('127367',' Several performers repeated their roles from the Royal National  Theatre production and/or the US tour, including  Nigel Hawthorne (qv), Julian Wadham (qv),  Julian Rhind'),
('127368','Tutt (qv), Anthony Calf (qv),  Matthew Lloyd Davies (qv), Paul Corrigan (I) (qv),  Roger Hammond (qv), and Cyril Shaps (qv). Three others make  cameos: Iain Mitchell (I) (qv) (the original Sheridan),  Nick Sampson (qv) (Prince of Wales on tour), and  Selina Cadell (qv) (Queen Charlotte on tour).'),
('127369',' It is now known that George IIIs mental state was caused by  porphyria, a metabolic imbalance.'),
('127370',' One bit of business that failed to survive the transition from stage  to film: Pitts drinking. While in the film George III briefly  mentions Pitts drinking habits to his wife, on stage, as Alan  Bennett puts it, "Pitt takes a swig from a hip flask, such a regular  feature of his behaviour it is not noted in the stage directions."  (The historical Pitt was considered a heavy drinker even by  eighteenth'),
('127371','century standards, especially as he got older; modern  biographers agree that his alcohol intake probably contributed to  his early death.)'),
('127372',' In reality, the Princes illegal "marriage" to Maria Fitzherbert did  not end until 1794 '),
('127373',' about five years after the films events. (They  later reunited for a time after his disastrous marriage to Caroline  of Brunswick.)'),
('127374',' Was HBOs most watched original program of the year.'),
('127375',' Although the video for "Frozen" was very popular and won numerous  awards, director Chris Cunningham (II) (qv) was unhappy with it.  According to him, the torrential rains during the shoot prevented  him from making the video he wanted. In an interview. Cunnigham  stated "The effects are fucking bollocks. If I am unhappy with  something, and it wins an award, that tells me others do not look at  things the way I do."'),
('127376',' Documents Madonna (I) (qv)s first major tour of the 1990s  beginning 13 April 1990 in Mukuhari, Japan and ending 5 August in  Nice, France. The tour hit 27 cities and sold out every show except  in Italy where one show was canceled due apparently to objections  over its content.'),
('127377',' David Fincher (qv) was originally going to direct, but cancelled  at the last minute.'),
('127378',' Concert video footage was shot at the Palais Omnisports de Paris  Bercy in Paris, France in July 1990.'),
('127379',' In the "Express Yourself" concert sequence, Madonna (I) (qv) says  "All right, America! Do you believe in love?" This audio is  overdubbed onto footage shot in Paris, where she does not wear the  ponytail as in the Japan and USA stops. Madonnas live vocals for  "Express Yourself" were also replaced with the album version and the  song was edited down from the longer performance featured in the  actual Blond Ambition tour.'),
('127380',' This was the first Television Broadcast using Dolby Surround Sound.'),
('127381',' As of 2007, no surviving copies appear to have survived.'),
('127382',' The first feature shot in Israel that was set in a non'),
('127383','Israeli  location.'),
('127384',' Irene Papas (qv) was offered but turned down the role of  Josephine. She was replaced by Bryan Forbes (qv) regular  Edith Evans (qv).'),
('127385',' While he continued to appear in television productions, this was  Danny Kayes last motion picture film role.'),
('127386',' Final feature film of Danny Kaye.'),
('127387',' The Place de Chaillot set, still standing at Studio la Victorine,  was reused by Francois Truffaut as the set on which "Meet Pamela",  the film'),
('127388','within'),
('127389','a'),
('127390','film in Nuit américaine, La (1973), was being  shot.'),
('127391',' Sándor Lukács (qv) met his future wife on the set of this movie.  (She was an assistant.)'),
('127392',' Smith, Kevin (qv) completed this documentary while studying at  Vancouver Film School. He eventually withdrew from the program.'),
('127393',' Rene Valetine (Roddy McDowall (qv)) is based on real'),
('127394','life 1920s  drag queen Bert Savoy.'),
('127395',' Goldsworthys daughter is a professional pianist. The character  Keller is inspired by her real'),
('127396','life tutor.'),
('127397',' This film was created as part of the 48 Film Project Panasonic HD  Showdown. The film was created entirely in 48 hours. The team was  assigned the genre comedy. They were required to include three  elements: Character: Edward or Edwina Percival, violinist. Prop:  Electric Razor. Line of Dialogue: "Cut the nonsense and lets get to  it."'),
('127398',' WINNER '),
('127399',' 48 Hour Film Project HD Filmmaker Showdown. (2006)'),
('127400',' The film was shot in 48 hours during the "48 hour film Project '),
('127401','  Paris".'),
('127402',' An opening crane shot needed more people, so most of the crew jumped  in to fill the holes.'),
('127403',' Every type of car has the same license plate.'),
('127404',' After completing the race, it lists the names of the opponent  drivers. The names are taken from notable heavy/death metal  musicians, such as Mark "Barney" Greenway of Napalm Death, Chris  Barnes of Cannibal Corpse, Page Hamilton of Helmet, or Kirk  Windstein of Crowbar.'),
('127405',' Crispina shouts the phrase, "Youre not a man of God!" 27 times.'),
('127406',' The film that the nuns and penitents watch is  _Bells of St. Marys, The (1945)_ (qv)'),
('127407',' The film was "inspired by the documentary  _Sex in a Cold Climate (1998) (TV)_ (qv) produced and directed by  Steve Humphries (II) (qv)."'),
('127408',' Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because  victims of Magdalene Asylums had no closure. They had not received  any recognition, compensation, or apology, and many remained  lifelong devout Catholics.'),
('127409',' Former Magdalen Asylum inmate, Mary'),
('127410','Jo McDonagh, told director and  writer Peter Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was  much worse than depicted in the film.'),
('127411',' The Maggie was played by two boats in the film, the Boer and the  Inca.'),
('127412',' Tommy Kearins, who plays Dougie, was selected for the role after  being spotted in a Scouts "Gang Show", working backstage. After  being interviewed by Ealing, he spent 3 months filming on Islay. He  was paid 3 times what his father made in the Clyde shipyards.'),
('127413',' Alexander Mackendrick was not personally very satisfied with the  finished film as he felt that it concentrated too much on his own  personal concerns and not enough on things relevant to anyone else.'),
('127414',' 45th episode in the Buster Brown 2'),
('127415','reel comedy series.'),
('127416',' Mike Nichols (I) (qv) briefly considered directing this film.'),
('127417',' After the success of A Bridge Too Far, producer Joseph E. Levine  wanted to work with writer William Goldman and Richard Attenborough  again that he bought the rights to Goldmans book with the intention  of Attenborough directing. He accepted it because for the sake of  financing his next film, Gandhi.'),
('127418',' Director Norman Jewison was set to direct the movie before Sir  Richard Attenborough signed on.'),
('127419',' The role of Corky was originally offered to Jack Nicholson, but upon  hearing that he would have to wear a hair'),
('127420','piece to play the role,  Nicholson turned it down.'),
('127421',' Sir Laurence Olivier was set to play Ben Green, but had to drop out  due to illness.'),
('127422',' The "Fats" dummy was created specifically to look like Anthony  Hopkins.'),
('127423',' Upon seeing Fats for the first time, Hopkins was allowed to take the  doll home to work with it. However, he was so unnerved by the doll  that he called the consulting ventriloquist in the middle of the  night, threatening to throw Fats into the canyon if someone didnt  come get the doll immediately. Director Richard Attenborough ended  up going to Hopkinss house to talk him down.'),
('127424',' The project was started in 1990.'),
('127425',' Hong Kong'),
('127426','based Menfond Electronic Art & Computer Design Company  Ltd. purchased Intergraph TDZ 2000 3D Graphics Workstations and  licenses of SOFTIMAGE(r) 3D in 1998 to develop the animation and  digital effects for the telefilm.'),
('127427',' John Candy (qv) and Madeline Kahn (qv) recorded their voice  tracks for this project in the early 1990s.'),
('127428',' Originally scheduled to air on Earth Day, 22 April 1997, but was  postponed indefinitely.'),
('127429',' Rachel Landry was shorter than Kristine Hogan, so she stood on a  cinder block to appear taller. (Youll notice that Glinda never  walks.) This cinder block was referred to as "the magic brick of Oz"  on the set.'),
('127430',' According to Ronald Neame  (qv) in his memoirs,  Alec Guinness  (qv) was only actor to refuse a role in this.'),
('127431',' One of the extras in this movie is a teenage Ronnie Kray (later the  infamous London gangster).'),
('127432',' Lucille Ball (qv) had often complained to Columbia Pictures head  Harry Cohn (I) (qv) about the quality of the pictures she had been  doing while under contract to the studio. At the time this picture  was made, Ball was only obligated to Columbia for one more film, and  Cohn had producer Sam Katzman (qv) concoct this cheap Arabian  Nights fantasy as a punishment to Ball for her constantly  challenging him to give her better roles.'),
('127433',' Lucille Ball was pregnant during filming.'),
('127434',' Many of the Central London exterior and building shots were filmed  in and around Westminster School, London.'),
('127435',' Two of the writers were Cleese, John (qv) and  Chapman, Graham (qv) of Python fame. the Python sketch "the mouse  problem" was written for this movie, but was rejected by  Sellers, Peter (qv).'),
('127436',' The movies theme song "Come And Get It" was written and produced by  Paul McCartney (qv).'),
('127437',' During the filming of scenes with the topless "slave" girls rowing  the ship, the actors kept deliberately flubbing their lines just so  they could watch the girls.'),
('127438',' Harold Berens (qv) was cut from the final print.'),
('127439',' Leo Britt (qv) was cut out of the final print.'),
('127440',' Ringo Starr (qv)s character Youngman wasnt in the original book.  The part was written especially for him, with many of Guys early  exploits adapted as Youngmans.'),
('127441',' "Our World Today" documentary series.'),
('127442',' IMAX Dome computer graphic research developed by Dr. Nelson Max.'),
('127443',' Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who supervised and arranged the music of  Wagner for this, his final film assignment, also appears on screen  as famous conductor Hans Richter. Korngold had to take the small  role when the actor originally cast failed to show up. With over  1000 extras in full costume on set, director William Dieterle  pleaded with Korngold to take the non'),
('127444','speaking part, to save the  shoot.'),
('127445',' Incomplete print exists at the International Museum of Photography  and Film at George Eastman House [first five reels only].'),
('127446',' At 23, this is Amy Carsons first major role. Anna Gottlieb, the  soprano who sang the role of Pamina in the original production, was  17; at 12 she had sung a major role in Mozarts earlier opera "The  Marriage of Figaro".'),
('127447',' Warhol veteran Joe Dallesandro (qv) was originally cast in the  role of Stanley Sweetheart. Dallesandro was fired when he would  consistently arrive on the set late and cause trouble with the cast  and crew. Ironically, Andy Warhol (qv) himself later referred to  the film as "the quintessential, most truthful studio'),
('127448','made film  about the 60s counterculture".'),
('127449',' The film was chosen to be screened at the New York Film Festival in  October of 1971.'),
('127450',' Don Johnson (I) (qv)s film debut.'),
('127451',' The New York Times reported in October 1969 that Sweetheart had  been cast with Ultra Violet (I) (qv), Candy Darling (qv),  Gerard Malanga (qv), and was to feature Andy Warhol (qv) in his  very first Hollywood film role, that of a "freaked'),
('127452','out  psychiatrist." This obviously didnt happen.'),
('127453',' Writer/director/star Furst, Stephen (qv) was reunited with his  co'),
('127454','stars from _"St. Elsewhere" (1982)_ (qv):  Savidge, Jennifer (qv), Daniels, William (I) (qv),  Mandel, Howie (qv), and Morse, David (qv).'),
('127455',' Mention of Casper the Ghost was electronically altered to avoid  lawsuits from the copyright holder.'),
('127456',' The director is playing Tom, Lukass best friend.'),
('127457',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('127458',' This was the television special used to promote the Allan Carr  produced film, _Cant Stop the Music (1980)_ (qv).'),
('127459',' Sam Neill (qv) appears in this movie based on a childrens book by  Norman Lindsay (qv). In _Sirens (1994)_ (qv), Sam Neill appears as  Norman Lindsay.'),
('127460',' A number of character have dialogue that references previous roles.  Robbie Williams Dougal states he likes Florence as he "offers her  protection" a line from his song "Angels".'),
('127461',' Most of the characters lines were re'),
('127462','dubbed by American actors for  the American release under the title "Doogal" (2006).'),
('127463',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Angel Cake and Axle Grease (1913)_ (qv).'),
('127464',' Jon Finlayson (qv) as Van Zyskind was a last minute replacement  for Ron Moody (qv).'),
('127465',' A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.'),
('127466',' Lumi Ukko, or more precisely lumiukko, is snowman in Finnish.'),
('127467',' In addition to her credited role in the mask as "The Hag,"  Vampira (qv)'),
('127468','as Maila Nurmi'),
('127469','also played (uncredited) the role of  the sorceress who kidnaps Princess Helene.'),
('127470',' Stuntman/actor Leroy Johnson (II) (qv) (Sir Ulrich of Germany) had  his dialog dubbed by voice specialist Paul Frees (qv).'),
('127471',' The name of the three major characters accounts for the three major  island groups that make up the Philippine archipelago. Jubal is an  Igorot, which is a tribe from Luzon, the largest island group;  Sambag is a Visayan word, from the Visayan islands, and Omar is a  name found among the Moslem tribes of the Mindanao island group.'),
('127472',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('127473','Disc Special Edition DVD for  _Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)_ (qv).'),
('127474',' Donald Meek (qv)s last movie.'),
('127475',' Early in the movie Ashley is wearing an over'),
('127476','sized powderkegblue  (UCLA) football jersey #7. Mark Harmon (I) (qv) was the starting  UCLA Quarterback '),
('127477',' he wore #7.'),
('127478',' This making'),
('127479','of is featured on the DVD for  _Finding Neverland (2004)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('127480',' The music used for this program was Bruce Broughton (qv)s  original score for _Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)_ (qv).'),
('127481',' Filmed in part in Memphis, Tennessee at the Mid South Coliseum. It  was a free show to all who wanted to attend.'),
('127482',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  Marathon Man (1976) (qv), released in 2001.'),
('127483',' The hair in the projector gate gag was so realistic, many  projectionists attempted to remove the hair themselves, not  realizing it was part of the cartoon.'),
('127484',' John Lennon (I) (qv) told Paul McCartney (qv) about a dream he  had where he used a shovel to serve spaghetti to a woman. Paul  suggested they film this, John agreed, and the scene is included in  the movie.'),
('127485',' When the film was first shown on the BBC in 1967, it was shown in  black & white, meaning the Flying scene would have looked like two  minutes of gray mud!'),
('127486',' The only footage of John Lennon (qv) performing "I Am The Walrus".'),
('127487',' There was a rough shooting script written before filming began.  About 70% of the Bus exchanges are improvised, but everything filmed  outside the bus was performed (more or less) as written.'),
('127488',' Most of the film was dreamt up by Paul McCartney (qv) on a flight  from the US to the UK in April 1967.'),
('127489',' One artist who was cast in this film but didnt appear was  Jimi Hendrix (qv). Paul McCartney (qv) wanted him in the film,  but Hendrix was already committed to play at the Monterey Pop  Festival, his breakthrough performance. Ironically, McCartney was  the person who suggested that Hendrix should get invited to play the  festival.'),
('127490',' "Mystery tours" were popular in England as low'),
('127491','budget weekend  getaways, riding overnight in a bus to a surprise location. Most of  "Magical Mystery Tour" was filmed in a rented coach, filled with  friends and acquaintances, Beatles office staff, a camera crew, and  a handful of experienced actors, rambling around the English  countryside one holiday weekend. Everyone was encouraged to invent  their own characters, and let whatever was going to happen do so,  and the results would have to be magical. Unfortunately this proved  not to be the case, with most of the passengers "acting" like  anybody would while traveling, mostly humdrum scenery passing by,  and no "magical" destination actually planned out.  John Lennon (I) (qv) and George Harrison (I) (qv) werent  interested in playing parts, and spent most of the trip sleeping or  avoiding the cameras, while the hand'),
('127492','lettered MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR  bus attracted curious onlookers, who began following them in droves.  (Suggestions that the chaos mounting outside the bus be filmed,  instead of the mundane dialogs going on inside, were not met  warmly.) Lennon ultimately ordered the bus be stopped, then got out  and personally tore the lettering off the sides, to end the  spectacle. (He derided the whole program later as "The most  expensive home movie ever made.")'),
('127493',' While the film bombed both times it appeared on British television,  and was never broadcast by the US networks, it did become a modest  success on the American midnight and college movie circuits in the  1970s.'),
('127494',' The soundtrack recordings were issued in England as a double EP with  accompanying booklet. Capitol Records in the US added stereo (and  mock'),
('127495','stereo) versions of recent Beatles singles, and issued an LP  with an enlarged copy of the booklet. The LP actually sold better as  an import in England than the EP, and a British version was issued  ten years later.'),
('127496',' After the premier showing in December 1967, Ringo Starr (qv)  apparently rang up the BBC complaining that the poor ratings were  due to them showing "this colorful film" in B/W. The BBC responded  by transmitting again, this time in glorious color a few days later.  It still bombed.'),
('127497',' Although all four Beatles are credited with directing the entire  film, Paul McCartney (qv) directed the bulk of the footage,  John Lennon (I) (qv) probably directed "I am the Walrus" and the  segment with Ringos Aunt eating a large pile of spaghetti and  George Harrison (I) (qv) probably directed "Blue Jay Way".  However, these are mere speculations, and all of the Beatles  submitted ideas to the film.'),
('127498',' Paul McCartney (qv) took a a few friends and a camera to the South  of France to film the "Fool on the Hill" sequence which was (as he  later conceded) against union rules.'),
('127499',' "Magical Mystery Tour" was conceived as a way for The Beatles to do  something fun and exciting in the wake of Brian Epstein (I) (qv)s  (The Beatles’ manager) death. After his death, The Beatles realized  that they were in financial trouble and had to do something with  their acquired wealth or else the British government would levy  taxes against them. So they started Apple Corps. and "Magical  Mystery Tour" was the first project they made under the Apple  company.'),
('127500',' This film won the CINE Golden Eagle Award in 1989, received a  Diploma of Merit from the Melbourne International Film & Video  Festival in 1991 and was also a second place finish at Corktown,  Irelands festival that same year.'),
('127501',' Every character is played by the same actor.'),
('127502',' This short was originally released on the Internet before being  aired on TV. To date (4th of November 2006) 3 sequels have been  made, however these have only been released on line.'),
('127503',' All of the actors are amateurs apart from the filmmaker Max whom we  never see on camera.'),
('127504',' The film was made over a year with about ten full shooting days'),
('127505',' The role of Rosita Monteverde was initially offered to  Cherie Gil (qv). She turned it down to marry her foreign'),
('127506','husband  Roni Rogoff abroad. The role went to Lorna Tolentino (qv).'),
('127507',' In the movie, the character of Corazon Noble was bayoneted in the  arm by Japanese soldiers. It happened to the actress in real life  during the world war II, years before the making of this movie.'),
('127508',' At the time of the films release, James Robertson Justice (qv)  was standing for Parliament as a Labour candidate in Angus and  Kincardine. This is probably the reason for his choice of a  pseudonym when appearing in this film.'),
('127509',' Uses stock footage of the underground magneto'),
('127510','dynamo from the German  science fiction thriller _Gold (1934)_ (qv).'),
('127511',' Although credited to Curt Siodmak (qv), most of the film was  actually directed by Herbert L. Strock (qv), who was hired by  Ivan Tors (qv) for his skills as an editor, which were viewed as  essential for a film which relied so much on stock footage.'),
('127512',' In the newspaper reporting the auto accident that injured George  Amberson Minafer, the left hand column is "Stage Views" featuring  the picture and byline of "Jed Leland", the theater critic in  _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv), also directed by Orson Welles (qv).  Leland was played by Joseph Cotten (I) (qv), who plays Eugene  Morgan in this movie.'),
('127513',' RKO chopped 50 minutes of the film and added a happy ending while  Orson Welles (qv) was out of the country. The footage was  subsequently destroyed; the only record of the removed scenes is the  cutting continuity transcript.'),
('127514',' The scenes with the automobile ride with the snow were filmed in an  abandoned icehouse instead of the RKO stage reserved for such shots.  However, it took much longer than anticipated because the equipment  kept having problems that were brought on by the cold (film jamming  because of frozen condensation, lenses fogging up, etc.). Because of  this everyone involved, except for Orson Welles (qv), contracted a  terrible head cold.'),
('127515',' On its original release, the film was shown as a second feature on a  double bill with _Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)_ (qv).'),
('127516',' Tim Holt (qv) and Anne Baxter (qv) walk past a movie theater  advertising a film starring Jack Holt (I) (qv), Tims father.'),
('127517',' The preview of the movie occurred a short time after Pearl Harbor.  Because of this, most of the audience review cards stated that they  didnt want to see a depressing movie, and that it should have more  laughs and a happy ending. With Orson Welles (qv) out of the  country, the production team had to make the cuts and changes  without his input.'),
('127518',' Orson Welles (qv) suspected that author Booth Tarkington (qv)  based the lead character George on Welles himself for a variety of  reasons: Tarkington was a friend of the Welles family, Welles had a  reputation for being a spoiled, difficult child and Welless full  name was George Orson Welles, so he was called George or Georgie  while growing up.'),
('127519',' The earliest Morgan Automobile shown in the film is actually an 1892  Philion Road Carriage, one of the oldest existing American built  cars and the only one produced. It can still be seen at the National  Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.'),
('127520',' After a disastrous preview, it was clear to the suits at RKO that  the film was too long, too dense and too sombre. Welles, however,  had decamped to Brazil where he was in the midst of working on a  film called "Its All True" (which was never completed). Welles had  been shipped out there under the auspices of Nelson Rockefeller, one  of the chief shareholders in RKO, to make a film boosting US'),
('127521','South  American wartime relations. With him out of the way, however, the  onus of re'),
('127522','cutting and trimming the film fell on editor  Robert Wise (I) (qv).'),
('127523',' The 50 minutes that Robert Wise cut out of the original film were  destroyed, ostensibly to free up vault space at RKO. There was  conjecture though that this was to prevent Welles attempting to make  any changes to what was left of his film.'),
('127524',' Ironically, RKOs reshot ending for the film '),
('127525',' a much more uplifting  affair than the one that Welles had intended '),
('127526',' is much closer to the  ending in the novel.'),
('127527',' A print of Welles rough cut was allegedly sent to the director on  location in Brazil. It has yet to be found.'),
('127528',' The first major film to have nearly all its credits narrated rather  than appear on screen.'),
('127529',' Producer Bryan Foy (qv) was one of many who felt that the film was  too long. Upon hearing that 40 minutes had to be excised, Foy is  alleged to have said: "Just throw all the footage up in the air and  grab everything but 40 minutes."'),
('127530',' From a budget of $1 million, the film lost over $600,000 '),
('127531',' a huge  amount of money for a small studio like RKO.'),
('127532',' To persuade RKO head George Schaefer (II) (qv) to approve this  film as a follow'),
('127533','up to _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv), Welles played him  the Mercury Theater of the Air radio version. It is claimed that  Schaefer fell asleep during this. Nevertheless, he greenlighted the  film for $1 million, an unheard'),
('127534','of move for a studio whose policy  was not to make films that cost more than $750,000.'),
('127535',' The set for the Ambersons mansion was one of the most elaborate and  expensive sets ever built at the time.'),
('127536',' While Welles would direct "Ambersons" during the day, at the same  time each night he would act his part of a Turkish policeman in  Norman Fosters film "Journey into Fear" (1942).'),
('127537',' In the absence of Welles, the re'),
('127538','editing of the film was left in the  hands of two men: Robert Wise (I) (qv), the physical editor, and  Jack Moss (I) (qv), the RKO studio representative. A phone was put  into Mosss office that fed directly to Welless hotel room in Rio.  According to future director Cy Endfield (qv), who was working  with Moss at the time, often when the phone rang, suspecting it was  Welles with his latest batch of comments and suggestions for the  re'),
('127539','edit, Moss would simply not answer the call. Similarly, when Moss  received lengthy telegrams from Welles with more suggestions and  thoughts, he would throw them away.'),
('127540',' Welles demanded that the inside of the Ambersons mansion be built as  if it was a real house, with continuous rooms of four walls and  ceilings. This enabled his camera to roam around the house freely  and shoot from any angle.'),
('127541',' The consensus of opinion according to nearly everyone who saw the  original conclusion '),
('127542',' which included a tour of the decaying Amberson  mansion '),
('127543',' was that it was much more powerful than the tacked'),
('127544','on  "happy" ending.'),
('127545',' Welles later described the 88 minute version as if "it had been  edited by a lawnmower".'),
('127546',' Composer Bernard Herrmann (I) (qv) had his name removed from the  credits in protest at the way RKO messed about with his work.'),
('127547',' Aunt Fanny did not feature in Welles radio adaptation.'),
('127548',' Twenty years later, Welles was still planning an epilogue starring  the older Joseph Cotten (I) (qv), Anne Baxter (qv),  Agnes Moorehead (qv) and Tim Holt (I) (qv).'),
('127549',' After attending the first preview, RKO president  George Schaefer (II) (qv) wrote to Welles: "Never in all my  experience in the industry have I taken so much punishment or  suffered as I did at the Promona preview".'),
('127550',' Robert Wises first directing experience.'),
('127551',' Attempts to send Robert Wise (I) (qv) to Brazil so that he could  work alongside Welles were prevented due to wartime travel  restrictions.'),
('127552',' Robert Wise (I) (qv) was one of the many vocal detractors of the  critically derided 2002 Alfonso Arau mini'),
('127553','series remake.'),
('127554',' One of former silent star Dolores Costello (qv)s last roles. She  was forced to retire from the film business as her face had become  badly scarred by early film make'),
('127555','up which was highly caustic.'),
('127556',' Agnes Moorehead (qv)s signature scene '),
('127557',' which secured her an  Academy Award nomination '),
('127558',' in which she bemoaned the turn of the  Ambersons fortunes and her inability to provide for George, was  actually cobbled together from original footage and hastily reshot  scenes. The latter had no input from Welles.'),
('127559',' Ray Collins (I) (qv) was the only member of the cast to have  featured in Welles radio version in 1939.'),
('127560',' The main poster for the Ambersons was designed by Norman Rockwell.'),
('127561',' The night before shooting was to start, a game of hide'),
('127562','and'),
('127563','seek was  held during a party. Primula Niven (wife of David Niven (I) (qv))  opened a door she thought led to a closet and fell down a set of  stairs to her death.'),
('127564',' Don Ameches character says, "None but the brave," and attributes  the quote to Benjamin Franklin. Actually its from the first stanza  of John Drydens Alexanders Feast, "None but the brave, deserve the  fair."'),
('127565',' A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.'),
('127566',' For a long time TV Guide listed Bruce Kimmel (qv) as being in this  film. Although he started filming the program, he caught the chicken  pox from his daughter. They tried to film around him, but they  eventually had to replace him.'),
('127567',' Jane Wyman  (qv) appears as herself and narrates the trailer.'),
('127568',' This was featured on the 1999 DVD release of "Papillon."'),
('127569',' The segment "Pride" had originally been a television play under the  title _Impasse (1963) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('127570',' Robert Vaughn (I) (qv) played the role of Lee in the film. He  later came back to star in the TV series  _"Magnificent Seven, The" (1998)_ (qv) playing Judge Oren Travis.'),
('127571',' Elmer Bernstein (qv), whose score for this movie is one of the  best'),
('127572','known ever composed, also wrote the score for the parody of  this film, _¡Three Amigos! (1986)_ (qv).'),
('127573',' Yul Brynner (qv) was married on the set; the celebration used many  of the same props as the fiesta scene.'),
('127574',' The film was cast quickly to beat an actors strike.'),
('127575',' Mexican censors required the peasants to always be wearing clean  clothes.'),
('127576',' Walter Bernstein (qv) did the original adaptation of  Akira Kurosawa (qv)s film (_Shichinin no samurai (1954)_ (qv))  but it wasnt used. Walter Newman (I) (qv) wrote the screenplay  that is substantially what you see on screen.'),
('127577',' Steve McQueen (I) (qv) wanted to act in this film but couldnt at  first because the schedule of his TV series,  _"Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1958)_ (qv), wouldnt allow it. He crashed  a car and while he was "out sick", he shot this film.'),
('127578',' Composer John Williams (I) (qv) was a member of the orchestra that  recorded Elmer Bernstein (qv)s score; he played the piano.'),
('127579',' James Coburn (qv)s friend Robert Vaughn (I) (qv) recommended  him to director John Sturges (qv) for the last remaining lead, the  role of Britt. Sturges said he needed a Gary Cooper (I) (qv) type  of actor, and Vaughn said Coburn was the actor he needed.'),
('127580',' James Coburn (qv) (Britt) and Robert Vaughn (I) (qv) (Lee) have  only 11 and 16 lines in the entire film respectively. Although they  were close friends for almost fifty years, this is their only film  together.'),
('127581',' Yul Brynner (qv) was concerned to make sure he always appeared  substantially taller than Steve McQueen (I) (qv), to the point of  making a little mound of earth and standing on it in all their shots  together. McQueen, for his part, casually kicked at the mound every  time he passed by it.'),
('127582',' SPOILER: John Sturges (qv) faced a major problem during filming.  The screenplay mentioned which of the Seven died, but in no order  (the battle was not choreographed), and without being clear as to  how. So Sturges came up with the idea to kill off the dying members  of the seven in the order they had been cast, which went as follows:  Lee (Robert Vaughn (I) (qv)), Harry Luck (Brad Dexter (qv)),  Bernardo OReilly (Charles Bronson (qv)), and Britt  (James Coburn (qv)). Vaughn originally lobbied against dying first  (because the character was especially created for him), so Sturges  came up with a new solution, and the final death sequence which  appears on film went as follows: Harry Luck (Dexter) Is shot while  saving Chris Adams (Yul Brynner (qv)) from a five'),
('127583','on'),
('127584','one  situation, Lee (Vaughn) is shot after saving a couple peasants from  three baddies, and leading them out of a farmhouse, Britt (Coburn)  is shot in the chest as he prepares to toss his knife, and Bernardo  OReilly (Bronson) is wounded several times before this, but finally  dies after being shot in the stomach while pushing the children to  safety.'),
('127585',' Pay close attention to Eli Wallach (qv) whenever he handles his  gun. Whenever he puts the gun back into his holster, he always looks  down at it. That was because Wallach wasnt used to drawing the  weapon and didnt want to look foolish by missing the holster while  putting his gun back, as Wallach would admit in the DVD Documentary.'),
('127586',' With the death of Charles Bronson (qv) (Bernardo OReilly) on 30  August 2003, Robert Vaughn (I) (qv) (Lee) is the last survivor of  the seven main stars.'),
('127587',' According to Eli Wallach (qv)s autobiography, Yul Brynner (qv)  had a major problem with what he perceived as  Steve McQueen (I) (qv)s trying to upstage him. According to  Wallach, McQueen would do things when on screen with Brynner to draw  attention to his character. Examples were his shaking of the shotgun  shells and taking off his hat to check the sun during the hearse  scene and leaning off his horse to dip his hat in the river when the  Seven cross into Mexico. Brynner was supposedly so worried about  McQueen stealing his limelight in scenes that he hired an assistant  to count the number of times McQueen touched his own hat when he  [Brynner] was speaking.'),
('127588',' Body count: 55'),
('127589',' George Peppard (qv) was first considered for the role of Vin.'),
('127590',' Sterling Hayden (qv) was originally supposed to play the knife  expert, Britt. Hayden dropped out for unknown reasons, so  John Sturges (qv) sent out an extensive casting call.  Robert Vaughn (I) (qv) (Lee) recommended old schoolmate and friend  James Coburn (qv) for the role. Vaughn and Coburn helped each  other get roles throughout the rest of Coburns life.'),
('127591',' When filming began in Mexico, problems arose with the local censors,  who demanded changes to the ways that the Mexican villagers would be  portrayed. Walter Newman (I) (qv), who had written the screenplay,  was asked to travel to the location to make the necessary script  revisions, but refused. The changes written in by  William Roberts (I) (qv) were deemed significant enough to merit  him a co'),
('127592','writing credit. Newman refused to share the credit, though,  and had his name removed from the film entirely.'),
('127593',' A young Gene Wilder (qv) auditioned for the role of Vin.'),
('127594',' James Coburn (qv) was a big fan of  _Shichinin no samurai (1954)_ (qv) and his favorite role in that  film was the character that he ended up playing in the Americanized  version.'),
('127595',' According to the DVD notes, both John Ireland (I) (qv) and  Sterling Hayden (qv) were approached for the role of Britt.'),
('127596',' Despite some credit listings, Natividad Vacío plays Miguel, not  Tomas, and John Alonso plays Tomas, not Miguel.'),
('127597',' This movie is based on the grand prize winning piece in the 2001  Screenplay Writing Contest sponsored by the Film Development of the  Philippines, Inc.'),
('127598',' Compiled from two episodes of "Rawhide" (1959), "The Backshooter"  and "Incident of the Running Man".'),
('127599',' Anderson, Paul Thomas (qv) wrote the bulk of the script during two  weeks he spent at Macy, William H. (qv)s Vermont cabin '),
('127600',' afraid  to go outside because hed seen a snake.'),
('127601',' Aimee Mann (qv)s music inspired Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) to  write the script and at least one lyric (and possibly more) from an  Aimee Mann song was lifted and used as dialogue. In the song  "Deathly" the lyric goes: "Now that Ive met you / Would you object  to / Never seeing / Each other again". In the film,  Melora Walters (qv)s character says "Now that Ive met you, would  you object to never seeing me again?"'),
('127602',' The hardcore band “Cold War from Orange Country, California” quotes  this movie several times throughout their CD "From Russia With Love"'),
('127603',' Director/Writer Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) also designed the poster  and cut the trailers for the film.'),
('127604',' Claudia was the first character created, and the other characters  were branched off from her.'),
('127605',' SPOILER: Over 7,900 rubber frogs were made and used in the frog  scenes. The rest were created by CGI. No real frogs were harmed  during production.'),
('127606',' Musician Fiona Apple (qv) is responsible for many of the paintings  seen throughout.'),
('127607',' During the game show scene, a lot of talk is about a movie audition,  with Thicke, Alan (qv) and Haim, Corey (qv), about destroying a  high school. This refers to the actual film  _Demolition High (1996)_ (qv).'),
('127608',' Henry Gibson (I) (qv)s character is named Thurston Howell, which  was Jim Backus (qv) characters name on  _"Gilligans Island" (1964)_ (qv).'),
('127609',' In the film, the main cast sings along to Aimee Manns "Wise Up",  which was used in the film _Jerry Maguire (1996)_ (qv), also  starring Cruise, Tom (qv).'),
('127610',' One of Stanley Spectors books on the table in the library is  "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women" written by Jay, Ricky (qv), who  narrates and stars in the film.'),
('127611',' Claudia Wilson Gator snorts cocaine off of a CD jewel case. The CD  is "Im With Stupid" by Aimee Mann, who wrote and performed several  songs for the film.'),
('127612',' Director Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) is the son of former ABC'),
('127613','TV  announcer Ernie Anderson (qv), who started his career as a  Cleveland late'),
('127614','night monster'),
('127615','movie host named "Ghoulardi".  Paul Thomas Anderson (qv)s production company is called Ghoulardi  Pictures. One running Ghoulardi gag was to make fun of Parma, Ohio,  a Cleveland suburb known for its Polish population.  Philip Seymour Hoffman (qv)s character is named Phil Parma. One  of Ghoulardis catch phrases was "Stay sick!" When Donnie Smith  (William H. Macy (qv)) remarks to Thurston Howell  (Henry Gibson (qv)) that he is sick, Thurston replies, "Stay that  way."'),
('127616',' SPOILER: Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) has said that he was unaware  that the story of frogs falling from the sky is in the Bible (he  took it from Charles Forts writing) when he wrote the screenplay.  The Bible story of the plague of frogs was brought to his attention  by Henry Gibson (I) (qv) prior to filming. After he became aware  of the story, Anderson worked references to Exodus 8:2 into the  movie.'),
('127617',' DIRCAMEO(Paul Thomas Anderson (qv)): Anderson is seen immediately  after the start of the show "What Do Kids Know?" confiscating from a  member of the audience an "Exodus 8:2" sign.'),
('127618',' SPOILER: The numbers 8 and 2 appear frequently throughout the film:  '),
('127619',' The first weather forecast: 82% chance of rain. '),
('127620',' The gambler in  the prologue needs a 2 in blackjack, but instead gets an 8. '),
('127621',' The  coil of rope on the roof when Sydney commits suicide. '),
('127622',' One of the  posters held up in the What Do Kids Know audience. '),
('127623',' The movie  poster at the bus stop on Magnolia Blvd. '),
('127624',' The placard on the third  hanged convict. '),
('127625',' Jim Kurrings box number at the date hot line. '),
('127626','  Sydney Barringers mother and fathers apartment number is 682. '),
('127627','  The forensic science convention starts at 8:20. '),
('127628',' Delmer Darion  flips over a stack of cards to reveal the 8 through 2 of diamonds. '),
('127629','  Right after Jim Kurring sees Donnie Smith climbing up the building,  you can see a flash of a sign on the side of the road that says  "Exodus 8:2" (its visible again when the frogs fall and hit  Kurrings car) '),
('127630',' The number on the fire fighters plane. '),
('127631',' In  Marcys mug shots, her criminal record number is 82082082082. '),
('127632',' In  the Smiling Peanut bar, there is a chalkboard visible with two  teams, the frogs and the clouds, and the score is 8 to 2. '),
('127633',' Spray  painted on the cement as graffiti next to Dixon. '),
('127634',' The kids were two  days away from entering their eighth week as champions. '),
('127635',' Quiz Kid  Donnie Smith won his 100, 000 dollars on 28 April 1968. '),
('127636',' The first  two numbers of the Seduce and Destroy Hotline (1'),
('127637','877'),
('127638','TAME'),
('127639','HER) are  82. '),
('127640',' Claudia proposes 8:00 for a date with Jim, but Jim says he  doesnt get off work until 10:00, so the date is set for 10:00, 2  hours later than the original suggested time. '),
('127641',' At the police  station in the beginning of the movie, the clock says 8:02. '),
('127642',' When  Jim Kurring notices Quiz Kid Donnie Smith climbing on the Solomon &  Solomon building he drives past a luminous sign saying "Exodus 8:2".  '),
('127643',' When Donnie enters the Smiling Peanut bar, the song "Goodbye  Stranger" is playing. We hear the song playing from exactly 28  seconds after its started. '),
('127644',' Frank says "Respect the cock, and tame  the c*nt" which is 8 syllables, and then right after says "Tame it!"  which is 2 syllables.'),
('127645',' Along with the scenes further explaining The Worm, there were many  other scenes and dialogue exchanges included in the script but not  used for the final film, including: '),
('127646',' A scene in which Jimmy talks  with Paula, the dancer he is sleeping with in the opening credits. '),
('127647','  Extended dialogue between Gwenovier and Frank, about "Subjective  human experience and terrible things", which was referenced in the  final cut but not shown. '),
('127648',' A brief dialogue between Jim and Claudia  after he asks her on a date, in which they both find they have the  same favorite restaurant. '),
('127649',' We see what happens to Stanley between  the events of that days game show, and him talking to his sleeping  father. '),
('127650',' Further explanation during Earls monologue concerning the  reasons why he mistreated his first wife. '),
('127651',' The tone of Franks  confrontation with his father is considerably different, with him  showing less hostility, more genuine sympathy and concern, and  attempting to wake him up. '),
('127652',' It is made clear in the script that  Jimmy doesnt survive the fire in his house caused by the destroyed  television. '),
('127653',' We see Marcies confession for what happened to the  "guy in the closet".'),
('127654',' The trailer for the movie features shots filmed especially for it,  featuring each character, in a specific location from the film in  which they where prominently featured, looking directly at the  camera and saying their name. They are (in order): Stanler Spector  in the library, Jimmy Gator on his shows set, Donnie Smith in a  dentists chair, Earl Partridge in his death bed, Frank "TJ" Mackey  in the interview chair, Linda Partridge in her car in the rain, Phil  Parma at Earls front door, Rose Gator in her car at an  intersection, Claudia Wilson Gator at the restaurant, Jim Kurring at  the police station, and a frog sitting on the green light of a  traffic light with a magnolia flower rising and blocking it out.  Ricky Jay (qv) narrates the trailer.'),
('127655',' Exodus 8:2 reads: "And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will  smite all thy borders with frogs".'),
('127656',' The telephone number (877) TAME'),
('127657','HER is shown on the "Seduce and  Destroy" infomercials within the movie. Dialing this number used to  give a recording of Tom Cruise (qv) giving the Seduce and Destroy  pitch.'),
('127658',' The credits for the "What Do Kids Know?" game show give the web  address www.wdkk.com which led directly to the movies official  website. The web address "www.seduceanddestroy.com" led to the  films official site, too. Both these links are now dead.'),
('127659',' The phone number that Phil (mis)dials looking for Frank,  (818)775'),
('127660','3993, is later revealed to be the number to Lindas  pharmacy (printed on the prescription bag).'),
('127661',' In every living'),
('127662','room there is a picture of a flower on the wall.'),
('127663',' One of the books Stanley is reading at the library is about  scientist Charles Fort (I) (qv), who is noted for his work  expanding the boundaries of scientific research to include strange  phenomena such as those featured in the film.'),
('127664',' The Mason symbol is on various walls in the WDKK studio. When Jimmy  Gators producer puts his hand on his shoulder, before the show  starts, we see he is wearing a ring with the Masons symbol on it.  Similar to the Masonic farewell, "We met upon the level and were  parting on the square", the phrase is a Kipling quote, "tried on the  square" is part of the official Masonic farewell. One of Stanleys  library books is "A History of Masonry". The 82nd Mason lodge (8 and  2 being prominently featured throughout the film) is located in  Magnolia, Arkansas.'),
('127665',' The word "fuck" is used 190 times.'),
('127666',' SPOILER: After the frogs start to fall, Jim Kurring and Donnie Smith  take cover under a Mobil gas station. The original name of Mobil was  Magnolia Petroleum.'),
('127667',' In William H. Macy (qv)s bar scene, the video game seen in  background is Frogger.'),
('127668',' The unspoken name of the kid who raps in the beginning of the film  is Dixon.'),
('127669',' When Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly (I) (qv)) loses his gun, a person  wearing a hooded jacket appears very briefly. It is actor  Orlando Jones (qv), whose scenes were left on the editing room  floor.'),
('127670',' To elaborate, the final riddle is never answered but gives the notes  B'),
('127671','E'),
('127672','E. The letter "B" resembles an "8" and there are two letter  "Es" in BEE. Another 8:2 reference.'),
('127673',' The story at the beginning about the boy being shot as he is falling  out of a window is an urban legend.'),
('127674',' The title "Magnolia" not only refers to Magnolia Blvd in LA, where  much of the movie takes place, but is also similar to the term  Charles Fort (I) (qv) (who is referenced many places in this  movie) coined for a hypothetical region where things that fall from  the sky come from '),
('127675',' "Magonia".'),
('127676',' SPOILER: When the frogs are falling, we see a caption on a picture  in Claudias apartment, "but it did happen". And it did. This  happens when storms pass over a lake teeming with frogs, picking  them up and dumping them elsewhere. This happened in the town of  Villa Angel Flores in Mexico after a tornado picked up a cluster of  toads and dropped them over the town one evening in June, 1997.'),
('127677',' DIRTRADE(Paul Thomas Anderson): [long take] When Stanley and his  father enter the studio building, there isnt a cut until we reach  Jimmy Gators office. This shot is almost three minutes long.'),
('127678',' DIRTRADE(Paul Thomas Anderson): [Camel Lights] Phil orders a pack  over the phone. Donnie is also seen smoking them in the bar.'),
('127679',' In one of the early versions of the script,  Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) proposed making it clear to the audience  that all the events took place in a very small area, like one square  mile or ten square blocks. It was later decided this would take too  long to clarify and would confuse people.'),
('127680',' Almost every location contains at least one picture or painting of a  magnolia flower.'),
('127681',' The story about the man being killed by a gunshot while falling off  a building has for years been used as a hypothetical case in  criminal law classes to illustrate causation.'),
('127682',' DIRTRADE(Paul Thomas Anderson (qv)): [Iris In/Out]: The very first  story of the prologue is shot like a silent film. The first shot  opens with the Iris In technique, used frequently during the silent  film era to open and close shots.'),
('127683',' SPOILER: The furniture store and Mobil station next to it (where the  frogs scene is shot) is at the corner of Sherman Way and Reseda  Blvd., in Reseda, California, about a block away from the disco club  seen in _Boogie Nights (1997)_ (qv).'),
('127684',' SPOILER: Character Jimmy Gator, a quiz show host, claims that "the  book says, we might be through with the past, but the past aint  through with us." The reference is to the opening sentence of The  Natural History of Nonsense, a book debunking superstitious beliefs  published in 1946 by Doctor Bergen Evans (qv), a professor of  English at Northwestern University. Prof. Evans served as the host  of several TV quiz shows in the 1950s (_"Down You Go" (1951)_ (qv),  _"Its About Time" (1954)_ (qv), and _"Super Ghost" (1952)_ (qv)).  Among many other topics, Evans book discusses the belief that it  sometimes rains frogs, an event that features prominently in the  movie.'),
('127685',' During the end credits of "What Do Kids Know?", the final production  note is that the program was a Partridge Production, referring to  Earl Partridge. The only other reference to Earl as a television  producer comes from his son Frank Mackey during his interview with  Gwenovier. When asked about his parents line of work, Frank responds  that his father worked in television and that his mother was a  librarian.'),
('127686',' Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) made a visit to the set of  _Eyes Wide Shut (1999)_ (qv), where he offered the role of Frank  T.J. Mackey to Tom Cruise (qv).'),
('127687',' When Paul Thomas Anderson (qv) approached George C. Scott (qv)  about playing the role of Earl Partridge, Scott threw the script  across the room, saying "This is the worst fucking thing Ive ever  read. The language is terrible."'),
('127688',' Fiona Apple is also uncredited as the voice of the wrong number that  Phil Parma calls in an attempt to find Frank T.J. Mackey'),
('127689',' Filming lasted 90 days, though it was originally scheduled to be 77.'),
('127690',' Jason Robards last feature film.'),
('127691',' One of the death squad officers is named Red Astrachan '),
('127692',' which is a  popular variety of apple grown in central California.'),
('127693',' Film debut of Robert Urich (qv) (Officer Mike Grimes).'),
('127694',' The motorcycles used by the "death squad" cops through most of the  movie are Moto Guzzi police bikes. However, British motorcycles  (probably Triumphs) were used during the chase scene at the end.  These would have been favoured by the stunt riders as they are  lighter and easier to handle than the Moto Guzzis.'),
('127695',' Clint Eastwood (qv) declined the directors seat, and  Ted Post (qv) stepped in, although interviews with Eastwood and  books about him have indicated that he and second unit director  Buddy Van Horn (qv) actually directed more of the film than Post  did.'),
('127696',' David Soul (qv)s performance as Officer John Davis, one of the  vigilante cops, led to his being cast as Detective Ken Hutchinson in  the classic cop series _"Starsky and Hutch" (1975)_ (qv).'),
('127697',' The SFPD range where Harry meets the four "rookies" is in reality  the Oakland (California) Police Departments indoor range. Its now  closed, partly due to the many "Dirty Harry" fans who kept trying to  sneak into it, but mostly due to indoor inhaled lead problems.'),
('127698',' Two deleted scenes help explain why Harry grows to suspect John  Davis and his pals with the killings of Charlie McCoy and the  mobsters. One occurs between the funeral flight for McCoy and the  combat championship; after the flight Harry and Davis drive from the  airport to a bowling alley for a few drinks; a black youth is  suddenly chased outside and assaulted by four toughs; Davis attacks  the toughs while Harry dispatches one with his beer mug. After  subduing the robbers Davis harangues a group of eyewitnesses for  letting such crimes take place; Harry witnesses Davis harangue and  sees in it his own approach to crime fighting, albeit far more  severe. Later, after examining the bullet from Davis gun at the  combat championship range, Harry checks on old issues of a police  magazine, in which are articles condemning the revolving door  justice allowed by liberal politics '),
('127699',' articles authored by the four  rookie cops. These scenes were deleted presumably because they were  judged to be "padding" and not necessary to establishing Harrys  suspicion of the four rookie cops.'),
('127700',' In the film, Carol McCoy hits on Harry after explaining the  circumstances behind her divorce from Charlie. She pulls close to  kiss Harry when her rambunctious childrens play interrupts them  both; a phone call from Earlington Smith to Harry (pertaining to  their liquor store stakeout) then forces him to cut short their date  and extricates him from a clearly awkward situation. However a  publicity photo circulated overseas shows Harry and Carol relaxed  and kissing '),
('127701',' a different version of this scene where Harry succumbs  to Carols advances was reportedly filmed (and which would have  changed the dynamic of Harrys relationship with Charlie) but  discarded; it was from this discarded scene that the publicity photo  came.'),
('127702',' Directly after the scene in the garage where Callahan is threatened  by the motorcycle cops, the cycles drove out and every single one of  them crashed. Clint Eastwood (qv) said, "Ive been threatened by  the Keystone Kops."'),
('127703',' According to writer John Milius (qv), the reason the sex scene  with the Asian woman is in the script is because  Clint Eastwood (qv) received many fan letters from Asian women  that contained sexual propositions.'),
('127704',' Actor Mitch Ryan (qv) plays a character who gets killed during the  film. The day his death scene was scheduled to shoot, Ryan was ill.  He brought a doctors note that read Ryan was "too sick to die" that  day.'),
('127705',' Body Count: 30'),
('127706',' Featured on the Directors cut DVD of  _American Storytellers (2003)_ (qv)'),
('127707',' Mart Laisk/The Father had a similar experience (his son wanting to  commit suicide) in his own life.'),
('127708',' Kristjan Kasearu (Magnus) is a famous pop'),
('127709','star and singer in  Estonia.'),
('127710',' Kristjan Kasearu (Magnus) got the role one day before the shooting  began. Mart Laisk (The Father) had seen him playing Romeo in a  musical "Romeo and Juliet" some days before and recommended him to  the director Kadri Kousaar. Kousaar made a screen test for Kasearu,  and was so impressed with the result that she immediately offered  him the role of Magnus, and canceled the contract with the actor who  had got the role two months before.'),
('127711',' This is the first Estonian feature film to be independently produced  and financed.'),
('127712',' Filmed on the streets of Toronto with mostly guerrilla film making  tactics.'),
('127713',' The barbecue scene was filmed in Curries backyard.'),
('127714',' The entire film was improvised. Currie and Martin provide the  "ideas" for what they wanted the characters to convey, and the  actors took it from there.'),
('127715',' The actors were not paid for the film....but lunch was provided  every day.'),
('127716',' At the wrap party, when the film showed at the Bloor Cinema, the  film got a three minute standing ovation once the credits stopped.'),
('127717',' This featurette is featured on the New Line Platinum Series DVD for  _Blade (1998)_ (qv).'),
('127718',' The eleventh in a series of 12 documentary films entitled Magtens  billeder (Images of Power), developed by Det danske Filminstitut  (Danish Film Institute) and Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting  Corporation). The purpose of the documentary films is to spotlight  power in Denmark.'),
('127719',' Originally, the idea for the series of "Magtens billeder" came into  being in 1997 when Folketinget (Danish Parliament) set up a research  project entitled "Den Danske Magtudredning" (the Account of Power in  Denmark). In spring 2003 Danmarks Radio and Det danske Filminstitut  announced an open competition, and received 111 proposals for  documentaries. 12 of these were selected for the series.'),
('127720',' Magtens billeder was originally conceived in 2003 as a series of  12 documentaries. But the documentary entitled Svineriget (written  and directed by Ebbe Nyvold and Christian Schou) was not produced  accordingly to Danmarks Radios ethical programme standards, and  would therefore not officially be part of the series, nor  broadcasted by Danmarks Radio. Svineriget was eventually released  in 2005 on DVD by The Danish Film Institute (together with the other  11 documentaries).'),
('127721',' Available on the DVD compilation entitled Magtens billeder 2  released in 2005 by The Danish Film Institute '),
('127722',' one of four DVD  releases, collecting all 12 Magtens billeder documentaries.'),
('127723',' CAMEO(John Fowles (qv)) the writer appears as a boat captain.'),
('127724',' Average Shot Length = ~5.9 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.8  seconds.'),
('127725',' The last feature film of George Pastell.'),
('127726',' When Woody Allen (qv) was asked whether hed make changes in his  life if he had the opportunity to do it all over again, he jokingly  replied hed do "everything exactly the same, with the exception of  watching The Magus."'),
('127727',' Judit Hernádi (qv) was asked to play a small role, but refused.  The role went to Gyöngyi Soma Spitzer (qv).'),
('127728',' Musician Boonyarak and fashion model Kaitauthong made their acting  debuts in the film.'),
('127729',' Chuck Stephens, who portrays Peter/Andre, also worked on the English  subtitles for the film (with Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee).'),
('127730',' Selected as the Thai entry in the Best Foreign Language Film  category for the 2006 Academy Awards'),
('127731',' The bear suit used in the film was first used in the mini series  _"Rauta'),
('127732','aika" (1982) (mini)_ (qv). It is owned by the YLE (TV2)  production company.'),
('127733',' This was Kamal Amrohi (qv)s directorial debut.'),
('127734',' This was Bombay Talkies greatest hit movie. Unfortunately, it  couldnt save the company, which closed down in 1954.'),
('127735',' This was the first Hindi ghost film to have a song which works as a  leitmotif through out the film. This became a trend and was followed  in other suspense/ghost films such as Madhumati, Woh Kaun Thi and  Mera Saaya.'),
('127736',' During the recording of the film music, a man carelessly said that  if the film didnt prove to be a hit it would be because of the  music. When the film was released, however, the music was extremely  popular, and music director Khemchand Prakash received letters from  all over India. Even though he was ill at the time, Prakash went to  that mans house and made him read all those letters.'),
('127737',' Gerald Lauron (qv) was introduced in this movie.'),
('127738',' This movie exploited the real life love triangle of  Nora Aunor (qv), Christopher de Leon (qv) and  Tirso Cruz III (qv).'),
('127739',' Teresa Loyzaga (qv) and Liza Ranillo (qv) were introduced in  this movie.'),
('127740',' Broderick Crawford (qv)s last film.'),
('127741',' First movie of Carmen Rosales (qv).'),
('127742',' First movie of Manuel Conde (III) (qv)'),
('127743',' Cameo: [Oliver Reed (I) (qv)] a train conductor blowing a whistle  as Mahlers train is about to pull out of the station.'),
('127744',' The film was started in 1939 but its shooting was interrupted when  France went to war. Only the scenes taking place in Indochina were  filmed then (they were included in the finished print). When the  shooting was able to resume, most of its actors were no longer  available and, apart from Catherine Fonteney, the whole film had to  be recast. The original actors were: Dita Parlo (qv),  Jean'),
('127745','Pierre Aumont (qv), Sessue Hayakawa (qv), Foun'),
('127746','Sen (qv),  Florence Marly (qv), Lucas Gridoux (qv), Jean Worms (qv),  Pierre Etchepare (qv), France Marion (qv) and Hoang'),
('127747','Dao (qv).'),
('127748',' The film commemorates the birth centenary of the great Bulgarian  revolutionary and internationalist Georgi Dimitrov (1882 '),
('127749',' 1949).'),
('127750',' Diana Ross (I) (qv) designed some of the costumes in the fashion  show sequence herself.'),
('127751',' Producer Berry Gordy (qv) fired original director  Tony Richardson (I) (qv) and then took over direction of the  picture himself.'),
('127752',' Screened at "The Toronto Film Challenge 48 Hour Film Festival" in  which all screened films had to be written, shot, edited and  completed in 48 hours using a package of pre'),
('127753','chosen materials  including a specific prop, location, character trait, color and  sound effect.'),
('127754',' This marks a first time a Power Rangers prop is used in Super  Sentai. The SPD Battlizer, from  _"Power Rangers S.P.D." (2005)_ (qv), is used in this movie. It is  called DekaRed Battlise Mode.'),
('127755',' Filmed over a long holiday weekend in San Francisco.'),
('127756',' When the FMF is in the village of the Amazon women, some of the  music is "borrowed" from the _Planet of the Apes (1968)_ (qv).'),
('127757',' Most of the score from _Halloween (1978)_ (qv) is included during  suspense sequences.'),
('127758',' Jackie Chan (I) (qv) only made this movie as a favor to  Yu Wang (I) (qv) (Don Wen)'),
('127759',' Some time between July 1 and September 30, 2003 (inclusive), Canada  Customs and Revenue Agency (C.C.R.A.) banned the importation of this  movie into Canada, on the grounds that it constitutes "obscenity" as  defined under the Criminal Code.'),
('127760',' Vitaphone production reels #1973'),
('127761','1974'),
('127762',' Sandra Bullock (qv) and Hilary Swank (qv) both showed interest  in the lead role that went to Jennifer Lopez (I) (qv).  John Hughes (I) (qv) considered directing.'),
('127763',' In the Spanish dubbed version, Bob Hoskins character has the same  dub'),
('127764','player as Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day (1993).  Both are butler characters.'),
('127765',' This is a lost film.'),
('127766',' The band at the party, the Loaded Blanks, are actually the hard rock  band Great White.'),
('127767',' Casper Van Dien (qv) actually saved stunt coordinator  Peter Bell (I) (qv)s life by performing the Heimlich maneuver on  him after the medic was unsuccessful.'),
('127768',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Turning the Tables (1911)_ (qv).'),
('127769',' Brad Harris (I) (qv) was supposed to play a role in this movie,  but it didnt work out.'),
('127770',' Ninth release in the "Crackerjack" 1'),
('127771','reel comedy series.'),
('127772',' Eugenia Yuan (qv)s character name "Lichi" is actually her Chinese  name in real'),
('127773','life.'),
('127774',' While bowling and leaving a 7'),
('127775','10 split, the President (played by  Randy Quaid (qv)) says he "made a Munson". A reference to  _Kingpin (1996)_ (qv) where Quaid plays an amish bowler and where  "making a Munson" is a saying for "screwing up".'),
('127776',' The official Bulgarian submission to the 2007 Oscars in the Best  Foreign Language Film category.'),
('127777',' The original title of the movie was "Satyam".'),
('127778',' Diana Ross was the original intended star. According to a Barbra  Streisand biography, Ross left the project after her brief affair  with ONeal turned sour.'),
('127779',' Streisand reportedly directed at least one scene in this movie  herself (the sequence with both leads fishing and walking in the  snow) after director Howard Zieff vetoed them.'),
('127780',' Producer Jon Peters, who was Barbra Streisands boyfriend at the  time, has since said, "I talked Barbra into doing that ("The Main  Event"). It was time for us to do another film and I felt a comedy  was the best way to go."'),
('127781',' Hrithik Roshan (qv) was signed for the role of Lakshman, and even  shot for a day. After the success of  _Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000)_ (qv), Farah Khan did not want an  actor so popular.'),
('127782',' Aishwarya Rai (qv) was offered the role of Chandni but due to  problems with Shahrukh Khan (qv), she was signed off.'),
('127783',' Amisha Patel (qv) was considered for the role of Sanjana.'),
('127784',' Sohail Khan (qv) was considered for the role of Lucky.'),
('127785',' Farhan Akhtar (qv) was considered for the role of Lucky.'),
('127786',' Farah Khan (qv) wanted to have re'),
('127787','created Rahul Dev Burman (qv)  music in the movie, but she chose not to, because the movie  _Dil Vil Pyar Vyar (2002)_ (qv) had done the exact same thing. She  then told music director Anu Malik (qv) to make the music R.D.  Burman style.'),
('127788',' The film is a takeoff on the Ramayana, as the names show: Ram, Lucky  (Lakshman) and Raghavan (Ravana). Also, as a reference, in the  movie, Lucky (Lakshman, played by Zayed Khan (qv)) mentions that  the house would feel like a Mahabarat if he kept his name as  Lakshman. Then his brother and mother correct him by saying Ramayan.'),
('127789',' The carriage Shahrukh Khan (qv) is riding when chasing the  assassins has the name Dhanno written on it. This is a reference to  _Sholay (1975)_ (qv), where Hema Malini (qv)s horse is named  Dhanno.'),
('127790',' Farah Khan (qv) wanted Naseeruddin Shah (I) (qv) to play  Raghavan, but his work on  _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003)_ (qv) prevented such  a large role. Hence, his special appearance as  Shahrukh Khan (qv)s father.'),
('127791',' Nana Patekar (qv) was wanted to play Raghavan by Farah Khan (qv)  but she was scared to approach him.'),
('127792',' Throughout the movie, director Farah Khan (qv) used references  from movies she enjoyed.'),
('127793',' The title "Main Hoon Na" is a very popular dialogue used by  Shahrukh Khan (qv) in most movies.'),
('127794',' Originally this was supposed to be Zayed Khan (qv)s and  Amrita Rao (qv)s first film but because of Shahrukh Khan (qv)s  back injury this film got delayed.'),
('127795',' Kamal Hassan (qv) was offered the role of Raghavan, but rejected  the part saying he didnt wish to play an unpatriotic character.'),
('127796',' Tabu (I) (qv) makes an uncredited appearance in the movie. She can  be seen when Shahrukh Khan (qv) is doing dance practice for the  prom night.'),
('127797',' Rani Mukherjee (qv) was supposed to have a guest appearance in a  song, but it wasnt possible. Thats why there are two pictures of  her when Satish Shah (qv) is flirting with the lady on the phone.'),
('127798',' The first stunt Shahrukh Khan (qv) does while walking on the wall  was a secret from director Farah Khan (qv). She didnt want him to  do that stunt due to his back injury. She even threatened to tell  his wife, Gauri Khan (qv).'),
('127799',' Farah Khan (qv) and Shahrukh Khan (qv) had started planning for  this movie in 2000. Filming had started in 2001, but  Shahrukh Khan (qv)s back injury and other commitments came in the  way.'),
('127800',' Sushmita Sen (qv) got the role of Chandini while working with  Farah Khan (qv) in the song "Mehboob Mere" from  _Fiza (2000)_ (qv).'),
('127801',' Farah Khan (qv) had the backup dancers appear as college students  as well, instead of getting 100 backup dancers and another 100  college students. She said that there is no point seeing characters  dance and different characters for support.'),
('127802',' Shahrukh Khan (qv) hated his dance steps to Tumse Milke, but  Farah Khan (qv) eventually convinced him to complete the steps.'),
('127803',' Film was shot in 10 days for $10,000'),
('127804',' Vitaphone production reels #1833'),
('127805','1834'),
('127806',' Van Johnson (I) (qv) appears in a photograph.'),
('127807',' National Award for best film on social issues'),
('127808',' Winner, Best Short Horror Film on Fangorias BLOOD DRIVE II DVD,  released 4 October 2005.'),
('127809',' Played the Hoboken Digital Film Festival and the Dark and Stormy  Night Festival in New York City.'),
('127810',' Selected for the New York City Horror Film Festival.'),
('127811',' Played at the What? Film Festival as part of their multimedia  presentation, projected over the opening bands.'),
('127812',' Maria Bellos film debut.'),
('127813',' The title is a sentence usually learnt in school to remember the  conjunctions in French grammar: mais, ou, et, donc, car, ni, or  (mais où et donc carnior?)'),
('127814',' DIRCAMEO(Eric Lartigau (qv)): on the phone, to the right of the  door when Douglas Ripper leaves the toilets in the club'),
('127815','  Story was originally purchased for Harlow, Jean (qv)'),
('127816',' Debut of George Tobias (qv).'),
('127817',' Kay Medford (qv)s film debut.'),
('127818',' Since director Richard Dembo (qv) died before the post'),
('127819','production.'),
('127820',' Based on the novel "Lavenir est un crime du passé" an  autobiographical novel of Arab cameraman Rahal Amin Touati, and "The  house of certain Death" written by Albert Cosseri.'),
('127821',' Released as a split reel along with the cartoon  _Sammie Johnsin and His Wonderful Lamp (1916)_ (qv).'),
('127822',' The golden idol Khalid uses to knock out Emilys father in "Sand  Pirates of the Sahara" was lent to the production by  Steven Spielberg (I) (qv) and is the same prop used in the opening  sequence of _Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv).'),
('127823',' The bar Jim Carrey (qv) goes to is the Coco Bongo. The nightclub  in _Mask, The (1994)_ (qv) was also the Coco Bongo.'),
('127824',' You can clearly see a poster for _Its a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv)  in the foyer of the Majestic, before it is renovated.'),
('127825',' In the first scene of the movie, we see Jim Carrey (qv)s  character reacting to the ideas of studio executives, one of whom  mentions that the name "Floyd" is terrible, and that it has to be  changed. Later on we learn that they changed the name to "Heywood",  which an executive also says is terrible. Heywood and Floyd are both  characters from Frank Darabont (qv)s earlier movie  _Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)_ (qv) and Dr Heywood Floyd is a  character in _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).'),
('127826',' One of the Majestics employees is named Irene Terwilliger.  "Terwilliger" is also the last name of a character in  Frank Darabont (qv)s _Green Mile, The (1999)_ (qv). He was played  by Jeffrey DeMunn (qv), who plays Mayor Ernie Cole in  _Majestic, The (2001)_ (qv).'),
('127827',' Holden, Laurie (qv)s character is inspired to become a lawyer by  the film _Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)_ (qv). Holdens real'),
('127828','life  grandmother, Holden, Gloria (qv), was one of the stars of this  film.'),
('127829',' A character mentions the film _Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)_ (qv).  This film is about a lawyer who comes to the defense of a Jewish  soldier fighting trumped'),
('127830','up charges of treason in  turn'),
('127831','of'),
('127832','the'),
('127833','century France. As with the Hollywood 10/HUAC hearings,  the charge of treason was a thin cover for the anti'),
('127834','Semitic motives  of the accusers.'),
('127835',' Brian Libby (qv), who plays Studio Guard Hal, has appeared in all  of director Frank Darabont (qv)s movies. Darabont considers Libby  to be a lucky charm of sorts and casts him whenever possible.'),
('127836',' The real Luke Trimble was a paratrooper in the famed 101st Airborne  Division. His voice was provided by Matt Damon (qv), who also  played a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division in  _Saving Private Ryan (1998)_ (qv).'),
('127837',' One of the voices in the two screenwriting conference scenes is  famous director and screenwriter Marshall, Garry (qv). Other  voices belong to Reiner, Carl (qv) and his son Reiner, Rob (qv).'),
('127838',' DIRTRADE(Frank Darabont (qv)): the word S'),
('127839','T'),
('127840','O'),
('127841','R'),
('127842','Y in the  graveyard. Also done in _Green Mile, The (1999)_ (qv). This is his  way of indicating that the "story" is dead in Hollywood.'),
('127843',' The voices of the unseen studio executives during the first  screenwriting scene (and the one later in the film) are all famous  directors, including Marshall, Garry (qv), Mazursky, Paul (qv),  Pollack, Sydney (qv), Reiner, Rob (qv), and Reiner, Carl (qv)  (although Carl is more famous for his comedic acting). All of these  directors are also known their occasional acting forays.'),
('127844',' The letter written by Luke Trimble to Adele copies the form,  sentiments and even some of the phrases of a famous Civil War letter  written a week before the battle of Bull Run by Sullivan Ballou, a  Major in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers, to his wife in Smithfield.'),
('127845',' Several elements of the movie borrow from the real'),
('127846','life Hollywood  Ten of blacklisted members of the film'),
('127847','making industry. The name of  the town that adopts Jim Carrey (qv)s character as a long'),
('127848','lost  son is Lawson; one of the targeted screenwriters was named  John Howard Lawson (qv). Another writer, Lester Cole (I) (qv),  shares a surname with a movie character, Lawsons mayor. There is  also a strong similarity between Luke and Harrys last name,  Trimble, and the surname of blacklisted screenwriter  Dalton Trumbo (qv).'),
('127849',' The director of "Sand Pirates of the Sahara", the movie within the  movie, is "Ferenc Arpad". This is Frank Darabont (qv)s first and  middle names translated into his native Hungarian.'),
('127850',' Jim Carrey (qv)s characters name, Appleton, is also the name of  the city in Wisconsin where Joseph McCarthy (II) (qv) was born.'),
('127851',' The town of Lawson is named for John Howard Lawson (qv), the man  who finally stood up to Joe McCarthy and ended the Red Scare.'),
('127852',' The feature that Peter is selling tickets for at the end of the film  is _Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)_ (qv), seen by many to be  a metaphor for the red scare and McCarthyism.'),
('127853',' At one point, while the characters in the film are examining a  store'),
('127854','front display of World War II heroes, a photograph of several  men in uniform is shown. This photo is of actual soldiers that  fought in World War II, all of whom made their home at the location  of the film shoot, Ferndale, California.'),
('127855',' "HHS Studios" is named for Hollywood High School, which Frank  Darabont attended.'),
('127856',' Neither the Majestic nor Mabels Diner actually exist in Ferndale,  where the movie was filmed. However, the newspaper office for the  Lawson Beacon (across the street from the WWII memorial) is the  actual newspaper office for the Ferndale Enterprise. The Sheriffs  office and City Hall were facades built over opposite ends of the  U.S. Bank building in town. The facade of The Majestic was built  over a city parking lot. Only the facade and lobby were used for  filming at that location. The indoor sets were built in buildings at  the Humboldt County Fairgrounds.'),
('127857',' The Lawson train station that Jim Carrey departs from and returns to  is actually in Fort Bragg, California. The train he is on is called  "The Skunk Train" and is, in real life, a scenic railroad that runs  inland from the north coast through the redwoods.'),
('127858',' WILHELM SCREAM: When part of the theaters neon sign explodes.'),
('127859',' The film within a film Sand Pirates of the Desert, uses music from  two classic Hollywood films, both scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold  '),
('127860',' "Of Human Bondage" (1945) and "Captain Blood" (1935).'),
('127861',' At the opening of the Majestic, a poster for the movie version of A  Streetcar Named Desire starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando can  be seen.'),
('127862',' Shot in one take.'),
('127863',' The name of Osonos bakery, "Guchokipanya" is a Japanese pun made  from the words "guchokipa" (Rock Paper Scissors) and "panya"  (bakery).'),
('127864',' When Kiki first arrives in the city, she is almost hit by a bus  bearing the name "Studio Ghibli". This is the name of Miyazakis  animation studio.'),
('127865',' During the production phase, Miyazaki and his artists traveled to  Sweden to research for the film. The photographs they took of  Stockholm and Visby, formed the basis of the fictional city of  Koriko. The city also contains elements of Lisbon, Paris, San  Francisco, and Milan.'),
('127866',' The story takes place in an alternative 1950s Europe where WWI and  WWII never happened. Miyazaki has been quoted saying that the  fictional city of Kokiro has one side on the shores of the  Mediterranean, and the other on the Baltic Sea'),
('127867',' DIRCAMEO(Hayao Miyazaki): the director can be seen for a moment in  the scene when the street'),
('127868','sweeper says "thats my broom she used".  Hes in the upper'),
('127869','right corner of the picture.'),
('127870',' Ursulas painting is titled "The Ship Flying Over The Rainbow", and  was painted by the students of a school for challenged children.'),
('127871',' DIRTRADE(Hayao Miyazaki): [flying]: Kiki can fly using a broomstick.  The plot revolves around Kiki setting up a flying delivery service.  An airship also features prominently in the last segment of the  film.'),
('127872',' The dialogue during a scene in which Kiki is given coffee, changes  the beverage to hot chocolate in the Disney release. This was done  because Disney thought it was inappropriate for children to drink  coffee. The video subtitles also mention hot chocolate, although the  Japanese "kohii" ("coffee") is clearly audible on the soundtrack.'),
('127873',' The 1998 English language version is dedicated to the memory of  Phil Hartman (qv), who was murdered by his wife that same year.'),
('127874',' The four'),
('127875','engined biplane (more precisely, sesquiplane) that Kiki  sees during the opening credits is a real aircraft, the Handley'),
('127876','Page  HP42. Eight of these planes '),
('127877',' the first four'),
('127878','engined aircraft ever  built '),
('127879',' were commissioned during the 1930s; later they were  converted to military use, and all were destroyed by 1941. But since  this movie '),
('127880',' according to director Hayao Miyazaki (qv) '),
('127881',' takes  place in a world where World War II never happened, its plausible  that the HP42 would still be in civilian service.'),
('127882',' The street name signs in the city have been copied from those used  in Stockholm, down to using the names (or parts of names) of  existing Stockholm streets and squares in at least two scenes,  including "Klara Norra Ky" taken from Klara Norra Kyrkogata  (Northern Klara Church Street).'),
('127883',' At first, Miyazaki was only a producer for the film. The first  script was written by Nobuyuki Isshiki (qv), and  Sunao Katabuchi (qv) was scheduled to make his debut as a  director. But Isshiki soon left the project, as Miyazaki wasnt  satisfied with his script. Miyazaki then re'),
('127884','wrote the script, and  eventually directed the film, with Katabuchi as an assistant  director.'),
('127885',' Prior to Disneys US release on video in 1998, there was an earlier  English dub produced in the early 1990s by Streamline Pictures for  in'),
('127886','flight screenings on Japan Airlines flights. This dub also had  Jiji voiced by a male voice actor. It was considered a very good  dubbing job that was more faithful to the original Japanese version  than Disneys dub. It also had brief theatrical screenings at film  festivals around the United States before Disney bought the rights.  It has not been released on any video format, except for the  Japanese LD box'),
('127887','set of the Ghibli films as an alternate audio track.'),
('127888',' Disneys English subtitle translation for the Japanese track on the  US DVD release are actually dub'),
('127889','titles. Interestingly, they are not  from Disneys 1998 English version of the film but are from an  earlier non'),
('127890','Disney English version from the early 1990s. Tokuma,  the Japanese company that Disney negotiated the rights to the Ghibli  films with, provided this dub translation to Disney for a subtitled  release not aware that it was not an accurate translation. However,  the dialogue from this earlier dub is much more faithful to the  original Japanese version than Disneys dub is.'),
('127891',' 67,317 traditional "cels" were used for this movie.'),
('127892',' 462 colors were used in this movie.'),
('127893',' This film was considered to be lost until in 1994 a copy was found  in a collection. However, this copy is in very bad condition.  Therefore it is not sure this film will be preserved or ever be  shown to public again.'),
('127894',' This is Deborah Kerr (qv)s first credited movie role.'),
('127895',' During the filming of this movie, Peckinpah, Sam (qv) was so  obnoxious and abusive towards his actors that  Heston, Charlton (qv) physically threatened the director with a  sabre. Heston later remarked that this was the only time he had ever  threatened anybody on a movie set.'),
('127896',' Producers wanted to fire Sam Peckinpah (qv) from the film but  Heston convinced the them to keep him.'),
('127897',' Lee Marvin (qv) was Sam Peckinpah (qv)s initial choice for the  role of Samuel Potts, but Marvin wanted too much money. Marvins  agent suggested James Coburn (qv) for the part, and Coburn  ultimately got the role.'),
('127898',' Actor Woody Strode (qv) was considered for the part that went to  Brock Peters (qv). Strode was part Native American and he wrote in  his memoirs that he didnt get the part because he was told he  looked too much "like a half'),
('127899','breed" by Peckinpah to play the part.'),
('127900',' Shooting on the movie was wrapped up early by studio executives, in  the interest of controlling costs, before some important scenes were  filmed. Charlton Heston (qv) offered to return his entire salary  for the movie if the studio would agree to film the necessary scenes  and re'),
('127901','shoots. The studio kept his paycheck and never allowed any  more footage to be shot anyway.'),
('127902',' After the success of Peckinpahs later  _Wild Bunch, The (1969)_ (qv), Columbia told him that they would  allow him to re'),
('127903','shoot parts of the movie which had been cut from the  release version. Peckinpah, naturally, declined the offer.'),
('127904',' Sam Peckinpah (qv) had been pitching a movie about Colonel George  Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn, because he thought it  was fascinating how Custer became a glorious, immortal American hero  after being killed and defeated in battle. The idea never came to  fruition, and Peckinpah thought the story of "Major Dundee" to be  similar enough, and took this job instead.'),
('127905',' The script was originally written with John Ford (I) (qv) in mind  to direct, but Ford was busy working on  _Cheyenne Autumn (1964)_ (qv) and in any case was uninterested.'),
('127906',' Average Shot Length (ASL) = 4.7 seconds'),
('127907',' The role of Captain Tyreen was intended for Anthony Quinn (qv) who  pulled out.'),
('127908',' Sam Peckinpah (qv) originally wanted Lucien Ballard (qv), with  whom he had had a good working relationship with on his film _Ride  The High Country (1962)_ , as the director of photography, but  producer Jerry Bresler (qv) refused the request, making him work  with Sam Leavitt (qv), whose credits included _Diamond Head  (1962)_ , a previous Bresler production, and  _Cape Fear (1962)_ (qv). Although Leavitt did get along fairly well  with Peckinpah, this was the first sign of tension between the  director and the producer.'),
('127909',' Despite his quarrel with Peckinpah, Jerry Bresler fought very hard  with Columbia to keep the 136 minute cut (the "Extended Edition" now  on DVD) despite its poor reception at its preview, but was rebuked  by the studio.'),
('127910',' The home game scenes were filmed at Milwaukees County Stadium,  which has since been torn down, where Bob Uecker (qv), who  portrays announcer Harry Doyle, called games for the Brewers and  played for the old Milwaukee Braves. The exterior stadium shots use  Clevelands Municipal Stadium, which has since been torn down.'),
('127911',' Many of the baseball players in the scenes filmed at Hi Corbett  Field in Tucson, Arizona were members of the University of Arizona  baseball team.'),
('127912',' Just before Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen (I) (qv)) gives up a home  run to Heywood for the second time, Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker (qv))  goes over how the other runners got on base. One of the players he  mentions is Bill Leff (qv), who actually is the actor who plays  Bobby James in the movie.'),
('127913',' In the commercial for the movie when it was in the theaters, there  was a scene in which Ricky Vaughn, Jake Taylor, and Willy Hays are  in the restaurant, and they are discussing a homerun Ricky gave up  to a batter. Jake says to Ricky, "That ball wouldnt have gone out  of a lot of parks." Ricky says, "Name one." Jakes pauses and says,  "Yellowstone." This scene was omitted from the theatrical release,  but was written into the script of _Major League II (1994)_ (qv).'),
('127914',' The opponent slugger was played by Vuckovich, Peter (qv), a former  pitcher.'),
('127915',' Peter Vuckovich (qv), who played Yankees home run threat Haywood,  was in real life a pitcher who never hit a single home run in his  entire 11 year major league career.'),
('127916',' Charlie Sheen (qv) was a high school pitcher who was offered a  baseball scholarship to the University of Kansas. In the movie he  threw a 101mph fastball, but in reality Sheen could throw in the  high 80s. This made it easier to simulate the fastball on film.'),
('127917',' The restaurant where Lynn Wells (Rene Russo (qv)) is spotted on a  date is in Milwaukee. It was at the time a gourmet restaurant, stood  empty for a time and then was a Russian Restaurant and dance club.  It again sat empty for a period and is currently (2005) a Baptist  Church.'),
('127918',' A scene featuring the wedding of Jake Taylor and Lynn Wells was shot  and to occur after the Indians victory over the Yankees in the end  but it was deleted because the producers felt that the wedding scene  would put the focus of the movie on Jake and Lynn and not the team.'),
('127919',' In the seasonal opener game, a sign on the outfield wall displaying  the Milwaukee Brewers classic ball and mitt logo can be clearly  seen. Bernie Brewers house and beer mug was dismantled for the  shooting of the movie, as to not give the identity of the interior  shots of the stadium.'),
('127920',' In April 2007, due to snow in Cleveland, the real Cleveland Indians  were unable to open their home season at Jacobs Field. Miller Park  in Milwaukee, which had been built as the replacement for Milwaukee  County Stadium in the 1990s and had been constructed with a  retractable dome, was chosen to be the stand'),
('127921','in for the Indians  home turf.'),
('127922',' Because of the stadium filmed in the movie and the fact that the  Indians played a home series at Milwaukees new ballpark, the  Indians were unofficially dubbed "The Cleveland Indians of  Milwaukee." Coincidentally, the team they played was "The Los  Angeles Angels of Anaheim."'),
('127923',' "Cowabunga!," Chief Thunderthuds oath on the 50s "Howdy Doody"  show, was brought back into public consciousness in a scene outside  the locker room by Gary Houston (qv), who as war'),
('127924','painted and  Indian'),
('127925','headdressed TV sports reporter Ross Farmer ad libbed it  before going into a spiel to his stations camera.'),
('127926',' During filming, the real Cleveland Indians were moving out of The  Cleveland Municipal Stadium into Jacobs Field on the other side of  Cleveland. However, Jacobs Field was not yet finished being  constructed, so the movie was shot at the stadium of the Baltimore  Orioles (which Clevelands Jacobs Field was modeled after).'),
('127927',' In the outfield during their second game there is a sign that says  "Emilios Repo Depot". Charlie Sheen (I) (qv)s brother  Emilio Estevez (qv) was in the movie _Repo Man (1984)_ (qv).'),
('127928',' Wesley Snipes (qv) wasnt able to reprise his role of Willie Mays  Hayes, and was replaced with Omar Epps (qv)'),
('127929',' The spring training scenes were filmed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  They used the baseball stadium of the Harrisburg Senators located on  City Island. Potted palm trees were placed outside the stadium to  help in the illusion of a more southern location.'),
('127930',' Lou Browns (James Gammon (I) (qv)) hospital scenes were filmed at  the hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania while filming the spring  training scenes.'),
('127931',' One night, while filming in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,  Charlie Sheen (qv) and other stars of the movie boarded a bus and  visited Central Pennsylvania Business School (now Central  Pennsylvania College) for a party.'),
('127932',' Bakers inability to throw the ball back to the pitcher was based on  former New York Mets catcher Mackey Sasser. Sasser was very  successful at throwing out runners attempting to steal second, but  had a mental block causing him to flinch several times when trying  to throw the ball back to the pitcher. Many baserunners took  advantage of this affliction and stole bases while he was triple  pumping his throw, and/or lollipopping the throw back.'),
('127933',' Extra Baseball players John Stefero (qv), Brad Tyler (qv), and  Jeff Sheaffer (qv) all played in the Baltimore minor league  system, all playing at one time for the AAA Rochester (NY) Red  Wings. Schoop (Kevin Hickey (qv)) as well played for Rochester,  and was a teammate with Brad Tyler.'),
('127934',' In Roger Dorns Minnesota Twins owner suite, a number 4 Lou Collins  jersey hangs in a case, a reference to Timothy Busfield (qv)s  character in _Little Big League (1994)_ (qv).'),
('127935',' Jessica Simpson beat out Brittany Murphy for the lead role.'),
('127936',' Loose remake of _Private War of Major Benson, The (1955)_ (qv).'),
('127937',' In one scene, Major Payne tells the children, "Now apparently, what  we have here, is a failure to communicate!" This is a famous quote  taken from the movie Cool Hand Luke'),
('127938',' This was shot as a hardcore porno film in 1997, but re'),
('127939','edited and  released as an "R" in 1998.'),
('127940',' Tinnu Anand (qv) was supposed to play the small role of a lawyer,  but he fell seriously sick and was hospitalized. Another actor  portrayed this role on screen and Tinnu Anand dubbed in his own  voice while another actor was moving his lips on screen.'),
('127941',' The movie released a week later than intended because the Indian  Army raised objections to Amitabh Bachchan (qv)s beard in the  movie. To resolve the issue, Amitabh Bachchan mentions the Armys  policy on beards in the opening credits of the movie.'),
('127942',' Abhishek Bachchan was an uncredited assistant on the production.'),
('127943',' It was decided to include scenes of Susans (Ginger Rogers (qv)s)  mother. Spring Byington (qv) was the first choice but was  appearing in another film. Rogers suggested her real mother  Lela E. Rogers (qv), who got the role.'),
('127944',' Billy Wilder (qv)s directorial debut.'),
('127945',' His role as Captain Norcross became the final feature film role for  Alan Mowbry (qv), ending a movie career of over thirty years.'),
('127946',' The film was originally supposed to be released in May, but Laos  launched an informal diplomatic protest after the movie was screened  in advance for the Lao Embassy, and the movie was shelved for  several months. Laos complained that the much'),
('127947','hyped movie,  originally about the Lao football (soccer) team going to the World  Cup was insulting to Lao people, and showed the country in a  negative light. The movie was re'),
('127948','edited and a painstaking effort to  replace all references to Laos with the fictional country of  Arvee. All images of Lao flags were digitally removed. The one  remaining element was the Lao language (which is also spoken in  Northeastern Thailand) of the Arvee players. Without editing, the  film (very expensive by Thai standards) likely would never have been  released in theatres.'),
('127949',' Rita Magdalena (qv) was introduced in this movie.'),
('127950',' After problems with the copyright of some of the material used in  the movie, RKO removed the movie from General release and shelved  it.'),
('127951',' Animation in the tone poem "Blue Bayou" was originally created for  the deleted "Clair de lune" sequence of _Fantasia (1940)_ (qv).'),
('127952',' One of Disneys four "Package Films". During the second World War,  the studio lost a lot of manpower and resources which left them with  countless unfinished ideas too long for shorts, too short for  features. So, inventive as they are, they stuck short ideas together  into feature length movies. See also  _Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, The (1949)_ (qv),  _Melody Time (1948)_ (qv) and _Fun and Fancy Free (1947)_ (qv).'),
('127953',' In the original movie release, the first segment was "The Martins  And The Coys". This was a fictionalized telling of the famous  Hatfield and McCoy feud. When the movie was first shown on  television this segment was included. When the movie was released on  video and DVD, this segment was eliminated since Disney felt that it  was too violent for current audiences since it showed guns and  people being shot.'),
('127954',' In the "Casey at the Bat" segment, a sign on the stadium wall  announces that the Mudville 9 are playing Burbank in the fateful  game, a reference to the location of the Disney studio.'),
('127955',' In "Willie the Whale", all of the operatic vocals '),
('127956',' bass up through  soprano, and even the chorus '),
('127957',' were sung by Nelson Eddy (qv).'),
('127958',' The "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" segment was performed by  the Andrew Sisters who also performed the "Little Toot" segment in  "Melody Time".'),
('127959',' Porn'),
('127960','film debut of Tracey Adams (qv) (she had appeared in a few  R'),
('127961','rated "B" films previously).'),
('127962',' Though they play elderly parents who have been cast aside by their  children, Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi were only 61 and 49,  respectively, when this film was made.'),
('127963',' The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 20  October 1919 and closed in December 1919 after 48 performances. The  opening night cast included Laura Hope Crews (qv) and  Sidney Toler (qv).'),
('127964',' This making'),
('127965','of is featured on the Christmas Carol: The Movie DVD,  released in 2003.'),
('127966',' This documentary is featured on second disc of the  _Do the Right Thing (1989)_ (qv) DVD released in 2001 by the  Criterion Collection.'),
('127967',' This making'),
('127968','of the Matrix video game is featured on the DVD for  _Matrix Reloaded, The (2003)_ (qv).'),
('127969',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Murder on the Orient Express (1974)_ (qv).'),
('127970',' This making of is featured on the 2'),
('127971','Disc Collectors Edition DVD for  _Finding Nemo (2003)_ (qv).'),
('127972',' This short featurette is included on the DVD for  _Sahara (2005)_ (qv).'),
('127973',' This short featurette is included on the 2'),
('127974','disc 60th Anniversary  Commemorative DVD Edition for _Saving Private Ryan (1998)_ (qv),  released in 2004.'),
('127975',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Scary Movie 3 (2003)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('127976',' This documentary is featured on the DVD of _Signs (2002)_ (qv),  released in Region 1 (USA and Canada), January 2003.'),
('127977',' This featurette is available exclusively in the Criterion Collection  DVD release of Sólo con tu pareja (1991).'),
('127978',' This feature'),
('127979','length documentary is featured on the Collectors  Edition DVD for _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv), released in 1999.'),
('127980',' This featurette is available on the DVD for The Man Who Wasnt  There (2001).'),
('127981',' This making'),
('127982','of is featured on the DVD of _Matrix, The (1999)_ (qv),  released in Region 1 (USA and Canada) in 1999.'),
('127983',' This short is found on the 1998 DVD of _City of Angels (1998)_ (qv).'),
('127984',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Sometimes It Works (1914)_ (qv).'),
('127985',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the drama  _Pardoned by the Governor (1911)_ (qv).'),
('127986',' Nominated for 3 2007 ATOM Awards (Australian education awards), for  Best Primary Education Resource, Best Secondary Education Resource,  and Best Instructional/Training Resource '),
('127987',' the first time a  resource has been nominated in all three categories.'),
('127988',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy  _Trials of a Tall Traveler, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('127989',' This documentary is featured on the Special Edition DVD for  _Young Frankenstein (1974)_ (qv).'),
('127990',' Series #1, Episode #3 of The Collegians.'),
('127991',' Churchill Ross, as Horace Doc Webster, Eds spectacle wearing  room'),
('127992','mate, is introduced in this episode, and will continue  throughout the series.'),
('127993',' Included on the Wrong Turn 2: Dead End DVD release.'),
('127994',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Accidental Bandit, The (1913)_ (qv).'),
('127995',' One of the winners of the first 48 Hour Film Challenge in London  2002. Screened at Cannes 2005 by Johnnie Oddball at the UK FIlm  Centre as part of a series of DV shorts.'),
('127996',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Vita è bella, La (1997)_ (qv), released in 1999.'),
('127997',' Goldie Hawn (qv) turned down the role of Claire, fearing that too  much of the dramatic subject matter would have to be altered to fit  her comic talents and fan base.'),
('127998',' Harrison Ford (I) (qv), Michael Douglas (I) (qv), and  Richard Gere (qv) all turned down the male lead, expressing  reservations about the subject matter.'),
('127999',' Writer Barry Sandler (qv) has confirmed that much of this film is  autobiographical; however he refuses to discuss the issue in any  detail.'),
('128000',' Biograph production number 1384.'),
('128001',' John Malkovich (qv), Glenne Headly (qv), and  Laurie Metcalf (qv), have been acting together since the late'),
('128002','70s  as members of Chicagos Steppenwolf Theatre Company.'),
('128003',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Silk Industry (1916)_ (qv) and a color fashion show.'),
('128004',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Bertha, the Buttonhole'),
('128005','Maker (1914)_ (qv).'),
('128006',' The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey (III) (qv), (just  before he retired) made a surprise appearance, playing himself.'),
('128007',' Appears on the Splash 20th Anniversary Edition DVD.'),
('128008',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Pizen Pete (1913)_ (qv).'),
('128009',' This featurette is included on the 2'),
('128010','Disc Special Edition DVD for  _Lord of War (2005)_ (qv).'),
('128011',' First film appearance of Charles Chaplin (qv), and one of the few  in those early years in which he does not play the Tramp.'),
('128012',' Chaplins character is named Edgar English, but most of the  characters he played (usually in the persona of the Tramp) would be  either nameless, or would informally be given the name Charlie.'),
('128013',' This making'),
('128014','of segment is featured on the Special Edition DVD for  _School Daze (1988)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('128015',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Seeing Washington (1911)_ (qv).'),
('128016',' As far as is known, this was comedian Milton Berles first film.'),
('128017',' Turner Classic Movies showed a version with a piano score on the  soundtrack, and running 16 minutes.'),
('128018',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _1941 (1979)_ (qv), released in 1999.'),
('128019',' Featured on the 2007 Warner Bros. special edition of 2001: A Space  Odyssey.'),
('128020',' This making'),
('128021','of... is featured on the DVD for _8 Mile (2002)_ (qv),  released in 2003.'),
('128022',' This documentary is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for  _Night to Remember, A (1958)_ (qv), released in 1998.'),
('128023',' This documentary is featured on the Directors Cut DVD for  _Ali (2001) ()_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128024',' This feature'),
('128025','length documentary is featured in the Alien  Quadrilogy DVD set and in the 2 disc edition of  _Alien3 (1992)_ (qv).'),
('128026',' After Fox decided to edit over 30 minutes of material out of this  documentary, Charles de Lauzirika (the director) decided not to put  his name on it since it was not what he had wanted to do, he had  planned on having a brutally honest depiction of what happened on  set. He then changed his name to an alias, that of Fredrick Garvin.  This name was that of an SNL character, a male prostitute, played by  Dan Aykroyd.'),
('128027',' The original title of this documentary was "Wreckage and Rape: The  Making of Alien 3" before Fox decided to censor it. Its worth  noting that "Wreckage and Rape" is taken from the title of a music  cue on the official "Alien 3" soundtrack. Unlike the other  documentaries in the Alien Quadrilogy set, several of the chapters  in the "Alien 3" documentary ended up with bland, non'),
('128028','descriptive  titles, such as "Pre'),
('128029','Production: Part III," for example. The  original, uncensored chapter titles were: 1. Development Hell:  Concluding The Story 3. Stasis Interrupted: David Finchers Vision  5. The Color of Blood: Shepperton Studios, 1991 7. The Downward  Spiral: Fincher vs. Fox 8. Where The Sun Burns Cold: Fox Studios,  L.A. 1992 10. Requiem For A Scream: Music, Editing and Sound'),
('128030',' David Fincher (qv) was asked to participate (to address the  production) but he declined.'),
('128031',' This documentary is featured on the Region 1 (USA and Canada) DVD  release of American _Graffiti (1973)_ (qv).'),
('128032',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for _Amistad (1997)_ (qv),  released in 1999.'),
('128033',' This short featurette is on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _An American Werewolf in London (1981)_ (qv), released in 2003.'),
('128034',' This documentary is featured on both the Canadian & US versions of  the DVD for _Ararat (2002)_ (qv), released in 2003.'),
('128035',' This making'),
('128036','of documentary is featured on the German DVD of  _Asterix in America (1994)_ (qv).'),
('128037',' This documentary is featured on the New Line Platinum Series DVD for  _Bamboozled (2000)_ (qv).'),
('128038',' This documentary is featured on the DVD of  _Bank Brothers (2004) (V)_ (qv).'),
('128039',' Released at a 7minute 30second documentary on the Beastmaster 2 VHS'),
('128040',' This documentary is featured on the Japanese DVD edition of  Blackjack (1998) (TV).'),
('128041',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)_ (qv).'),
('128042',' This featurette is available exclusively in the Special Edition of  George Harrisons Brainwashed CD.'),
('128043',' The entire DVD was edited and authored on Apples Final Cut Pro HD  and DVD Studio 1.5.'),
('128044',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Bubba Ho'),
('128045','Tep (2002)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128046',' This documentary is featured on the DVD of  _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)_ (qv)'),
('128047',' George Roy Hill donated this documentary to Yale University.'),
('128048',' This documentary is featured on the 2 disc DVD of  _Cape Fear (1991)_ (qv).'),
('128049',' This documentary is featured on both the Collectors Edition and  Ultimate Edition DVDs for _Carlitos Way (1993)_ (qv), released in  2003 & 2005.'),
('128050',' This making'),
('128051','of is featured on the 2'),
('128052','disc special edition DVD of  _Cast Away (2000)_ (qv), released June 2001.'),
('128053',' This documentary is included on the 2001 DVD release for  _Casualties of War (1989)_ (qv), as well as the 2006 Extended  Edition DVD.'),
('128054',' This feature'),
('128055','length documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128056','disc  Collectors Edition of  _Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)_ (qv).'),
('128057',' This making'),
('128058','of documentary is featured on the Extended Edition DVD  for _Crimson Tide (1995)_ (qv), released in 2006.'),
('128059',' This making'),
('128060','of is featured on the 2'),
('128061','Disc Special Edition DVD for  _Dances with Wolves (1990)_ (qv), released in 2003.'),
('128062',' This making'),
('128063','of is featured on the DVD of  _Darkness Falls (2003)_ (qv).'),
('128064',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Daylight (1996)_ (qv), released in 1998.'),
('128065',' Created for the DVD release of _Derailed (2005/I)_ (qv).'),
('128066',' This brief making'),
('128067','of is featured on the DVD for  _Dr T and the Women (2000)_ (qv).'),
('128068',' This documentary was first released on the laserdisc for  _Dragonheart (1996)_ (qv), and was then re'),
('128069','released on both the  Collectors Edition and Franchise Collection DVDs for the same film.'),
('128070',' This making'),
('128071','of is featured on the Extended Edition DVD for  _Enemy of the State (1998)_ (qv), released in 2006.'),
('128072',' Available on disc 3 of the 4'),
('128073','disc European R2 DVD release of the  Europa Trilogy (collecting _Forbrydelsens element (1984)_ (qv),  _Epidemic (1987)_ (qv) and _Europa (1991)_ (qv)), distributed in  2005.'),
('128074',' This feature'),
('128075','length documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128076','Disc Special  Collectors Edition DVD for _Event Horizon (1997)_ (qv), released in  2006.'),
('128077',' This "making'),
('128078','of" featurette is included as an extra on the Universal  DVD of _Fahrenheit 451 (1966)_ (qv).'),
('128079',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Garden State (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128080',' This documentary appears on the _Gettysburg (1993)_ (qv) DVD'),
('128081',' This 3'),
('128082','part documentary is featured on the "Two'),
('128083','Disc Special  Edition" DVD for _Heat (1995)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('128084',' Subsequent to its airing as a preview special, this documentary has  been used as a supplementary featurette with the series video  release.'),
('128085',' This featurette is featured on the Home Alone Family Fun Edition  DVD, released in 2006.'),
('128086',' This mini'),
('128087','documentary is featured on the DVD for  _House (1986)_ (qv).'),
('128088',' This behind'),
('128089','the'),
('128090','scenes documentary is available on the DVD for  _How the West Was Won (1962)_ (qv).'),
('128091',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128092','Disc Special Edition DVD for  _Hulk (2003)_ (qv).'),
('128093',' This is featured on the second disc of the 2 disc DVD for  _Independence Day (1996)_ (qv) released in 2000.'),
('128094',' The Hollywood mansion featured in this picture once belonged to  Paul Robeson (qv), and his East German custom piano was played  during a party scene.'),
('128095',' This documentary is featured on the Republic Pictures LaserDisc and  DVD for _Its a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv).'),
('128096',' This making'),
('128097','of documentary is featured on both the Unrated and  Theatrical Cut DVDs for _Jackass Number Two (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128098',' This promotional making'),
('128099','of is featured on the  _Jackass: The Movie (2002)_ (qv) DVD, released in 2003.'),
('128100',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for _Jaws 2 (1978)_ (qv).'),
('128101',' Nationwide, syndicated televised airings ran from Friday, July 15  through Sunday, July 24th to promote the films theatrical release  on Friday, July 22nd, 1983.'),
('128102',' This making'),
('128103','of is featured on the DVD of  _Jurassic Park III (2001)_ (qv), released in December 2001 in Region  1(USA and Canada).'),
('128104',' This making'),
('128105','of is featured on the first DVD release for  _Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)_ (qv), released in April of 2004.'),
('128106',' This making'),
('128107','of documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128108',' This making'),
('128109','of featurette is featured on the Midnite Movies DVD for  _Killer Klown from Outer Space (1988)_ (qv), released in 2001.'),
('128110',' This featurette is available on the DVD box set for the First Season  of King of the Hill.'),
('128111',' This short film is featured as an extra on the DVD of  _Rainbow Man/John 3:16, The (1997)_ (qv).'),
('128112',' It was first shown on the IFC channel in 2000.'),
('128113',' This short documentary is often shown at festivals prior to the  screening of the movie  _Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1981)_ (qv).'),
('128114',' Included on the _Tribulation Force (2002) (V)_ (qv) DVD.'),
('128115',' This making'),
('128116','of featurette is included on the 2'),
('128117','Disc Special Edition  DVD for _Lord of War (2005)_ (qv).'),
('128118',' This brief documentary is featured on the rare Best Buy bonus DVD  disc for _Man on Fire (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128119',' Documentary included on 2007 "Marie Antoinette" DVD.'),
('128120',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Midway (1976)_ (qv), released in 2001.'),
('128121',' This making'),
('128122','of is featured on the 2'),
('128123','Disc DVD for  _Miracle (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128124',' Created for the DVD release of _MirrorMask (2005)_ (qv).'),
('128125',' Created for the DVD release of _My Super Ex'),
('128126','Girlfriend (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128127',' This promotional short is available on the Two'),
('128128','Disc Set of  Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) released by Anchor Bay.'),
('128129',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _One Hell of a Christmas (2002)_ (qv).'),
('128130',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128131','Disc DVD for  _One from the Heart (1982)_ (qv).'),
('128132',' This "making of..." is featured on the 2'),
('128133','Disc Special Edition DVD of  _Planet of the Apes (2001)_ (qv).'),
('128134',' This feature'),
('128135','length documentary is featured on the Collectors  Edition DVD of _Psycho (1960)_ (qv).'),
('128136',' This making of documentary is featured on the Directors Cut DVD for  _Requiem for a Dream (2000)_ (qv), released in 2002.'),
('128137',' This documentary is featured on Ushers Rhythm City Volume One:  Caught Up DVD'),
('128138',' This short making'),
('128139','of is featured on the RoboCop Trilogy DVD boxed  set released in 2004.'),
('128140',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Runaway Jury (2003)_ (qv).'),
('128141',' This documentary is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for  _Rushmore (1998)_ (qv).'),
('128142',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Scarface (1983)_ (qv), released in 1998.'),
('128143',' This documentary is featured on the DVD edition of  _Schattenspiele (2005/I)_ (qv).'),
('128144',' This making'),
('128145','of documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Seabiscuit (2003)_ (qv).'),
('128146',' Created for the DVD release of _Severance (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128147',' This making'),
('128148','of documentary is featured on the Universal Studios DVD  release for _Silent Running (1971)_ (qv), released in 2002.'),
('128149',' This documentary is featured on both the Collectors Edition and  2'),
('128150','Disc Gift Set DVDs for _Silverado (1985)_ (qv).'),
('128151',' Available on the Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas DVD'),
('128152',' This production was edited entirely on an Avid Xpress DV 3.5 system.'),
('128153',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Sneakers (1992)_ (qv), released in 2003.'),
('128154',' Although this documentary was released for the first time in 2003,  it was produced in 2000.'),
('128155',' Featured on the  _Tegan and Sara: Its Not Fun. Dont Do It! (2006) (V)_ (qv) DVD as  well as the 2004 album So Jealous.'),
('128156',' This making'),
('128157','of... is featured on the 2'),
('128158','disc DVD of  _Speed (1994)_ (qv), released in 2002.'),
('128159',' This special was the first Star Wars material officially released to  the growing home video market in 1979 by Magnetic Video Corporation.  A later issue on the same label also features a trailer for "The  Empire Strikes Back" (1980).'),
('128160',' This documentary is featured on disc 2 of the Two'),
('128161','Disc Special  Edition DVD for _Superman II (1980)_ (qv), released in 2006.'),
('128162',' This documentary is featured on the Four'),
('128163','Disc Special Edition DVD  for _Superman (1978)_ (qv), released in 2006.'),
('128164',' This making'),
('128165','of is featured on the Ultimate Edition DVD release of  _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)_ (qv), release in 2000.'),
('128166',' This is featured on the Ultimate Edition DVD for  _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)_ (qv), released in 2000.'),
('128167',' Due to the success of the computer game, this documentary was filmed  and the VHS was packaged with the game as a bonus in 1993.'),
('128168',' This making'),
('128169','of is featured on the DVD for  _Big Lebowski, The (1998)_ (qv).'),
('128170',' Included on the 2002 DVD edition of "The Birth of a Nation" by  Eureka Video.'),
('128171',' This documentary is featured on the Limited Edition 2'),
('128172','disc DVD for  _Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)_ (qv), released in 2000.'),
('128173',' This documentary (comprised of 4 segments: "Irish Luck", "English  Love", "The Marketing of An American Independent", and "Discussing  The Crying Game") is available on the Collectors Edition DVD for  The Crying Game (1992).'),
('128174',' Included on the Hallmark Home Entertainment video of "The Echo of  Thunder."'),
('128175',' This immense documentary is featured on the laserdisc for  _Frighteners, The (1996/I)_ (qv), released in 1998 and on the  Directors Cut DVD released in 2005. The DVD contains 3.5 hours on  side 2 of the disc and the extra hour of storyboards on side 1'),
('128176',' One of the few "making'),
('128177','of" documentaries made for video that was  actually produced by the filmmakers and not the studio. It also  stands as one of the longest, running just under 224 minutes.'),
('128178',' Created for the DVD release of  _Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The (2005)_ (qv).'),
('128179',' This making'),
('128180','of is featured on the 2'),
('128181','Disc DVD for  _Incredibles, The (2004)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('128182',' Appears on the DVD of _Italian Job, The (1969)_ (qv).'),
('128183',' Due to studio agreements with The Screen Actors Guild, the  documentary is split into three parts.'),
('128184',' The interview with John Clive was shot in the Aston Martin showroom  in Park Lane, London. In the film, Clive appears as a garage manager  who returns Charlie Crokers (Michael Caine) DB4. As a backdrop, the  interview shot includes a brand new Aston Martin DB7.'),
('128185',' During interviews, members of the crew mention that the jail scenes  were filmed in Mountjoy prison in Dublin, Ireland and the producer  of the Italian job refers to it also being called Kilmainham.  Mountjoy and Kilmainham are both prisons in Ireland, Mountjoy was  and remains one of the state prisons for convicted criminals;  Kilmainham, which is five miles away, was closed in 1929 and later  converted to a museum.'),
('128186',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Jackal, The (1997)_ (qv).'),
('128187',' This feature'),
('128188','length making'),
('128189','of documentary is featured on the 4'),
('128190','disc  Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show DVD set, released in  April 2007.'),
('128191',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)_ (qv).'),
('128192',' This making'),
('128193','of is featured on the DVD for  _Diarios de motocicleta (2004)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('128194',' This documentary is available on the 2'),
('128195','disc DVD release of  _Phantom of the Opera, The (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128196',' This documentary is featured on the Special Edition DVD for  _Producers, The (1968)_ (qv), released in 2002.'),
('128197',' This making of documentary is featured on the Region 1 DVD for  _Science des rêves, La (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128198',' This title is featured on the Terminator: Special Edition DVD  released in 2000 in Region 1 (USA and Canada).'),
('128199',' This making'),
('128200','of is featured on _X Files, The (1998)_ (qv) DVD and in  the Special Edition VHS box set released in October of 1998.'),
('128201',' This featurette is available on the 2'),
('128202','Disc Collectors Edition DVD  for Tideland (2005).'),
('128203',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128204','Disc Special Edition DVD for  _Titus (2000)_ (qv).'),
('128205',' Featured on the Special Edition DVD of Tombstone'),
('128206',' This making'),
('128207','of is featured on the DVD for  _Touching the Void (2003)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128208',' This documentary is featured on the Collectors Edition DVD for  _Tremors (1990)_ (qv), released in 1998.'),
('128209',' Contained on the _Tron (1982)_ (qv) 20th Anniversary 2'),
('128210','DVD Special  Edition set.'),
('128211',' Featured on the DVD of _Vet hard (2005)_ (qv), released on 25 August  2005.'),
('128212',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Wolf Creek (2005) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('128213',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128214','disc Commemorative Edition DVD  for _World Trade Center (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128215',' Available on the region 2 DVD of _Zulu (1964)_ (qv).'),
('128216',' Lady Ellen Baker was filmed in the Dorchester Club, London, once  frequented by her and her husband, Sir Stanley Baker (qv).'),
('128217',' This making'),
('128218','of documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128219','Disc Collectors  Edition DVD for _Commitments, The (1991)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128220',' This documentary won a Gold Plaque at the 1998 Chicago International  Film and Video Festival. The films cinematographer, David  Breshears, is a world class mountain climber and filmmaker, but had  never used IMAX equipment before this film. The IMAX camera crew  were at the top of their field, but had never climbed before.'),
('128221',' An edited'),
('128222','down version of this making'),
('128223','of (cut down by approx. 55  minutes) is featured on the _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) DVD released in 2000.'),
('128224',' The original cut of this documentary (clocking in at 125 minutes) is  featured on the 1995 Laserdisc and the 2'),
('128225','disc 2005 30th  Anniversary DVD for _Jaws (1975)_ (qv).'),
('128226',' Olivia de Havilland (qv) did not take part in this documentary due  to her not wishing to be involved in any of the 50th anniversary  celebrations of _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv).'),
('128227',' Available as a bonus feature on the 2004 special edition DVD of  _Gone with the Wind (1939)_ (qv).'),
('128228',' This making'),
('128229','of documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Message, The (1976)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('128230',' The lead actress pulled out one week before filming so new  promotional artwork needed to be shot by the art department in time  for filming.'),
('128231',' This feature'),
('128232','length documentary is featured on both the Full'),
('128233','Screen  and Widescreen Special Edition DVDs for _Spider'),
('128234','Man 2 (2004)_ (qv),  as well as the DVD Gift set, all of which were released on November  30th 2004.'),
('128235',' The _Spider'),
('128236','Man 2 (2004)_ (qv) DVD was the second DVD release (after  Seinfeld) to be used under the new home video name for Columbia  TriStar Home Entertinament, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.'),
('128237',' Featured on the second disc of The French Connection: Five Star  Collection DVD released in 2001.'),
('128238',' The first actor approached for the role of Eddie Keaton was  Jim Carrey (qv), who was seen by the films casting director Julie  Seltzer and the head of music for Cannon Films (now music agent)  Richard Kraft at a comedy club in Los Angeles. Carrey turned down  the part and Judd Nelson was cast soon after.'),
('128239',' Andrew Dice Clay was cast after being seen at a comedy club by Julie  Seltzer (the films casting director) and Robert Kraft (head of  music for Cannon films) and despite his age (the part was for a high  school teenager) Clay was cast on the spot. It was also the same  comedy club where Jim Carrey was performing and was also approached  in the parking lot of the club for a role in the film and quickly  turned it down.'),
('128240',' During post'),
('128241','production, Richard Kraft, then the Head of Music for  Cannon Films and now Hollywood Music Agent, was fired because he had  uncovered a discrepancy in the music cue sheets which had literally  taken off the names and performers of the music which included the  films composer Basil Poledouris and substituted them with bogus  names (non'),
('128242','exsistant composers) for each title track, published  under a bogus copyright music company and were declared "Public  Domain" because the company did not want to pay the re'),
('128243','use fees,  which at the time were a requirement for all films and television to  be included in the film and used for future rebroadcasts on Cable TV  and network television and also because someone within Cannon Films  was taking credit for Poledouris compositions and deliberately  keeping the money for themselves.'),
('128244',' The films music budget before composer Basil Poledouris was brought  on board was a paltry five thousand'),
('128245','dollars, which was completely  used on a composer who was rejected by the producers for the  project. Soon after Poledouris was hired, Cannon films had  "mysteriously" come up with more money for the music budget.'),
('128246',' The original composer for the film was Danny Elfman, who was  suggested by Richard Kraft who was the head of music of Cannon films  at the time and was immediately rejected by the film producers to  score the film. Kraft would later become Elfmans agent along with  the late Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Basil Poledouris among  others, after he was fired from Cannon Films after this film was  completed in post'),
('128247','production'),
('128248',' A key actress dropped out at the last moment, causing frantic  rewrites, which still did not fill the entire script. Because of  this, much of the onscreen dialogue in the first third of the film  was improvised.'),
('128249',' Due to the films ultra low'),
('128250','budget, none of the actors received  salaries. They were given 1% of the films gross.'),
('128251',' Due to films low budget, nearly all locations were lobbied by  co'),
('128252','producer Karen Cruse (qv) to be free of charge, in trade for  promotion in the film. Other locations included Cruses own home  (character Dwights home in the film) and the apartment scenes were  filmed in actor James Kerrs apartment.'),
('128253',' The hotel scenes were filmed at the Comfort Inn in Lorton, Virginia.  Several of the actors were given free rooms to stay in during  filming; and filming was allowed free of charge in return for  promotion of the hotel in the film.'),
('128254',' In addition to his onscreen role as "Asspimple", production  assistant Matt Walker (III) (qv) can be seen in the background as  an extra in the very last scene.'),
('128255',' The character of "Asspimple", the young drunk, was originally  scripted to be "Tipsy", a prostitute. But at the last minute during  the filming of the jail sequence, the actress slated to play Tipsy  neglected to show up, forcing director/co'),
('128256','writer Clint Gaige to  rewrite the scene on the spot and use production assistant  Matt Walker (III) (qv) as a drunk instead. During the filming of  the scene, actor Adam Zuckerman ad'),
('128257','libbed the insult "Asspimple",  and since the name Tipsy was never used in the scene, Gaige credited  Walker as "Asspimple".'),
('128258',' The undercover FBI car (a 1997 Toyota Corolla) belonged to  production assistant Matt Walker (III) (qv).'),
('128259',' Director'),
('128260','actor Clint Gaige is seen in the final scene reading his  own novel. Production assistant Matt Walker (III) (qv) can be seen  in the background in the same scene reading the same book.'),
('128261',' Also in the films final scene, director/producer/costar  Clint Gaige (qv) is seen reading a novel which he himself wrote.'),
('128262',' The scene in the diner was largely ad'),
('128263','libbed by all the actors.'),
('128264',' In betweens takes, actor Adam Zuckerman went into a nearby pizza  deli equipped with his pellet pistol. The clerks inside the deli did  not believe Zuckerman when he said that it was a prop gun for a  movie, and called the police. The police arrived and nearly arrested  Zuckerman and all cast and crew members on the site.'),
('128265',' The car that Vittorio drives belonged to co'),
('128266','producer Karen Cruse.'),
('128267',' Director Clint Gaiges car was towed away during filming due to a  parking violation. The towing company agreed to return his car free  of charge in return for promotion in the film. The tow truck can be  seen driving under an overpass in the background during the  riverside confrontation between the guys and Vittorio.'),
('128268',' Made as a submission for the 48 Hour Film Contest. It was the first  year the Portland branch of the contest was held.'),
('128269',' Like all submissions to the Portland 48 Hour Film Contest that year,  the film had to contain four elements similar to all other  submissions that year: a sweatshirt, a recognizable Portland  landmark, a character named W. Winston, and the line, "Maybe I did,  maybe I didnt." Since that time, the landmark and the one mention  of W. Adam Winstons name outside of the credits have been removed.  The sweatshirt and the line remain.'),
('128270',' With the exception of Juliet and Aaron, the characters are named for  the actors who played the roles in the 2004 version of the film.  Captain Mansley is named for Adam J. Manley (qv), Grace is named  for Grace Carter (qv), and Matthew is named for  Matthew Baker (VII) (qv). Even Hologram Phil is named for director  Phil Guzzo (qv), who portrayed the otherwise nameless part in his  original version of this film. Most of these names, however, dont  enter into the film anywhere outside of the credits.'),
('128271',' Scriptwriter Laskos, Orestis (qv) sued by Kiki Dekoulakou, author  of In the Convent," for plagiarism. Case was dismissed but Laskos  gave credit to the author in a 1958 remake.'),
('128272',' DIRCAMEO(Alekos Sakellarios): Walking in the corridor outside  Stelios tailor shop.'),
('128273',' Mexican born actor Gael García Bernal (qv) had to be able to do a  convincing Spanish accent before Pedro Almodóvar (qv) would allow  him to get his role(s) in the movie.'),
('128274',' The movie that Ignacio and Enrique go to see at the cinema is  _Esa mujer (1969)_ (qv) starring Sara Montiel (qv) who sings the  songs "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" and "Maniquí Parisien" in this movie.'),
('128275',' The film opened the 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004. It was the  first Spanish film to ever get that honor.'),
('128276',' Pedro Almodóvar (qv) worked on the story structure for over 10  years.'),
('128277',' Pedro Almodóvar (qv) dedicated the opening night performance at  the Cannes Film Festival to those who had been killed in the  alQaeda terrorist train bombings in Madrid the previous month.'),
('128278',' Gael Garcia Bernal (qv) fired off an angry riposte to New York  Times reporter Lynn Hirschberg after she claimed that he had fallen  out with Pedro Almodóvar (qv) over filming the explicit homosexual  love scenes in the film. Bernal wanted it on record that he had had  absolutely no reservations about taking the role.'),
('128279',' Aside from perfecting a Spanish accent for the film, Mexican Gael  Garcia Bernal also had to master Spanish body language. He took  flamenco lessons to help him do that. He also studied the films of  Barbara Stanwyck and Spanish camp icon Sara Montiel, as well as  Almodovars previous leading ladies, Carmen Maura and Victoria  Abril. When asked, however, if there was a particular femme fatale  he sought to emulate, Bernals response was Alain Delons sexually  ambiguous Ripley in "Plein Soleil" (1960).'),
('128280',' Originally rated NC'),
('128281','17 in the States. An oral sex scene was blurred  to obtain an R rating.'),
('128282',' The ending of the film was only resolved in the editing suite.'),
('128283',' At the beginning of the movie, theres a poster of a fictitious film  called "La abuela fantasma" on the wall in Enriques studio (its  clearly visible when Ignacio leaves after giving his screenplay to  Enrique). "La abuela fantasma" was the original title of another  Almodovar film, _Volver (2006)_ (qv).'),
('128284',' This movie had the biggest opening in Chile for a Chilean movie.'),
('128285',' Winner of 52 Donostia San Sebastian International Film Festival,  Spain, in the official selection of "Horizontes Latinos" 2004. (best  Latino film at the festival)'),
('128286',' The film was a one'),
('128287','man effort from  writer/director/producer/cinematographer Moshe Guez (qv). The  first of its kind in Israel.'),
('128288',' The film was released soon after Israels Yom Kippur War of 1973  resulting in poor box office returns due to the nations mourning.'),
('128289',' The films stars were comprised of a beauty queen, a star soccer  player, and a convict.'),
('128290',' The filmmakers rented out a highly isolated and bare one'),
('128291','room'),
('128292','farm  to shoot the film at. After the filming the farms electrical bill  was so high that the owner was able to convince his electrical  company, who didnt know about the film, that the bill had to be a  mistake due to an electrical leak, as the farm was in the middle of  nowhere with no electrical needs of its own.'),
('128293',' For a chase scene, the director needed something threatening for the  pursuer to be holding. The actor, who was an ex'),
('128294','con ran to his back  yard and literally dug up a burried gun concealed in a sugar sack,  which was used for the remainder of the film.'),
('128295',' Unable to afford a permit to shoot on a running train between Haifa  and Tel Aviv, the director bribed the trains engineer by giving him  a role in the film. The engineer let them shoot for free on three  round trips.'),
('128296',' Film restored by Les Archives du Film, Bois dArcy, France.'),
('128297',' The featured motorcycle is a 250cc Triumph TRW Trophy.'),
('128298',' This nearly all'),
('128299','Russian war film, about the defense of the Russian  navy port of Sevastopol during WW2, had to be shot at the Georgian  Film Studio in Tblisi, to which the Leningrad directing team of  Iosif Kheifits (qv) and Aleksandr Zarkhy (qv), along with their  Russian cast and crew, had been evacuated. (Leningrad had been  surrounded and nearly wiped out by the Germans.) The language of the  script was Russian, spoken by a nearly all'),
('128300','Russian cast (with the  exception of Zura Lejava (qv), so it seems quite reasonable to  consider this a Russian rather than a Georgian film.'),
('128301',' Several reviewers consider this film to be a remake of  _Waking Ned (1998)_ (qv). Both films are set in a small remote  village, involve a man winning the lottery and dying of shock with  the winning ticket clutched in his hand, two people conspire to take  the winnings, the conspiracy expands to involve the whole village,  and a single villager attempts to reveal the conspiracy but dies in  a car accident. However director Priyadarshan claims it is "totally  and absolutely original".'),
('128302',' The PT Boat attack on the cruiser was lifted from the film  _They Were Expendable (1945)_ (qv)'),
('128303',' Sydney Greenstreet (qv)s final film.'),
('128304',' The model tram that Malcolm "built" ran on a motorbike engine, the  rest having being put together with spare parts by workers at  Preston Workshops in Melbourne, Australia. After the film was  completed, the tram was donated to the Tramway Museum Society of  Victoria.'),
('128305',' SPOILER: For the closing scenes of the three main characters in  Lisbon, only John Hargreaves (I) (qv) (Frank) was present on  location for the shot of him leaving a bank and crossing the street.  The following shot of him joining Malcolm and Judith at the cafe was  filmed in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton.'),
('128306',' In the late 1990s, a man bought a furnished house (which also  contained a lot of junk) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. To His  surprise, the garage contained the yellow getaway car from this  movie. The car had not been seen since the film wrapped.'),
('128307',' The first non'),
('128308','documentary production that was given permission to  film in Mecca.'),
('128309',' The trumpeter in the "Billie Holiday Quintet" is played by  Terence Blanchard (qv), who composed the music for the film, and  is a frequent collaborator of Spike Lee (qv).'),
('128310',' The speech that plays over the documentary footage of  Malcolm X (qv)s life near the end is read by actor  Ossie Davis (qv) who wrote and delivered the speech at Malcolms  eulogy in 1965.'),
('128311',' Spike Lee (qv) removed any mention of Louis Farrakhan (qv) from  _Malcolm X (1992)_ (qv) after receiving specific, direct threats  from him.'),
('128312',' Spike Lee (qv) urged kids to cut school to see his movie,  believing that "X" provides just as much (or more) education.'),
('128313',' The original director was going to be Norman Jewison (qv) but he  had to withdraw from the project due to outside pressure demanding  that the subject be made by a black film'),
('128314','maker.'),
('128315',' After the assassination all footage of Malcolm X (qv) is of the  real man, most of it in black and white.'),
('128316',' The Elevated Train in the opening scene in Boston are actual New  York City Transit Authority "D" type Museum cars that were built in  1927 and ran on the New York City BMT Subway Lines.'),
('128317',' The films producer, Marvin Worth (qv), had actually known  Malcolm X (qv) in real life. This was instrumental in him  acquiring the rights to tell Malcolm Xs story in 1967, though it  would take over 20 years for him to achieve that. In that time,  Worth produced his own Oscar'),
('128318','nominated documentary on the subject,  and commissioned numerous scripts, including one by  David Mamet (qv). At one point, Eddie Murphy (I) (qv) was  interested in one of the scripts. When Spike Lee (qv) came on  board, he read all the different scripts and opted for the first one  written by James Baldwin (I) (qv).'),
('128319',' The films estimated budget was $34 million. Budget battles plagued  the production from the beginning. Initially, director  Spike Lee (qv) had requested $33 million for the film, a  reasonable sum considering the size and scope of the project but far  greater than his previous budgets. Additionally, his five previous  films combined grossed less than $100 million domestically. As a  result of this (and the studios reluctance to fund black'),
('128320','themed  material), Warner Bros. only offered $20 million for a two'),
('128321','hour and  15'),
('128322','minute film, plus an additional $8 million from Largo  Entertainment for the foreign rights. When the film went $5 million  over budget, Lee kicked in most of his salary, but failed to keep  the financiers from shutting down post'),
('128323','production. Lee went public  with his battles and raised funds from celebrity friends, such as  Oprah Winfrey (qv), Michael Jordan (I) (qv), and  Bill Cosby (qv) to regain control of his embattled project. Warner  eventually kicked in more funds after a positive screening of a  rough cut.'),
('128324',' Malcolm X (qv) once worked as a porter on the railroad as shown in  the movie. Researchers for the film needed to find some equipment  that was accurate to the time period when Malcolm worked for the New  Haven Railroad. The Valley Railroad in Essex, CT was contacted for  information on a Pullman car by name (Great Republic). Valley RR had  one of the actual coaches that Malcolm X once worked on. From there  they got involved with the VRR to do shooting in Essex, CT and also  took a number of the coaches down to New York to do filming in the  city setting. The coach Great Republic had been in the process of  being restored, as the Valley RR had just obtained it from a train  collector in Stonington, CT that had it in his back yard for  decades. This coach that Malcolm once worked on, is now proudly  serving as the First Class Parlor car on the Essex Steam Train'),
('128325',' The names of the three assassins charged with Malcolm X (qv)s  murder are listed in the final credits for the film.'),
('128326',' It took almost 25 years to bring an adaptation Alex Haley (qv)s  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" to the big screen. Among the early  screenwriters was James Baldwin (I) (qv).'),
('128327',' The films 2nd unit filmed all the scenes at Mecca. Spike Lee (qv)  did not accompany them as he is not a Muslim (only Muslims are  allowed to enter the city of Mecca).'),
('128328',' James Baldwin (I) (qv)s script was written over the space of two  years and completed by Arnold Perl (qv) after Baldwins death.  Spike Lee (qv) shares on screen credit with the late Perl as  Baldwins family asked that his name not be linked with the film.'),
('128329',' Scenes of the Kennedy assassination are taken from  _JFK (1991)_ (qv). Vincent DOnofrio (I) (qv) is credited as  playing Bill Newman in the footage taken from JFK. The stand'),
('128330','ins who  played the Kennedys and the Connallys in JFK are also credited in  this film.'),
('128331',' At one point Oliver Stone (I) (qv) expressed interest in directing  this project as a follow'),
('128332','up to _JFK (1991)_ (qv); Stones first  choice was Denzel Washington (qv), who went on to star in the  title role when Spike Lee (qv) came on board as director.'),
('128333',' The video you see at the opening speech, is the beating of  Rodney King (qv). A taxi driver who became famous after his  violent arrest by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, and  was videotaped by a bystander, George Holliday (qv). The incident  raised a public outcry among people who believed it was racially  motivated.'),
('128334',' James Baldwins original screenplay for this film has been  published, under the title "One Day When I Was Lost." It begins with  Malcolm driving to the Audobon Theater, and then telling his life  through flashbacks.'),
('128335',' According to Hustler, the cast eventually became so offended by the  script they walked off the set.'),
('128336',' The film was banned in the UK in 1983 after its inclusion on the  DPPs (Department of Public Prosecutions) list of 74 video nasties.'),
('128337',' One of the characters in the film is named Larry Talbot. Lawrence  (Larry) Talbot was the name of the role portrayed by  Lon Chaney Jr (qv) in _Wolf Man, The (1941)_ (qv).'),
('128338',' TV adaptation of Portuguese the theater production "Maldita  Cocaina".'),
('128339',' Completed but never screened.'),
('128340',' Based (but altered considerably) on James Barries play, "The  Admirable Crichton." The play originally opened in London on 4  November 1902.'),
('128341',' The leopard, which Thomas Meighan (qv) is carrying in the movie,  was actually a real, living leopard. It had killed a man in a nearby  zoo, and was to be put to sleep, but De Mille refused to have it  killed. They then drugged the Leopard with chloroform, and let the  actor act out a scene, carrying the leopard on his shoulder.'),
('128342',' Paramount Pictures biggest hit of 1919.'),
('128343',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Soldiers in Siam (1922)_ (qv).'),
('128344',' The Swedish VHS release is now a hard'),
('128345','to'),
('128346','find collectors item.'),
('128347',' The movie has over 60 speaking roles.'),
('128348',' All of the off'),
('128349','screen voices, from the news report on the TV, the PA  system in the high school, and the screaming during the "hell"  sequences were done by writer/director/editors  Nick Groff (II) (qv) and Mike A. Martinez (qv).'),
('128350',' Both the number on Jimmys prison uniform and De Martinos phone  number in the movie are 867'),
('128351','5309'),
('128352',' The lead role of "Jimmy" was originally written with  George N. Thompson (qv) in mind. Thompson unfortunately couldnt  stay in Vegas, so the role was up in the air until a mere week  before filming started when Scott Brown (VI) (qv) was cast.'),
('128353',' This film was shot simultaneously with Ted V. Mikels (qv)s film  _Cauldron: Baptism of Blood (2004) (V)_ (qv) and both films share  several cast and crew members as well as a few locations.'),
('128354',' His role as Captain De Martino was the final film role for Gordon  Mitchell who died at the age of 80 before the films release.'),
('128355',' Stock footage used: The opening car chase are edited scenes from  _Corruptor, The (1999)_ (qv), while the finale (another big car  chase) was originally seen in _Marked for Death (1990)_ (qv).'),
('128356',' The horror movie B'),
('128357','Rad, Sean, and PJ are seeing at the theater is  _Valentine (2001)_ (qv)'),
('128358',' Uses stock footage in the beginning of the movie from  _Training Day (2001)_ (qv).'),
('128359',' A sign for the fictional college was placed at the Smith College  campus location the day before it was to be shot, but was stolen  that night and never recovered.'),
('128360',' The original title was "Damages".'),
('128361',' Jane Alexander (I) (qv) replaced Lauren Bacall (qv) who left  before filming.'),
('128362',' Some reference works credit Peter Lawford (qv) in the movie and,  according to the novel "Rat Pack Confidential" he was offered the  role of a shifty agent by Elizabeth Taylor (I) (qv). However he  passed out during a dinner meeting with Taylor before shooting and  was axed from the movie.'),
('128363',' This documentary is featured on the Fourth Season DVD set for  _"Angel" (1999/I)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128364',' Larry Fine (I) (qv)s autobiography contains a photograph of  Curly Howard (qv) in a deleted scene from this film. Curly had  suffered a stroke a few years earlier and had left the act. He  returned for a couple of heavily disguised cameos, including the one  in this film. He had clearly lost weight, and his face was disguised  with a huge handlebar mustache.'),
('128365',' According to The Three Stooges Encyclopedia, Curly Howard (qv)  (who left the Stooges due to a stroke several years earlier) filmed  a cameo playing a chef. This scene, according to the Encyclopedia,  has been cut from all TV prints. Other Stooges'),
('128366','related literature  fails to mention this cameo, however.'),
('128367',' The map with the clever country names ("Great Mitten", "Schmo'),
('128368','land",  "Hot Foot", etc.) appears in their earlier short spoofing  Adolf Hitler (qv), _Ill Never Heil Again (1941)_ (qv).'),
('128369',' The gag with the The Three Stooges (qv) dressed in Santa Claus  outfits, so that they may get into the palace, was used by the  Stooges 11 years earlier in _Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)_ (qv).'),
('128370',' The original actor who was to play Cpt. Ecclestone in the recreation  scenes did not arrive on set. The films director, Ingo, shaved his  beard and took over the role.'),
('128371',' DIRTRADE(Patrick, Danny (qv)): character steals breakfast'),
('128372',' DIRTRADE(Patrick, Danny (qv)): [recurring characters]: Detectives  Torks and Jones'),
('128373',' There is seven years between the original release and the REDUX  version which includes some new footage. This was achieved by use of  Make up, Wigs and Computers to make the actors match their original  appearance. Most of the new scenes were filmed against blue screen  and then digitally composted into still of the original sets.'),
('128374',' Nika McGuigan (qv) is the daughter of Barry McGuigan (qv) and  was only twelve years old when the movie was originally shot. She  now shares screen time with her younger father in the Bar scene at  the start of the movie, she was digitally composted into the scene.'),
('128375',' It was filmed in 1969 just for the German market like  _Paroxismus (1969)_ (qv). In 1973 it was realized in Italy for the  first time and immediately confiscated by the authorities. In 1975  it was realized again in Italy but after cutting all the sex scenes,  substituted by plotless judicial scenes.'),
('128376',' The film was banned on 24th July 1942 by the occupying Nazis.'),
('128377',' The studio almost replaced Jason Mewes (qv) with Seth Green (qv)  to play Jay. Kevin Smith (I) (qv) insisted that Jason Mewes (qv)  should play Jay, but the studio made Smith take auditions for the  role. Breckin Meyer (qv) also auditioned. In the end, all parties  agreed that Mewes was right for the part.'),
('128378',' Originally, William Atherton (qv) was Kevin Smith (I) (qv)s  first choice to play Jared Svenning. Atherton choose not to do it  because the film was aimed at a teenage audience.'),
('128379',' During the Batman homage as Jay and Bob escape from La Fours, the  belting attached to Kevin Smith (I) (qv) slipped. The crane  refused to start (someone had shut it off), and the key could not be  located, nearly resulting in a possibly lethal fall.'),
('128380',' Stan Lee (I) (qv) can be seen looking to his left or right  repeatedly while talking with Brodie. This is so he can see his cue  cards '),
('128381',' not being a trained actor, memorizing lines was very  difficult. Jeremy London (qv) on the other hand, despite being an  experienced actor, forgot his lines repeatedly.'),
('128382',' The book Bob is reading in the bookstore is simply a mockup, as is  the display stand '),
('128383',' the real book had not come out yet.'),
('128384',' The Wile E. Coyote style blueprints used by Jay and Silent Bob were  drawn by producer Scott Mosier (qv).'),
('128385',' Eden Prairie Center, where the film was shot, worked out perfectly  for the shooting. The there were a lot of vacant store fronts, so  the producers could set up "fake stores" for the film.'),
('128386',' While shopping, Rene Mosier (Shannen Doherty (qv)) is seen wearing  at least three different outfits. Doherty had a clause in her  contract that she could keep everything her character wore, so came  up with the plan that her character should wear everything she  bought on her shopping trip.'),
('128387',' This is the second film in Kevin Smiths intricately interconnected  View Askewniverse series (the others being _Clerks. (1994)_ (qv),  _Chasing Amy (1997)_ (qv), _Dogma (1999)_ (qv),  _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)_ (qv) and  _Clerks II (2006)_ (qv)). The movies are all linked by characters,  themes and events and each contains numerous references to the  others.'),
('128388',' During production, a TV movie (_Clerks. (1995) (TV)_ (qv)) based on  Kevin Smith (I) (qv)s film _Clerks. (1994)_ (qv) was being  filmed.'),
('128389',' DIRTRADE(Kevin Smith (I) (qv)): [cousin Walter]: One of the main  characters has a cousin Walter who is sexually odd. Brodie Bruce  (Jason Lee (I) (qv))s cousin Walter sticks cats up his ass. In  _Clerks. (1994)_ (qv), Randal (Jeff Anderson (I) (qv))s cousin  Walter broke his own neck trying to give himself fellatio. This  cousin Walter is the same person, ergo Brodie and Randal may be  cousins.'),
('128390',' Two main characters named Brodie Bruce and T.S. Quint are a  reference to _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) where there were characters called  Brody and Quint and where the shark was nicknamed "Bruce" on the  set.'),
('128391',' The picture that Silent Bob goes through at the end of the "Batman"  scene is actually a picture of Jason Lee (I) (qv)s then'),
('128392','wife  Carmen Lee (qv).'),
('128393',' In the scene where Jay and Silent Bob are hiding in the bookstore,  Bob is reading "Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: A Guided Tour  Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema" by  John Pierson (I) (qv). The book contains numerous interviews and  writings by Kevin Smith (I) (qv).'),
('128394',' T.S. picks up a Clerks hat in the fleamarket.'),
('128395',' Kevin Smith is a John Landis fan, and it is stated in his thanks  during the credits. During the scene when Brodie and Rene are having  sex in the elevator and the people are waiting outside the door, the  same song is heard that is played when Jake and Elwood are riding  the elevator to the Cook County Assesment Office in The Blues  Brothers (1980).'),
('128396',' Trisha Jones is given a $20,000 advance for her book "Boregasm" by  Pendant Publishing. Pendant Publishing is the company that Elaine  Benes works for during the first five seasons of the TV show  _"Seinfeld" (1990)_ (qv)'),
('128397',' The security guard, La Fours, is a reference to the leader of the  chasing posse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). In both  movies, the character wears the same type of hat.'),
('128398',' Ben Affleck (qv)s character is named "Shannon Hamilton".  Shannen Doherty (qv) was briefly married to  Ashley Hamilton (qv), although she did not adopt his last name.'),
('128399',' In real life, the elevator that Brodie and Rene have sex in has  glass doors, covered up for the film so the people outside couldnt  see in.'),
('128400',' Brodies shirt is the merged faces of three actors that tried out  for the part of Brodie and didnt get it.'),
('128401',' The name "Gwen Turner" is a reference to _Go Fish (1994)_ (qv)  writer/director Guinevere Turner (qv).'),
('128402',' Although Renees surname is never mentioned on screen, the cast list  gives it as Mosier, a reference to producer Scott Mosier (qv)'),
('128403',' When Renee (Shannen Doherty (qv)) runs to tell Jay and Silent Bob  that Brodie and T.S. are being arrested, Ethan Suplee (qv)  (Willam) ad'),
('128404','libs, "Brenda?" '),
('128405',' a joke reference to Dohertys  character on _"Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990)_ (qv).'),
('128406',' Brodie wears a Henry Hudson Regional shirt. Henry Hudson Regional is  the high school in Highlands, NJ where director  Kevin Smith (I) (qv) graduated.'),
('128407',' The Henry Hudson T'),
('128408','shirt Brodie is seen wearing during the Segaboy  scene is from Kevin Smith (I) (qv)s old high school, Henry Hudson  High in New Jersey.'),
('128409',' The Henry Hudson shirt worn by Brodie in the first seen is also worn  by an audience member during the show.'),
('128410',' The pass that Mr. Svenning wears around his neck is the logo of View  Askew, the films production company.'),
('128411',' Svenning was not originally supposed to be bald.  Michael Rooker (qv) was trying to dye his hair gray for a better  look, and decided that bald would work even better.'),
('128412',' Studio execs required quite a bit of language to be removed or  replaced with weaker language.'),
('128413',' Seth Green (qv) was on call, ready at any moment to fly to  Minnesota so he could replace Jason Mewes (qv) as Jay.'),
('128414',' The original beginning of the movie tested poorly and was replaced  by one that was filmed in L.A. The original beginning contained an  incident at the Governors Ball (the one mentioned by the TV execs).'),
('128415',' The US 1 Flea Market '),
('128416',' AKA "The Dirt Mall" '),
('128417',' was torn down in the  mid'),
('128418','1990s. It is now the site of a multiplex cinema.'),
('128419',' Brodies comic book collection seen in the movie was actually  director Kevin Smith (I) (qv)s collection at the time (which has  grown considerably since). The collection is what Smith was able to  purchase back after selling his original collection to finance  production of _Clerks. (1994)_ (qv).'),
('128420',' The MagicEye "sailboat" picture is actually a 4 x 3 matrix of  geometric shapes consisting of a cross, a circle, a diamond, a star,  4 segmented circles and 4 cones.'),
('128421',' DIRTRADE(Kevin Smith (I) (qv)):[star wars] Silent Bob hanging  upside down to put the video tape in the player is a reference to  the Wampa ice creature scene in  _Star Wars: Episode V '),
('128422',' The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv)'),
('128423',' DIRTRADE(Kevin Smith (I) (qv)):[star wars] After failing to see  the sailboat image, William (Ethan Suplee (qv)) wanders over to  the stage, and gives a frustrated wail while holding on to a frame.  This is a parody of a scene in  _Star Wars: Episode V '),
('128424',' The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv), in  which Chewbacca omits the same cry while holding on to a support  strut.'),
('128425',' The person laughing during the Gramercy title sequence is a cellist  in Newborn, Ira (qv)s orchestra.'),
('128426',' DIRTRADE(Kevin Smith (I) (qv)):[comic books]: Brodie is a comic  book collector; there is a comic book store in the mall; comic book  creator Stan Lee (I) (qv) appears in the movie; Brodie and T.S.  discuss Supermans sex life.'),
('128427',' The comic book that features Brandi depicts two director trademarks.  First: the fire behind her forms Jaws, and Second: she wears a  Boston Bruins hockey jersey.'),
('128428',' John Landis (I) (qv) was going to make a cameo as an irate  customer, but this was written out at the last minute.'),
('128429',' Jennifer Love Hewitt (qv) tried out for the role of Tricia Jones.'),
('128430',' When Silent Bob is placing the tape of Shannons sexual encounter  with Tricia in the VCR, the crossed out title is "Woody Woodpecker."'),
('128431',' According to the blueprints, Jay and Silent Bobs two stage trashing  operations are "Operation: Drive'),
('128432','By" and "Operation: Dark Knight".'),
('128433',' Silent Bob has only two lines in the entire movie, consisting of:  "Excitement? Adventure? A Jedi craves not these things." And: "There  was never anything good to say before."'),
('128434',' Filmed in Minnesota, down the road from _Fargo (1996)_ (qv) which  was shooting at the same time.'),
('128435',' Orginally Stan Lee was not going to have a cameo in the movie. Kevin  Smith had written a fictional Stan Lee type character for the film  but through a connection Stan Lee was asked to be in the movie and  agreed.'),
('128436',' Reese Witherspoon (qv) and Heather Graham (I) (qv) auditioned  for roles in this film.'),
('128437',' DIRTRADE(Kevin Smith (I) (qv)): [off'),
('128438','screen grab]: When Ivannah  offers to let Brodie examine her, T.S. grabs him from off camera and  pulls him out of the tent.'),
('128439',' DirTrade(Kevin Smith (I) (qv): [jaws]: T.S. was going to propose  to Brandi at Universal Studios "after Jaws popped out of the water".'),
('128440',' The scene just before the ending credits telling us what happens to  the main characters in the future is an homage to the film  _Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)_ (qv). It even uses the same  blue font for the letters that was used in Fast Times.'),
('128441',' The magic eye image that Willam struggles to see is not in fact a  sail boat. The image is a grid of random shapes. Namely a cross,  various circles, diamonds, stars and cones.'),
('128442',' Some sources include the names of Nico Pepe (qv) and  Fanny Marchio (qv) in the cast but neither appear in the credits  nor the film. Their names were indeed initially linked with the film  during the early stages of the production but both were forced to  abandon the project because of previous commitments.'),
('128443',' Raft, George (qv) was originally cast as Sam Spade. He turned it  down because it was "not an important picture," taking advantage of  a clause in his contract that said he did not have to work on  remakes.'),
('128444',' Word'),
('128445','for'),
('128446','word and scene'),
('128447','for'),
('128448','scene virtually the same as the original  novel.'),
('128449',' The Shakespeare reference that ends the film was suggested by  Bogart, Humphrey (qv).'),
('128450',' CAMEO(Walter Huston (qv)): Capt. Jacobi.'),
('128451',' DIRTRADE(John Huston (I) (qv)): Father.'),
('128452',' When he completed the screenplay, John Huston (I) (qv)  storyboarded it, allowing him the chance to give great thought to  pictorial composition and camera movement. This whole set'),
('128453','up took  two days to rehearse.'),
('128454',' Contrary to popular opinion, "Its the stuff that dreams are made  of", spoken by Bogart, is not the last line in the picture.  Immediately after Bogart says that, Ward Bond (qv), playing a  detective, says, "Huh?" making that the last line in the picture.'),
('128455',' Sam Spade refers to Wilmer as a "gunsel", a term the censors assumed  was a slang reference to a gunman. The Yiddish term "gunsel",  literally "little goose", *may* be a vulgarism for homosexual (the  word "faigle", or "little bird", is usually used in that manner). It  is more usually an "underground" term which refers to a person who  is either a "fall guy" or a "stool pigeon", in which case Spade is  making both a direct and an indirect reference to Wilmers  character.'),
('128456',' Two "Maltese Falcons" were used for the film because  Humphrey Bogart (qv) dropped the original during shooting. The  original falcon is on display in the movie museum at Warner Bros.  studios; its tail feathers are visibly dented from Bogeys flub  sixty years ago.'),
('128457',' Filming was completed in two months at a cost of less than $300,000.'),
('128458',' The revolver used to shoot Miles is correctly identified by Sam as a  Webley'),
('128459','Fosbery. All Sam says about it is, "They dont make em  anymore." Much more than that, it was an experiment to get a handgun  to automatically reload and cock itself between shots. Were  familiar with a typical semi'),
('128460','automatic pistol with a moving slide,  but this was a revolver that used its backward momentum to cock the  hammer and rotate the cylinder, readying it for the next pull of the  trigger. They are very sought after by collectors. (see also Goofs)'),
('128461',' Sydney Greenstreet (qv)s first on'),
('128462','screen appearance.'),
('128463',' Kasper Gutmans (Sydney Greenstreet (qv)) repeated phrase of "By  gad, sir..." was originally written to be "By God;" however, the  script underwent changes when it clashed with the censors.'),
('128464',' The "Maltese Falcon" itself is said to have been inspired by the  "Kniphausen Hawk," a ceremonial pouring vessel made in 1697 for  George William von Kniphausen, Count of the Holy Roman Empire. It is  modeled after a hawk perched on a rock and is encrusted with red  garnets, amethysts, emeralds and blue sapphires. The vessel is  currently owned by the Duke of Devonshire and is part of the  Chatsworth collection.'),
('128465',' The scene where Sydney Greenstreet (qv) tries to get  Humphrey Bogart (qv) to take a drink which is drugged was the  formers first time in front of a Hollywood camera.'),
('128466',' In the scene where Polhaus and Spade investigate Archers death  (over the ravine), a torn poster for _Swing Your Lady (1938)_ (qv)  (starring Humphrey Bogart (qv)) can be seen in the background.'),
('128467',' The role of Brigid OShaughnessy was first offered to 27'),
('128468','year'),
('128469','old  Geraldine Fitzgerald (I) (qv). Although the studio desperately  wanted the newcomer in the role, she turned it down flat because it  interfered with a scheduled trip to the East Coast. Other candidates  for the role included Olivia de Havilland (qv),  Rita Hayworth (qv), and Ingrid Bergman (I) (qv).'),
('128470',' At 357 pounds, 60'),
('128471','year'),
('128472','old British newcomer  Sydney Greenstreet (qv) was so large that the studio had to  specially manufacture his entire wardrobe for the role of Kasper  Gutman.'),
('128473',' The climactic confrontation scene lasts nearly twenty minutes,  one'),
('128474','fifth of the entire running time of the film. It involves all  five principal characters, and filming required over one full week  (one day '),
('128475',' 4 July 1941 '),
('128476',' was taken off).'),
('128477',' The movies line "The stuff that dreams are made of." was voted as  the #14 movie quote by the American Film Institute'),
('128478',' In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #31 Greatest  Movie of All Time.'),
('128479',' There were several 11'),
('128480','1/2" tall falcon props made for use in the  film. Some were cast of plastic resin, some of lead. Only two 45 lb.  lead falcons and two 5 lb., 5.4 oz resin falcons are verified to be  in existence today. One lead Falcon has been displayed for years at  various venues. The second, which was marred at the end of the movie  by Sydney Greenstreet (qv), was a gift to  William Conrad (I) (qv) by studio chief Jack L. Warner (qv). It  was auctioned in December 1994, nine months after Conrads death for  $398,500 to Ronald Winston of Harry Winston, Inc. At that time, it  was the highest price paid for a movie prop ever sold for. It was  used to model a 10 lb. gold replica displayed at the 69th Academy  Awards. The replica has Burmese ruby eyes, interchangeable claws  (one set of gold, one set of coral) and holds a platinum chain in  its beak with a 42.98 flawless diamond at the end. Its valued at  over $8 million. The lead and resin falcons are valued in excess of  $2 million '),
('128481',' coincidentally the value placed on the "real" Maltese  Falcon by Kasper Gutman, Greenstreets character in the 1941 classic  movie.'),
('128482',' Humphrey Bogart is outdoors and a theater in the background shows a  marquee with "The Girl From Albany" now playing.'),
('128483',' Gutman and Wilmer are referred to as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy".  These are the names used for the two atomic bombs dropped on  Nagasaki and Hiroshima respectively.'),
('128484',' John Huston (I) (qv)s first directorial effort.'),
('128485',' This documentary is included in Warner Home Videos 2006 release of  The Maltese Falcon Three'),
('128486','Disc Special Edition.'),
('128487',' Isadora Duncan (qv) is cited for comic relief, when an Arab person  leaves his long white scarf around the neck, and flying out of a  moving car, and someone cautions, him, "Be careful, Isadora Duncan  died like that."'),
('128488',' The car plate of the Arab diamond'),
('128489','smuggler has been tampered with,  so that it reads À L Á (sounding like Allah), instead of ALA.'),
('128490',' A tribute to poet Mário Dionísio is paid, when the camera lingers on  a litter box in Lisbon, where his short poem "Cidade deserta" is  printed, long enough for the viewer to read it.'),
('128491',' DIRCAMEO(Sascha Loffl (qv)): Hr. Koch'),
('128492',' In 2005, (Sascha Loffl (qv)) composed a completely new sound score  for the film.'),
('128493',' During the preproduction, a producer, thinking a book was obsolete,  asked to replace the black magic book found by prisoners by an  e'),
('128494','book.'),
('128495',' Visa dexploitation en France #104465.'),
('128496',' This movie was in release for only three days.'),
('128497',' Babes and Rickys Inn is the oldest blues club in Los Angeles.'),
('128498',' Played on KCET in Los Angeles after the season premiere and  conclusion of Martin Scorceses blues series. Also played in honor  of black history month.'),
('128499',' Premiered at 2002 Tribeca Film Festival.'),
('128500',' Ninth episode in the Boy Friends 2'),
('128501','reel comedy series'),
('128502',' The original play, "Ada Beats the Drum," opened in New York on 8 May  1930, with Mary Boland (qv) and George Barbier (qv) in the roles  of Ada and Leonard Cuppy.'),
('128503',' The actress Nabila Ebeid (qv) who appeared in this movie married  its director, Atef Salem (qv), at the time this movie was made. It  was Salem who originally discovered her and brought her into the  movie industry.'),
('128504',' This film is based on the real'),
('128505','life relationship between director  Jean Eustache and actress Francoise Lebrun (who plays Veronika).'),
('128506',' Jean Eustache wrote the role of Alexandre specifically for  Jean'),
('128507','Pierre Leaud.'),
('128508',' When it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in N.Y., Mamba advertised  itself as the first All Technicolor drama.'),
('128509',' Mambas successful opening broke all records at the Gaiety for the  first two weeks of its run.'),
('128510',' According to the authors of Forgotten Horrors, only "about 12  minutes of silent footage" remains.'),
('128511',' Banderas, Antonio (qv) couldnt speak English when this movie was  filmed, and thus performed all his lines phonetically.  Assante, Armand (qv) couldnt speak Spanish and thus performed all  his lines phonetically.'),
('128512',' Both the film and the play (which the film is based upon) are based  on Steve Galluccios own life and experiences.'),
('128513',' Kahn, Madeline (qv) was originally cast as Agnes Gooch but was  replaced right after shooting began.'),
('128514',' Even though she played Auntie Mame on stage, a part originally  performed by Rosalind Russell (qv), and had won a Tony award for  her performance in the Broadway production in 1966,  Angela Lansbury (qv) was passed over for the role of Mame.'),
('128515',' Beatrice Arthur (qv) and Jane Connell (I) (qv) reprise their  stage roles for this film version.'),
('128516',' It was originally planned to have Lucille Ball (qv)s singing  voice dubbed if her vocals were not good enough to use in the film.  Alternate vocals were rumored to have been recorded by  Lisa Kirk (I) (qv), but at any rate Ball intervened and her vocals  (a point of contention for many critics) were ultimately used.'),
('128517',' Lucille Ball (qv)s involvement in this film began in an  interesting way. She felt that Rosalind Russell (qv) had clearly  gotten some of her "inspiration" for her performance in the  non'),
('128518','musical _Auntie Mame (1958)_ (qv) from Miss Balls character on  the TV series, _"I Love Lucy" (1951)_ (qv). She then put up  $5,000,000 on the agreement that she would be considered for the  lead.'),
('128519',' George Cukor (qv) was originally slated as director, only to be  replaced with the original Broadway director, Gene Saks (qv), who  was then married to co'),
('128520','star Beatrice Arthur (qv).'),
('128521',' The first image seen of Lucille Ball, the b/w portrait seen in the  den preceding the main titles, is a shot taken during the "Open A  New Window" segment at the burlesque theatre, which takes place  later in the movie. Shes in the same dress, hat and fox wrap, and  even has her hands in a bag of popcorn.'),
('128522',' The large oil portrait of Mame is based on the painting "Emile Floge  1902" by Gustav Klimt, but with Lucille Ball (qv)s face  substituted, and a slightly different color scheme.'),
('128523',' During the line "If youll follow your Auntie Mame" in the "Open A  New Window" montage, you can see the grandfather clock in the  background with the door open. It was being used as a secret  mini'),
('128524','bar for the gag where Mame teaches Patrick how to make a  martini, but this bit was deleted from the general release.  Furthermore, she is setting aside a silver serving tray as she  begins the line, and you can see this as well, though the drink  itself is not evident. Another bit cut from the same song is a  portion of the tango in which Mame and the ladies all lean back  dramatically, supported by the gentlemen dancers, but most of that  can actually be viewed in the films trailer.'),
('128525',' Another bit of the "Open A New Window" sequence filmed but cut  depicted Mame and Patrick on a tandem bicycle in costumes that were  not used anywhere else in the film, but are often seen in publicity  shots, including here on IMDb. Similarly, Mame and Patrick were to  be seen playing her glass piano, and this is another widely  circulated publicity shot, despite being cut.'),
('128526',' During the fox hunt, most of the female riders are shown in brown  and tan riding gear. A few of these outfitted ladies are visible in  the background during the "Mame" number, but all the female dancers,  many more than were initially depicted in the hunt, are costumed in  black and white.'),
('128527',' Patrick is actually visible in the background during the early  portions of the "Mame" number. He is halfway up a tree behind the  chorus during the first verse. Then during the second verse he runs  behind the chorus to observe Beau and Mames promenade. These easy  to miss appearances are most obvious in the letterboxed version.'),
('128528',' The lyric "Well always be dear companions, My crony, My mate. Well  always be harmonizing, Orphan Annie and Sandy, like Amos and Andy!"  was cut from the "Bosom Buddies" number, though it is left intact on  the original soundtrack album.'),
('128529',' Costumes designed by Theadora Van Runkle (qv) for this movie often  turn up in other productions. The loose, flowing white gown  Lucille Ball (qv) wears during "Loving You" was worn (with a  different belt) by Suzanne Pleshette (qv) in the television movie  _Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) (TV)_ (qv), while the  stylish dress, coat and hat Mame wears when she first takes Patrick  to Ralph Devines school is worn by Jane Alexander (I) (qv) in  _Malice in Wonderland (1985) (TV)_ (qv). Currently, the red dress  from the "Its Today" number is on display at Universal Studios  Hollywoods Lucy exhibit.'),
('128530',' The interior of Mames Beekman Place apartment was built in Sound  Stage 25 on the Warner Bros. Studio lot; but the exterior of the  apartment was located on the back'),
('128531','lots "Wimpole Street," the only  exterior sets from _My Fair Lady (1964)_ (qv) that remained on the  studio lot in 1973, when "Mame" was filmed. Mames apartment was in  the same row of townhouses where the exterior of Henry Higginss  home had been filmed. The street was converted to rows of brownstone  tenements in 1981 for the musical _Annie (1982)_ (qv), produced by  Columbia Pictures, which had moved onto the Warner Bros. lot in  1972.'),
('128532',' The lyric sung by Robert Preston (I) (qv), "Loving you is rain and  winter wind" was changed to "Loving you is Rome and New Orleans" and  overdubbed, but the original lyric remained on the original  soundtrack album.'),
('128533',' Oscar Moreno (II) (qv) sprained his ankle during the fight scene.'),
('128534',' The film was shot (in Cinecittà) with both Italian and German  actors, all appearing in both versions. All German actors are bubbed  in the Italian version and vice'),
('128535','versa. The Italian version was  released in Italy in February 1940. The German version of the film,  known as "Mutter" was released in Germany in July 1941.'),
('128536',' According to Variety the plays original producer and writer, "were  broke when they first tried to put the show together and were even  snubbed by the Swedish pop group whose music formed the basis for  the show. They are now two of the wealthiest women in England."'),
('128537',' Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name. Mamma Mia! first  opened in London on April, 6th, 1999 at the Prince Edward theater.  It opened in New York on October 18th, 2001 at the Winter Garden  theater, the former home of Cats. It now has toured in over 140  cities across America. As of April 2007, Mamma Mia has open run  productions in: New York, London, Las Vegas, Madrid, Moscow,  Stuttgart, Fukuoka (opens May 19th 07) Gothenburg (opening May 9th  07) Essen, also has an US tour and an International tour traveling  to cities all over the globe. Mamma Mia! has also played in  Melburne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Utrecht, The Netherlands.'),
('128538',' Phyllida Lloyd (qv) also directed the original ‘Mamma Mia!’  Broadway Play.'),
('128539',' Mandy Moore (I) (qv), Amanda Bynes (qv), and Emmy Rossum (qv)  were all considered for the part of Sophie.'),
('128540',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Her Fathers Hat (1912)_ (qv).'),
('128541',' The film is mostly spoken in Ubalsk, a language thats totally been  made up for the film (very influenced by Russian though). Same  process as in La vis (1993) by Didier Flamand'),
('128542',' Two songs are missing from the existing prints that were in the  original release: "The Call of the South" and "Knights of the Road."  They were written by Irving Berlin (I) (qv) and sung by  Al Jolson (qv).'),
('128543',' A preserved print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television archives.'),
('128544',' Al Jolson (qv)s first film.'),
('128545',' In keeping with the films international nature, supporting roles  were filled by actors representing Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine,  Republic of Georgia, Bulgaria and The United States. Within the cast  and crew of 60, 32 members were women, 13 children, and 8 disabled.'),
('128546',' Due to lack of Russian Locations in California, Peter Polanco,  Visual Effects Model Maker was hired to create wonderful miniatures  of a 1890s Russian Village. Winner of the Thunderbird International  Film Festival 2004 Karl Malden Award of Excellence.'),
('128547',' In the scene where Chi brings the fliers over, you can see a red  balloon ascend from Yohkos head as she jumps up from the couch. It  floats a small bit towards the ceiling and vanishes.'),
('128548',' In the original Devil Hunter Yohko, Chis hair was a very light  brown, but from this installment onward, her hair is a very dark  brown, closely matching Yohkos. In some of the early production  drawings, however, Chi was shown to have blonde hair.'),
('128549',' In this installment we learn that Yohkos hair ornaments are called  "Shimi'),
('128550','Seki" and that they actually contribute to the special  abilities she can use as a Devil Hunter (such as the ability to  generate and toss beams of energy).'),
('128551',' In past installments, when Yohko made her transformation and became  a Devil Hunter, the "Chi" (or Yin/Yang symbol) always appeared over  her chest just before her dress materialized. In this installment,  however, Yohkos dress and sword have both fully appeared before the  "Chi" finally appears on her chest.'),
('128552',' With the exception of the second and third installments, no two  entries in this anime series have been produced by the same team,  resulting in slightly different character designs. The designs in  this installment are very different from previous versions and  represent a sleeker style that was becoming popular in anime at the  time.'),
('128553',' This video was released between Devil Hunter Yohko 3 and Devil  Hunter Yohko 5 and originally had no number attached to it. The  producers didnt want to make a Devil Hunter Yohko 4, because the  Japanese kanji for "4" also means "death."'),
('128554',' Aya Hisakawa, who performs Yohkos voice, wrote the song "So Bad  Boy" which she also sings.'),
('128555',' When released in Japan, a music video featuring the song "In The  Full Moonlight" followed the closing credits. When ADVision  translated the video into English, they discovered that the lyrics  were so ludicrous (one line was: "I am chewing gum") that they  rewrote the lyrics so the subtitles had no relation to what was  being said.'),
('128556',' This video was produced at the same time as a Mega'),
('128557','CD (the Japanese  Sega'),
('128558','CD) game of the same name (and starring the same character) as  a special way to promote the game. The character of Yohko had  already existed for a couple of years as a PC game character, but  the Mega'),
('128559','CD game was the only other game to ever feature her. The  anime, on the other hand, became so popular that it spawned several  direct'),
('128560','to'),
('128561','video sequels.'),
('128562',' A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives.'),
('128563',' Originally, this film was to feature Grable, Betty (qv) opposite  Benny, Jack (qv) in the role of Diana Wilson, but because of  illness she had to be replaced by Lamour, Dorothy (qv). She  recovered in time, however, to contribute a song.'),
('128564',' Thirteenth episode in the O. Henry Fox Featurette Series.'),
('128565',' The scene where Sean beats the dealer to death was cut by seven  seconds. The original scene featured the dealer spitting out teeth  and bloody pieces from his cheek. The scene was cut in order to get  the R rating and not NC'),
('128566','17.'),
('128567',' This featurette is available on the Walt Disney Treasures: The  Chronological Donald, Vol. 1 (1934'),
('128568','1941).'),
('128569',' The only available prints of this film are taken from an edited (by  about 20 minutes) post'),
('128570','WWII British retitled reissue print, which  are available on video and television. No prints of the complete,  original version are known to exist. Please check your attic.'),
('128571',' Cast almost exclusively with members of Seattles famed comedy  improv troupe "Unexpected Productions"'),
('128572',' Adams trumpet playing was actually done by Nat Adderley (qv).'),
('128573',' This movie was produced right after production of the original  _"Flintstones, The" (1960)_ (qv) series ended, and was intended as a  swan song for the characters.'),
('128574',' Henry Corden (qv), who provided Fred Flintstones (uncredited)  singing voice, also voiced several incidental characters on  _"Flintstones, The" (1960)_ (qv) and would later take over Freds  voice after Alan Reed (qv)s death in 1977.'),
('128575',' During the "Teammates" musical number, when Fred and Barneys  airplane falls apart, it becomes the "Flintstone Flyer", the  pedal'),
('128576','powered contraption featured in the very first episode of the  series.'),
('128577',' Unusually, Wilma is seen wearing a blue dress in this film rather  than her usual white.'),
('128578',' The airplane The Flintstones take to get to Paris has "Qantas" '),
('128579',' the  name of a real'),
('128580','life airline '),
('128581',' written on the side.'),
('128582',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('128583','Disc Collectors Edition DVD  for _Great Escape, The (1963)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('128584',' Average Shot Length (ASL) = 17 seconds'),
('128585',' Average Shot Length = ~4.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~4.5  seconds.'),
('128586',' Bert Kaempfert (qv)s soundtrack for this movie features the first  appearance of his most famous composition, "Strangers in the Night,"  here still without lyrics and title but clearly recognizable.'),
('128587',' The last feature film of Peter Illing (qv).'),
('128588',' The last film of Dulcie Gray (qv).'),
('128589',' This film was made as an assignment for "On the Lot" by one of the  shows first seasons finalists from Canada.'),
('128590',' A copy of this film survives at The Museum of Modern Art in New  York.'),
('128591',' A Deteriorating incomplete (Missing Reel 2, Discarded because of  deterioration)Nitrate Print of this film Survives in the UCLA Film  and Television Archives and is not Listed For Preservation and may  be lost forever if a print is not held elsewhere.'),
('128592',' 11th release in Kalems American Girl series.'),
('128593',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _They Were College Boys (1914)_ (qv).'),
('128594',' Richard Arlen (qv)s first sound film.'),
('128595',' Filmed in mid'),
('128596','1945, but nor released until 1947'),
('128597',' The last film role of Bonar Colleando.'),
('128598',' The film series was shot in 17 countries around the world and  covered every continent except for Antartica.'),
('128599',' This was intended to be another vehicle with Boris Karloff (qv) as  the mad doctor, but was shelved and not filmed until 1941.'),
('128600',' Based on the story, "The Electric Man" which Universal had purchased  for $3,300 in 1935 as a potential Karloff/Lugosi vehicle to be  titled "The Man in the Cab." The studio, in the midst of a financial  debacle at the time, shelved the project for over 5 years, assigning  the re'),
('128601','write to George Waggner (qv) (working as "Joseph West") who  re'),
('128602','tooled it as "The Human Robot."'),
('128603',' Budgeted at a mere $86,000 on a 3'),
('128604','week shooting schedule. It was the  cheapest feature film produced by Universal in 1941.'),
('128605',' This is a Hindi adaptation of George Bernard Shaw (qv)s play  "Pygmalion".'),
('128606',' A Dippy Doo Dad comedy with an all'),
('128607','animal cast.'),
('128608',' A Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('128609',' Meryl Streep (qv) was initially intended for the role of Joan  Spruance, but she withdrew when she became pregnant.'),
('128610',' The first version of the script was written in the 1970s and was to  feature Jack Nicholson (qv) and Jeanne Moreau (qv).'),
('128611',' Other pairings considered were Diane Keaton (qv) and  Jack Nicholson (qv), then Robert De Niro (qv) and  Jessica Lange (qv), and then Al Pacino (qv) and  Meryl Streep (qv), before its final incarnation of Nicholson and  Ellen Barkin (qv).'),
('128612',' A promotional photo session featuring Ellen Barkin (qv) sporting a  studded dog collar and attached to Jack Nicholson (qv)s leash had  American feminist organizations in an uproar.'),
('128613',' Jack Nicholson (qv) mainly agreed to make this film in an attempt  to revive the careers of his old friends Bob Rafelson (qv) and  Carole Eastman (II) (qv). Nicholson had worked successfully with  the two back in 1970 on _Five Easy Pieces (1970)_ (qv).'),
('128614',' No fades, dissolves or background music; the action takes place in  exactly the running time of the film.'),
('128615',' Guy Kibbee (qv) (Devins) and Virginia Sale (qv) (Miss Winkler)  are listed in studio records for acting in this movie, but were not  seen. Robert Greig (qv) is credited onscreen as Harper, a role  played by Elizabeth Patterson (I) (qv).'),
('128616',' Although the title says they are, the two men werent ever lovers.'),
('128617',' Humphrey Bogart (qv) was Charles Farrell (I) (qv)s voice coach.  He and several other actors had thought they were getting Farrells  part.'),
('128618',' Bette Davis (qv) saw "The Man Who Came to Dinner" on Broadway and  immediately wanted to play the role of Maggie, the antithesis of her  usual roles. She wanted the role desperately because she wanted to  act opposite John Barrymore (I) (qv) who was to play Sheridan  Whiteside. At her insistence, Warner Bros. tested Barrymore for the  role but his failing health and inability to remember his lines cost  him the job.'),
('128619',' Late in December 1941, the films world premiere was hosted by the  Capitol Theatre in Paragould, Arkansas '),
('128620',' the home town of star  Richard Travis (I) (qv) (aka Bill Justice), who had been one of  the theaters employees.'),
('128621',' The poem Whiteside recites ("Harriet Selsdon took an ax, gave her  father forty hacks...") is really about Lizzie Borden, who was  accused of killing her father and step'),
('128622','mother with an ax.'),
('128623',' Banjo is based on Harpo Marx (qv). Sheridan Whiteside is based on  noted theatre critic and personality Alexander Woollcott (qv).'),
('128624',' The character of Lorraine Sheldon was based on  Gertrude Lawrence (qv), and the character of Beverly Carlton was  based on Noel Coward (qv).'),
('128625',' This was Laura Hope Crews (qv)s final film.'),
('128626',' Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, who wrote the play the movie is  based on, were good friends with Alexander Woollcott, a famous  critic, radio personality, and lecturer at the time. Woollcott  requested that they write a play FOR him, but they never came up  with a plot. One day Woollcott came to visit Hart unexpectedly and  turned his house upside down, taking over the master bedroom,  ordering Harts staff around and making a general pain of himself.  When Hart told Kaufman of the visit he said "imagine what would have  happened if he broke his leg and had to stay." They looked at each  other and knew they had a play.'),
('128627',' The authors asked Alexander Woollcott if he would like to play the  part of Whiteside when the play opened on Broadway. He declined. The  authors then approached Monty Wooley who at that time was a  professor at Yale. They wrote him "would it amuse you to play the  part of Whiteside?" to which Wooley replied "it would amuse  everyone."'),
('128628',' The part of Banjo was based on Alexander Woollcotts best friend,  Harpo Marx. Harpo thought so much of Woollcott that he named two of  his children after him.'),
('128629',' Anton Diffring (qv) was second choice for Dr. Bonnet.'),
('128630',' The first film of Nigel Stock.'),
('128631',' Johnny Depp (qv) asked for golden teeth to be put into his mouth  to give more realism to his character.'),
('128632',' The scenes where the people of Paris are shown leaving town because  of Nazi occupation were shot just before the morning traffic jammed  the streets.'),
('128633',' The Place de la Concorde was used by the production as background  for some scenes. This came after several weeks of negotiation  between the director and producers of the movie, and the mayor of  Paris, since the location is rarely closed for movie production. The  scenes were shot after midnight and before 6:00 p.m.'),
('128634',' The actors/musicians that play Cesars family are members of the  Romanian music group Taraf de Haidouks.'),
('128635',' This was one of the few movies that received an "Approved"  certificate despite two violations of the production code: the  evildoers did not receive their just desserts by the end, and police  officials were not portrayed as champions of good. Frank Shaw, a  former mayor of Los Angeles, filed a $1'),
('128636','million lawsuit against  Warner Bros., claiming the corrupt mayor in the movie was modelled  after him, and that it showed he was responsible for the bombing of  a private investigator. Shaw had been voted out of office in 1938 in  a campaign against political corruption led by a civic reform group  (which had hired a private detective to investigate the mayor; it  was that detectives house that had been bombed). Warner Bros.  countered that the movie was a remake of a 1931 film, but  nevertheless Warners East Coast ad campaign for the film called it  "The Ex'),
('128637','Mayors Libel Suit Picture".'),
('128638',' Edgar Edwards (qv) (Lineman), Arthur Gardner (I) (qv) (Marges  Boyfriend) and John Harron (qv) (Second Policeman) are actors  listed with their character names in studio records, but they did  not appear in the movie.'),
('128639',' Filmed in 1970 but not broadcast until 1973.'),
('128640',' Candy Clark (qv), with a large black hat strategically pulled low  over her face, played Thomas Jerome Newton in one scene while  David Bowie (I) (qv) was ill and unavailable to work the day it  was shot.'),
('128641',' Toward the end of the film, in the record store, Bryce walks past a  display for David Bowie (I) (qv)s "Young Americans" album.'),
('128642',' The music that Oliver Farnsworth is listening to in the first scene  we see him in and in one of the last is Gustav Holst (qv)s "The  Planets".'),
('128643',' At one point Mary'),
('128644','Lou shouts to Tommy, "Tommy Can You Hear Me?"  which is a reference to the The Whos rock opera _Tommy (1975)_ (qv)  and the song of the same name.'),
('128645',' Nicolas Roeg (qv) originally wanted to cast the 610" author  Michael Crichton (qv) in the lead role of the alien.'),
('128646',' Originally intended as a vehicle for Peter OToole (I) (qv).'),
('128647',' A numbers of scenes take place at the Fort Lee studio of the World  Film Corporation with many of their players appearing as themselves  in cameo roles.'),
('128648',' Roger Moore (I) (qv) has said that the role of Harold Pelham is  his favorite.'),
('128649',' The last feature film of Edward Chapman.'),
('128650',' The assassin in the last scene is called "Venkman" '),
('128651',' a reference to  star Bill Murray (I) (qv)s character in  _Ghost Busters (1984)_ (qv).'),
('128652',' In a scene in the hotel, a character is shown watching  Amiel, Jon (qv)s earlier film, _Copycat (1995)_ (qv).'),
('128653',' After the interrogation scene in the hotel, Boris walks out of the  room to call Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin, and says: "Uri, get the rubber  sheets... and watch that man." (pointing to Bill Murray (I) (qv)s  character). "Watch That Man" is the title of the novel on which the  movie is based.'),
('128654',' This was the first feature film to be made at Elstree Studios after  the local council bought it from Brent Walker under a Compulsory  Purchase Order.'),
('128655',' The siege at the end of the film showing the police in a gun battle  is based on the real life Sidney Street siege which took place on 3  January 1911 in London.'),
('128656',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) was unaware that Peter Lorre (I) (qv),  a Hungarian, had a very limited command of the English language at  that time. Lorre learned much of his part phonetically.'),
('128657',' Peter Lorre (I) (qv)s first English language film.'),
('128658',' The title of this film comes from the name of a book written by  G.K. Chesterton (qv).'),
('128659',' The crucial cantata for the Albert Hall sequence was composed  specifically for the film by Arthur Benjamin (I) (qv), and the  same piece was used again in the 1956 remake. When  Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) remade the movie, he offered composer  Bernard Herrmann (qv) the opportunity to compose a new work for  the scene, but Herrmann chose not to, citing an appreciation of  Benjamins original cantata.'),
('128660',' The logo for Gaumont British Pictures is located on a scarf worn by  Leslie Banks (qv) during the opening scene.'),
('128661',' The dentist scene in this film was originally intended to take place  in a barber shop. However, Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) saw the film  _I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)_ (qv), in which there is a  scene exactly like it, so he changed it to a dentists office.  The film was originally intended to be another film in the Bulldog  Drummond series entitled "Bulldog Drummonds Baby". However,  Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) and writer Charles Bennett (I) (qv)  did not get the rights to use the Drummond name.'),
('128662',' Apart from the opening and end credits, there is only source music  in this film, i.e. music that can be heard by the characters, such  as dance music in Switzerland and Wapping, and the Benjamin cantata  (with the rest of the concert on the radio). There is no  underscoring music at all.'),
('128663',' DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)): in the Moroccan marketplace  watching the acrobats with his back to the camera just before the  murder.'),
('128664',' Herrmann, Bernard (qv) (the composer of the score) can be seen  conducting the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.'),
('128665',' The plot calls for a man (Daniel Gélin (qv) in the role of Louis  Bernard) to be discovered as "not Moroccan" because he was wearing  black makeup. The makeup artists couldnt find a black substance  that would come off easily, and so they painted the fingers of the  other man (Jimmy Stewart (I) (qv)) white, so that he would leave  pale streaks on the other mans skin (according to  Patricia Hitchcock (qv), this idea was suggested by Daniel Gélin).'),
('128666',' The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of  dialogue and consists of 124 shots.'),
('128667',' The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together  with four other pictures of the same period) were bought back by  Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) and left as part of his legacy to his  daughter. Theyve been known for long as the infamous "Five lost  Hitchcocks" amongst film buffs, and were re'),
('128668','released in theatres  around 1984 after a 30'),
('128669','year absence. The others are  _Rear Window (1954)_ (qv), _Rope (1948)_ (qv),  _Trouble with Harry, The (1955)_ (qv), and _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv).'),
('128670',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) previously filmed this story as  _Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)_ (qv).'),
('128671',' The movie was originally to be produced by the studio and Patron,  Inc., a company to be jointly owned by actors James Stewart" (qv)  and Doris Day (qv), along with producer'),
('128672','director  Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv). When the film finally went before the  cameras, however, the production company was Filwite Productions,  Inc., which was co'),
('128673','owned by Hitchcock and Stewart. It has not been  determined why Day was not included in the final production deal.'),
('128674',' In 1965, Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) and James Stewart" (qv) had  filed suit against Paramount for $4,000,000, arguing that their  eight'),
('128675','year agreement with the studio had ended and that Paramount  had breached their copyright by televising the film. The director  and actor also requested that the films original negative be  returned to them by the studio. The final disposition of this  lawsuit has not been determined, but the film remained out of  commercial distribution for many years.'),
('128676',' Conductor Bernard Herrmann (qv) plays himself on'),
('128677','screen. Hes not  listed as such in the credits, but his name can be seen on the  poster play bill when Doris Day (I) (qv) exits the taxi at Albert  Hall.'),
('128678',' When she first heard this films Oscar'),
('128679','winning tune "Que Sera,  Sera", Doris Day (I) (qv) refused to record it, calling it "a  forgettable childrens song." It not only won the Academy Award, but  went on to become the biggest hit of her recording career.'),
('128680',' Throughout the filming, Doris Day (I) (qv) became increasingly  concerned that Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) paid more attention to  camera setups, lighting and technical matters than he did to her  performance. Convinced that he was displeased with her work, she  finally confronted him. His reply was, "My dear Miss Day, if you  werent giving me what I wanted, *then* I would have to direct you!"'),
('128681',' It was during the making of this film, when she saw how camels,  goats and other "animal extras" in a marketplace scene were being  treated, that Doris Day (I) (qv) began her lifelong commitment to  preventing animal abuse.'),
('128682',' The crucial concert piece for the Albert Hall sequence was the same  piece composed by Arthur Benjamin (I) (qv) specifically for the  original 1934 version of the film. Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)  offered Bernard Herrmann the opportunity to compose a new work for  the scene, but Herrmann chose not to, citing an appreciation of the  original cantata.'),
('128683',' Many of the Moroccan extras had been mistakenly informed that they  would only be paid if they were actually visible in the film. This  led to a lot of pushing and shoving to get close to the camera until  the crew explained to them that they would be paid no matter what.'),
('128684',' The aeroplane shown in this film (G'),
('128685','AMOF) was a Viscount 701 owned  by BEA.'),
('128686',' The central character, Gwynplaines fixed grin and distrubing clown  like appearance was a key inspiration for comic book talents, Bob  Kane and Jerry Robinson, for creating Batmans greatest enemy, The  Joker.'),
('128687',' Lon Chaney (qv) was originally cast as Gwynplaine, but at the last  minute, he withdrew.'),
('128688',' Gwynplaines grotesque grin was achieved with prosthesis. Conrad  Veidt was fitted with a set of dentures that had metal hooks to pull  back the corners of his mouth. The only scene in which he did not  wear the prosthesis is the scene where he is ravished by the Duchess  Josiana.'),
('128689',' Steven Spielberg (qv) and Brian G. Hutton (qv) both declined  offers to direct this movie.'),
('128690',' The idea for the film came while the director was working as a  bouncer for GNER.'),
('128691',' The first draft of the script was written on ticket stubs during  night shifts at Kings Cross station.'),
('128692',' The proprietor of the Bloomsbury Café allowed the filming to take  place on his premises because the Brunswick Centre was due to be  knocked down. It has since been reprieved.'),
('128693',' The two lead actors got their hair cut 19 times over the three'),
('128694','month  shoot. During this time the director shaved once.'),
('128695',' The film stock used (Kodachrome) was traditionally used for home  movies.'),
('128696',' The bootleg version of the film and the footage for the trailer was  filmed entirely off director Ben Crowes bathroom wall using a  broken projector.'),
('128697',' Screened as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005.'),
('128698',' Officially selected at: Winnipeg International Film Festival,  Festival de Cannes, Sacramento Film and Music Festival, Edinburgh  International Film Festival, Anonimul International Film Festival,  Drifting Clouds International Film Festival, Cape Town International  Film Festival, Starz Denver International Film Festival, Alameda  International Film Festival, GNER Leeds International Film Festival,  Cork Super 8 Fringe Festival'),
('128699',' Montagu, Ewen (qv), the officer who was in charge of Operation  Mincemeat, has a small cameo role as an air marshal.'),
('128700',' Average Shot Length = ~15.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~14.4  seconds.'),
('128701',' Arliss, George (qv) and Simpson, Ivan F. (qv) played the same  roles ten years earlier in the 1922 silent version.'),
('128702',' Previously, Arliss, George (qv) had starred in the play and in the  1922 silent version of the play.'),
('128703',' This was the first movie Bette Davis (qv) made under her contract  to Warner Bros., the studio under which she did most of her best  known work of the 1930s and 40s. Her earlier six films were made  for Universal, who let her go after one year of lackluster  performances.'),
('128704',' The play, "The Silent Voice," opened on Broadway in New York City,  New York, USA on 29 December 1914 and closed in March, 1915 after 71  performances. The opening night cast included Wade Boteler (qv),  who is also in the movie.'),
('128705',' Although George Arliss (qv) is credited by that name in the cast  list, he is also credited as Mr. George Arliss above the title.'),
('128706',' Fred Howard (I) (qv), who was not seen in movie despite his  onscreen credit, is also omitted from an extensive cast list in the  New York Times review of 11 February 1932.'),
('128707',' In _Three Little Twirps (1943)_ (qv), the Three Stooges can be seen  papering over a one'),
('128708','sheet poster which advertises this film.'),
('128709',' This is a re'),
('128710','titled re'),
('128711','release of an unknown earlier film, c. 1913.'),
('128712',' Although the movie gets many of its predictions of the future wrong  (Ted Kennedy winning the 1984 Presidential election) some are very  close, especially the speculation about a massive earthquake in  California which the movie predicts will happen in 1988 but in fact  happened in 1989. Also the movie predicts that America would be at  war with the middle east and that the war would begin early in the  1990s and in fact, at the beginning of the decade the country was in  the Persian Gulf War.'),
('128713',' DIRTRADE(John Ford (I) (qv)): [cards]: Liberty Valance plays the  Dead Mans Hand (Aces and Eights) before going out to duel Ransom  Stoddard.'),
('128714',' Several reasons have been put forward for the film being in black  and white. John Ford (I) (qv) once claimed it added to the  tension, however others involved with production said Paramount was  cutting costs and so they had to make the movie on sound stages at  the studio. Without the budget restraints, Ford would have been in  Monument Valley using Technicolor stock. It has also been suggested  that since both John Wayne (I) (qv) and James Stewart (I) (qv)  were playing characters thirty years younger than they actually were  (Wayne was 54 when the movie was filmed in the autumn of 1961 and  Stewart was 53), the movie needed to be in black and white because  they would never have got away with it in color. The age difference  was particularly noticeable in Stewarts case, since he was playing  a young lawyer who had only just graduated from law school and had  moved West without even practicing law back East.'),
('128715',' At the beginning of the movie, in the scene in which  Vera Miles (qv) comes near John Wayne (I) (qv)s burned house,  the music from John Ford (I) (qv)s  _Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)_ (qv) is played.'),
('128716',' Some of the earlier scenes in the movie, particularly in the  restaurant, were apparently styled by John Ford (I) (qv) as a  mocking tribute to the films of his friend and fellow director,  Howard Hawks (qv).'),
('128717',' Tom Doniphon (John Wayne (I) (qv)) refers to Valance as "... the  toughest man south of the Picketwire," then adds, "next to me!" The  Picketwire is not a wire fence dividing line; it was slang for the  Purgatoire River, which flows into the Arkansas.'),
('128718',' First occasion of John Wayne (I) (qv) calling someone "Pilgrim".'),
('128719',' In promotional posters for the film, James Stewart appears to be  billed first; however, in the film itself, John Waynes screen card  appears first, followed by Stewarts.'),
('128720',' The last time John Qualen (qv) plays a Scandinavian character  alongside a John Wayne lead.'),
('128721',' In the scene where Stoddard is carried into the "Peters Place"  kitchen wounded, Nora (Jeanette Nolan (qv)) gives him a cup of  coffee laced with what she describes as "Akvavit, Swedish brandy" '),
('128722','  the bottle is, in fact, a quite recognizable Akvavit bottle. The  drink is found in all of Scandinavia but is largely considered to  stem from Denmark.'),
('128723',' Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not  appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names, if any): Frank Bruno (I) (qv) (Griswold),  Glen Cavender (qv) (Prisoner), Alan Davis (I) (qv) (Whitey),  Eddie Foster (qv) (Weinstein), George Kirby (I) (qv), (Roscoes  butler), Vera Lewis (qv), George Reeves (I) (qv) (Hotel clerk),  Jack Richardson (I) (qv) (Prisoner) and Cliff Saum (qv)  (Prisoner). Susan Peters (I) (qv) is also supposed to be in this  film, but she was not seen either.'),
('128724',' The script was unfinished at the start of production and was revised  throughout.'),
('128725',' The original play opened in Brooklyn, New York on 10 June 1929.'),
('128726',' Another film based on a fictionalized account of the life and legend  of lawyer William Fallon, the famous Great Mouthpiece of the roaring  20s.'),
('128727',' Steve Guttenberg (qv)s first leading role.'),
('128728',' Members of Director Bruce Mulmuths family have cameos in the film.'),
('128729',' Most of the 3'),
('128730','D scenes were shot on both green and blue screens to  go along with the actual stunts performed on the set during filming.'),
('128731',' The "invisible" liquid featured in the little glass viels is  actually Blueberry Kool Aid.'),
('128732',' The film was intended to be a Cold War espionage remake of "The  Invisible Man".'),
('128733',' Lisa Langlois (qv)s first leading role.'),
('128734',' Originally titled "The Man Who Wasnt There 3'),
('128735','D" during its  theatrical release in August 1983.'),
('128736',' William Forsythe (qv)s film debut.'),
('128737',' Steve Guttenberg (qv) did most of his own stunts for the film.'),
('128738',' Parts of the film were shot suing camera lenses that utilized 3'),
('128739','D  technology, but was mostly shot with Panavision lenses.'),
('128740',' Manniquins were used in specific scenes in which Steve Guttenberg  and Morgan Harts characters are wearing clothes to simulate their  invisible state. The manniquins were erased in post'),
('128741','production  making the look of invisiblity more authenticity. In other scenes,  Guttenberg and Hart were physically on the set acting "invisible"  and then erased in post production.'),
('128742',' In the scenes where Steve Guttenberg is invisible, he was physically  on the set reading his lines to the actors featured in the specific  scene.'),
('128743',' Coen, Joel (qv) and Coen, Ethan (qv) came up with the story  while working on _Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)_ (qv). While filming  the scene in the barbershop, the Coens saw a prop poster of 1940s  haircuts and began developing a story about the barber who cut the  hair in the poster.'),
('128744',' The movie was filmed in color, then printed in black and white by  special processing. However, at least one print was released with  the first reel in normal color due to an error at the lab.'),
('128745',' The hotel that Tolliver is staying at is called the Hobert Arms,  which is also the name of the apartment building where Philip  Marlowe lives in _Big Sleep, The (1946)_ (qv).'),
('128746',' Big Dave Brewsters store "Nirdlingers" is a reference to the  female character in James M. Cain (qv)s book "Double Indemnity".  The County Examiners name is Diedrickson, which is phonetically the  same characters name in the film version  (_Double Indemnity (1944)_ (qv)). The name in the film version is  Dietrichson.'),
('128747',' The name of Tony Shalhoub (qv)s character '),
('128748',' Riedenschneider '),
('128749',' is  a homage to the character played by Sam Jaffe in  _Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)_ (qv).'),
('128750',' Billy Bob Thornton (qv) agreed to do the movie before even reading  the script.'),
('128751',' During the scene where Ed visits his wife in prison, a photograph  of a circle is seen on the table in front of him '),
('128752',' a link both to  Circle Films, which was the company behind the Coen brothers in  their earlier films, and _Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)_ (qv)s circle  gag.'),
('128753',' Santa Rosa, California '),
('128754',' a real town, and the setting for this film  '),
('128755',' is also the setting for Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)s  _Shadow of a Doubt (1943)_ (qv).'),
('128756',' Billy Bob Thornton (qv) purposely made it look like Ed Crane had  an erection in one of the scenes where hes watching  Scarlett Johansson (qv)s character playing the piano. Only one of  the prop guys noticed during production.'),
('128757',' Jennifer Jason Leigh (qv) dubbed in the murmuring voice of the  sobbing prisoners visitor.'),
('128758',' The name of the German theoretician that Riedenschneider struggles  to remember is Heisenberg.'),
('128759',' In the scene with Ed Crane at the French piano teachers studio  (Jacques Carcanogues), the actor portraying him,  Adam Alexi'),
('128760','Malle (qv), plays the opening of the Piano Concerto #1  by Franz Liszt. This was unplanned and spontaneous during one of the  takes during shooting as the Coens were unaware that Adam was in  fact an accomplished concert pianist.'),
('128761',' John Huston (I) (qv) tried to launch the film version of "The Man  Who Would Be King" many times before completing it . It was  originally conceived as a vehicle for Clark Gable (qv) and  Humphrey Bogart (qv) in the fifties, and later as a vehicle for  Burt Lancaster (qv) and Kirk Douglas (I) (qv). When it was  considered as a vehicle for Robert Redford (I) (qv) and  Paul Newman (I) (qv), Newman suggested Sean Connery (qv) and  Michael Caine (I) (qv).'),
('128762',' Director John Huston (I) (qv) had failed to cast the role of  Roxanne before shooting started. During filming, at a small dinner  party for some cast and crew, Huston was asked if he had yet filled  the part. When he answered no, all heads turned toward  Shakira Caine (qv), the wife of star Michael Caine (I) (qv).  Huston cast her on the spot.'),
('128763',' Bouih, Karroom Ben (qv), who played the high priest Kafu'),
('128764','Selim,  was 103 years old when he made his first and only film appearance.  When he saw some of the footage he declared that now he would live  on forever.'),
('128765',' The making of feature on the DVD contains footage of  Sean Connery (qv) performing the fall from the bridge stunt. He  fell some hundred feet to the bottom of the ravine floor before his  fall was broken by a big pile of cardboard boxes.'),
('128766',' The main theme of the movie is an old Irish air "The Moreen" to  which Thomas Moore wrote the lyrics "The minstrel boy to the war is  gone." However the words sung by Daniel and Peachie are from the  Christian Hymn "The Son of God goes forth to war" by Reginald Heber.'),
('128767',' Albert Whitlock (qv) completed the matte painting of the fortress  in only six hours.'),
('128768',' Leads Connery and Caine both later sued Allied Artists for what they  felt was improper percentage profit share. They were reportedly  awarded $250K each'),
('128769',' Karroom Ben Bouih (High Priest Kafu Selim) was the night watchman of  an olive orchard near the filming location. He was hired after John  Huston accidentally met him, and told to come to the set the  following day. After he fell asleep a few times during filming, it  was discovered that he had still kept his night watchman job. Huston  had to explain to him that he didnt need that job any more '),
('128770',' the  film company would pay him enough that he could sleep at night.'),
('128771',' The words which Rudyard Kipling pens in the opening scene are the  opening lines to an actual Kipling poem, "The Ballad of Boh da  Thone". The poem contains several elements which feature in the  movie.'),
('128772',' The scene where Danny meets Roxanne is shot at the kasbah of Ait  Benhaddou, just north of the southern Moroccan city of Ouarzazate.  This site was used in Gladiator as the North'),
('128773','African arena where  Maximus first fights. Ouarzazate is known as "Moroccos Hollywood"  since many international productions '),
('128774',' such as Kingdom of Heaven and  The Hills Have Eyes '),
('128775',' were shot in the area.'),
('128776',' A special feature on the _Shaun of the Dead (2004)_ (qv) DVD.'),
('128777',' Shown at the second annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, July 2002.'),
('128778',' Written in a single night by Robert Severson (qv) and  Alex Younger (qv), based entirely on the opening quote, which was  spoken in earnest by Immanuel Guest earlier that evening.'),
('128779',' Shot on location in Megan McCauls apartment at the time, over the  course of two weekends.'),
('128780',' Vitaphone release #8369'),
('128781','8370.'),
('128782',' Mel Gibson (I) (qv) cast himself in the role of McLeod only after  he was unable to find any other satisfactory actor willing to take  the part.'),
('128783',' Mel Gibson (I) (qv)s directorial debut.'),
('128784',' Nick Stahl (qv)s feature'),
('128785','film acting debut.'),
('128786',' The poem about airplanes that McLeod gives to Chuck to read is "High  Flight" by John Gillespie Magee.'),
('128787',' The scene between Justin and Charles on the mountain overlooking the  water was filmed on Bradbury Mountain, located in Pownal, Maine.  Because of the steep fall to the water, the mountain has had, for  many years, a protective fence on the side facing the water. The  filmmakers took down the fence prior to filming and replaced it  after.'),
('128788',' The brief shot supposedly of Boston, Mass in the beginning of the  film is actually the Portland, Maine waterfront.'),
('128789',' Michael Sykora, director of the film, is actually the person walking  towards the tree in the final shot. Adrian Sykora was not there on  the day they needed to shoot the scene.'),
('128790',' One of the first films that Kirk Douglas (I) (qv) made through his  production company. The film went on to become a box office hit.'),
('128791',' The lady in the film is the directors sister.'),
('128792',' A Nitrate Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives, and is not listed for Preservation.'),
('128793',' The largest set ever built for a movie in China.'),
('128794',' It took over 20 days to shoot the battle scene.'),
('128795',' The empresss Phoenix Crown weighed 12 pounds.'),
('128796',' More than 1000 real soldiers were used in the final battle.'),
('128797',' Orson Welles (qv) used an exact duplicate of Cardinal Wolseys  official seal, as well as authentic sheepskin parchment and a quill  pen.'),
('128798',' Richard Burton (I) (qv) turned down the role of Sir Thomas More.'),
('128799',' Eira Heath (qv) considered turning her part down because it was so  tiny.'),
('128800',' Truckloads of Styrofoam were ordered to simulate a snowy landscape.  As soon as it was delivered, real snow began falling.'),
('128801',' Vanessa Redgrave (qv) refused to be paid for her cameo role as  Anne Boleyn.'),
('128802',' Norman Scace (qv) was offered a featured role but was not free  because the dates clashed with a play.'),
('128803',' Dillys Watling auditioned for a featured role.'),
('128804',' Nicholas Grimshaw (qv) was offered a featured role but confusion  over the offer meant he accepted a stage role instead.'),
('128805',' The producers originally wanted Laurence Olivier (qv) as Thomas  More and Alec Guinness (qv) as Wolsey, but director  Fred Zinnemann (qv) insisted on Paul Scofield (I) (qv) and  Orson Welles (qv) in the roles.'),
('128806',' Charlton Heston (qv) lobbied heavily for the role of Thomas More,  but was never seriously considered by the producers as a candidate  for the role. Heston would go on to play More in several stage  productions of the play and ultimately film a television production  of it in 1988.'),
('128807',' Incomplete surviving footage is at UCLA.'),
('128808',' Cliff Edwards (qv)s final major length film.'),
('128809',' The entire pantomime scene was improvised by Masak, Ron (qv) and  was filmed in one take.'),
('128810',' It was the only time in Marie, Rose (I) (qv)s career she was not  seen wearing her trademark bow in her hair... but she was wearing it  under her nuns habit.'),
('128811',' Miller, Cheryl (I) (qv), who in the film has trouble mounting and  dismounting, is actually an expert horsewoman.'),
('128812',' Production was limited to 30 days because the financing ran out.'),
('128813',' The credit card that Luther Fox uses to pay for taking Jennifer  Adler out was George Hickenlooper (qv)s own debit card. You can  read his name on screen (he has since cancelled the card).'),
('128814',' Filmed as the pilot for a TV series, but released theatrically  instead, with the main characters name changed, after changes in  cast and characters made it unusable for the series.'),
('128815',' An Australian Hip Hop group called Katalyst used many parts of  this movie for their video clip of Uprock This.'),
('128816',' The suicide of producer Humbert Balsan on 10 February 2005, prompted  director Béla Tarr to shut down production of this film, after  disputes with the other producers over a possible change in the  films financing.'),
('128817',' Harry Harvey (II) (qv) and Murdock MacQuarrie (qv) are listed as  cast members by a modern source, but they were not seen in the film.'),
('128818',' A print of this film survives in the Archives of George Eastman  House.'),
('128819',' This low budget comedy became the final film project for veteran  producer Sidney W. Pink (qv).'),
('128820',' The Bible passage being read by candle light begins at Genesis  30:27. (KJV) The passage goes on to speak about cattle and sheep and  goats.'),
('128821',' "The Man From Snowy River" was a poem written by A.B. "Banjo"  Patterson, and published in The Bulletin, 26 April 1890. The man  from snowy river is immortalized to this day on the Australian $10  note.'),
('128822',' The movie contains numerous references to A.B. "Banjo" Patterson,  besides being based on his poem. Patterson himself is a character in  the movie, as is Clancy from the poem "Clancy of the Overflow"  (Clancy also makes an appearance in the poem "The Man from Snowy  River") Harrisons wife was named Matilda. Patterson wrote the song  "Waltzing Matilda" and the melody can be heard at the very end of  the movie.'),
('128823',' Created by the same people who created The Man From Snowy River  segment of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Steve  Jefferys, the rider who opened the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening  Ceremony, and his horse Ammo, recreated their historical appearance.'),
('128824',' The original one'),
('128825','reel 1915 release was combined with three more  single'),
('128826','reel releases of the same year, also starring Tom Mix (qv),  to comprise a four'),
('128827','reel re'),
('128828','release in 1922, which is the version  currently available on video today.'),
('128829',' 15th release in Kalems American Girl series.'),
('128830',' Episode 4 of 29 of the series "Grant, Police Reporter."'),
('128831',' This unsold pilot was originally meant to be a spin'),
('128832','off of  _"Lost in Space" (1965) _ (qv) but that idea was scrapped.'),
('128833',' Bernie Kopells film debut.'),
('128834',' French production distributed in the US by Mutual. Original French  title is unknown.'),
('128835',' A Print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('128836',' The trailer gave such purple descriptives as "James Mason as the  Suspicious Husband", and "Stuart Granger as the Gay Adventurer".'),
('128837',' The last completed film in Niles, California to be released.'),
('128838',' Twelfth and final episode in the Mysteries of the Grand Hotel 2'),
('128839','reel  series.'),
('128840',' Austrian actress Nora Gregor (qv) supposedly learned English for a  role in this film, but she was not seen in the TCM print.'),
('128841',' The play opened in London, England on 22 January 1930. It opened on  Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 1 November 1930 and had  98 performances, with Leslie Banks (qv) and Isabel Jeans (qv) as  the leads.'),
('128842',' Created for and shown in the Billy Graham Pavilion at the New York  Worlds Fair 1964'),
('128843','1965.'),
('128844',' The house which Krista and Joseph Heldmann live in at the beginning  of the movie is the same house which was used in  _Sally and Saint Anne (1952)_ (qv).'),
('128845',' MGM Historical Mystery Series'),
('128846',' Three different hands were used as "undead Simons" hand in the  film; Kieran Valla (the actor), Ritchie Steven Filippi (the  director), and Rob Vornkahl (the visual effects artist).'),
('128847',' Shots had to be re'),
('128848','shot to preserve continuity when it was realized  that a character can not stab someone with their left hand... when  they dont have a left hand.'),
('128849',' The writer and director met on'),
('128850','line via the Low Budget Horror Film  Society Message Boards.'),
('128851',' An old episode of ABC TVs One Life to Live, which actor Matthew  Metzger stars in, is playing on the screen in the living room as  Deke and Darcy watch TV. The episode (from 1996) features Ritchie  Steven Filippi, the director (who is seen on screen).'),
('128852',' Unhappy with the adaptation of his play to the screen, playwright  Robert Shaw (I) (qv) had his name removed from the credits.'),
('128853',' Richard Pryor claimed to have seen the film The Man in the Glass  Booth (1975) 40 times.'),
('128854',' DeForest Kelley (qv)s first line in this film ends with, "This  mans dead, captain."'),
('128855',' Average Shot Length (ASL) = 16 seconds'),
('128856',' Peter Cushing (qv) did double duty on this film. In additional to  his own role, he would feed Louis Hayward (qv) the lines for the  split screen shots.'),
('128857',' Nearly all of the characters in this film actually existed, but none  of the characters who die in it actually died that way in real life.'),
('128858',' Alexandre Dumas père (qv), the author of the book for which this  is based, adapted his novel on a historical account of a mysterious  prisoner in the Bastille who was forced to wear a leather mask for  the two years between his imprisonment and subsequent death.'),
('128859',' Aramis statement, "I am a genius, not an engineer," is a pun in the  original French ("Je suis un génie, pas un ingénieur").'),
('128860',' Prior to 2006 all previous releases on DVD and Video were  unauthorized and incomplete.'),
('128861',' Jeffrey Tambor (qv) worked for Wolfgang Puck (qv) for a while to  prepare for his role as a chef.'),
('128862',' The cast credits at the end of the film list Jeff Scott as having  played the Stage Manager. In reality, Scott was unable to fulfill  the requirements of the role, and Trainee Assistant Director  Troy Rudolph (qv) was chosen to replace him at the last minute.'),
('128863',' Throughout the film, several crew members appear as extras in a  number of scenes.'),
('128864',' Reese Witherspoon (qv) answered an open casting call in Nashville,  Tennessee, for extras, but ended up landing one of the lead roles.'),
('128865',' Jeremy London (qv), Jason London (qv)s twin brother, filled in  for some shots in the movie, such as Dani and Courts drive into  town.'),
('128866',' Was filmed in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the oldest settlement in the  Louisiana Territory. According to a Natchitoches resident, the film  makers had a difficult time finding extras for the movie, as locals  had been burned by the producers of _Steel Magnolias (1989)_ (qv)  (also filmed in Natchitoches) only three years prior.'),
('128867',' Reese Witherspoon (qv)s film debut.'),
('128868',' The entire story is based on real events from the filmmakers life  and that of his older sister that took place in 1970 and 1959.'),
('128869',' The final film of Ella Raines (qv).'),
('128870',' Visa dexploitation en France #19691'),
('128871',' French dubbed version by Universal Films France, directed by  F.Violet, edited by L. Zwoboda, interpreted by René Arrieu(Ben  Sadler), Jean Davy(Virgil Renchler), Sophie Leclerc(Skippy  Renchler), Roibert Dalban(Ab Begley), Jean Violette(Chet Hunaker),  Jean'),
('128872','Henri Chambois(Tony Santoro).'),
('128873',' Doug Jones was originally cast in the role of Charlie, but had to  drop out last minute due to scheduling conflicts with "Pans  Labyrinth".'),
('128874',' Produced as a pilot for CBS, The Man In The Square Suit aired once  on ABC on April 15th 1966 at 8:30pm. The Original title was "Who is  Benny Goodman" it was later Knowen as "Rambling Wreck From the  Discotheque". In its only airing it bumped The Addams Family.'),
('128875',' Fifth of nine episodes in the series "Perils of the Secret Service".'),
('128876',' The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were produced  for the sound track by a tuba and a bassoon.'),
('128877',' The sounds of Strattons experiment were later set to music and  released as "The White Suit Samba".'),
('128878',' The reason John Bindon has next to no screen time in the film is  because Richard Harris had him fired in the early stages in shooting'),
('128879',' James Doohan was 11th hour casting choice he replaced two actors who  dropped out.'),
('128880',' Pat Nye was on the shortlist for the woman (Judith Furse)'),
('128881',' Among the actors considered for various roles in this project were  Nosher Powell (qv), Nicholas Smith (qv), Brandon Brady (qv)  and Jack Smethurst (qv).'),
('128882',' On the possibles list for Grace were Jennifer Daniel (qv) and  Suzzane Neve (qv). Sharon Gurney (qv) was offered the role.'),
('128883',' The islanders hunt a basking shark for its oil, but they hadnt done  so in generations. The filmmakers had to bring an Inuit hunter to  show them how to do it as their ancestors might have.'),
('128884',' Dix, Richard (I) (qv) fractured two bones during the wrestling  scene, causing a delay of a week in the production schedule.'),
('128885',' Joseph H. August (qv) was hospitalized during the last week of  filming and was replaced by Frank Redman (II) (qv) as director of  photography'),
('128886',' Billy Gray (I) (qv)s film debut.'),
('128887',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy  _Professors Hat (1910)_ (qv).'),
('128888',' The original stage production opened at the ANTA Washington Square  theater in New York City on 22 November 1965, moving to Broadway  after a short run, and eventually having a total of 2329  performances. The cast featured Kiley, Richard (qv) in the role of  Don Quixote.'),
('128889',' Conforti, Gino (qv) repeated his stage role as the barber for the  movie (a part also played briefly by Coco, James (qv) on  Broadway).'),
('128890',' The original creators of the show, Dale Wasserman (the author),  Albert Marre (the original director), and Mitch Leigh (the composer)  were all originally hired by United Artists to work on the film, but  UA were unhappy with the screen tests they made, so they were all  dismissed and director Peter Glenville was called in. But when UA  discovered that he planned to eliminate most of the songs, he was  also dismissed. UA then rehired Wasserman, and added Saul Chaplin  and producer'),
('128891','director Arthur Hiller, who retained most of the  musicals score for the film. However, the "look" of the film,  according to Chaplin, had already been largely determined by the  previous creative teams hired to make the movie. It has always  remained unclear who cast the usually non'),
('128892','singing actors (such as  Sophia Loren, who sang in the film, and Peter OToole, whose singing  was dubbed), and which creative team cast the singing actors (Julie  Gregg, Gino Conforti, James Coco, and several of the "muleteers").'),
('128893',' Peter OToole (I) (qv) recorded his vocal tracks for the film, but  realized that his own singing voice was not good enough for the  requirements of the music, so he assisted in the search for a voice  double. The man OToole picked sounded nothing like him, so a new  search was begun, and eventually Simon Gilbert (I) (qv) was  selected as the singing voice of Don Quixote, because his singing  voice sounded the most like OTooles speaking voice.'),
('128894',' All of Aldonzas songs were either slightly altered or cut. "Its  All The Same" was presented complete, but had a few of its lyrics  rewritten by Joe Darion. The song "Aldonza" had two of its verses  cut, so that the version heard in the film begins with the verse  "For a lady has modest and maidenly airs..." The second verse of the  deathbed reprise of "Dulcinea" was left out of the film, and the  song "What Does He Want of Me", which Aldonza sings (in the stage  version) after receiving Quixotes "missive", was completely  omitted.'),
('128895',' Selected as one of the Ten Best Films of 1972 by the National Board  of Review.'),
('128896',' A song called "To Each His Dulcinea" was omitted from the movie as  well. It was sung by the Padre in the stage play and featured the  lines, "A man can do quite anything, / Outfly a bird upon the wing /  Hold moonlight in his hand".'),
('128897',' Librettist Dale Wasserman omitted from the screenplay what was  apparently one of his most favorite lines from the play, uttered by  Don Quixote, "Facts are the enemy of truth."'),
('128898',' 20th episode in the "Let George Do It" two'),
('128899','reel comedy series.'),
('128900',' The episodes were: (1) The Riven Flag; (2) The Leap Through Space;  (3) The Creeping Death; (4) The Gripping Hand; (5) The Human Shield;  (6) The Height of Torment; (7) Into the Trap; (8) The One Chance;  (9) The Crashing Horror; (10) Double Crossed; (11) The Ship of  Dread; (12) The Volcanos Prey; (13) The Flood of Despair; (14) The  Living Catapult; and (15) The Rescue.'),
('128901',' Vitaphone production reel #2233.'),
('128902',' The movie was shot on weekends in fall 2002 in Echo Park, Los  Angeles. All footage was shot with a Canon GL'),
('128903','1. Sound was recorded  separately on a Tascam DA'),
('128904','P1 and synced during post'),
('128905','production.'),
('128906',' The film was then edited in Adobe Premiere and animated in Adobe  After Effects. All dialogue and foley were mixed in Pro Tools.'),
('128907',' The soundtrack was recorded and mixed one year later in fall 2003 in  Hollywood using a Pro Tools Digi 001. The soundtrack also contains  original music by Bad Vic and the Good Intentions and The Peak Show.'),
('128908',' Post'),
('128909','production continued with re'),
('128910','editing, color correction and a  final sound mix.'),
('128911',' The film was finally completed in Spring 2004 with a total budget of  $2,150.'),
('128912',' The film was screened at the Pocono Mountains film festival on July  8, 2004. The submission actually arrived there after the deadline  but after watching it they decided to include it anyway, and it was  nominated for best short. Due to the late submission it is not  listed on the website.'),
('128913',' This film starring Cagney, James (qv) as Chaney, Lon (qv) shows  Chaney making a scene in _Miracle Man, The (1919)_ (qv). That film  was based on a novel by Packard, Frank L. (qv) and its stage  adaptation by Cohan, George M. (qv), who acted in it himself (not  in the same part as Chaney, though). And in  _Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)_ (qv), Cagney had played Cohan.'),
('128914',' In a book that Jack is browsing through, it clearly shows the name  "Clarice Starling", a character from  _Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)_ (qv).'),
('128915',' Ben Archer (Thomas, Jonathan Taylor (qv)) can be seen sitting  under a tree reading a comic book based on  _Lion King, The (1994)_ (qv), which also starred Thomas.'),
('128916',' The game that Ben is playing while Jack is talking to him about the  Fourth of July camping trip is the first Wing Commander game.'),
('128917',' The bumbling, kite'),
('128918','flying man Sandy dates in the beginning of the  film is Farrah Fawcett’s real life ex, Ryan ONeal in an unbilled  cameo.'),
('128919',' Is the first movie allowed to use the full and actual name of the  University of Texas at Austin.'),
('128920',' Is the first movie to have the permission from the University to use  well'),
('128921','known UT symbols including: the UT tower (lit in orange and  white '),
('128922',' traditional lighting when a football game is won), Bevo (the  longhorn mascot), UT cheerleaders, UT band, UT spirit organizations,  and the UT Texas Exes.'),
('128923',' While filming a chase scene, a bus ended up rolling over a camera  and crushing it.'),
('128924',' The Austin GameBreakers of the North American Football League  provided the players and Coaches for the roles of the Texas  Longhorns and for the Arkansas Razorbacks in the movie.'),
('128925',' Quentin Tarantino (qv) paid a visit to the set during filming at  the stadium at the University of Texas.'),
('128926',' Nicky Katt (qv) paid a visit to the set during filming at the  stadium at the University of Texas.'),
('128927',' The "meaty" pizza the cheerleader is caught eating was made with all  vegetarian meats.'),
('128928',' This film was originally entitled "Cheer Up".'),
('128929',' Originally Tommy Lee Jones (qv)s character was to be a CIA agent  working in Virginia, but Jones thought it would be more better to  work as a Ranger in Texas, the state that he lives in.'),
('128930',' The Hex is an actual University of Texas tradition, enacted before  the annual Thanksgiving game against Texas AandM University. The  Texas AandM Aggies had their own pre'),
('128931','game tradition, the Bonfire,  but after a combination of factors caused a collapse in 1999 and  killed 12 students, the tradition officially ceased.'),
('128932',' No one involved with the film could think of an appropriate ending  until director Stephen Herek (qv) came up with one months after  the rest of the movie was shot.'),
('128933',' Scenes from the game were filmed during the Arkansas'),
('128934','Texas game in  September 2003. Arkansas won the game 38'),
('128935','28.'),
('128936',' Heather (Vanessa Ferlito) mentions that  _Full Metal Jacket (1987)_ (qv) is her favorite movie.  R. Lee Ermey (qv) who plays Captain Nichols in the film also  appeared in _Full Metal Jacket (1987)_ (qv).'),
('128937',' Teresas unseen boyfriend is named Antonio. In real life  Paula Garcés (qv), who plays Teresa, is married to a man named  Antonio Hernandez.'),
('128938',' Percys ringtone is Rick James "Superfreak". Teresas ringtone is  "Tequila" by The Champs.'),
('128939',' The pistol used by Tommy Lee Jones (qv) is not a prop, it is his  own Colt 1911 that he brought to the set after refusing to use the  prop gun.'),
('128940',' The pizza delivered to Sharp is from Mangia Pizza, an actual pizza  chain in Austin. Sharp identifies his pizza as "The Carnivore",  which is a real item from Mangias menu.'),
('128941',' When Barb appears at the rear window of the school bus, her lips  read, "Its me, Barb! Dont worry!"'),
('128942',' Location manager Diego Del Charro and still photographer Bill  Bellingham appear as extras in the scene where passengers board the  Arizona'),
('128943','bound bus.'),
('128944',' Continuity Advisor Dick Cone is seen eating soft serve ice cream in  the background of the shot where Wallace first sets eyes on Tulaire.'),
('128945',' Per instructions from editor Eric Potter, a ten'),
('128946','minute re'),
('128947','cut of the  film, titled "Fools Gold", was created by assistant editor Charlie  Nerk. The re'),
('128948','cut features various changes from the theatrically  released version of "Man of the House", including a more upbeat jazz  score.'),
('128949',' Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not  appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names, if any): Hank Mann (I) (qv) (Watchman),  Martin Faust (qv) (Hoodlum), Frank Bruno (I) (qv) (Hoodlum),  Ernie Adams (I) (qv), Frank Marlowe (I) (qv), Ray Cooke (qv)  and Nick Copeland (qv).'),
('128950',' Gary Cooper (I) (qv) was, at 56, a decade older than  Lee J. Cobb (qv) who played his "Uncle" Doc Tobin.'),
('128951',' James Stewart (I) (qv) eagerly sought the role played by  Gary Cooper (I) (qv), but since Stewart had fallen out with  director Anthony Mann (I) (qv) he did not get the part.'),
('128952',' Howard Stern (qv) was offered the lead role but had to turn it  down due his commitment to his satellite radio show.'),
('128953',' Jon Stewart (qv) is mentioned as a comedian who does political  humor. Lewis Black (qv) is a frequent correspondent on  _"Daily Show, The" (1996)_ (qv) with Jon Stewart.'),
('128954',' In one scene, playing on a TV in the background is  Billy Crystal (qv) dressed as a turkey and Robert De Niro (qv)  as a pilgrim. The clip is from a post'),
('128955','9/11 commercial to boost New  York tourism directed by Barry Levinson (I) (qv). In the ad, the  two squabble about their costumes as participants on a Macys  Thanksgiving parade float. Crystal tries to persuade De Niro to  trade outfits with him, at one point being reduced to parodying the  latter actors famous line from _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv): "Are you  gobbling at me? Are you gobbling at me?"'),
('128956',' President Kellogg and Senator Mills names are based on the names of  the cereal companies, Kellogg and General Mills.'),
('128957',' Robin Williams based his performance on a combination of his own  stand up routine and Jay Leno (qv)s.'),
('128958',' In one scene, Robin Williams says something to the effect of going  on a date with "Rachel Tensions." "Rachel Tensions" was the role  RuPaul (qv) had in  _To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)_ (qv). Robin  Williams played "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" in the film.'),
('128959',' When Laura Linney (qv) goes to get changed, from the front office  as she leaves you can see a picture of a deer. The deer is  positioned the exact same way in the poster for  _Deer Hunter, The (1978)_ (qv) in which Christopher Walken (qv)  starred.'),
('128960',' In the scene where Robin Williams (I) (qv) goes into the  laundromat to vote, the name of the facility is named Papas, the  same name of the character Robin Williams played in  _House of D (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128961',' Universal canceled the release of the DVD in Germany. This decision  followed complaints about a very poor quality of the dubbing.'),
('128962',' In a campaign discussion, Dobbs says to his helpers "Alison, Jenny,  what do you think?" This is a reference to Allison Janney (qv) who  starred in _"West Wing, The" (1999)_ (qv).'),
('128963',' Tony Scott (I) (qv) was originally slated to direct. But the  studio balked because at the time they felt he was not accomplished  enough to pull off the project. He would go on to direct the Man on  Fire (2004) (qv)_ remake.'),
('128964',' Tony Scott (I) (qv) was originally slated to direct the original  in the 1980s, but the studio balked because he had not had any hits  and they felt he was not accomplished enough to pull off the  project.'),
('128965',' Michael Bay (qv) was offered the chance to direct this movie.'),
('128966',' Antoine Fuqua (qv) was offered the chance to direct the movie, but  he was already busy with production on _King Arthur (2004)_ (qv).'),
('128967',' Robert De Niro (qv), Will Smith (I) (qv) and Bruce Willis (qv)  were offered the role of Creasy. They have all previously worked  with director Tony Scott (I) (qv).'),
('128968','  Marlon Brando (qv) was the original choice to play Rayburn.'),
('128969',' Denzel Washington (qv) was cast in this film because of a trip to  a doctor. He ran into director Tony Scott (I) (qv) in the waiting  room of a medical office and the two men started chatting. Scott had  not seen Washington in person since they worked together on  _Crimson Tide (1995)_ (qv). Scott happened to see  Dakota Fanning (qv) in _I Am Sam (2001)_ (qv) the night before and  seeing Washington made Scott think using of the two actors together.'),
('128970',' Creasys quote about arranging a meeting between the kidnappers and  God is similar to a quote falsely attributed to General Norman  Schwarzkopf. It is not clear whose work the original quote is, which  goes: "Its Gods responsibility to judge Osama bin Laden. It is our  responsibility to arrange the meeting."'),
('128971',' Just before Creasy walks into the Rave Club, the song, "Juice," by  Growling Mad Scientists can be heard. The song contains samples from  _Requiem for a Dream (2000)_ (qv). Its  Christopher McDonald (I) (qv)s character Tabby Tibbons saying,  "We got a winner!"'),
('128972',' In A.J. Quinnell (qv)s novel Dakota Fanning (qv)s character in  Italy was named Pinta. After director Tony Scott (I) (qv)s  changed the films setting to Mexico and discovered that "Pinta" is  Mexican slang for "whore", he had the name changed to "Pita" and  made her full name Lupita.'),
('128973',' Henry Bean (qv) worked on screenplay revisions.'),
('128974',' SPOILER: Christopher Walken (qv) was originally chosen for the  role of Samuel Ramoss lawyer, Jordan Kaufus, but Walken wanted to  play the role of Rayburn to break away from playing the role of bad  guys.'),
('128975',' Dakota Fanning (qv) took piano, swimming, and Spanish lessons for  her role.'),
('128976',' Dakota Fanning (qv)s first day of shooting was for the scene  where Creasy takes Pita to school for the first day.'),
('128977',' A couple of Mercedes S'),
('128978','class were bought and utterly destroyed  during filming.'),
('128979',' The kitchen scene between Creasy and Pita where she asked him about  concubines were mostly ad'),
('128980','libbed by both actors. It started when  they "accused" each other of smiling.'),
('128981',' Dakota Fanning (qv) was missing her front teeth during filming.  The film'),
('128982','makers debated whether they should add fake teeth on her  and even made them for the actress. In the end, they decided not to  use them.'),
('128983',' Dakota Fanning (qv) had a "stunt'),
('128984','burper" because she couldnt do  it.'),
('128985',' The zebra in Pitas house belonged to the real owner of the house.  It is a real stuffed zebra. There were also leopard skin rugs around  the house.'),
('128986',' The actor who played Aurelio didnt speak English at all.'),
('128987',' Writer Brian Helgeland (qv) was not really keen on writing a movie  he probably would not end up directing, so the producers told him  that Tony Scott was working on another project that he might shoot  instead of Man on Fire. In the end, that other project didnt end up  getting made, and Scott ended up directing.'),
('128988',' Writer Brian Helgeland first saw the original  _Man on Fire (1987)_ (qv) when he was renting videos in the  late'),
('128989','80s. He walked in to the video store where  Quentin Tarantino (qv) was working, and asked what was good.  Tarantino recommended _Man on Fire (1987)_ (qv).'),
('128990',' Two sex scenes were filmed but then cut. One was between Creasy and  Lisa and the other between Lisa and her husband.'),
('128991',' Denzel Washington (qv)s watch is a Casio Pathfinder 227.'),
('128992',' The guy cleaning the window of the car, early in the movie when  Creasy drives Pita back from school wears director  Tony Scott (I) (qv)s faded red baseball hat.'),
('128993',' When Creasy reads the address of Aurelio Sanchez on the piece of  paper, you can see that the street name is Via Appia. This street  doesnt actually exist in New'),
('128994','Mexico, but it obviously refers to the  ancient Via Appia road in Rome. Heavy criminals used to be crucified  by the side of that road, to make a statement towards society and  especially towards other criminals.'),
('128995',' An experimental film, never released to the public.'),
('128996',' Eleventh episode in the Mysteries of the Grand Hotel 2'),
('128997','reel series.'),
('128998',' Marlene Dietrich (qv) turned down the role that eventually went to  Gloria Grahame (qv).'),
('128999',' Filmed entirely in studio'),
('129000',' Lead actor Kevin Ice Ndelle learned and perfected his English by  watching American films.'),
('129001',' Shot entirely on location.'),
('129002',' Writer/director Christopher Baldi contracted (and recovered from)  malaria during pre'),
('129003','production in Cameroon.'),
('129004',' A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.'),
('129005',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('129006',' Producer Allen, Irving (qv) was the original director, but after  only three days of shooting, Laughton, Charles (qv) threatened to  quit if Meredith, Burgess (qv) did not take over. Laughton  directed the scenes in which Meredith appeared.'),
('129007',' There were various production problems on this picture, including  Charles Laughton (qv)s threatening to walk off the picture if the  original director, Irving Allen (qv) (who was also one of the  films producers) wasnt replaced (star Burgess Meredith (qv)  eventually replaced him as director). Allen himself was very  dissatisfied with the final results. After its initial run, he  bought the film rights back from RKO and kept the prints out of  circulation for a long time. Many believed that the film was lost,  even Meredith. However, it has been recently released on VHS and can  be relatively easily found at rental stores.'),
('129008',' Mr Wolfingers secretary is played by Carlotta Monti (qv), who in  real life was the mistress of W.C. Fields (qv).'),
('129009',' This was the last film directed by Clyde Bruckman (qv). Although  Bruckmans name appears on the credit, this film was actually  directed by W.C. Fields (qv), who took over after Bruckman had to  quit early in the shoot due to the effects of his alcoholism. This  is the only film on which Fields technically worked as his own  director.'),
('129010',' "The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze" did have a name,  contrary to popular belief: Jules Leotard. He was a former law  student who ran away from home and joined a circus as an adolescent.  Young Jules was the first performer to wear the skin'),
('129011','tight suit of  clothes that would later be named after him; he died of tuberculosis  aged only twenty'),
('129012','eight, and the man in the cartoon is obviously  modeled on him. In the song, a young man is bemoaning the fact that  Jules has just run off with his fiancée.'),
('129013',' Director Milos Forman (qv) could not decide between  Edward Norton (I) (qv) and Jim Carrey (qv) for the role of Andy  Kaufman, and left it up to the studio which went with the more  bankable Carrey.'),
('129014',' The set for Letterman, David (qv)s new show,  _"Late Show with David Letterman" (1993)_ (qv), was used to recreate  the appearance by Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler on Lettermans old  show, _"Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)_ (qv).'),
('129015',' Jim Carrey (qv) and Andy Kaufman (I) (qv) were both born on  January 17th.'),
('129016',' Two years before Man on the Moon was released, Jim Carrey (qv)  sang the Mighty Mouse theme song in _Liar Liar (1997)_ (qv). As  Andy Kaufman (I) (qv), he sang the same song while re'),
('129017','creating the  _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) skit.'),
('129018',' The title "Man on the Moon" refers to an R.E.M. song about  Andy Kaufman (I) (qv) from the album "Automatic For The People."'),
('129019',' The role of young Carol Kaufman (Andys sister) was played by Andys  granddaughter, Brittany Colonna (qv).'),
('129020',' Jim Carrey (qv)s ex'),
('129021','wife Melissa Womer has a small part as a  Comedy Store waitress in the film. She is credited as  Melissa Carrey (qv).'),
('129022',' The core cast of _"Taxi" (1978)_ (qv) played themselves, with the  notable exception of Danny DeVito (qv), who was busy playing  George Shapiro, and Tony Danza (qv) who did not get along with  Andy Kaufman (qv) at all. When DeVito was asked who would have  played his character Louie if he was playing Shapiro, he suggested  that the simplest option was to simply scratch Louie from the movie.'),
('129023',' Lorne Michaels (qv) appears as himself in scenes regarding  _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv). Michaels was depicted as the  producer of "SNL" during the infamous 1982 vote to boot  Andy Kaufman (qv) from the show. In reality, Michaels had left SNL  in 1980, and did not return until 1985. Dick Ebersol (qv) was the  executive producer at the time.'),
('129024',' The ring announcer in the movie who introduces the wrestling match  between Jerry Lawler (qv) and Andy Kaufman (I) (qv) is  Lance Russell (qv), one of the real'),
('129025','life promoters of the  historical match, as well as the ring announcer and ringside  commentator. The ringside commentator in the film is  Jim Ross (III) (qv), another important figure in the wrestling  world.'),
('129026',' Andy Kaufman (qv)s congas were sold at auction and bought by  Jim Carrey (qv) who is a major fan of Kaufman. Carrey used the  congas as part of his audition tape for Milos Forman and they appear  in the film.'),
('129027',' The real Lynne Margulies (qv) can be seen swaying with the crowd  at Andys funeral.'),
('129028',' The opening credits sequence mentioning that certain facts were  changed and some events were in a different order, was written in by  Scott Alexander (I) (qv) and Larry Karaszewski (qv) in  anticipation of fickle audience members pointing out historical  inaccuracies used for dramatic effect. They received numerous  letters from Kaufman fans regarding "mistakes" nonetheless.'),
('129029',' CAMEO:(Bob Zmuda (qv)) plays _"Fridays" (1980)_ (qv) producer Jack  Burns (the man who Kaufman gets into a fight with on the show).'),
('129030',' In the scene where Andy Kaufman (qv) performs "Mighty Mouse" on  _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), the real studio was used.  Studio 8H, which has been the home to "SNL" since 1975, was  re'),
('129031','created to look like the studio, circa 1975.'),
('129032',' Norm Macdonald (qv)s character in _"Fridays" (1980)_ (qv) was in  reality played by Michael Richards (I) (qv).'),
('129033',' When Andy is in the hall waiting to meet George Shapiro (qv)  theres a poster in the hall of George Burns (qv). Later in  Shapiros office theres a poster for _Oh, God! (1977)_ (qv) that  stars George Burns.'),
('129034',' CAMEO(George Shapiro (qv)): the club owner who fired Andy after  singing "The Cow Goes Moo".'),
('129035',' The scene in the restaurant was partially based on a short film  Andy Kaufman (qv) did called  _My Breakfast with Blassie (1983)_ (qv).'),
('129036',' David Letterman (qv) flat'),
('129037','out refused to wear a wig, any facial  prosthetics make'),
('129038','up or 1980s wardrobe to recreate his younger look.  Director Milos Forman (qv) pleaded with Letterman, that it would  help him look younger and blend in with the rest of the cast who  were all in make'),
('129039','up. But David still refused to cooperate.'),
('129040',' Jim Carrey (qv) refused to be called by his real name during the  entire production '),
('129041',' to get into the part, he insisted on being dealt  with as Andy Kaufman at all times, on and off the set.'),
('129042',' The 8x10 glossy of Comedian Bruce Smirnoff (qv) is clearly visible  behind Carrey when he is first gigging and bombing at the Melrose  Improv. Bruce was a hard luck comic who bombed for many years and  finally became a successful touring professional comedian.'),
('129043',' During filming, a story broke out that a fight ensued between  Jerry Lawler (qv) and Jim Carrey (qv) which was also played out  by Lawler on _"WWF Monday Night RAW" (1993)_ (qv) (where he  commentates). The whole story was fabricated to promote the movie.'),
('129044',' John Cusack (qv), Kevin Spacey (qv), and Hank Azaria (qv) all  auditioned for Andy Kaufman, while Nicolas Cage (qv) and  Sean Penn (qv) are rumored to have done so.'),
('129045',' The feud between Andy Kaufman (qv) and Jerry Lawler (qv) was  fabricated as a publicity stunt.'),
('129046',' Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 Best  Pictures of 2000 (at #3).'),
('129047',' A man impersonating Gary Oldman (qv) discussed the project with an  unsuspecting Danny DeVito (qv) for months and even submitted an  audition tape to Milos Forman (qv). The real Gary Oldman had  passed the role of Kaufman months earlier, and became aware of the  scam after he found his name listed as one of the actors auditioning  for the part.'),
('129048',' Available on the VHS compilation "Three Films By The Billy Nayer  Show" featuring _Billy Nayer (1992)_ (qv),  _Man on the Moon, The (1993)_ (qv) and  _Ketchup and Mustard Man, The (1994)_ (qv) (distributed by BNS  Productions, 1999)'),
('129049',' Available on the DVD compilation "The Billy Nayer Show: The Early  Years" featuring _Billy Nayer (1992)_ (qv),  _Man on the Moon, The (1993)_ (qv) and  _Ketchup and Mustard Man, The (1994)_ (qv) (distributed by Factory  515, 2003)'),
('129050',' Production completed in 1992.'),
('129051',' This making'),
('129052','of is featured on the _Man on the Moon (1999)_ (qv) DVD,  released in 2000.'),
('129053',' Filmed in 1973 but not broadcast until 1975.'),
('129054',' MGM Historical Mystery Series'),
('129055',' Adam Ropp (qv) wore the same shirt that Bret Mix (qv) wore in  the film _Last Conversation (2003)_ (qv)'),
('129056',' This film is missing.'),
('129057',' The spelling error in the title is intentional.'),
('129058',' This short comedy, produced by the Tyler Film Company and released  in 1910, features the boxing and wrestling talents of four'),
('129059','year old  Willy Sanders, as he takes on an unidentified (and unworthy) adult  challenger '),
('129060',' "Thanks, but I expected more", reads the final title as  the victorious Willy celebrates. A simple idea (and a slightly  disturbing one) and primitive in its execution, the film has the  feel of a filmed music hall act (which it may have been) '),
('129061',' the  camera remains static throughout, with long takes broken only by the  intertitles. The Jack Johnson of the title was the world Heavyweight  boxing champion of his day. Sanders was beginning a short career as  a child star, best known for a series of films as Little Willy for  the French company Éclair. Like many impresarios of the early silent  era, Walter Tyler was something of a generalist, involved in  production, distribution and equipment manufacture. One of a number  of small production houses, his company issued a variety of  comedies, travelogues (for example a series entitled Historic Spots  of Old London) and zoological films. After Tylers death in 1909,  the company split in two, with the equipment sales handled by the  Tyler Apparatus Co., while the Tyler Film Company took over the  production and distribution work.'),
('129062',' A Jewel Production. From its earliest days, Universal, lacking its  own theater chain, devised a 3'),
('129063','tiered branding system to distinguish  and market its feature product to independent theater owners: Red  Feather (low'),
('129064','budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and  Jewel (prestige productions that attempted to draw higher roadshow  ticket prices). This branding system would end in late 1929.'),
('129065',' Opening film for 55th Berlin International Film Festival on February  10, 2005 (world premiere).'),
('129066',' visa dexploitation en France #97135'),
('129067',' The only surviving copy of "A Man To Remember" is a 35mm, original  nitrate print with Dutch subtitles. It was preserved by the  Netherlands Filmmuseum in 2000.'),
('129068',' A remake of _One Mans Journey (1933)_ (qv).'),
('129069',' The film is a collection of the best scenes from three different  short films made for 48 hour film festivals. Those films are  "Tepid," "Brittle Girls Shattering Glass Bridges," and "Hollow  Porcelain Fish Chamber."'),
('129070',' None of the film was scripted and most wasnt even planned. In the  training sequence, the cast improved off each others action not  knowing what to expect from one another.'),
('129071',' The uncut version of the film is over thirteen minutes long. Several  scenes were cut to increase the chances of the film being accepted  at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Alabama. The film was  accepted and will debut there.'),
('129072',' In September 2006, the filmmakers began sending copies of the film  as mail art to random celebrities and filmmakers who still have  listed addresses. So far, copies have been sent to Avi Korine, Bill  Moseley, James Fotopoulos, Crispin Hellion Glover, Daniel Johnston  and Michael McKean.'),
('129073',' Local filmmaker and score composer Annie Brunson made her screen  debut in this film as a woman convinced there is a hemogoblin under  her house.'),
('129074',' The bird in the rat trap sequence was real. The filmmakers did not  kill the bird, however. It was actually found in a rat trap one  morning and filmed.'),
('129075',' Longest belly dancing scene ever filmed in a Hollywood production  (nearly 7 minutes)'),
('129076',' The musical love theme and composition that Tom Hanks (qv) plays  throughout the film on the violin was written by  Michael Masser (qv).'),
('129077',' The Central Intelligence game that Dabney Coleman (qv) and  Charles Durning (qv) play on each other is loosely based on Spy  vs. Spy.'),
('129078',' The powdery substance thought to be cocaine in the opening sequence  of the film is actually baking flour.'),
('129079',' David Ogden Stiers (qv) plays the conductor of the symphony  orchestra where Richard plays violin. Stiers has worked as a guest  conductor with real life symphony orchestras.'),
('129080',' When Steve Martin (I) (qv) gets the bottle of window cleaner from  the trunk of the car, the brand name is listed on the bottle, too  small and too briefly to be seen without pausing the film. If you  pause it, you can see that the label says "Pane in the Glass" window  cleaner.'),
('129081',' Steve Martin (I) (qv) drops a small note into the trunk of the car  and excitedly says that hes gotten Merv Griffin (qv)s autograph.  The note says, "Best Wishes, Merv Griffin", and it is indeed  Griffins actual autograph.'),
('129082',' The original play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 25  November 1933 and had 57 performances. Anton Stengel (qv) and  Margaret Dale (I) (qv) originated their movie roles in the play,  and the cast included Porter Hall (qv) and  Margaret Hamilton (qv).'),
('129083',' Dorothy Tree (qv) (Patsy Dowling) and Frank Darien (qv)  (Doorman) are in studio records for those roles, but were not seen  in the film.'),
('129084',' Originally titled "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Blood," producer William  Mishkin changed the title to "The Man With Two Heads" in order to  capitalize on the success of  _Incredible 2'),
('129085','Headed Transplant, The (1971)_ (qv) and  _Thing with Two Heads, The (1972)_ (qv).'),
('129086',' Val Gielgud (qv) was cast to play the man, but became ill with flu  and was replaced.'),
('129087',' British televisions first drama. It was also the first dramatic  television broadcast ever attempted anywhere in the world.'),
('129088',' The technology for recording television broadcasts did not exist in  1930 and the production was not filmed; therefore, this performance  is considered lost.'),
('129089',' Every single member of the cast and crew, including extras, is  listed in the end credits.'),
('129090',' Brando, Marlon (qv) was offered the role of Frankie Machine, but  Sinatra, Frank (qv) jumped at the opportunity and was signed  before Brando could accept.'),
('129091',' The Motion Picture Association of America originally refused to  issue a seal for this movie because it shows drug addiction. The  next year the production code was changed to allow movies to deal  with drugs, kidnapping, abortion and prostitution. The film was  eventually assigned certificate no. 17011.'),
('129092',' Except for a few exteriors on the RKO backlot, the entire movie was  shot on a soundstage'),
('129093',' A poster for director Otto Premingers Carmen Jones is prominently  featured on building across the street from saloon during opening  scene.'),
('129094',' The movies poster was as #14 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by  Premiere.'),
('129095',' Frank Sinatra (qv) is mentioned twice in Nelson Algrens 1949  novel on which the film is based.'),
('129096',' The title role was originally offered to Jack Palance (qv), before  it eventually went to Christopher Lee (I) (qv), the cousin of  Ian Fleming (I) (qv). (Fleming had previously offered Lee the  title role in _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv), the first James Bond movie.)'),
('129097',' Christopher Lee (I) (qv), who plays "the Man with the Golden Gun",  is the cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming (I) (qv),  sometimes referred to as "the Man with the Golden Pen".'),
('129098',' Francisco Scaramanga is also known as "Pistols" Scaramanga and  "Paco" (from the Spanish diminutive for Francisco) in the  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) novel, "The Man With Golden Gun". The  Scaramanga character also appears in the video game  _GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) (VG)_ (qv) in which  Christopher Lee (I) (qv) reprises his role and provides his voice.  Scaramanga is also a playable character in the multi'),
('129099','player section  of _007: Nightfire (2002) (VG)_ (qv).'),
('129100',' The idea of a "Golden Gun" in the James Bond universe predates both  the 1965 novel and movie of  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv). Ian Fleming (I) (qv)s  villain Auric Goldfinger in both the 1959 novel and then the movie  _Goldfinger (1964)_ (qv) brandished a golden pistol whilst disguised  as a military major.'),
('129101',' In the Ian Fleming (I) (qv) James Bond novels, Mary Goodnight is a  regular character like Miss Moneypenny. She is actually James Bonds  secretary or personal assistant.  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv) is the only James Bond  movie in which she appears and she is played by Britt Ekland (qv).'),
('129102',' The novel "The Man With The Golden Gun" was adapted as a comic strip  in the Daily Express newspaper in England from 10 January to 10  September 1966. It was written by Jim Lawrence (II) (qv) and  illustrated by Yaroslav Horak (qv) and has been reprinted on more  than one occasion.'),
('129103',' SPOILER: Marc Lawrence (I) (qv) who plays the gangster who is shot  by Scaramanga at the beginning of the movie also played a Las Vegas  hood in _Diamonds Are Forever (1971)_ (qv). In the James Bond  series, it is not clear whether they are indeed suppose to be the  same character or not. Lawrence is credited as Rodney in this movie  and is uncredited in _Diamonds Are Forever (1971)_ (qv) but plays a  Slumber Inc. Attendant.'),
('129104',' A shot with a Golden Gun results in a certain one shot one kill in  such James Bond video games as _GoldenEye (1997) (VG)_ (qv),  _007: Agent Under Fire (2001) (VG)_ (qv),  _007: Nightfire (2002) (VG)_ (qv),  _GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) (VG)_ (qv),  _James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (2005) (VG)_ (qv),  _James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003) (VG)_ (qv) and  _World Is Not Enough, The (2000) (VG)_ (qv). In the Nintendo 64  version of _World Is Not Enough, The (2000) (VG)_ (qv), the Golden  Gun must be assembled from the cigarette case, fountain pen and  cigarette lighter, as in this movie. Similary, a move with a Golden  Revolver also results in a guaranteed kill in the video game  _Total Overdose: A Gunslingers Tale in Mexico (2005) (VG)_ (qv).  Moreover, in the video game _Killer7 (2005) (VG)_ (qv), the hero can  utilize a Golden Gun which will in one shot exterminate all of his  adversaries. Neither  _Total Overdose: A Gunslingers Tale in Mexico (2005) (VG)_ (qv)nor  _Killer7 (2005) (VG)_ (qv) are James Bond universe video games.'),
('129105',' The golden gun was manufactured from a number of tobacco and mens  accessories such as a cigarette case, fountain pen and cigarette  lighter . During the 1950s, KGB agents were issued with miniature  one shot .22 calibre guns compacted in cigarette cases .'),
('129106',' The number of bottles of champagne that Nick Nack throws at James  Bond in the master bedroom of Scaramangas junk was twelve.'),
('129107',' James Bond likens the red wine served by Nick Nack on the island at  lunch with Scaramanga and Mary Goodnight to a 34 Mouton.'),
('129108',' The toast that James Bond makes whilst at dinner with Mary Goodnight  in Bangkok was: "To this moment and the moment yet to come."'),
('129109',' The energy crisis storyline was inspired by media stories of such  current events of the time.'),
('129110',' The name of the adult club in Hong Kong was the Bottoms Up Club.'),
('129111',' Scaramangas golden bullets which were manufactured by the Portugese  gunsmith Lazar weighed 20.003 grams. They were designed for his 4.2  mm gun and they were dum dum bullets which flattened on impact in  order to achieve the maximum wounding effect.'),
('129112',' A poster for the movie being released for Christmas 1974 promised "A  Christmas Present From James Bond". The present was, as the ad read:  "A solid gold fountain pen that screws into the body of a gold  cigarette lighter. A gold cigarette case that is snapped into place  to form a handle. A solid gold cuff link that becomes the trigger. A  single gold bullet that is placed in the chamber". The present of  course was the Golden Gun. And the posters tagline then read: "The  Man With The Golden Gun Is Ready To Assassinate James Bond".'),
('129113',' The name of the Double O agent who was killed by Scaramanga in  Beirut in 1969 was Bill Fairbanks. His code number was Agent OO2.'),
('129114',' The movies MacGuffin was a solar energy device named a Solex  Agitator. Its markings read H/220.'),
('129115',' The type of weapon that Scaramanga used to blow up James Bonds  seaplane was a Solar'),
('129116','Powered Laser Cannon.'),
('129117',' The name of Scaramangas secret island hideaway in the China Sea was  known as Scaramangas Island.'),
('129118',' The literal translations of some of this films foreign language  titles include 007 Against The Man With The Golden Gun (Brazil); The  Man With The Golden Colt (Germany); 007 And The Golden Gun (Finland)  and 007 Versus The Golden Gun (China)'),
('129119',' Vehicles featured included various American Motors cars including  two American Motors Cassini (AMC) Coupés, a red 1974 AMC Hornet X  Hatchback Special Coupé which performs the spiral loop jump and a  brown and gold 1974 AMC Matador X Coupé which became a car'),
('129120','plane  which was based on the Aerocar Internationals Aerocar or Taylor  Aerocar; a fleet of green Peninsula Hotel Rolls Royce Silver  Shadows; a Cairo Taxi; an MGB; Mercedes'),
('129121','Benz 240D; Longtail Boats  riding the Bangkok canals and waterways known as the Klongs; a  Chinese Junk belonging to Scaramanga; Republic RC'),
('129122','3 Sea Bee; and a  Hong Kong Harbour Patrol Boat.'),
('129123',' The sign at Scaramangas Solar Energy Plant read: "ABSOLUTE ZERO  must be maintained to prevent prompt criticality".'),
('129124',' The Bangkok canals and waterways seen in this movie are known as the  Klongs.'),
('129125',' Was originally meant to be shot in the Iranian city of Bam, but the  location was changed to South East Asia when it proved impossible to  shoot in Bam.'),
('129126',' The name of the casino was the Casino de Macao.'),
('129127',' The number put on the golden bullet sent by Scaramanga to James Bond  via British Intelligence was OO7.'),
('129128',' Hai Fats business was called Hai Fat Enterprises. The girl seen at  Hai Fats swimming'),
('129129','pool was called Chew Me.'),
('129130',' The brand of sparkling white wine that James Bond and Mary Goodnight  have at dinner in Bangkok was a Phuyuck 74. The wine bottles label  says that it is manufactured by Anand Products Co. Ltd. of Bangkok,  Thailand.'),
('129131',' Scaramangas proverb he quoted was: "A mistress cannot serve two  masters."'),
('129132',' The name of the company running the boat journey across Kowloon  Harbour was The Hong Kong '),
('129133',' Macao Hydrofoil Co. Ltd. The name of  this companys hydrofoil that James Bond and Andrea Anders take a  boat ride on was the Flying Sandpiper.'),
('129134',' In the movie, the golden gun fires single shot 23 carat 4.2 mm  golden bullets with nickel trace elements whereas in the  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) novel of the same name, the golden gun is  just a gold plated .45 caliber Colt 45 revolver that fires silver  jacketed solid gold bullets.'),
('129135',' "The Man With The Golden Gun" was the thirteenth and final complete  James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming (I) (qv). It was the first  and only one of his full James Bond novels to be published  posthumously. Some sources claim that it was unfinished at the time  of his death whereas other experts such as Andrew Lycett (qv) and  John Cork (qv) maintain that Fleming had completed it before he  died. It is of controversial debate as to whether Fleming wrote the  novel completely himself or whether other(s) were involved.'),
('129136',' The source of the name "Scaramanga" originates in the name of a man  that James Bond creator Ian Fleming (I) (qv) knew called Pandia  Scaramanga. He had met him and stayed at his house on the island of  Hydra in the Greek isles. Reportedly, Fleming sought permission from  him to use his surname, indicating that he would be James Bonds  adversary in "The Man With The Golden Gun". The real Scaramanga  apparently responded: "I certainly do not mind you using my name but  please do not to kill me."'),
('129137',' The license plate number of the Hong Kong Peninsula Hotel Green  Rolls Royce that escorts Scaramanga and Andrea Anders is AU 603.'),
('129138',' The "AU" part of Scaramangas Rolls Royce license plate is the  chemical element abbreviation for "Gold" (from the Latin: "AUrum").'),
('129139',' According to British production designer, Peter Murton (qv), the  sequence where Scaramangas car transforms into a light airplane was  accomplished in the editing room. Wings were attached to the actual  car and a stuntman drove the carplane to the runway. At this point  the film editor simply cut to a radio'),
('129140','controlled model built by  John Stears (qv).'),
('129141',' Last James Bond movie to be directed by Guy Hamilton (I) (qv).'),
('129142',' This is the James Bond movie which it is said that the partnership  between Harry Saltzman (qv) and Albert R. Broccoli (qv) is said  to have deteriorated. Roger Moore (I) (qv) has said in his DVD  audio'),
('129143','commentary that this predominantly occurred behind closed  doors.'),
('129144',' In earlier versions of the script, the character of Nick Nack played  by Hervé Villechaize (qv) was originally called Demi Tasse and Hai  Fat had a business partner called Lo Fat, a character which was  scrapped.'),
('129145',' The spectacular corkscrew car jump over a canal was performed by  stuntman Bumps Williard (qv) in just one take.'),
('129146',' The 360'),
('129147','degree car'),
('129148','spiraling jump over a canal was performed by  uncredited British stuntman Bumps Williard (qv) as 8 cameras  simultaneously captured the spectacle. So potentially hazardous was  nature of the stunt, divers, ambulances and cranes were on standby  alert in case of any catastrophic consequences.'),
('129149',' Scaramangas golden gun was a hybrid concoction designed and  constructed by special effects wizard John Stears (qv).'),
('129150',' The car Mary Goodnight drives up in is an MG '),
('129151',' the initials to her  name.'),
('129152',' According to the  _Inside The Man with the Golden Gun (2000) (V)_ (qv) documentary  on the DVD version of this movie, during production on the fifth  James Bond film _You Only Live Twice (1967)_ (qv), producers  Albert R. Broccoli (qv) and Harry Saltzman (qv) had originally  intended for this film to be the sixth entry in the Bond series. It  was to be shot in Cambodia and Roger Moore (I) (qv) was considered  to fill Sean Connery (qv)s shoes as the second James Bond.  However, the Vietnam War caused the producers to change plans and  pick _On Her Majestys Secret Service (1969)_ (qv) as the sixth Bond  film instead.'),
('129153',' Ekland, Britt (qv) auditioned for the role of Scaramangas  mistress, but director Hamilton, Guy (I) (qv) offered her the role  of Mary Goodnight after seeing her in a bikini.'),
('129154',' J W Pepper (Clifton James (qv)) is a sheriff from Louisiana that  James Bond met in _Live and Let Die (1973)_ (qv). While chasing  Scaramanga, Bond teams up with Pepper, who is on holidays in  Thailand. Apparently, when Pepper first sees Bond riding past in a  boat, the music from _Live and Let Die (1973)_ (qv) can be heard.'),
('129155',' The spiral "Javelin Jump" was performed by a modified 1974 Hornet X:  special suspension, a six cylinder engine (for reduced weight),  centered steering wheel, and a special fuel system to stop the car  stalling when turning over.'),
('129156',' Alice Cooper (I) (qv)s "Muscle of Love" album has a song "Man  With the Golden Gun" on it. The CD version includes notes claiming  it was to be the theme song of the movie, but the producers  chickened out.'),
('129157',' First James Bond movie to be shown at the Kremlin. According to  Roger Moore (I) (qv) in his audio commentary, apparently when the  movie had finished, one Russian official turned around and said we  didnt train him [Scaramanga] very well. The Scaramanga character in  the James Bond universe was recruited by and acted as a hit'),
('129158','man for  the KGB.'),
('129159',' This is the last Bond film to be shot/shown in a 1.85:1 aspect  ratio.'),
('129160',' The spectacular spiral car stunt was shown in slow motion in the  movie because it went too quickly.'),
('129161',' Harry Saltzman (qv) sold his shares of 007 to alleviate the very  large financial difficulties he was in. He sold his 50% share in the  Bond franchise to United Artists.'),
('129162',' This movie sees two Swedish actresses: Maud Adams (qv)  (Scaramangas mistress) and Britt Ekland (qv) (Mary Goodnight).  Adams would later star in _Octopussy (1983)_ (qv) (as the title  character) with two other Swedish actresses (Kristina Wayborn (qv)  and Mary Stavin (qv)) and appear yet again in  _View to a Kill, A (1985)_ (qv) as an extra. On top of that, Stavin  also makes an appearance in _View to a Kill, A (1985)_ (qv).'),
('129163',' Harry Saltzman (qv) wanted an elephant stampede in the movie so  Bond and Scaramanga could chase each other on elephant back. The  rest of the creative team balked at the idea, but Saltzman went to  see an elephant trainer. It turns out that elephants need a special  shoe on their feet to protect them from rough surfaces when they  work. A few months later, while filming in Thailand,  Albert R. Broccoli (qv) got a call saying his elephant shoes were  ready. Saltzman had ordered about 2,600 pairs of them. The sequence  was not in the movie, but the man who made the shoe had not been  paid. As of 1990, EON production still owed him.'),
('129164',' The driver that performed the loop'),
('129165','jump was given a large bonus for  completing the jump on the first take. The jump is also credited  with being the first stunt ever to be calculated by computer  modelling.'),
('129166',' Last Bond film to be co'),
('129167','produced by Harry Saltzman (qv).'),
('129168',' One of the lowest'),
('129169','grossing Bond films. That fact, combined with  behind'),
('129170','the'),
('129171','scenes problems, nearly made this the final Bond film,  and delayed production of the next entry in the series,  _Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977)_ (qv).'),
('129172',' Final film of Richard Loo (qv).'),
('129173',' Long'),
('129174','time DP Ted Moore (qv) quit halfway through the production,  either through illness or disagreements with the producers depending  on who you ask. Ernest Day (qv) acted as DP for about a week  before Oswald Morris (qv) came on board (though none of the  footage shot by Day made it into the final film).'),
('129175',' In the fight in the dancers dressing'),
('129176','room, Roger Moore (I) (qv)  sprays one of the villains in the face with an aerosol can of what  is clearly Brut'),
('129177','33, a nod to the Fabergé company with which Moore  was associated.'),
('129178',' In Scaramangas fun'),
('129179','house, there is a mask on the wall in the form  of a caricature of Frank Morgan (I) (qv)s face as the Wizard of  Oz.'),
('129180',' Nick Nack says in French that the champagne he greets Bond with on  Scaramangas island is Dom Perignon soixante'),
('129181','quatre, ie 1964 vintage  (Dom Perignon 64). James Bond states though that he prefers the Dom  Perignon 62.'),
('129182',' When Bond says, "The energy crisis is still with us," to M, that had  a lot of truth to it. Britain had not yet overcome the oil crisis of  1973, as it had not yet had North Sea oil and gas flowing through  its pipelines'),
('129183',' The island used as filming location for the Scaramangas beach house  (Phang Nga Bay, Thailand) is known as "James Bond Island".'),
('129184',' The Golden Gun consisted of a number of gold components from Pistols  Scaramangas personal effects. These included: A gold 15 x 1.5 cm  fountain pen which became the gun barrel; a 8 x 4 cm gold cigarette  lighter which formed the hammer and bullet chamber; a 10 x 6 cm gold  cigarette case doubled as the guns magazine hand grip (or gun butt  or handle); whilst a solid gold cuff link from his shirt cuff was  adjoined to the cigarette case turned into the guns trigger. In the  movie, custom made 23 carat golden bullets with nickel trace  elements were manufactured for the gun by Eastern expert Portugese  gunsmith Lazar.'),
('129185',' In both the source novel and this film, the Scaramanga character has  an additional nipple which in reality can be a real biological  occurrence. It is known as a supernumerary nipple but can also be  called an accessory nipple or third nipple. The medical name for  such can be either polythelia or polymastia. In this movie though,  it is referred to as a superfluous papilla. In the James Bond parody  movie _Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)_ (qv), the Goldmember  character also has a third nipple.'),
('129186',' Product placements and promotional tie'),
('129187','ins seen in the movie  included American Motors Company (AMC), Dom Perignon, Sony, Nikon,  Moët, Tabasco Sauce, Rolex Watches, Dunlop, Pepsi and Guinness Beer.'),
('129188',' The name of the Hong Kong business where Scaramanga assassinates  solar energy expert Gibson was the Golden Dragon Company.'),
('129189',' Professional hit'),
('129190','man Pistols Scaramangas usual fee for performing a  professional hit was one million dollars.'),
('129191',' Nick Nack was the first villain (but a henchman) in the EON  Production official series whose fate was to be captured.'),
('129192',' The shooting gallery section of Francisco Scaramangas Funhouse was  named Super Shot.'),
('129193',' James Bonds alias when he visited Hai Fat was as his nemesis:  hit'),
('129194','man Francisco Scaramanga.'),
('129195',' Episode 28 of 29 of the series "Grant, Police Reporter."'),
('129196',' This was supposed to be the kickoff for a TV series, but no network  nibbled, and it never materialized.'),
('129197',' This film took Bruce Campbell (I) (qv) 19 years to make.'),
('129198',' The film was originally supposed to be set in L. A., but Bulgaria  was so cheap to film in that producers decided to film it there.  Bruce Campbell had to rewrite the movie to fit the new location.'),
('129199',' The pink Vespa that was used, then crashed, belonged to Bruce  Campbells Bulgarian interpreter, thanks to the transportation  department.'),
('129200',' Was at one point considered for production with Valencia Community  Colleges Film Program. Bruce Campbell (I) (qv) even toured the  campus.'),
('129201',' A poster for the film,  _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003)_ (qv) is visible in  the scene where the wheels have been removed from the car in Gypsy  Town.'),
('129202',' Chapter Titles  '),
('129203',' 1. The Spirit Rider  '),
('129204',' 2. Savage Fury  '),
('129205',' 3. Mask of El Latiago  '),
('129206',' 4. The Murder Cave  '),
('129207',' 5. The Stone Guillotine  '),
('129208',' 6. Flame and Battle  '),
('129209',' 7. Double Ambush  '),
('129210',' 8. The Blazing Barrier  '),
('129211',' 9. The Silent Informer  '),
('129212',' 10.Window of Death  '),
('129213',' 11.The Fatal Masquerade  '),
('129214',' 12.Redskin Raiders'),
('129215',' One of the few Republic serials that carried the same PCA number on  every chapter, meaning it was one of the few in which every chapter  was sent to the MPPDA office at the same time.'),
('129216',' Yagher, Kevin (qv) built the Max puppets as well as creating the  make'),
('129217','up special effects.'),
('129218',' The dog used to portray the DNA'),
('129219','altered dog is a Tibetan mastiff.'),
('129220',' This film is lost'),
('129221',' One nitrate reel of this 5 Reel film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives.'),
('129222',' This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.'),
('129223',' This movie was the centerpiece of The Mormon Pavilion at the New  York Worlds Fair. During 1964 and 1965 five million people visited  this pavilion and viewed this film.'),
('129224',' Originally made for television, but released theatrically first.'),
('129225',' A working title for this film was "El Maninator".'),
('129226',' First episode in the Buck Parvin and the Movies series.'),
('129227','  A copy of this film survives in The Library of Congress in  Washington, D.C.'),
('129228',' A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.'),
('129229',' Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not  appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names): Marie Blake (qv) (Telephone Operator),  Harvey Clark (qv) (Artist), Dorothy Vaughan (qv) (Matron),  Jerome Storm (qv) (Poolroom Man), Ralph Bushman (qv) (Young Man  at Fight) and Irving Bacon (qv) (Drug Clerk).'),
('129230',' This was originally intended for a direct'),
('129231','to'),
('129232','video release, but  later there was plans for a small release to theaters. However those  plans were scrapped, and the movies fate became unknown, until it  was later announced as a Sci Fi Channel original movie for Spring  2005. The DVD and VHS became available in Summer 2005.'),
('129233',' Although filming was originally intended to be done in New Orleans,  budget realities forced the production to be relocated to Australia.  They were the first production to use the new Kurnell studios, and  enlisted regional actors for virtually every role.'),
('129234',' A test screening for the movie was held in which half of the  audience walked out before the movie even ended.'),
('129235',' The characters of Steve Gerber (William Zappa (qv)) and Mike Ploog  (Robert Mammone (qv)) are references to the comic creators by the  same names. While they didnt create the Man'),
('129236','Thing, they worked  together on the first ongoing series of the comic book character and  developed it further (e.g. establishing the "nexus of all  realities"). Steve Gerber (qv) is also known as creator of "Howard  the Duck" and Mike Ploog is famous for his work on Marvel Comics  adaptations "Planet of the Apes" and "Monster of Frankenstein" and  most recently for his work on "Abadazad" (CrossGen Comics) and  "Stardust Kid" (Image Comics) with writer J.M. DeMatteis (qv).'),
('129237',' The character of Val Mayerik (Brett Leonard (I) (qv)) is also a  reference to the creator by the same name. He worked with  Steve Gerber (qv) on the first ongoing Man'),
('129238','Thing comic book  series, too.'),
('129239',' This is the first feature film for its Writer'),
('129240','Director, Cameraman,  Sound Designer, Editor, Art Director and Co'),
('129241','producers.'),
('129242',' This was the third script written by Anup. It was also the least  criticized by his brother and co'),
('129243','producer Arun. Anup, Arun and their  uncle Henri drove to Milwaukee in December 2001 to buy the Arriflex  camera used for filming Manasarovar.'),
('129244',' Atul Kulkarni, Neha Dubey and Zafar Karachiwala play Malayalees  (people from Kerala, the southern state of India). But none of them  are Malayalees.'),
('129245',' The day the scenes with Latha, the elephant, was shot recorded the  highest rainfall for the state of Kerala in 2003. It was also the  costliest day of shoot...with cranes, tracks, trolleys, and Latha,  of course.'),
('129246',' The guitar piece end of hope (while Ravi is in the lake) was  composed by David the day he knew he was out of contention for a job  he was desperately hoping to land.'),
('129247',' Regal Film producers tapped former matinée idol John Prats (qv) to  play one of the lead gay actors after the success of his previous  film with the same company,  _Ako legal wife: Mano po 4?! (2005)_ (qv), in which he plays the gay  son who comes out of the closet.'),
('129248',' Due to this movie, Star Cinema pulled out the production of its  supposed project with Vilma Santos (qv) titled "Flores de Mara",  supposedly a feel'),
('129249','good movie about a mother with three gay sons  which has the almost the same plot with this movie.'),
('129250',' While Jesus is delivering the Last Supper, a man in the background  can be seen reading "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown, the  controversial best seller that suggests many different things about  Jesus life.'),
('129251',' Broadcast live from Manchesters Albert Square on Good Friday 2006.'),
('129252',' Senator Iselins plane in real life was owned by  Sinatra, Frank (qv).'),
('129253',' One scene was filmed at the Bar and Grill that  Sinatra, Frank (qv)s friend Rizzo, Jilly (qv) owned in New York  City.'),
('129254',' Frank Sinatra (qv) broke one of his fingers when he hit the table,  which was real and not a break'),
('129255','away prop, in the fight sequence with  Henry Silva (qv). Due to ongoing filming commitments, he could not  rest or bandage his hand properly, causing the injury to heal  incorrectly. It caused him chronic discomfort for the rest of his  life.'),
('129256',' Angela Lansbury (qv) was thirty'),
('129257','six at the time of filming, only  three years older than Laurence Harvey (I) (qv), who played her  son.'),
('129258',' All the members of the platoon in Korea are named after cast and  crew of _"Phil Silvers Show, The" (1955)_ (qv).'),
('129259',' It took a full week to film the opening dream sequence. Director  John Frankenheimer (qv) rushed a rough edit of the sequence to  Frank Sinatra (qv), then decided to keep the cut in the final  movie unchanged.'),
('129260',' In the scene where Frank Sinatra (qv) gives the all'),
('129261','queens deck of  cards to Laurence Harvey (I) (qv), Sinatra is out of focus. He had  trouble recreating his performance, so director  John Frankenheimer (qv) left the footage as is. Audiences werent  bothered; they interpreted it as Harveys blurred perspective.'),
('129262',' Frank Sinatra (qv) wanted Lucille Ball (qv) for the role of Mrs.  Iselin which was played by Angela Lansbury (qv).'),
('129263',' When Captain Marco is shown a photo of the Communist official Gomel  (Reggie Nalder (qv)) at a childs birthday party, the two children  in the photo are actually the children of screenwriter  George Axelrod (qv).'),
('129264',' The topic of the movie was considered politically so highly  sensitive it was censored and prohibited just before its theatrical  release in many of the former Iron Curtain countries, such as  Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria '),
('129265',' and even in  neutral countries such as Finland and Sweden. The theatrical  premiere for most of those countries was held after the collapse of  Soviet Union in 1993.'),
('129266',' The scenes of the convention were filmed at the Old Madison Square  Garden on 8th ave at 49th street . The last event ever held there  was in Febuary 1968 . It was torn down shortly after closing and  today an office tower stands on the site.'),
('129267',' Contrary to popular belief, the film was not pulled from circulation  following the 1963 assassination of President  John F. Kennedy (qv). Ir made its American television debut on The  CBS Thursday Night Movies in September 1965 (source: Broadcasting  magazine), and was repeated on that network later that season before  turning up for third and fourth network showings on NBC in spring  1974 (source: TV Guide) and summer 1975 (source: Variety). Only when  the rights reverted to Frank Sinatra (qv) later that decade did  the film disappear from view. Sinatras neglect in keeping the film  in distribution gave rise to the legend that it was suppressed  because of its alleged role in Lee Harvey Oswald (qv)s  assassination of the 35th president. The legend was further  perpetuated when Sinatra, in alliance with MGM/UA, re'),
('129268','released the  film to theaters in 1988. When the rumor was debunked in an article  in Films In Review, another myth, one claiming that Sinatra and UA  had a dispute about the profits, took its place. The myth survives  to this day, but it is pure fiction.'),
('129269',' George Axelrod (qv) copied the lecture about hydrangeas verbatim  from a seed catalogue.'),
('129270',' Frank Sinatra (qv) refers to Orestes and Clytemnestra when he is  talking to Laurence Harvey (I) (qv). Clytemnestra was the wife of  Agamemnon (King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae) who, with  her lover Aegisthus, murdered him and took over the throne. Orestes,  the son of Clytemnestra, later killed them both.'),
('129271',' A scene where Laurence Harvey (I) (qv) jumps in Central Park lake  was shot on the coldest day in 30 years. They had to break the  foot'),
('129272','thick ice on the lake with a bulldozer before the scene could  be shot.'),
('129273',' One of the early uses of martial arts in a key fight sequence  (between Frank Sinatra (qv) and Henry Silva (qv), over a decade  before the Kung Fu craze of the 1970s. Still earlier, however, is  _Blood on the Sun (1945)_ (qv), with its climactic judo bout  involving James Cagney (qv) in _Blood on the Sun (1945)_ (qv) And  though Peter Lorre (I) (qv) was using jujitsu in Mr. Moto movies  as early as 1937, Harry Parke (qv) (as Parkyakarkus) mentions  jujitsu in the Eddie Cantor (qv) movie  _Strike Me Pink (1936)_ (qv).'),
('129274',' Prior to the commissioning of the book as a movie,  Arthur Krim (qv), then President of United Artists and Finance  Chairman of the Democratic Party, is known to have felt uneasy about  its subject matter. President John F. Kennedy (qv), as a favor to  his friend Frank Sinatra (qv), called Krim to let him know that he  had no objection to a film version being made.'),
('129275',' Famous for his use of innovative camera angles, director  John Frankenheimer (qv) was widely acclaimed for a shot that is  slightly out of focus. John Frankenheimer (qv) said that rather  than the shot being evidence of inspiration, it was an accident and  merely the best take for actor Frank Sinatra (qv).'),
('129276',' The army psychiatrist in this movie was the first black actor cast  in a part that wasnt specified as a black character.'),
('129277',' On the copy of the New York Post announcing the slaying of Senator  Jordan and his daughter, a small headline at the top reads: "VIOLENT  HURRICANE SWEEPS MIDWEST; 20 DEAD, HUNDREDS HOMELESS"'),
('129278',' Rosies number, ELdarado 5'),
('129279','9970 was and still is a telephone company  test number that will always give anyone who calls it a busy signal.'),
('129280',' Screenwriter Daniel Pyne (qv) was paid over $1 million for his  initial draft of this screenplay.'),
('129281',' Brian De Palma (qv) was (briefly) considered to direct this film,  a suggestion made by one of De Palmas former representatives.  However, the idea was ultimately nixed by producer  Scott Rudin (qv).'),
('129282',' Neil Jordan (I) (qv) was also briefly considered to direct this  remake.'),
('129283',' Entertainment Weekly reported that Meryl Streep (qv) watched  political talk shows to prepare for her role: "anything with  Peggy Noonan (I) (qv), Karen Hughes (V) (qv)... its hard to get  more hyperbolic than that." She didnt watch the original film until  after filming wrapped.'),
('129284',' In developing his character, Liev Schreiber (qv) watched footage  of Robert F. Kennedy (qv).'),
('129285',' Emma Thompson (I) (qv), Glenn Close (qv) and  Jessica Lange (qv) where considered for the role of Eleanor Shaw.'),
('129286',' When Ben and Rosie are in her "cousins" apartment, there are  pictures of Kenneth Utt (qv) beneath the poster of a play.'),
('129287',' The movie opens with Marcos and Shaws fellow soldiers playing a  card game; this is a reference to  _Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)_ (qv), in which cards play a very  important role in the plot.'),
('129288',' In Rosies cousins apartment, there is a poster of an angel  crouching down. This is a print from the cover art of  Tony Kushner (qv)s play "Angels in America".  Jeffrey Wright (I) (qv), who plays Al Melvin in the film, starred  in both the original staging of the play and also the HBO  dramatization _"Angels in America" (2003)_ (qv).'),
('129289',' Liev Schreiber (qv) was handpicked by Paramount Pictures boss  Sherry Lansing (qv) for the title role.'),
('129290',' If the letters in Noyles last name are rearranged, they spell Yen  Lo, the name of the Chinese character in the same role in  _Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)_ (qv).'),
('129291',' In Rosies bathroom there is a poster for a theatrical production of  "Othello" featuring José Ferrer (I) (qv), the father of  Miguel Ferrer (qv) who plays Colonel Garret in this film.'),
('129292',' Before this movies release, Paramount set up two official websites:  one site with movie information, and one site that appeared to be a  promotional tool for the (fictional) Manchurian Global Corporation  depicted in the movie. The corporation website gave no indication of  its connection to the movie except a few references to its  sponsorship of Dr. Atticus Noyles Alzheimers research. Similar  advertisements for fictional medical procedures and clinics were  also produced as parts of the advertising campaigns for  _Gattaca (1997)_ (qv), _Godsend (2004)_ (qv), and  _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)_ (qv). Besides these  films listed, _Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)_ (qv) also has a  advertising campaign featuring "Regenerator", a fictional product  developed by the Umbrella Corporation.'),
('129293',' On the wall of Senator Jordans office is a poster for the Vietnam  POW / MIA "You are not forgotten" campaign (the black on white  silhouette).'),
('129294',' One of Major Marcos evaluation papers is clearly dated "2008".'),
('129295',' When Raymond Shaw is talking with Ben in his election HQ office, he  says, "...when we were in Kuwait..." but slurs the word to sound  very much like "Korea". The original movie had the soldiers serving  in (and abducted from) Korea.'),
('129296',' The marching band shown in a few parts of the movie is the East  Ramapo Marching Band from New York.'),
('129297',' Tina Sinatra (qv) who was instrumental in deciding to remake the  film, inherited the production rights from her father,  Frank Sinatra (qv) who played Bennett Marco in the 1962 version.'),
('129298',' The "Manchurian" part of the title is because in the original  version the brainwashing agent were Chinese communists.'),
('129299',' Production Assistant Chris Rodriguez (IV) (qv)s photo is used on  the front page of the newspaper that Kimberly Elise (qv) picks up  on the train, under the caption, "Muslim Yale student murdered by  angry mob."'),
('129300',' There is a brief shot of Worldwide Plaza (49th'),
('129301','50th Streets & 8th  Ave, NYC), the office complex on the site of the second (1925'),
('129302','1966)  Madison Square Garden, where, in the original movie, the  assassination takes place (the inside and outside of the old Garden  are shown in the original movie).'),
('129303',' The radio chatter audio near the end of the film as Ben returns to  the beach is actually a recording of a Norfolk Southern train defect  detector. If one listens carefully you can even hear it state, "NS  (Norfolk Southern) detector milepost 79.8 one no defect." The actual  detector likely reported 79.8 track one but the word track would  spoil the illusion. It is interesting because these automatic  reports only transmit two or three miles to inform the train crew of  defects in their train. It is not likely they would be heard on a  remote island.'),
('129304',' Though many assume Meryl Streep (qv) to have based her performance  upon Hillary Rodham Clinton (qv), Streep has cited  Peggy Noonan (I) (qv), Condoleezza Rice (qv) and  Dick Cheney (qv) as her inspiration.'),
('129305',' The filmmakers struggled to find a kidnapper to film after the  bribes to get into the prison where their preferred interviewee was  staying proved too steep. The driver of a cab they used one day  delivered "packages" on the side for a kidnapper, and introduced  them to the masked man interviewed extensively in the film. Director  Jason Kohn (qv) also was at the kidnappers home when police  stopped by and walked around the outside, the one moment of filming  he said he feared for his life.'),
('129306',' The kidnapper interviewed in the movie died in late 2006. The  filmmakers said he was shot twice '),
('129307',' in the shoulder and gut '),
('129308',' in a  shootout with police in which he killed two cops, was taken to the  hospital and came out of the ambulance with a new bullet hole in his  head.'),
('129309',' The idea of using translators and picturing them on screen was  borrowed from a presentation documentary director  Errol Morris (qv) (director Jason Kohn (qv)s mentor) made for  the Academy Awards, in which Mikhail Gorbachev discussed his  favorite films, with a translator in the background of the shot  converting the former USSR leaders Russian into English.'),
('129310',' The second film in Lars von Trier (qv)s third trilogy series  entitled "USA '),
('129311',' Land of Opportunities". The two other parts are  _Dogville (2003)_ (qv) and _Wasington (2009)_ (qv).'),
('129312',' Nicole Kidman (qv), who played Grace in _Dogville (2003)_ (qv) was  intended to star in _Manderlay (2005)_ (qv) as well as a third  trilogy installment, but pulled out of the project in July 2003 due  to conflicting schedules.'),
('129313',' John C. Reilly (I) (qv) was originally signed to play Dr. Hector  but was replaced by Slovenian actor Zeljko Ivanek (qv) during  production. A donkey was put to death while filming, and it was  reported in US magazine Entertainment Weekly that this was what  prompted Reilly to walk off the set, though he has never commented  publicly on the incident or his exact reasons for leaving the film.  The executive producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen (qv) told Swedish media  that "people should not be upset '),
('129314',' instead they should think about  the situation of the Third World". Since the movie was filmed in  Sweden, they followed Swedish law, which says that animals can be  put to death in movie productions if a veterinarian is the one  carrying out the killing. Director Lars von Trier (qv) later cut  the scene from the film, which was attributed to protests from  animal rights groups. Von Trier said that he didnt want to draw  attention away from the content of the film.'),
('129315',' British actors were cast as nine out of the twelve slaves portrayed  in the film because African'),
('129316','American actors steered away from the  film because of its content.'),
('129317',' Danny Glover (qv) who plays one of the slaves rejected the role  once before accepting it.'),
('129318',' When Vibeke Windeløv (qv) went to the US for casting, she got a  tip that Danny Glover (qv) might be interested. She immediately  flew to a hotel in Salt Lake to meet up with him. After a long talk  about the project, Glover asked her for a copy of  _Dogville (2003)_ (qv). She gave him a portable DVD'),
('129319','player with it  and left him for the night. At 6:00 AM, Glover called her hotel room  and said she had to come immediately because the DVD'),
('129320','players  battery had run out 20 minutes before the end of the movie. She  rushed to his room with a charger and after hed watch it through he  said yes on the spot.'),
('129321',' In an interview with Cigar Aficionado, James Caan (qv) stated he  did not reprise his role as Graces father from Dogville because  Nicole Kidman (qv) dropped out and because he feels  Lars von Trier (qv) "is very anti'),
('129322','American, so screw him. Im very  pro'),
('129323','America. Im a conservative, basically."'),
('129324',' Edwin W. Edwards (Governor of Louisiana at the time) was cast as a  gambler and several scenes were filmed but excised before release.  Upon the advice of public relations staff, Edwards decided the  potential damage to his public image when the salacious content of  the film was revealed would be too great.'),
('129325',' Chapter Titles:  '),
('129326',' 1. Shadow on the Wall  '),
('129327',' 2. Trap of the Wasp  '),
('129328',' 3. A City of Terror  '),
('129329',' 4. The Secret Passage  '),
('129330',' 5. The Devils Playmate  '),
('129331',' 6. The Fatal Crash  '),
('129332',' 7. Gamble For Life  '),
('129333',' 8. Across the Deadline  '),
('129334',' 9. Terror Rides the Rails  '),
('129335',' 10.The Unseen Monster  '),
('129336',' 11.At the Stroke of Eight  '),
('129337',' 12.The Reward of Treachery'),
('129338',' Based on Mainland Chinese writer Xingang Liu (qv)s short novel  "Shen Mu" (Sacred Wood). The French translation of it is titled as  its film adaptation, "Le puits aveugle".'),
('129339',' Scenes originally from the movies  _Paese del sesso selvaggio, Il (1972)_ (qv),  _Ultimo mondo cannibale (1977)_ (qv), and  _Montagna del dio cannibale, La (1978)_ (qv), were edited into this  movie.'),
('129340',' The characters of Hadley and the Watsons were named after the  turn'),
('129341','of'),
('129342','the'),
('129343','century company that built the laundry machine in the  original "Mangler", Hadley'),
('129344','Watson.'),
('129345',' The final film of Larry Taylor.'),
('129346',' The poet whose works are quoted during the film is  Walt Whitman (III) (qv).'),
('129347',' This was Allen, Woody (qv)s first film shot using the widescreen  (2.35:1) anamorphic Panavision process.'),
('129348',' Woody Allen (qv) disliked his work in this film so much he offered  to direct another film for United Artists for free if they kept  "Manhattan" on the shelf for good.'),
('129349',' Stacey Nelkin (qv), whom Woody Allen (qv) dated while she was at  New Yorks Stuyvesant High School, was reportedly the inspiration  for the character of Tracey.'),
('129350',' There is a clause in the studios contract that stipulates that the  film must always be shown in letterbox format in any home release or  broadcast/cable airing.'),
('129351',' Presentations of this film on television (broadcast, cable or home  video) required preservation of the widescreen format. This  presented a problem in the U.S. since certain F.C.C. technical  regulations did not permit a portion of the screen to be left blank  as in letterboxing. The problem was solved by making the area above  and below the frame gray. The regulations have since been changed  and letterboxing with black borders is now permitted.'),
('129352',' There are no opening credits.'),
('129353',' Directors Trademark (Woody Allen (qv)): [writer] Jill is a  novelist.'),
('129354',' While this is Woody Allen (qv)s least favorite of the movies he  has directed, this was the most commercially successful film of his  career. He said years later that he was still in disbelief that he  "got away with it".'),
('129355',' Toward the end of the film, when Isaac is haranguing Yale, he  mentions Yale someday being before a Senate subcommittee "naming  names". In _"The Front " (1976)_ (qv), Woody Allens character winds  up before a Congressional committee to "name names", including the  character played by Michael Murphy.'),
('129356',' The name of the character Adrian Marcato is borrowed from  _Rosemarys Baby (1968)_ (qv).'),
('129357',' New DVD collection Unseen Cinema, produced by Anthology Film Archive  and released 18 October 2005 by Image Entertainment, contains a  1'),
('129358','minute montage sequence of this otherwise lost film created by  montage expert Slavko Vorkapich.'),
('129359',' A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives.'),
('129360',' This was the movie that bank robber John Dillinger had just seen  before he was gunned down in front of Chicagos Biograph Theater on  July 22, 1934. He had been set up by Anna Sage, the madam of a  brothel, who knew Dillingers girlfriend, Polly Hamilton. Sage was  facing deportation and thought the tip might get her off. She told  FBI agent Melvin Purvis that she would be wearing red, leading her  to be dubbed "The Woman in Red". Dillinger was shot three times when  he tried to escape, and Sage wound up being sent back to Romania.'),
('129361',' After John Dillinger (I) (qv) was killed,  William Randolph Hearst (qv) had the statement "A Cosmopolitan  Production" removed from the credits of all prints. The print in the  Turner library does not contain that credit.'),
('129362',' George Cukor (qv) was assigned as director for additional scenes  after the preview showing on 14 April 1934, because director  W.S. Van Dyke (qv) had already started on his next movie,  _Thin Man, The (1934)_ (qv).'),
('129363',' Lorenz Hart (qv) was asked to write more commercially appealing  lyrics to "The Bad in Every Man" after this movie was released. The  result was "Blue Moon," which was copyrighted under that title in  December 1934.'),
('129364',' This is the first of 14 pairings of Myrna Loy (qv) and  William Powell (I) (qv) and the first of three movies they would  make together in 1934.'),
('129365',' It was while appearing as a guest star in this film that  DiMaggio, Joe (qv) first met his future wife, actress'),
('129366','dancer  Arnold, Dorothy (qv), who was also appearing in it as a member of  the chorus.'),
('129367',' Archive newsreel footage of Joe DiMaggio (qv)s home run in the  1936 World Series is shown in the film.'),
('129368',' This is the first Chinese produced motion picture shot on Sony  CineAlta 24P HDCAM digital system'),
('129369',' Won Best Picture and Best Cinematography Awards from Philadelphia  International Film Festival.'),
('129370',' Lead role written for Farrow, Mia (qv), but Keaton, Diane (qv)  got the role following Farrows breakup with the films director  Allen, Woody (qv).'),
('129371',' Carol Lipton, played by Diane Keaton (qv), claims to hate wearing  a tie with a skirt. She made that look famous playing Annie Hall in  _Annie Hall (1977)_ (qv).'),
('129372',' DIRTRADE(Woody Allen): [writer] Marcia Fox is a writer.'),
('129373',' Woody Allen (qv) was inspired in part by  _Thin Man, The (1934)_ (qv) series of movies, modeling his main  characters after Nick and Nora Charles.'),
('129374',' Woody Allen planned to make his earlier film  _Annie Hall (1977)_ (qv) a murder mystery, but cut that subplot out  and used the initial murder mystery for this movie.'),
('129375',' "Manhattan Murder Mystery" was actually the generic working title  during production '),
('129376',' Allen films usually have generic titles during  production like "Woody Allen Fall Project" '),
('129377',' but since no new title  could be thought of, Woody Allen (qv) decided to leave that as the  title.'),
('129378',' The "man in Indiana" who chopped up six people and ate them the  Liptons discuss is obviously a reference to Jeffrey Dahmer (qv),  with the first New York Post article about him in their paper.'),
('129379',' The only one of the many movie they made together, in which  Woody Allen (qv) and Diane Keaton (qv) play parents.'),
('129380',' In the scene when Diane Keatons character sees her "dead" neighbor  riding a bus, you can read VERTIGO as bus advertisement. Its one of  the many references to Hitchcocks film that appear in the movie.'),
('129381',' When Larry and Carol go to the theater, the play they are seeing is  “Guys and Dolls”.'),
('129382',' Although it was filmed in 2'),
('129383','strip Technicolor, all surviving  material is in black & white. Two songs by Harold Arlen and Ted  Koehler, "I Love a Parade" and "Temporarily Blue," were cut before  release, although "I Love A Parade" is heard over the opening and  closing credits. "Im Happy When Youre Jealous" by Bert Kalmar and  Harry Ruby was also cut before release.'),
('129384',' SPOILER: At the very end when they stop the countdown, the timer  reads 7:16:45. July 16, 1945 was the date of the Trinity test where  the first Atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico.'),
('129385',' The High School used in the movie was actually not in Ithaca New  York. The High School is Suffern High School in Suffern New York.'),
('129386',' Paul Valentine referred to himself as "The Fat Kevin Costner" and  received the part without an audition.'),
('129387',' The movie starred an actor who ended up getting a role in "Escape  From Alcatraz" with Clint Eastwood. When the actors representatives  found out about this film, all prints were purchased and most likely  destroyed.'),
('129388',' Was originally filmed in 3'),
('129389','D.'),
('129390',' Rockstar Games set up a fake website (www.valiant'),
('129391','ent.tv) for  "Valiant Video Enterprises", the video production company that  markets Starkweathers films, in order to generate hype for the  game.'),
('129392',' In the level "Press Coverage", while exploring the journalists  apartment, theres a calendar in the kitchen, that shows the current  month and year as November and 2003, and a small smiley face has  been drawn on the 19th. 19 November 2003 was the games release  date.'),
('129393',' In September 2004, after having been available to buy in Australia  for almost a year, Manhunts rating was changed by the Office of  Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) from MA15+ to RC (Refused  Classification) '),
('129394',' in other words, the game was banned in Australia.  The OFLC ordered that "any existing stocks of this game held by  retailers must be removed from the shelves immediately". It is  speculated that the decision came about because of the media uproar  and subsequent political pressure '),
('129395',' that resulted from the murder of  British teenager Stefan Pakeerah in July 2004. Pakeerahs parents  specifically blamed Manhunt for the murder of their son, which they  claimed closely emulated killings portrayed in the game (although  the link was later disproved '),
('129396',' the motive was deemed to be robbery.  It was also proven that it was actually the victim, and not the  murderer who owned Manhunt, which explained why the mother knew so  much about the game). Australia follows New Zealand in banning the  game, where it was outlawed in March 2004. New Zealands own OFLC  interpreted the game as requiring players to "acquiesce in...and  possibly tolerate, or even move towards enjoying [murder]", which  was deemed "injurious to the public good".'),
('129397',' The game takes place in Carcer City, which is the city right next  door to Liberty City, the locale of  _Grand Theft Auto III (2001) (VG)_ (qv), and was also mentioned  numerous times in that game.'),
('129398',' The hockey masks were originally for a gang called "The Jury". The  gang was dropped out for the final game plan and the masks were  adapted onto the Skinz gang.'),
('129399',' Three gangs were created which didnt make it into the game: the  Clowns, the Lost, and the Jury. The Clowns dressed as their name  suggested, the Lost dressed in scavenged metal, and the Jury dressed  in hockey masks. The hockey mask design eventually went to the Skinz  gang.'),
('129400',' The iron bats each have the number 666 inscribed on them.'),
('129401',' Two "boss" characters who didnt make it into the game are the  Scarecrow and Binbag. The Scarecrow was meant to be the former  leader of the Smileys who had his title taken from him after he was  defeated by Piggsy, whom he held a vendetta against. When he was not  in his costume, the Scarecrow was nothing more than a drunken,  gibbering tramp, who can be seen in the game when Cash is up against  the Innocentz. Binbag was to be the leader of the Lost (a gang which  was not used) and dressed from head to toe in black garbage bags.'),
('129402',' When the game is beaten, a news reporter mentions the questioning of  a police officer named Gary Sheaffer. This is a reference to a radio  bit in "Grand Theft Auto 3," also made by Rockstar Games, where a  news radio reporter mentions "police chief Gary Sheaffer in nearby  Carcer City" who is being indicted about some missing witnesses.'),
('129403',' Filmed acting debut of Annette Bening (qv).'),
('129404',' Roy Barcroft (qv) regarded "Captain Mephisto" in this non'),
('129405','western  serial as his favorite role.'),
('129406',' Chapter Titles:  '),
('129407',' 1. Secret Weapon  '),
('129408',' 2. Satans Web  '),
('129409',' 3. The Murder Machine  '),
('129410',' 4. The Lethal Chamber  '),
('129411',' 5. Mephistos Mantrap  '),
('129412',' 6. Ocean Tomb  '),
('129413',' 7. The Death Drop  '),
('129414',' 8. Bombs Away  '),
('129415',' 9. The Fatal Flood  '),
('129416',' 10.The Sable Shroud  '),
('129417',' 11.Satans Shadow  '),
('129418',' 12.Cauldron of Cremation  '),
('129419',' 13.Bridge to Eternity  '),
('129420',' 14.Power Dive to Doom  '),
('129421',' 15.Fatal Transformation'),
('129422',' The film was originally going to be entitled "Red Dragon", the same  name as the novel. However, when _Year of the Dragon (1985)_ (qv)  became a box office failure, Dino De Laurentiis (I) (qv) decided  to avoid a "dragon" title.'),
('129423',' The prison where Hannibal Lecter is being incarcerated is the High  Museum of Art in Atlanta.'),
('129424',' Frankie Faison (qv) (Lt. Fisk) is the only actor to appear in all  four Thomas Harris (I) (qv) "Hannibal" adaptations (he appears as  Barney in _Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)_ (qv),  _Hannibal (2001)_ (qv) and _Red Dragon (2002)_ (qv)).'),
('129425',' During the filming of this movie, Anthony Hopkins (qv) was playing  King Lear at the National Theatre. During the filming of  _Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)_ (qv), Brian Cox (I) (qv) was  playing King Lear at the National Theatre.'),
('129426',' In a featurette included with the DVD version of the film,  Tom Noonan (qv) (Dollarhyde) said that he avoided all contact with  cast members in order to heighten the isolation and tension between  himself and other people, particularly William Petersen (qv)  (Graham).'),
('129427',' Tom Noonan (qv) (Dollarhyde) spent many hours in make'),
('129428','up so that  artists could paint fake tattoos on his back and torso modeled after  William Blakes "Great Red Dragon" paintings. Though Noonan appeared  with the tattoos in publicity photographs (available in a Special  Edition DVD), director Michael Mann (I) (qv) concluded that the  tattoos were too "over the top," and discarded the idea.'),
('129429',' SPOILER: In the shooting final confrontation between Dollarhyde and  Graham, actor Tom Noonan (qv) had to lie in a pool of stage blood  for several hours as the crew worked on other shots. After all this  time, the stage blood dried into a thick, cement'),
('129430','like advesive that  all but fused Noonan to the carpet.'),
('129431',' This is the only Hannibal movie where his last name is spelled  Lecktor. In all future movies, its spelled Dr. Hannibal Lecter.'),
('129432',' According to an interview with Brian Cox (I) (qv), the following  actors were considered for the role of Hannibal Lektor:  Brian Dennehy (qv), John Lithgow (qv), and  Mandy Patinkin (qv).'),
('129433',' Brian Cox (I) (qv) said in the DVD interview that he based his  portrayal of Hannibal Lecter on Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.'),
('129434',' David Lynch (I) (qv) was the first director attached to the movie,  but he eventually left the project. During this time, screenwriter  Walon Green (qv) wrote a draft of the script and it is unknown how  much of his ideas were used in the final script.'),
('129435',' In the scenes where Will Graham is interviewing Lecktor in his cell,  the director Michael Mann (I) (qv) took care to set up the shots  so that the position of the bars of the cell do not move when the  point of view switches between Graham and Lecktor.'),
('129436',' Olney São Paulo (qv) was probably the only director arrested and  tortured just for making a movie. In 1969, he was in Viña del Mar,  Chile, for a festival, when two students kidnapped a plane and  headed for Cuba, where they exhibited the film they had taken along  with them: "Manhã Cinzenta". The military dictatorship in Brasil  arrested the director, and besides losing his bank job, he was  forced to deliver all the copies and negatives. For a long time, it  was considered a "lost" film. But a copy of it was kept in secret  under a different name in Rios Museum of Modern Art.'),
('129437',' SPOILER: In the scene where a cats head is squeezed and its eyeball  pops out, the cat actually only had one eye; a glass eye was  inserted into the empty socket before filming, and that was what  popped out.'),
('129438',' The "Bill Woods" who is credited as playing Maxwell appears to be  William Woods (IV) (qv), a Los Angeles makeup artist whos skills  would have been of great assistance to the plot of the film.'),
('129439',' SPOILER: The actor who plays Maxwell also plays the coroner, who he  is seen impersonating earlier in the film. Only one of the embalmers  is credited, and he is referred to by another character as Mike'),
('129440',' Donald Houston (I) (qv) is dubbed'),
('129441',' Norman Bird (qv) is dubbed by André Maranne (qv).'),
('129442',' The headless corpse in the end is the Betsy Palmer corpse (Jasons  mother) from Friday the 13th. The helicopter shots are recycled  footage from the movie Inferno.'),
('129443',' The film originally had a title song of the same name, but in the  end was not used. The lyrics were toned down and the song Maniac was  used in _Flashdance (1983)_ (qv).'),
('129444',' William Lustig (qv) and Joe Spinell (qv), say they didnt always  have the necessary permits to film on location in New York City.  Certain scenes (including the infamous shotgun through the  windshield scene) had to have been filmed quickly and afterwards the  crew had to run away before the cops arrived.'),
('129445',' Daria Nicolodi (qv) was originally cast to play Anna DAntoni, but  she was unable to go to New York for filming because she was still  filming her scenes for the movie _Inferno (1980)_ (qv) in Italy.'),
('129446',' The opening scene on the beach was inspired by the opening scene  from _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) from the point'),
('129447','of'),
('129448','view of the stalking  shark.'),
('129449',' The scenes in Frank Zitos tiny apartment were inspired by the  Swedish thriller _Mannen på taket (1976)_ (qv) (The Man on the Roof)  with the claustrophobic setting and the quiet tone with a dripping  faucet and occasional sound of traffic. The color and crude décor of  the apartment and other sets were inspired from the color'),
('129450','theme sets  of Italian horror thrillers such as _Profondo rosso (1975)_ (qv)  (Deep Red), _Suspiria (1977)_ (qv),  _Blood and Black Lace (1964)_ (qv) and several others.'),
('129451',' In order to keep costs down, several porn actresses were hired to  play the victims and minor female roles. Some of them, such as Gail  Lawrence, are still making adult films to this day.'),
('129452',' Because they would only have one chance to film the scene where Tom  Savinis character gets shot Savini decided that he should be the  one to pull the trigger. Savini said it felt a little weird shooting  the dummy he had created of himself in the face.'),
('129453',' A 1979 post'),
('129454','production ad for Variety magazine stated some of the  cast as including Daria Nicolodi (qv), Susan Tyrrell (qv) and  Jason Miller (I) (qv) opposite Joe Spinell. Nicolodi was offered  the lead role but was unavailable, and no information has yet  surfaced to reveal which roles were to be played by Tyrrell and  Miller.'),
('129455',' Shot as a promo reel for a sequel to _Maniac (1980)_ (qv) but was  cut short due to the untimely death of actor Joe Spinell (qv)'),
('129456',' Although the film is set in New York City, it was only shot there  for three days.'),
('129457',' Three cameras were used to shoot the St. Patricks Day parade before  the production began. Sam Raimi (qv) shot some of this footage,  which was shown to investors to secure the money to "complete" the  film.'),
('129458',' CAMEO(Sam Raimi (qv)) makes a brief cameo as the parade reporter.'),
('129459',' CAMEO(Jake LaMotta (qv)) makes a brief cameo as a detective.'),
('129460',' DIRCAMEO(William Lustig (qv)) makes a brief cameo as a  motel'),
('129461','manager.'),
('129462',' CAMEO(Richard Roundtree (qv)) (Shaft) makes a brief cameo as  Commissioner Pike.'),
('129463',' The Coroner (Barry Brenner (qv)) was William Lustig (qv)s  real'),
('129464','life doctor.'),
('129465',' Jill Gatsby (I) (qv) is Larry Cohen (I) (qv)s daughter and is  killed in every one of his movies that shes in.'),
('129466',' Matt Cordell (Robert ZDar (qv)) speaks only once, giving his  surname.'),
('129467',' As with the preceding film, Matt Cordell (Robert ZDar (qv))  speaks only once, this time telling Julius Harris (qv) to finish a  voodoo rite.'),
('129468',' Game that introduced the SCUMM'),
('129469','interface (SCUMM=Script Utility for  Maniac Mansion), also called pointnclick system. Copied by many  other adventure games and refined through the years.'),
('129470',' The "weird Edsels" license plate reads THX 1138, the title of an  early George Lucas film.'),
('129471',' In the Green Tentacles bedroom, a poster for a musician named Ron  Gilbert adorns the wall. Ron Gilbert was the games lead developer.'),
('129472',' The paintings in the hallway on the second floor are: Alexs eye  from "A Clockwork Orange;" the Ammityville house; Napoleon  Bonaparte; and Mrs. Bates from "Psycho." The statue at the far left  is a real artwork, "Dawn," by Michaelangelo, which was sculpted for  the Medici chapel. The translation of the plaque is: "If found, send  to the Louvre, postage paid." The slashed painting in the dining  room is likewise an actual artwork, in this case "Sunday in the  Park" by Georges Seurat. The revised editions of the game identify  the photograph in the den as Castle Brunwald, the place where Henry  Jones was held hostage in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."'),
('129473',' Shot with the Sony PD150 digital video camera.'),
('129474',' Most of the extras in the movie were teenagers that had actually  been in hospitals to treat depression.'),
('129475',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Johnny Goes Ducking (1913)_ (qv).'),
('129476',' This movie was stopped in full production and continued, after a  time, as "Sindromul Timisoara".'),
('129477',' Competed in the Kodak Vision Globale Competition at the 2003  Fantasia International Film Festival where it was nominated for 4  awards including Best Director, Best Director of Photography, Best  Editing and Best Sound Editing.'),
('129478',' The theatre scene was shot on location at Cinema du Parc, Montreals  repertory cinema.'),
('129479',' When this film was premiered in South Africa in 1978, the  invitations were printed on vomit bags.'),
('129480',' Aishwarya Rai (qv) was offered the lead role of Priya.'),
('129481',' The film was banned in 1944 before its official release. Parts of it  got lost during the war.Staudte made a remake in 1947 titled "Die  Abenteuer des Herrn Fridolin B." Parts of the first version were  possibly used for the new version.'),
('129482',' One of two films found in Adolf Hitler (qv)s bunker by the Allies  in 1945. The other film was _Hund von Baskerville, Der (1936)_ (qv).'),
('129483',' Derek Jacobis Hungarian dubbing voice was István Sztankay (qv).'),
('129484',' The company who made the movie is helmed by the real'),
('129485','life five  Burton sisters.'),
('129486',' The film equipment was stolen during shooting, threatening to shut  down the film '),
('129487',' but it was returned a day later by a pawn'),
('129488','shop  owner. The pawn'),
('129489','shop owner only said, "I want the sisters to keep  making their movie." (the robbers also left their real names and  address at the pawn shop.)'),
('129490',' This is the third film from the five sisters of Five Sisters  Productions. For this one, they optioned a script written by their  mother, and asked their father to retire from his job to join them  to work on the movie.'),
('129491',' The filmmakers are donating part of their proceeds from the film to  the charity "Habitat For Humanity".'),
('129492',' The sisters parents play cameos in their films. In this one they  are the bickering dance couple.'),
('129493',' Jerry Orbach (qv)s final film.'),
('129494',' The reason the exteriors have so much fog and smoke was because the  filmmakers were trying to hide the fact that the studio, Elios  Studio near Rome, needed to be renovated.'),
('129495',' In the credits for the movie, nobodys name is shown as the  director. Instead, a statement by Mani C Kappan (qv), saying  thanks to Siddique (I) (qv)Lal (qv) for helping him out in  directing the movie. It is believed that Siddique (I) (qv) and  Lal (qv) directed the movie themselves without giving names.'),
('129496',' Lindstedt, Carl'),
('129497','Gustaf (qv) was supposed to play Dahlgren, but  because of his health he was replaced by Günther, Ernst (qv).'),
('129498',' The opening scene, when the killer cleans his knife and leaves his  home, was not part of the original script, and was shot after the  principal shooting had ended. Ingvar Hirdwall (qv) has admitted  that he did not play the killer in this scene, but will not reveal  who really did it.'),
('129499',' Most of the policemen and journalists in the film are played by real  policemen and journalists.'),
('129500',' Real blood (from pigs) was used in this movie.'),
('129501',' The helicopter crash was shot without permission on Good Friday,  causing some protests by local churches.'),
('129502',' Insurance companies claimed that the helicopter crash would be too  dangerous to shoot from a close distance, so director  Bo Widerberg (qv) himself shot the sequence with a hand'),
('129503','held  camera from the riskiest angles.'),
('129504',' Bo Widerberg (qv) had seen _French Connection, The (1971)_ (qv)  and wanted to make a Swedish equivalent of that film.'),
('129505',' SPOILER: During the attack on the police car, the young boy dragging  the small child on bicycle from the line of fire actually dropped  the little child during shooting. The scene was kept in the movie.'),
('129506',' The brief scene with the young woman screaming on the bus was shot  with a candid camera on a real bus with real passengers. Their  reaction to the scream is real.'),
('129507',' The film is very close to the novel. For instance very much of the  dialog from the book is kept for the film. One major difference  though is the helicopter crash. In the novel it crashes in  Vasaparken (a park not far located from where the action takes  place). Bo Widerberg (qv) changed the crash location to a more  spectacular one on Odenplan '),
('129508',' packed with people.'),
('129509',' The angry demonstrator at the Klara Police Station is played by  Torbjörn Tännsjö (qv), who has since gone on to become a professor  of practical philosophy at the Stockholm University.'),
('129510',' Bo Widerberg (qv) choose actor Carl'),
('129511','Gustaf Lindstedt (qv) '),
('129512',' one  of Swedens most beloved comedians at the time '),
('129513',' to play the  dramatic lead after seeing Lindstedt as a guest in a talk show  looking serious, not realizing he was on the air.'),
('129514',' Every member of the main cast with the exception of Martin Beck  (played by Carl'),
('129515','Gustaf Lindstedt (qv)) wears some kind of cap or  hat. Bo Widerberg (qv) later commented on this, saying he wanted  Beck to look cold (shot during the winter) throughout the movie.'),
('129516',' Kollbergs baby boy is played by Bo Widerbergs son Johan Widerberg  who later became a professional actor. In Mannen på taket he utters  his first line over, the word ball.'),
('129517',' Carl'),
('129518','Gustav Lindstedt is the third actor who has played Martin Beck.  The first Martin Beck was Keve Hjelm in Roseanne (1967). After him  Walter Matthau played the part in The Laughing Policeman (1973) '),
('129519','the  characters name was changed to Jake Martin. After Lindstedt the  part has been played by Derek Jacobi, Gösta Ekman and Peter Haber.'),
('129520',' When stars Gösta Ekman (II) (qv) and Grynet Molvig (qv) first  performed their sex scene, it didnt go very well. Director  Tage Danielsson (qv) asked what the problem was. They said they  were uncomfortable being naked on a movie set naked. Danielsson then  suggested that the whole crew should take their clothes off when  they did this scene '),
('129521',' and so they did. Except for one crew member,  who had a cold.'),
('129522',' Director Tage Danielsson made this make partially to force himself  to give up his own smoking. He thought that if he had made a movie  about giving up smoking, hed be too embarrassed to pick it up  again.'),
('129523',' Director Michael Gottlieb (qv) got the idea for this film when he  was walking by a store window and was startled to "see" a mannequin  move by itself. He realized it was just an optical illusion caused  by a combination of lights and shadows, but began to wonder what  would happen if a mannequin actually DID come to life.'),
('129524',' Originally, the lead part was written to be an older, lonely  storekeeper, with Dudley Moore (qv) in mind for the role, but when  Andrew McCarthy (qv) came on board, the part was rewritten to be  the part of a young artist.'),
('129525',' Mannequin On The Move is the actual title of the film. "Mannequin 2:  On The Move" was the poster title that stuck, but the "Mannequin 2"  was only to let audiences know that it was a sequel.'),
('129526',' The family that Manny and Lo are watching at the golf course are  Scarlett Johanssons parents, brother and sister.'),
('129527',' The only action movie out of 53 films made in the Philippines in  2004.'),
('129528',' Often confused with _Amanti del mostro, Le (1974)_ (qv), which was  released only a month after this film. Both films are directed by  Sergio Garrone (qv) and feature the same cast '),
('129529',' except  Carmen Silva (qv) who appears only in this film. The two films  also share some of the same footage but they *are* entirely  different films with different plots.'),
('129530',' The role played by Ara Mina (qv) was initially intended for  Assunta De Rossi (qv) who was forced to withdraw from the project.  Ara Minas role then went to Kris Aquino.'),
('129531',' Kris Aquino (qv) was supposed to play the role of the third wife,  but preferred the role of the first wife. The producer initially  wanted Dina Bonnevie (qv) to play the wicked role, but  Lorna Tolentino (qv) '),
('129532',' already in the cast '),
('129533',' wanted it too. The  producer selected Lorna after the actress vowed not to work in the  project if the role was not given to her.'),
('129534',' When Lorna Tolentino (qv) got the role of Belinda Que'),
('129535','Tan, the  wicked wife, Dina Bonnevie (qv) was given the role of the good  wife Lu'),
('129536','Shui. She refused. The role went to Zsa Zsa Padilla (qv)  who won the best actress award in the Metro Manila Film Festival for  her portrayal in this movie.'),
('129537',' The movie was initially headline as Dennis Trillo (qv) '),
('129538','  Angel Locsin (qv) movie. However, Dennis was "fired" from the  project and was replaced by Richard Gutierrez (I) (bv).'),
('129539',' Christian Bautista (II) (qv) was personally selected by  Dennis Trillo (qv) to form the triumvirates. When Dennis was  fired, Christian remained in the movie.'),
('129540',' Ai'),
('129541','Ai de las Alas (qv) was earlier tapped to be in the movie.'),
('129542',' Mother Lily Y. Monteverde (qv) wanted Joel Lamangan (qc) to  direct this movie since he made three movie in the franchise. But  since the director was then still doing another Metro Manila  Filmfest entry, Zsa Zsa Zaturnah (2006), this movie was given to  Jun Lana (qv). When the cast was overhauled in the last week of  September, Monteverde dropped Lana and tapped Lamangan to do the  movie. Lamagan accepted the offer since he already finished the  other project.'),
('129543',' The box'),
('129544','office failure of Regal Films _Eternity (2006)_ (qv) forced  producer Lily Y. Monteverde (qv) to "fire" Dennis Trillo (qv)  from the movie. The producer reasoned that it was unwise to have the  team'),
('129545','up of Angel Locsin (qv) and Dennis Trillo (qv) twice in a  row despite the success of their previous pairing,  _Txt (2006)_ (qv). Monteverde cited that the first pairing of  Dingdong Dantes (qv) and Iza Calzado (qv) in  _Moments of Love (2006)_ (qv), but the immediate follow'),
('129546','up in  _Eternity (2006)_ (qv) was a disaster.'),
('129547',' The role of Yolanda was originally intended for Dina Bonnevie (qv)  who was eased out from the _Mano po 2: My home (2003)_ (qv) by  Lorna Tolentino (qv). Dina shot for a day for this movie but was  sidelined by illness. As Dina could not continue doing the movie,  Lorna was tapped to replace her as Yolanda.'),
('129548',' On 27 September 2004, Regal Films staged a moon cake festival to  launch the movie in time with the contract signing of all the stars  for this movie.'),
('129549',' Kris Aquino (qv), who starred in two earlier Mano Po series, was  initially offered to play in the movie. Due to her hectic schedule,  her role was later offered to Judy Ann Santos (qv). But since  Santos was shooting the TV series _"Krystala" (2004)_ (qv), the role  later went to Sheryl Cruz (qv), who made a comeback with this  film.'),
('129550',' Jay Manalo (qv) is the only actor to have starred in all the Mano  Po series.'),
('129551',' Supported by Globe, Philam Life, Dunkin Donut, Dream, Love Radio,  Kissa, Yes FM, and imanila.'),
('129552',' Got B rating from Cinema Evaluation Board (Philippines).'),
('129553',' May be the first horror and "vampire" film.'),
('129554',' Live'),
('129555','broadcast from Viennas State Opera.'),
('129556',' The broadcast features an introduction by the director  Robert Carsen (qv).'),
('129557',' Based on the play "Ravenscroft" by Don Nigro.'),
('129558',' The scenes featuring two teenagers who are hassled by the cops while  necking in their car were added because actress  Molleur, Joyce (qv) broke her leg during filming, and was unable  to perform her original role.'),
('129559',' Filmed entirely with a handheld camera that could only record  thirty'),
('129560','two seconds of film at a time. The film was shot without  sound; all the lines were later dubbed by only three people '),
('129561',' two  men and one woman. The little girl who plays Debbie cried when she  first heard her dubbed voice.'),
('129562',' The real reason Reynolds, John (I) (qv) (Torgo) appears to have  big knees and walks funny is because his character is supposed to be  a satyr. Reynolds designed his own prosthetics to make himself look  like he had goats feet. (Note how the wife gasps when she first  looks down his feet, which the viewer does not get to see.)'),
('129563',' Torgo was originally named Igor.'),
('129564',' The film was shot in two and a half months with a budget of about  $19,000.'),
('129565',' The movie was given a gala premiere in El Paso upon its release, and  many of the local dignitaries were on hand. Part way into the film,  many people in the audience began to heckle the movie. Many of the  films stars and crewmembers snuck out before the end out of  embarrassment.'),
('129566',' The IMDb id number for "Manos, the Hands of Fate", ends in 666.  Coincidence? Or magic? You decide.'),
('129567',' The endless driving sequences at the beginning were supposed to have  the opening credits over them, but were inexplicably left out.'),
('129568',' The Masters "Vampire Wives" were played by a group of models for  Mannequin Manor.'),
('129569',' The Masters "Lodge Of Sins" was actually the ranch of then El Paso  County Judge, Colbert Coldwell.'),
('129570',' People attending the premiere at The Capri Theater in El Paso paid  $0.35 (Children) $1.25/$1.00 (Adults/with a discount card).'),
('129571',' Hal Warren (qv) later approached cinematographer  Robert Guidry (I) (qv) with another script, this one called "Wild  Desert Bikers". Guidry declined.'),
('129572',' The majority of the cast (and crew) never appeared in another movie  after this.'),
('129573',' As filming dragged on and on, increasingly disgruntled crew began to  refer to the movie as "Mangos, cans of fruit".'),
('129574',' In addition to Jackey Neyman (qv) playing Debbie and  Tom Neyman (qv) playing the master, Toms wife made the master and  wives costumes and their dog played the demon dog.'),
('129575',' Lighting was limited for the film; explaining the infamous scene in  which two cops literally take two steps to investigate then turn  back.'),
('129576',' The footage of the snake looks a lot better than the rest of the  film because it was stock footage lifted from a Disney nature  documentary.'),
('129577',' Quentin Tarantino (qv) owns one of the only 35mm copies of the  film left in existence. He claims this is his favorite "comedy" of  all time.'),
('129578',' The only two members of the cast that were paid for their  performances were Jackey Neyman (qv) and the Doberman. Jackey got  a bicycle and the Doberman got a bag of dog food. Every other member  of the cast was to be paid by a cut of the movies profits, which,  of course, never materialized.'),
('129579',' Writer/director/producer Hal Warren (qv) was a fertilizer salesman  from El Paso. He made a bet with visiting location scout  Stirling Silliphant (qv) (later an award'),
('129580','winning screenwriter  himself) that he could make a popular horror film on an extremely  minimal budget.'),
('129581',' In lieu of a salary, Hal Warren (qv) sold shares to the cast and  crew for their hard work and long hours.'),
('129582',' The city of El Paso was so involved that Hal Warren (qv) sent free  tickets for the premiere to the press and all the aldermen and the  Mayor of El Paso.'),
('129583',' If the day or scenes or performances went poorly, Hal Warren (qv)  would reassure the novice cast that any errors would be fixed  post'),
('129584','production by the magic of Hollywood. They werent.'),
('129585',' Tom Neyman (qv), who plays the master, also helped  John Reynolds (I) (qv) make Torgos knees and he painted the  portrait of the master and his dog.'),
('129586',' One day, to mock Hal Warren (qv)s prima donna attitude to  directing, one of the crew impersonated Erich von Stroheim (qv),  wearing a safari suit and barking out orders.'),
('129587',' The word Manos is Spanish for hands. Therefore, the title really  says Hands: The Hands of Fate. The masters outfit has two red  hands on it and Torgos walking stick has a hand on top of it.'),
('129588',' Hal Warren once stated that he left Torgos fate vague on purpose.  If the film was a hit, the sequel was to involve Torgos return. The  sequel was never written though.'),
('129589',' John Reynolds, who played Torgo, sustained permanent damage to his  knee caps wearing the apparatus on them. He was constantly on pain  killers up until his suicide, due to the injury he had from this  movie. It’s believed that the knee caps were injured due to the  device being worn backwards.'),
('129590',' SPOILER: At the premiere in El Paso, after the film finished  showing, Hal Warren was attacked by a middle aged woman with her  purse. The woman was upset that the little girl, Debbie, becomes one  of the masters wives at the end.'),
('129591',' The last shot of the film shows to "El manosanta" pointing to a  board announcing the upcoming sequel of this movie. The movie was  never made because the death of Alberto Olmedo, who played "El  manosanta".'),
('129592',' Bogart, Humphrey (qv) was originally cast in this film, but  Raft, George (qv) refused to work with him.'),
('129593',' A fistfight developed on the set between stars  Robinson, Edward G. (qv) and Raft, George (qv) when Raft spun  Robinson around too hard for a scene.'),
('129594',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the drama  _Hour of Execution, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('129595',' The instrument played by Julia and Maria Bertram is an armonica,  invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.'),
('129596',' Jonny Lee Miller who plays Edmund Bertram in this version of  Mansfield Park, played Fannys young brother Charles Price in the  1983 mini'),
('129597','series of Mansfield Park.'),
('129598',' The various stories Fanny Price writes are actually Jane Austens  Juvenilia, written when she was a teenager.'),
('129599',' In the play rehearsal scene, James DArcy (I) (qv) as Tom Bertram  wears a brocade suit that was also worn by Corin Redgrave (qv) in  1995s _Persuasion (1995)_ (qv). Redgrave wears the suit during the  scene in which Sir Walter Elliot tries to induce Anne to accompany  him to Lady Dalrymples.'),
('129600',' The windowpane check gown worn by Billie Piper (qv) as Fanny Price  is the same gown worn by Emma Thompson (I) (qv) as Elinor Dashwood  in _Sense and Sensibility (1995)_ (qv)'),
('129601',' This is the first new Tom and Jerry cartoon to be produced by  Boomerang.'),
('129602',' The last theatrical release of a Tom and Jerry cartoon.'),
('129603',' Despite being a Mexican production and having a mostly Mexican cast  and crew, this movie was filmed in English, then dubbed into Spanish  for Mexican cinemas. The version released in USA, retitled "Dr.  Tarrs Torture Dungeon", is actually the original version (not a  dub), but in a cut form.'),
('129604',' This was a 10 chapter cliffhanger serial made by William M. Pizor  Productions. Each chapter was two reels. It went unnoticed by trade  papers and reviewers and was never copyrighted. According to the  Film Daily Yearbook for 1928, it was released on December 15, 1927.  Virtually nothing more is known of this film.'),
('129605',' Leatrice Joy (qv) claimed to have based her performance on  Madelynne Obenchain, whose trial she attended in Los Angeles.  Obenchain, who murdered her (unreceptive) paramour J. Belton Kennedy  in Los Angeles, later had her story incorporated into a film, "A Man  and a Million", produced by Charles R. Seeling (qv) and starring  her husband, Ralph Obenchain.'),
('129606',' Clara Bow (qv) was originally slated to play the lead, but due to  her personal problems at the time, Paramount replaced her with  Claudette Colbert (qv).'),
('129607',' A nitrate print of the film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('129608',' Brooks Poston (qv) and Paul Watkins (III) (qv), who provided the  musical score for the film, were both former members of the "Manson  Family".'),
('129609',' The film played a couple of festivals as a work'),
('129610','in'),
('129611','progress in 1997.  This was the work print of the film complete with splices, grease  pencil marks and rough sound and projected from a video tape. The  film ran out of funding and was not completed until Blue Underground  became involved. Only then was the negative cut, the sound edited  and mixed, the beginning and end titles shot and the film blown'),
('129612','up  to 35mm and the newly completed film was first shown on 18 August  2003.'),
('129613',' The voice of Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones (IV) (qv) can be  heard a number of times throughout the movie, taken from a recording  made just before his mass suicide.'),
('129614',' Phil Anselmo, the singer for Pantera, can be heard as the voice of  Satan.'),
('129615',' Sam Raimis "ARMY OF DARKNESS" pays homage to this film. When Ash  has swallowed one of his little dopplegangers, he then grows an eye  on his right shoulder, which results in him splitting into two  beings; Good Ash and Evil Ash. In The Manster, the reporter is  injected with a serum and later develops an eye, which grows into a  head, resulting in him splitting into a good being and an evil one.'),
('129616',' Feature film edited from episodes of the television series I tre  moschettieri/The Three Musketeers.'),
('129617',' Argentinas entry for 2006 Golden Globes Awards for the category of  Best Foreign Language Film.'),
('129618',' First film of Barbara Shelley.'),
('129619',' This may have been part of a series of sound films that Biograph  made, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Interior, of  classroom scenes, to be shown at the Pan'),
('129620','American Exhibition in  Buffalo, New York. The sound was recorded on "Graphaphone" wax  cylinders by the Columbia Phonograph Co.'),
('129621',' At one point in the documentary five of the greatest living  classical guitarist '),
('129622',' Manuel Barrueco, Sérgio and Odair Assad, David  Russell and David Tanenbaum are all playing one guitar.'),
('129623',' Argentinas official submission for the 1999 Oscar Awards, Foreign  Language film category.'),
('129624',' The "Non'),
('129625','Corporate News" sequence where Chomsky speaks in "real  time" while the other TVs are accelerated, was shot by an animator.  The 40 second sequence took six weeks of prep and was done in one 15  hour take.'),
('129626',' Even though the filmmakers were told they couldnt take video within  the New York Times Building, about 12 minutes of "guerrilla footage"  was shot.'),
('129627',' The film took five years to complete. Its credits acknowledge  efforts and support of over 300 people and organizations. Crews shot  in 23 cities in 7 countries over a period of 4 years. The film was  edited from over 120 hours of original and archival footage.  Archival images were culled from 185 sources. [from an insert] A  statistic: In North America there are: 7 major movie studios and  more than 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio  stations, 2,000 TV stations, 2,500 book publishers. 23 corporations  own and control over 50% of the business in each medium. In some  cases they have a virtual monopoly.'),
('129628',' For all the onscreen text '),
('129629',' title cards, name and location  information, etc. '),
('129630',' all the letters s were converted to $ and all  the letters c were converted to ¢. This occurs not just in the end  credits, but throughout the entire movie.'),
('129631',' This making'),
('129632','of is featured on the DVD for  _Fast Food Nation (2006)_ (qv).'),
('129633',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)s last silent film.'),
('129634',' This is actually made up of three classic Winnie the Pooh shorts:  _Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)_ (qv),  _Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)_ (qv), and  _Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974)_ (qv), all edited together  with animated wrap'),
('129635','arounds with Pooh and Piglet between each  feature.'),
('129636',' Tiggers trademark "Hoo'),
('129637','hoo'),
('129638','hoo!" laugh by was ad'),
('129639','libbed by  Paul Winchell (qv) as well as his famous "TTFN'),
('129640','Ta Ta For Now!"  line.'),
('129641',' All backgrounds for the film were outlined in ink to keep with the  sketchy style of the original Ernest Shepard (qv) illustrations.'),
('129642',' The character of Gopher (not in the book, but at your service) was  originally included to replace the original A. A. Milne (qv)  character, Piglet. The studio eventually reinstated Piglet in the  second featurette,  _Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)_ (qv).'),
('129643',' The scene where Rabbit tries to decorate Poohs bottom was one of  Walt Disney (qv)s favorite scenes from his films.'),
('129644',' Sebastian Cabot (I) (qv)s last film.'),
('129645',' Lost for 25 years, this film has been restored from various copies  found around the world.'),
('129646',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('129647','Disc Divimax Special Edition  DVD for _Day of the Dead (1987)_ (qv), released in 2003.'),
('129648',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for _Catwoman (2004)_ (qv),  released in 2005.'),
('129649',' Because Paramount still owns the rights to the first eight Friday  the 13th films, no footage from these films could be used in this  documentary.'),
('129650',' The first film Of Charles Carson (qv).'),
('129651',' A documentary in the Outdoor Sketches series.'),
('129652',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Beside the Still Waters (1927)_ (qv).'),
('129653',' No. 5 of 15 in "The Perils of Our Girl Reporters" series.'),
('129654',' Sixth in a series of 13 Whirlwind Comedies produced by Charles R.  Bowers.'),
('129655',' This is the first feature film shot in the Maori language.'),
('129656',' The director, Robert J. Hyatt (qv), was the first and to this day  only foreigner (American) to be allowed onto the sacred Moari, the  royal area for only the privileged, with special permission by the  Maori Queen for the purpose of filming the private meetings of the  visiting Polynesian Kings and Queens.'),
('129657',' Vincent Ward (I) (qv) invested his pay off for his work on  _Alien_ (1992)_ (qv) to finance this film.'),
('129658',' Inspired by director Vincent Ward (I) (qv)s time spent living  with the Inuit.'),
('129659',' Poet Jorge Wanderleys last interview.'),
('129660',' The subject matter was so intense that lead actress, Deborah  Stewart, lost 20 pounds during shooting.'),
('129661',' The film was shot in two weeks and the entire cast and crew lived on  the set together, getting four hours sleep a night if they were  lucky.'),
('129662',' The screenplay was a 2004 IFP/NY Emerging Narrative selection.'),
('129663',' The film was actually a "spin'),
('129664','off" from one of the writers previous  screenplays in which Nicole and Amy appeared as a sub'),
('129665','plot. The  previous script was a straight romantic comedy but the writer felt  the Nicole and Amy sub'),
('129666','plot was a much more compelling story.'),
('129667',' The film was written in 10 days with only minor changes made to the  script during rehearsals and shooting.'),
('129668',' All the scenes which take place on the apartments balcony were  actually shot on the Penthouse unit above the actual apartment where  the rest of the movie was shot.'),
('129669',' The beaded palm tree curtain in Nicole and Amys bedroom is actually  covering the door to the master bathroom because the filmmakers  wanted to give the apartment a more intimate feel.'),
('129670',' The first scene between Nicole and Billy takes place in front of a  large window that was overexposed. The filmmaker inserted CGI trees  into the window and motion tracked them with camera movement in  order to camouflage the problem and give the illusion of perfect  exposure.'),
('129671',' For good luck, almost all the boxes in Nicole and Amys closet and  apartment have the numbers "354" marked on them, which is actually  the suite number for the films production company, FATfilms, LLC.'),
('129672',' Lloyd Bochner (qv)s first film.'),
('129673',' Filmed in 1999, this sat on the shelf for nearly four years.'),
('129674',' Naseeruddin Shah (I) (qv) conducted a workshop for all actors in  the movie for a few days before start of filming, to get everyone in  character and for natural interactions'),
('129675',' Macbeth is Vishal Bharadwaj (qv)s favorite Play. He wanted to  make a movie for mature audiences after his debut with the  childrens movie Makdee (Shabana Azmi (qv) played the witch for  free in that one), and chose his favorite dark'),
('129676','story.'),
('129677',' Vishal Bharadwaj (qv)s original choice for the role of Maqbool  was Akshay Kumar (qv).'),
('129678',' Sridevi and Jaya Prada didnt exchange a word during the shooting of  the eight or nine films they co'),
('129679','starred in. While shooting "Maqsad",  their co'),
('129680','stars Rajesh Khanna and Jeetendra apparently locked the two  women up in the same room. An hour later when they peeped in, they  saw them sitting quietly in two corners of the room.'),
('129681',' All the film was shot in a single day.'),
('129682',' The producers of the film claim that Christian Bale (qv) dropped  from about 180 pounds in weight down to about 120 pounds in weight  to make this film. They also claim that Bale actually wanted to drop  down to 100 pounds, but that they would not let him go below 120 out  of fear that his health could be in too much danger if he did. His  diet consisted of one can of tuna and an apple per day. His 63'),
('129683','pound  weight loss is said to be a record for any actor for a movie role.  He since gained the weight back for his role in  _Batman Begins (2005)_ (qv).'),
('129684',' Trevors landlady is named Mrs. Shrike. This is a reference to  Nathanael Wests novella "Miss Lonelyhearts" in which the main  character suffers a spiritual dilemma and is antagonized demonically  by Shrike, his editor.'),
('129685',' While Trevor is riding Route 666, one shot reveals a sign overhead  that reads "Crime and Punishment," the Dostoevsky novel about a  guilty man who attempts to justify his innocence. This also provides  the bookend, if you will, to Trevors home reading, The Idiot, which  is Dostoevskys examination of an innocent man whom others lure into  their webs of corruption and which has a very surprising and  climatic ending; thus foreshadowing the movies own ending. The  movie also has similarities to Dostoevskys "The Double", which  contains a character that appears and begins to ruin the  protagonists life. The doppelganger turns out to  pseudo'),
('129686','schizophrenic manifestation of the protagonists less  desirable characteristics.'),
('129687',' A fishs head is mounted in the "Boiler Room" bar.'),
('129688',' The Machinists writer, Scott Kossar, loves "Nine Inch Nails" and  his original script had a quote from their lyrics on the first page.  He always wanted the soundtrack to be written by NIN, but the  director didnt want the movie to go in that direction. Nine Inch  Nails only official member is Trent Reznor, thus the name of  Christian Bales Character, Trevor Reznik.'),
('129689',' Many references to "sinister" in both the modern sense  ("ominous/evil") and the ancient sense ("left/unlucky"): Both Miller  and Ivan have damaged left hands, Ivan is standing on the left in  the photo, Ivans left eye is a bright blue while the other is dark  brown, Maries kitchen is "last door on the left", Stevies bruise  is on the left side of her face, The hangman game progresses from  right to left, The lye or bleach is always to the left of whatever  sink Trevor uses On three occasions, Trevor encounters a "fork" in  the road: in the "Route 666" ride, in the sewer, and when traveling  to the airport ("Airport" vs Downtown") '),
('129690',' the "left" (sinister) path  is always darker and more dangerous, and each time Trevor chooses to  follow it except for the last time, he chooses right (downtown,  "salvation").'),
('129691',' In the subway you can see a poster of the film  _Rottweiler (2004)_ (qv), another film produced by  Julio Fernández (qv).'),
('129692',' Ivans license plate number '),
('129693',' 743CRN is the reverse of Trevors  number '),
('129694',' NRC347 (seen at 1:06:36)'),
('129695',' In the scene where Trevor is driving Marie and Nicholas back home,  if you look closely through the drivers side window when Trevor  stops, you can see two people sitting in the background. According  to Brad Anderson, they were junkies who were actually shooting up  heroin during the filming of the scene.'),
('129696',' Brad Anderson hurt his back during filming and directed much of the  film while lying on a gurney.'),
('129697',' This film contained two actors who have played Batman. Christian  Bale played Batman in Batman Begins, and Michael Ironside voiced the  character of Batman in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series,  entitled "Legends of the Dark Knight".'),
('129698',' SPOILER: Miller says to Reznik, "I need a hand." About a minute and  a half later, Miller loses his hand in machine.'),
('129699',' The time of 1:30 AM is significant throughout the movie. Trevor  often notices something out of the ordinary at this time. During the  1 hour 30 minute mark in the movie, the major plot twist is  revealed.'),
('129700',' Because the film was shot almost entirely on location in Barcelona,  Spain, the production designers had to painstakingly re'),
('129701','create the  look and feel of Los Angeles with many "everyday Americana" items in  both interior AND exterior shoots. This included cigarettes,  alcohol, street signs, traffic signals, public telephones, retail  signage, automobiles, license plates, and also shooting in what  writer Scott Kosar called "some of the worst areas of Barcelona".'),
('129702',' "Reznik" means "butcher" in Czech language.'),
('129703',' Nominated by the Spanish Cinematographic Academy, to represent Spain  in the 2004 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film.'),
('129704',' Three months before Spanish premiere, Alejandro Amenábar (qv) gave  a photo to the media to be shown all over the nation to make people  get used to Bardems make'),
('129705','up and forget about it while watching the  film to pay attention to his performance.'),
('129706',' When Belén Rueda (qv) was phoned to be informed about she had just  been chosen to play a role in an Amenábar film she hung up. She  thought they were kidding her.'),
('129707',' This is the second Spanish movie about Ramon Sampedros life. The  first one was _Condenado a vivir (2001) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('129708',' This was the most awarded Spanish movie at the Goya Awards, winning  14 of the 15 awards for which it was nominated.'),
('129709',' SPOILER: Lola Dueñas (qv) character should have been called  Ramona Maneiro, but Ramon Sampedros family told Amenábar that they  didnt want the name of Ramons "assassin" to appear in the movie,  so Amenábar called the character of Lola Dueñas, simply "Rosa".'),
('129710',' SPOILER: The film is based on the true case of Ramón Sampedro who in  fact suffered from paralysis after a diving accident for over 25  years. Eventually, Sampedro committed suicide. For his screenplay,  Alejandro Amenábar (qv) left the original name for his lead  character instead of altering it.'),
('129711',' Edited with Final Cut Pro.'),
('129712',' A story circulated for a long time that Dustin Hoffman (qv) (being  a "method actor") stayed up all night to play a character who has  stayed up all night. Arriving on the set, Laurence Olivier (qv)  asked him why he looked the way he did. Hoffman told him, to which  Olivier replied in jest, "Why not try acting? Its much easier."  Dustin Hoffman repeatedly denied the story, and finally cleared up  the story in 2004. The torture scene was filmed early in the  morning, Hoffman was going through a divorce from his first wife and  was depressed, and had spend the previous two nights partying hard.  Hoffman told Olivier this and his comment related to his lifestyle  and not his "method" style of acting.'),
('129713',' On the last day of shooting, Laurence Olivier (qv) visited  Dustin Hoffman (qv) at his home, bringing with him the Complete  Works of William Shakespeare as a gift. He then proceeded to read  scenes from several of the plays, much to Hoffmans delight. The  actor credits the story about his conflict with Olivier to general  malice on writer William Goldman (qv)s part, who didnt take  kindly to the fact that Hoffman had persuaded director  John Schlesinger (I) (qv) to change the ending of Goldmans book.'),
('129714',' The torture scene was shortened after preview audiences were taken  sick.'),
('129715',' Laurence Olivier (qv) was so afraid that he would accidentally  hurt Dustin Hoffman (qv) while filming the torture scene that he  would constantly ask Hoffman if he was all right after shooting a  take. As a joke, Hoffman tried to make Olivier think that he had  really hurt him by screaming in a very convincing and unexpected  manner.'),
('129716',' Dr. Szell is based on the historical Doctor Josef Mengele, head SS  Doctor of Auschwitz, who was living a fugitives life in South  America when the movie was produced.'),
('129717',' Although not particularly a fan of William Goldmans original novel,  Dustin Hoffman took the part so that he could work with  John Schlesinger (qv) again (the two had previously collaborated  on _Midnight Cowboy (1969)_ (qv)). He had also heard that  Al Pacino (qv) was interested in the part and wanted to beat him  to it.'),
('129718',' Although the film takes place in New York, at least two sequences  were filmed in Los Angeles: the scene where Roy Scheider (qv)  meets Laurence Olivier (qv) was filmed in front of the red steps  statue in downtown Los Angeles in the Arco Plaza; and the library  scene where Dustin Hoffman (qv) meets Marthe Keller (qv) was  filmed at the Doheny Library on the University of Southern  California campus. Coincidentally, Hoffman filmed scenes on the same  campus ten years earlier in the landmark  _Graduate, The (1967)_ (qv).'),
('129719',' During the scene where the heavies try to drown  Dustin Hoffman (qv) in the bathtub, Hoffman (always the method  actor) insisted upon being made to stay underwater as long as  possible to make it real. Several takes were done and Hoffman  insisted on being kept down longer in the water. By the end of the  scene, he had to be given oxygen. In his own words, "I said, Dont  press on my Adams apple, but try to really hold me under. Let me  see how long I can stay under. Let me see if I can fight you. Let me  see what happens."'),
('129720',' Dustin Hoffman (qv) lost 15 pounds for this role. He ran up to  four miles a day to get into shape for playing the part. He would  never come into a scene and fake the breathing. According to  producer Robert Evans (I) (qv), Hoffman "would run, just for a  take, he would run for a half'),
('129721','mile so he came into the scene, hed  actually be out of breath."'),
('129722',' Jean'),
('129723','Pierre Aumont (I) (qv) and George Cukor (qv) were among  those who were on the shortlist for Szell.'),
('129724',' Outtakes reveal a couple of things. First, Laurence Olivier (qv)  had trouble using the large switchblade made for his character.  Often, he would try to activate it and the blade would not come out.  Second, several actors enjoyed imitating the unique speech patterns  of producer Robert Evans (I) (qv). Years later,  Dustin Hoffman (qv) used that imitation for his performance in  _Wag the Dog (1997)_ (qv).'),
('129725',' John Schlesinger (qv) envisioned a cast of Al Pacino (qv),  Julie Christie (I) (qv) and Laurence Olivier (qv). Pacino has  said that the only actress he had ever wanted to work with was  Christie, who he claimed was "the most poetic of actresses".  Producer Robert Evans (I) (qv), who disparaged Pacino as "The  Midget" when Francis Ford Coppola (qv) wanted him for  _Godfather, The (1972)_ (qv) and had thought of firing him during  the early shooting of the now'),
('129726','classic film, vetoed Pacino for the  lead. Instead, Evans insisted on the casting of the even shorter  Dustin Hoffman (qv). Christie, who was notoriously finicky about  accepting parts, even in prestigious, sure'),
('129727','fire material, turned  down the female lead, which was then taken by Marthe Keller (qv).  Of his dream cast, Schlesinger only got Olivier, who was nominated  for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.'),
('129728',' Madge Kennedy (qv)s last movie.'),
('129729',' When Babe comes in from a run, you can see a book titled "Corbitt"  on his table. Corbitt was an American marathoner in the 1950s who  was also from NYC and who also taught at Columbia U., which Babe  attends in the movie.'),
('129730',' According to "Adventures in the Screen Trade", at one point in  rehearsal Laurence Olivier (qv) asked William Goldman (qv) if he  could change a line slightly, and called Goldman "Bill" while doing  so. Goldman describes it as the high point of his career.'),
('129731',' The movies line "Is it safe?" was voted as the #70 movie quote by  the American Film Institute (out of 100).'),
('129732',' Laurence Olivier (qv) plays the character of Dr. Christian Szell,  based on Dr. Josef Mengele. Two years later, in 1978, Laurence  Olivier acted in _Boys from Brazil, The (1978)_ (qv), a story about  Dr. Mengele (played by Gregory Peck (qv)).'),
('129733',' The graphics of Marble Madness were created using a development  system called the "Picture Processing System". This system took up a  small room, cost $100,000, and featured a huge tablet with a 12  button digitizing "puck". Despite all of this, this system could  only draw horizontal and vertical lines automatically. Diagonal  lines had to rendered by hand.'),
('129734',' George Lazenby (qv)s first film appearance.'),
('129735',' Although this film marks George Lazenby (qv)s first film  appearance, almost all copies of the film that remain in existence  have been cut from the original 92 minutes to 60 minutes in length,  and the part of the film in which he appeared is part of the cut 32  minutes. Because only the cut 60 minute versions of the film are  still available, this has led many people to say that Lazenby  actually does not appear in the film, but that is because the  original 92 minute versions with him in the movie are no longer  available. Therefore Lazenbys first film appearance has apparently  been lost.'),
('129736',' This film was a blockbuster hit in Europe and along with the first  four James Bond movies, _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv),  _From Russia With Love (1963)_ (qv), _Goldfinger (1964)_ (qv), and  _Thunderball (1965)_ (qv) it helped to set off a spy film genre  mania craze in Europe in the mid'),
('129737','1960s.'),
('129738',' The school in this films (New Ashby High) colors are light blue,  peach and orange.'),
('129739',' The school in the film "New Ashby High School" is actually Ashley  High School in Wilmington, NC. The theater is the schools auditorium  The Minnie Evans Center for the Performing Arts.'),
('129740',' Ben Stiller filmed all scenes within first two weeks of shooting  because he was working on other projects.'),
('129741',' Vitaphone release #950A'),
('129742','951A.'),
('129743',' Musical excerpts from this uncompleted film were later used in  Broadway to Hollywood (1933), Nertsery Rhymes (1933) and Roast'),
('129744','Beef  and Movies (1934). The 2'),
('129745','strip Technicolor Prison Number featuring  The Dodge Sisters doing The Lock Step was featured in Thats  Entertainment! III (1994).'),
('129746',' This movie, described as "a revue in three sections, dealing with  the celebrities, dances and humor of the past, present and future,"  was originally scheduled for release in September 1930.'),
('129747',' Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film  Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996.'),
('129748',' This movie was first released on French'),
('129749','German TV channel Arte in a  shorter version under the title _Détour, Le (2000) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('129750',' Morgan Freeman (I) (qv) recorded his narration in one day.'),
('129751',' When released, became the second highest grossing theatrical  documentary (after _Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)_ (qv)).'),
('129752',' It was noted that, by the time of the 2006 Academy Awards, this Best  Documentary winner had out'),
('129753','grossed all 5 Best Picture nominees ($77  million vs. $75 million for _Brokeback Mountain (2005)_ (qv)).'),
('129754',' The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and  heaviest of all living penguins and the only one to breed during the  winter in Antarctica.'),
('129755',' This short was premiered at the beginning of the closing ceremony of  the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and was simultaneously broadcast on  French TV.'),
('129756',' Chris Rock (I) (qv) was offered the part of Dr. S but turned it  down'),
('129757',' With the massive exterior sets, lavish interior sets and a multitude  of Asian extras left over from this production, Panda had writers  Oreste Biancoli (qv) and Duccio Tessari (qv) fashion a  sword'),
('129758','and'),
('129759','sandal/mythological muscleman epic,  _Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan (1961)_ (qv), placing hero Maciste  in a Chinese setting. Genre specialist Riccardo Freda (qv) was  brought in to direct, Gordon Scott (I) (qv) was cast as Maciste  (renamed "Samson" for the U.S. version) and Yoko Tani (qv) was  kept on as the female lead. It became regarded as one of the better  films of that genre.'),
('129760',' This was the first ever Australian animated feature.'),
('129761',' Brendan Sexton spent three days installing carpet in Brooklyn in  preparation for the role.'),
('129762',' The film is based on an actual case known as the "Career Girl"  murders that happened on 28 August 1963. It was the date on which  Martin Luther King Jr. (qv) delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech,  as mentioned in the film.'),
('129763',' After Telly Savalas (qv) died, the movie was shown again for the  first time in nearly 20 years, this time with a short clip of Telly  and the words "Dedicated to the memory of Aristotle Telly Savalas  1920 '),
('129764',' 1994" at the end of the show.'),
('129765',' In this pilot film, the lead characters name is spelled "Kojack"  (with a "c"). The "c" was taken out when "Kojak" became a series.'),
('129766',' This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.'),
('129767',' Dimple Kapadia was initially offered the role of Ruby, but her  salary demands proved to be a stumbling block. She was replaced by  Amrita Singh, a newcomer who had made her acting debut in Betaab  (1983)'),
('129768',' The 2006 DVD release contains post'),
('129769','Hurricane Katrina updates.'),
('129770',' The movie was filmed in 4 days.'),
('129771',' Michael Powell (I) (qv) worked as an apprentice on this film, a  position secured for him by Harry Lachman (qv).'),
('129772',' Following political pressure from the UK, Metro'),
('129773','Goldwyn'),
('129774','Mayer  withdrew this film from British territories following its initial  theatrical run.'),
('129775',' In the shot where Bernie the salesman says "Make it happen.." the  producer is in the background coiling cords along with William C  Mitchell'),
('129776',' Takashi Shimizu (qv) shot the film in just eight days, between the  production dates for _Ju'),
('129777','on: The Grudge (2003)_ (qv) and its remake,  _Grudge, The (2004/I)_ (qv).'),
('129778',' Was shot and finished for under $2,000.'),
('129779',' Shot in two days. 50 set'),
('129780','ups a day.'),
('129781',' Was shot at notable structuralist filmmaker  James Benning (I) (qv)s house in Val Verde, CA.'),
('129782',' Heike Makatsch (qv) had to learn the Swabian dialect to portray  Margarete Steiff.'),
('129783',' Natalie Moorhead (qv)s last film.'),
('129784',' First film for Alan Young (I) (qv).'),
('129785',' Originally titled "Nicole at the Beach", as a tribute to Eric  Rohmer, the title was changed when Nicole Kidman was cast.'),
('129786',' Nicole Kidman (qv), Jack Black (I) (qv) and  Jennifer Jason Leigh (qv) moved in together during filming,  because they wanted to perfect their roles as a dysfunctional family'),
('129787',' Tarantula lives on Jess Franco Street.'),
('129788',' On the Sub Rosa DVD, after the FBI Warning, there is a MARI Warning:  "Tarantula provides the penalty of bondage and castration for  unauthorized reproduction, distribution of exhibition of Mari Cookie  and the Killer Tarantula video tapes of video discs. Criminal  copyright infringement is investigated by Sheriff Marga and may  constitute a penalty of up to five years of turning her on and/or a  lifetime of servitude in Tarantulas lair."'),
('129789',' There are two cast lists in the title credits. The first one only  lists the 6 main players as follows: Madeleine Renaud (as Madeleine  Renaud Sociétaire de la Comédie Française), Jean Gabin, Jean'),
('129790','Pierre  Aumont, André Bacqué (as André Bacqué Sociétaire de la Comédie  Française), Alexandre Rignault and Suzanne Desprès. Then a full cast  list details all female players along with their respective  character names, followed by the male cast (also with the names of  their characters).'),
('129791',' Based on the book "Het bleven dat we droomden" by the Flemish  novelist Maurice Roelants.'),
('129792',' Catalina Sandino Moreno (qv) became the first actress ever to be  nominated to Best Actress at the Oscars for a role that it is spoken  entirely in Spanish.'),
('129793',' The film originally had been selected by Colombia to be its official  choice for the 77th Academy Awards. It was rejected because it was  considered to be not Colombian enough and the film "El Rey" by the  Dorado Brothers was submitted instead.'),
('129794',' Although the first part of the film is set in Colombia, it was  actually filmed in Ecuador.'),
('129795',' Catalina Sandino Moreno (qv) did not practice swallowing pellets  during rehearsals. Since the character of Maria did not know how to  swallow them, Moreno and Joshua Marston (qv) agreed that it would  be more realistic for her to try swallowing them for the first time  on'),
('129796','camera. The pellets were made of easily digestible substances but  neither Moreno nor Marston will reveal what exactly they were made  of.'),
('129797',' Catalina Sandino Moreno (qv) prepared for her role by working in a  Colombian flower plantation for two weeks cutting roses. She did not  meet with real drug mules because she wanted to appear to be as  clueless to the process and the consequences as Maria was.'),
('129798',' The real Red Barn, where Maria Marten was murdered in 1828 is in the  village of Polstead, Suffolk, UK. Baroness Rendell of Babergh lives  there now; she is better known as crime writer Ruth Rendell (qv) .'),
('129799',' The real Red Barn, where Maria Marten was murdered in 1828 is in the  village of Polstead, Suffolk, UK. Baroness Rendell of Babergh lives  there now; she is better known as crime writer Ruth Rendell (qv) .'),
('129800',' The real Red Barn, where Maria Marten was murdered in 1828 is in the  village of Polstead, Suffolk, UK. Baroness Rendell of Babergh lives  there now; she is better known as crime writer Ruth Rendell (qv) .'),
('129801',' The real Red Barn, where Maria Marten was murdered in 1828 is in the  village of Polstead, Suffolk, UK. Baroness Rendell of Babergh lives  there now; she is better known as crime writer Ruth Rendell (qv) .'),
('129802',' The real Red Barn, where Maria Marten was murdered in 1828 is in the  village of Polstead, Suffolk, UK. Baroness Rendell of Babergh lives  there now; she is better known as crime writer Ruth Rendell (qv) .'),
('129803',' Tellegen, Lou (qv) (who had starred on Broadway as Andreas in the  stage version) was consulted in the production of this film, the  result of which was that he met and married the films star  (Farrar, Geraldine (qv)).'),
('129804',' Based on the book by the Flemish author and founder of the first  Flemish acting school Herman Teirlinck (qv). This prestige project  commemorated the 100th anniversary of the authors birth.'),
('129805',' This film initially cost $7000 to make. Director  Rodriguez, Robert (qv) raised $3,000 of the $7,000 by volunteering  to be a human "laboratory rat". He was used to test a cholesterol  reducing drug. Paid $100 a day for 30 days, he wrote most of the  script while locked in the lab. Marquardt, Peter (qv) was a fellow  "rat", but could not speak Spanish. He delivered his lines from card  held in his hand or out of shot. Most of the $7,000 was spent on  film for the camera. The version seen in most cinemas has had  approximately $1 million of post'),
('129806','production work and promotion  behind it.'),
('129807',' Most of the guns used in the film were water pistols. However a few  were real, borrowed from the towns police force. In a shot near the  end of the film just after the Mariachi is pulled out of the yellow  Ford van by Mocos henchmen there is a shot of Moco walking towards  the camera. Behind him laying asleep on a bench is the cop who was  meant to be on'),
('129808','set supervising the use of the weapons for that day.'),
('129809',' Rodriguez claims the other actors were "innocent" passers by. He  gave them lines as and when they were needed.'),
('129810',' For the moving camera shots, Rodriguez sat in a broken hospital  wheelchair and was pushed around.'),
('129811',' The movie was intended to go "straight to video".'),
('129812',' Sound was recorded with an ordinary cassette recorder and mike. The  sequence with the pit bull terrier was shot specifically so that  Rodriguez could synchronize the sound with the picture later.'),
('129813',' Rodriguez says he made the movie to "practice".'),
('129814',' Rodriguez was producer, director, writer, special'),
('129815','effect man, etc,  the only job he didnt do was act, as there would be no one else to  operate the camera.'),
('129816',' The guns which were borrowed from the local police station had a  drawback, blanks could only be fired one at a time because they  jammed the gun. Rodriguez fixed this in editing by "double'),
('129817','cutting"  the gun firing then cutting to the bad guys getting squibbed with  machine gun sound effects.'),
('129818',' Fairly early in the movie, Azul insists he only killed six of Mocos  men, while Moco insists ten and the other four are credited to El  Mariachi. Actually, Azul is responsible for the death seven of the  men (the three hitmen in the opening, four in the bar) and Mariachi  is responsible for three (two in the truck, one beside, leaving one  unconscious).'),
('129819',' In his book "Rebel Without a Crew", Rodriguez explains that the  gansters peculiar names are meant as a joke: they are all nicknames  the characters had as children but never outgrew. As such they are  named La Palma (Spanish for "palm"); Azul ("blue"); Pepino  ("cucumber"); Moco ("booger").'),
('129820',' Columbia had an English dubbed version prepared for release on home  video. According to director Robert Rodriguez, the dubbing job cost  more than he spent to shoot the original film.'),
('129821',' In addition to the subtitled version, Columbia also released an  English dubbed version on home video.'),
('129822',' The music played by the keyboard player is a parody of the music  usually found in low budget straight'),
('129823','to'),
('129824','video Spanish action films.'),
('129825',' The Mariachis line, "Free coconuts," was added later after  Rodriguez realized they didnt show him paying for the coconut.'),
('129826',' For much of the outdoor filming Rodriguez was down the street from  the Mariachi. People walking by did not see him, just the man  walking down the street with a machine gun.'),
('129827',' To warn people he was filming, Rodriguez would place a sign at the  end of the street he was shooting on. He wrote it in English so no  one would understand what it meant.'),
('129828',' The hotel owner and bartender were both local newscasters who were  talking negatively about the movie. In order to get them to stop  Rodriguez gave them both small parts in the movie.'),
('129829',' Many of the edits were necessitated by Robert Rodriguezs frugal  nature. Any time the actors made some progress through a scene and  then messed up, Rodriguez cut to a different angle right before the  mistake rather than re'),
('129830','shoot the whole scene.'),
('129831',' Many of the exterior scenes were shot on the same two blocks to  avoid using up too much money on gas. This is most obvious in the  first chase scene, when the Mariachi supposedly runs away from the  hotel hes staying in, yet it can be seen just over his shoulder  soon afterward.'),
('129832',' No storyboards exist for the film, as Robert Rodriguez had no other  crew members to show them to.'),
('129833',' The title was not translated for the American release, as it was  felt not many people would be interested in an action film titled  "The Guitar Player".'),
('129834',' The script was written in English, and later translated into  colloquial Spanish by Carlos Gallardo (I) (qv).'),
('129835',' Rodriguezs original budget projection was $9,000. He brought his  film in on time and under budget, mainly by shooting only one take  for every scene, thereby saving on film.'),
('129836',' Fast action shots were filmed from the back of a pick'),
('129837','up truck.'),
('129838',' In the dream sequences the disembodied head was supposed to be that  of Robert Rodriguez.'),
('129839',' To record the dialog and sound, the actors would do a shot for the  camera and then immediately repeat their dialog and actions for the  microphone. For the most part, the actors were able to do their  dialog with the same words and pacing that would allow the two  elements to appear to be in sync.'),
('129840',' While the production budget for the film was $7,000, Rodriguez  estimated that if he didnt have to pay for film, processing and  telecine costs, it would have only cost $600.'),
('129841',' Decoin, Henri (qv) was dissatisfied with the project and quit.  Pottier, Richard (qv) directed the remaining scenes. Decoin asked  for his name to be removed from the credits and any publicity  posters.'),
('129842',' This is Frances first feature film in color.'),
('129843',' Visa dexploitation en France #96148 délivré le 23 Novembre 2000.'),
('129844',' Prix du Public au Festival du Film Méditerranéen de Montpellier  2001. Prix du Public au Festival du Cinéma Maghrébin dArgelès.'),
('129845',' Director Baghdasaryan reportedly searched for two years for an  actress who could play the role of Mariam. He wanted to find someone  who could not only learn sign language for the role, but could also  make contact with deaf children. After auditioning women from half a  dozen countries, he finally chose an unknown actress, Janet  Hovannesian.'),
('129846',' Released as a split reel along with the cartoon  _Doc Yak, the Marksman (1914)_ (qv).'),
('129847',' CAMEO(Melissa Sue Anderson (qv)): as Tommy Fratters girlfriend.'),
('129848',' Lawyer and politician Fred Dalton Thompson (qv), appearing in this  film as himself, launched his acting career with this movie.'),
('129849',' Originally to be directed by Sidney Franklin (I) (qv), but given  to W.S. Van Dyke (qv).'),
('129850',' This was Thalberg, Irving (qv)s last project while head of  production at MGM. At the time of his death in 1936, the film was in  the planning stages, but his widow, Shearer, Norma (qv), took  special interest in the film and stuck with it to its completion in  1938.'),
('129851',' Thalberg, Irving (qv) originally planned for  Laughton, Charles (qv) to play the role of Louis XVI. Laughton,  after lengthy deliberations, finally declined.'),
('129852',' MGMs recreation of the ballroom at Versailles was twice as large as  the original.'),
('129853',' The few lines of Swedish spoken by the Swedish count Axel von Fersen  are genuine, although Tyrone Power (I) (qv) speaks them with a  very thick accent.'),
('129854',' From its initial inception up until right before the cameras started  to roll, the film was designed to be shot in Technicolor. All of the  sets and costumes were designed with color in mind. MGM went so far  as to send the fox cape that Norma Shearer (qv) wears (to see  Henry Stephenson on the night she becomes Queen) to New York to be  specially dyed to match the blue of her eyes. Fearing that the  addition of Technicolor would swell the already mammoth 1.8 million  dollar budget, the production went before black and white cameras  instead.'),
('129855',' The role of Marie Antoinette was reportedly Norma Shearer (qv)s  favorite of her roles.'),
('129856',' Robert Morley (I) (qv)s first film.'),
('129857',' The film became the favorite movie of Eva Perón, who so admired  Norma Shearer style that she later dyed her hair blonde.'),
('129858',' In one scene while Marie Antoinette is getting ready, a pair of blue  Converse tennis shoes are visible in the scene. Sofia Coppola (qv)  has stated in interviews that the shoes were purposely put in the  shot to portray Marie'),
('129859','Antoinette as a typical teenage girl, despite  the time she lived in.'),
('129860',' The part of Louis XV was first offered to Alain Delon (qv).  Allegedly, the aging French star was incensed that an American would  dare do something so uncouth as make a film over an episode of  French history, and when he met with Sofia Coppola (qv), he  brought the American director a huge bouquet of flowers and  basically told her (in so many words) that he would never stoop to  working with an American on such a movie.'),
('129861',' The French government granted special permission for the crew to  film in the Palace of Versailles.'),
('129862',' Even though the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles was in  restoration '),
('129863',' until spring 2007 '),
('129864',' Sofia Coppola (qv) was allowed  to film there a ball scene for the wedding of Marie'),
('129865','Antoinette and  Louis XVI.'),
('129866',' This movie was going to be produced before  _Lost in Translation (2003)_ (qv), but while Sofia Coppola (qv)  was writing the screenplay struggling with historical truth and an  imposing gallery of characters, she started creating another story  in order to distract herself from the difficult enterprise. This  parallel project '),
('129867',' a small Japanese story '),
('129868',' became "Lost in  Translation", whose planetary success revamped the Marie'),
('129869','Antoinette  production.'),
('129870',' Sofia Coppola (qv) refused to read the famous biography of  Marie'),
('129871','Antoinette written by Stefan Zweig (qv), which she judged  too strict. She turned instead to the book by Antonia Fraser (qv),  which makes the queen a more human character, a young girl with no  connection to reality who finds herself in the wrong place at the  wrong time.'),
('129872',' Judy Davis (qv), who plays the Comtesse de Noailles, was initially  considered for the Maria Theresa role (played by  Marianne Faithfull (qv)).'),
('129873',' Sofia Coppola (qv) discovered in 2000 the Marie'),
('129874','Antoinette  biography by French historian Evelyne Lever (qv), acquired the  book rights and asked its author to accompany her on a first tour of  Versailles in 2001. Coppola later turned to the queen biography  written by Antonia Fraser (qv), more popular in the United States.  Lever was later asked to work as an historical consultant for the  movie, writing a dossier on the queen in order to avoid mistakes and  approximations.'),
('129875',' Sofia Coppola (qv) had Spanish footwear designer Manolo Blahnik  create hundreds of specially made shoes for the film.'),
('129876',' Ladurée was chosen by Sofia Coppola (qv) to make all of the  brightly colored pastries and cakes for the film.'),
('129877',' A few quotes from the film are directly taken from Marie  Antoinettes actual life and from the biography by Antonia Fraser  that the film is loosely based upon. Louis XVs comment about Marie  Antoinettes bosom upon her arrival in France, Marie Antoinettes  comment on having enough diamonds when presented with the  opportunity of receiving some as a gift from Madame du Barry,  Maries comment to Madame du Barry about there being a lot of people  at Versailles on the day of their infamous first exchange of words,  and Maries comment to her husband, Louis XVI, during a gambling  party, explaining that Louis told her she could throw the party but  never specified for how long are all actual exchanges of words and  conversations from different events in the queens life.'),
('129878',' The men playing guitar(s) in the scene with a woman signing for  Marie are members of the group Phoenix, the lead singer of which is  dating Sofia and is father of her daughter Romy (born Tuesday,  November 28, 2006).'),
('129879',' In the film, only three children are shown when in reality Marie  Antoinette had four children. Her first daughter is portrayed, as  well as her first son. However, her first son had died by the time  of the march on Versailles by the rioting crowds, when in the film  he is shown being escorted to the carriage with his mother. The only  other child shown in the film is the one painted out of a portrait  of the royal family, who would have been Marie Antoinettes second  daughter but in chronology would have been her second son, the one  who in reality was alive by the time of the march on Versailles.'),
('129880',' The original script of the movie briefly mentioned the Diamond  Necklace Affair, a pivotal case in Marie Antoinettes life, but it  ends up never being mentioned in the movie.'),
('129881',' One ancient harp built in Paris in 1783 was borrowed from the  Italian "Museo dellArpa Victor Salvi", in order to have a realistic  environment'),
('129882',' Although the film title is unhyphenated, the real life  Marie'),
('129883','Antoinette was written with a hyphen.'),
('129884',' Sofia Coppola (qv) had originally wanted Angelina Jolie (qv) for  the role of Madame Du Barry, but turned it down to star in  _Good Shepherd, The (2006)_ (qv), then Catherine Zeta'),
('129885','Jones (qv)  was considered. The role eventually went to Asia Argento (qv).'),
('129886',' Was ranked #3 on US Weeklys "Top Ten Films of 2006".'),
('129887',' As is shown in the movie, Marie Antoinette was not allowed to keep  her pug, Mops, when she entered France. However, later on Count  Mercy arranged for the pug to be sent to her after her marriage.'),
('129888',' Sofia Coppola (qv) based the look of Count Axel von Fersen  (Jamie Dornan (qv)) on 1980s pop singer Adam Ant (qv).'),
('129889',' Director Sofia Coppola (qv), the daughter of  _Godfather, The (1972)_ (qv) director Francis Ford Coppola (qv),  included in her cast many performers who are also children of famous  film professionals: her cousin, Jason Schwartzman (qv), is the son  of actress Talia Shire (qv) and producer Jack Schwartzman (qv);  Asia Argento (qv) is the daughter of Italian horror director  Dario Argento (qv); Mary Nighy (qv) is the daughter of British  actor Bill Nighy (qv); Katrine Boorman (qv) is the daughter of  British director John Boorman (qv); Danny Huston (qv) is the son  of American director John Huston (I) (qv) and the grandson of  character actor Walter Huston (qv); and Io Bottoms (qv), who  played a lady'),
('129890','in'),
('129891','waiting, is the daughter of actor  Sam Bottoms (qv) (brother of Ben, Timothy, and Joseph) and  Susan Arnold (II) (qv).'),
('129892',' According to some history accounts, when Marie Antoinette meant the  rioters on the balcony of the palace, she had her eldest daughter  with her. This was supposedly in order to augment a sense of  sympathy for the doomed queen.'),
('129893',' SPOILER: There is a scene toward the end of the movie which shows  many princes and princesses of the blood saying farewell to the  Queen before fleeing the country, including her two favorite  companions, the Duchesse de Polignac and the Princesse de Lamballe.  While the real Duchesse de Polignac did take refuge in Switzerland,  the Princesse de Lamballe refused to abandon the Queen. She remained  with the royal family until her own arrest; after refusing to sign  an oath renouncing the monarchy, she was mutilated and beheaded, and  her head was mounted on a pike and paraded past the prison window of  the doomed Queen.'),
('129894',' SPOILER: After Marie'),
('129895','Antoinette bids farewell to her friends theres  a scene afterwards where theres a mob outside her window. In the  real events, her friends were killed on the way of fleeing the  country. In the real events they were decapitated and their heads  were put on spikes as they marched outside Marie'),
('129896','Antoinettes  window.'),
('129897',' Director Trademark: [Sofia Coppola (qv)] [sun through leaves] The  sun shines through the leaves of the tree during the picnic scene  with Marie and Louiss hunting party.'),
('129898',' The Formula One racing sequences were taken from the 1995 Monaco  Grand Prix.'),
('129899',' Vitaphone production reel #A163'),
('129900',' Magali Noël (qv) shows a nipple through her generous décolleté, by  accident '),
('129901',' and the scene got past the censorship in most language  versions.'),
('129902',' Anouk Aimée(qv) was originally cast as Marie but she was under  contract with a British producer at the time and had to abandon the  project.'),
('129903',' Available at the Danish Public Libraries (De Danske  Folkebiblioteker)'),
('129904',' It was only after the shooting was ended that Claude Chabriol  learned with some concern that his leading star, Marie Laforêt, was  in an early stage of pregnancy all through the making of the film.'),
('129905',' Chosen by "Telerama" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2002  (#07)'),
('129906',' Preity Zinta (qv) was offered a role in this film, but turned it  down.'),
('129907',' The original trailer for the film included a shot of a girls leg  getting grabbed at the weenie roast, and a close'),
('129908','up of hands  clutching for a row of needles. These shots do not appear in the  final film.'),
('129909',' The films screenwriter Hildegarde Stadie (qv) (wife of director  Dwain Esper (qv)) is one of the extras in the roadhouse at the  beginning of the film. She is sitting at a table, wearing a white  hat, looking like a drug addict might.'),
('129910',' The flashback scenes are taken from the short film  _Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (1990)_ (qv).'),
('129911',' Elden Henson (qv) played two parts in this film, one being Samson,  the other as young Steve Mills. The flashbacks are from a 1990 short  film of the same name and Elden played the role of Steve as a 12  year old boy.'),
('129912',' This documentary was filmed simultaneously with the movie "Osama".'),
('129913',' The production of the film, started in 1943 with a cast composed  mainly of non'),
('129914','professional actors, was stopped several times because  of the war. It was only completed in 1945 and was released in Italy  only in September 1949.'),
('129915',' This short film was made in conjunction with the release of  _Delta Force, The (1986)_ (qv).'),
('129916',' Included on the 2'),
('129917','Disc Special Edition DVD of  _Dirty Dozen, The (1967)_ (qv).'),
('129918',' A documentary in the Bray Nature Series.'),
('129919',' Being a WWE Film, the movie was continually promoted on all WWE  programming (even _"Extreme Championship Wrestling" (2006)_ (qv),  which is owned by WWE) weeks before and after its release to help  boost sales as well as John Cena (qv)s popularity.'),
('129920',' WWE Superstar John Cena (qv)s first starring movie role.'),
('129921',' According to a televised interview given by WWF owner  Vince McMahon (qv), this film was originally written to star  Steve Austin (IV) (qv), but contractual negotiations fell through.'),
('129922',' During the car chase Manu Bennett says, "This guy is like The  Terminator." this is an obvious reference to  Robert Patrick (I) (qv) who played the T'),
('129923','1000 in  _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)_ (qv).'),
('129924',' The movie was filmed in Australia.'),
('129925',' On the back of the cop car at the ManZe gas station, the bumper  reads "Donated by your local drug dealer."'),
('129926',' During the scene where Morgan reminisces about his days at summer  camp, the banjo song from _Deliverance (1972)_ (qv) can be heard in  the background.'),
('129927',' The gun that Rome carries is a stainless Magnum Research Baby Eagle.'),
('129928',' The only beer drank in the movie is "Miller Genuine Draft".'),
('129929',' To explain his absence from WWE Television while shooting the movie,  they did a storyline where Cena was "stabbed" in a nightclub by  Aaron "Jesus" Aguilera, the bodyguard of Cenas rival, Carlito.'),
('129930',' In an interview on the DVD Extras, after auditioning Kelly Carlson,  Cena said he knew right away that she was the one he wanted to play  his wife in the movie.'),
('129931',' The movie was actually shot two years before it was released to  theaters.'),
('129932',' Cena trained with the Marines in preparation for his role in the  film.'),
('129933',' The uncut version, which is available on DVD, contains some scenes  of violence that werent shown in theaters.'),
('129934',' William Haines (I) (qv) last movie.'),
('129935',' This movie was re'),
('129936','released by Astor Pictures in 1943 as "Fight On  Marines!" to take advantage of the wartime demand for patriotic  subjects, filling the lower half of the double bill in second'),
('129937','run  movie houses. This reissue causes a lot of confusion in  Toby Wing (qv)s career bios as it often credited as a singular  1943 production when it was, in fact a re'),
('129938','issue. Tobys film career  ended in 1937, although a couple of her films would be released into  1938.'),
('129939',' Benjamin Stoloff (qv) took over direction of the film when  George Nicholls Jr. (qv) was killed in an automobile accident  during production.'),
('129940',' Included in Warner Home Videos 2005 DVD release of  _Random Harvest (1942)_ (qv).'),
('129941',' During the filming of the movie, 2000 Marines acting as extras were  suddenly pulled during the Laos crisis.'),
('129942',' Unlike most video games that are from Japan this was released in the  USA first.'),
('129943',' Area 64 was a reference to Area 51 and the Nintendo 64. In the  Japanese version its called Area 51.'),
('129944',' Fawful, (from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga), who was sidekick to  the villainess Cackletta, works as a merchant in a shop below  Peachs Castle, selling badges in return for beans.'),
('129945',' Prince Peasley (from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga) is seen on a  poster on a wall in the Mushroom Shop at Peachs Castle.'),
('129946',' Toadsworth the Youngers line, "You will save her, wont you? I  assure you, shes NOT in another castle or anything." is a reference  to Toads famous line in Super Mario Bros.'),
('129947',' The opening notes of the boss theme are the same (except lower) as  the sparkle unicorn jingle.'),
('129948',' There are two Hammer Bros. that at certain point in the game speaks  entirely in Leetspeak. When they are defeated, they say "Who talks  like that?"'),
('129949',' On its first week of release in Japan, this sold 132,726 copies. As  of May 2006, 1.27 million copies of the game were sold worldwide,  lower than its predecessor, which sold 1.8 million copies.'),
('129950',' First Mario RPG with 4 characters playable at the same time.'),
('129951',' First Mario RPG on the Nintendo DS.'),
('129952',' The Super Mario series has 19 titles, and has sold a total of 174  million copies worldwide as of 2003.'),
('129953',' Mario was originally called Jumpman and was a carpenter and not a  plumber. He wears a hat because hardware limitations at the time  would have made hair movement impossible.'),
('129954',' First appearance of Luigi.'),
('129955',' The game is based on the arcade version of "Mario Bros."'),
('129956',' The non'),
('129957','Mario characters in the game came from the Hot Shots Golf  series. Camelot created both games.'),
('129958',' Metal Mario is unlockable by gaining a Birdie Badge on every course.'),
('129959',' In a multiplayer game, tapping the d'),
('129960','pad causes your character to  say praises to the gamer whose turn it is. Tapping the c'),
('129961','buttons  causes them to insult the player.'),
('129962',' The princess has a shorter skirt in this game than in other games.  However, in one of her "course complete" animations, it "grows" back  to its normal size.'),
('129963',' Most of the characters have a unique ball animation if they achieve  a "nice shot." For instance, Marios ball turns into a fireball, and  Yoshis ball leaves a rainbow trail.'),
('129964',' The first game to feature Mario and Diddy Kong together. Diddy Kong  was originally owned by Rare, who produced the  _Donkey Kong Country (1994) (VG)_ (qv) series. In those games, the  Rare logo is visible on Diddy Kongs cap. Nintendo bought the rights  to the character, and he appeared in this game. The Rare logo is now  a Nintendo logo.'),
('129965',' The game has two different versions of Bowser Jr. unlockable '),
('129966',' his  normal form and Shadow Mario (Shadow Mario is Bowser Jr. from Super  Mario Sunshine, in a Mario disguise.)  Reissued as a "greatest hits" title.'),
('129967',' Petey Piranha, one of the bosses from Super Mario Sunshine, is an  unlockable character. That makes this one of the only Mario games in  which he is playable.'),
('129968',' A rare example of a Mario game where both the Princess and Bowser  are playable characters.'),
('129969',' This was the first game to feature Luigi as the staring playable  character. He wouldnt receive his own game again until 2001s  "Luigis Mansion" on Nintendo GameCube.'),
('129970',' A beta version of the game was entitled "Super Mario Kart R" and  featured Magikoopa as a playable driver.'),
('129971',' Some version of the track called Rainbow Road is present in every  Mario Kart game.'),
('129972',' In early beta versions of the game, Royal Raceway was called  Toadstool Turnpike. It had to be changed, as Nintendo didnt want  gamers to get it confused with Toads Turnpike.'),
('129973',' The penguins seen in the second ice course previously appeared in  Super Mario 64.'),
('129974',' Banshee Boardwalk is based on the Ghost House courses from the  original Super Mario Kart on the Super NES.'),
('129975',' The cabinet includes a camera which allows the player to take a  photo of themselves to be super'),
('129976','imposed over the characters features  and placed on the kart for multi'),
('129977','player games.'),
('129978',' As the game was co'),
('129979','developed and released by Namco it is noted for  being the first Mario Kart to feature playable crossover characters.'),
('129980',' This Game Ends a tradition with the previous 3 Mario Kart games  where a giant cheep cheep would present the trophy. The trophies are  now presented in an Item box.'),
('129981',' Several sprites characters from _Super Mario Bros. (1985) (VG)_ (qv)  can be seen on the sides of trucks in the mushroom bridge course.'),
('129982',' Includes the games Marios Smash & Dash, Marios Wet World  Challenge, Marios Tunnel of Doom, and Marios Expert Express.'),
('129983',' Charles Martinets debut as the voice of Mario.'),
('129984',' This game is Waluigis first appearance, and Paratroopas first  appearance as a playable character'),
('129985',' If you start the game without a controller plugged in, Waluigi flies  away with the N64 while Luigi chasing after him with a controller.'),
('129986',' Although Tamás Almási (qv) graduated as a feature film director  (Hungarian Film Academy, 1979), this is only his second feature  film. His first one was the acclaimed _Ballagás (1980)_ (qv). In the  meantime, Almási became the most famous documentary director in  Hungary.'),
('129987',' The title is a reference to Thomas Mann (I) (qv)s popular novel  "Mario and the Magician", but this movie has nothing to do with  Mann. The Hungarian title means: Mario the Magician, thus the title  character IS the magician (an Italian businessman who changes the  lives of ordinary Hungarian people).'),
('129988',' Second release in the Broadway Star "O. Henry Stories" series.'),
('129989',' Original edit of the film was in a briefcase that was stolen out of  the directors car. Fortunately, a second copy went out to the  Venice Film Festival where it ended up making its world premiere.'),
('129990',' The film went through three different final edits due to conflicts.  The final edit of the film was done by Director/Writer Miranda  Spigener.'),
('129991',' Marisol was the name of directors first girlfriend during his  childhood.'),
('129992',' Actors Juan Blasi and Jorge Blasi who play Pedro and Hugo in the  film are also brothers in real life.'),
('129993',' Composer Eduardo Biasin is directors father. The original score for  the film was inspired by home'),
('129994','made recordings by Eduardo Biasin from  the 1970s. Composer Emilio Cervini plays electric guitar on  "Karkadam", a rock/pop band. Mariano Biasin plays keyboards in the  same band.'),
('129995',' This is an "Integration through art" project. The cast includes many  actors who were street'),
('129996','boys in the past.'),
('129997',' Cast member Roberto Livingston (Pedros grandfather in the film) is  not an actor. He lives in Del Viso, the little town where the movie  was shot. He is almost blind.'),
('129998',' This is a lost film.'),
('129999',' Although "Southwinds Hotel," where Marjorie meets Noel, is supposed  to be in the Catskill Mountains (NW of New York City), the movie was  actually filmed at Schoon Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains (NE of  New York City).'),
('130000',' This is a lost film.'),
('130001',' The first film of William Mervyn.'),
('130002',' The art design and animation crew for this game was comprised of  former Disney animators.'),
('130003',' In DC comic lore, this version of Zorro with Tyrone Power is the  movie that a young Bruce Wayne goes to see the night his parents are  mugged and shot by Joe Chill. After coming out of the movie and  walking through an alley with Bruce is when they are mugged, and  what leads to Batmans creation. This fact is mentioned in the 1986  comic The Dark Knight Returns.'),
('130004',' The original working title for this film was "The Californian".'),
('130005',' During filming, Tyrone Power was in the habit of taking an early  morning swim in a pool that he insisted on being carefully  pre'),
('130006','heated. Darryl Zanuck played a prank on him by arranging for the  heating to be turned off. Power dived in and got such a shock that  he later claimed he nearly had a heart attack. He got his revenge.  Zanuck watched the dailies every day with a critical eye and one  evening saw something unexpected; the cast and crew collaborated to  film a spoof version of the hold'),
('130007','up scene where Zorro robs a coach  carrying the Governor and his wife. When Zorro is supposed to slash  his Z into the vehicles upholstery, the camera reveals he has  slashed "DZ". "Oh my God, its Zanuck" his victims gasp. Power  responds: "Thats right, you bastards..." and describes the producer  in very unflattering language.'),
('130008',' Like most of the actors who portrayed Zorro at around this time,  Tyrone Power was not of Hispanic heritage (he was of British  descent).'),
('130009',' Basil Rathbone, being a well known fencer in his own right, was  asked how well Tyrone Power did in their scenes in which stunt  doubles were not used. Rathbone responded, " Tyrone Power could  fence Errol Flynn into a box!"'),
('130010',' Reuses Newman, Alfred (qv)s musical score for  _Mark of Zorro, The (1940)_ (qv).'),
('130011',' Episode titles: The Gas Attack; Decoyed; The Jail Delivery; Triple  Vengeance; The Enemy Within; Cross Fire; Framed; A Life at Stake; A  Race with Death; Paying the Penalty.'),
('130012',' Large South American bats were imported for the picture.'),
('130013',' The actors all played their roles for a straight horror movie,  unaware of the twist'),
('130014','ending until the last few days of shooting.'),
('130015',' Preview reviews list a running time of 80 minutes, so that  considerable footage was cut prior to the films release. This would  account for many listed actors who were cut from the final print.'),
('130016',' The film was banned in Poland, and censors in Hungary excised the  screams, shots of bats and other gruesome scenes.'),
('130017',' There was a remarkable degree of difficulty to shooting the scene  where Carroll Borland (qv) flies like a bat. A jockey initially  doubled for her but became nauseous on the wires. A bar was placed  down the back of her dress running from her neck to her ankles, but  it took some time for she and the handlers to get this right. The  single shot took three weeks to work (all of this for a scene where  Borland is supposed to be an actor pretending to be flying).'),
('130018',' In the original script, Count Mora was supposed to be involved in an  incestuous relationship with his daughter Luna, and to have  committed suicide. After the filming began, however, all references  to the crime were cut out of the script by MGM, and and so the  character played by Bela Lugosi (qv) is seen with a noticeable,  unexplained bullet hole on the side of his forehead. Because  director Tod Browning (qv)s previous film, _Freaks (1932)_ (qv),  had been a box office disaster, Browning was unable to object to any  changes made by the studio.'),
('130019',' An alternate ending with a second twist, in which  Lionel Barrymore (qv)s character receives a telegram from the  vaudeville actors apologizing for not being able to make their train  for the castle assignment, was proposed, but Browning rejected it.'),
('130020',' The lead role was originally intended for Richard Burton (I) (qv),  who had to drop out because of a stage commitment.'),
('130021',' When Stuart Whitman (qv) was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar,  his competition included Maria Schell (qv)s brother  Maximillian Schell (qv) for his role in "Judgement at Nuremberg."  Schell won.'),
('130022',' The screenwriter, Andrea Materia (qv), is a long'),
('130023','time fan and  historian of comic books, especially Japanese manga. So he filled  the script with lots of manga references. Most of the Demons gang  members, for example, are named after manga/anime characters. Kite  takes her codename from the famed action/x'),
('130024','rated movie, Berserk from  the namesake hero by Kentaro Miura, Conan spoofs "Meitantei Conan"  by Gosho Aoyama and finally Spike is a homage to Spike Spiegel (the  main character in Shinichiro Watanabes "Cowboy Bebop").'),
('130025',' First movie to win both Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the  FAMAS Awards.'),
('130026',' Humphrey Bogart (qv) and Mayo Methot (qv) fell in love during  production. They were married as soon as he had divorced his second  wife, Mary Philips (I) (qv).'),
('130027',' Dedicated to realism, Bette Davis (qv) left the set when the  makeup department outfitted her with dainty bandages for the  hospital scene following the physical attack on her character by  mobsters. She drove to her own doctor and instructed him to bandage  her as he would a badly beaten woman. Returning to the set, she  declared, "You shoot me this way, or not at all!" They did.'),
('130028',' Based on the life of gangster Lucky Luciano (I) (qv), who was  finally imprisoned when some of the prostitutes who worked in one of  his brothels, tired of the beatings and maltreatment meted out by  him, informed on him to the police.'),
('130029',' The villain Screwface was named after a Bob Marley song.'),
('130030',' The DVD release features a screen capture from the James Bond movie  License to Kill, featuring the semi performing a wheelie through the  burning remains of a second semi. Obviously this scene is not in the  movie, and it is made even more odd by the fact that this movie is a  20th Century Fox release while License to Kill is an MGM release.'),
('130031',' Steven Seagal wrote and performed the Song "John Crow" together with  Jimmy Cliff ,this is the first singing appearance by Steven Seagal.'),
('130032',' Some of the actresses that were considered for the role of Muskaan  were Rekha (I) (qv), Dimple Kapadia (qv), and Sridevi (qv).'),
('130033',' Yukta Mookhey(qv) had signed on to do the film, but was replaced  due to an injury.'),
('130034',' Biograph production number 920.'),
('130035',' Won a record 7 AFI Awards in 2004.'),
('130036',' An entire dialog sequence was lifted directly from  Fred Olen Ray (qv)s _Active Stealth (1999)_ (qv) when the film  came in under time.'),
('130037',' The scene where Markus, Per Espen and Reidar is watching the girls  change is lifted from the book "I går var i dag i morgen", also by  writer Klaus Hagerup (qv)'),
('130038',' The movies title song, "Little Sister" was originally recorded by  New York studio musicians but the producers were not happy with the  vocal performance (rumored to be songwriter Norman Gimbel (I) (qv)  himself). They turned to executives at MGM Records who suggested  that members from their newly signed star group, Orpheus, re'),
('130039','record  the song. The producers agreed and the Orpheus version was recorded  at Bell Sound Studios in New York. Only Orpheus lead singer, Bruce  Arnold and backup singer, Jack McKenes were on the track since the  music had been pre'),
('130040','recorded. However, future Orpheus member and  legendary studio musician, Bernard Pretty Purdie (qv), plays drums  on the songs backing track.'),
('130041',' This was the last film broadcast for WABC'),
('130042','TVs (New York) afternoon  slot, "The 4:30 Movie", on 26 November 1981.'),
('130043',' The last movie shown on TNT Classic Movies (U.K) on its last day of  broadcasting for Europe. (15 October 1999)'),
('130044',' This is one of only two movies that Bruce Lee (I) (qv) did where  he speaks with his own natural voice. The other is  _Enter the Dragon (1973)_ (qv). This is also the only film in which  Lee played a villain.'),
('130045',' The movie was shown for 2 weeks in Iranian theaters, but was quickly  pulled since it was deemed too insolent towards Islamic clerics.'),
('130046',' Broke Iranian box'),
('130047','office record although it was only in theaters for  two weeks.'),
('130048',' DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)): Five minutes into the film,  in the hotel corridor as Marnie walks by.'),
('130049',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) wanted Grace Kelly (I) (qv) to make  her screen comeback in the title role, but the people of Monaco were  not happy with the idea of their princess playing a compulsive  thief.'),
('130050',' The production company created for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley" was  named after Hitchcocks pet dogs.'),
('130051',' After rehearsing just a few scenes with co'),
('130052','star Sean Connery (qv),  Tippi Hedren (qv) asked Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv), "Marnie is  supposed to be frigid '),
('130053',' have you seen him?" referring to the young  Connery. Hitchcocks reply was reportedly, "Yes, my dear, its  called acting."'),
('130054',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) and Tippi Hedren (qv) had a major  falling'),
('130055','out during the filming and there was a rumor that by the end  he directed her through intermediaries. Although Hedren admits the  she and Hitchcocks friendship ended during shooting, she denies the  rumor that he didnt finish directing the film.'),
('130056',' Dern, Bruce (qv) can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnies  flashback.'),
('130057',' When Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)s discussion with  Grace Kelly (I) (qv) (to appear as the title character) became  public, the residents of Monaco expressed their disapproval, and  Kelly withdrew. In a further complication, since Kelly had not  fulfilled her MGM contract when she married  Prince Rainier of Monaco (qv) in 1956, she could not appear in any  film other than an MGM film until she fulfilled the terms of her MGM  contract.'),
('130058',' Bernard Herrmann (qv)s last score for a Hitchcock film.'),
('130059',' _Marnie (1964)_ (qv) opened at New York theaters as the top half of  a double bill with _Never Put It In Writing (1964)_ (qv) starring  Pat Boone (I) (qv) in the second position.'),
('130060',' Based on a novel by Martin Caidin (qv), who would later write  "Cyborg", the basis for the TV series  _"Six Million Dollar Man, The" (1974)_ (qv).'),
('130061',' Was the impetus behind the 1975 Apollo'),
('130062','Soyuz Test Project where  American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts docked in space.'),
('130063',' Frank Capra (qv) began work on the film. Inspired by his work on  the Martin'),
('130064','Marietta Corp.'),
('130065','commissioned faux documentary, "Rendezvous  in Space" for the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York, Capra (a chemical  engineer by education) worked to make the picture for Columbia, but  finally abandoned the project in preproduction in May 1966 when he  couldnt bring the budget down to the $3'),
('130066','million required by  Columbia worldwide production chief M.J. Frankovich (qv). The  eventual budget for the finished film (directed by  John Sturges (qv)) was $8 million. Capra never made another film.'),
('130067',' There is no musical score for this film. Instead, each spacecraft  has its own ambient soundtrack when it is shown in space. The Apollo  shots feature a low hum; the XRV, a hollow ringing; the Nimbus  Weather Satellite, a rapid series of beeps ascending in pitch; and  the Russian Voshkhod, a constant pitch series of beeps. The only  exceptions to this is are a very slight, muted bit of music played  under the Apollo ambient soundtrack during Pruetts final EVA, and a  single tone (with some ambient effects that could be called music)  during the opening credits.'),
('130068',' Average Shot Length (ASL) = 8 seconds'),
('130069',' The Film Ventures International re'),
('130070','edit of this film (retitled  "Space Travelers") was featured on an episode of _"Mystery Science  Theater 3000" (1988)_. This was also the only film featured on the  show to have won an Academy Award.'),
('130071',' In the opening minutes, as Miss Marple stares in wonderment at the  lobby of Bertrams Hotel, the manager is on the phone and says, "Uh,  no, Im afraid Miss Otis regrets shes unable to lunch today." The  line is from the 1934 Cole Porter (qv) song "Miss Otis Regrets"  performed by many artists including Ella Fitzgerald (qv) and  Nat ‘King’ Cole (qv), and more recently by Bette Midler (qv) on  the final episode of  _"Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The" (1962)_ (qv).'),
('130072',' Miss Marple does not appear in Agatha Christies original novel,  which was an adventure featuring her other sleuths, Tommy and  Tuppence Beresford. In order to make the story part of the Marple  series, the time period was moved from post'),
('130073','war to sometime near the  end of the war. This conveniently places Tommy still in the military  intelligence service abroad, and his part of the story was  re'),
('130074','written for Miss Marple.'),
('130075',' The producers of this series of Miss Marple TV dramas have set her  home village of St Mary Mead in Oxfordshire. From clues given in the  Agatha Christie books, if a real county was guessed at, Hampshire  would be the likely location for St Mary Mead.'),
('130076',' Among others, Eileen Atkins (qv) and Annette Crosbie (qv) were  considered for the part of Miss Marples friend Dolly Bantry. The  part was eventually given to Joanna Lumley (qv), who calls herself  a "die'),
('130077','hard Christie fan".'),
('130078',' Miss Marple is shown reading Raymond Chandlers short story  anthology "The Simple Art of Murder", which also contains his  titular essay on the detective novel. In the essay, Chandler argues  that, in real life, the most unsolvable murders are the simplest,  and criticizes, among other writers, Agatha Christie for creating  implausible, over'),
('130079','elaborate murder plots for her novels.'),
('130080',' In an interview on the Anchor Bay DVD release, Franco says he  originally wanted Rosemary Dexter (qv) as Justine, but the  American partners in the film insisted upon Romina Power (qv).  Franco compared her performance to a window dummy.'),
('130081',' Reportedly Francos most expensive film to date.'),
('130082',' The only film directed by Jean Renoir (qv) that is, at present  (2003), presumed to be completely lost.'),
('130083',' The title is a play on words; Ernst Lubitschs  _Marriage Circle, The (1924)_ (qv) was a popular feature film of the  era.'),
('130084',' A Jewel Production. Universal, not owning its own theater network,  devised a 3'),
('130085','tiered branding system to identify and sell its product:  Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases)  and Jewel (prestige pictures produced to potentially command higher  roadshow ticket prices). This branding system would fade away by  late 1929.'),
('130086',' In early September 1941, George Cukor (qv) was announced as the  films director and Robert Taylor (I) (qv) and Myrna Loy (qv)  were announced as the stars. The entire project was scrapped by  Warners and sold to MGM after numerous re'),
('130087','writes and rejections from  the Production Code Administration.'),
('130088',' Shortly before the start of principal photography, Hollywood  Reporter announced that Fred Zinnemann (qv) was to direct the  picture and Gene Kelly (I) (qv) was to co'),
('130089','star with  Lana Turner (qv).'),
('130090',' The first Tanzanian'),
('130091','American co'),
('130092','production.'),
('130093',' Peter OToole (I) (qv) was the original choice for Jasper.'),
('130094',' Ronald Fraser (qv) was cast as Jaspar but sadly died in a fall.'),
('130095',' James Villers (qv) was cast as Jaspar but had to pull out because  he discovered shortly after being cast he had termial cancer.'),
('130096',' In the UK, this TV play, under Saturday Night Theatre umbrella, was  telecast on ITV, 6 June 1970'),
('130097',' The film was pared down to 81 minutes from the preview running times  of 87 and 85 minutes.'),
('130098',' When director Buzzell, Edward (qv) was sidelined with a cold,  Taurog, Norman (qv) temporarily took over as director, and  Taylor, Sam (I) (qv) as assistant director.'),
('130099',' Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not  appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names): Paul Stanton (II) (qv) (Mr. Dow),  Douglas Wood (I) (qv) (Mr. Camden), Si Jenks (qv) (Janitor),  Mahlon Hamilton (qv) (Johnson, the Butler), Luke Cosgrave (qv)  (Peddler), Dorothy Vaughan (qv) (Mary, the Cook), Dennis  OKeefe (I) (qv) (Salesman) and Billy Mahan (qv) (Boy).'),
('130100',' Debut of James Finlayson (qv).'),
('130101',' Re'),
('130102','released in 1920 and re'),
('130103','titled "Frivolous Wives" to cash in on  Rudolph Valentino (qv)s newfound popularity.'),
('130104',' The play originally opened in London on 4 October 1937'),
('130105',' Biograph production number 3260.'),
('130106',' There is a 12'),
('130107','minute fragment from the final (color) reel at UCLA '),
('130108','  the rest is lost. Please check your attic.'),
('130109',' Released as a split reel along with the cartoon  _Doc Yak Bowling (1914)_ (qv).'),
('130110',' George Cukor (qv) recommended that star Aldo Ray (qv) go to  ballet school because he walked too much like a football player.'),
('130111',' For the memorable 4th of July picnic flashback, George Cukor (qv)  relied for inspiration on a production of Anton Chekhov (qv)s  "The Cherry Orchard".'),
('130112',' Debut of Peggy Cass (qv).'),
('130113',' This film was inspired by a true story. Writer Neil Simon (qv)  heard about the stormy relationship between shoe millionaire Harry  Karl and starlet Marie McDonald (I) (qv) (nicknamed "The Body")  and then wrote this script.'),
('130114',' Stars Alec Baldwin (qv) and Kim Basinger (qv) fell in love and  married shortly after working on this project.'),
('130115',' Neil Simon (qv) said of his experience working on ‘The Marrying  Man’: “With a play, I have only two people to please '),
('130116',' myself and  the director. With this movie, it was 19 executives, a director  whod never done anything but animation before, and two stars who  would tell you what lines theyd say and what lines they wouldnt  say.”'),
('130117',' Feature version of the 1938 serial titled Flash Gordons Trip to  Mars.'),
('130118',' Rushed into theaters to cash in on the hype created by Orson Wells  Halloween radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.'),
('130119',' Beatty, Warren (qv) was originally cast as the president.'),
('130120',' Features many actors cast in previous Tim Burton (I) (qv) films.  '),
('130121','Danny DeVito (qv)Batman Returns (1992) (qv)  '),
('130122','O'),
('130123','Lan Jones (qv)Edward Scissorhands (1990) (qv)  '),
('130124','Joseph Maher (qv)Frankenweenie (1984) (qv)  '),
('130125','Lisa Marie (I) (qv)Ed Wood (1994) (qv)  '),
('130126','Jack Nicholson (qv)Batman (1989) (qv)  '),
('130127','Sarah Jessica Parker (qv)Ed Wood (1994) (qv)  '),
('130128','Sylvia Sidney (qv)Beetle juice (1988) (qv)'),
('130129',' When people had their flesh vaporized from their bones, the  remaining skeletons were either red or green. Tim Burton (I) (qv)  explained this had been done because the movie had been scheduled  for a Christmas release. Also, the red and green skeletons were  first seen in Beetlejuice (qv). When Barbara and Adam were in  Junos office you can see them with other ghouls looking at the  screen.'),
('130130',' SPOILER: Tim Burton (I) (qv) has said many times that he was told  repeatedly he could not kill off Jack Nicholson (qv)s character  in a movie. This led to his decision to cast Nicholson in 2 roles,  both of which are killed off.'),
('130131',' The Martian Girl dress had no zipper or buttons (to make it as  smooth as possible), so Lisa Marie (I) (qv) had to be sewn into it  every day.'),
('130132',' Martian Girl (Lisa Marie (I) (qv)) never blinks.'),
('130133',' DIRTRADE(Tim Burton (I) (qv)):[dogs] The First Familys dog is  vaporized by the Martians.'),
('130134',' A real'),
('130135','life demolition in Las Vegas was filmed by  Tim Burton (I) (qv), and incorporated into the movie. The casino  was the Landmark, which was once owned by Howard Hughes (I) (qv).  The location is now an expansion of the parking lot for the Las  Vegas Convention Center.'),
('130136',' In a scene inside the UFO, the fat clown killed by the Penguin in  _Batman Returns (1992)_ (qv), an earlier film by  Tim Burton (I) (qv), can be found inside one of the glass spheres.'),
('130137',' Nicholson, Jack (qv)s tie disappears during his speech. This is a  parody of a goof in _Few Good Men, A (1992)_ (qv) where he loses his  tie in the final courtroom scene.'),
('130138',' The sound effect for the ray guns was taken from  _War of the Worlds, The (1953)_ (qv).'),
('130139',' The scene where characters are wandering through a collection of old  neon signs was filmed at the "Neon Boneyard", located on property  maintained by the Neon Museum, a non'),
('130140','profit organization in Las  Vegas. Many of the signs in the collection were donated by the Young  Electric Sign Company (which constructed many of the casino signs  and were originally salvaged for parts), and are slated for  restoration and incorporation into outdoor exhibits. The "Boneyard"  has been used in a number of film and TV projects, and is open for  tours by appointment only.'),
('130141',' The appearance of the aliens was inspired in an old trading card  collection that Tim Burton (I) (qv) had collected.'),
('130142',' Johnny Depp (qv) turned down the role of reporter Jason Stone.'),
('130143',' The little dog owned by TV hostess Nathalie Lake (the Martians later  swap their heads) is actually owned by Lisa Marie (I) (qv), the  actress playing the Martian Girl.'),
('130144',' The writers werent sure what the Martians should sound like so the  script read "ack, ack, ack, ack" for all of their lines of dialogue.  This became the actual words spoken by the Martians in the film.'),
('130145',' Although supposedly taking place today, the US Army uniforms, tanks,  jeeps, artillery, etc, all date from the 1950s.'),
('130146',' The Martians land in Pahrump, NV, home of talk show host  Art Bell (I) (qv), known for his discussions of the weird and  bizarre and all kinds of alien contact stories.'),
('130147',' SPOILER: The original screenplay for the film contained a number of  scenes written but never used. These scenes actually made the film a  lot longer and a whole lot more darker. Among the cut scenes were: A  scene in the beginning with Mr. Lee. Originally, the burning cows  trampled over Mr. Lee, killing him, as his family watches in horror.  Another scene where the Martians break into the White House. The  White House decorator is decorating the Regan Room, and the Martians  break in through the window and vaporize him. An extended version of  the Doughnut World scene. The Hispanic woman at the doughnut shop is  trying to escape the building with Richie, and cops, when the  Martians attack. Richie gets out, turns around and sees the building  burst into flames. Then we see that she and the cops have indeed  died when he sees their skeletons. The death scene of Dr. Zeigler,  and the stealing of the translator device. An extended version of  the casino break in, including The death of Mr. Brian , who is  trying to save his money and gets zapped, as well as many other  gamblers getting vaporized. An alternate ending where Byron actually  IS killed by the Martians and the Martians drag his body away.  Planes fly by later, and kill those Martians with the  Slim Whitman (qv) music. Later, during the award ceremony, Byron  is remembered by Taffy in a long and sweet speech. Louise, Cedric,  and Neville are sitting in the audience of this ceremony, crying and  wearing black.'),
('130148',' DIRTRADE(Tim Burton (I) (qv)): [music]: music by  Danny Elfman (qv)'),
('130149',' When the Martians first appear in TV interrupting the fashion show,  the background when the Martian Ambassador is talking is from the  beginning of _Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)_ (qv) when Criswell is  talking.'),
('130150',' Barry Purves (qv) was originally involved with creating the aliens  using stop'),
('130151','motion animation. He helped develop some of their  gestures. However, the production decided to go the way of CG  instead of stop'),
('130152','motion and Barry Purves was never credited for his  contributions.'),
('130153',' Sylvia Sidney (qv)s last movie.'),
('130154',' A flying saucer is shown flying through the clouds during the normal  Warner Brothers logo title sequence showing the companys trademark  shield with the cloudy sky background.'),
('130155',' ‘Mars Attacks’ was the first movie on DVD to feature sound on the  menu.'),
('130156',' The "Space Center," which looks like a big white mushroom, is now  the revolving restaurant at the Houston Airport Marriott at George  Bush Intercontinental.'),
('130157',' This special was taped in August 2001.'),
('130158',' Shot at the time of the Popular Front, the credits actually mentions  the fact that all members of the technical cast belongs to the  French left'),
('130159','wing trade union Confédération Générale du Travail  (CGT).'),
('130160',' The cast is grouped in 5 categories in the credits: First, The  Court (La Cour), then The Civil Authorities and the Military (Les  Autorités Civiles & Militaires), The Aristocrats (Les  Aristocrates), followed by The Marseille Folks (Les Marseillais)  and finally The People (Le Peuple).'),
('130161',' The film was completed but never released.'),
('130162',' The film was shot in 12 days just like the old B'),
('130163','Westerns of the  1930s and 40s. The film is full of action just like most of Sunset  Carsons films. The film was never released and the whereabouts of  the film is a mystery.'),
('130164',' "Marshall" was filmed in two days.'),
('130165',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _How He Papered the Room (1912)_ (qv).'),
('130166',' This is not a feature film. It is two episodes of the  _"Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" (1951)_ (qv) TV show edited  together and released as a feature.'),
('130167',' The first'),
('130168','ever film to represent Iraq in the Best Foreign Language  Film category at the Oscars. It was submitted in October 2005 to  compete against 57 other films for the 2006 Oscars.'),
('130169',' The film was presented in two parts: "Il delitto di via Posillipo"  and "Il mistero di un delitto".'),
('130170',' Director Jerry Zucker was brought in to shoot new footage, according  to Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times on 10 August 2007'),
('130171',' Distributed in Italy as "Spaceballs 2". It flopped.'),
('130172',' Rob Schneiders first film.'),
('130173',' Made for the project Kind & Kleur (Child & Color)'),
('130174',' Most cast members in this film were either members of Second City or  The Upright Citizens Brigade.'),
('130175',' During a screening and interview at USC, director George Romero  related that the MPAA objected to a shot of Martin slicing someones  arm open with a razor blade. The entire shot wouldve earned the  film the notorious "X" rating, and so he had to trim it by several  seconds. The length of the shot, not the subject matter, was  objectionable.'),
('130176',' The original cut of the film ran nearly 2 hours 45 minutes.'),
('130177',' Romero has confirmed that there is no known existing copy of the  legendary 2 hour 45 minute cut at a recent screening of the film in  New York City.'),
('130178',' Tom Savini (qv) also did the stunts (and special makeup effects)  in the film. His face can clearly be seen in the scene where the  street person is hit and rolls over the hood and roof of the car.'),
('130179',' This movie uses the word "fuck" 347 times in its 113 minute  run'),
('130180','time, leading to the second most constant use of that word (3.07  times a minute).'),
('130181',' French censorship visa #4.121.'),
('130182',' This promotional short is available on the Special Edition DVD for  Mean Streets (1973), released by Warner Home Video.'),
('130183',' Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival 2004.'),
('130184',' Official Selection New York Short Film Festival 2004.'),
('130185',' Official Selection Los Angeles International Short Film Festival  2004.'),
('130186',' Restored by Cineteca Italiana di Milano.'),
('130187',' Won the Best Educational Pilot Award at the NYTVF 2006'),
('130188',' TV debut of Howard Caine.'),
('130189',' A Moscow screening of the film during a 1959 cultural'),
('130190','exchange  program made it the first U.S. feature seen in the U.S.S.R. since  World War II.'),
('130191',' This is the remake of a 1953 TV movie of the same name, with  Steiger, Rod (qv) in the title role.'),
('130192',' At 91 minutes long, this has the shortest running time of any film  to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.'),
('130193',' It is to date (2003) the only picture to win both the Best Picture  Oscar and the Cannes Palme dOr.'),
('130194',' The first American film to win the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film  Festival.'),
('130195',' Delbert Mann (I) (qv) became the first director to win the Best  Director Oscar with his debut. This record stood until 1999 when  Sam Mendes (qv) repeated the feat with  _American Beauty (1999)_ (qv).'),
('130196',' The only time in film history that the producers spent more on a  films award campaign ($400,000) than they did on making the movie  ($343,000).'),
('130197',' Rod Steiger (qv), who had originated the role of Marty in the  eponymous TV production, said that he turned down the role in the  movie because the Hill'),
('130198','Hecht'),
('130199','Lancaster Productions contract would  have bound him for years. Harold Hecht (qv) and  Burt Lancaster (qv), on the other hand, said that they did not  want to cast Steiger as they felt the public would not go for the  same actor that they had seen for free on TV.'),
('130200',' It was rumored that producers Harold Hecht (qv) and  Burt Lancaster (qv) financed the movie as a tax'),
('130201','write off,  believing the picture would lose money.'),
('130202',' The film, which cost only $340,000 to make and generated rentals of  $3,000,000 at the domestic box office, reportedly was one of the  most profitable movies ever made.'),
('130203',' Washington lawyer Edward Bennett Williams reportedly turned down a  10% ownership in the movie that had been offered in lieu of a fee.  Williams turned down the stake and took his fee, thus losing a  considerable amount of money.'),
('130204',' First Best Picture Oscar winner to have been based on a TV program  (_"Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1951)_ (qv) episode)'),
('130205',' This was the first American motion picture since the beginning of  World War II to be shown commercially in the Soviet Union, where it  became enormously popular.'),
('130206',' Burt Lancaster (qv) doesnt appear in the film, but he is in the  theatrical trailer as the co'),
('130207','producer who introduces the movie to  the audience.'),
('130208',' Future actress Joi Lansing (qv) (then a pin'),
('130209','up model) can be seen  on cover of "Girls & Gags," a girlie magazine Martys pals oogle at  least twice during movie.'),
('130210',' CAMEO(Paddy Chayefsky (qv)): The character of Leo, who appears in  the back of the car when Marty is approached by his friends to make  up the pair for the odd squirrel they have with them. According to  Delbert Mann (qv), Chayefsky (who was once a moderately'),
('130211','renowned  stage actor) was recruited for the very visually'),
('130212','obscured part  solely to save the time and money of hiring some other extra.  According to Chayefsky, for his three lines, he was required to  rejoin the actorss union, which required dues of some $140. He  recalled the role as paying about $67.'),
('130213',' Debuted at Cinequest Film Festival in March 2006. Recently presented  the CINE Award of Excellence for 2006.'),
('130214',' Hidden characters include a red venom (considered to be Carnage), a  gold War Machine (called Iron Man), Lillith (the other woman that  appears with Morrigan), and Roll, Mega Mans sister'),
('130215',' Ruby Heart, Amingo, and Abyss are all original characters  specifically made for this game.'),
('130216',' Taking the Shotokan parody of Dan one step further, he now has a  similar attack to the move simply called "Death." His version of the  attack does more damage but is kamikaze, so Dan loses all his life  but one unit in the process.'),
('130217',' This game was produced for the XBOX and Playstation 2 for a VERY  limited time, due to Capcom losing the Marvel license. As such,  these versions of the games fetch huge prices on sites like eBay and  Amazon.'),
('130218',' Activision has officially announced that there will be 8 additional  characters that can be downloaded onto the Xbox 360 via the Xbox  Live Marketplace. The heroes and villains are Cyclops, Nightcrawler,  Magneto, Sabretooth, Venom, Doctor Doom, Hawkeye and Hulk. The  update was originally due on April 10, 2007 and while no current  date is known, it has not been said whether any other platforms will  have access to these characters.'),
('130219',' The movies release was delayed due to the prominence of the Atlanta  child murder spree in the news at that time. The movie, set in  Atlanta and dealing with the relationship between an adult and a  child, was deemed too sensitive.'),
('130220',' Sigourney Weaver, Anjelica Huston and Kathleen Turner were all  considered for the role ultimately played by Diane Keaton.'),
('130221',' Hume Cronyns final appearance in a theatrical film.'),
('130222',' This documentary is featured on the 3'),
('130223','Disc Criterion Collection DVD  for _Battaglia di Algeri, La (1965)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('130224',' One copy of this film is known to survive at the Bundesfilmarchiv in  Germany.'),
('130225',' The film on the life of the first ever Australian Saint was made and  produced with the official support and assistance of the Sisters of  St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.'),
('130226',' The beatification of Mary MacKillop as a Saint was held in Sydney,  Australia by Pope John Paul II in January 1995, while the film was  in theatrical release in Australia.'),
('130227',' Britains first sex comedy, according to David McGillivray (qv) in  his history of the British sex film, "Doing Rude Things".'),
('130228',' The author of the "Poppins" books, P.L. Travers (qv), approved  heartily of the casting of Julie Andrews (I) (qv) after hearing  her only on the telephone. Andrews granted the interview from her  bed after the delivery of her daughter, Emma Walton (qv).'),
('130229',' Originally Walt Disney (qv) had considered Bette Davis (qv) for  the part of Mary Poppins based on the cold characterization  portrayed in the P.L. Travers (qv) books. Disney eventually chose  Julie Andrews (I) (qv) for the part, after her June 1962 TV  performance alongside Carol Burnett (qv). Andrews did not like the  original Sherman Brothers song "The Eyes of Love" and would not  agree to do the picture until the songwriters came up with a new  one. That new song was "A Spoonful of Sugar".'),
('130230',' Julie Andrews (I) (qv) provided the whistling for the animatronic  Robin during the song "A Spoonful of Sugar".'),
('130231',' Not only was "Feed the Birds" Walt Disney (qv)s favorite song in  the film, but it is said that anytime he visited the Sherman  brothers during the rest of his life, all he would have to do was  say, "Play it," and they knew he wanted to hear "Feed the Birds".'),
('130232',' Lyricist Robert B. Sherman (qv) had searched for nearly two weeks  for a catchy phrase that could be Mary Poppins anthem. He came  across the perfect title when his seven'),
('130233','year'),
('130234','old daughter Laurie  came home from school one day and announced that she had just  received a polio vaccine. Thinking that the vaccine had been  administered as a shot, Sherman asked, "Did it hurt?" She replied,  "No. They just gave it to me on a cube of sugar and I swallowed it  down." Sherman tried the idea on his brother the following morning,  Richard put the phrase to music and "A Spoonful of Sugar" was born.'),
('130235',' The song, "Lets Go Fly A Kite" was inspired by the Sherman  Brothers father, Al Sherman (I) (qv) who made kites for  neighborhood kids as a weekend hobby. In the film, the broken kite  represents the broken family. When the kite is mended by the father  and the four pieces are taped back together, the four members of the  family are also reunited. By transforming her "suffragette ribbon"  into the kites tail, Mrs. Banks also commits herself to being there  more for her family.'),
('130236',' P.L. Travers (qv) was a stickler about details in the script,  driving many of the Disney writers to distraction about Poppins  minutiae. After seeing the final film, she devised a list of changes  she wanted. Her requests went unheeded after Walt himself pointed  out that although she had SCRIPT approval, she didnt have FINAL  DRAFT approval. Among the things that she disliked was the Sherman  Bros. score. She wanted the only music in the movie to be period  pieces such as "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay" or "Greensleeves".'),
('130237',' P.L. Travers (qv) wanted the animated chalk'),
('130238','drawing sequence  removed from the film, but Walt Disney (qv) refused.'),
('130239',' Julie Andrews (I) (qv) was left hanging in mid'),
('130240','air during one  particularly long camera setup. The stagehands unwittingly lowered  her wire harness rather rapidly. "Is she down yet?" called a grip.  "You bloody well better believe she is!" fumed Andrews.'),
('130241',' The opening shot of Mary Poppins sitting on a cloud contains a gag  originally used in _Dumbo (1941)_ (qv). While Poppins checks her  make'),
('130242','up, her carpetbag slides "through" the cloud. She catches it  repeatedly just before it falls to oblivion. The stork delivering  Dumbo does the same thing with his bundle.'),
('130243',' The film was shot entirely indoors.'),
('130244',' Dick Van Dyke (qv) had his heart set on playing Mr. Dawes, Sr.,  and said they didnt have to pay him, he just really wanted to do it  for the fun. Although Walt Disney (qv) had offered him the part of  Bert right out, he made him audition for the part of Mr. Dawes, Sr.'),
('130245',' Mary Poppins and Mrs. Banks never speak to each other in the film.'),
('130246',' P.L. Travers (qv) so detested this film adaptation of her novel,  she left the premiere in tears. Reportedly, she most objected to the  altering of Mary Poppins character from cold and intimidating in  the novel to warm and cheery in the film. She also took issue with  the films perceived anti'),
('130247','feminist ending, in which Mrs. Banks gives  up her campaigning for womens rights to stay at home as a  housewife.'),
('130248',' David Tomlinson (I) (qv) (Mr. Banks) also voices several of the  animated characters that Bert and Mary Poppins encounter in the  chalk drawing, including a penguin waiter and the jockey who allows  Mary Poppins to pass on her carousel horse. He also voices the  Parrot Umbrella Handle at the end of the movie. Original choices for  George Banks included Richard Harris (I) (qv),  Terry'),
('130249','Thomas (qv), George Sanders (I) (qv),  James Mason (I) (qv) and Donald Sutherland (I) (qv).'),
('130250',' Stanley Holloway (qv) was originally cast as Admiral Boom, but  because he was working on _My Fair Lady (1964)_ (qv), he turned it  down.'),
('130251',' In addition to Bette Davis (qv), Angela Lansbury (qv) was also  considered for Mary Poppins, while Danny Kaye (qv),  Fred Astaire (qv) and even Cary Grant (qv) were briefly  considered for the role of Bert.'),
('130252',' During the "barnyard singalong" segment of "Jolly Holiday", the  woman who provides the voice of the singing geese is  Marni Nixon (qv).'),
('130253',' Julie Andrews (I) (qv) was determined to nail the lullaby "Stay  Awake". She took nearly 50 takes (most reports suggest 47) in the  Disney recording studio to create the perfect "soft" voice quality  for the song. Dick Van Dyke (qv), on the other hand, took only one  take to record his verses as Mr. Dawes, Sr. on "Fidelity, Fiduciary  Bank".'),
('130254',' Mrs. Bankss first name was originally Cynthia. It was changed to  the "more British'),
('130255','sounding" Winifred at P.L. Travers (qv)s  request.'),
('130256',' Ed Wynn (qv)s character, Uncle Albert, was originally written as  having a Viennese accent. Wynn, however, didnt attempt the accent '),
('130257','  or even an English accent, for that matter. He was just himself,  ad'),
('130258','libbing many of the lines he says while laughing on the ceiling  in the "I Love to Laugh" scene.'),
('130259',' Matthew Garber (qv) was paid 10 cents for every time they filmed  the tea party scene. He was afraid of heights, so somebody offered  to pay him a "bonus" 10 cents for every take.'),
('130260',' The chorus performing as the animated Pearly Band during  "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was comprised of songwriter  Richard M. Sherman (qv), vocal coach J. Pat OMalley (qv) and  Julie Andrews (I) (qv).'),
('130261',' With five wins out of 13 nominations in total, this film marked  Walt Disney (qv)s single most successful night at the Academy  Awards. Never before or since, as of 2006, has a single Disney film  won as many Oscars in one evening.'),
('130262',' Berts jobs in the film are a one'),
('130263','man band, a chalk artist, a  chimney sweep, and a kite salesman.'),
('130264',' A song about Admiral Boom was written for the film. Although the  song does not appear in the film, the music can be heard in the  score.'),
('130265',' The word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seems to pre'),
('130266','date the  movie, but language experts have yet to pin down by how much, or  what, exactly, it originally meant. An urban myth is growing that it  had something to do with Irish (or Scottish) prostitutes. Its use in  the movie may have been inspired by a nonsense word the Sherman  Brothers learned at summer camp. They remembered having a word that  the adults didnt know, and thought the Banks children should have  one too.'),
('130267',' This film was a low priority at the studio until the Sherman  Brothers brought some early demo recordings of songs they had  written to Walt Disney (qv)s attention.'),
('130268',' Walt Disney (qv) cast Julie Andrews (I) (qv) for the lead after  seeing her in "Camelot" on Broadway. When she mentioned she was  pregnant, he offered to wait until she had her baby to start filming  and offered her then'),
('130269','husband, Tony Walton (qv), the job of  designing costumes and some sets for the film. Disney also gave the  couple a personally escorted tour of Disneyland and the studio to  help them make up their minds.'),
('130270',' This was the final film for Jane Darwell (qv) (who appears here as  the bird lady). She had retired in 1959 and was living at the Motion  Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, when she was  approached by Walt Disney Pictures to play the Bird Woman. She at  first refused, but Walt Disney (qv) was so set on having her in  the film that he personally visited her at the MPCH and eventually  persuaded her to take the part.'),
('130271',' The character of Bert is actually an amalgam of several of Mary  Poppins friends from the books. Among them, the minor character of  a chimney sweep. It was a drawing of that sweep by one of the  animators that inspired the song "Chim Chim Cheree."'),
('130272',' There are 19 distinguishable names in "Jolly Holiday" when Bert and  the penguins are discussing how no one is better than Mary Poppins.  The names are as follows: Mavis and Sybil [have ways that are  wending,] Prudence and Gwendolyn [set your heart spinning,]  Phoebe[delightful,] Maude [is disarming,] Janis, Felicia, Lydia  [charming,] Cynthia [dashing,] Vivian [s sweet,] Stephanie  [smashing,] Priscilla [a treat,] Veronica, Millicent, Agnes, Jane  [convivial company time and again,] Doris, Phyllis, Glynis [of  sorts, Ill agree are three jolly good sports. But, cream of the  crop, tip of the top, its Mary Poppins and there we stop.]'),
('130273',' A sequence known as "The Magic Compass", consisting of four songs,  was dropped from the film in preproduction. One of those songs, "The  Beautiful Briny", later resurfaced in  _Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)_ (qv).'),
('130274',' His role as Constable Jones became the last on'),
('130275','screen role for  Arthur Treacher (qv).'),
('130276',' This Disney film, as of 2006, holds the record of having the longest  in'),
('130277','print status on video. The film was released on video in 1981,  and has been re'),
('130278','released several times, managing to stay in video  stores since then. Not once has the film been out of print on video.'),
('130279',' Voted number three in Channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films".'),
('130280',' This was the only film personally produced by Walt Disney (qv) to  be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.  (_Beauty and the Beast (1991)_ (qv) was also nominated for Best  Picture, but that film was made in 1991, and Disney died in 1966).'),
('130281',' The film makers didnt inform Karen Dotrice (qv) or  Matthew Garber (qv) about some "surprises" that were going to show  up in the movie. Karens dumbfounded look when Mary Poppins takes  out item after item from the carpet bag and her little scream when  Mary Poppins gave them medicines of different colors were genuine.  They also didnt tell the children who was acting as Mr. Dawes Sr.,  and were worried that the horrible old man was going to fall down  and die at any moment.'),
('130282',' Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson (I) (qv)) readies his pipe and pours a  sherry multiple times in the movie, but he never drinks from his  glass or smokes his pipe.'),
('130283',' The scene where Mr. Dawes, Sr. (Dick Van Dyke (qv)) has trouble  negotiating the step in the banks meeting room was not originally  in the script. While viewing a make'),
('130284','up test for Dick Van Dyke in the  projection room, Walt Disney (qv) saw Van Dyke entertaining crew  members on the test film between between takes with some comic  routines, among them the "stepping down" routine of an old man  trying to step off a curb without hurting himself. The test film not  only convinced Disney to cast Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes, Sr., but  Walt specifically requested that crew members "build a six'),
('130285','inch  riser on the board room set so Dick can do that stepping'),
('130286','down  routine".'),
('130287',' Originally in the movie, there was a scene when all of the toys in  the nursery come alive. Since it proved to be too scary for  children, it was cut out. However, in the Broadway musical of Mary  Poppins, the toys coming alive idea is used.'),
('130288',' This movie was filmed at Twickenham Studios in London at the same  time as _Hard Days Night, A (1964)_ (qv). Photos exist of  Julie Andrews (I) (qv) and Dick Van Dyke (qv) exchanging  pleasantries with Paul McCartney (qv) and Jane Asher (qv) upon  arrival at the studio gates.'),
('130289',' All of Richard Shermans appearances were taped against green'),
('130290','screen  and composited onto the original backgrounds used for Mary Poppins.'),
('130291',' Malkovich, John (qv), who plays Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,  previously appeared in _Object of Beauty, The (1991)_ (qv), in which  his character complains of too many film adaptations of Dr. Jekyll  and Mr. Hyde.'),
('130292',' After the production was given the green light,  Tim Burton (I) (qv) was set to direct this but, after receiving  the script for _Ed Wood (1994)_ (qv), he chose to direct that  instead.'),
('130293',' In a scene where Mary Tyler Moore (qv) is shown running to catch a  dog, she insisted on doing the scene herself rather than using a  stuntwoman. The scene called for her to leap over a barrier. She  missed the jump, fell, and broke her wrist. She had to wear a  removable cast for the remainder of the film shoot.'),
('130294',' Hepburn, Katharine (qv), who played Queen Mary, is actually a  distant relative of the Earl Of Bothwell, whose family name was, in  fact, Hepburn.'),
('130295',' The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 27 November 1933  and had 248 performances. The title role was played by  Helen Hayes (I) (qv) and the cast also included  Moroni Olsen (qv), who repeated his role as John Knox in the 1936  film version, Edgar Barrier (qv) (Lord Douglas),  Ernest Cossart (qv) (Lord Throgmorton) and George Coulouris (qv)  (Lord Burghley). The play was written in blank verse.'),
('130296',' Both Ginger Rogers (qv) and Bette Davis (qv) were interested in  playing Elizabeth. Director John Ford (I) (qv) wanted  Tallulah Bankhead (qv) for the part, but Florence Eldridge (qv).  Fredric March (qv)s real'),
('130297','life wife, won the part'),
('130298',' Contrary to the play and the film, Mary and Elizabeth never met.'),
('130299',' According to A. Scott Berg (qv)s memoir "Kate Remembered",  Katharine Hepburn (qv) was already chosen for Mary but they had  trouble casting Elizabeth. At one point Hepburn, who had by then  been nicknamed "Katharine of Arrogance", suggested that she play  both roles. Supporting player John Carradine (qv) asked, "But if  you played both queens, how would you know which one to upstage?"  She was not amused at the time but roared with laughter when  retelling the story years later.'),
('130300',' According to Katharine Hepburn (qv), during the filming of Mary  and Bothwells love scene, John Ford (I) (qv), rather fed up with  the idea of directing a romantic costume drama written in blank  verse, simply said to Hepburn, "Here; you direct this scene." And  she did.'),
('130301',' Katharine Hepburn (qv) wanted George Cukor (qv) as director, but  after the failure of _Sylvia Scarlett (1935)_ (qv), producer  Pandro S. Berman (qv) refused to let them work together again.'),
('130302',' E.E. Clive (qv) is listed in casting records for the role of  Burghley, but that role was played by Lionel Pape (qv)'),
('130303',' Moroni Olsen (qv) was the only member of the original Broadway  cast of the play to repeat his role in the film version.'),
('130304',' Ginger Rogers (qv) was tested for the role of Queen Elizabeth I.'),
('130305',' According to Katharine Hepburn (qv)s autobiography "Me", director  John Ford (I) (qv) lost interest in the film when he discovered  that the plot was not particularly strong. She recalls one day Ford  announced that he was leaving early and would allow Hepburn to  direct a scene with Fredric March (qv). Hepburn feared that March  would not listen to direction from her, but when he acquiesced she  directed her first and only scene.'),
('130306',' Katharine Hepburn (qv) credited John Ford (I) (qv) with saving  her life one day on the set. They were shooting a scene of Hepburn  on horseback when the horse she was riding kept going unexpectedly.  Ford yelled at Hepburn to duck just before she was about to collide  with a low branch.'),
('130307',' A copy of this film survives at Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek in  Berlin.'),
('130308',' The opening credits only appear 15 minutes in to the film.'),
('130309',' Madonna (I) (qv) was originally going to play Mary but dropped out  three weeks before the first rehearsal.'),
('130310',' Released the same year as the mini'),
('130311','series  _"Elizabeth R" (1971) (mini)_ (qv) in which Glenda Jackson (qv)  also played Queen Elizabeth I.'),
('130312',' Vanessa Redgrave (qv) had to learn the title song "Vivre et  Mourir" phonetically because she could not speak French.'),
('130313',' It took all day to set up the hunting scene, with Glenda Jackson in  costume the entire time, as dog handlers and hawk handlers rehearsed  their cues. It was late afternoon, with the light beginning to fail  and drizzle falling when the first "action" was called and the  cameras rolled. The shot was perfect. Everyone moved on cue.  Including the dog handlers. Unfortunately, one dog handler, dressed  in a bright green shiny plastic raincoat released her hound, but  forgot to stop where she was. As a result, she ran into the shot,  ruined the take and the entire days location shoot was wasted.'),
('130314',' According to a 1974 interview the role of Mary was intended for  Geneviève Bujold (qv). She turned it down after refusing to be  typecast in movies about English queens and this led to a major  fallout with Hal B. Wallis (qv).'),
