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From: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies, rec.arts.movies.misc, rec.arts.sf.movies
Subject: LIST: MOVIE TRIVIA: in-jokes, cameos, signatures
Date: 24 Nov 1998 13:49:26 GMT
Message-ID: <movies/trivia-faq_911915040@rtfm.mit.edu>
Reply-To: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman)
Summary: Movie trivia, behind the scenes in-jokes, signatures
Keywords: movies trivia jokes cameos
X-Last-Updated: 1996/07/05
Archive-Name: movies/trivia-faq
Version: 1.30 (July 1996)
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MOVIE TRIVIA
Frequently Asked Questions
Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Murray Chapman
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Compiled by Murray Chapman (muzzle@imdb.com), 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.
This list is part of The Internet Movie Database. See the notes at the end
for more information.
This, and MANY other FAQs are available for anonymous FTP wherever news.answers
is archived, for example:
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Additions and suggestions welcome: if you can confirm any rumors, or dispute
any ``facts'', then please do so! PLEASE read the notes at end before you
submit anything. This is becoming increasingly important. Thanks!
DISCLAIMER
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The data contained in this file has been supplied by numerous sources, many
of which are anonymous and second- or third-hand. By its very nature, the
data contained herein is particularly susceptible to innuendo and rumor.
While I have exercised considerable editorial control by:
a) attempting to eliminate scandal, sensationalism, and/or slander,
b) seeking confirmatin of rumours,
and c) expressing a willingness to debate the validity of included data,
I will not (and could not possibly be expected to) accept responsibility or
liability for any views/claims/rumours/errors that appears herein. The views
expressed in this file do not necessarily agree with my own. I have attempted
to present information in a professional and non-sensationalist manner, but
as far as the information itself goes, I am obviously at the mercy of those
who supply the data. The information is presented here in good faith for
readers' enjoyment and education; however, I will gladly entertain debate over
whether any specific piece of information should or should not be included.
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The Internet Movie Database consists of the following lists:
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Actors | Col Needham <actors@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Actresses | Col Needham <actresses@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Alternative Names | Michel Hafner <aka-names@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Alternative Titles | Michel Hafner <aka-titles@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Alternative Versions | Giancarlo Cairella <versions@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Biographies | Mark Harding <biographies@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Business | Giancarlo Cairella <versions@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Cast Completion | Col Needham <cn@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Certificates | Mark Harding <certificates@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Cinematographers | Michel Hafner <cinematographers@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Color Information | Mark Harding <color@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Composers | Michel Hafner <composers@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Costume Designers | Harald Mayr <costumes@imdb.com> | 06/14/96
Countries | Mark Harding <countries@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Crazy Credits | Mark Harding <crazy-credits@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Directors | Col Needham <directors@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Editors | Harald Mayr <editors@imdb.com> | 06/14/96
Genres | Colin Tinto <genres@imdb.com> | 06/14/96
Goofs | Murray Chapman <goofs@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
ISO AKA Titles | Peter Simeon <simeon@imdb.com> | 03/08/96
Language | Mark Harding <release-dates@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Laser Discs | Peter Simeon <laserdiscs@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Literature | Joachim Polzer <literature@imdb.com> | 06/21/96
Locations | Rob Hartill <locations@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Misc. Filmography | Col Needham <miscellaneous@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Movie Links | Col Needham <movie-links@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Movies | Michel Hafner <original-titles@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
MPAA Ratings Reasons | Mark Harding <mah@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Plot Summaries | Colin Tinto <plots@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Producers | Andre Bernhardt <producers@imdb.com> | 06/21/96
Production Companies | Rob Hartill <prod-companies@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Production Designers | Harald Mayr <prod-designers@imdb.com> | 06/14/96
Quotes | Bob Glickstein <quotes@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Ratings | Col Needham <cn@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Release Dates | Mark Harding <release-dates@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Running Times | Mark Harding <running-times@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Sound Mix | Mark Harding <sound-mix@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Soundtracks | Ron Higgins <soundtracks@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Tag Lines | Rob Hartill <tag-lines@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Technical Info | Peter Simeon <simeon@imdb.com> | 06/21/96
Trivia | Murray Chapman <trivia@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
Writers | Jon Reeves <writers@imdb.com> | 06/28/96
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FILM TRIVIA
# "Adam 12" (1968)
- The paramedics from _"Emergency!" (1972)_ (qv) sometimes crossed passed with
the cops at Rampart Hospital.
# "Batman" (1966)
- The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Lost in Space" (1965)_ (qv), _"Time Tunnel" (1966)_ (qv),
_"Land of the Giants" (1968)_ (qv), and
_"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)_ (qv).
# "Betty Hutton Show, The" (1959)
- Originally titled ``Goldie''.
# "Bewitched" (1964)
- 'Alice Ghostly' (qv) originally did not appear as Esmeralda but as maid
Naomi who caused havoc at the Stephens'. In the same episode (``Maid To
Order''), she is asked to help with a client dinner at the Tate's home
because their own maid was ill that night. The name of the Tate's usual maid
was Esmeralda!
# "Boat, The" (1981) (mini)
- There was no ``Class VII C'' submarine left from World War II, so the crew
had to build the whole interior from scratch using original plans from
that time. It was mounted on a large pivot to simulate a moving submarine.
# "Captain Scarlett" (1968)
- Features the Zero-X from _Thunderbirds are GO (1966)_ (qv), also written
by 'Gerry Anderson' (qv).
# "Crossroads" (1964)
- For many years, each 25 minute episode was recorded in one take without
editing. If mistakes were made towards the end of a shoot, they would
be left in rather than redoing the entire scene.
# "Edge of Darkness" (1986) (mini)
- An early draft of the script ended with Craven turned into a tree.
# "Emergency" (1972)
- Paramedics Gage and Desoto sometimes crossed paths with Reed and Malloy from
_"Adam-12" (1968)_ (qv) at Rampart Hospital. In one episode, the firefighters
are watching _"Adam-12" (1968)_ (qv) when they are dispatched to a call.
Throughout the rest of the show, the firemen are on the phone to anyone,
trying to find out what they missed.
# "ER" (1994)
- Carol Hathaway ('Julianna Margulies' (qv)) was supposed to successfully
commit sucide in the first episode. This didn't play well with test
audiences and was rewritten into an attempted sucide. For the first episode,
Margulies was credited as a guest star.
# "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" (1992)
- The first episode is filmed in the same set as _"Growing Pains" (1985)_ (qv).
In the beginning of the episode, 'Mark Curry' (qv) meets 'Alan Thicke' (qv)
in the set and they make some jokes about the _"Growing Pains" (1985)_ (qv).
# "JAG" (1995)
- Unused footage from movies like _Top Gun (1986)_ (qv) and
_The Hunt for Red October (1990)_ (qv) was used in this TV series.
- One episode was shot on the set of _Crimson Tide (1995)_ (qv).
# "Kung Fu" (1972)
- 'David Carradine' (qv) got the lead role over martial arts legend
'Bruce Lee' (qv).
# "Land of the Giants" (1968)
- The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Lost in Space" (1965)_ (qv), _"Time Tunnel" (1966)_ (qv),
_"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)_ (qv), and _"Batman" (1966)_ (qv).
# "Lonesome Dove" (1989) (mini)
- Originally written by 'Larry McMurtry' (qv) in 1971 as a movie script. He
intended 'John Wayne' (qv) (qv) to play Call, 'James Stewart' (qv) to play
Gus, and 'Henry Fonda' (qv) to play Jake Spoon, with
'Peter Bogdanovitch' (qv) directing. Wayne turned it down, and the project
was shelved. Ten years later McMurtry bought the script back and wrote the
book (on which the series was based).
# "Lost in Space" (1965)
- 'Carol O'Connor' (qv) was considered for the role of Dr. Smith.
- The space ship was originally named ``Gemini XII'', but was changed to
avoid confusion with the then-current NASA program.
- The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)_ (qv),
_"Time Tunnel" (1966)_ (qv), _"Land of the Giants" (1968)_ (qv), and
_"Batman" (1966)_ (qv).
# "Maverick" (1957)
- 'James Garner' (qv) claimed that during filming one day they had less than
an hour until overtime would have to be paid, but they still needed to
shoot a complicated fight scene. Spying a group of tall weeds, he suggested
toat he throw his opponent into the weeds and have the fight proceed with
much shaking of the weeds, and people being ejected from the weeds,
only to immediately run back in. The results were extremely funny, and
thus the cast and crew began to look for ``funny'' ways to cut corners,
turning the show into a semi-comedy.
# "New Avengers, The" (1978)
- Purdey's character was originally called ``Charlie'', but this was changed
when it was realized that there was a perfume with the same name. It is
rumoured that 'Joanna Lumley' (qv) suggested the name Purdey, after the most
expensive and revered shotgun in the world.
# "Patty Duke Show, The" (1963)
- For most of the scenes featuring for both Patty and Kathy, an uncredited
actress played ``the back of either Patty's or Kathy's head'', as
appropriate.
# "Prime Suspect" (1990) (mini)
- 'Lynda La Plante' (qv) made this film after watching reality-TV crime shows.
After calling Scotland Yard and learning that there were only seven female
DCIs, she interviewed one of them ('Jackie Moulton' (qv)), who impressed
her so much that La Plante decided to base the miniseries on her.
# "Prisoner" (1978)
- In the UK, the series was called "Prisoner - Cell Block H", to avoid
confusion from mixing it up with _"Prisoner, The" (1968)_ (qv).
# "Schattenmann, Der" (1995) (mini)
- People on the street can be seen using bags from the ``Bellheim'' warehouse.
The owner of this fictious warehouse was the main character in director
'Dieter Wedel' (qv)'s previous project,
_"Grosse Bellheim, Der" (1992) (mini)_ (qv).
# "Search" (1972)
- The pilot movie was originally titled "Probe".
# "Sesame Street" (1969)
- Ernie and Bert are named after characters in
_It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv).
# "Space" (1985) (mini)
- Norman Grant ('James Garner' (qv)) was a Republican senator in the book
upon which this was based, but the character's political affiliation, along
with other factors, were changed to suit Garner's personal (Democratic)
politics.
# "Stand, The" (1994) (mini)
- Filmed on 225 locations all over the USA.
# "Star Trek" (1966)
- There were two pilots made. The origional starred 'Majel-Barrett' (qv) as
Second in command and 'Jeffery Hunter' (qv) as the Captain. This pilot
was rejected and NBC ordered a second one. The only character that
was the same between the two pilots was Spock who was played by
'Leonard Nimoy' (qv) in both pilots.
# "Strong Poison" (1987) (mini)
- During rehearsals for the scene where Wimsey ('Edward Ptherbridge' (qv)) and
Climpson ('Shirley Cain' (qv) have tea together, Wimsey's monocle fell
into his tea. Despite numerous attempts, they could not recreate this
hilarious incident for the camera.
# "Svensson, Svensson" (1994)
- Each episode is taken twice before a studio audience. The two takes are
then cut together to one episode.
# "T.J. Hooker" (1982)
- 'Bob Grogan' (qv), one of the detectives who worked on the Hillside Strangler
case in Los Angeles, was hired as a technical advisor for the show,
but was fired when he criticized rewrites of his ideas.
# "Tales of the City" (1993) (mini)
- Over 15 years several companies (including Warner Brothers and HBO) bought
options to film this story, based on 'Armistead Maupin' (qv)'s novel.
Finally this 6 part miniseries was produced by Britain's Channel 4, San
Francisco's local PBS station KQED and PBS' ``American Playhouse''.
- PBS bowed to the pressure of the right and dropped plans to film the second
volume of the series with Channel 4. Although Channel 4 was reportedly still
interested in the project, it chose not to proceed alone.
# "Time Tunnel" (1966)
- The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Lost in Space" (1965)_ (qv),
_"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)_ (qv),
_"Land of the Giants" (1968)_ (qv), and _"Batman" (1966)_ (qv).
# "Turn-On" (1969)
- Cancelled ten minutes into the first show, February 5th, 1969.
# "Twin Peaks" (1990)
- DIRTRADE(David Lynch): [singer]: 'Julee Cruise' (qv).
# "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)
- The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Lost in Space" (1965)_ (qv), _"Time Tunnel" (1966)_ (qv),
_"Land of the Giants" (1968)_ (qv), and _"Batman" (1966)_ (qv).
# "Wheels" (1978) (mini)
- Reported to be a very loose interpretation of the events of
'Lee Iacocca' (qv)'s life during the time that he was developing the Mustang
for Ford. The vehicle shown in the series, called the Hawk, was
a customized Ford Mustang.
# 'Crocodile' Dundee (1986)
- 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.
# 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
- Illness caused director 'Edmund Goulding' (qv) to be replaced for much of the
film. 'Anatole Litvak' (qv) shot approximately 26% of the film,
'William Keighley' (qv) 4%, and 'William K. Howard' (qv) shot a few retakes.
Goulding shot 70% of the picture around bouts of pneumonia.
- Pregnancy caused 'Geraldine Fitzgerald' (qv) to miss several shooting days.
A double was used where possible.
# 1776 (1972)
- The 176 minute extended version of "1776" is available on laserdisc.
It contains 35 minutes cut from the original videotape release,
including the song, ``Cool, Considerate Men''.
# 1900 (1977)
- Original uncut version is 5.5 hours long, and features pornographic sequences
with Alfredo, Olmo, and [Stefania Casini]. It also featured prepubescent
boys examining each other's erections which would probably qualify as child
pornography in the US.
# 1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi
- All the boys in this film were played by girls
# 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1933)
- 'James Cagney' (qv) was originally set for the male lead.
# 200 Motels (1971)
- Filmed in the same studio as _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv). The black
monolith from that film is visible.
- The role of Jeff was originally intended for Mothers bassist
'Jeff Simmons' (qv) who quit the group just prior to filming. Needing a
replacement, 'Frank Zappa' (qv) hired 'Wilfred Brambell' (qv). Within a few
days, Brambell walked off the set in a rage and Zappa had to replace him.
During a crew meeting, Zappa announced that he would give the part to the
next person who walked into the room. 'Martin Lickert' (qv), who was
'Ringo Starr' (qv)'s chauffuer, was thus cast in the role upon returning
from the limo with a pack of cigarettes for Starr.
# 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Director 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) originally planned narration for the
prehistoric scenes.
- Kubrick planned to have 'Alex North' (qv) (who wrote the score for Kubrick's
_Spartacus (1960)_ (qv)) 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
``Alex North's 2001'' (Varese/Sarabande 5400).
- Generally 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' (qv) (co-screenwriter) claimed this was unintentional, and
if he had noticed it before it was too late, he would have changed it.
- HAL's voice was originally going to be performed by 'Martin Balsam' (qv),
but Kubrick decided that he sounded too emotional. 'Douglas Rain' (qv)
got the role, and never visited the set.
- 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.
- HAL sings ``Daisy'' as he is shut down; this was the first song ever played
by a non-mechanical computer.
- Clarke once said: ``If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We
wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.''
- The 1968 Oscar for best makeup went to _Planet of the Apes (1968)_ (qv).
It is rumoured that 2001 missed out because judges were convinced that real
apes were used, which was not the case.
- 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.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Dave Bowman going through the Star Gate.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [114]: The Jupiter explorer's serial number is
``CRM-114''.
# 2010 (1984)
- One of the characters is ``Kirbuck'', which is an anagram of ``Kubrick''.
'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) directed _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).
- Kubrick had all models and sets from _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv)
destroyed to prevent their reuse, thus the model of the spaceship Discovery
had to be constructed from pictures.
- 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 Godfathers (1948)
- For the scene where Deputy Curly ('Hank Worden' (qv)) has trouble pulling
a mule about a train, director 'John Ford' (qv) rigged the reins to pull
backwards whenever Worden pulled forward.
- Ford had a greensman water a cactus overnight to allow it to be squeezed
for water.
# 3 Men and a Baby (1987)
- 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 Richard and Annabella run from the music hall.
# 5 Fingers (1952)
- The real Cicero was 'Elyesa Bazna' (qv), an Albanian. In his book,
``I Was Cicero'' he retells the story, listing his collaborators as
a chambermaid and his niece. The character of the countess was a Hollywood
fabrication.
# 55 Days at Peking (1963)
- Director 'Nicholas Ray' (qv) walked off the set and never worked again in
Hollywood. 'Andrew Marton' (qv) and 'Guy Green' (qv) finished the film.
# 8 Seconds (1994)
- 'Luke Perry' (qv) and 'Stephen Baldwin' (qv) learned to ride bulls, and
performed some of their own stunts.
# About Last Night... (1986)
- 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.
# Above the Law (1988)
- Due to film schedule constraints, the sequences at ``Chicago Summer CES''
(Consumer Electronic Show) were actually filled at the November Comdex
(Computer Dealer Expo) in Las Vegas. The film crew carried press
credentials and pretended to be a news show filming about the products in
the booth.
# Abyss, The (1989)
- Director 'James Cameron' (qv) contacted 'Orson Scott Card' (qv) before
filming began with the possibility of producing a book based on the film.
Scott initially told his agent that he doesn't do ``novelizations'', but
when she told him that the director was Cameron, he agreed to consider it.
The script arrived, and Card signed on after receiving assurances from
Cameron that he would be free to develop his ``novel'' the way he wanted
to. After a meeting with Cameron, Card immediately wrote the first three
chapters, which dealt with events concerning Bud and Lindsay Brigman that
occured before the events in the film. Cameron gave these chapters to
'Ed Harris' (qv) and 'Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio' (qv), who used it to
develop their characters.
- The masks were specially designed to show the actors faces, and had
microphones fitted so that dialog could be recorded as the action happened.
- Most of the underwater filming took place in a half-completed nuclear
reactor cooling tank in Gaffney, South Carolina. The cast and crew
frequently spent enough time underwater to force them to undergo
decompression before surfacing. The tank was filled to a depth of 40 feet,
but there was still too much light from the surface, so billions of tiny
black plastic beads were floated on the surface to block the light.
- A ``special edition'' is available on videotape, and was released
theatrically in 1994. It features an extra 28 minutes of footage including:
- the Deep Core crew singing a country and western song as they ``truck'' the
rig to the abyss
- more details about Bud and Lindsay's breakup
- further development of the tension between the USA and the USSR, including
a naval collission
- a massive tidal wave caused by the NTIs
- Fluid breathing is a reality: the rat actually did breathe liquid, although
the suit that Bud wore was a mock-up.
- 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 (1986)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]
# Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
- The name ``Shady Acres Mental Hospital'' is a reference to the name of
the director: 'Tom Shadyac' (qv).
# Across the Pacific (1942)
- Director 'John Huston' (qv) went off to join the war effort before the film
was finished, and 'Vincent Sherman' (qv) directed the final scenes.
# Adrift (1971)
- Production was suspended in 1968 during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
because a temporary military bridge had been erected accross the Danube at
the filming location. Production resumed in 1970, and the film was released
in 1971.
# Adventurer, The (1917/I)
- The chauffeur was played by 'Kono' (qv), who was 'Charles Chaplin' (qv)'s
own butler, chauffeur, secretary, and bodyguard from 1916 to 1934.
# Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1989)
- 'Robin Williams' (qv) played the King of the Moon. The credits list ``Ray
Ditutto''. This is the English transliteration of the Italian phrase ``Rei 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 (1984)
- 'Jamie Lee Curtis' (qv) played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this
scene was cut.
- Supposedly this movie was inspired a great deal from 'Thomas Pynchon' (qv)'s
book ``The Crying of Lot 49''.
# Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The (1990)
- The list of bands from Grendel's bogus ``Fred's Condom Factory'' company
are:
- Ellen Aim and the Attackers
- Brain of the Scarecrow
- Alba Varden
- Heather, Corey, Heather Cory and Young
- Todd Times Two
- Black Plague
- 5000 Schizophrenics
- Hot Tub Johnny and his Feline Friends
- Hamma Waters Sings the Blues
- Nine Sisters
- Horses on Fire
- The Silver Belles
- Fred and Ethyl
- The Professor and Mary-Ann
- The Nakatomi Boys Choir
- The Doctor Bellows Funk Machine
- The Redheaded Gardner and his Flower
- Also listed are the songs for the three ``Black Plague'' albums:
- Tatoo (10/3/88)
- Your Wow...
- The Bio Nude
- My Nazi Wench
- Suck the Bunny
- Hon, I Screwed the Kids
- Bruce Poked Maud
- Requiem of Paco the Shoe-Shine Boy by Wolfgang Binky
- Devil's Ghost (2/3/88)
- Auldbrass Antics
- Objectionable Bimbo
- Desecrated Diane
- Polanski Nursery
- Redheads on Fire
- Cum to Me, Baby
- Requiem of Paco the Shoe-Shine Boy by Wolfgang Binky
- Requiem (1/1/88)
- I Love You
- Suck the Bunny
- Teenage Suicide
- Hot Juice
- Sexual Pudding
- Violation
- Requiem of Paco the Shoe-Shine Boy by Wolfgang Binky
# Adventures of Mark Twain, The (1944)
- The scene where Clemens receives an honorary degree from Oxford University
in 1907 was the recreation of an event that 'C. Aubrey Smith' (qv) actually
witnessed.
# Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)
- In the video store is a poster for _Frauds (1993)_ (qv), also directed by
'Stephan Elliot' (qv) and also starring 'Hugo Weaving' (qv).
# Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
- 'Michael Curtiz' (qv) took over from director 'William Keighley' (qv) when
the producers felt that the action scenes lacked impact.
# After Hours (1985)
- Julie ('Teri Garr' (qv)) plays Paul a Monkees record. Garr appeared in
_Head (1968)_ (qv) with the Monkees.
- 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.
# Akira (1988)
- Production cost $US10 million, a record for Anime.
- 2,212 shots and 160,000 single pictures, 2-3 times more than usual.
- 327 different colors (another record in animation film), 50 of which
have been exclusively created for the film.
- The film is produced using a very rare method in japanese animation film:
All voices were recorded before working on animation, so that all mouths
of the characters are moving synchronized to the spoken word.
# Al-Risalah (1976)
- Although broadly sharing the same film unit (director, editor, etc.),
Two different versions of the film (one in English and the other
in Arabic), were shot simultaneously, scene by scene. Two completely
different sets of actors shared the same set; once a scene had been
established, one actor would play a character in one language, and then the
whole scene reshot with his corresponding number speaking in the other
language. The main (English) version was released as ``The Message'', whilst
the Arabic version became ``Al-Risalah''.
# Aladdin (1992)
- Bears a similar plot and characters to
_The Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)_ (qv).
- The genie appears in the following guises: a nightclub entertainer, a
Scotsman, a Scots dog, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv), 'Senor Wences' (qv),
'Ed Sullivan' (qv), a slot machine, 'Groucho Marx' (qv), a boxing trainer,
a fireworks rocket, a French maitre d', a roast turkey, a pink rabbit, a
dragon, a certificate, a pair of lips, 'Robert De Niro' (qv), a flight
attendant, 'Carol Channing' (qv), a sheep, a hammock, a muscle man,
Pinocchio, a magician, a frenchman in a beret and striped shirt, a chef,
Julius Caeser, 'Arsenio Hall' (qv), a tailor, a game-show host, a drum major,
'Walter Brennan' (qv), a little boy, a fat man, TV parade hosts, a tiger, a
goat, a harem girl, 'Ethel Merman' (qv), 'Rodney Dangerfield' (qv),
'Jack Nicholson' (qv), a teacher, a talking lampshade, a bee, a submarine,
a one-man band, a script prompter, a ventriloquist, a
_Fantasia (1940)_ (qv)-like devil, 'William F. Buckley' (qv), Jafar,
cheerleaders, a baseball pitcher, a tourist with a Goofy hat, and the moon.
For release in India, Disney replaced the game show host with a cricket
commentator.
- In early drawing, Aladdin resembled 'Michael J. Fox' (qv). As the story
developed, 'Jeffrey Katzenberg' (qv) didn't think Aladdin had enough appeal
to weomen, so he asked Aladdin to be beefed up a bit to resemble
'Tom Cruise' (qv).
- Jasmine's appearance was influenced by 'Jennifer Connelly' (qv), as well
as the sister of her animator, 'Mark Henn' (qv).
- The stack of blocks that Jasmine's father plays with is sitting on a toy of
the Beast from _Beauty and the Beast (1991)_ (qv), another Disney animated
movie. Sebastian from _The Little Mermaid (1989)_ (qv) and
_Pinocchio (1940)_ (qv) can also be spotted.
- Aladdin's animator claimed she based his character on 'Tom Cruise' (qv).
- 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 that Aladdin pushes through are caricatures of a
couple of the animators ('John Musker' (qv) and 'Ron Clements' (qv)); the
original plan was to use film critics 'Gene Siskel' (qv) and
'Roger Ebert' (qv), but they couldn't get permission.
- The rumor that after Aladdin climbs up the balcony and gets confronted
by the tiger he whispers ``Take off your clothes'' is false. He actually
says ``Take off and go.''
- Early scripts included Aladdin's mother, who sang a song called ``Proud of
Your Boy'', and another song for Jafar called ``Humiliate the Boy''. Jafar's
song was cut, as it was considered too cruel for Disney.
# Alamo, The (1960)
- 'Lagene Etheridge' (qv) was murdered during filming by her boyfriend.
- Lieutenant Finn's fall from his horse was unscripted and unintentional.
- The huge Alamo set took two years to construct.
# Alex in Wonderland (1970)
- CAMEO(Frederico Fellini)
# Alexis Zorbas (1964)
- 'Anthony Quinn' (qv) had a broken foot during filming, and thus couldn't
perform the dance on the beach as scripted, which called for much
leaping around. Instead, he did a slow shuffle. Director
'Michael Cacoyannis' (qv) asked Quinn what the dance was, and Quinn made
up a name and claimed it was traditional.
# Alibi (1929)
- Alternative scenes were shot for a silent version of the film which was
released simultaneously.
# Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Color screen tests of 'Mary Pickford' (qv) as Alice were made for a proposed
live-action/animation version of the story.
# Alien (1979)
- Originally to be directed by 'Water Hill' (qv), but he pulled out and gave
the job to 'Ridley Scott' (qv).
- The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) is
similar to the life-cycle of the tsetse fly.
- The entire plot is identical to the science fiction story ``Voyage of the
Space Beagle'', by 'A. E. Van Vogt' (qv).
- Much of the dialog was ad-libbed.
- An early draft of the script had a male Ripley.
- 'Veronica Cartwright' (qv) was originally to play Ripley, but producers
opted for 'Sigourney Weaver' (qv).
- 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 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.
- The rumour that only 'John Hurt' (qv) and the crew knew exactly what
was going to happen during the stomach-bursting scene is false.
- ``Nostromo'' is the title of a 'Joseph Conrad' (qv) book. The shuttle that
Ripley escapes on is called the ``Narcissus'', a reference to another
Conrad book. See also _Aliens (1986)_ (qv).
- Apparently, in the final scene with Ripley and the Alien, the sounds of
people having sex can be heard.
- Conceptual artist H. R. Geiger's designs were changed several times, becuase
of their blatant sexuality: the top of the eggs resembled a vagina too
closely.
- Extra scenes filmed but not included, due to pacing problems:
- Ripley finds Parker and Brett cocooned. Brett is covered in ``maggots'',
and begs Ripley to kill him. She does so with a flame thrower.
- Ripley and Lambert discuss whether Ash has sex or not
- Alternative death scene for Brett: Ripley and Parker come across an alive
Brett being lifted from the ground
- Ripley finds cocoons (one of which is Dallas) and destroys them with a
flame thrower.
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 (1986)_ (qv)' view of the alien's life-cycle.
- Scott is reportedly quoted as saying that originally he wanted a much
darker ending. He planned on having the alien bite off Ripley's head in
the escape shuttle, sit in her chair, and then start speaking with her
voice in a message to Earth. Apparently, 20th Century Fox wasn't too
pleased with such a dark ending.
# Alien 3 (1992)
- Multiple proposed scripts caused misleading advertising which inferred that
the movie would be set on Earth. 'William Gibson' (qv) also drafted a
script in which Ripley spent most of the film in a coma.
- Original script had the alien impregnating a cow, not a dog.
# Alien Attack (1976) (TV)
- This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes (``Breakaway'' and
``War Games'') of _"Space: 1999" (1975)_ (qv).
# Aliens (1986)
- 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. Also included is a scene
on LV-426 where a child rides a low-slung tricycle similar to one ridden
in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv), also directed by 'James Cameron' (qv).
- 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
Cameron's earlier movies _Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)_ (qv). It took
9 people to make the face hugger work; one person for each leg and one
for the tail.
- The APC was modeled after an airplane tug.
- ``Sulaco'' is the name of the town in 'Joseph Conrad' (qv)'s ``Nostromo''.
See also _Alien (1979)_ (qv).
- Hicks was originally played by 'James Remar' (qv), but 'Michael Biehn' (qv)
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.
'Jenette Goldstein' (qv) (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 (1989)_ (qv).
- 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.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]
# Alive (1993)
- Director 'Frank Marshall' (qv) was discussing the film on his car phone,
when he was cut off by 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 About Eve (1950)
- The working title was ``Best Performance''.
- Although he received screen credit, 'Eddie Fisher' (qv)'s scene was cut before
the film's release.
- 'Daryl F. Zanuck' (qv) envisioned 'Marlene Deitrich' (qv) as Margo Channing,
'Jeanne Crain' (qv) as Eve Harrington, and 'Jose Ferrer' (qv) as Addison
DeWitt. Director 'Herman Mankiewicz' (qv)'s early choices for the Margo
Channing role were 'Claudette Colbert' (qv) and 'Gertrude Lawrence' (qv).
# All Men Are Liars (1995)
- All secondary characters are played by locals, and some lines in the film
were ad-libbed, as they couldn't remember the script.
# All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- A sequence with 'Zasu Pitts' (qv) was included in the silent version, but
cut and refilmed with 'Beryl Mercer' (qv) when sound was added.
# All the Right Moves (1983)
- 'Tom Cruise' (qv) and 'Lea Thompson' (qv) had body doubles for the sex scene.
# Alligator (1980)
- Graffiti on a wall in a sewer at the end of the film reads ``Harry Lime
Lives'', a reference to the character from _The Third Man (1949)_ (qv) who
was killed in a sewer.
- On a blackboard in the background of a press conference, a message refers to
one of the victims being Edward Noron, a character from [The Honeymooners],
who was a sewer worker.
# Allonsanfan (1973)
- Title derived from the first two words of the French national anthem.
# Altered States (1980)
- Author 'Paddy Chayefsky' (qv) 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 (1986)_ (qv), and similarly, she has a ginger tom cat. The cat,
however, is named ``'Linda Blair' (qv)''.
- This film is a remake of _A Guy Named Joe (1943)_ (qv), which was watched
on television in _Poltergeist (1982)_ (qv), which was co-written by
director 'Steven Spielberg' (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]
# Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- 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 195? classic, Amazon Women on the Moon...''.
- The names in the ``Titan Man'' sketch (George Bailey, Violet and Mr. Gower)
are taken from the _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [filmmakers] Appearances by director
'Russ Meyer' (qv), composer 'Ira Newborn' (qv), and ``Famous Monsters of
Filmland'' editor 'Forrest J. Ackerman' (qv).
# America's Deadliest Home Video (1993) (V)
- CAMEO(Eva Scott-Berry): [production assistant]: Newswoman
- CAMEO(Steven Diller): [Co-producer]: Debbie's lover
- CAMEO(Lou Wynhoff): [Producer's father]: Security Guard
# American Gigolo (1980)
- 'John Travolta' (qv) was originally slated to play the role of Julian Kaye.
# American Graffiti (1973)
- License plate on John Milner's car is ``THX-138''. _THX 1138 (1970)_ (qv)
is a film also directed by 'George Lucas' (qv).
- There is a rumor that while 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 (1977)_ (qv).
# American President, The (1995)
- The dialogue refers explicitly at one point to the films of
'Frank Capra' (qv). His [grandson???], 'Frank Capra III' (qv), was first
assistant director of this film.
# American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
- 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.
# Andre (1994)
- The ``seal'' is acually a sealion, as seals are notoriously difficult to
train.
# Angels in the Outfield (1951)
- CAMEO(Barbara Billingsley): hat check girl
# Anna Christie (1930/II)
- German version, filmed directly after _Anna Christie (1930/I))_ (qv) using
the same sets.
# Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
- Only one reel of this film can be found. Please check your attic.
# Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- 'Judy Garland' (qv), originally cast as Annie, was taken ill during early
filming and production was halted until 'Betty Hutton' (qv) finished
_Let's Dance (1950)_ (qv) and was called in to replace her. Director
'Busby Berkeley' (qv) was also replaced, first by 'Charles Walters' (qv) and
finally by 'George Sidney' (qv). 'Frank Morgan' (qv), in the role of
Buffalo Bill, died suddenly and his scenes had to be re-shot with his
replacement 'Louis Calhern' (qv). 'Howard Keel' (qv) broke his leg during
filming when a horse fell on it.
# Annie Hall (1977)
- The working title was ``Anhedonia'' (the inability to feel pleasure).
Screenwriter 'Marshall Brickman' (qv)'s suggestion was ``It Had To Be Jew''.
- Alvy's ('Woody Allen' (qv)'s) sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted
accident. When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen
decided to leave it in, and had to add footage to compensate for people
missing the next few jokes from laughing too much.
# Anniversary, The (1968)
- Original director, 'Alvin Rakoff' (qv) was replaced by 'Roy Ward Baker' (qv)
when 'Bette Davis' (qv) demanded the change.
# Another Country (1984)
- Loosely based on the life of 'Guy Burgess' (qv), a key figure in the
Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.
The upper class establishment refused to believe he was a spy because he
had been to public school.
# Another Dawn (1937)
- Before this movie was made, any Warner Brothers film which showed a movie
marquee would indicate that a movie named ``Another Dawn'' was playing at
the cinema. Unable to come up with a title for this film, they decided to
actually create a movie named ``Another Dawn.''
# Another Stakeout (1993)
- 'Richard Dreyfuss' (qv) won an Oscar for his role in
_The Goodbye Girl (1977)_ (qv). One of his lines in that movie was ``And
I don't like the panties hanging on the rod''. In this movie, Chris repeats
this line, while standing in front of a line of drying panties.
# Apartment, The (1960)
- To create the impression of a very large bureau in the scenes where Baxter is
behind his desk, director 'Billy Wilder' (qv) used dwarf actors and specially
designed furniture.
- Wilder directed 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) in _The Seven Year Itch (1955)_ (qv)
and _Some Like It Hot (1959)_ (qv). He grew to despise her demands for
star treatment and her poor work ethic, and thus included the party-girl
Monroe-esque character in this film.
# Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Director 'Francis Coppola' (qv) 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 (1972)_ (qv) and
_The Godfather: Part II (1974)_ (qv), becoming extremely famous, rich, and
respected.
- Originally scheduled to be shot over six weeks, ended up taking 16 months.
- 'Martin Sheen' (qv)'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' (qv) originally cast as Captain Willard. Two weeks into
shooting, Coppola replaced him with Sheen, saying Keitel's Willard 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.
- A second sequence featuring the Playmates was filmed but cut. The patrol
boat crew encounter the Playmates' helicopter which had run out of fuel.
They swap some gasoline in exchange for a chance to sleep with the three
girls. 'Lynda Carter' (qv) was originally cast as one of the girls, but
was replaced by 'Colleen Camp' (qv) due to the unforseen production delays.
- 'Marlon Brando' (qv) paid $1 million in advance. Threatened to quit and
keep the advance. Coppola told his agent that he didn't care, and if they
couldn't get Brando, they would try 'Jack Nicholson' (qv),
'Robert Redford' (qv), and then 'Al Pacino' (qv). 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
according to Brando's stipulations that he appear in shadows.
- Sheen had a heart attack during the filming; some shots of Willard's back
are actually of someone else.
- 'Sam Bottoms' (qv) was on speed, LSD, and marijuana during the shooting
of parts of the movie.
- 'Dennis Hopper' (qv) 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.
- The photo journalist quotes two 'T. S. Eliot' (qv) poems. In a late scene
in the film, a slow pan over a table in Kurtz's room shows a copy of ``From
Ritual to Romance'', a book by 'Jessie Weston' that inspired Eliot's poem
``The Wasteland''.
- 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.
- 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. Both versions are
available on video. The 70mm version has been letterboxed. A third version
has the credits rolling over a black 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' (qv) (director's father) wrote the score for this film.
- 'Harrison Ford' (qv)'s character wears a name badge which reads
``G. Lucas''. 'George Lucas' (qv) directed Ford in
_American Graffiti (1973)_ (qv) and _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv), two films which
made Ford famous. 'G.D. Spradlin' (qv)'s character is named ``R. Corman'',
after producer 'Roger Corman' (qv).
- DIRCAMEO(Francis 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 (1991)_ (qv). It includes
clips from the movie, as well as later interviews.
# Apollo 13 (1995)
- The cast and crew flew 628 parabolic flights in NASA's KC-135 airplane to
achieve real weightlessness. Each of the flights got them 23 seconds of zero
gravity, making a total of 4 hours and 44 seconds.
- CAMEO(Marilyn Lovell): an extra in the grandstands at the launch.
- CAMEO(Jim Lovell): captian of the USS Iwo Jima.
# Arachnophobia (1990)
- ``Canaima'' (the town attacked by the spiders) is the name of the avenging
spirit of the Guyana Indians.
# Army of Darkness (1993)
- 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 (1951)_ (qv).
- Director 'Sam Raimi' (qv) shot two different endings. One ending has Ash
battling a she-demon in a department store in the present. The alternative
ending has 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 many and wakes up to find a barren
post-apocalyptic landscape. The final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a
red sky. The Great Britain video version shows the `` potion'' ending, and
the version shown in US theatres showed the ``she-demon'' ending.
- 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 (1956)
- 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' (qv), 'A.E. Matthews' (qv), 'Alan Mowbray' (qv),
'Andy Devine' (qv), 'Basil Sydney' (qv), 'Beatrice Lillie' (qv),
'Buster Keaton' (qv), 'Cesar Romero' (qv), 'Charles Boyer' (qv),
'Charles Coburn' (qv), 'Col Tim McCoy' (qv), 'Edmund Lowe' (qv),
'Edward R. Murrow' (qv), 'Evelyn Keyes' (qv), 'Fernandel' (qv),
'Finlay Currie' (qv), 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), 'George Raft' (qv),
'Gilbert Roland' (qv), 'Glynis Johns' (qv), 'Harcourt Williams' (qv),
'Hermione Gingold' (qv), 'Jack Oakie' (qv), 'Joe E. Brown' (qv),
'John Carradine' (qv), 'John Mills' (qv), 'Jose Greco' (qv),
'Luis Miguel Dominguin' (qv), 'Marine Carol' (qv), 'Marlene Dietrich' (qv),
'Melville Cooper' (qv), 'Mike Mazurki' (qv), 'Noel Coward' (qv),
'Peter Lorre' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Reginald Denny' (qv),
'Richard Wattis' (qv), 'Robert Morley' (qv), 'Ronald Colman' (qv),
'Ronald Squire' (qv), 'Cedric Hardwicke' (qv), 'John Gielgud' (qv),
'Trevor Howard' (qv), 'Victor McLaglen' (qv).
- The barge used in Bangkok was belonged to the King of Thailand, who loaned
it to producer 'Michael Todd' (qv).
# Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- In the scene where Mortimer Brewster is sitting on a tombstone in the
graveyard outside his Aunt's home, one of the headstones behind him reads
``Archie Leach''. 'Cary Grant' (qv)'s real name is Archie Leach. See also
_His Girl Friday (1940)_ (qv).
- The movie went unreleased for 3 years after it was finished, waiting for the
Broadway play to finish its run. On stage, 'Boris Karloff' (qv) played
'Raymond Massey' (qv)'s character who ``looks like Karloff'' (qv).
# Aryan, The (1916)
- Sources differ as to the director of this film.
# Arzt von St. Pauli, Der (1968)
- DIRCAMEO(Rolf Olsen): man in mortuary
# Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- The editor is credited as ``James T. Chance'', which was the name of
'John Wayne' (qv)'s character in _Rio Bravo (1959)_ (qv), on which this
film was based, but the actual editor was director 'John Carpenter' (qv).
# Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993) (TV)
- The film showing at the drive-in when Nancy goes on her rampage is
_Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)_ (qv).
# Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
- 'Ed Nelson' (qv) ``played'' the crab monster with 'Beach Dickerson' (qv)
operating the monster's claws.
# Autrichienne, L' (1989)
- 'Robert Hossein' (qv) was choosen as the director of the movie until he
asked for another year and a half before starting to shoot. Producer
'Raymond Danon' (qv) then turned to 'Pierre Granier-Deferre' (qv) because
the film was scheduled for the 300th anniversary of the French revolution
and 'Ute Lemper' (qv) was only free for the period set.
- The movie script is based entirely on the proceedings' minutes of the trial
of Marie-Antoinette.
# Avaleuses, Les (1973)
- This film exists in many different versions, with different titles, with
additional and/or deleted footage, and even with different credits, although
the latter is largely due to variations of 'Jess Franco' (qv)'s pseudonyms.
The versions range between hardcore porn with little horror on the one
extreme to plain horror with little sex on the other.
# Awakenings (1990)
- 'Robin Williams' (qv) accidentally broke 'Robert De Niro' (qv)'s nose during
a rehearsal of the scene where Dr Sayer tries to get Leonard to go back on
the drug.
# Babe (1995)
- The talking pig is a combination of 48 real Yorkshire pigs plus an
animatronic double. A makeup artist added toupee and eyelashes to each, and
computer digitization manipulated pictures of the snout to make the pig
appear to talk.
- When 'James Cromwell' (qv) was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed
through it to see how many lines he had. He saw that he didn't have
that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he
didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than
any of his previous films.
- The man who buys three of Fly's puppies is head animal trainer
'Karl Lewis Miller' (qv).
# Babysitter, The (1995)
- 'Alicia Silverstone' (qv) is rumoured to have turned down the
part in this film on numerous occasions. She finally agreed after
her nude scenes were removed.
# Bachelor Mother (1939)
- Working titles were ``My Fifth Avenue Girl'' and ``She Said I Do''
# Back to the Future (1985)
- 'Eric Stoltz' (qv) originally cast as Marty McFly, but changed because he
didn't act enough like a teenager. When 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) was cast, his
costume was completely revamped.
- The ``main street'' is the same one used in _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv).
- The theatre in 1955 is showing a double bill: ``A Boy's Life'' (the working
title for 'Steven Spielberg' (qv)'s
_E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_ (qv)), and ``Watch the Skies'' (the
working title for Spielberg's
_Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)_ (qv)). See also
_Gremlins (1984)_ (qv).
- 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 (1963)_ (qv),
and the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in
_2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv), both directed by 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv).
- Doc Brown's dog is named Einstein. This may be a vague reference to
_Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)_ (qv), 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.
- One scene only shown in a 1990 TV was the 1955 Doc investigating his 1985
counterpart's suitcase, discovering a hairdryer and a copy of Playboy.
- The dialogue where Lorraine says that when she grows up she'll let her kids
do anything they want was cut.
- Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking in on a class in 1955 and seeing
his mother cheating on a test.
- The scene where Marty asks if he and Jennifer become ``assholes'' in the
future was reshot for television.
- The newscaster on TV in the opening sequence is 'Deborah Harmon' (qv), who
appeared in director 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv)' _Used Cars (1980)_ (qv).
- 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.
- The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the
gull-wing door of the Delorean, this was improvised during filming as the
door mechanism became faulty.
- CAMEO(Huey Lewis): the high-school band judge.
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): The driver of the pickup truck that gives
Marty a lift to school.
# Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part III (1990)_ (qv). In
the five years since the original was made, 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) had
forgotten how to ride a skateboard.
- A movie theatre advertises ``Jaws 19'', directed by ``Max Spielberg''.
Executive producer 'Steven Spielberg' (qv), who directed _Jaws (1975)_ (qv),
has a son Max.
- 'Crispin Glover' (qv) played George McFly in the original, but was replaced
by 'Jeffrey Weissman' (qv) in Part II and Part III. There is a rumour that
Glover had some emotional/mental problems which caused this.
- 'Elisabeth Shue' (qv) was cast as Jennifer, and all the closing shots of
_Back to the Future (1985)_ (qv) were reshot for the beginning of this film.
Persistent rumours are that 'Claudia Wells' (qv) (Jennifer in
_Back to the Future (1985)_ (qv)) was in no condition to act any more.
- When Marty arrives in 2015, he looks in the window of an antique store, where
there is a Roger Rabbit doll and a _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) Nintendo game.
_Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)_ (qv) was also directed by
'Robert Zemeckis' (qv).
The old man who wishes he had bet on the Cubbies is played by
'Charles Fleischer' (qv), who did Roger Rabbit's voice.
- A 1990 TV special showed some sequences cut from the film:
- Biff fades out of 2015 after stumblind out of the DeLorean and behind some
trash cans
- Marty discovers the destroyed Hill Valley High School
- The two police officers are named Reese and Foley, which are the names that
Zemeckis and screenwriter 'Bob Gale' (qv) use for any police or government
agents in the films they have written.
# Back to the Future Part III (1990)
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv). In the
five years since the original was made, 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) had forgotten
how to ride a skateboard.
- 'Crispin Glover' (qv) played George McFly in the original, but was replaced
by 'Jeffrey Weissman' (qv) in Part II and Part III. There is a rumour that
Glover had some emotional/mental problems which caused this.
- The Editor of Hill Valley's newspaper in 1885 is ``M. R. Gale'', a tribute
to trilogy screenwriter 'Bob Gale' (qv).
- In _Back to the Future Part II (1989)_ (qv), Biff watches
_The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)_ (qv) in the alternative 1985, in
which 'Clint Eastwood' (qv)'s character uses steel plating underneath his
poncho. Marty (calling himself ``Clint Eastwood'') uses the hatch from a
stove under his poncho in 1885. The sign at the train crossing in 1985
identifies the location as ``Eastwood Ravine''.
- References to _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)_ (qv): the train sprouts fins
similar to the Professor's car.
- Director of Photography 'Dean Cundey' (qv) plays the photographer who takes
Marty and Doc's picture in 1885.
- 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 (1969)_ (qv), when Jill arrives at the
station.
- CAMEO(ZZTop): the band in 1885. ZZTop wrote some of the music for the
movie.
# Backtrack! (1969)
- This movie is composed of the first episode of
_"Virginian, The" (1962)_ (qv) and a snippet of the _"Laredo" (1965)_ (qv)
episode ``Three's Company''.
# Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
- 'Lana Turner' (qv) plays an actor whose career started as a movie extra.
Turner started her own career as an extra in _A Star Is Born (1937)_ (qv).
- Director 'Vincente Minelli' (qv) and star 'Kirk Douglas' (qv) also teamed
up in another movie about Hollywood, _Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)_ (qv).
- James Lee ('Dick Powell' (qv)) won the Pulitzer Prize for his book ``A Woman
of Taste'', about his late wife Rosemary ('Gloria Grahame' (qv)).
# Bad Girls (1994)
- 'Tamra Davis' (qv) started as director of this film, with a script written
by 'Yolande Turner' (qv) and 'Becky Johnston' (qv). A few weeks into
filming, the production company became unhappy with the direction the film
was taking. They shut down production, replaced Davis with
'Jonathan Kaplan' (qv), had the script rewritten, and sent the four main
actresses off to ``cowboy camp'' to learn how to shoot, rope and ride.
# Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) rejected a role in this film, with the words ``Areyou
kidding?''
# Balboa (1986)
- Originally filmed as a mini-series.
# Bambi (1942)
- Some scenes of woodland creatures and the forest fire are unused footage from
_Pinocchio (1940)_ (qv).
- The world premiere of this film was in the tiny Lincoln Theater in
Damariscotta, Maine, USA. 'Maurice Day' (qv), an animator with Disney,
brought 'Felix Salten' (qv)'s book to the attention of 'Walt Disney' (qv),
and when Walt decided to make the movie he thanked Maurice by
holding the premier in Maurice's home town.
# Band Wagon, The (1953)
- 'Cyd Charisse' (qv)'s singing was dubbed by 'India Adams' (qv).
# Bandera, La (1935)
- The movie was initially dedicated to Colonel Franco and his troops. The
dedication was removed after the Spanish civil war.
# Barbarella (1968)
- When 'Virna Lisi' (qv) was told to play the part of Barbarella, she
terminated her contract with United Artists and returned to Italy.
# Barfly (1987)
- CAMEO(Charles Bukowski): in the bar where Henry and Wanda meet for
the first time.
# Barkleys of Broadway, The (1949)
- Originally planned to star 'Fred Astaire' (qv) and 'Judy Garland' (qv), but
when Garland became ill, 'Ginger Rogers' (qv) took over.
- Astaire has sung ``They Can't Take That Away from Me'' to Rogers previously
in _Shall We Dance? (1937)_ (qv), but they had never danced to it. Rogers
suggested that they use the song again (this time dancing), and so it
was included.
# Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Director 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) did not use any artificial lighting when he
shot this film.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Captain Quinn's face during his duel
with Barry when he goes to raise his pistol.
# Barton Fink (1991)
- 'John Turturro' (qv) plays the title role. In
_Miller's Crossing (1990)_ (qv) (also directed by 'Joel Coen' (qv)),
Turturro played a character who met a man at an apartment building called
``The Barton Arms''.
# Bas-fonds, Les (1936)
- CAMEO(Jacques Becker): a silhouette.
# Basic Instinct (1992)
- 'Kim Basinger' (qv) was originally cast as Catherine Tramell.
- 'Michael Douglas' (qv)' character watches [_Hellraiser (1987)_ (qv) or
_Brain (1962)_ (qv) or _Brain (1969)_ (qv)?].
# Basketball Diaries, The (1995)
- CAMEO(Jim Carrol)
# Batman (1989)
- 'Adam West' (qv) (the star of the TV series) wanted to play Batman, but
'Michael Keaton' (qv) 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' (qv) originally cast as Vicki Vale, but broke her collar bone
while filming a horse-riding scene with 'Michael Keaton' (qv). The scene
was subsequently rewritten out of the script.
- Most shots of Batman in costume are a stunt double.
- Spanish subtitles convert ``6 foot'' and ``108 (lbs)'' to metric.
- 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 Forever (1995)
- 'Jim Carrey' (qv) reportedly broke around a dozen prop canes and some of
his trailer furniture while learning to twirl it around.
# Batman Returns (1992)
- 'Danny DeVito' (qv) forbidden to describe The Penguin's makeup to anyone,
including his family.
- The bad guy's name is Max Schreck. 'Max Schreck' (qv) played the vampire in
_Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)_ (qv).
- The film was been branded `anti-Semitic' 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 33 years old: the same age as Christ
- 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
- carries his umbrella into the graveyard the same way Christ carried the
cross.
- 'Sean Young' (qv) 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. See also
_Batman (1989)_ (qv).
# Battle of the Alamo, The (1996)
- For the first time ever the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who
control the Alamo, allowed filming at the actual site, and even within
the Alamo itself.
- The scene where Col. Travis gives his ring away was filmed within the Alamo
in the room where it actually happened, using Col. Travis' actual ring, from
the Alamo museum.
# Battle of the River Plate, The (1956)
- Ships used in the film: HMS Sheffield as HMS Ajax, INS Delhi (formerly HMNZS
Achilles) as HMNZS Achilles, HMS Cumberland as HMS Cumberland, Heavy Cruiser
USS Salem as the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
# Beaches (1988)
- CAMEO(Hector Elizondo): Justice of the Peace
# Beau Hunks (1931)
- CAMEO(Jean Harlow): ``Jeanie-Weenie'', in photo.
- CAMEO(Marvin Hatley): a Riffian.
# 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.
- Tiny Toon Adventure script writer Sheri Stoner was used as the model for
Belle. See also _The Little Mermaid (1989)_ (qv).
- The signs that Maurice encounters in the forest show two different city
names if you look closely enough. One is pointing down a darkened path
named ``Valencia''. The other is pointing down a less sinister looking
path labeled ``Aneheim'', representing the on-going battle between
Disneyland (located in Aneheim, California) and Six Flags Magic Mountain
(Located in Valencia, California).
# Becky Sharp (1935)
- After only a few weeks filming, director 'Lowell Sherman' (qv) developed
pneumonia and died. His replacement, 'Rouben Mamoulian' (qv), scrapped
his footage and began again from scratch.
# Beethoven (1992)
- The credits list ``Edmond Dantes'' as the screenwriter, but it was
actually 'John Carpenter' (qv). The pseudonym is a homage to a character
in ``The Count of Monte Cristo''.
# Beetlejuice (1988)
- Title role originally written for 'Sammy Davis Jr.' (qv).
- When Barbara and Adam are in their case worker's office, through the blinds
you can see Elwood and Jake from _The Blues Brothers (1980)_ (qv).
# Being There (1979)
- Every contract that 'Peter Sellers' (qv) signs includes a clause which
stipulates that his accomodation must have the bed facing East-West.
Chance says: ``I like to sleep with my head facing North''. The attorney
he's with says ``But this bed is facing west!''
- In different versions, the credits are either shown over retakes of
Chance saying a line that was not in the movie, or (for TV and video)
shown over TV white noise.
# Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
- Filmed in nine days on a budget of $50,000
# Belle of New York, The (1952)
- The vocals for 'Vera-Ellen' (qv) were dubbed by 'Anita Ellis' (qv).
- 'Mae West' (qv) was considered for the part of Mrs. Hill, but was too
expensive.
- The song ``I Love to Beat the Big Bass Drum'' was written for the film but
not used.
- A scene with a dance to ``When I'm Out With the Belle of New York,'' by Vera-
Ellen and chorus, was cut from the film.
# Belle of the Nineties (1934)
- Originally titled ``It Ain't No Sin,'' but after the newly formed Hayes
Office objected, the title was quickly changed, even though advertising had
already been printed.
# Ben-Hur (1959)
- The rumor that the 'Stephen Boyd' (qv)'s double was killed during the
chariot race is false.
- The chariot race segment was directed by legendary stunt-man,
'Yakima Canutt' (qv). One of Canutt's sons doubled for
'Charlton Heston' (qv). 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. It is
rumored that the stuntmen were told that the winner of the race would
receive a $150 bonus.
# Beshin Lug (1937)
- Production was stopped by Soviet officials in 1937. The shot material was
destroyed during a German bombing raid in the war, but in the mid 1960s
short clips, cut during the editing of the picture in 1937 were found.
These clips were added according to script and story board to a 31 minute
reconstuction of film stills.
# Best Defense (1984)
- When Laura ('Kate Capshaw' (qv)) is waiting in a pick-up truck, she is
humming the theme song from
_Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)_ (qv), a movie (also released
in 1984) that she appeared in.
# Best Little Girl in the World, The (1981) (TV)
- Under medical supervision, 'Jennifer Jason Leigh' (qv) wasted down to 90
pounds for her role.
# Beverly Hillbillies, The (1993)
- CAMEO(Buddy Ebsen): a private detective. Ebsen played Jed Clampett in
_"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)_ (qv).
# Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
- Axel Foley originally going to be played by 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv) or
'Mickey Rourke' (qv).
# Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [filmmakers] Appearances by directors
'Martha Coolidge' (qv), 'Joe Dante' (qv), 'Arthur Hiller' (qv),
'George Lucas' (qv), 'Peter Medak' (qv), 'George Schaefer' (qv),
'Barbet Schroeder' (qv), and 'John Singleton (qv)'; and filmmaker
'Ray Harryhausen' (qv).
# Bewegte Mann, Der (1994)
- Based on the books ``Der Bewegte Mann'' and ``Pretty Baby'', written by
cartoonist 'Ralf Koenig' (qv), who appears as a drag-queen.
# Beyond the Forest (1949)
- In some parts of the US the scene in which Rosa induces a miscarriage by
jumping from an embankment were cut.
# Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
- After submitting her photo in a magazine contest, 'Clara Bow' (qv) was
declared national winner and won a part in this motion picture. Her acting
was deemed so amateurish however, her scenes were cut before the picture's
release. When she later became a star, her scenes were reinstated and the
film was re-issued.
# Bharat Mata (1956)
- During filming one of the sets caught on fire. 'Sunil Dutt' (qv) saved
``Nargis'' [?].
# Big Brawl, The (1980)
- Despite training in martial arts since the age of six, and having
choreographed his own fight scenes in many previous films, 'Jackie Chan' (qv)
was assigned a fight choreographer with only six years experience.
# Big Broadcast of 1936, The (1935)
- The number ``It's the Animal in Me'' was originally intended for the movie
_We're Not Dressing (1934)_ (qv), but was cut from that film before release.
# Big Chill, The (1983)
- Flashback scenes with 'Kevin Costner' (qv) as Alex filmed, but cut. He
is still visible as the body being dressed at the beginning of the film.
- As he fights off the bat, Harold hums the theme from
_Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv), also written by
'Lawrence Kasdan' (qv).
# Big Easy, The (1987)
- The orchestral music playing on the stereo while Anne is on the phone is
from the fourth act of [?] Puccini's Manon Lescaut, which takes place on an
arid plain just outside New Orleans.
# Big House, The (1930)
- Director 'George W. Hill' (qv) threatened to fire anyone who ``acted'', and
forbade makeup.
# Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, The (1990) (TV)
- The montage showing emergency services getting ready includes Squad 51
and Engine 51 from _"Emergency" (1972)_ (qv) backing in the station.
# Big Picture, The (1989)
- CAMEO(Martin Short): agent.
- CAMEO(Eliot Gould): lawyer in the first student film.
# Big Sleep, The (1946)
- Director 'Howard Hawks' (qv) and star 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) got into an
argument as to whether one of the characters was murdered or committed
suicide. The sent a wire to author 'Raymond Chandler' (qv) asking him to
settle the issue, but he replied that he didn't know either.
- The scene where Bogart and 'Lauren Bacall' (qv) make suggestive talk
about horses was added almost a year after filming was otherwise
complete, and the two performers had married in the meantime.
# Big Steal, The (1990)
- A TV can be heard to be showing _Malcolm (1986)_ (qv), which has the same
producers.
- The car yard (set up in for the film in Victoria St Richmond an inner suburb
of Melbourne) was so real that the crew kept receiving genuine offers
from the public wishing to purchase the vehicles.
# Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Some of the lightning forms a Chinese symbol as it disappears. The symbol
translates as ``carpenter''. This film was directed by
'John Carpenter' (qv).
# Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- 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' (qv).
- The evil character from the future is called ``De Nomolos'', which is
writer and producer 'Ed Solomon' (qv)'s name spelt backwards.
- 'William Sadler' (qv) (``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.
- Sadler wrote the ``Reaper Rap'', which is played over the closing credits.
- There are statues of 'David Niven' (qv) and 'Michael Powell' (qv) in heaven.
- References to _A Matter of Life and Death (1981) (TV)_ (qv),
_The Seventh Seal (1957)_ (qv).
# Bill and Coo (1947)
- The players are real birds dressed like humans.
# Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- 'Michael Caine' (qv) performed most of his own stunts. During the final ice
flow scene, he almost slipped and fell into freezing water.
- Caine had originally signed a five picture deal, but when he was
reluctant to return to the role, producer 'Harry Saltzman' (qv) let him out
of the contract.
# Birds, The (1963)
- 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' (qv) (writer of
_Psycho (1960)_ (qv)) to write the script, but he wasn't interested in the
story. The final screenplay (from a 'Daphne Du Maurier' (qv) story) was
written by 'Evan Hunter' (qv), best known to detective story fans under his
pen name 'Ed McBain' (qv).
- Hitchcock spotted 'Tippi Hedren' (qv) in a diet drink commercial.
- The scene where Hedren is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie
took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to her 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.
- Hedren's daughter 'Melanie Griffith' (qv) 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.
# Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
- Premiered in Los Angeles with the title ``The Clansman'', after the
novel on which it was based.
- The black characters are played by white actors with make-up.
# Birth of the Blues (1941)
- 'Bing Crosby' (qv)'s clarinet was dubbed by 'Danny Polo' (qv),
'Brian Donlevy' (qv)'s cornet by 'Poky Carriere' (qv).
# Bishop's Wife, The (1947)
- This first filming was directed by 'William A. Seiter' (qv), but
'Samuel Goldwyn Jr.' (qv) didn't like it and so he asked 'Henry Koster' (qv)
for a completely new film. The preview-audience didn't like the new
version, so 'Billy Wilder' (qv) and 'Charles Brackett' (qv) had to rewrite
a couple of scenes without appearence in the credits.
# Black Cat, The (1934)
- 'Boris Karloff' (qv)'s character is named after Austrian architect and
set designer 'Hjalmar Poelzig' (qv).
- The satanic prayer Poelzig chants during the black mass scene consists of
phrases in Latin, the most recognizable being ``cum grano salis'' (with a
grain of salt).
# Black Hole, The (1979)
- Dr Reinhardt's ship is called the ``U.S.S. Cygnus.'' The first black hole
was discovered in the constellation Cygnus.
# Black Rain (1989/I)
- 'Jackie Chan' (qv) turned down a role, as he didn't want to play a ``bad''
character.
# Black Scorpion, The (1957)
- The producers ran out of money during production, so the special effect of
the scorpion attacking Mexico City is actually an empty traveling matte.
- The sounds of the scorpions are the same sounds as the ant chirps in
_Them! (1954)_ (qv).
# Black to the Promised Land (1992)
- A scene where the students visit an Arab village and were stoned by the
residents was filmed but not included.
# Black Widow (1986)
- CAMEO(David Mamet): playing poker with Debra Winger
# Blackmail (1929)
- 'Anny Ondra' (qv)'s voice was dubbed by 'Joan Barry' (qv) because Ondra had a
thick German accent. Barry had to stand just off the set and read the
lines into a microphone as the film was shot.
- Much of the film was originally shot silent; when sound became available
during the course of shooting, director 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) re-shot
certain scenes with sound.
- A German-language version was produced at the same time, also directed
by Hitchcock.
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): being bothered by a small boy on the
subway.
# Blazing Saddles (1974)
- Scriptwriter 'Andrew Bergman' (qv) originally named the lead character
``Tex X''.
- Director 'Mel Brooks' (qv) plays a character called ``Le Petomane'', which
was the stage name of a popular French performer (Joseph Pujol) from the
beginning of the 20th century. His specialty was telling stories punctuated
with flatulence.
- In the shot where the showbill for ``Lili von Schtupp, The Teutonic
Titwillow'' appears, the tune played on the honky-tonk piano in the
background is ``Springtime for Hitler'' from _The Producers (1968)_ (qv),
also directed by Brooks.
- The ``stinkin' badges'' line is from
_The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)_ (qv).
- The TV release has several 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.
- A scene where 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.
- Escaping from the ``Bad guy queue'', Jim and Bart encounter a Baptism
ceremony.
- Governor Le Petomane rides into the fake Rock Ridge in a stagecoach and
tries to talk to the fake people.
- Everyone in the town of Rockridge's last name is ``Johnson''.
- CAMEO(Count Bassie): leader of the jazz band in the desert.
- DIRCAMEO(Mel Brooks): the aviator in the bad-guy queue.
# Blind Date (1987)
- 'Madonna' (qv) and 'Sean Penn' (qv) were approached to star together in this
movie, but producers wanted to cast 'Bruce Willis' (qv) in the male lead, so
Madonna backed out.
# Blind Husbands (1919)
- Originally titled ``The Pinnacle.''
# Blink (1994)
- 'Dana Stevens' (qv)'s research into the screenplay revealed that delayed
vision is not ficticious.
- 'Madeleine Stowe' (qv) visited doctors at UCLA to study blindness.
'Aidan Quinn' (qv) and 'James Remar' (qv) spent time with the Chicago Police
department, and the line ``We will solve no crime before there's overtime''
was provided by police force members.
# Blood Alley (1955)
- 'Robert Mitchum' (qv) was fired from the film after an altercation in which
he shoved director 'William Wellman' (qv) into San Francisco Bay.
# Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
- References to: _An American Werewolf in London (1981)_ (qv) [more!]
# Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight (1991)
- The prison inmates are watching _T.N.T. Jackson (1974)_ (qv).
# Bloodsport (1987)
- 'Jean Claude Van Damme' (qv) was well-known in Europe as a kickboxer, but an
unknown in Hollywood. He spotted producer 'Menahem Golan' (qv) 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 the next day to star in this film.
# Blown Away (1992)
- When Richie gets arrested, a police radio can be heard announcing the
capture of Dr. Richard Kimble from _"The Fugitive (TV)"_ (qv).
# Blue Iguana, The (1988)
- CAMEO(Dean Stockwell):
# Blue in the Face (1995)
- Filmed in just five days, using the same set and much of the same cast as
_Smoke (1995)_ (qv). The premise of the film came to directors
'Wayne Wang' (qv) and 'Paul Auster' (qv) while watching an improvisation
session between 'Harvey Keitel' (qv) et. al. to help them get into character
for filming _Smoke (1995)_ (qv). They decided that the improvisations were
so funny that they would spend a few days after shooting Smoke just filming
film is almost entirely improvised. Auster and Wang claim to have
``borrowed'' the idea of shooting another movie on the back of an existing
one from 'Roger Corman' (qv) who often used to shoot movies very quickly on
leftover sets from other productions.
# Blue Skies (1946)
- Filming began with 'Paul Draper' (qv) as Jed Potter. Draper was fired over
either his impatience with 'Joan Caulfield' (qv), who was not a professional
dancer, or his stutter. He was replaced by 'Fred Astaire' (qv).
# Blue Sky (1994)
- Completed in 1991, but not released until 1994 due to Orion Pictures'
bankruptcy.
# Blue Tiger (1994)
- CAMEO(Michael Madsen): a gun salesman. Madsen is the brother of star
'Virginia Madsen' (qv).
# Blues Brothers, The (1980)
- The ``Blues Brothers Band'' consists of already well-respected musicians, who
have recorded and written with the likes of Eric Clapton and Otis Redding.
- Every time we see the window in Elwood's apartment a train goes past.
- When the police car flips over in the mall, the police officer says ``Hey,
they broke my watch!'' This line is repeated after every major car crash.
- ``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.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [filmmakers] Appearances by directors 'Frank Oz' (qv)
and 'Steven Spielberg' (qv).
# Bob Roberts (1992)
- Writer/Director/Actor 'Tim Robbins' (qv) wrote a song called ``Revape
Amerika'' for _Tapeheads (1988)_ (qv). It was performed by ``Bob Roberts''.
Robbins reworked the song into ``Retake America''.
- A soundtrack album was not made becuase Robbins didn't want the songs played
outside of the movie's context.
# Body Double (1984)
- Porn star 'Annette Haven' (qv) was originally cast for the role of
``Holly'', but Columbia Pictures decided to turn her down when their
executives saw what kind of movies she had been making. Haven
later stated that she was happy because of that, because she hadn't
liked the script and hadn't liked to be in a film with gory violence.
# Bodyguard, The (1992)
- This film was originally proposed in the mid-70's, starring 'Diana Ross' (qv)
and 'Steve McQueen' (qv), 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 (1972)_ (qv).
- Rachel and Frank go and see _Yojimbo (1961)_ (qv), which was released in
the United States as ``The Bodyguard''.
# Bohemian Girl, The (1936)
- This was 'Thelma Todd' (qv)'s last screen appearance before her controversial
death. In an attempt to avoid associating the film with the notoriety
surrounding the event, the plot was altered and many of her already-filmed
scenes were re-shot.
# Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)
- 'Alan Arkin' (qv) (Judge Myron Kovitzky) was replaced late in preproduction
by 'Morgan Freeman' (qv) and the character renamed; mostly because of
scheduling problems. This decision cost over $2 million.
- 'F. Murray Abraham' (qv)'s contract for this movie stipulated that his name
appear above the title in the advertising, or not at all. Since the
producers already had 'Tom Hanks' (qv), 'Melanie Griffiths' (qv),
'Bruce Willis' (qv) and Freeman above the title, Abraham chose not to be
credited.
- The production is extensively documented in ``The Devil's Candy'' by Julie
Salamon (ISBN 0-385-30824-8)
# Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- 'Morgan Fairchild' (qv), who was active in Dallas theatre, began her film
career in this film as 'Faye Dunaway' (qv)'s stand-in.
# Border Patrol (1943)
- CAMEO(Robert Mitchum):
# Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
- CAMEO(Abbie Hoffman): a war/draft protester.
- CAMEO(Ron Kovic): WWII veteran in the parade at the beginning.
- DIRCAMEO(Oliver Stone): a TV reporter.
# Born To Be Bad (1950)
- The film had two endings. Director 'Nicholas Ray' (qv) raised the
issue of a director's right to final cut, and at this time the collective
contract with directors did not stipulate this right.
# Born to Dance (1936)
- 'Judy Garland' (qv) was originally cast as one of the three girls at the
club, with 'Frances Langford' (qv) as Lucy James. Garland was replaced
by Langford, and 'Virginia Bruce' (qv) replaced Langford as Lucy.
- 'Allan Jones' (qv) was intended fo Ted Barker, but the role went to
'James Stewart' (qv).
# Botany Bay (1953)
- The figurehead on the prow of the ship is a full body and face cast of
'Jan Sterling' (qv).
# Boxcar Bertha (1972)
- According to both 'David Carradine' (qv) and 'Barbara Hershey' (qv), their
sex scene was not faked.
# Boxing Helena (1993)
- 'Kim Bassinger' (qv) pulled out of the title role, and was sucessfully sued
for $9 million for violation of a verbal contract.
# Boy and His Dog, A (1975)
- Screenplay started by 'Harlan Ellison' (qv), who wrote the novella on which
it is based. Ellison encountered writer's block, and so producer
'Alvy Moore' (qv) and 'L.Q. Jones' (qv) 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 (1971)
- CAMEO(Glenda Jackson):
# Boys in Company C, The (1978)
- Drill Instructor played by 'R Lee Ermey' (qv), a former US Marines Drill
Instructor.
- The original script was written by 'Rick Natkin' (qv) for a film class at
Yale University in 1973.
# Boyz N the Hood (1991)
- DIRCAMEO(John Singleton): the mailman.
# Brady Bunch Movie, The (1995)
- Scenes featureing 'Mike Lookinland' (qv) as Cop #3 and 'Susan Olsen' (qv)
as the Lemonade Lady were filmed but cut.
# Brain Damage (1988)
- CAMEO(Kevin VanHentenryck): on a subway, carrying a wicker basket.
VanHentenryck appeared in _Basket Case (1982)_ (qv),
_Basket Case 2 (1990)_ (qv), and _Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1992)_ (qv),
all also directed by 'Frank Henenlotter' (qv). In these three films,
VanHentenryck's character carries his deformed twin brother around in a
wicker basket.
# Brain Dead (1990)
- [Bill Pullman] mentions that he went to ``Miskatonic University'', the
college where _Re-Animator (1985)_ (qv) took place. Miskatonic University
is supposedly located in Arkham, MA, a fictional town created by
'H.P. Lovecraft' (qv).
# Brain Eaters, The (1958)
- The producers of this movie were sued by 'Robert Heinlein' (qv), who
claimed the plot stole several elements of his novel, ``The Puppet Masters''.
- CAMEO(Leonard Nimoy):
# Braindead (1992)
- During the lawnmower scene, blood was pumped at five gallons per second.
# Brainstorm (1983)
- 'Natalie Wood' (qv) died before filming was complete, thus the ending had to
be constructed from scenes shot earlier.
# Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
- 'Winona Ryder' (qv) saw the script when it was originally going to be made
as a TV movie, directed by 'Michael Apted' (qv). She took the script to
'Francis Coppola' (qv), whom she had not spoken to since withdrawing
from _The Godfather: Part III_ (qv) due to exhaustion six months earlier.
Coppola agreed to make the film, and Apted stayed on as executive producer.
- In an attempt to elicit more emotion, Coppola shouted ``whore'' and ``slut''
while filming the scene when Van Helsing catches Mina with Dracula.
- 'Anthony Hopkins' (qv) also plays Chesare, the priest who tells Dracula that
Elisabeta's soul is damned.
# Brats (1930)
- The framed photograph next to the clock on the mantlepiece is of
'Jean Harlow' (qv).
# Brave (1994)
- In some shots, the girl's lover is suddenly replace by 'Steve Hogarth' (qv).
- Song changes from the album:
- paper lies: not included
- the great escape: alternative ending,
# Brave Bulls, The (1951)
- Filmed in the spring of 1950, but not released until the following year
because producer-director 'Robert Rossen' (qv) was under investigation by the
House Un-American Activities Committee.
# Braveheart (1995)
- Several of the major battle scenes had to be reshot, as extras were seen
wearing sunglasses and wristwatches.
- Director/producer 'Mel Gibson' (qv) was investigated by the RSPCA, who were
convinced that the fake horses used were real.
# Brazil (1985)
- 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 director
'Terry Gilliam' (qv) worked for in the mid-60s. It was at a photo shoot
for this magazine that Gilliam met 'John Cleese' (qv), 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
- Harvey Lime, possibly a reference to Harry Lime in
_The Third Man (1949)_ (qv).
- 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 Greist' (qv) and
'Katherine Helmond' (qv).
- Gilliam tested more than a half-dozen actors to play the part of Jill,
interviewing or testing 'Jamie Lee Curtis' (qv), 'Rebecca De Mornay' (qv),
'Rae Dawn Chong' (qv), 'Joanna Pakula' (qv), 'Rosanna Arquette' (qv),
'Kelly McGillis' (qv), 'Ellen Barkin' (qv), and he even considered
'Madonna' (qv). Gilliam's personal favorite was Barkin.
- The book ``The Battle of Brazil'' details the production of this movie.
- References to _Potemkin (1925)_ (qv).
- The theme song (which Sam listens to in his car) was also featured in
_Brazil (1944)_ (qv).
- DIRCAMEO(Terry Gilliam): the smoker in the Shangri-La tower who bumps
into Sam.
- DIRTRADE(Terry Gilliam): [burst]: SWAT teams enter through ceiling.
# Breakfast Club, The (1985)
- The guidance counselor's desk has a name plaque which says ``R. Hashimoto''.
'Richard Hashimoto' (qv) was the production supervisor.
- A prom queen election poster contains the name of 'Michelle Manning' (qv),
who co-produced the film.
- Director 'John Hughes' (qv) insisted that the entire cast and crew eat their
meals on location in the Maine East High School cafeteria.
# Breaking Away (1979)
- Originally titled ``Bambino.''
# Brewster McCloud (1970)
- Daphne Heap ('Margaret Hamilton' (qv)) is shown wearing ruby slippers,
a reference to Hamilton's role in _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv).
- Suzanne's apartment features a poster for _MASH (1970)_ (qv), also directed
by 'Robert Altman' (qv).
# Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Editing after previews resulted in the loss of a subplot in which Karl
imitates the Monster's murderous modus operandi to eliminate his miserly
aunt and uncle and direct the blame away from himself.
- The working title was ``The Return of Frankenstein''.
- When the castle is self-destructing, the Doctor can be seen against the far
wall. Yet he is next seen outside in the arms of his beloved, watching the
explosions. There were two endings originally: the first had Doctor
Frankenstein dying within the castle and this was filmed. But the producers
judged this a bit harsh and wanted a happy ending, so they shot the extra
footage (too expensive to re-film the explosions).
# Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
- The bridge set took eight months to construct, and thirty seconds to
demolish.
# Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Susan pretends that she and David ('Cary Grant' (qv)) are gangsters. The
underworld nickname she gives police for David is ``Jerry the Nipper'', a
nickname that Jerry (Grant) had in _The Awful Truth (1937)_ (qv).
# Broadcast News (1987)
- 'Jack Nicholson' (qv) was niether credited nor paid for his role, at his
own request. He didn't want to distract from the leads.
# Broadminded (1931)
- CAMEO(Bela Lugosi): man whose hot dog was stolen.
# Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
- Rumors say that 'Eleanor Powell'(qv) didn't want at first to play in the
movie but was to polite to tell MGM officials directly. She asked for the
leading role and an exorbitant salary, and MGM accepted her demands.
# Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
- For the number ``Your Broadway and Mine'', the set is decorated with the
names of Broadway stars from the 1910s and 1920s. When Alice (played
by 'Sophie Tucker' (qv)) starts talking about former times, Tucker's
name can be seen at least twice in the background.
- The song ``Dear Mr. Gable'' was a birthday present for 'Clark Gable' (qv)'s
36th birthday. Composer and arranger 'Roger Edens' (qv) adapted the
old song ``You Made Me Love You'' by 'James Monaco' (qv).
It was sung at Gable's birthday party by a young 'Judy Garland' (qv).
Producer 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) was so impressed by it, that he gave order to
let Garland sing it again in the next great musical MGM was going to produce.
# Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- Planned to be shot in TechniColor, but made in black and white.
- The fur coat running gag was based on the real-life ploy of talent agent
'Doc Shurr' (qv).
- The vocals for 'Carmen D'Antonio' (qv) were dubbed by 'Lois Hodnett' (qv).
# Broadway Serenade (1939)
- 'Busby Berkeley' (qv) only directed the final musical number.
# Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
- Some of the musical numbers were originally filmed for
_The Long March of Time (1930)_ (qv).
# Broken Arrow (1996)
- Director 'John Woo' (qv) originally wanted Hale to die during the film.
# Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978) (TV)
- Some footage was taken from _"Battlestar Galactica" (1978)_ (qv),
along with many props.
# Bugsy Malone (1976)
- 'Jodie Foster' (qv)'s singing was dubbed. Director 'Alan Parker' (qv)
regrets this later, when Foster goes on to be a major star.
# Bullitt (1968)
- 'Steve McQueen' (qv) drove both cars in the chase scene. The director
called for speeds of about 75-80 mph, but the cars (including the ones
containing the cameras) reached speeds of over 110 mph.
# Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): [theme]: The Blonde, Sentenza, and Tusco
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): [close-up]
# Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
- 'Walter Gage' (writer) is a pseudonym for 'William Inge' (qv), who asked that
his name be removed from the credits after the producers changed his script
without his permission in an effort to spotlight the film's star,
'Ann-Margret' (qv).
# Bus Stop (1956)
- 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) objected to the color of 'Hope Lange' (qv)'s hair,
claiming that it was too fair and detracted from her own. As a result,
Lange's hair was darkened.
- 'Don Murray' (qv) suffered painful facial cuts when Monroe over-did a scene
in which she had to slap him with the sequined tail of her costume.
# Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- 'Warren Beatty' (qv) turned down the role of Sundance to in favour of
a role in _Only Game in Town, The (1970)_ (qv).
# C'era una volta il west (1969)
- 'Henry Fonda' (qv) originally turned down a role in the picture. Director
'Sergio Leone' (qv) flew to the United States and met with Fonda, who asked
why he was wanted the movie. Sergio replied, ``Picture this: the camera
shows a gunman from the waist down pulling his gun and shooting a running
child. The camera pans up to the gunman's face and... its Henry Fonda.''
- The credits run over the first 14 minutes of the film.
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): [theme]: Harmonica, Frank, and Cheyenne.
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): [close-up]
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): Music is by 'Ennio Morricone' (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Sergio Leone): [close-up]: in most gun-fight scenes.
# Cable Guy, The (1996)
- During filming of the scene in which the Cable Guy ('Jim Carrey' (qv)) plays
basketball, it was discovered that Carrey could barely dribble a basketball,
much less make a basket. Director 'Ben Stiller' (qv) had Carrey mime the
action without a ball and visual effects technicians added the basketball in
postproduction.
# Cadillac Man (1990)
- 'Robin Williams' (qv) quotes 'James Dean' (qv) from
_Rebel Without a Cause (1955)_ (qv): ``I've got the bullets goddamned!''
- CAMEO(Elaine Stritch): widow.
# Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (1994)
- Billed as a sequel to _Caged Heat (1974)_ (qv), but features different
characters.
# Cagey Canary, The (1941)
- 'Robert Clampett' (qv) completed the film after director 'Tex Avery' (qv)
left Warner Brothers.
# Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
- 'Richard Widmark' (qv) was chosen for the lead role, but producer
'Stanley Kramer' (qv) wanted 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv).
- Preparations for filming took 15 month: US Navy refused
supporting the movie, because the story aims at a Navy mutiny.
# California Suite (1978)
- CAMEO(James Coburn): piloting a light plane in the movie-in-the-movie.
# Caligula (1980)
- Disappointed at the lack of nudity in the final cut, producer
'Bob Guccione' (qv) included extra footage of models taking off their
clothes.
- Write 'Gore Vidal' (qv) did not want credit for his work.
# Call Me Madam (1953)
- 'Carole Richards' (qv) dubbed 'Vera-Ellen' (qv)'s singing.
# Campana del Infierno, La (1973)
- Director 'Claudio Hill' (qv) fell from the tower housing the title bell on
the last day of shooting and was killed. The film was completed by
'Juan Antonio Bardem' (qv).
# Can-Can (1960)
- During filming, 'Nikita Khurshchev' (qv) visited the set with his wife. He
reportedly was shocked by the open sexuality on display, and remarked:
``The face of mankind is prettier than its backside.''
# Canary Murder Case, The (1929)
- Originally shot as a silent in 1928. 'Louise Brooks' (qv) refused to return
from Germany for the dubbing.
# Cape Fear (1991)
- 'Robert De Niro' (qv) 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' (qv), who starred in _Cape Fear (1962)_ (qv), appears
as Cady's lawyer.
- 'Robert Mitchum' (qv), played Max Cady in the 1962 version, and appears as
Lieutenant Elgart.
- 'Martin Balsam' (qv) played Mark Dutton in the 1962 version and the judge in
this version.
- Scene in high school auditorium totally ad-libbed by De Niro and
'Juliette Lewis' (qv), and done on the first take.
- DIRTRADE(Martin Scorsese): [mother]: fruit stand customer.
# Caprice (1967)
- Patricia ('Doris Day' (qv)) goes to see a Doris Day film.
# Capricorn One (1978)
- One of the stunt helicopter pilots claimed this film was the most dangerous
film he'd ever flown for. He was killed in a crash soon after filming
finished.
# Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
- The Zero-X Martian Exploration Vehicle was also featured in
_"Thunderbirds" (1964)_ (qv), also created by 'Gerry Anderson' (qv).
# Career Opportunities (1991)
- CAMEO(John Candy):
# Carefree (1938)
- Originally intended to be shot in color, but the extra cost of 1.5 cents per
foot was too much.
- 'Irving Berlin' (qv)'s song ``The Night Is Filled With Music'' was cut from
the final version of the film.
# Carlito's Way (1993)
- Director 'Brian DePalma' (qv) wanted to shoot the climax of the film at
the World Trade Center in New York but unfortunately it was bombed, and
he had to shoot it in ``another railway station again.'' See
_The Untouchables (1987)_ (qv).
# Carnival Boat (1932)
- Working titles were ``Timber Beast'' and then ``Bad Timber''.
# Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
- CAMEO(Leonide Massine): the film's coreographer is the unnamed ``famous
dancer'' with Vera-Ellen in the first production scene
# Carrie (1976)
- 'Carrie Fisher' (qv) originally cast as Carrie, but refused to do the
nude scenes. She eventually swapped roles with 'Sissy Spacek' (qv), who
was cast in _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
# Carry On Doctor (1967)
- 'Sid James' (qv) spent most of his screen time in bed, as he had recently
suffered a heart attack.
# Carry On Emmanuelle (1978)
- 'Barbara Windsor' (qv) was going to appear in this film, but once she had
read the script and had seen a few scenes already filmed, she declined to
take part, as she described the film as a ``porn movie''.
'Kenneth Williams' (qv) said that he saw nothing in it which he would
describe as ``porn''.
# Casablanca (1942)
- ``Rick Blaine's'' was modelled after Hotel El Minzah in Tanger.
- Rick never says ``Play it again, Sam.'' He says: ``You played
it for her, you can play it for me. Play it!''. Ilsa says ``Play it, Sam.
Play `As Time Goes By'''.
- 'Dooley Wilson' (qv) (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 a recording of a performance by 'Elliot Carpenter' (qv),
being played behind a curtain.
- Producer 'Hal B. Wallis' (qv) nearly made the character Sam a female.
'Hazel Scott' (qv), 'Lena Horne' (qv), and 'Ella Fitzgerald' (qv) were
tested for the role.
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv)'s wife continually accused him of having an affair
with 'Ingrid Bergman' (qv), often confronting him in his dressing room
before a shot. Bogart would come onto the set in a rage.
- Wallis originally had 'Ronald Reagan' (qv) and 'Ann Sheridan' (qv) in mind
for the lead roles. 'Pan Brennan' (qv), another producer, then said he
thought Bogart was the most appealing of all Warners' stars to women.
Meanwhile 'George Raft' (qv) was angling for the part with
'Jack Warner' (qv), but Wallis eventually chose Bogart.
- 'Paul Heinreid' (qv) was loaned to Warner's for the role of Victor Lazlo by
Selznick International pictures against his will. He was concerned that
playing a secondar y character would ruin his career as a leading romantic
lead.
- 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.
- Many of 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.
- Many of the shadows were painted onto the set. [rumor]
- Based on the play ``Everybody Comes to Rick's'' by 'Murray [???]' (qv), it
was renamed to ``Casablanca'', hoping to emulate the success of the recently
released _Algiers (1938)_ (qv).
- Wallis thought of the film's last line 3 weeks after shooting ended, and
Bogart was called back to dub it.
# Casino Murder Case (1935)
- CAMEO(William Powell): Powell played Philo Vance in earlier films, and can
be seen takling to the new Philo at the auction house.
# Casino Royale (1967)
- 'Peter Sellers' (qv) and 'Orson Welles' (qv) hated each so much that the
filming of the scene where both of them face each other across a gaming
table actually took place on different days with a double standing in for
one the actors.
- Sellers often caused interruptions by leaving the set for days at a time.
- A brief snippet of the title tune to _What's New, Pussycat (1965)_ (qv)
(which had many cast members in common) can be heard.
- At least one-half hour of the film ended on the cutting room floor and is now
missing.
- Numerous screenwriters and directors contributed bits to the film and were
uncredited: 'Billy Wilder' (qv) (the ``Nobody's Perfect'' tag line) and
'Terry Southern' (qv) (the war room in Berlin) among them.
- An enormous Taj Mahal-type set was designed for the film but never built.
# CB4 (1993)
- References to: _Wayne's World (1992)_ (qv),
_The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv), _Boyz N the Hood (1991)_ (qv),
_Colors (1988)_ (qv) [more?]
# Chambara Fufu (1930)
- Casting was done the very day director 'Mikio Naruse' (qv)
got the script from the studio head. The next day he found the locations,
then shot for 36 hours running.
# Chance at Heaven (1933)
- 'Marian Nixon' (qv) replaced 'Dorothy Wilson' (qv) in the role of Glory
Franklyn.
# Chariots of Fire (1981)
- The ``male military band'' featured several women disguised with false
moustaches.
# Charley Varrick (1973)
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): a table tennis player.
# Charlie Chan's Chance (1932)
- Currently believed to be lost. Please check your attic.
- The only film in the series that boasts the involvement of the creator of
Charlie Chan, 'Earl Derr Biggers' (qv), who is credited with ``added
suggestions'' to the screenplay.
# Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
- believed to be lost. Please check your attic.
# Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)
- Believed to be lost. Please check your attic.
# Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen (1916)
- 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) released this two reel comedy in 1915, shortly before
leaving Essanay. That studio then padded the film with two more reels of
non-Chaplin material and re-released it as a four-reel film in 1916.
# Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (1981)
- CAMEO(Paul Reubens):
- CAMEO(Timothy Leary):
# Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
- Director 'John Ford' (qv) deliberately only allowed one take, so that actors
would remain nervous.
# Children of Divorce (1927)
- Some scenes supposedly directed by 'Josef von Sternberg' (qv).
# China Seas (1935)
- While shooting in the studio two stuntmen were nearly killed as they
were washed away by 50 tons of water.
# China Syndrome, The (1979)
- Apart from the title song ``Somewhere In Between'' by _Stephen Bishop_ (qv),
there is no background music in the entire picture.
# Chinatown (1974)
- DIRCAMEO(Roman Polanski): the hood who slits Jake's nose.
- Polanski actually cut 'Jack Nicholson' (qv)'s nose.
# Chinese Parrot, The (1928)
- No prints of this film are known to exist.
# Chopin - Bilder einer Trennung (1993)
- Dialog in this film taken directly from correspondence.
# Chopping Mall (1986)
- CAMEO(Paul Bartel): the same character he played in
_Eating Raoul (1982)_ (qv), another 'Roger Corman' (qv) production.
- CAMEO(Mary Woronov): the same character she played in
_Eating Raoul (1982)_ (qv), another 'Roger Corman' (qv) production.
# Chow Hound (1951)
- Names of Warner Brothers staff in the newspaper want ads.
# Christine (1983)
- Christine was a 1958 Plymouth Fury. In 1958 they made only very small
number of those Furys and they have since become collector's items. There
were 13 or 16 (depending on source) '58 Furys smashed in the making of
the movie, and it infuriated Plymouth enthusiasts. In the original
- 'Stephen King' (qv) book the car had 4 doors, but it was changed to a 2 door
model when it was realized that there never was a 4 door 1958 Plymouth Fury.
# Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
- To reach high authenticity the whole crew crossed the Atlantic Ocean
from Spain to America in three original ships provided by the
Spanish government.
# Chump at Oxford, A (1940)
- The scenes of the employment agency and dinner party were originally filmed
for the 63 minute version released overseas simultaneously with the USA 42
minute print.
# Church, The (1991)
- [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 (1989)_ (qv),
for which director 'Michele Soavi' (qv) was the second unit director.
# Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
- Original director 'Sam Peckinpah' (qv) was fired one week into production.
# Circle of Iron (1979)
- The script for this movie was intented for a project starring
'Bruce Lee' (qv) and 'James Coburn' (qv), based on Lee's idea to present
the philosophy that underlies martial arts training. The project died
when Lee died during the making of _Game of Death (1979)_ (qv). The project
was revived with 'David Carradine' (qv) taking Coburn's part and
'Jeff Cooper' (qv) taking Lee's. See also: _"Kung Fu" (1972)_ (qv).
# Circus, The (1928)
- 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) went to New York and had a nervous breakdown after
about two-thirds of the film had been shot.
# Citizen Kane (1941)
- Originally titled ``John Citizen, U.S.A.''.
- 'William Randolph Hearst' (qv) was incensed by this movie. The movie was
obviously based on Hearst's life, and according to an essay written for
the New York Review of Books by 'Gore Vidal' (a close friend of Hearst's)
``Rosebud'' was his Hearst's name for long-time mistress
'Marion Davies' (qv)' clitoris.
- One of the voices of the reporters watching the newsreel at the beginning
belongs to 'Joseph Cotten' (qv).
- The scene where Kane destroys Susan's room after she's left him was done on
the first take. Director/star 'Orson Welles' (qv)' hands were bleeding, and
he is quoted as saying ``I really felt it.''
- Welles privately watched _Stagecoach (1939)_ (qv) about 40 times while making
this film.
- When asked by friends how Kane's last words would be known when he died
alone, Welles reportedly started for a long time before saying ``Don't you
even tell anyone of this.''
# City Girl (1930)
- Director 'Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau' (qv) wanted the title of the film to be
``Our Daily Bread''. After differences with the producers he left, and an
asisstant director finished it.
# City Slickers (1991)
- 'Billy Crystal' (qv) 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.
Crystal actually assisted in the delivery. Six calves were used in
all, and Crystal arranged for them all to live full lives on a farm.
# Claudine (1974)
- 'Diana Sands' (qv) was chosen for the female lead role, but she died
of cancer shortly before shooting of the film began.
# Cleopatra (1963)
- 'Elizabeth Taylor' (qv) converted to Judaism during the shooting, which
prevented it being shown in Egypt and other Arab countries.
# Clerks (1994)
- Financed largely by credit cards and money borrowed from family and friends.
- Filmed at the same store in which director 'Kevin Smith' (qv) was
working at the time.
- The original ending showed Dante getting shot and killed during a
robbery.
# Cliffhanger (1993)
- Set in Colorado, but filmed in Italy. The American Enivornmental Protection
Authority wouldn't allow filming in America for fear of the damage that
could be left by the film crew. Italy was chosen because it had spectacular
mountains that are similar to the Colorado Rockies. The production crew
paid a very large deposit against clean-up costs.
- 31 well-known climbers were signed up, including 'Ron Kauk' (qv) and
'Wolfgang Gullich' (qv). Gullich performed many of the film's stunts.
- Kauk was 'Sylvester Stallone' (qv)'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' (qv), a 6'3'' black actor, and
'Janine Turner' (qv).
- To demonstrate his faith in the safety equipment, director
'Renny Harlin' (qv) 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 Stallone to invest $100,000 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 (1971)
- The film rights were sold for ``a few hundred dollars'', but then re-sold
for a much larger amount. Before director 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) become
involved in the film, several different casts were considered for Alex
and his droogs: girls in miniskirts, old-age pensioners, and
'The Rolling Stones' (qv).
- _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv) (also directed by Kubrick) soundtrack
highly visible in record store.
- The book that Frank Alexander is working on when Alex and his droogs break
into is home is called ``A Clockwork Orange''. Author
'Anthony Burgess' (qv) uses a pun on the Malay word ``Ourang''. Burgess
lived for several years in Malaya. The attack on his wife was based on an
attack on Burgess' wife by four American GIs during WWII, which caused
her to miscarry.
- Many actors play multiple roles.
- The newspaper article gives Alex's last name as ``Burgess''.
- The photo-montage when Alex clobbers the old lady are mostly the paintings
the old lady has hanging in her room.
- Alexander's bodyguard was played by professional bodybuilder
'David Prowse' (qv). Even so, he was near exhaustion after the repeated
takes of him carrying Alexander 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 and the level of
wine in the glasses change between shots 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 chapter 21 of the book, where Alex starts thinking
about getting married and settling down. Burgess said: ``A vindication of
free will had become an exhaltation of the urge to sin. I was worried. The
British version of the book shows Alex growing up and putting violence
by as a childish toy; Kubrick confessed that he did not know this version:
an American, though settled in England, he had followed the only version
that Americans were permitted to know. I cursed Eric Swenson of W. W.
Norton (the US publisher).''
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [three-way]: Alex vs Government vs
Alexander.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Alexander, when he realizes who
Alex is.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [114]: The Durango's license plate is ``CRM-114'.
Alex is also given ``Serum 114'' when he undergoes the Ludovico treatment.
# Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The working title was ``Watch the Skies'', the closing words from
_The Thing From Another World (1951)_ (qv). These words also can be heard
in the cartoon that wakes Neary.
- 'Jerry Garcia' (qv) can be spotted in the crowd in India.
- Barry is shown to be surprised by the extraterrestrials. Director
'Steven Spielberg' (qv) dressed up in a gorilla suit and was off camera while
'Cary Guffey' (qv)'s 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 Neary inside the alien
mothership at the end of the movie.
- SFX man 'Douglas Trumbull' (qv) 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 (1977)_ (qv), 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 (1975)_ (qv)
(also directed by Spielberg), etc. R2-D2 is visible as Jillian first sees
the mothership up close from her hiding place in the rocks.
- The watch that 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]
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [stars]
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [father]: Jillian is a single mother; Roy leaves
his family to follow his intuition.
# Clue (1985)
- Three endings were shot, and a random one shown at each theatre. All three
are included on video