet. The second boat was not scripted to collide with the police car,
  but after this happened while shooting the stunt, the script was changed to
  accommodate it.


# Living Daylights, The
- Timothy Dalton's first appearance as James Bond.  Pierce Brosnan was the hot
  favorite to replace Roger Moore but was ruled out because of his
  contractual obligations to the US TV series ``Remington Steele''. Other
  actors considered included Sam Neill and Finlay Light.
- Maryam d'Abo gets a lead role after screen tests with Pierce Brosnan.
- The film's title becomes ``The Breeze of Death'' in Germany.


# 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.


# Lords of the Deep
- CAMEO(Roger Corman [producer]):


# Love Is Better Than Ever
- CAMEO(Gene Kelly):


# Macbeth (1948)
- One of the witches is played by Brainerd Duffield, a man.


# Mad Max
- [What's the car he drives?  The ``last of the V8 Interceptors.'']


# Mad Max 2
- Released as _The Road Warrior_ in the United States, and was dubbed with
  American accents.


# Mad Max 3 Beyond Thunderdome
- The script called for Aunty (?) (Tina Turner) to drive a vehicle.  All of the
  vehicles were stick-shifts, which Turner couldn't drive, so a special
  automatic had to be constructed.


# Made in America
- The African Craft Shop is in the same street as a cinema advertising ``A
  Paula Prentiss Retrospective''.  Prentiss is the wife of director Richard
  Benjamin.


# Made in Heaven
- CAMEO(Debra Winger): Emmert, the apparently male entity who ``runs things''
  in heaven.


# Magnificent Seven, The
- Borrowed its plot from _The Seven Samurai_.


# Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- George Raft was originally cast as Sam Spade.
- CAMEO(Walter Huston): Captain Jacobi
- DIRTRADE(John Huston): [father]


# 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 plot calls for a man to be discovered as ``not Moroccan'' because he was
  wearing black makeup.  The makeup artists couldn't find a black substance
  that would come off easily, and so they painted the fingers of the other man
  white, so that he would leave pale streaks on the other man's skin.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
  and consists of 124 shots.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his eredity to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are _Rear Window_,
  _The Trouble with Harry_, _Rope_, _Vertigo_ and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1953)_.


# Man with the Golden Gun, The
- Title role originally offered to Jack Palance, but was eventually played by
  Christopher Lee.  Lee is author Ian Fleming's cousin.  See also _Dr. No_.
- Britt Ekland auditioned for the role of Scaramanga's mistress, but director
  Guy Hamilton offered her the role of Mary Goodnight after seeing her in a
  bikini.
- J W Pepper (Clifton James) is a sheriff 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 spiral ``Javelin Jump'' was inspired from an American Motors Corporation
  promotional tour which was running around the time the movie was made.  The
  jump was performed of a modified 1974 Hornet X: special suspension, a six
  cylinder engine (for reduced weight), centered steering wheel, and a special
  fuel system to stop the car stalling when turning over.  During AMC's
  promotional tour, they had a few mishaps (including a roof landing when the
  car stalled on approach to the ramp), but the stunt that appeared in the
  film was done on the first take.  A group of university students came up with
  the original idea, and used a computer to calculate the necessary
  environment.  Although the bridge halves look dilapidated, they were
  constructed to these 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.
- 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.
- First 007 movie to be shown at the Kremlin.
- The last 007 movie co-produced by Harry Saltzman.  Following many creative
  differences, he sold his 50% share in the Bond franchise to United Artists.


# 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
- Frank Sinatra broke one of his fingers in the fight sequence with Henry
  Silva.
- Angela Landsbury plays the lead character's mother, even though she is
  actually younger than him.
- All the members of the platoon in Korea are named after cast and crew of
  the TV show ``You'll Mever Get Rich''.


# Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Lead role written for Mia Farrow, but Dianne Keaton got the role following
  Farrow's breakup with the film's director Woody Allen.


# Manhunter (1986)
- The events in this film occur before the events in
  _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 in jest: ``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.


# Maurice
- CAMEO(Helena Bonham Carter): ???.  Carter stared in director James Ivory's
  previous film, _A Room With a View_.


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


# Mean Streets
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): the hit man who shoots Robert De Niro'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_.


# Men at Work
- The two hit men drive a car with a number plate ``HITMEN''.


# Metropolis
- Some versions of this silent film feature a soundtrack produced by Georgio
  Moroder, featuring (among others) Freddie Mercury.  Some versions shown on TV
  also are colorized.


# Midnight Cowboy
- CAMEO(M. Emmet Walsh):


# Midnight Run
- Robert De Niro spent time with bounty hunters as part of his preparation for
  this role.
- Charles Grodin changed a line in the screenplay from ``As an accountant'' to
  ``As your accountant'' to show the growing bond between the two characters.


# Midway
- Originally shown in Sensaround, a system which had special low-pitch woofers
  for sound effects.


# Miller's Crossing
- CAMEO(Frances McDormand): the mayor's secretary


# Misery
- A video of _When Harry Met Sally_ (also directed by Rob Reiner) is visible
  in the general store.
- The ``guy who went mad in a hotel nearby'' is a reference to _The Shining_,
  also based on a novel written by Stephen King.
- CAMEO(J.T. Walsh): park ranger
- DIRCAMEO(Rob Reiner): the helicopter pilot.


# Mo' Better Blues
- Joi Lee is director Spike Lee's sister.  At the wedding, her character is
  given away a character played by their real-life father, Bill Lee.


# 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.
- Some major scenes scripted, but never filmed: [?]
- The gorilla hand turning the pages was director Terry Gilliam's.
- At the beginning of the ``Bring out your dead'' scene, two nuns with gigantic
  mallets 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.
- Many scenes were filmed in a city park beside one of London's busiest
  intersections.
- Many subtle instances of cat abuse: during the ``bring out your dead'' scene,
  the old woman the knights say ``Ni!'' at, etc.
- Most of the castles were cardboard cutouts, and indeed the trailer shows
  one of them falling over.
  [more?].


# Moon Over Parador
- DIRCAMEO(Paul Mazursky): in drag


# Moonraker (1979)
- Drax' Venice laboratory has an electronic lock on it.  The sequence which
  unlocks the door is the hailing tune from
 _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_.
- Despite the previous 007 film telling us that James Bond will return in
  _For Your Eyes Only_, Broccoli choose _Moonraker_ as the next installment
  after the success of _Star Wars_.
- The role of Drax was originally offered to James Mason.
- Lois Chiles had originally been offered the role of Anya in
  _The Spy Who Loved Me_, but turned down the part when she decided to take
  temporary retirement. She got the role of Mary Goodhead by chance when she
  was given the seat next to Lewis Gilbert on a flight.
- Richard Kiel returns as Jaws, a role he first played in
  _The Spy Who Loved Me_, his only line is ``Well, here's to us.''


# Moonwalker
- The bad guy's name is ``Frank Lideo''.  One of the film's executive
  producers is Frank Deleo, Michael Jackson's long-time manager.


# 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.


# Mrs. Doubtfire
- When the family is looking for Mrs. Doubfire's replacement, the last name
  they cross off their list of applicants is ``Paula DuPree''.  Paula DuPree
  was the film's associate producer.


# Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
- DIRTRADE(Kenneth Branagh): [doyle]: Balthasar.
- Much of the singing was not re-recorded.


# Muppet Christmas Carol, The
- There is a store called ``Micklewhite''.  Michael Caine's real name is
  Maurice Micklewhite.


# 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 Brilliant Career
- DIRCAMEO(Gilliam Armstrong): cabaret backup singer


# My Fair Lady
- Audrey Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.


# Nashville
- CAMEO(Elliot Gould):
- CAMEO(Julie Christie):


# National Lampoon's Animal House
- 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''.


# Natural, The
- Loosely based on the story of Sir Percival from the Arthurian myths:
  - The broken bat = the broken sword
  - Pop Fisher = The Fisher King
  - The team called ``The Knights''


# Never Say Never Again
- The film's title was originally ``Warhead'' but was changed and become an in
  joke on Connery's refusal to play 007 ever again.  He was eventually paid
  $5 million, which made him the highest paid British actor to date.
- Orson Wells was originally going to play Blofeld, and Trevor Howard was to
  appear as ``M''.
- Author Kevin McClory (co-writer of _Thunderball_) had won the legal right to
  make his own 007 film as long as production started after 1975 and the story
  was based on _Thunderball_.
- McClory enlisted the help of Len Deighton and Connery when writing the
  script, prior to Connery agreeing to return as Bond.
- An early plot had SPECTRE attacking Wall Street from the sewers of New York
  in giant mechanical sharks.
- There is a rumor that Timothy Dalton is visible in the casino.  Dalton would
  later play James Bond.


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


# Night My Number Came Up
- The script is based on a personal account by Sir Victor Goddard.


# Night of the Creeps
- All the characters are named after horror film directors.


# Night On Earth
- The name of New York taxi driver (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is taken from a member
  of the crew of _Down By Law_, also directed by Jim Jarmusch.


# Night They Raided Minsky's, The
- The first cut of the film was considered disastrous by all involved.  Film
  editor Ralph Rosenblum worked for more than a year to save it, with director
  William Friedkin long gone.  The extensive use of period film clips was the
  editor's idea.  The technique of returning from these clips to the movie by
  starting with a B&W version of a shot and changing to color was invented
  accidentally when the editor's assistant couldn't find the color copy of a
  piece of film fast enough.


# Night to Remember, A
- The line ``Still here, Miss Evans?'' is a reference to one of the two ladies
  in first class who didn't make it off the Titanic.


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


# Nightmare on Elm Street, A
- Wes Craven claims to have named Freddy Kruger after a kid who bullied him in
  school.
- 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_.
- There is a ripped poster of _The Evil Dead_ visible.  See also:
  _The Evil Dead_, _The Hills Have Eyes_.


# Nine 1/2 Weeks
- [Kim Basinger] wears white or colorful clothing except when she is with
  [Mickey Rourke], when she wears black or grey.  See also _Fatal Attraction_.


# 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 title refers either to the fact that the characters travel ``Northwest
  Air Lines'' or Hamlet's line ``I am mad but north by northwest'', where he
  tries to convince people of his sanity.  The working title was ``The Man in
  Lincoln's Nose''.
- 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.
- The song that's playing in the lobby of the hotel before Cary Grant enters
  the Oak Bar is ``It's a Most Unusual Day''.


# Northern Pursuit
- Errol Flynn (was involved in a sex scandal) tells the heroine that she is
  the only girl he has ever loved, and then turns to the camera and says
  ``What am I saying?''


# 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) previously appeared (and was killed) in another
  James Bond film (_The Man With the Golden Gun_).  Faye Dunaway and Sybil
  Danning were considered for the role.
- Vijay Amritraj is a professional tennis player in real life.
- The ``company'' taxi used to pick up 007 was specially constructed at
  Pinewood Studios, and capable of speeds in excess of 70mph.
- Robert Brown appears as ``M'' for the first time.


# Old Dark House, The
- The father is played by Elspeth Dudgeon, a female.


# 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.


# On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- At 140 minutes OHMSS in the longest 007 movie.
- George Lazenby appears for the first and last time as James Bond.
- Originally intended to follow _Goldfinger_ then _Thunderball_.
- Lazenby was previously a car salesman with a part time job as a male model.
- The search for a new Bond was compared with the search for Scarlett O'Hara.
  Lazenby was determined to get the role, he spent most of what money he had
  on a Saville Row suit and a Rolex watch, then while having a Bond type
  haircut.  Cubby Broccoli walked into the same salon, made the connection and
  later offered him the part.
- Blofeld's headquarters was a partially completed restaurant on top of Mount
  Schilthorn. The owners allowed filming on condition EON paid $125,000 to
  refit the interior and construct a helicopter pad. When the restaurant opened
  it was given the name Piz Gloria used in the film.
- Actors considered for the part of Tracy Draco included Bridget Bardot and
  Catherine Deneuve. Diana Rigg was finally chosen partly because of her
  appearance as Emma Peel in British TV's spy series ``The Avengers''.
- Lazenby and Rigg were rumored to have had a bad relationship on set.  One
  of the more ridiculous suggestions was that Rigg ate garlic before filming
  the love scenes.
- Peter Hunt had previously edited many 007 movies, the job of editor (and
  second unit directing) went to John Glenn.
- Lyrics were originally intended for John Barry's main theme, but were later
  rejected in favor of Louis Armstrong's memorable rendition of ``We Have All
  The Time In The World''.
- Lazenby was originally offered a three picture deal, but when this film
  performed badly at the box office he rejected the contract believing that
  being associated with a series which he thought had no commercial future
  would harm his career.


# 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 rumor that Jack Nicholson underwent ECT therapy during the
  scene were his character does.


# Outsiders, The (1983)
- The letter jacket that the ``soc'' is wearing as he challenges [Patrick
  Swayze] is the letter jacket from the High School that author S. E. Hinton
  attended.
- CAMEO(S. E. Hinton [author]): nurse.


# Overboard (1987)
- CAMEO(Garry Marshall [producer]):
- CAMEO(Hector Elizondo [producer]): skipper


# 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 either
  Baldwin's ``unprofessional behavior'' during the making of
  _The Hunt for Red October_, or the rumor that he wanted $4 million.  The
  official version is that Baldwin had a scheduling conflict.  Gates McFadden
  played Cathy Ryan in _The Hunt for Red October_, but was played by Bonnie
  Bedelia in _Patriot Games_.
- The novel on which it was based (by Tom Clancy) had the Prince and Princess
  of Wales as the target of the attempted kidnapping.
- The line ``There's never been a terrorist attack on American soil'' was
  included in trailers for movie, but was left out of theatrical release
  because it sounded too much like an invitation or dare.


# Pet Sematary
- CAMEO(Stephen King): minister at the funeral.


# Phantom of the Paradise
- The studio owner Mary Philbin was named after the start of
  _Phantom of the Opera (1925)_.


# 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 Happiest 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].  He also uses some
  lines which surfaced in Pink Floyd's next album, ``The Final Cut''.  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 Final Cut'' was originally planned to be a soundtrack of the film.
  A single with ``When the Tygers Broke Free'' and ``Bring the Boys Back Home''
  was released in the UK, stating that these songs were taken from the
  forthcoming album.
- 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, and his nipples during the shaving scene.
- 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.  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.


# Pink Panther, The
- The role of Inspector Clouseau was originally offered to Peter Ustinov.
  Despite being relatively unknown internationally, Peter Sellers was offered
  the part, and was paid 90000 pounds.
- Sellers models the character of Clouseau on the trademark of a box
  of matches which includes an image of Captain Matthew Webb, who in 1875
  became the first person to swim the channel (his heroic moustache and
  proud stance are both mimicked).  To lose weight, Sellers took dieting pills
  for a year.
- In the bath scene with Capucine and Robert Wagner, an industrial strength
  foaming agent is used which burns both of the stars' skin.  Wagner, who is
  completely immersed at one point, becomes blind for four weeks.
- The ``sequel'', _A Shot in the Dark_ actually premiered before
  _The Pink Panther_.


# 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
- Credit for directing this turkey, featuring mechanical flying piranhas, was
  given to James Cameron (who later went on to make _The Terminator_,
  _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_, _Aliens_, and _The Abyss_).  Most of the work
  was actually performed by Ovidio Assonitis, the film's producer and prolific
  film-maker. Assonitis was dissatisfied with Cameron's progress after the
  first week and took over - Cameron assisted and the two shared in editing.


# 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 tracking shot (6.5 minutes) includes people talking about famous
  long tracking shots in old movies.  The scene was rehearsed for a day, shot
  for half a day.  Fifteen takes were done, five were printed, and the third
  one was used in the film.  The writers pitching stories in that shot are
  relating real stories.
- 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 (with Scott Glen and Lily Tomlin) 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_.


# Point of No Return
- CAMEO(Michael Watkins [cinematographer]): last guard at the gate during the
  escape.
- DIRCAMEO(John Badham): room-service waiter.


# 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 Steven 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 Schwarzenegger): ``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 working title was ``3000''.  A early version of the script had [Julia
  Roberts] addicted to cocaine; part of the deal was that she had to stay off
  it for a week.  She needed to money to go to Disneyland.  [Richard Gere]
  eventually throws her out of his car and drives off.  The movie was scripted
  to end with [Roberts] and her prostitute friend on the bus to Disneyland.
- 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.


# Prince of Darkness
- The credits list ``Martin Quartermass'' as the screenwriter, but it was
  actually John Carpenter.  The pseudonym is a homage to Nigel Kneale's
  character ``Professor Quartermass''.


# Producers, The
- Mel Brooks' voice is dubbed in for a singer in ``Springtime for Hitler''


# Psycho
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 4 minutes in wearing a cowboy hat outside
  Janet Leigh's office.
- Doris Day was considered for the role of Marion Crane, but turned it down,
  saying she would be uncomfortable doing the opening bedroom scene in front of
  the camera and crew.
- American newcomer Joan Fontaine was treated with disdain by the rest of the
  British cast.  Laurence Olivier was particularly harsh, saying to Alfred
  Hitchcock at one point, ``Fontaine's horrible, ole boy!''.
- 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_).
- 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 did not involve Anthony
  Perkins at all.
- 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 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. This was unheard of back then as people were used to just
  coming in at any point during a movie.  The reason for this was that the
  film was advertised as starring Janet Leigh, but her character is killed in
  the first half of the film.
- 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 squashing 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 Jack meets his girlfriend was
  ad-libbed.
- De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci's rib in a sparring scene.  This shot
  appears in the film: De Niro hits Pesci in the side, Pesci groans, and there
  is a quick cut to another angle.
- De Niro 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
- Begins with a shot of a peak in the jungle which is reminiscent of the
  Paramount Pictures logo.  See also (_Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_,
  and _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_)
- Tom Selleck originally cast as Indiana Jones.
- Frank Marshall (the film's producer) played the airline pilot. [?????]
- Jock's airplane at the beginning has the registration number ``OB-3PO'',
  referring 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 filmed 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.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# 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.


# Raising Arizona
- [supposedly full of in-jokes and movie references]


# Rambo: First Blood Part II
- The script was written by James Cameron, who went on to direct _Aliens_.


# 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 song ``To See You is to Love You'' is playing when [James Stewart] toasts
  Ms. Lonely Hearts.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his eredity to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are _Rear Window_,
  _The Trouble with Harry_, _Rope_, _Vertigo_ and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1953)_.
- 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 actors were tested for the role that eventually went to Joan
  Fontaine.  One of them was Vivien Leigh, who Laurence Olivier was pressing
  for as they were a couple at the time.


# Rebel Without a Cause
- The three main actors all died unnaturally: James Dean was killed in a car
  accident,  Natalie Wood drowned, and Sal Mineo was stabbed.


# Red Heat (1988)
- First western film crew to be allowed to film in Moscow's Red Square.  Many
  of the Moscow scenes, as well as the ``bath-house'' scene were filmed in
  Hungary.
- The bad guy who [Arnold Schwarzeneggar] shoots on the steps in Moscow was
  played by one of Hungary's leading action-movie actors.  In an interview,
  he said that until he met Arnold Schwarzeneggar and the others in the film
  he thought of himself as a muscular and tough actor.  He subsequently
  described himself as a ``small potato''.


# Repo Man
- Many of the characters are named after beers.
- All purchasable items are labeled 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 Christmas 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 shrimp,
  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.
- Graffiti behind the punks dancing in the alley says ``Circle Jerks'', which
  is the name of the band which appears later in the film.
- Lite gives Otto a book called ``Diuretics'' to ``help change your life''.
  This is a reference to L. Ron Hubbard's ``Dianetics''.
- When the entourage enters Bud's hospital room looking for him, the preacher
  on the television can be heard saying ``He has risen!''
- 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''.


# Repulsion
- DIRCAMEO(Roman Polanski): spoons player


# Reservoir Dogs
- The actor who plays the lady that [Tim Roth] (Tim Roth) shoots was Tim Roth's
  dialog coach.  Roth insisted that she take the role, as she was very hard on
  him.


# 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.
- Luke's hand gets shot.  Leia gets shot in the shoulder.  Luke cuts off Darth
  Vader's hand.  See also _Star Wars_ and _The Empire Stries Back_.
- The dancer that Jabba drops into the Rancor pit loses her top as she falls
  in.
- 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.  Note Han's line when Calrissian leaves in the Falcon: ``...like
  I'm not going to see her again...''
- It is rumored that a different ending was shot, but discarded later
  on. It featured the (long awaited) marriage between Leia Organa and
  Han Solo. Dark Horse4s Comic ``Dark Empire'' is based on that fact and
  presents Han and Leia as a married couple.
- 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 secret
  sound stage (all his lines are from within a fighter cockpit). [rumor]
- 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.  Klaatu is the character who tries to
  push Luke into Sarlacc.
- The name ``Ewok'' is never used to refer to the teddy-bear creatures in the
  film, though it does appear in the credits.
- The following characters ``have a bad feeling about this'': C-3PO, Han, and
  Lando.
- 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 actors got off wearing ``Revenge of the Ewok'' t-shirts.
- Darth Vader's body was played by David Prowse, his voice by James Earl Jones,
  and his face by Sebastian Shaw.
- One of the songs that the Ewoks sing sounds like: ``Det luktar flingor har'',
  which is Swedish for ``It smells 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''.
  Some authentic pre-release movie posters actually had ``Revenge'', and are
  worth a lot of money today.
- Portions of the partially completed Death Star model resemble the San
  Francisco skyline.
- FTP site wpi.wpi.edu is the official rec.arts.sf.starwars archive.


# Reversal of Fortune
- CAMEO(Julie Hagerty):


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


# Rising Sun
- Michael Crichton, author of the book and co-author of the screenplay, wrote
  Connor with Sean Connery in mind.


# Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Scenes in trailers, but not in the film:
 - Robin shoots an arrow that flies around tree, brakes, swerves, and
   eventually completely misses target on a tree, splitting the tree in
   half.
 - Prince John is in the bath and commands his bubble-blowers for more
   bubbles.  When they comply, he says something to the effect of ``That's
   right.  Now we've got it going.''
- There is a rumor that the idea for this film came when a studio executive
  turned to his son and jokingly demanded ``Give me an idea for a sure-fire
  hit, or else!''  The boy replied ``That's easy.  Do a parody of Robin Hood.''
- The hangman in this film is played by the same man (?) who played the hangman
  in _Blazing Saddles_, also directed by Mel Brooks.
- There is a quick shot of the prince's guards coming out of a hallway.
  The camera angle and marching drums are almost exactly like the opening
  credits of the TV series ``Hogan's Heroes''.
- CAMEO(Patrick Stewart): King Richard


# Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Rumour has it that Kevin Costner wanted to use a British accent, but
  director Kevin Reynolds didn't want him to.  Supposedly, Costner would affect
  the accent when he was arguing with Reynolds, but not when they were in
  agreement.
- CAMEO(Sean Connery): King Richard.  Connery got $250,000 for two days
  work.  He donated it to charity.


# Robocop
- The computer that Robocop looks up criminal records on is actually a Northern
  Telecom telephone switch.
- 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.
- Robocop's new directives are:
 - DIRECTIVE 233  Restrain hostile feelings
 - DIRECTIVE 234  Promote positive attitude
 - DIRECTIVE 235  Suppress aggressiveness
 - DIRECTIVE 236  Promote pro-social values
 - DIRECTIVE 246  Don't rush traffic lights (repeated below)
 - DIRECTIVE 254  Encourage awareness
 - DIRECTIVE 256  Discourage harsh language
 - DIRECTIVE 258  Commend sincere efforts
 - DIRECTIVE 261  Talk things out
 - DIRECTIVE 262  Avoid Orion meetings
 - DIRECTIVE 266  Smile
 - DIRECTIVE 267  Keep an open mind
 - DIRECTIVE 268  Encourage participation
 - DIRECTIVE 273  Avoid stereotyping
 - DIRECTIVE 278  Seek non-violent solutions
 - DIRECTIVE 238  Avoid destructive behavior
 - DIRECTIVE 239  Be accessible
 - DIRECTIVE 240  Participate in group activities
 - DIRECTIVE 241  Avoid interpersonal conflicts
 - DIRECTIVE 242  Avoid premature value judgements
 - DIRECTIVE 243  Pool opinions before expressing yourself
 - DIRECTIVE 244  Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility
 - DIRECTIVE 245  If you haven't got anything nice to say don't talk
 - DIRECTIVE 246  Don't rush traffic lights
 - DIRECTIVE 247  Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or
                  other cars
 - DIRECTIVE 248  Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not
 - DIRECTIVE 249  Don't be oversensitive to the hostility and negativity of
                  others
 - DIRECTIVE 250  Don't walk across a ballroom floor swinging your arms
- In the scene where Robocop was being reprogrammed by Dr. Juilette Faxx,
  the following hex numbers scroll quickly up the screen: ``50 45 54 45 20 4B
  55 52 41 4E 20 49 53 20 41 20 47 52 45 41 54 20 47 55 59''.  Converted to
  ASCII text, it reads: ``PETE KURAN IS A GREAT GUY''.  Peter Kuran was the
  special effects photograper.


# Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
- Many of the guests at Brad and Janet's wedding are Transylvanians.


# Romancing the Stone
- DIRTRADE(Robert Zemeckis): [citation]: At the beginning of the movie, when
  Joan Wilder has finished the book, she prepares ``dinner'' for her cat. This
  scene resembles a well-known commercial for cat-food.


# Rope
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): on a neon sign in the view from the apartment
  window.
- Based on the try life Leopold-Loeb murder in the 1920s.
- 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
  color of the sunset.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his eredity to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are _Rear Window_,
  _The Trouble with Harry_, _Rope_, _Vertigo_ and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1953)_.


# Rose, The
- Loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin.


# Rosemary's Baby
- CAMEO(William Castle [producer]): man near phone booth.


# Roxanne
- This movie is a remake of _Cyrano de Bergerac_.  Martin's character (C D
  Bales), has the same initials.
- C D Bales 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''.
- Author Richard Bachman is Stephen King.
- CAMEO(Franco Columbu):
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``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
- Rated R when first released in the US, subsequently edited and re-released as
  PG[-13?].


# Say Anything...
- CAMEO(Lois Chiles):


# 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.  He said that he made himself appear blind by not allowing his eyes
  to focus on anything.
- During the disciplinary meeting, the headmaster tells Slade ``You are out of
  order!'', a famous line told to another of Pacino's characters in
  _...And Justice for All_.
- SMITHEE(Martin Brest): disowned the version shown on airlines.


# Schlock
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: promoted twice during the newscasts for the
  ``movie at 6 on 6'', and on a poster in a theatre lobby.


# Scrooged
- At the end of the movie, when everybody is singing ``Put a little love in
  your heart'', [Bill Murray] says (among many other things): ``Feed me,
  Seymour!''  This is a reference to _Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)_, in which
  Murray has a small part.


# Sect, The
- Romero was named after George Romero, who writer/producer Dario Argento had
  just co-directed _Two Evil Eyes_ with.


# 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.
- CAMEO(Florence Henderson): Shake's one-night stand at the start.


# 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 Timberline lodge on Mt Hood in Oregon 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.  For the Italian version of the film, Kubrick used the
  phrase ``Il mattino ha l' oro in bocca'' (``He who wakes up early meets a
  golden day'').
- 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.


# Short Circuit
- at the beginning of the movie, you see a close-up of flowers on a green
  field, and then the tanks roll over them. This resembles James Cameron's
  style (see also _The Terminator_).
- the robots are designed very similar to the large fighting machines in the
  future battle scenes in _The Terminator_.


# 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
- The events in this film occur after the events in _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 entomologist 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.


# Silent Movie
- Marcel Marceau speaks the only word in this movie (``No!'') when refusing a
  role in the silent film.


# Singin' in the Rain
- The script was written after the songs, and so it had to generate a plot
  into which the songs would fit.
- Jean Hagen's voice can be heard through the overdubbed Debbie Reynolds.
- Francois Truffaut claims that Alfred Hitchcock's favorite scene in any movie
  is the one where, after Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly dance
  the ``Good morning, good morning'' scene, they land on an overturned sofa.
  As she falls, Reynolds' skirt lands a little too high up her thighs, and she
  quickly flips it back over her knees.


# Singles
- CAMEO(Tim Burton): video director
- CAMEO(Eric Stoltz): mime


# Sleeper
- Douglas Rain is the voice of the evil computer.  Rain provided the voice of
  HAL in _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and _2010: Odyssey Two_.


# Sleepless in Seattle
- Obvious references to _An Affair to Remember_, Annie is nearly hit by a taxi.
- This film's director (Nora Ephron) wrote _When Harry Met Sally..._, which
  also starred Meg Ryan, and was directed by Rob Reiner, who appears in
  _Sleepless in Seattle_


# Sleepwalkers
- CAMEO(Mark Hamill): one of the police officers who enters the house at the
  beginning.
- CAMEO(Stephen King):  the cemetery keeper
- CAMEO(Tobe Hooper): technician


# Sneakers
- Dan Aykroyd's character wants a Winnebago.  Aykroyd co-wrote and starred as
  Elwood Blues in _The Blues Brothers_. That film featured ``The Good Ole
  Boys'', a country and western band which drive around in a large Winnebago
  that Elwood was responsible for the destruction of.
- There is a character called ``Officer Festrunk''.  Dan Aykroyd and Steve
  Martin used to play two ``wild and crazy Czechoslovakian'' guys in
  ``Saturday Night Live'' named the Festrunk brothers.


# Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 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.


# Something Wild (1986)
- The two old ladies in the re-sale shop are the mothers of David Byrne and
  director Jonathan Demme.


# Sommersby
- The cow is named ``Clarice'', which was the name of Jodie Foster's character
  in _The Silence of the Lambs_.


# Son in Law
- References to _Encino Man_.


# Spaceballs
- One of the ships parked at the diner is the the Millenium Falcon from
  _Star Wars_.
- 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''.


# 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
  dramatized 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 (Dwarfs
  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.
  [Question: are the scenes mentioned as ``edited out'' of the other two
  releases of Spartacus restored in the DC? I'm sure the ending features
  Douglas on the cross, with Simmonds showing him their baby. What about the
  graphic battle scene?]


# 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.


# Spies Like Us
- CAMEO(BB King): CIA agent at the drive-in.
- CAMEO(Ray Harryhausen): a surgeon.
- CAMEO(Frank Oz): test monitor.
- CAMEO(Terry Gilliam): a surgeon.
- CAMEO(Michael Apted):
- CAMEO(Costa-Gavras):
- CAMEO(Joel Coen):
- CAMEO(Martin Brest):
- CAMEO(Bob Swaim):
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: 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, this film 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 camera 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.


# Spy Who Loved Me, The
- The first 007 movie in which the theme song focuses on Bond, rather than
  the villain.
- First 007 movie to be filmed in Dolby stereo.
- $1 million of the $13.5 million budget was spent by production designer Ken
  Adam on building the largest sound stage in the world: 336'x139'x44'.  The
  set was used for the interior shots of Stromberg's supertanker.  The tank
  had a capacity of 1.2 million gallons .
- Fleming was so displeased with his novel that his contract with EON only
  allowed the title to be used.  One storyline had Blofeld returning, but Kevin
  McClory (who co-wrote _Thunderball_) threatened legal action, claiming that
  he had exclusive use of the SPECTRE concept.  At the same time, McClory
  begins work on his rival Bond movie ``Warhead'' (renamed
  _Never Say Never Again_).
- Rick Sylvester was paid $30,000 for the skiing stunt in the opening sequence.
- Jaws was played by Richard Kiel, who played an almost identical part a year
  earlier in _Silver Streak_.
- After the film's release, demand for white Lotus Esprits surges to the point
  that new customers had to be placed on a three year waiting list.


# 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 Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez were having a movie trivia contest on
  the set one day.  Estevez asked Dreyfuss to identify the movie that the line
  ``This is no boating accident'' was from.  Dreyfus didn't recognize the
  quote, despite the fact that he was the actor who said it in _Jaws_.
  Deciding that this was too good to pass up, this incident was re-enacted for
  the film.


# Stand by Me
- The names of all the towns in the movie (set in Oregon) are real places in
  Maine (where author Stephen King grew up and lives).


# Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- There are several books in the container that shelters Khan's followers on
  Ceti Alpha VI. Two of the titles are ``Moby Dick'' and ``King Lear'', and
  a lot of Khan's lines are directly taken from those books.
  In particular, the final monologue of Khan is identical to the last words
  of Captain Ahab from Melville's book.
- The ``Genesis'' sequence called for a long and massive explosion.  ILM rented
  the Cow Palace in San Francisco for the effect.  They covered the ceiling
  with a black cloth and placed the camera on the floor looking up at it.  The
  explosion would occur directly above the camera so the fall-out would appear
  to rush directly towards the point of view.  A special high-speed camera
  was constructed.  One of it's components was a spinning prism, which bent the
  image onto the film as it rushed past.  This increased exposure time without
  having to slow the frame rate.  The camera ran at 2,500 frames per second,
  which meant that the 0:01.20 long explosion would appear to take 1:40.


# 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 villain.
  During filming, they changed to the ``Search for God''.
- The surface of Shaka-Ri as viewed during reconnaissance by Captain Kirk was
  generated from an electron microscope image of a lobster's claw.


# 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 Trek: The Motion Picture
- When Spock travels through V'ger and sees all the incredible imagery,
  Darth Vader and Miss Piggy can be seen.  It comes right after his line
  ``Who or what are we dealing with?''.  Occurs 94 minutes into the film.


# Star Wars
- Director George Lucas had trouble getting funding for this movie, most
  studios thinking that people wouldn't go to see it.
- The Director's Guild of America (DGA) didn't like the fact that there were
  no specific credits at the beginning of the film.  They ``ordered'' Lucas
  to recut the film and put some credits at the beginning.  Lucas refused,
  claiming that this would destroy the opening of the film.  The DGA fined
  Lucas, who paid up, and promptly quit the DGA.
- Derived from (among other things) a Japanese movie called _Hidden Fortress_.
  Obi Wan Kenobi was modeled 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.
- The word ``Jedi'' is derived from the Japanese words ``Jidai Geki'' which
  translate as ``period drama.''  A period drama is a Japanese TV soap opera
  program set in the samurai days.  Lucas mentioned in an interview that he
  saw a ``Jidai Geki'' program on TV while in Japan a year or so before the
  movie was made and liked the word.
- Jodie Foster was Lucas' second option for Princess Leia, Christopher Walken
  was second in line for Han Solo.  Lucas also considered Nick Nolte for the
  role of Solo.
- A great deal of the film was shot by vintage 1950'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_.
- There is a rumor that while George Lucas and a co-worker were editing
  _American Graffiti_, the co-worker asked Lucas for ``Reel Two, Dialog Two'',
  which abbreviated to ``R2D2'', a name which stuck in Lucas' mind.
- 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, and designed after
  the robot from _Metropolis_.
- The Tatooine scenes were filmed in Tunisia.  There is a town in Tunisia
  called ``Tatahouine''.
- The sounds of the lasers were made by striking one of the guy wires of a
  power pylon.
- There is a rumor that Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) was having trouble timing his
  conversations with R2-D2, as R2-D2's dialog was to be dubbed in later.
  Supposedly, Daniels asked Lucas to make some kind of noise to help him, but
  when Lucas forgot, the matter was dropped.
- Chewbacca was modeled after Lucas' dog, Indiana.  See also
  _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_.
- C-3PO loses an arm when attacked by the Sandpeople.  Ben cuts off a
  creature's hand in the Cantina.  See also _The Empire Strikes Back_ and
  _Return of the Jedi_.
- The following characters ``have a bad feeling about this'': Luke and Han. See
  also _The Empire Strikes Back_, and _Return of the Jedi_.
- 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 cell block 1138: George Lucas made a
  film called _THX 1138_.  "THX-1138" was going to be the serial number of the
  guard with the faulty transmitter on the Death Star, but this was changed.
- 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.
- 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).
- James Earl Jones supplied the voice of Darth Vader, but specifically
  requested that he not be credited, as he felt he had not done enough work to
  get the billing.  David Prowse was supposedly extremely annoyed at not being
  told that his voice would be dubbed.
- Cardboard cutouts are used for some of the background starfighters in the
  Rebel hanger bay.
- Mark Hamill held his breath for so long during the trash compactor scene that
  he broke a blood vessel in his face.  Subsequent shots are from one side
  only.
- 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_. [rumor]
- When Luke returns to the Rebel base after destroying the Death Star, he
  gets out of his X-Wing and greets Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) who is
  running towards him.  He says ``Carrie!''.
- Most of the crowd watching the heroes receive their medallions are cardboard
  cutouts.
- George Lucas' owns property in California called ``Skywalker Ranch''.
- FTP site wpi.wpi.edu is the official rec.arts.sf.starwars archive.


# 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 stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with trick
  photography.  Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever
  performed under his direction, and would never allow it to be done again.
- The movie was remade as _Once you Kiss a Stranger_ in 1969.


# Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Viven Leigh, who suffered from bipolar disorder (manic-depression) in real
  life, later had difficulties in distinguishing her real life from that of
  Blanch DuBois.


# Striking Distance
- Co-star Robert Pastorelli accidentally blurted out the big plot twist during
  an appearance on ``Late Night with David Letterman'' long before the film was
  released.


# Sudden Impact
- ACTTRADE(Clint Eastwood): ``Go ahead. Make my Day'' (first)?


# 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
  traveling 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.
- A big latticed window casts a spider's web-like shadow across the actors.
- It was remade as a British TV movie in 1987.


# Suspiria
- A glass feather is plucked from an ornament.  Director Dario Argento's
  feature film debut was directing _The Bird With the crystal Plumage_.


# 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''.  Mel Smith directed the film.  Smith, Jones, and
  Atkinson starred together in the TV series ``Not the Nine O'Clock News''.
  Also ``Ron Anderson'' refers to his side-kick (Jeff Goldblum) on stage as
  ``Perkins''. When performing live, Rowan Atkinson frequently uses Angus
  Deayton as his sidekick who is always called ``Perkins''. Angus Deayton
  makes a small appearance in the film as an actor looking at several excellent
  roles while [Jeff Goldblum] gets offered a single role as a tall American.
- The car that [Jeff Goldblum] races to the Hospital in at the end of the film
  (a blue Aston Martin registration 'COMIC') belonged to Rowan Atkinson.
  [Goldblum] is pulled over by the police for speeding just as Rowan Atkinson
  was in real life in the very same car. Atkinson received a driving ban as a
  result of the incident.
- The choreographer for the musical ``Elephant'' is really a very reknowned
  choreographer, and has appeared in the BBC series ``Red Drawf'' after helping
  to choreograph a dance routine for one of the episodes. [name?]
- 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, criticiaed 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 De Niro.
- Bernard Herrman wasn't going to write the score for this film, but agreed
  to do it (his last) when he saw the scene where Bickle pours Schnapps on
  his cereal.
- Harvey Keitel rehearsed with actual pimps to prepare for his role.  The scene
  where his character and [Jodie Foster] dance is improvised, and is the only
  scene in the film that doesn't focus on Bickle.
- Director Martin Scorsese claims that the most important shot in the movie is
  when Bickle is on the phone trying to get another date with [Cybil
  Shephard].  The camera moves to the side slowly and pans down the long, empty
  hallway  next to Bickle, as if to suggest that the phone conversation is too
  painful and pathetic to bear.
- De Niro worked as a taxi driver as part of his preparation for this role.
  He also stided mental illness.
- De Niro claimed that the final shoot-out scene took particularly long,
  because of technical problems and the humor which arose from the tension
  created by the carnage in the scene.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): sitting down, behind Betty as she walks into
  the Palantine campaign headquarters in slow-motion.


# 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 grenades. 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 device 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.
- A promotional trailer for the film included a scene not in the film: the
  T800 being constructed.
- 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''.
- 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 required 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 license 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.  They accidentally caught a street
  sign; after they mirror-imaged the scene, they digitally reversed the text on
  the sign so it would appear correct.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances
  at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome.  Reminiscent of Reese
  shooting the T800 in the Tech Noir bar in _The Terminator_.
- 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 T800 loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right.  The
  same thing happened to the T800 in _The Terminator_.
- 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 Schwarzenegger previously
  said in _Kindergarten Cop_.  This was not in the script, but ad-libbed.
- Schwarzenegger said during the making of this film that he would never play
  another evil character again.
- A ``T800'' is a parallel CPU usually found running OCCAM.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!''
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: during the opening credits: the cut
  from the playing children to the dark future.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: the terminator in the future crushes a
  skull with its foot.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When the T800 and the T1000 meet for the
  first time, the T800 takes the gun out of the flower box and walks over
  the roses.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When Sarah, John and the T800 are chased
  by the T1000 through the psychiatric clinic, the T1000 walks over the
  sunglasses that the T800 was wearing before.


# Terminator, The
- Lance Henriksen originally cast as the terminator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger
  as the hero.  Schwarzenegger read the script, and asked to play the
  terminator instead.
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple 2+ assembly code, taken
  from _Nibble_, a computing magazine.  Other code visible is written in COBOL.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice is used in exactly 16 lines, with 17 sentences
  spoken.  The terminator has two other lines onscreen,  one with the voice of
  a police officer overdubbed, and one with the voice of Sarah's mother
  overdubbed.  There are also many lines with the voice of Sarah's mother,
  and we learn that the terminator is actually saying them, but we don't see
  it.
- Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against director James
  Cameron, claiming that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories,
  namely ``Soldier'' and ``Demon With a Glass Hand''.  The concept of
  ``Skynet'' could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called
  ``I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream''.  Newer prints of the film acknowledge
  Ellison.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!'' (first)
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: in the future sequence, there is a close-up
  of tank treads rolling over human skulls.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: when the T800 approaches the house of the
  first ``Sarah Conner'', it crushes a small toy truck.  (see also
  _Short Circuit_).
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: after the terminator kills Sarah's friend,
  he walks over her walkman headphones.


# Tess
- Set in England but filmed in France, as director Roman Polanski was wanted
  on sex-related charges in England.


# Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
- Director Tobe Hooper claims that Leatherface was based on Ed Gein, who was
  arrested when he was young.
- The actress who was chased by Leatherface through the undergrowth 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 meat hook was actually held up
  by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.


# Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)
- The Persian Prince is played by Mathilde Comont, a female.


# This Is Spinal Tap
- Director Rob Reiner plays ``rockumentary'' maker Marti DiBergi.
- The actors are all competent musicians, and the soundtrack is actually them
  playing.  They have subsequently toured and released an album.


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


# Three Musketeers, The (1974)
- Shot at the same time as _The Four Musketeers_, and resulted in a lawsuit.
  See _The Four Musketeers_.


# Throw Momma from the Train
- Loosely based on _Strangers on a Train_, a film mentioned by Owen.  The title
  comes from the Patsy Cline song: ``Throw Mama From the Train, a kiss, a kiss,
  Wave Mama from the train a goodbye...''
- CAMEO(Rob Reiner): Billy Crystal's character's agent.


# Thunderball
- The budget was $5,500,000 ($500,000 of which was spent on Largo's
  yacht the Disco Volante).
- Stuntman Bill Cumming was paid a $450 bonus to jump into Largo's shark
  infested pool.
- Intended to be the first 007 movie, but legal wrangles with its co-author
  lead to _Dr. No_ being chosen instead.
- The many underwater scenes stem from McClory's interest in watersports.
- Thunderball was the top grossing film in both UK and US during 1966.
- Sean Connery was the top grossing actor in both 1965 and 1966.
- Claudine Auger was a former Miss France, but being French her voice
  was dubbed.  See also _From Russia with Love_.
- Thunderball was remade 18 years later, again with Sean Connery, as
  _Never Say Never Again_.


# THX 1138
- ``THX'' stands for ``Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment''.  Tomlinson Holman was
  a friend of director George Lucas, and inventor of the THX sound system
  used extensively by Lucas.


# To Be or Not to Be (1983)
- A street sign reads ``Kubelski Avenue''.  _To Be or Not To Be (1942)_ starred
  Jack Benny, whose real name is Benny Kubelski.


# To Catch a Thief
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 10 minutes in, sitting next to [Cary Grant]
  on a bus.
- There are subliminal shots of a black cat the first few times that [Grant]
  appears.  [Grant]'s nickname is ``the cat'' because of his stealth ability.
- 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]: crawling out of the skeleton's pelvis.


# Tootsie
- DIRCAMEO(Sydney Pollack): Michael/Dorothy's agent, George Fields


# Top Secret! (1984)
- The ``German'' Val Kilmer learns in the train is not a language at all.
  Words like ``Vlichtmitten'', ``Blitzen'' or ``Flachmatuche'' are great fun
  for German listeners, but have no proper meaning.  In the German-dubbed
  version, Val Kilmer learns a German dialect mainly spoken in the former GDR.


# 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.
- Hitchcock shot two versions with completely different endings.  Both of them
  are included in the Laserdisc reissue.


# 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 character'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.


# Touch of Evil
- CAMEO(Joseph Cotten):
- CAMEO(Mercedes McCambridge):


# Toy Soldiers (1991)
- CAMEO(Jerry Orbach):


# Toys
- The words used by the General in an attempt to stop the rampaging sea
  creature are ``Klaatu, Barada, Nikto'', the same words used to command the
  robot Gort in _The Day the Earth Stood Still_.


# Trading Places
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: 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.
- This is the origin of the ``stinkin' badges'' line, used in many other
  movies, including _Blazing Saddles_.


# Trick or Treat
- DIRCAMEO(Charles Martin Smith): the high school teacher


# Tron
- All the computer-generated images were rendered in black and white on a VAX,
  and colored later.


# 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.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his eredity to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are _Rear Window_,
  _The Trouble with Harry_, _Rope_, _Vertigo_ and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1953)_.
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
  for just $11,000.


# Tucker
- George Lucas and Steven Spielberg each own one of the only 50 Tucker cars
  ever made.
- CAMEO(Lloyd Bridges)
- CAMEO(Dean Stockwell)


# Turtle Diary
- CAMEO(Harold Pinter): bookstore customer


# Twilight Zone - The Movie
- Mention is made of Seargeant Neidermeyer getting ``fragged'' by his own
  troops.  This was the fate given to Neidermeyer in the ending of
  _Animal House_, also directed by John Landis.
- On 23rd July, 1982, 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.  A decade later, director John Landis and four others
  were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.


# Twilight's Last Gleaming
- The secret policy is closely based on the 1957 book ``Nuclear Weapons and
  Foreign Policy'' by Henry Kissinger in which the future Secretary of State
  outlines a strategy committing the US to promoting regional conflicts to
  deter the Soviets initiating full scale war.


# Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
- Dale Cooper was allegedly named after the man who hijacked an aircraft over
  Washington state, bailed out with a parachute, and has never been seen again.


# Twins
- When [Arnold Schwarzenegger] visits [Danny De Vito] in prison, [De Vito]
  calls him ``Mr Universe'', a title that Schwarzenegger held for several
  years, 25 years previously.
- CAMEO(Heather Graham)
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!''


# Two Jakes, The
- CAMEO(Tom Waits): policeman


# 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.


# Under Seige
- Both the character Jordan Tate and the actor who played her (Erika Eleniak)
  are Playboy Playmate of July 1989.


# Under the Cherry Moon
- Filmed in color, released in black and white.


# 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 restaurant.


# Untouchables, The
- References to _Potemkin_.


# 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.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his eredity to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are _Rear Window_,
  _The Trouble with Harry_, _Rope_, _Vertigo_ and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1953)_.


# Videodrome
- DIRTRADE(David Cronenberg): [flesh]: ``Long live the new flesh!''.


# View to a Kill, A
- Roger Moore's final appearance as 007.
- Lois Maxwell's final appearance as Moneypenny.
- Filming was delayed when the ``007'' stage at Pinewood Studios burns down.
  It was totally rebuilt in less than four months, and renamed ``The Albert R.
  Broccoli 007 Stage''.
- Tanya Roberts got the role after Broccoli saw her in _The Beastmaster_.
- During filming, Grace Jones' boyfriend was a little-known actor named Dolph
  Lundgren.  Lundgren has a small part in the film as a KGB heavy.
- For the first time, a piece of music not specially composed or performed for
  a Bond film appears in the soundtrack.  It is 39 seconds of The Beach Boys'
  ``Californina Girls''.


# 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
  fictitious and any similarity......'', etc.  In this film, the disclaimer
  reads ``all characters depicted in this motion picture except John Wayne are
  fictitious and any similarity to actual persons.....''


# Wall Street
- DIRCAMEO(Oliver Stone): on the phone 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 prophylactic 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''.


# Way We Were, The
- CAMEO(Marvin Hamlisch [composer]):


# Wayne's World
- Robert Patrick appears as the T1000 from _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_.
- The ``Stairway to Heaven'' guitar riff was changed for the international,
  cable, and videotape releases to a generic riff because of disputes in
  obtaining rights to the first five notes of the song, which appear only in
  the US theatrical release.
- The donut shop is owned by ex Chicago Blackhawk Stan Mikita.  The police
  officer in the shop is Officer Koharski.  This could be a reference to the
  National Hockey League referee Don Koharski who was told by New Jersey
  Devils coach Jim Schoenfeld to ``have another donut, you fat pig'' after a
  playoff game.


# Weird Science
- Lisa is named after the computer on which she was designed, an Apple Lisa.


# West Side Story
- Borrowed its plot from Shakespeare's ``Romeo and Juliet''.
- Natalie Wood's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
- The actors in the rival gangs were instructed to play pranks on each other
  off the set to keep tensions high.


# When Harry Met Sally...
- Harry can be seen reading Stephen King's _Misery_, which would be director
  Rob Reiner's next film.
- The woman who says ``I'll have what she's having'' after Sally's faked orgasm
  is director Rob Reiner's mother.


# Where Eagles Dare
- The driving force behind the film was Richard Burton's son, who wanted to
  see his father in a good old fashioned adventure movie.  Burton approached
  producer Ellion Kastner for ideas, who asks Alastair MacLean.  At that time,
  most of MacLean's novels have either been made into films, or were in the
  process of being filmed.  Kastner pursuaded MacLean to write a new story.
  Six weeks later, MacLean delivered the script.
- Clint Eastwood was reluctant to receive second billing to Burton, but agreed
  after being paid $800,000.
- The ``Schloss Adler'' is actually the ``Schloss Hohenwerfen'' in Austria.
  At the time of filming, the castle was being used as a police training camp.
- An accident during one of the action scenes left Kastner and director Brian
  G. Hutton badly burnt.
- Despite Eastwood's reputation for violence in other films, his character
  kills more people in this film than any other Eastwood character.


# Whereabouts of Jenny, The (TV)
- CAMEO(Tony Danza [producer]): drunk


# White Dog
- DIRCAMEO(Samuel Fuller):


# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Some versions have an extra scene: Eddie Valiant had gone into Toontown,
  ambushed by the weasels 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.  Hoskins' son was
  reportedly furious that his father hadn't brought any of his cartoon co-stars
  home to meet him.
- Some scenes of Eddie Valiant in the taxi are actually drawings of Eddie
  Valliant instead of the actor Bob Hoskins.
- Jessica Rabbit's speaking voice was performed by Kathleen Turner, and her
  singing voice was performed by Amy Irving, both uncredited.
- Eddie enters a toontown men's room which has the graffiti ``For a Good Time,
  call Allyson Wonderland'' in the background.


# Wild Life, The
- CAMEO(Rick Moranis):


# Willow
- The dragon was named ``Ebersisk'', after the movie critics Gene Siskel and
  Roger Ebert.


# Wild Orchid
- Mickey Rourke and Carrie Otis were a ``couple'' at the time this film was
  made, and there is a persistent rumor 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''.
- Frank Morgan has five roles: the traveling salesman, the gatekeeper of the
  Emerald city, the Wizard's guard, the Wizard, and [?].
- Terry (Toto) was stepped on by one of the witch's guards, and had a double
  for two weeks.  A second double was obtained, because 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 idol 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 insisted 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 allergic 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 originally 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 severely 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 exaggerated.
- There is a rumor that a man committed suicide on the set, and that his body
  can be seen on the left of the screen as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the
  Tin Man walk down the Yellow Brick Road after their first encounter with the
  Wicked Witch.


# 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_.
- When Catherine Parker (Sigourney Weaver) comes back to New York and gets
  out off the helicopter, she carries a big stuffed-toy gorilla. Weaver played
  the role of Dian Fossey in _Gorillas In The Mist_ just a few months before.


# World According to Garp, The
- The house that the plane crashes into was built at one end of the only
  runway at Lincoln Park Airport, a very small airstrip in Lincoln Park, NJ
  USA (about 35 miles NW of New York City).  The wrecked house was not removed
  for several weeks.   While no planes have hit houses in the vicinity, one
  did bounce off the roof of a passing car several years earlier.
- CAMEO(John Irving [author]): wrestling match referee
- DIRCAMEO(George Roy Hill): pilot that crashes into the house


# Wrong Man, The (1957)
- 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.


# You Only Live Twice
- The budget was, the then, astronomic sum of $9,500,000 ($1,000,000 of
  of which was spent by Ken Adam in his crater set).
- For the first time the story of a 007 film bears little resemblance to
  the novel it is based on.
- The face of Ernst Blofeld is revealed for the first time (in the guise
  of Donald Pleasence).
- The female leads Mie Hama and Akiko Wakabayashi both appeared in
  _King Kong versus Godzilla_.
- Whilst in Japan, Connery and his wife are hounded by the international
  press. During news conferences the press insisted on referring to
  Connery as James Bond. The last straw comes when local newsmen attempted
  to photograph him in a rest room. To ease the tension the producers
  remove his contractual obligation to do one more 007 movie.
- Despite being offered an unprecedented $1,000,000 to return as James Bond,
  Sean Connery announces this will be his last appearance as 007 due to the
  unacceptable media pressure of the role.
- The book title comes from a 17 century poem by Japanese poet Basho, it reads
  You only live twice / Once when you are born / And once when you look death
  in the face.


# You're a Big Boy Now
- The nightclub has scenes from _Dimentia 13_ (also directed by Francis Ford
  Coppola) projected onto the wall.


# Young and Innocent
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): outside the courthouse holding a camera as
  Derrick de Marney escapes.


# Young Frankenstein
- DIRCAMEO(Mel Brooks): the sound of the off-screen cat screaming when hit by a
  dart.


# 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 Guns II
- CAMEO(Jon Bon Jovi): scruffy man who gets shot in the chest and blown
  backwards, after [Sutherland] and [Phillips] get out of the pit jail.


# Young Sherlock Holmes
- The ``cycling across the moon'' shot is a reference to
  _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial_, directed by producer Steven Spielberg.


# Zulu
- This was Michael Caine's first major film role.  He watched the rushes, but
  was so nervous that he was sick, and never watched rushes again.
- Caine visited the officers' mess of the Scots Guards at Pirbright to perfect
  his accent.
- Welsh-born Stanley Baker was determined to make this film.  Unable to find
  finance, he sunk most of his own money into the project.


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