('184760','1912 was £1.5 million, equivalent  to $7.5 million at the time and about $120 to $150 million in 1997  dollars.'),
('184761',' After filming, the remains of the full'),
('184762','size set were sold as scrap  metal.'),
('184763',' After sampling the caviar provided for the first'),
('184764','class dinner scene,  Hyde, Jonathan (qv) said he "made an acting decision on the spot  that Ismay was a big eater".'),
('184765',' Chapman, Mark Lindsay (qv) was fired and rehired twice, and  survived an accident where he was struck by a boat and had to be  pulled from the water.'),
('184766',' On the set of Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio (qv)s pet lizard was run  over by a truck, but with some TLC, Leo nursed him to health.'),
('184767',' The most expensive first'),
('184768','class suite on the Titanic cost $4,350, the  equivalent of about $75,000 today.'),
('184769',' James Cameron (I) (qv) forfeited his $8 million directors salary  and his percentage of the gross when the studio became concerned at  how much over budget the movie was running.'),
('184770',' When Rose is afloat on the wood looking up at the stars, there is a  vague image of the necklace. It is outlined by brighter stars  shaping the heart loosely, and a few bright stars shaping the chain.'),
('184771',' When James Cameron (I) (qv) was writing the movie, he intended for  the main characters Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson to be  entirely fictitious. It was only after the script was finished that  he discovered that there had been a real "J. Dawson" who died aboard  the Titanic. This "J. Dawson" was trimmer Joseph Dawson, who had  been born September 1888 in Dublin, Ireland. His body was salvaged  and buried at Fairview Lawn cemetery in Nova Scotia with many other  Titanic victims. Today, his grave stone (#227) is the most widely  visited in the cemetery.'),
('184772',' As is the case with many 20th Century Fox films, the film cans for  the advance screening prints and show prints had a code name.  Titanic was "Babys Day Out 2."'),
('184773',' When Jack is telling Rose about the lady he drew that sat at the bar  wearing every piece of jewelry she owned, Jack said that they  nicknamed her Madame Bijoux. Bijoux is French for jewels.'),
('184774',' In 1998 it became the first film since 1966 to win the Oscar for  Best Picture but not be nominated for its screenplay (the previous  film to hold this "honor" was _Sound of Music, The (1965)_ (qv).'),
('184775',' Most Oscar'),
('184776','nominated film (14) not to win in any acting categories'),
('184777',' Gloria Stuart (qv) was the only person on the set of this biopic  who was living at the time of the actual disaster'),
('184778',' This was the first movie to best the Oscar and MTV Movie Award for  best picture.'),
('184779',' Came eighth in the UKs Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in  order of how many seats they sold at cinemas'),
('184780',' Early in production, this films brief "decoy" working title was  "Planet Ice".'),
('184781',' One of three films to win a total of 11 Academy Awards, the others  being _Ben'),
('184782','Hur (1959)_ (qv) and  _Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)_ (qv).'),
('184783',' Fay Wray (qv) was originally offered the role of the older Rose  but turned it down, saying, "I think to have done Titanic would  have been a tortuous experience altogether". Hollywood legend  Ann Rutherford (qv) also turned it down.'),
('184784',' Kate Winslet (qv) developed pneumonia while filming the water  scenes.'),
('184785',' A number of scenes are arranged and in some cases scripted almost  identical to similar sequences in  _Night to Remember, A (1958)_ (qv). This is particularly true of  these scenes:  '),
('184786',' Thomas Andrews telling Capt. Smith the sinking is "a mathematical    certainty";  '),
('184787',' The Titanics band preparing to depart at the end, only to turn    around and regroup as Hartley begins playing Nearer My God to    Thee by himself (though a different version of the song is used    in the 1958 film).  '),
('184788',' A shot of Ismay in a lifeboat as the Titanic sinks behind him.  '),
('184789',' Thomas Andrews looking at a painting as Titanic prepares to sink  '),
('184790',' Andrews encountering a man by the Grand Staircase and telling him    the ship is doomed (in Camerons film, he tells Rose).'),
('184791',' The highest'),
('184792','grossing film ($600,788,188) in North American box  office history. It is also the only film to gross over $500 million  in its North American run.'),
('184793',' The drawing Jack made entitled "Lady Bijou" wasnt really just any  picture. They got the idea from an old 1933 photograph taken by  Brassai called "Bijou".'),
('184794',' When the hull breaks in half and the stern falls level, look  carefully at the close'),
('184795','up of Jack and Rose when the stern starts to  raise again '),
('184796',' Jack hits Rose in the face.'),
('184797',' Has the longest cinematic release, it stayed on US movie charts from  December 19, 1997, until September 25, 1998, a duration of 281 days.'),
('184798',' The film was initially budgeted at $135,000,000, but going two  months over schedule required asking Paramount Pictures to  contribute an additional $65,000,000 in exchange for U.S.  distribution rights.'),
('184799',' Shay Duffin (qv), who played the pubkeeper in England, is related  to one of the original Irish workers who built the Titanic.'),
('184800',' The original release date was 25 July 1997. When  Harrison Ford (I) (qv), whose upcoming film,  _Air Force One (1997)_ (qv), was scheduled to be released the same  day, found out, he demanded that Paramount push the release date to  a different time. Paramount, who had distributed many successful  films of Fords agreed, being worried that Ford would never do  another film for them again.'),
('184801',' After completing _Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)_ (qv),  James Cameron (I) (qv) got the idea to do the film after watching  _Night to Remember, A (1958)_ (qv). He spent five years doing  research on the Titanic and its fate.'),
('184802',' British newspapers alleged that Michael Caine (I) (qv) refused a  role.'),
('184803',' Macaulay Culkin (qv) was considered for the role of Jack Dawson.'),
('184804',' Reba McEntire (qv) was offered and had accepted the role of the  unsinkable Molly Brown, but due to later schedule conflicts had to  turn it down.'),
('184805',' Ranks first in the Academy Award Most Nominated Films List with 14  nominations, tying with the No.1 _All About Eve (1950)_ (qv).'),
('184806',' Rose only says "I love you" to Jack once while they are both  shivering in the water. Jack never says it, although he mentions  what he loves about her (see quotes)'),
('184807',' Kate Winslet (qv) was one of the few actors who didnt want to  wear a wetsuit during the water scenes.'),
('184808',' Rose laughs during the flying scene when Jack sings "Come Josephine  in My Flying Machine" because in a deleted scene they were singing  it as they come out of the 3rd class dance.'),
('184809',' The "Sinking" coat was a size 8 while the rest of the gowns were a  size 4. It was so large to make Rose seem more vulnerable in the  sinking scenes.'),
('184810',' At the party in steerage, a foreign'),
('184811','speaking man is speaking with  Rose and she says "Im sorry, I cant understand you." The man is  Swedish, probably a friend of Svens, and hes saying to her "Talar  fröken svenska?" In English that translates to "Does the miss/lady  speak Swedish?" which she obviously doesnt.'),
('184812',' When the stern of the ship is vertical, Chief Baker Joughin  (Liam Tuohy (qv), in white) is drinking from a flask. Joughin was  one of few to survive the freezing water, allegedly due to the  alcohol (but this is disputed as unlikely since alcohol is known to  accelerate hypothermia, not to help resist cold). The scene was  added after Liam showed the flask to James Cameron (I) (qv)  explaining that it was a family heirloom as old as the Titanic  itself.'),
('184813',' The Swedish phrases that Sven and his buddy exchange during the card  game translate into the following: "I cant believe you bet our  tickets!". "Shut up!". When grabbing Jack by the throat: "You damn  weasel!". And after punching his buddy in the face: "You damn idiot!  What the hell are we gonna do?! Im gonna kill you!".'),
('184814',' One of the Swedes in the beginning of the film is originally  Norwegian, and currently works as a doorman at a nightclub in  Stavanger, Norway. The other is an actor from Finland.'),
('184815',' Was #1 at the U.S. box office for a record fifteen consecutive  weeks, from 19 December 1997 to 2 April 1998.'),
('184816',' Dolores ORiordan (qv) was asked to both act in and compose music  for the movie, but refused both offers due to the birth of her son.'),
('184817',' DIRTRADE(James Cameron (I) (qv)):[feet]: The shoe at the  beginning, Roses feet while climbing the rail, Jacks feet when  taking off his shoes, Roses and Jacks feet while dancing.'),
('184818',' DIRTRADE(James Cameron (I) (qv)):[nice cut]: Several dissolves  between the Titanic on the seabed to the Titanic of the past, and  the dissolve from the young to the old Rose.'),
('184819',' DIRCAMEO(James Cameron (I) (qv)): Just below Lovejoy during the  below decks party, with a gray beard.'),
('184820',' DIRCAMEO(James Cameron (I) (qv)): Standing behind Fabrizio on the  deck waiting for a lifeboat when Murdoch starts shooting.'),
('184821',' The hands seen sketching Rose are not Leonardo DiCaprio (qv)s,  but director James Cameron (I) (qv)s. In post'),
('184822','production,  Cameron, who is left'),
('184823','handed, mirror'),
('184824','imaged the sketching shots so  the artist would be appear to be right'),
('184825','handed, like  Leonardo DiCaprio (qv).'),
('184826',' Was the first film to be filmed at Fox Studios Baja.'),
('184827',' The car in which Jack and Rose make love, was a Renault owned by the  Carter family.'),
('184828',' The first line spoken in Swedish, the card player saying, "I cant  believe you bet our tickets," is spoken with a heavy Finnish accent.  So heavy in fact that on the Swedish DVD this line is subtitled  along with all the English lines.'),
('184829',' The character of Rose is partially based on California artist  Beatrice Wood, who died in 1998 at the age of 105.'),
('184830',' In the scene where an elderly couple are hugging on the bed while  water rushes underneath depicts the founding owners of Macys  department store in New York; Ida and Isidor Strauss. They actually  died on the Titanic in real life. Ida was offered a seat on a  lifeboat but refused so that she could stay with her husband saying,  "As we have lived together, so we shall die together." There was a  scene that depicted this moment, it was cut but it can be see on the  Special Collecters DVD'),
('184831',' In the movie, Jack is a 3rd class passenger on the Titanic who  sneaks his way up to first class with the hopes of never getting  caught. In the real disaster in 1912, Third Class Passenger Hilda  Maria Hellström, really did sneak up to first class out of curiosity  and never got caught, however she was in her 3rd class cabin when  the Titanic hit an iceberg and ended up surviving the sinking by  boarding one of the last lifeboats to leave, Collapsible C.'),
('184832',' The "ale" in the below decks party was actually root beer.'),
('184833',' During World War II, former Second Officer Lightoller was one of the  many private citizens who helped in the Allied evacuation of British  forces from Dunkirk, France.'),
('184834',' The most expensive movie to be filmed in the 20th century.'),
('184835',' Approximately 120 tons of water (triple what had been initially  planned) were released for Eric Braeden (qv)s final scene.  Braeden said that he has never been more terrified in his life than  when he was preparing for it, as there was obviously no possible  physical rehearsal.'),
('184836',' Kate Winslet (qv) improvised the line, "Jack, this is where we  first met."'),
('184837',' Many of the "core extras" used for the movie took on characteristics  of actual survivors. One scene where two little girls are loaded  onto a lifeboat and the man says, "Its only for a little while" is  based on testimony from one of the girls who survived.'),
('184838',' When Jack sneaks onto the first'),
('184839','class deck in search of Rose, we see  a young boy playing with a top as his father looks on. This is based  on a famous photograph taken aboard Titanic soon after her launch  (the photographer left the ship when it docked briefly in Ireland).  The boy and his father survived the sinking, but the boy died some  years later in an auto accident.'),
('184840',' The biggest box'),
('184841','office draw in film history (to date), grossing more  than $1 billion worldwide.'),
('184842',' The engine master says, "All ahead full," and we hear someone yell,  "All ahead full!" in the background. That is actually director  James Cameron (I) (qv)s voice.'),
('184843',' David Warner (I) (qv), who plays Spicer Lovejoy, starred as one of  the leading roles, Laurence Beasley, in the TV'),
('184844','movie  _S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)_ (qv), which also depicts the sinking of  the "un'),
('184845','sinkable" ship.'),
('184846',' Rose says "Jack" 80 times, not counting when she calls him "Mr.  Dawson", but counting both Kate Winslet (qv) and  Gloria Stuart (qv). Jack says "Rose" 50 times.'),
('184847',' James Cameron (I) (qv) drew all the pictures in Jacks sketchbook.  In fact, the hands seen sketching Rose wearing the necklace are not  Jacks but Camerons. Since he is left'),
('184848','handed and Jack right'),
('184849','handed,  the shots were mirror'),
('184850','imaged in post'),
('184851','production (see also the goofs  entry).'),
('184852',' James Cameron (I) (qv) originally wanted Enya (I) (qv) to  compose the score for the film and even went so far as to assemble a  rough edit using her music. When Enya declined, Cameron hired  James Horner (qv) (who had composed the music for Camerons  previous film _Aliens (1986)_ (qv)) to write the score. Horner  stated that the tensions with Cameron were so high during  post'),
('184853','production of "Aliens" that he assumed he and Cameron would  never work together again. However, Cameron was so impressed with  Horners score from _Braveheart (1995)_ (qv) that he was willing to  forget the past experience. According to some accounts, Horner  independently decided the films score should be done in Enyas  style. As a result, several pieces of the score sound very similar  to some well'),
('184854','known Enya songs, in particular her theme song for  _Far and Away (1992)_ (qv) (Book of Days).'),
('184855',' In the scene of Rose looking through the corridors for Jack, the  water used was actually from the Pacific Ocean at the Baja  California, Mexico set. The water was so cold that when Rose gasps  when she first dives into the water, it was actually  Kate Winslet (qv)s genuine reaction to the frigid ocean.'),
('184856',' A 162'),
('184857','foot crane originally intended for construction and lighting  was mounted on railway tracks and used for most high'),
('184858','level exterior  shots, rather than expensive helicopters. The camera platform was  big enough for a gyro'),
('184859','stabilized Wescam, a Steadicam and a hand'),
('184860','held  camera. James Cameron (I) (qv) directed atop it to be able to see  the entire set.'),
('184861',' Long shots showing the whole ships exterior were produced by  Digital Domain. A 1/20 scale model was filmed and computer'),
('184862','generated  images of people, ocean and smoke were added. For one scene,  James Cameron (I) (qv) instructed them to "imagine were making a  commercial for White Star Lines and we need beautiful shots sweeping  around the ship from a helicopter."'),
('184863',' The rooms that Caledon Hockley, Rose DeWitt Bukater and Ruth DeWitt  Bukater occupied (B52, B54 and B56) were actual rooms on the real  Titanic. They were originally booked by J.P. Morgan (III) (qv),  but he canceled before the ship sailed. Morgan had a controlling  interest in International Mercantile Marine, a conglomerate that  owned the White Star Line. Bruce Ismay booked the rooms following  Morgans cancellation. (See Goofs.)'),
('184864',' Rose, in her old age, owns a Pomeranian. A Pomeranian was one of  only three dogs known to have survived the disaster. As the real  ship sank, a passenger freed dogs from their kennels and a survivor  later recalled a French bulldog swimming in the ocean.  James Cameron (I) (qv) filmed scenes portraying the doomed animals  but cut them.'),
('184865',' The completed film ignores the freighter Californian, which had  stopped for the night due to the ice hazard and was within sight of  the Titanic throughout the sinking (the Californians warning had  been received and sent to the bridge but was not placed in the  chartroom). An early version of the script included a scene on the  Californian, but James Cameron (I) (qv) cut out the subplot after  filming it to shorten running time. The two actors in the scene on  the Californian were Adam Barker (II) (qv) as radio operator Cyril  Evans and Peter John White (qv) as Third Officer Groves.'),
('184866',' This was the first time the Best Song Oscar (for "My Heart Will Go  On") was won by a non'),
('184867','musical Best Picture winner. Best Song Oscar  had been won by Best Picture winner only twice before  (_Going My Way (1944)_ (qv) and _Gigi (1958)_ (qv), both musicals).'),
('184868',' James Cameron (I) (qv) regular Michael Biehn (qv) was nearly  cast as Cal Hockley and attended numerous meetings with Cameron to  discuss the role, though ultimately the part went to  Billy Zane (qv).'),
('184869',' Rob Lowe (I) (qv) was considered for the role of Cal Hockley.'),
('184870',' After finding out that she had to be naked in front of  Leonardo DiCaprio (qv), Kate Winslet (qv) decided to break the  ice, and when they first met, she flashed him.'),
('184871',' Leonardo DiCaprio (qv) and Kate Winslet (qv) committed to the  film even before the script was written, on the basis only of a  165'),
('184872','page outline James Cameron (I) (qv) had written.'),
('184873',' Christian Bale (qv) auditioned for the role of Jack Dawson, but  was turned down because James Cameron (I) (qv) didnt want two  British actors playing the lead roles of two Americans.'),
('184874',' With her nomination for Best Supporting Actress at age 87,  Gloria Stuart (qv) became the oldest person to ever be nominated  for an Oscar.'),
('184875',' Gwyneth Paltrow (qv) was also up for the role of Rose Dewitt  Bukater but lost to Kate Winslet (qv).'),
('184876',' In the movie the original script included scenes of newlywed couple  Daniel and Mary Marvin, Daniel being a cameraman and son of Henry  Marvin, co'),
('184877','founder of the movie production company American  Mutoscope & Biograph. Daniel Marvin died aboard the Titanic, but not  without photographing some of the only existing film of the liner.'),
('184878',' All of the major actors in this production previously appeared in  other Titanic films. Gloria Stuart (qv), Bernard Hill (qv), Eric  Braeden (qv), and Emmett James (qv) were in _Titanic (1997)_ (qv),  while Marilu Henner (qv) and Tim Curry (I) (qv) co'),
('184879','starred in  _Titanic (1996) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('184880',' Incorporates footage from _Titanic (1997)_ (qv), including some  scenes cut from the film.'),
('184881',' All of the expedition footage was shot at sea on a US government  research vessel above the wreck in May/June 2004 as part of a  National Geographic expedition.'),
('184882',' The primary character is scientist Dr. Robert Ballard who is the  co'),
('184883','discoverer of the wreck of the Titanic.'),
('184884',' The women you see ascending the full'),
('184885','scale recreation of the First  Class stairs are an avid mother'),
('184886','daughter collector team '),
('184887',' everything  they are wearing in this scene is period and accurate to the era.'),
('184888',' CGI footage of the Titanic created for this videogame has been  reused in many documentaries on the sinking.'),
('184889',' Writer T.E.B. Clarke (qv) ("Tibby") was inspired to write the  Titfield Thunderbolt saga after a 1951 visit to the  volunteer'),
('184890','operated Talyllyn Railway, which carries passengers along  the Cambrian coast between Tywyn and Abergynolwyn, in Wales. "The  Titfield Thunderbolt" reflects Clarkes fascination with the  volunteers preservationist spirit there.'),
('184891',' John Gregson (I) (qv) had never driven a car before making this  film.'),
('184892',' The credited driver, fireman and guard were not actors, they were  British Railways employees from Westbury depot and were originally  to be uncredited extras. After director Charles Crichton (qv)  spoke to them on location and realized they "looked and sounded the  part", they were given speaking parts.'),
('184893',' The Thunderbolt is a genuine veteran locomotive, its real name is  Lion. It was built for the Liverpool and Manchester railway in  1838, making it 115 years old when it was used in the film.'),
('184894',' The locomotive, "Lion" was damaged during filming when the carriage  train is reunited with the locomotive. The rear frame was bent by  the force of the impact. The damage was still visible in 2001.'),
('184895',' A wooden replica of "Lion" was made for the scene where  "Thunderbolt" is removed from the museum.'),
('184896',' A replica locomotive was built on the chassis of a Bedford truck for  the scene where the locomotive is seen driving down the road.'),
('184897',' Writer T.E.B. Clarke (qv) was a neighbor of Richard Beeching, then  Director of ICI, at the time of filming. Beechings 1963 report "The  Re'),
('184898','shaping of British Railways" resulted in the wholesale closure of  many branch lines like the one portrayed in the movie.'),
('184899',' The final scenes of Mallingford station were filmed at the Bath Road  Bridge end of the main platform at Bristol Temple Meads station,  Bristol, UK.'),
('184900',' The name Titfield created by T.E.B. Clarke (qv) the from the  adjacent villages of Titsey and Limpsfield in Surrey.'),
('184901',' The only American film banned from release for reasons other than  obscenity or national security, Titicut Follies was filmed inside  the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison  hospital for the criminally insane. After the Commonwealth of  Massachusetts sued the filmmakers, the Massachusetts Supreme  Judicial Court ruled that the film constituted was an invasion of  inmate privacy and ordered the withdrawal of the film from  circulation.'),
('184902',' 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.'),
('184903',' Lauren Storm (qv) was originally attached to this pilot but  dropped out before filming began.'),
('184904',' The films title misspelled the artists first name.'),
('184905',' The films title misspelled the artists first name.'),
('184906',' Following the death of Caesar, the two princes supporters carry  banners with the same colors as modern Romes two rival soccer  teams: A.S. Roma (yellow/red) and S.S. Lazio (white/pale blue).'),
('184907',' Director Taymor, Julie (qv) fought against an NC'),
('184908','17 rating for the  film, but finally agreed to make cuts in the Roman orgy scene in  order to obtain an R rating. None of the gruesome violence, however,  was considered inconsistent with an R rating.'),
('184909',' The microphone used during the election at the beginning of the  movie sports the logo SPQR News, SPQR, stands for "Senatus  Populusque Romanus" which means "the Senate and people of Rome." The  letters were used to denote official entities. They can still be  seen in many parts of the city of Rome to this day.'),
('184910',' In a TV profile on British TV in 2002 Hopkins confirmed that he had  found the experience of working on this film so stressful that he  decided at the time to retire from film acting. In the same  interview Hopkins points out that in the dinner scene towards the  end of the film he mimics the great British Knight actors of  Shakespeare, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier'),
('184911',' After shooting the final scene, Hopkins unleashed his anger at the  close'),
('184912','up camera by giving it a middle'),
('184913','finger salute.'),
('184914',' Harry J. Lennix originally played Aaron for Julie Taymors off  Broadway production of Titus Andronicus. When informed of the  impending movie he felt obligated to reprise his role for the  screen.'),
('184915',' SPOILER: When the dead Caesers sons first appear with their  respective crowds, the cars they use to travel gives hints to their  fate: Saturninus rides in a coach resembling the vehicle used by  Hitler when he would travel in marches, whereas Bassianus rides in  the same model car that JFK was riding in on the day he was  assassinated.'),
('184916',' The cast rehearsed for three weeks before filming.'),
('184917',' This feature is located on the DVD for _Dolce vita, La (1963)_ (qv),  released in 2004.'),
('184918',' Before the principal photography began, Jennylyn Mercado (qv) was  invited by her boyfriend Patrick Garcia (I) (qv) to watch an  archery tournament in Batangas. She attended not only to support  Patrick but also to observe and do research for her role in this  movie where she plays an archery athlete. She was later trained by  members of the athletic archery association for her role. Members of  the group were in the set for assistance.'),
('184919',' The film was originally written and conceived in Arabic. When  Morocco mandated that a percentage of national film funding would be  required to be done in Berber languages, the film was re'),
('184920','done in  Tamazight, which the director does not speak or understand.'),
('184921',' Shot in eleven days.'),
('184922',' The first Indonesian film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.'),
('184923',' This film was originally made in Poland in 1924 as a silent, then a  narrator "storyteller" was added to frame the original with sound.'),
('184924',' In the ballot of the Society of Croatian Film Critics, "He Who Sings  Means No Harm" was pronounced the best Croatian film of all time.'),
('184925',' The most expensive Czech movie so far. The most expensive scene from  total budget of 8 milion USD is where British Spitfire attacks  German train. It cost more than the whole Oscar'),
('184926','winning Sveraks  movie Kolya (Kolja).'),
('184927',' The cost of renting the British Spitfires used in the film was  $10,000 an hour.'),
('184928',' Produced for the Johnsons Wax Pavilion at the 1964'),
('184929','65 New York  Worlds Fair.'),
('184930',' First produced for the stage by Harry Belafonte (qv),  Chiz Schultz (qv), and Edgar Lansbury (I) (qv).'),
('184931',' Original poem, titled "How does it feel to be a heart?" written by  Hafiz and translated by Daniel Ladinsky in the book, I Think I Heard  God Laughing.'),
('184932',' Released after the death of star Carole Lombard (I) (qv), killed  in an airplane crash after returning from a tour selling war bonds.'),
('184933',' When Jack Benny (qv)s father went to see this movie, he was  outraged at the sight of his son in a Nazi uniform in the first  scene and even stormed out of the theater. Jack convinced his father  that it was satire, and he agreed to sit through all of it.'),
('184934',' After Carole Lombard (I) (qv)s death in a plane crash, the line  "What can happen in a plane?" was deleted from the film.'),
('184935',' Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All  Time" in 2006.'),
('184936',' Miriam Hopkins (qv) was the original choice for Maria Tura. She  turned the role down because she didnt want to work with  Jack Benny (qv).'),
('184937',' A street sign reads "Kubelski Avenue".  _To Be or Not to Be (1942)_ (qv) starred Benny, Jack (qv), whose  real name is Benny Kubelski.'),
('184938',' Mel Brooks tells a character named Sondheim to "Send in the clowns!"  Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim (qv) wrote the song "Send in  the Clowns" for his musical "A Little Night Music."'),
('184939',' Mel Brooks (I) (qv) has said this is his favorite of his  Brooksfilms movies.'),
('184940',' Col. Earhardts joke is about Hitler becoming a "pickle". In German,  "pickle" means "pimple" or "zit".'),
('184941',' The first Road Runner cartoon (and the only one directed by  Chuck Jones (qv)) to not open with freeze frames of the characters  with their names and "Latin species" subtitles.'),
('184942',' Michael Gothard was thought suitable for the Marcel Bozzuffi part.'),
('184943',' Marcel Bozzuffi is dubbed.'),
('184944',' Lindsay Anderson (I) (qv) was a possible for Sir Walbert Selby.'),
('184945',' DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)): about 10 minutes in, sitting  next to John Robie (Cary Grant (qv)) on a bus.'),
('184946',' There are subliminal shots of a black cat the first few times that  John Robie (Cary Grant (qv)) appears. Johns nickname is "the cat"  because of his stealth ability.'),
('184947',' The boat that Danielle (Brigitte Auber (qv)) and John  (Cary Grant (qv)) travel in early in the film is named the "Maquis  Mouse": a play on Maquis (the French underground) and Mickey Mouse.'),
('184948',' Francie (Grace Kelly (I) (qv))s car is a Sunbeam'),
('184949','Talbot Alpine  Sports Mk I roadster.'),
('184950',' On 14 September 1982, Grace Kelly (I) (qv) was killed in an  automobile accident in Monaco, supposedly on the very same road as  her famous chase scene in this film and not far from where she had a  picnic scene with Cary Grant (qv). She was 52 years old and lost  control of her car after apparently suffering a stroke while at the  wheel.'),
('184951',' For the scene between Robie and the insurance agent, when they talk  about the cooks sensitive hands, the German version of the movie  differs completely from the original. In English, Robie notes she  once strangled a German general without a sound, while in German, he  says she once caught a lion escaped from a circus with her bare  hands.'),
('184952',' In an early shot, a newspaper article called "Europes Lighter Side"  by Art Buchwald (qv) speculates on whether "the Cat" is on the  prowl again. Buchwald actually wrote a column by that title for the  New York Herald Tribunes European edition early in his career. He  left school and moved to Paris in 1948, seven years before this film  was released.'),
('184953',' In this film Jessie Royce Landis (qv) plays Cary Grant (qv)s  potential mother'),
('184954','in'),
('184955','law. In _North by Northwest (1959)_ (qv), she  would play his actual mother.'),
('184956',' The filming of _To Catch a Thief (1955)_ (qv) on the French Riviera  plays a pivotal role in Wu Ming (I) (qv)s novel "54". The action  takes place in the springtime of 1954, and nearly all the characters  in the novel (including Cary Grant (qv), an Italian American  mafioso nicknamed "Steve Cement", and two Parisian gangsters from  _Du rififi chez les hommes (1955)_ (qv)) cross each others path in  Cannes and Nice.'),
('184957',' According to the script, the character John Robie was 35.  Cary Grant (qv) was 50 at the time of filming.'),
('184958',' Cary Grant (qv) had announced his retirement from acting in  February 1953, stating that since the rise of Method actors like  Marlon Brando (qv) most people were no longer interested in seeing  him. He was also angry at the way Charles Chaplin (qv) had been  treated by the HUAC. He was lured out of his retirement to make this  film, and thereafter continued acting for a further 11 years.'),
('184959',' John Robie mentions that as a youth he was in a trapeze group that  traveled around Europe. In real life, Cary Grant (qv) was in an  acrobatic troupe that toured around Europe (and eventually came to  America) when he was young.'),
('184960',' After working in this film, Affleck, Casey (qv) brought director  Gus Van Sant a script by his brother Ben and Bens friend Matt. It  became _Good Will Hunting (1997)_ (qv).'),
('184961',' The story is set in New Hampshire, but filming took place almost  entirely in and around Toronto. Torontonian director  Cronenberg, David (qv) appears in a cameo ("man at the lake").'),
('184962',' CAMEO(Joyce Maynard): book author appears as Suzannes lawyer.'),
('184963',' According to Joyce Maynard, the book author who played Suzannes  lawyer, she happened to have her mothers ashes on hand during the  filming of her scene. Deciding her mother would have wanted to be in  the movie, she placed them in her prop briefcase.'),
('184964',' Meg Ryan (I) (qv) was first choice for the role of Suzanne Stone  but declined.'),
('184965',' Based on the real'),
('184966','life case of Pamela Smart (I) (qv), who seduced  her 15'),
('184967','year old lover into murdering her husband.'),
('184968',' In the novel "To Die For", on which the movie is based, Suzanne  Stone Maretto states on page 204 that she would like to see "that  actress that just got married to Tom Cruise (qv) in real life",  referring to Nicole Kidman (qv) who later played Suzanne in the  movie.'),
('184969',' Patricia Arquette, Jodie Foster, Bridget Fonda, Holly Hunter,  Mary'),
('184970','Louise Parker and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all considered for  the lead before the role was offered to Meg Ryan. She, however,  later changed her mind and left the project, which made director Gus  van Sant fear the film would be shelved without its top'),
('184971','line star.  At this point, Nicole Kidman stepped in.'),
('184972',' Casey Affleck (qv)s feature film debut.'),
('184973',' Last movie'),
('184974','role for Noah Hathaway (qv) before he quit totally.'),
('184975',' Boxing sequence was originally used in Tex Avery (qv)s  _Count Me Out (1938)_ (qv).'),
('184976',' John Lund (I) (qv)s debut.'),
('184977',' Ginger Rogers (qv) was first offered the role of Josephine Norris  but turned it down.'),
('184978',' This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of  Congress, in 1995.'),
('184979',' Freddie Prinze Jr.s feature film debut.'),
('184980',' Humphrey Bogart (qv) and Lauren Bacall (qv) fell in love during  production. Director Howard Hawks (qv) afterward said that it was  actually Bacalls character Marie that Bogart had fallen for, "so  she had to keep playing it the rest of her life." However, it has  also been said that Hawks '),
('184981',' who was something of a womanizer, and  who had a fling with Dolores Moran (qv) during the shooting of the  film '),
('184982',' was jealous and frustrated that Bacall had fallen for Bogart  and not for Hawks himself.'),
('184983',' The film debut of Lauren Bacall (qv).'),
('184984',' Ernest Hemingway (qv) had bet Howard Hawks (qv) that Hawks  couldnt film this novel. Hawks did it by deleting most of the  story, including the class references that would justify the title,  and shifting to an earlier point in the lives of the lead  characters.'),
('184985',' The setting was shifted to Martinique because the Office of  Inter'),
('184986','American Affairs would not have allowed export of a film  showing smuggling and insurrection in Cuba.'),
('184987',' Andy Williams (I) (qv) was hired to dub Lauren Bacall (qv)s  singing "How Little We Know", but director Howard Hawks (qv)  decided to go with Bacall.'),
('184988',' The only film to date (2000) based on a novel by a Nobel  Prize'),
('184989','winning author (Ernest Hemingway (qv)) to have its  screenplay co'),
('184990','written by another Nobel Prize'),
('184991','winning author  (William Faulkner (I) (qv)).'),
('184992',' The screenplay was rewritten to boost Slims role to take advantage  of the public interest in the real life romance between  Lauren Bacall (qv) and Humphrey Bogart (qv).'),
('184993',' Dolores Moran (qv) was originally scripted to be the lead actress  and Bogarts romantic interest, but her role was shrunk to make room  for Bacall.'),
('184994',' The movies line "You know how to whistle, dont you, Steve? You  just put your lips together and blow." was voted as the #34 movie  quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).'),
('184995',' The movies line "You know how to whistle, dont you, Steve? You  just put your lips together and blow." was voted as the #77 of "The  100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.'),
('184996',' Although the source novel and the script were written by 2 Nobel  Prize winners (Ernest Hemingway (qv) and  William Faulkner (I) (qv)), most of the dialog was actually  improvised by the cast.'),
('184997',' Featuring square dancers from "Margot Mayos American Square Dance  Group"'),
('184998',' Murphy, Audie (qv) originally declined the opportunity to portray  himself in the movie, not wanting people to think that he was  attempting to cash in on his role as a war hero.'),
('184999',' A total of 50,000 rounds of ammunition, 300 pounds of TNT, 600  pounds of blasting powder and 10 cases of 40 percent dynamite were  required for the filming of the battle scenes.'),
('185000',' Audie Murphy (qv)s war buddy Onclo Airheart was slated to play  himself, but he declined due to the fact that the movie was to be  shot during planting season.'),
('185001',' Average Shot Length (ASL) = 8 seconds'),
('185002',' This was the last Warner Brothers short scored by  Carl W. Stalling (qv) before his retirement.'),
('185003',' Algis Budrys (qv) won a Mystery Writers Edgar Special Award for  "The Master of the Hounds," the novella this film was based on,  originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, August 27, 1966.'),
('185004',' This movie was the prequel for the short lived  _"Eischied" (1979)_ (qv) series which premiered in September 1979.'),
('185005',' Dill was modeled after author Harper Lee (qv)s childhood friend,  Truman Capote (qv).'),
('185006',' Finch was writer Harper Lee (qv)s mothers maiden name.'),
('185007',' Robert Duvall (I) (qv) stayed out of the sun for six weeks and  dyed his hair blond for the role of Boo Radley who, according to the  story, spent much of his life locked in a cellar.'),
('185008',' Although Gregory Peck (qv)s inspirational performance as Atticus  Finch turned out to be a perfect highlight to his long career,  Rock Hudson (qv) was actually the studios first choice for the  role.'),
('185009',' Robert Duvall (I) (qv)s first movie.'),
('185010',' The courtroom is a recreation of the interior of the Monroe County  Courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama, Lee, Harper (qv)s hometown.  Prior to filming, production designers traveled to Monroeville, took  photographs and measurements, and created a near duplicate on  soundstages at Universal Studios.'),
('185011',' The watch used in the film was a prop, but Harper Lee (qv) gave  Gregory Peck (qv) her fathers watch after the film was completed  because he reminded her so much of him.'),
('185012',' Phillip Alford (qv) told his mother that he did not want to go to  the auditions for the part of Jem Finch but when his mother told him  he would miss half a day of school, he immediately decided to go to  them.'),
('185013',' Mary Badham (qv) messed up nearly every take in which the family  was eating at the table. Phillip Alford (qv) didnt like eating  the same meal dozens of times, so in one of the takes of the scene  in which he rolls Badham in the tire, he aimed it at an equipment  truck in an attempt to hurt her.'),
('185014',' Brock Peters (qv) started to cry while shooting the testifying  scene, without rehearsing it this way, and Gregory Peck (qv) said  that he had to look past him, instead of looking him in the eye,  without choking up himself.'),
('185015',' It has been reported that this film was Gregory Peck (qv)s  favorite work.'),
('185016',' According to the comics, this is Clark Kents (aka Superman)  favorite movie.'),
('185017',' Atticus Finch was voted as the top screen hero of the last 100 years  by the American Film Institute.'),
('185018',' The first scene that Gregory Peck (qv) shot showed him returning  home from his characters law office while his children ran to greet  him. Harper Lee (qv) was a guest on the set that day, and Peck  noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. "Why are you crying?"  Peck asked. Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for  Atticus, Lee explained; Peck even had a little round pot belly like  her fathers. "Thats not a pot belly, Harper," Peck told her,  "Thats great acting."'),
('185019',' Ranked #2 on the American Film Institutes 100 Most Inspiring Movies  of All Time (2006).'),
('185020',' In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #25 Greatest  Movie of All Time.'),
('185021',' Mary Badham (Scout) and Gregory Peck (Atticus) became close during  filming and kept in contact for the rest of his life. He always  called her Scout.'),
('185022',' Alice Ghostleys movie debut.'),
('185023',' One of the first films to be shot on video and transferred to 35mm  for theatrical release.'),
('185024',' The first lead role for Lance Henriksen (qv) in a feature movie.'),
('185025',' Most of the crew lived together in the directors parents house for  the duration of filming.'),
('185026',' The directors of the movie hosted an audition for teenage kids at  Sharon Middle School in Sharon, Massachusetts.'),
('185027',' During the opening sequence when the Willem Dafoe (qv) character  is shown printing money the film crew is actually creating  counterfeit bills. They had a convicted counterfeiter on set showing  them how it is done. They were filming out in the desert and Willem  Dafoe said that every time a helicopter flew over the building they  were sure it was the police coming to arrest them all.'),
('185028',' Gary Sinise (qv) had originally auditioned for the part of Chance.  When he was denied the role, he recommended William Petersen (qv)  to William Friedkin (qv).'),
('185029',' A year after the film came out, John Pankow (qv) met an undercover  NYPD cop in a coffee shop who told John that his panicking during  the highway chase scene was a completely accurate and realistic  response to such a situation.'),
('185030',' Like Dennis Hopper (qv)s _Colors (1988)_ (qv), the film was shot  in gang territory: Temple Street and 18th Street, the Nickerson  Gardens Project in Watts, MacArthur Park, Slauson Avenue in South  Central and the Boyle Heights Section of East Los Angeles.'),
('185031',' William Friedkin (qv) insisted that every activity depicted in the  movie should be portrayed with extreme accuracy. Two ex'),
('185032','cons  (convicted for money counterfeiting) were hired as technical  consultants for the money printing scenes. And for the police  procedures scenes, Friedkin hired real T'),
('185033','Men Gerald Petievich (also  author of the book "To Live and Die in LA"), Rick Petievich  (Geralds brother) and LAPD living legend Jack Hoar.'),
('185034',' William Friedkin (qv) kept only 20% of the elements of the  original book for the screenplay adaptation.'),
('185035',' The prison scenes were shot in the San Luis Obispo Penitentiary and  real prison inmates were used as extras.'),
('185036',' After seeing the film, Michael Mann (qv) sued  William Friedkin (qv) for plagiarism. He accused Friedkin of  stealing the entire concept of _"Miami Vice" (1984)_ (qv) and lost  the lawsuit.'),
('185037',' William Friedkin (qv) started to work on the movie after he lost  the opportunity to direct the screen adaptation of  Thomas Harris (qv)s "Red Dragon".'),
('185038',' Legendary cinematographer Robby Müller (qv) declined to shoot the  car chase because he didnt know how to set up such a scene. He was  replaced by second unit cameraman Robert D. Yeoman (qv).'),
('185039',' SPOILER: The script originally called for Vukovich to die in the  locker'),
('185040','room shootout. At the last minute, William Friedkin (qv)  and Gerald Petievich (qv) decided to change the story, having  Chance die in the shootout, and later showing Vukovich taking on  some of Chances characteristics. Their reasoning was that no one  would ever expect the hero, even an antihero, to die before the  climactic showdown. MGM was nervous about this and asked Friedkin to  shoot a different ending. Friedkin shot an alternate take of the  locker'),
('185041','room shootout, in which Chance is hit in the belly instead of  the head, and he shot an alternate ending which had Chance and  Vukovich being transferred to a remote station outside Anchorage,  Alaska. Although the crew went as far as adding credits to this  alternate ending, Friedkin hated this ending and insisted on the  original. The alternate ending is found on the Special Edition DVD.'),
('185042',' Friedkin filmed but did not include a scene in which Vukovich,  nearing the breaking point prior to the final showdown with Masters,  desperately tries to reconcile with his ex'),
('185043','wife. This deleted scene  is found on the Special Edition DVD along with an interview with  Friedkin, who says he doesnt remember why he cut it, and now  regrets doing so.'),
('185044',' 1980s band Wang Chung provided much of the soundtrack for this  movie. When Chance enters the topless bar for the first time, Wang  Chungs first hit song, "Dance Hall Days", is playing in the  background.'),
('185045',' The car chase sequence took six weeks to shoot. It was the last  thing shot '),
('185046',' apparently so that, if anything happened to the  principle actors, the filmmakers would at least have the bulk of  their movie completed without having to replace anybody.'),
('185047',' The freeway car chase was filmed with the traffic flowing backwards.  While Chance and Vukovich appear to be driving against traffic, they  are in fact going in the proper direction for the U.S.; it is the  rest of traffic thats moving on the wrong side of the road (Chance  drives on the right side of the road, but the traffic is driving on  the left). This was done to increase tension for the audience.'),
('185048',' Chances car in the chase is a 1985 Chevy Impala F41. It was rented  from the LAPD. In addition, several other cars in the film were  rented from neighboring California Law Enforcement agencies such as  Orange County Sheriffs Office, California Highway Patrol, while  some were used ex'),
('185049','police cruisers.'),
('185050',' Manilyn Reynes (qv) was introduced in this film.'),
('185051',' The title of this film is said to have been the inspiration for  James Bond creator Ian Fleming (I) (qv) for the title of the 1957  novel "From Russia With Love".'),
('185052',' Emma Bunton (qv) (the future "Baby Spice") has a tiny speaking  part as a prostitute in Episode 2.'),
('185053',' On the DVD commentary, Ian Richardson says he felt that David  Mycroft had one of the hardest roles in the trilogy, due to  Mycrofts characters bisexuality.'),
('185054',' Stamper confronts Francis about having a job in higher office after  the election, like Home Secretary, but Francis rejects him. In the  first House of Cards, Francis was promised a higher post like Home  Secretary from Collingridge, but was rejected.'),
('185055',' Clark Gable (qv) wanted the name of the movie changed because  shortly before filming he married Lady Silvia Ashley and did not  want people to make comparisons.'),
('185056',' Music hall star Jack Hodges sings "To See If My Dreams Come True" in  a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound'),
('185057','on'),
('185058','film  process.'),
('185059',' The film was held from release for more than a year until Columbia  Pictures decided to open it in Westwood, California in the summer of  1967 where it really broke through.'),
('185060',' The film did so unexpectedly well in America that Columbia Pictures  did market research to find out why so many people had gone to it.  Their answer: Sidney Poitier (qv).'),
('185061',' The London bus that appears in several sequences at the start of the  film, LLU 829, and in some later sequences, still survives today as  a preserved vintage vehicle, and can be seen at the East Anglia  Transport Museum, Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, England.'),
('185062',' Judy Geeson and Lulu were both reunited with Sidney Poitier in the  1996 TV sequel "To Sir, With Love II," directed by Peter  Bogdanovich.'),
('185063',' Both Lulu (I) (qv) and Judy Geeson (qv) who played major parts  in the original _To Sir, with Love (1967)_ (qv) reprised their roles  in this sequel.'),
('185064',' This film is a re'),
('185065','edited version of the pilot episode for The Man  From UNCLE, with a number of changes. The famous character of Mr.  Waverly is not in this film, for example.'),
('185066',' Several character names are taken from classic literature. Virgil  and Beatrice appear in Dante Alighieris Divine Comedy while Billy  Budd and Crazy Elija appear in Herman Melville works, Billy Budd and  Moby Dick respectively.'),
('185067',' The title of the movie came from an autographed picture of Julie  Newmar that Douglas Carter Beane saw on the wall of a Times Square  Chinese restaurant, the China Bowl, in the mid 1980s.'),
('185068',' The name of one of the towns, Bala Cynwyd, is a Philadelphia suburb,  where Exec. Producer Mitchell Kohn (qv) attended junior high  school.'),
('185069',' Before filming the scene in which Sheriff Dollard (played by  Chris Penn (I) (qv)) pulls the car over at the roadside,  Patrick Swayze (qv) secretly placed a corn cob down the front of  his underwear. Penns expression of shock upon putting his hand up  Swayzes dress is not faked.'),
('185070',' According to the three male leads, upon completion of filming they  burned their costumes, wigs and make'),
('185071','up because it took so long each  morning to "become" women.'),
('185072',' Opened in the #1 spot the weekend it opened, with approx $4M.'),
('185073',' Mel Gibson briefly flirted with the idea of playing the Patrick  Swayze part.'),
('185074',' According to John Leguizamo (qv) in his autobiography, his  frequent improvisation angered Patrick Swayze so much that Swayze  tried to punch him in the face.'),
('185075',' Gary Oldman was originally going to play one of the lead drag roles  but decided he didnt want to do another part that required  extensive make'),
('185076','up after his experiences on _Dracula (1992)_ (qv).'),
('185077',' This feature'),
('185078','length documentary is featured on the 2'),
('185079','Disc DVD for  Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) (TV), released in 2005.'),
('185080',' Won the MySpace Film Users Choice Award in June 2006.'),
('185081',' The movie is based on a documentary'),
('185082','crime novel by author Gunnar  Larsen written in 1933, which in turn was based on a true story that  shocked Norway.'),
('185083',' This movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. It was based on a  real double murder in 1926, but when the film was set to premiere in  1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to  court to have the film stopped. In 1954, the Norwegian Supreme Court  banned the film. Since then, only a few people have seen the film.  However, as of January 31st, 2007, the film will be available to the  public. A legal panel reviewed the film and found that it no longer  interferes with any persons right of privacy as all those involved  has since passed away. Also, the legal panel noted that had the same  case gone to trail today, the outcome would most likely have  differed, with freedom of speech outweighing the right to privacy.'),
('185084',' Michael Goodliffe (qv) and Anthony Valentine (qv) were cast at  short notice'),
('185085',' The last film Of Michael Goodliffe (qv).'),
('185086',' Olivia Newton'),
('185087','John (qv) was a candidate for Catherine.'),
('185088',' SPOILER: The films abrupt conclusion was not the original ending.  In the original script the character of Christopher Lee recovers  from the rock, thrown by Richard Widmark, and attempts to pursue  Widmark and Kinski. He is then struck by a flash of lightning as he  crosses the circle. Although this ending was filmed none of the  footage survives and is illustrated on the DVD by monochrome stills.'),
('185089',' Cliff Robertson (qv) was seriously favored for Verney (Richard  Widmark).'),
('185090',' Ken Russell and Mike Hodges were approached to direct the film.'),
('185091',' The landslide sequence includes a lot of archive footage from the  silent version, filmed ten years earlier.'),
('185092',' Four cameramen were killed and ten were wounded while filming this  documentary.'),
('185093',' Maureen OHara (qv)s first film in Technicolor. She looked so  good in it that she later earned the nickname "Queen of  Technicolor".'),
('185094',' Harry Morgan (qv)s film debut.'),
('185095',' Niya is Japanese for "meow".'),
('185096',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary  _Hot Springs and Geysers of New Zealand (1913)_ (qv).'),
('185097',' Many of the original cast in studio records and casting call lists  were not seen in the film. These include (with their character  names): George Lollier (qv) (Reporter), Frank Marlowe (qv)  (Reporter), Otto Fries (qv) (Reporter), Jack Carson (I) (qv)  (Reporter), Eddie Hart (qv) (Reporter), Max Wagner (I) (qv)  (Reporter), Frank M. Thomas (qv) (Lawyer), Oscar Apfel (qv)  (Wallack), George Offerman Jr. (qv) (Usher), Sidney Bracey (qv)  (Waiter), Don Brodie (qv), Lloyd Ingraham (I) (qv) (Man in New  York Restaurant), Frank Mills (I) (qv) (First Mug),  Russ Powell (I) (qv) (Second Mug), Ethan Laidlaw (qv) (Third  Mug), Edward LeSaint (qv) (Member of the Board of Directors),  Edward Peil Sr. (qv) (First Gentleman), Tom Ricketts (qv)  (Member of the Board of Directors) and William Worthington (qv)  (Judge). Henry Kolker (qv) was listed in the cast by a news item,  but he also was not seen in the film.'),
('185098',' The film lost $530,000 at the box office, RKOs biggest failure in  1937.'),
('185099',' Unlike the events in the film, Jim Fisk was shot and killed in a  fight over a woman. Josie Mansfield was only one of his romantic  interests.'),
('185100',' Alexander Hall (I) (qv) was the original director, but fell ill  with pleurisy and was replaced by Rowland V. Lee (qv) after  two'),
('185101','thirds of the film was shot. The length of principal photography  suggests that Lee reshot or expanded most of Halls material,  resulting in many cast changes. It is not known how much of Halls  footage remains in the film.'),
('185102',' Paramount ingénue Judith Ames (née Rachel Foulger) was "borrowed"  from the studio to complete this picture.'),
('185103',' Released as a split reel along with the comedies  _Her Exclusive Hat (1911)_ (qv) and  _Willies Conscience (1911)_ (qv).'),
('185104',' The movie was banned in Australia for unspecified reasons, but  generally had few censorship problems.'),
('185105',' The Broadway play by Jack Kirkland (qv) based on Erskine  Caldwells novel opened 4 December 1933 and set a record for  longevity on Broadway when it closed on 31 May 1941 after 3,281  performances. It was revived on Broadway twice in the next two  years, bring its total running time there to nearly ten years  (1933'),
('185106','1943).'),
('185107',' First Japanese production to be filmed in 3'),
('185108','D.'),
('185109',' The films master negative was lost in a fire.'),
('185110',' Compilation of scenes from producer Ed Finneys film library,  including clips from _Laffing Time (1959)_ (qv) and  _Madcaps, The (1962)_ (qv).'),
('185111',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('185112',' Rock Hudson replaced Laurence Harvey.'),
('185113',' American M3 halftracks, with skillfully altered bodies, impersonate  German SdKfz 7s, which were much larger machines.'),
('185114',' Portions of the film were edited into the 1971  Richard Burton (I) (qv) film _Raid on Rommel (1971)_ (qv).'),
('185115',' Technical advice and assistance for the film were provided by the  40th Armored Division ("Grizzly") of the California Army National  Guard.'),
('185116',' Characters from other Silly Symphony cartoons appear in the  audience. Jenny Wren from _Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)_ (qv), and  Practical Pig from _Three Little Pigs (1933)_ (qv) (as the bell  ringer) are the most visible. Also appearing are Dirty Bill from  _Robber Kitten, The (1935)_ (qv), Elmer and Tillie from  _Elmer Elephant (1936)_ (qv), the Harpo Marx bird from  _Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)_ (qv), and Fifer Pig and Fiddler Pig  from _Three Little Pigs (1933)_ (qv). Goofy, Donald Duck and Horace  Horsecollar also appear.'),
('185117',' Disney was able to bolster interest in this Kevin Corcoran vehicle  by using Henry Calvin and Gene Sheldon in co'),
('185118','starring roles. They  were both the co'),
('185119','stars of Disneys hit television series  _"Zorro" (1957)_ (qv) which was then off the air due to legal  disputes between Disney and the American Broadcasting Company.'),
('185120',' Igor Galo (qv)s directorial debut.'),
('185121',' The hotel employee who teases Julián is Alfredo Caseros son,  Nazareno Casero'),
('185122',' Variety reported in its review that director Howard Hawks (qv)  used footage from the movie _Hells Angels (1930)_ (qv) for the big  bomber expedition sequence, the main dogfight, and the head'),
('185123','on  collision of two airplanes.'),
('185124',' The preview running time was 135 minutes, indicating much was cut  before its release.'),
('185125',' This interview session is features on the DVD of  _Spawn (1997)_ (qv), released in Region 1 (USA and Canada) in  January 1998.'),
('185126',' Recorded Live June 9 2004 DVD includes an additional 40 minutes  worth of special bonus features including a scrapbook and an  exclusive Video Diary filmed on location during the Liars Japanese  leg of the tour.'),
('185127',' The sport featured was originally soccer. Due to the worst winter in  Toronto in 100 years, the sport was changed to basketball a week  before shooting.'),
('185128',' Shot on the set of _"Degrassi: The Next Generation" (2001)_ (qv)'),
('185129',' The film is believed to be lost.'),
('185130',' Continuation of Auf den Trümmer des Paradieses (1920).'),
('185131',' The Thursday episode, where a bridge is shot from different angles  while different names, ages and occupations are superimposed over  the screen, is a real bridge near Berlin. It is also known as "the  bridge of tears", as it is commonly used by suicidal jumpers. The  name list seen in the movie is of actual people, a complete list of  those who jumped off the bridge during the preceding year of the  movies shooting. Source: Jörg Buttgereits movie notes, Helsinki  International Film Festival ca. 1995.'),
('185132',' Wolfgang Preiss (I) (qv) does not appear in this movie although he  is listed in the credits.'),
('185133',' Cameo(Carolina Rivera): the woman whose purse is stollen at the  Zócalo.'),
('185134',' This movie was intended to satirize Italys ruling political party,  the Democrazia Cristiana. Gian Maria Volontés character was a  caricature of one of DC leaders, statesman Aldo Moro (qv).  However, two years later, Moro was kidnapped and murdered by  communist terrorists and the joke went stale.'),
('185135',' Agrados monologue was based on a real life event. When the  electronic system of an Argentinian theater failed, the director  suspended the show. Actress Lola Membrives (qv) decided to give  the news to the audience and make them an offer: if theyd stay,  they could listen to the narration of her life.'),
('185136',' Manuela Coleman is a character from Pedro Almodóvar (qv)s earlier  film, _Flor de mi secreto, La (1995)_ (qv).'),
('185137',' Pedro Almodóvar (qv) dedicated his movie to Bette Davis (qv),  Gena Rowlands (qv) and Romy Schneider (qv).'),
('185138',' This film is dedicated to director Roberto Rodríguez (I) (qv)s  mother.'),
('185139',' After seeing her Marilyn Briggs in _Together (1971)_ (qv), the  Mitchell Brothers offered her a role in "Behind the Green Door,"  giving her the option of taking a role in which she wasnt required  to have sex. Originally, Briggs chose a non'),
('185140','sex role, but allowed  the Brothers to talk her into taking the lead. For her gig, she was  paid $25,000 and 1% of earnings (which in 1974, brought her between  $2,000 and $2,500 per month), the highest amount ever paid a porn  performer. Now called Marilyn Chambers (I) (qv), "Green Door" made  her a porno superstar, and one of the only porn actresses to cross  over into mainstream features.'),
('185141',' Actor Samuel L. Jackson (qv) was still a student at Morehouse  College in Atlanta, Georgia when he portrayed Stan in his film  debut.'),
('185142',' Lois Chiles (qv) film debut.'),
('185143',' Italian censorship visa #54594 dated 2 October 1969'),
('185144',' Visa de contrôle cinématographique ( France ) : # 20787.'),
('185145',' Twelfth and final episode in the "Who Pays?" series of three'),
('185146','reel  dramas..'),
('185147',' James Frank Tittle (qv) developed a small track to dolly the  camera on. This was needed due to the cramped quarters of "Annas"  house.'),
('185148',' "The Buzzing Orient" 1'),
('185149','reel documentary series.'),
('185150',' The only surviving material on this film, which runs approximately a  half hour, is an abridgment which includes an introductory sequence,  and most, but not all, of the Colman footage, and little else.  Hence, the leading couple, around whom the story revolves, are  hardly seen, and the Colman character becomes the focus of  attention.'),
('185151',' Eléonore Faucher (qv) made this film as a final exam for Louis  Lumière Film School.'),
('185152',' German'),
('185153','produced documentary short released under the series title  "MGM Oddities" in the US.'),
('185154',' This movie is sequel of sorts to the original novel by Tsutsui  Yasutaka, and the 1983 live'),
('185155','action movie '),
('185156',' the main characters aunt  is Yoshiyama Kazuko, the protagonist of the novel. The scenes  featuring her in this movie are liberally sprinkled with references  to the original novel and movie, including her description of a  Sunday that was suddenly over before she knew it, and her former  boyfriend who promised to return some day, to give a few examples.'),
('185157',' AOL'),
('185158','Time'),
('185159','Warner refuses to release or air this cartoon.'),
('185160',' The first Warner Brothers cartoon to have the credits appear before  the title of the cartoon.'),
('185161',' Direction is credited to "Cpl. Norm McCabe."'),
('185162',' One of the jokes in the film is based on real events: The "Wish You  Were Here" gag references the May, 1941, flight of Rudolph Hess to  Scotland, where he was immediately taken prisoner.'),
('185163',' The character "Lord Haw Haw" was a caricature of a real person.  William Joyce, an American'),
('185164','born Nazi propagandist who had moved to  Ireland and then to England before moving on to Nazi Germany in  order to support the fascist Nazi Government. He was known  derisively among the Allies (to whom he broadcasted on behalf of  Goebbels Propaganda Ministry) as "Lord Haw'),
('185165','Haw" due to his snorting  laughter. His broadcasts to England were the usual pointless Nazi  screeds about how the Allies were losing the war, the  "Jewish'),
('185166','Bolshevik'),
('185167','plutocrat" triangle supposedly directing the war,  etc., interspersed with heavily slanted news items and some music,  also created from a propaganda angle. Joyce was captured by British  troops after the war. Despite never being granted British  citizenship the British exploited a technicality (Joyce had  previously been incorrectly issued a British passport) in order to  try him for the crime of high treason. He was subsequently convicted  of the crime, sentenced to death and executed at Wandsworth Prison  in South London on 3 January 1946.'),
('185168',' Adm. Yamamotos boast to personally dictate peace terms in the White  House was a recasting of an actual quote from the admiral laying out  his war aims.'),
('185169',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Jumping Analyzed (1916)_ (qv).'),
('185170',' The "British" comedian James, Sid (I) (qv), who appears in this  South African movie, is in fact a native of South Africa.'),
('185171',' The first animated appearances of Subaru Sumeragi, Hokuto Sumeragi,  and Seishirou Sakurazuka. The characters would go on to play major  roles in the X movie and television series and make guest  appearances in the CLAMP in Wonderland video clip and Tsubasa  Chronicle television series.'),
('185172',' This "TV pilot" is actually an American'),
('185173','made parody of a Japanese TV  show. There are several perhaps intentional mistakes in the pilot: '),
('185174','  The label of the green coffee bag is upside down katakana, but only  says gibberish. '),
('185175',' The news channel being shown is in Chinese, not  Japanese. '),
('185176',' The actors are badly trying to hide their North American  accent. The daughter is speaking Japanese in obvious North American  accent. '),
('185177',' The crew listed in the credits all have American sounding  names. They are just written in katakana.'),
('185178',' In the title screen, the city skyline is that of downtown Los  Angeles, with the old Transamerica (now SBC) building prominent.'),
('185179',' The film is full of "12'),
('185180','25" (Christmas) references, including: The  number on the key; the cab fare; the address in the newspaper ad;  the cab license plate.'),
('185181',' Towards the beginning of the movie, they pass a bus stop, in the  background you can see the theatrical posters for  _Perfect Blue (1997/I)_ (qv), and _Sennen joyu (2001)_ (qv). All  three films were directed by Satoshi Kon (qv).'),
('185182',' On the Tokyo Godfathers DVD there is a bonus "making of" featurette.  ANN founder, Justin Sevakis can be spotted at the beginning of the  featurette which shows the American premiere of Tokyo Godfathers at  BAAF (Big Apple Anime Fest).'),
('185183',' A number of the minor characters appear to be named for well'),
('185184','known  seiyuu. Thus, the cast of characters includes such names as "Eriko  Kawasaki" (voiced by Chiyako Shibahara) and "Hidenari Ugaki" (voiced  by Mitsuru Ogata).'),
('185185',' This was the first movie allowed to film in post'),
('185186','war Japan.'),
('185187',' The band performing on stage immediately following the credits (the  singer has the big pigtails) is the Japanese band, Papaya Paranoia.'),
('185188',' The band performing during the movie is X, which later became X  Japan.'),
('185189',' This cartoon (along with other "Hook" cartoons) was found by  accident in the garage of a former soldier who had saved them,  thinking they were "Private Snafu" shorts. The cartoon was finally  discovered in the mid'),
('185190','1990s when an A&E documentary on war cartoons  began production. It turned out that Warners made these shorts for  the US Navy and because they wanted to keep this a secret, all  original negatives were destroyed shortly after release. The "Hook"  shorts that were given to the cartoon researchers had "vinegar  syndrome" and have deteriorated, but fortunately before that  happened, they transferred them to video.'),
('185191',' The credits indicate that the script was based on an original work  by a foreign writer with a name that sounds like "Winzart Monet",  but it is actually a gag name, derived from "without money".'),
('185192',' Previously a commercial director this is Hiroshi Ishikawa (qv)s  debut feature film.'),
('185193',' Debut of John Carradine (qv) (billed as Peter Richmond).'),
('185194',' The 48 Hour Film Project assigns certain elements that must be  included in each submitted film. For 2005, they were: Character  "Matt Greene;" Occupation "Landscape Engineer (Gardener);" Dialogue  "I must be doing something right;" Prop "Wind chimes."'),
('185195',' Received the "Audience Award" for best film at the 2005 edition in  Austin, TX. It was also awarded "Best Music" for Arthur Yorias  track, "At Least Youve Been Told."'),
('185196',' Shot mostly on location in Idaho, using a tribe of Nez Perce. Actor  Monte Blue (qv), part Cherokee in real life, played a native  american in the film.'),
('185197',' When Márcia meets Júlio in the prison, she tells him, "Youre  horrible. What happened, didnt they let you take a shower?" One of  the films screenwriters is Furtado, Jorge (qv), who wrote and  directed the short film "O Dia Em Que Dorival Enfrentou A Guarda,"  in which a prison detainee tries to take a shower, but the prison  guards dont let him do it.'),
('185198',' This film about the Ku Klux Klan was found to be so racist that even  Thomas Dixon (who wrote "The Klansman", the literary source for  _Birth of a Nation, The (1915)_ (qv)) was offended.'),
('185199',' One of the 50 films in the 4'),
('185200','disk boxed DVD set called "Treasures  from American Film Archives (2000)", compiled by the National Film  Preservation Foundation from 18 American film archives. This film  was preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.'),
('185201',' Shot entirely in two'),
('185202','strip Technicolor, the first feature film of  its kind.'),
('185203',' During production, star Anna May Wong (I) (qv) reportedly said,  "This picture will never reach the screen."'),
('185204',' Shot over 2 weekends in Fall of 2003. During the second weekend the  park was closed and the cars in the Wonder Wheel had been removed,  so the film was shot further down the boardwalk so as not to get the  Wonder Wheel in the background.'),
('185205',' Shot with a Super'),
('185206','8 camera bought by Steve Katz (IV) (qv) over  E'),
('185207','Bay for 40 dollars.'),
('185208',' Arnold Schwarzenegger (qv) was considered for the role of Tom.'),
('185209',' The rifle Horn uses to such deadly effect in the film is an original  Winchester Model 1876 in .45'),
('185210','60 caliber, fitted with a custom tang  sight. Manufactured from 1877'),
('185211','1894, the Model 76 was an obsolete  arm by the turn of the century, when the events of the story take  place. All the available historical sources state that Horn actually  used a .30'),
('185212','30 Winchester Model 1894 for his controversial activities  as a "stock detective" in Wyoming. Horn gave this rifle to rancher  C.B. Irwin not long before Horns execution on November 20, 1903. It  resides today in the collection of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame  in Oklahoma City.'),
('185213',' An alternate ending was shot where the townspeople filed out of the  building where Horn was executed. The sole person left in the room  was one of the "kid deputies" standing guard at the door.'),
('185214',' Average Shot Length = ~6.5 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.4  seconds.'),
('185215',' When Gary Combs (qv) tested the replica gallows trapdoor system,  the "Peter Pan" safety cable broke, causing him to suffer a rope  burn on his neck when the breakaway knot released, saving his life.'),
('185216',' Five directors worked on this film, but were either fired or left  because of disagreements with Steve McQueen (I) (qv).'),
('185217',' According to an article about Steve McQueen (I) (qv)s western  films in Cowboys & Indians Magazine (to celebrate the DVD release of  _"Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1958)_ (qv)), McQueen thoroughly  researched the life of Tom Horn by spending time with famed western  novelist Louis LAmour (qv), who had many of Horns letters in his  private collection.'),
('185218',' Albert Finney (qv) felt the lead role wasnt serious enough, and  agreed to star only if he got a producing credit; he later traded  the credit for profit participation.'),
('185219',' Hugh Griffith (I) (qv) was reportedly drunk through much of the  production; the scene in which his horse falls on him was not  planned, and many believed he was saved by virtue of his inebriated  condition. The film incorporated every frame of footage before  rescuers entered the frame to save him.'),
('185220',' Much of the scene in which Tom Jones and Mrs. Waters are eating  together was improvised during the three hours it took to shoot, and  the actors felt the effects from the food for days.'),
('185221',' When Tom first arrives in London, we briefly see the coat of arms of  the Carpenters Company of London hung upside'),
('185222','down.'),
('185223',' The only film to have three nominees for the Best Supporting Actress  Oscar. The award was won by Margaret Rutherford (qv) for  _V.I.P.s, The (1963)_ (qv).'),
('185224',' Lynn Redgrave (qv)s film debut.'),
('185225',' This short was created by rotoscop '),
('185226',' a process that traces back the  live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original  live action was shot with 5 cameras '),
('185227',' 2 high, 2 low and one hand  held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the  background as Tom Waits (qv) sang karaoke style different lyrics  on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage  were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned  into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then  re'),
('185228','drawn, inked and painted by hand onto celluloid acetate to  produce this film.'),
('185229',' Charles Nelson Reillys last film.'),
('185230',' This is the series of 14 cartoons.'),
('185231',' When Tom and Jerry are in Hollywood, all the stars from the "Walk of  Fame" almost poke a man standing on the other sidewalk. Near the  left of the man, you can see a poster for "Tom and Jerry: Blast Off  To Mars".'),
('185232',' Nibbles speaks in this film.'),
('185233',' The scenes had Tom and Jerry become pals when the magic ring stops  the other characters.'),
('185234',' The characters that showed up in the end are: Butch, Spike, Chip,  Alley Cat, Nibbles, Freddie, Police Cars.'),
('185235',' The first Tom and Jerry feature film.'),
('185236',' Chuck Jones (I) (qv) was set to make a Tom and Jerry movie in the  1970s, but eventually pulled out after being unable to find a  suitable script.'),
('185237',' "Tom yum goong" is the name of a very popular dish in Thailand. Its  a hot'),
('185238','sour soup (prepared with lemon grass) with shrimp.'),
('185239',' Thailands Prime Minister Thaksin Shinnawat personally attended the  premier of this movie in Bangkok, Thailand.'),
('185240',' The film took two years to make and used more than 600 rolls of  film.'),
('185241',' Contains one of the longest no'),
('185242','cut fight scenes in movie history:  the fight up floor after floor lasted four'),
('185243','plus minutes.'),
('185244',' The international rights of the film were sold before it even  started shooting. This is first Thai film to have done so.'),
('185245',' First time ever an elephant walked on Sydney Harbor Bridge.'),
('185246',' Three cameos: Tony Jaas father appears at the Songkran scene; a  Jackie Chan double in the airport, intended as a tribute to Jaas  idol; and Thai rock star Sek Loso appears prominently in the  foreground in one scene drinking his trademark energy drink, which  was tied up in a promotional relationship with the movie in  Thailand.'),
('185247',' Tony Jaa has developed a new style of Muay Thai specially for the  film: "Muay Kotchasan" is based on elephants movements ("throw,  stamp on, grab, break").'),
('185248',' As with Tony Jaa previous films, no wires or stunt doubles were used  during filming.'),
('185249',' According to the interview with the director contained on the Thai  VDC, the continuous fight scene required at least 6 full takes to  get right (due to objects not breaking on cue and stunts not  executing exactly as planned). Each time the set had to be reset and  the breakaway props replaced and Tony Jaa tended to with smelling  salts. Because of the physical demands on the cameraman when running  with the steady'),
('185250','cam, a second steady'),
('185251','cam operator was required to  get all the takes. The final take was the one eventually used, which  explains why Tony Jaa looks so tired near the end of the fight (he  had done the whole routine 6 times at that point).'),
('185252',' This is the first Thai film to be a "top ten film" at the American  box office on its opening weekend, opening in fourth place.'),
('185253',' Due to the failure in box office of this movie, other projects that  were being considered for Tony Jaa at the time were cancelled.'),
('185254',' In most foreign releases of the film, references to Madame Rose  being a kathoey (male'),
('185255','to'),
('185256','female transsexual) have been removed, in  spite of the fact that the actress playing her (Jing Xing) is also a  transsexual. Her survival at the end of the movie has also been cut,  instead indicating that she is killed.'),
('185257',' The camera used was the same camera used by Stanley Kubrick (qv)  for film _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).'),
('185258',' The last appearance of Spike.'),
('185259',' In the masquerade party sequence, Tom disguises himself as a priest  from _Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)_ (qv), Dick disguises himself as  Radhe Mohan from _Tere Naam (2003)_ (qv) and Harry disguises himself  as the titular character in  _The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey (2005)_ (qv).'),
('185260',' The film was originally titled "De De Pyar De".'),
('185261',' Biograph production number 2987.'),
('185262',' Ken Jacobs made this experimental feature by rephotographing the  1905 Biograph short _Tom, Tom, the Pipers Son (1905)_ (qv).'),
('185263',' This show was in the top ten from the week it debuted until it went  off the air. The only reason it was cancelled is because the star of  the series, Tony Musante (qv), quit.'),
('185264',' One episode script written for the series was rejected by ABC. That  rejected script featured a character who would eventually become the  main character in a hit series for NBC. The character was a private  investigator named Rockford. The NBC series was eventually called  _"Rockford Files, The" (1974)_ (qv)'),
('185265',' The show was based on a real'),
('185266','life New Jersey cop named  David Toma (I) (qv) and every episode featured a cameo from Toma  himself.'),
('185267',' TV version of a popular musical theater hit.'),
('185268',' The fire in the scene at the beginning where Jack and Rob are  hanging on for dear life was filmed in a garbage can in Anthonys  back yard and added into the shot later.'),
('185269',' Originally the film was supposed to only be a 30 second commercial  for a contest, but was rewritten and expanded when the contest was  dropped that year.'),
('185270',' It took 3 years to finish the film due to rewrites and having to  transition from hand painting everything to doing everything on  computer.'),
('185271',' For a while, the film could only be worked on by the director while  he was at his day job as a Computer Lab Technician because he didnt  have his own home computer.'),
('185272',' Originally conceived with a male lead character; changed to a female  character in order to reduce similarities with Indiana Jones.'),
('185273',' The game series have all been number one, and have a combined sales  total of 24 million copies.'),
('185274',' On the floor of Zips office, in Croft Manor, several humorous  Post'),
('185275','It notes can be found. These include "legal says "no"", "get  more soda" and "reboot web'),
('185276','cams in bedroom".'),
('185277',' Laras back'),
('185278','story and character design, plus the design of Croft  Manor have all been brought in line with the movies  (_Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)_ (qv) and  _Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)_ (qv) starring  Angelina Jolie (qv)) rather than the continuity established in the  previous 6 games.'),
('185279',' SPOILER: In the level "King Arthers Tomb?", there are several toy  sea serpents in the gift shop and warehouse of the King Arthur  Museum, despite the fact that there arent any sea serpents in the  King Arthur story. These have obviously been added as a clue as to  what the boss at the end of this level will be.'),
('185280',' Proposed titles included "The House at the End of the World" and  "The Tomb of the Cat"'),
('185281',' This was the last of Roger Corman (qv)s "Poe" series.'),
('185282',' Roger Corman wanted to break away from his standard technique of  shooting his "Poe" features entirely on soundstages. There are many  scenes, including the entire first reel, that were shot outdoors.'),
('185283',' Roger Corman gave up his producer credit to Pat Green in order to  qualify for a British subsidy.'),
('185284',' This horror anthology comprises movie footage edited into short  segments from previously released Full Moon Pictures films:  _Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994) (V)_ (qv), H.P. Lovecrafts  _Lurking Fear (1994)_ (qv), and _Talisman (1998)_ (qv).'),
('185285',' The three stories were renamed for the DVD release: "Ascent From  Hell", "Infinite Evil", and "Eternal Damnation."'),
('185286',' This film was edited on a 35mm projector, without sound.'),
('185287',' Two parts : Le Tigre du Bengale (82 minutes) and Le Tombeau  hindou (88 minutes).'),
('185288',' The race car Tommy drives in the movie is a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair  with a V'),
('185289','8 Conversion.'),
('185290',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Algy the Watchman (1912)_ (qv).'),
('185291',' Kevin Jarre (I) (qv) began as director, filming all of  Charlton Heston (qv)s scenes.'),
('185292',' Director Cosmatos, George P. (qv) is quoted as saying that all  lightning and mustaches are real.'),
('185293',' The nocturne that Doc Holliday plays is Chopins Noctune #19 in E  minor, Opus 72 No. 1.'),
('185294',' ACTTRADE(Val Kilmer (qv)): flipping a poker chip over his  knuckles.'),
('185295',' The real Wyatt Earps fifth cousin, Wyatt Earp (I) (qv), plays  Billy Claiborne.'),
('185296',' Although the gunfight at the O. K. Corral plays out more or less as  it did in real life, the filmmakers made several small changes. In  the actual incident it was Ike Clanton who ran through the corral to  escape (in the film it is Barnes who runs out the back). The film  instead shows Ike Clanton running into the photographers studio  while firing a few shots back at the Earps and Doc. In reality, it  was Billy Claiborne who performed this action before escaping  unscathed.'),
('185297',' The Latin phrases spoken by Doc and Ringo have implied meaning  beyond their literal translation. The conversation could be  translated into vernacular English this way: DOC: Wine loosens the  tongue. RINGO: You better pay attention to what youre doing. DOC:  Go tell someone else. RINGO: (tapping his gun) Fools must learn  through experience. DOC: Rest in peace.'),
('185298',' After Kevin Jarre (qv) was fired, Kurt Russell (I) (qv) rallied  the cast and crew to continue shooting, for fear that the studio  would shut the picture down instead of hiring a new director.  Russell acted as director (unofficially) until the studio sent  George P. Cosmatos (qv) to take over as the director.'),
('185299',' Kevin Jarre (qv)s original script for Tombstone was significantly  longer than the final film. It was intended to be an epic, detailing  the lives of all the combatant parties in the story. After Jarre was  fired as director, George P. Cosmatos (qv) hired  John Fasano (qv) to trim the script to focus primarily on the Earp  family (to make the already'),
('185300','delayed shoot more manageable). Fasano  received co'),
('185301','author credit in early promotional materials, but his  name was removed from the films credits (probably due to Writer  Guild arbitration). Instead, Fasano was given an Associate Producer  credit.'),
('185302',' When the Earps first enter Tombstone, a grave marker can be seen in  the cemetery that reads "Here lies Lester Moore, Four slugs from a  .44, No Les No more." There is an actual tombstone in Tombstone,  Arizona that has that epitaph.'),
('185303',' The excerpt from William Shakespeare (I) (qv)s "Henry the V" that  is recited by Mr. Fabian is the same passage that Dutton Peabody  speaks to himself while walking down the street in  _Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)_ (qv).'),
('185304',' The expression "Im your huckleberry" spoken by Doc means "Im the  perfect man for the job." It is not a reference to  Mark Twain (qv)s Huck Finn, as that book was published in 1885  and this movie takes place in 1881.'),
('185305',' Here is the translation of what Doc and Johnny Ringo are saying to  one another in Latin: Doc Holliday: In vino veritas. (In wine there  is truth.) Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis. (Do what you do.) Doc  Holliday: Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego. (Let Apella the Jew  believe, not I.) Johnny Ringo: Iuventus stultorum magister. (Youth  is the teacher of fools.) Doc Holliday: In pace requiescat. (May he  rest in peace.)'),
('185306',' Val Kilmer (qv) has been quoted as saying that screenwriter  Kevin Jarre (qv) insisted the actors wear real wool costumes, in  accordance with the time period. During the scene in the Birdcage  Theater, Val Kilmer says, a thermometer was placed on the set, and  it read 134 degrees Fahrenheit. Kilmer suggested jokingly that this  was the reason Doc Holliday killed so many people: "Its just, like,  he wore wool in the summer, in the Arizona territory, and that made  him mad."'),
('185307',' Robert Mitchum (qv) was signed on to star as Old Man Clanton. On  the first day of shooting he fell from his horse and injured his  back, forcing him to quit the part. Instead, Mitchum provides the  narration at the beginning and end of the film. The part of Old Man  Clanton was eliminated from the script.'),
('185308',' Many scenes/subplots cut from the film still did not make the  expanded DVD version: one sequence was the Cowboys bonfire  rally/mourning scene, which takes place the night they buried the  Clantons killed in the OK Corral gunfight. A brief shot can be seen  in some of the trailers (Curly Bill throwing a bottle of whiskey  into the bonfire).'),
('185309',' In the original teasers for the film, John Fasano (qv) is credited  as being co'),
('185310','screenwriter. His name disappeared by the time the  trailers were released.'),
('185311',' Longtime veteran western actor Glenn Ford (I) (qv) had originally  signed on as a cameo role in this film; however, poor health forced  him to withdraw.'),
('185312',' The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is  historically true and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting  the fight. When confronted by one of the Cowboys at point blank  range, the Cowboy reportedly said, "I got you now Doc, you son of a  bitch," to which Doc gleefully retorted, "youre a daisy if you do!"'),
('185313',' In an interview with True West magazine (Oct. 2006), star Kurt  Russell admits that after original director Kevin Jarre was fired  that he ghost directed a majority of the picture. According to  Russell, credited director George P. Cosmatos served merely to make  things run smoothly.'),
('185314',' Also in the True West interview, Kurt Russell states that the film  was nearly cast with Richard Gere as Wyatt Earp and Willem Dafoe as  Doc Holliday.'),
('185315',' Then'),
('185316','72'),
('185317','year old Harry Carey Jr played Marshal Fred White in spite  of the fact that the real Fred White was about 31 years old at the  time of his murder.'),
('185318',' Throughout the movie, Ike constantly refers to the Earps as "Pimps".  This was due to the fact that the Earps wives were all Dodge City  prostitutes and that the women would sometimes continue to sell  themselves out for extra income while they were in Dodge.'),
('185319',' At the Birdcage Theater, one of the cowboys sees the juggler,  "Professor Gilman" and says "Aw! Professor Gilman? I seen him in  Bisbee. He catches things." To which another cowboy stands up, pulls  a gun and says "Hey, Professor! Catch this!" and shoots one of the  bowling pins hes juggling. This is based on a true anecdote told in  the Time Life book series "The Old West'),
('185320','Gunfighters" profile of the  OK Corral shootout. As in real life, the juggler raced off stage  yelling "My God! Theyre really shooting at us!"'),
('185321',' SPOILER: As extraordinary as the scene is in which Wyatt kills Curly  Bill Brocius in the creek, it it true. During the shootout in the  creek when Wyatt kills Curly Bill, the next person he shoots is  Johnny Barnes (the cowboy who yells "JESUS CHRIST!!"). As in real  life, Wyatt shoots Barnes in the stomach. However, Barnes was not  killed on site. He managed to escaped and died in a farmhouse.  However, before dying, he told the story of how Wyatt REALLY did  walk into a hail of Curly Bills gunfire unscathed and walked right  up to Bill and shot him point blank with both barrels of a  double'),
('185322','barreled shotgun.'),
('185323',' "Ill be damned." Really are the final words of John "Doc" Holliday.  To this day, historians have debated on why Doc said that. The main  theory is that Doc had become a gunfighter hoping that someone would  kill him and spare him the effects of tuberculosis and that he was  amazed that that the disease is what killed him: Not the drinking,  gambling, or gunfighting.'),
('185324',' The second movie in which Jerry OConnell is tied to something and  harnessed down. In _Scream 2 (1997)_ (qv), hes dropped down at the  final showdown and in tomcats, hes lifted up by the dominatrix.'),
('185325',' WILHELM SCREAM: When Michael (Jerry OConnell) collides with a cello  player near the end of the film.'),
('185326',' This was Yakov Protazanovs first sound film.'),
('185327',' All of the movie was filmed to a pre'),
('185328','recorded soundtrack except for  the "Pinball Wizard" sequence in which The Who really did play in  front of the theatre audience (John, Elton (qv)s band, however,  is featured on the soundtrack). When the fans rush the stage at the  end of the sequence, that wasnt scripted but caused by the  excitement The Whos live performance generated, particularly when  Townshend, Pete (qv) started to smash his guitar.'),
('185329',' Ken Russell originally wanted Christopher Lee (I) (qv) to play the  Doctor. But he was in Bangkok, Thailand, filming  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv). Luckily,  Jack Nicholson (qv) was in London at the time, and he was brought  in as a last'),
('185330','minute replacement for Lee. His singing and his film  part were filmed and recorded in 18 hours.'),
('185331',' The original choice to play the Acid Queen was  David Bowie (I) (qv).'),
('185332',' Some of the scenes with Robert Powell (I) (qv) parallel his scenes  in _Mahler (1974)_ (qv), also directed by Ken Russell (I) (qv).'),
('185333',' DIRTRADE(Ken Russell (qv)):[colors]: colors of sets during "Acid  Queen," "Cousin Kevin," and "Uncle Ernie" sequences. Lighting during  "Pinball Wizard."'),
('185334',' DIRCAMEO(Ken Russell (qv)): One of the cripples during "Eyesight  to the Blind/Marilyn Monroe" sequence'),
('185335',' The scene of Ann'),
('185336','Margret (qv)s hallucination of soap, beans, and  chocolate coming out of the TV set took three days to film.'),
('185337',' John, Elton (qv) asked to keep the outrageous boots from his  costume.'),
('185338',' Ann'),
('185339','Margret (qv) was injured during the filming of the baked  beans/champagne sequence.'),
('185340',' There were several new songs written especially for the movie that  werent on the original album. Among those were "Champagne," "Mother  and Son," and "TV Studio." Also, a couple of songs were rewritten  with either new lyrics ("Pinball Wizard," "Were Not Gonna Take It,"  and "Do You Think its All Right?"), or new titles ("1951" was  originally called "1921" on the original release of "Tommy").'),
('185341',' The building that is seen to be on fire, part of Tommys holiday  camp, is in fact really burning down. It is South Parade Pier in  Southsea. A fire was accidentally started during the filming and the  crew decided to include the footage in the film. The fire'),
('185342','crews and  the fire are genuine. The pier was rebuilt and is still in use  today.'),
('185343',' Rod Stewart (I) (qv) was originally intended to play the pinball  wizard, but Elton John (qv) talked him out of it. John then took  the part himself. Stewart had played the part in a London stage  production, and his version of the song is on his "Greatest Hits"  collection.'),
('185344',' George Lucas was offered the chance to direct this movie in the  early'),
('185345','1970s, but turned it down because he was developing  _American Graffiti (1973)_ (qv).'),
('185346',' Peter Sellers (qv) was considered for the part of the doctor.'),
('185347',' According to Pete Townshend, Oliver Reed had incredible problems  recording his part of the soundtrack owing to his inability to sing,  and he was able to complete it only because his singing parts were  recorded in small bits. Because of this frustrating experience,  Townshend was extremely suspicious towards Jack Nicholson when he  was chosen to the role of the doctor. Townshend, however, finally  agreed when he heard Nicholson singing effortlessly.'),
('185348',' The setting of the film and the subsequent 1990s musical version are  different from the original version recorded by The Who and the 1972  version recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. In the original  version, the setting is just after World War I and Tommys mothers  lover is murdered. In the film version, the setting is just after  World War II and Tommys father is murdered. In the musical version,  the setting is just after World War II and Tommys mothers lover is  murdered.'),
('185349',' The Pinball Wizard sequence was filmed in the same theater that  appeared in Ken Russell (qv)s earlier musical  _Boyfriend, The (1971)_ (qv).'),
('185350',' Elton Johns version of "Pinball Wizard" was a hit single, and (to  date) is the only cover of a Who song to break the top 10.'),
('185351',' According to Roger Daltrey, the very first scene to be filmed was  the one in which cousin Kevin (Paul Nicholas) is dragging Tommy  (Daltrey) by his hair; the next two filmed were the scenes in which  cousin Kevin drenches Tommy with the fire hose and then dries him  with a hot iron.'),
('185352',' Shortly after the release of the original rock opera upon which this  film was based, the song "Tommy, Can You Hear Me?" '),
('185353',' complete with  vocals '),
('185354',' was used in a commercial for the United Way.'),
('185355',' SPOILER: Roger Daltrey (qv) is just less than three years younger  than his screen mother Ann'),
('185356','Margret (qv) and just over four years  younger than his screen step'),
('185357','father Oliver Reed (I) (qv). To top  it all off, Daltrey is exactly three months older than his screen  father Robert Powell (I) (qv) '),
('185358',' although that detail may be  forgiven, since Powells character apparently dies before Daltreys  character is born.'),
('185359',' In the motel room, on the TV in the background is a preview for  _Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)_ (qv), also directed by  Segal, Peter (qv).'),
('185360',' When Bo Derek (qv)s character comes out of the pool, Tommy says  to Big Tom (Brian Dennehy (qv)), "Whoa, dad. Shes a... ten!" Bo  Derek and Brian Dennehy both appeared in _10 (1979)_ (qv).'),
('185361',' In the scene where they are at the wedding reception for "Big" Tom  Callahan you can see Chris Farley (qv)s brother sitting to  Chriss left when Big Tom asks Tommy Boy to help him out with the  song.'),
('185362',' Tommy graduates Marquette University, which was Chris Farleys  real'),
('185363','life alma mater.'),
('185364',' Fred Wolf worked on the screenplay uncredited.'),
('185365',' David Spade (qv) refused to let the sets stylist work on his  hair. This accounts for his hairs tousled appearance in the film.'),
('185366',' When Paul Barish attempts to sabotage the Callahan delivery trucks,  the gun he uses is a Sturm, Ruger Mini 14.'),
('185367',' The bassist in the band that plays at the wedding plays a Fender  Precision Bass with a tobacco sunburst finish'),
('185368',' The auto shop garages in one of the Zalinsky TV ads are actually  Canadian Tire Corporation auto service centre garages.'),
('185369',' Originally proposed as a Tommy Lee'),
('185370','centered reality series, (à la  _"Osbournes, The" (2002)_ (qv)) for VH1.'),
('185371',' The "Tommy" concert on the 2nd disc of the DVD Set titled "Tommy  Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles 1989" is the same  concert that was shown on TV and released on VHS under the name  _Who Live, Featuring the Rock Opera Tommy, The (1989) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('185372',' The Who dont play every song from the "Tommy" Album. The songs  "Underture" and "Welcome" are missing.'),
('185373',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Spender Family, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('185374',' The last scene of the film was supposed to be shot at a patisserie  '),
('185375',' till the owner of the shop changed his mind the night before  shooting began. By some miracle, the production staff was able, at  the last minute, to create an impromptu sidewalk café on the terrace  behind the first location.'),
('185376',' First feature film from Alastair Clayton and Stuart Laws. They were  both 20 when the film premiered.'),
('185377',' Stars three members of the band The Indelicates.'),
('185378',' Self'),
('185379','financed.'),
('185380',' The writer, Stuart Laws, makes a cameo as Jimmy.'),
('185381',' The writers father, Richard Laws, appears in the office scenes and  is always seen eating. This was a reference to Brad Pitts character  in Oceans 11 who is frequently eating in scenes.'),
('185382',' Screened at the Long Island Film Festival.'),
('185383',' Richard Longs film debut.'),
('185384',' James Bond has a new gun in this film. It is the Walther P99, which  is the replacement for his trademark Walther PPK. He picks up the  gun in Wai Lins apartment.'),
('185385',' The ships used in the film are Type 23 Duke Class Anti'),
('185386','Submarine  Frigates. The interior shots were all filmed at HMS DRYAD ship  simulator, and most of the personnel in the background are real  Royal Navy personnel. Most of the dialogue and commands are very  accurate, though some has been modified so the viewing public can  understand it.'),
('185387',' Though well'),
('185388','known to British audiences, it probably escaped the  notice of most others that Dame Judi Dench (qv) and  Geoffrey Palmer (qv), whose characters feud in this movie, played  a happily'),
('185389','married couple in the British TV program  _"As Time Goes By" (1992)_ (qv).'),
('185390',' The name of the type of torture that Stamper (Götz Otto (qv)) was  an expert in was Chakra Torture. Dr. Kaufmans record for keeping a  victim alive whilst performing chakra torture was fifty two hours.'),
('185391',' During the pre'),
('185392','credits opening sequence, Admiral Roebucks  (Geoffrey Palmer (qv)) code name was Black King; the Captain of  the HMS Chesters code name was White Bishop; Ms code name was  White Rook whilst James Bonds code name was White Knight.'),
('185393',' The co'),
('185394','ordinates where the HMS Devonshire was sunk in the South  China Sea were 114° 23 818" E and 37° 74 624" N.'),
('185395',' The license plate number of James Bonds BMW 750 was HHJ5273.'),
('185396',' A promotional advertisement for BMW tieing'),
('185397','in with the movie showed  its three vehicles (two cars and one motorbike) together with the  logos for the movie and BMW. The main tagline read: "How could Bond  possibly be faithful to just one? BMW '),
('185398',' The Ultimate Driving  Machine." And the bottom tagline read: "See James Bonds new loves  in the film _Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)_ (qv) on general release  from 12th December."'),
('185399',' The Bill Tanner Chief of Staff character was intended to return in  this movie after his appearance in _GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv) but the  actor playing him Michael Kitchen (I) (qv) was unavailable to  return.'),
('185400',' The opening arms bazaar sequence was originally intended to appear  in the earlier James Bond movie _Living Daylights, The (1987)_ (qv).  The weapon being sold at the arms bazaar was a Chinese Long March  Scud Rocket. The atomic weapons held on board the Russian fighter  plane were Soviet SP'),
('185401','5 Torpedoes.'),
('185402',' The name of Elliot Carvers major tabloid newspaper was "Tomorrow".'),
('185403',' The name of Elliot Carvers secret black radar'),
('185404','undetectable ship was  "The Stealth Ship".'),
('185405',' The name of the weapon used to sink the HMS Devonshire was "The Sea  Drill". The number of survivors was seventeen.'),
('185406',' The number plate of Bonds BMW 750iL is "B'),
('185407','MT 2144". This ties in  with his Aston Martin DB5s number plate "BMT 214A". The original  movie Aston Martin, (from _Goldfinger (1964)_ (qv)), had "BMT 216A",  which could not be used for legal reasons.'),
('185408',' At one point during filming in Bangkok, a helicopter was mistakenly  hovered over the American Embassy, causing fears that it was spying.'),
('185409',' Yeoh, Michelle (qv) did almost all her own stunts.'),
('185410',' Director Spottiswoode, Roger (qv) had hoped that the descent  outside the building could be done by computerized special effects,  but in the end a 7'),
('185411','storey section of wall was constructed and the  stars lowered down alongside it.'),
('185412',' The film made particularly heavy use of gadgetry because some fans  thought there was too little of it in _GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv).'),
('185413',' CAMEO(Michael G. Wilson (qv)): Tom Wallace, one of Elliot Carvers  subordinates on a television screen when Elliot Carver discusses his  new story.'),
('185414',' The original title of the film was "Tomorrow Never Lies", which  makes sense when you consider media mogul Elliot Carver  (Jonathan Pryce (qv)) was creating the next days headlines in  advance, then causing those events to happen. But a typo on an early  script draft was adopted by the producers, and "Tomorrow Never Dies"  was used instead.'),
('185415',' In earlier drafts of the script, the villain Elliot Carver was known  as Elliot Harmsway and Wai Lin was known as Lin Pow.  Michelle Yeoh (qv) pointed'),
('185416','out that "pow" in Chinese meant "bun"  and it was changed. Carver was also the surname of CIA Agent Rosie  Carver in the earlier James Bond movie  _Live and Let Die (1973)_ (qv).'),
('185417',' CMGN stood for the Carver Media Group Network.'),
('185418',' The license plate number of the Black Rolls Royce that M and  Moneypenny brief Bond about his mission in was MKG 169.'),
('185419',' The license plate numbers of two cars that chase James Bonds BMW in  the car park were HH J5273 and HH W3847.'),
('185420',' Dedicated to the memory of long'),
('185421','time Bond'),
('185422','film producer  Broccoli, Albert R. (qv).'),
('185423',' When Bond and Wai'),
('185424','lin prepare to send a radio message, Bond  apparently cant use the keyboard because it uses Chinese  characters. This contradicts the earlier film  _You Only Live Twice (1967)_ (qv) in which Bond says he has a first  class degree in oriental languages from Cambridge University.'),
('185425',' SPOILER: Vincent Schiavelli (qv)s character is a hit man who  kills Teri Hatcher (qv)s character. He also played a hit man in  one episode of _"MacGyver" (1985)_ (qv), who was again, after  Teri Hatcher (qv)s character, though not as successfully.'),
('185426',' The stealth ship is not a fictional invention. Lockheed secretly  constructed and demonstrated one in the early 1980s, but the US Navy  finally decided they didnt want any. The prototype, called the Sea  Shadow, was 160 feet long and the movies ship closely resembles it  in shape.'),
('185427',' 15 BMW 750s were destroyed in the making of the film.'),
('185428',' When Bond gets out of his BMW in Hamburg and hands the keys to the  valet, he says "Lass dich nicht verarschen." This is a German idiom  which means, approximately, "Dont let him/her/them/it make an ass  of you." However in the German dubbed version, Bond says "Nicht  alles glauben, was sie sagt" which translates to "Dont believe  everything she says."'),
('185429',' The first draft of the script was set during the transfer of Hong  Kong from British to Chinese rule with Carver a zealot bent on  destroying Hong Kong rather that hand it over to the Chinese.  According to director Roger Spottiswoode (qv), this plotline was  dropped when former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (qv),  who was acting as a consultant on the production, warned that if  something actually did occur during the handover in real life the  film (which was set to open a few months later) would look  ridiculous. This led to a last'),
('185430','minute rewrite.'),
('185431',' In several scenes of Bonds approach to the final denouement, the  island used by "Francisco Scaramanga", Phang Nga Bay Island,  Thailand (aka James Bond Island), in  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv) is visible.'),
('185432',' When Bond flips the switch for activating the rockets in the MiG  during the opening, you can see German descriptions around the  switches'),
('185433',' Sales of real and toy replica Walther P'),
('185434','99 pistols went through the  roof after this movie was released.'),
('185435',' Not counting the regular characters of Bond, Q, M and Moneypenny,  this is the first Bond movie to contain absolutely no  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) references (_GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv) was named  for Flemings estate; _Licence to Kill (1989)_ (qv) used elements  from several Fleming stories).'),
('185436',' Because the second half of the film is set in Vietnam, the  production negotiated for some time for permission to film there.  Although it appeared close, the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture and  Information eventually refused to allow it. The production decided  to use Thailand as Vietnam, with Bangkok substituting for Saigon.'),
('185437',' Teri Hatcher (qv)s scenes had to be filmed quickly because after  she got the part she found out she was pregnant.'),
('185438',' Producers considered starting a film series based on the character  played by Michelle Yeoh (qv) but so far, no film has been made.'),
('185439',' In the original drafts of the script Stamper was to have suffered a  brain injury that caused pleasure to be registered as pain (and vice  versa). The idea was dropped, but a version of it made it into the  next Bond film _World Is Not Enough, The (1999)_ (qv), where the  villain Renard is unable to feel pain.'),
('185440',' The plane flown by Bond in the opening scene is NOT a MIG'),
('185441','type  fighter but a L'),
('185442','39 FENIX from Czechoslovakia, the Czech name for  this plane is Albatross. It was however also based in the USSR and  GDR.'),
('185443',' British pop group Pulp (qv) wrote a theme song for this movie,  which was ultimately rejected by the producers. The song later  appeared on the B'),
('185444','side to the groups single "Help the Aged"  following a title change to "Tomorrow Never Lies"'),
('185445',' Towards the end of the movie M, (Judi Dench (qv)) muses upon a  probable newspaper story concerning the death of Elliot Carver. She  mentions similar events which surrounded real'),
('185446','life British media  tycoon Robert Maxwells death in 1991.'),
('185447',' According to the book "The Bond Legacy", a farewell scene for Q was  written for this film on the assumption that Desmond Llewelyn (qv)  would soon retire from the role; the idea was dropped, only to be  revived for the next Bond film  _World Is Not Enough, The (1999)_ (qv).'),
('185448',' The role of Elliot Carver was initially offered to  Anthony Hopkins (qv).'),
('185449',' Teri Hatcher (qv) says that she accepted her role in this movie to  fulfill her then husbands lifelong dream of being married to a Bond  girl.'),
('185450',' Product placements and promotional tie'),
('185451','ins seen in the movie  included BMW, LOréal Cosmetics, Heineken Beer, Dunhill, Ericsson  Phones, Omega Watches, Smirnoff and Avis Rental Car Hire. This is  the first movie in film history to have its entire budget be covered  in product placement campaigns. Various companies each chipped in  enough in endorsements to allow for the films $100 million budget.'),
('185452',' The film was originally going to be called "Tomorrow never comes".  There are video tapes that were in distribution when the film was  released on video that do have the caption "Tomorrow never comes" at  the very beginning of the tape, not the beginning of the movie.'),
('185453',' The first choice for a title song was originally written, composed  and performed by Danish rock band Swan Lee but they were turned down  because they were not famous enough. It was suggested that another  artist sing the song instead but Swan Lee rejected this idea. So  Sheryl Crow (qv) sang another song with the same title for the  movie.'),
('185454',' When they had to re'),
('185455','shoot the car park scene it was too expensive to  go back to Germany so it was done at Brent Cross shopping centre in  London. Posters around the stores told shoppers that the explosions  were nothing to worry about. It took ten days to shoot this car park  scene and seventeen BMWs were used.'),
('185456',' Vehicles featured included a silver gadget'),
('185457','laden BMW 750iL; a brief  glimpse of the silver birch Aston Martin DB5; a BMW Cruiser R 1200 C  motorbike; Sikorsky S'),
('185458','65 and Eurocopter 350B A'),
('185459','Star helicopters; two  Aero L'),
('185460','39 Albatros Z0 jets; a Ford Sierra; an Opel Senator 3.0i car;  a Transport Allianz C'),
('185461','160 Transall airplane; a Chinese Junk; a  Daimler Limousine; a Mercedes Benz; a Range Rover; a black rubber  dinghy and Elliot Carvers Stealth Ship.'),
('185462',' Just before shooting the scene where Bond and Wai'),
('185463','Lin get on the  motorcycle, Roger Spottiswoode (qv) took Pierce Brosnan (qv) and  Michelle Yeoh (qv) aside '),
('185464',' each without the others knowledge '),
('185465','  and told each of them not to let the other get in the drivers seat.  The result is in the final film: Bond and Wai'),
('185466','Lin fight over who  gets to drive before getting on the bike.'),
('185467',' Monica Bellucci (qv) read for the role of Paris Carver.'),
('185468',' CAMEO(Daphne Deckers (qv)): The wife of the Wimbledon 1996 Winner  Richard Krajicek (qv) as Elliot Carvers PR Lady. Reportedly, she  wanted to audition for the role of Paris Carver. Being too late for  this, the production wrote in this small cameo role for her.'),
('185469',' First James Bond movie to be released by MGM Distribution Co. due to  a name change from MGM/UA Distribution Co. The former named company  had released all the EON Productions Bond films from  _Octopussy (1983)_ (qv) through to _GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv).'),
('185470',' This was the second James Bond movie in a row in which Pinewood  Studios, the studio that EON Productions regularly uses, was  predominantly unavailable. It was booked'),
('185471','up for shooting  _Star Wars: Episode I '),
('185472',' The Phantom Menace (1999)_ (qv) as it had  been for _GoldenEye (1995)_ (qv) when it was being used for  _First Knight (1995)_ (qv). For this movie, they used a grocery  warehouse and former Radlett aerodrome site which was renamed as Eon  / Frogmore Studios.'),
('185473',' HALO stands for High Altitude Low Opening Jump. Stuntman  B.J. Worth (qv) had to make eighty jumps out of a plane in order  to film the HALO jump sequence. Alot, yes, but still eight jumps  less than the 88 required for _Moonraker (1979)_ (qv).'),
('185474',' First EON Productions James Bond movie to be presented by the  "Albert R. Broccoli (qv)s Eon Productions" credit.'),
('185475',' Though it has long been part of the James Bond characters  reputation in story and dialogue, this is the first instance in the  EON Productions official series where James Bond has an on'),
('185476','screen  relationship with a leading Bond Girl who is actually known to be  married to another man.'),
('185477',' The literal translations of some of the movies foreign language  titles include The Tomorrow Never Dies (Germany); Agent 007 Tomorrow  Never Dies (Italy) and 007 Tomorrow Never Dies (Brzail).'),
('185478',' Because the producers had already secured a release date, the  production couldnt find studio space. They ended up shooting much  of the interiors in a converted Asda (the British branch of Walmart)  warehouse.'),
('185479',' Anthony Hopkins (qv) actually joined the production, but walked  after three days because it was so chaotic and there was no  completed shooting script; due to the pressure on Eon Productions to  finish the film on time, new pages of the screenplay were being  delivered every morning.'),
('185480',' The license plate number of the BMW R1200 Motorcycle which is ridden  by James Bond and Wai Lin in the motorbike chase and action sequence  is 2 '),
('185481',' 035 4. License plate numbers of the Ford Range Rovers that  chased this motorbike were 25 '),
('185482',' 1085 and 31 '),
('185483',' 4836.'),
('185484',' The BMW 750i that Bond uses in this film is the first Q'),
('185485','Branch car  in the series that has four doors.'),
('185486',' Because snow was an essential ingredient for the opening action  sequence, and the existing snow was already melting, the art  directors had to truck in loads of extra snow just to meet  production requirements. This sequence alone took two weeks to  complete.'),
('185487',' Director Roger Spottiswoode (qv) was insistent on having an  authentic Russian rocket launcher for the opening sequence. Luckily  for the production, a decommissioned unit was found and had to be  driven from Moscow right across Europe to the location.'),
('185488',' Elliot Carvers maxim was: "Theres no news like bad news."'),
('185489',' Paris Carvers favorite drink (at least when she dated James Bond)  was a Tequila Straight Shot.'),
('185490',' The game was published by Electronic Arts and was developed by Black  Ops and was available only on the Sony PlayStation platform.'),
('185491',' The horror film showing on the TV early in the movie is  _Theres Nothing Out There (1991)_ (qv), the first film made by  director Kanefsky, Rolfe (qv).'),
('185492',' The police negotiator in the film, played by Kane, Carol (qv),  mentions that she herself was a hostage long ago in Brooklyn, New  York. Carol Kane played a hostage in a bank robbery in  _Dog Day Afternoon (1975)_ (qv).'),
('185493',' The sarcastic video store employee, Jay, is named after  writer/director Jay Woelfel (qv) who is a friend of  Rolfe Kanefsky (qv), the director of this film. Woelfel also  worked on the music for this film.'),
('185494',' The "Hog Heaven" was a working interior/exterior set constructed for  the film. Passers'),
('185495','by would interrupt filming to ask when it would be  open for business.'),
('185496',' Was filmed under the title "Hog Heaven".'),
('185497',' Interior driving scenes were faked on a soundstage constructed at  Lincoln Greyhound Park.'),
('185498',' The title "Tomorrows Bacon" comes form a poem by T.S. Elliot'),
('185499',' Nominated for New York Universitys highest honor, The Wasserman in  2001. Won NYU First Run Festival awards for Best Actress (Claudia  Belmont), Best Screenplay (By director Bryan Norton), Best Music  Score and Best Art Directon.'),
('185500',' The priest who discovers the truth about Alices true bloodline is  played by director Crane Wilbur (qv), who also co'),
('185501','wrote the  screenplay.'),
('185502',' The mentally challenged patient who is strapped to the table is not  an actor in makeup but a genuine microcephalic who was a veteran of  circus sideshows who appeared under the name of "Schlitze". Although  he was a male, this film was one of the rare times he appeared as a  male; he was normally dressed and exhibited as a female.'),
('185503',' While the old man walks up the stairs, he passes floor number signs  "19" and "38". 1938 is the year Superman debuts in Action Comics  No.1. Later, the character references the same year when he says,  "...when I arrived in 38..."'),
('185504',' In the coffee shop, the old man places a plastic container of coffee  creamer on its side next to others already lying down. The  arrangement the creamers are lying in make the letter "S."'),
('185505',' The newscaster announcing the disaster in 1963 (played by the  directors father) is an homage to Walter Cronkites coverage of the  Kennedy assassination.'),
('185506',' There are several hidden "S" motifs throughout the film, including  the path of cigarette smoke produced by the man in the coffee house,  an "S" shaped door handle near the beginning, and every "S" in the  opening cast and credits sequence (they all dissolve last).'),
('185507',' As part of its marketing plan, writer/director Jim Cliffe quickly  wrote and illustrated a prequel comic to Tomorrows Memoir for  distribution a week before screening TM at the 2005 San Diego  Comic'),
('185508','Con.'),
('185509',' Theres a brief shot of a comic book in the coffee house which  displays the very scene that is currently unfolding in the film.'),
('185510',' SPOILER: Luke 21:28, the Biblical doomsday warning etched on a  street persons sign in the beginning, states: "Now when these  things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your  redemption draws near.", which foreshadows the final scenes of  Tomorrows Memoir when the citizens looks up to see the returned  hero saving them from mysterious Haleo'),
('185511','13.'),
('185512',' The Tomorrows Memoir: Prequel comic Jim Cliffe created for the  2005 Comic'),
('185513','Con, explores the mysterious doomsday Haleo'),
('185514','13 with  more of an emphasis on Agent Wayne (Michael Collier) and Congressman  Maccoll (who is only referenced in Tomorrows Memoir), rather than  focusing on the old protagonist/hero.'),
('185515',' The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 14  April 1943 and closed 17 June 1944 after 500 performances. The  opening night cast included Skip Homeier (qv) as Emil and  Edit Angold (qv) as Frieda, both of whom originated their movie  roles in the play, and Ralph Bellamy (qv) as Mike Frame,  Shirley Booth (qv) as Leona Richards and Kathryn Givney (qv) as  Jessie Frame. Producer Lester Cowan (qv) bought the rights to the  play for $75,000 plus 25% of the gross, not to exceed $350,000. He  wanted to change the title of the movie to "The Intruder," but a  poll of exhibitors voted him down.'),
('185516',' Film debut of Skip Homeier (qv).'),
('185517',' After months of being stuck in the pre'),
('185518','production and with a  deadline of two months, this film was almost never made.  Cinematographer Lucrecia Ferraro Pieruzzini asked for help from her  friend, producer Christian H. Paz. With him in charge of production,  things started to work and the film was made within the deadline.'),
('185519',' On its original theatrical release in Japan, it was double'),
('185520','featured  with _Hotaru no haka (1988)_ (qv) as the film was believed to be too  big a financial risk as a standalone release.'),
('185521',' DIRTRADE(Hayao Miyazaki):[flying]: The Totoros fly on the top with  Satsuki and Mei during the tree scene.'),
('185522',' Totoro actually comes from Mei mis'),
('185523','pronouncing Tororu which means  troll in Japanese. This comes from a book Mei had read that turns  out to be the Billy Goats Gruff as can be seen in the end sequence  with mother with that book and if one looks closely it is seen to  have a totoro on the cover.'),
('185524',' The names of the two girls, Satsuki and Mei are a play on the word  May. "Satsuki" is an old Japanese word for May, and "Mei" is the  Japanese pronunciation of the English word "May".'),
('185525',' The forest creatures and title characters of this movie got their  name when Mei, the little girl who first sees them in the film,  mispronounces the word "troll". At one point in the original  Japanese language version, when Satsuki first finds Mei sleeping in  the grove behind their house, Mei tells her sister she saw a  "totoro". Satsuki replies, "Totoro, do you mean troll, from the  storybook?" and Mei nods in agreement. This aspect of the story was  left out of the 1993 Fox English version, probably because the  difference between ""to'),
('185526','ro'),
('185527','ru" (the Japanese pronunciation of  "troll") and "to'),
('185528','to'),
('185529','ro" would have been lost on English'),
('185530','speaking  audiences. The quote is included in the 2006 Disney English version.'),
('185531',' Miyazaki originally conceived the characters Satsuki and Mei as a  single girl. He wanted to add suspense to the latter half of the  film, and he felt it wouldnt work with just a single girl, so he  split her into two separate girls. The original girl had features of  both Satsuki and Mei, and was halfway between the ages of Satsuki  (8) and Mei (4).'),
('185532',' The film is partially autobiographical. When Miyazaki and his  brothers were children, his mother suffered from spinal tuberculosis  for nine years, and spent much of her time hospitalized. It is  implied, yet never revealed in the film, that Satsuki and Meis  mother also suffers from tuberculosis. He once said the film would  have been too painful for him to make if the two protagonists were  boys instead of girls.'),
('185533',' The movie initially did not do well at the box office, and did not  break even until about two years after the release when stuffed  dolls based on the King Totoro character hit the shelves.'),
('185534',' King Totoro is the mascot for Miyazakis studio, Studio Ghibli.'),
('185535',' During the 2005 World Expo in Japan, a classic Japanese house  modeled after Satsuki and Meis house, was built and opened to the  public.'),
('185536',' The soot sprites also appear in  _Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)_ (qv).'),
('185537',' When the Catbuss destination indicator switches to the hospital,  the last kanji character is miswritten, with one of its parts  backward and another upside down. The headlight'),
('185538','mouse next to it  does a double'),
('185539','take.'),
('185540',' This film is inspired by screenwriter'),
('185541','turned'),
('185542','director Hou  Hsiao'),
('185543','Hsiens coming'),
('185544','of'),
('185545','age story. It is the second installment of  Hou Hsiao'),
('185546','Hsiens "Coming'),
('185547','of'),
('185548','Age Trilogy" that features three  prominent Taiwanese screenwriters coming'),
('185549','of'),
('185550','age stories '),
('185551',' the other  two are _My Summer at Grandpas (1984)_ (qv) (inspired by the  childhood memories of Chu Tien'),
('185552','Wen) and  _Dust in the Wind (1986)_ (qv) (inspired by the coming'),
('185553','of'),
('185554','age story  of Wu Nien'),
('185555','Jen).'),
('185556',' (20 Oct 2006) Deutsche Kinemathek '),
('185557',' Museum für Film und Fernsehen  has found a 16mm print and will be doing a restoration.'),
('185558',' Rita Hayworth (qv) was pregnant during production. As a result,  the musical numbers were filmed first, before the pregnancy began to  show. As filming progressed, great care was taken to hide her  growing belly with muffs, furniture and purses.'),
('185559',' Director Francis Ford Coppola shot the film in a motel room in two  days and slept in the same room after filming was done for each day.'),
('185560',' Cast member Marli Renfro had earlier appeared as Janet Leighs nude  body double in Alfred Hitchcocks 1960 shocker, "Psycho."'),
('185561',' Melvyn Douglas (qv) first film.'),
('185562',' Although a Dutch film, the voice over is in Italian with Dutch  subtitles.'),
('185563',' First talking movie in Czechoslovakia'),
('185564',' A documentary in the Outdoor Sketches series.'),
('185565',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Feline Frolics (1928)_ (qv).'),
('185566',' All the copies of this film are lost.'),
('185567',' CAMEO(Paul Meurisse (qv)): The guy with the monocle saluting Lino  Ventura at the end of the movie is Paul Meurisse, a reference to the  Movie _Le Monocle noir_ also by Georges Lautner.'),
('185568',' Paul Heyman (qv) never auditioned for the role of Gino. The role  was given to him when the original actor had to pull out due to a  family emergency.'),
('185569',' There is no footage from an actual wedding night here. Rather, it is  (partly) from the night after a Halloween party. By watching the  video closely, one can easily tell that there is footage from two  separate dates here.'),
('185570',' Filmed around 1990 when disgraced skater Tonya Harding (qv) and  first husband Jeff Gillooly (qv) were still married.'),
('185571',' Based on a real'),
('185572','life incident. In 1958, Elizabeth Ann Duncan hired  two men to murder her pregnant daughter'),
('185573','in'),
('185574','law out of jealousy of  her son, Frank, an attorney. As in the film, Frank met his wife, a  nurse, at a hospital after Elizabeth attempted suicide in a ploy to  keep him from leaving home, and, as in the film, he represented his  mother at her trial. Duncan and the men were executed in San  Quentins gas chamber on August 8, 1962.'),
('185575',' The opening sequence of a fake bombing raid was allegedly conceived  by Buster Keaton (qv), then a freelance MGM gagman.'),
('185576',' Ray June (qv) took over as photographer for the last few days of  shooting when Harold Rosson (qv) left to go on vacation. Also,  Harrold Weinberger (qv) took over as assistant director when  Joseph M. Newman (qv) became ill.'),
('185577',' Clark Gable (qv) spent two days working with a newsreel crew to  get a feeling for his part.'),
('185578',' The film was one of MGMs biggest hit of the year.'),
('185579',' Montgomery Clift was originally going to play the lead role of  Ghost.'),
('185580',' Roy Huggins (qv) wrote the screenplay, which is based on his  "Saturday Evening Post" serial.'),
('185581',' Although set during WW2, this is a deliberate allegory of the  conflict that was raging in Vietnam at the time.'),
('185582',' At the time, the largest production to be filmed in the Philippines.'),
('185583',' A WW2 Japanese landing strip was specially constructed.'),
('185584',' Tokyo firms created 400 new Japanese army uniforms for the  production.'),
('185585',' The US Navys base at Subic Bay in the Philippines was a perfect  location, as it had all the necessary amenities as well as having  rain forest on one side and salt water on the other, in addition to  its proximity to the city of Manila.'),
('185586',' While filming in the jungles in the Philippines,  Michael Caine (I) (qv) seemed to have an unerring sense of  direction and always managed to find his way about. However, filming  in the jungles created on the studio back lot in Hollywood was  delayed on the first day, as Caine had managed to get himself lost.'),
('185587',' A sign in the head nurses office reads "Sister George". This is an  allusion to one of Robert Aldrich (qv)s previous films, and one  of his personal favorites,  _Killing of Sister George, The (1968)_ (qv).'),
('185588',' When Cliff Robertson (qv) entered the US Navy base at Subic Bay to  do some location work, he was dressed in full military uniform and  was mistaken for an officer by the guards at the entry post.'),
('185589',' The screenplay credits a novel "Dont Die Mad" by  Robert Sherman (I) (qv) as its source material. It appears the  novel was never published so, in the final film, Sherman only  received a "story by" credit.'),
('185590',' Director Robert Aldrich (qv) refused Cliff Robertson (qv)s  request to attend the 1969 Academy Awards ceremony, as a flight from  the Philippines to Los Angeles and back would be too time'),
('185591','consuming.  Robertson won the Oscar'),
('185592','for _Charly (1968)_ (qv)'),
('185593','and the crew  presented him with a mock statuette made out of wood. According to  Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne (II) (qv), after the  Philippine location shooting was over, Academy of Motion Pictures  Arts & Sciences President Gregory Peck (qv) greeted the cast as it  disembarked at Los Angeles International Airport. Robertson was  holding his fake Oscar when he got off the plane. As he was  approached by Peck with the real statuette, Robertson threw the wood  "Oscar" over his shoulder. The fake Oscar hit  Michael Caine (I) (qv) in the forehead, and caused him to bleed  profusely.'),
('185594',' Excuse Maker series of 2'),
('185595','reel comedies'),
('185596',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Mr. Bragg, a Fugitive (1911)_ (qv).'),
('185597',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Cork and Vicinity (1912)_ (qv).'),
('185598',' Laurence Olivier (qv)s film debut.'),
('185599',' Trudy Erwin (qv) dubbed Lucille Ball (qv)s singing.'),
('185600',' Based on a 1939 broadway play featuring Arnaz, Desi (qv) and  Bracken, Eddie (qv).'),
('185601',' The musical play opened on Broadway in New York on 18 November 1939.  Eddie Bracken (qv), Desi Arnaz (qv), Hal LeRoy (qv),  Libby Bennett (qv), Ivy Scott (qv), Byron Shores (qv) and  Van Johnson (I) (qv) reprised their stage roles for this movie.  Except for LeRoy, the movie was the film debut for each of these  actors.'),
('185602',' Van Johnson (I) (qv)s film debut.'),
('185603',' Lucille Ball (qv) and Desi Arnaz (qv) first met on the set of  this movie.'),
('185604',' The first film of Brian Oulton (qv).'),
('185605',' Released at about the same time as _My Favourite Wife (1940)_ (qv).  “My Favourite Wife” deals with a husband with two wives. This one  deals with a wife with two husbands. Both did well at the box  office.'),
('185606',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Bottled Romance, A (1914)_ (qv).'),
('185607',' This is the only "speaking" role of Harpo Marx (qv) in his entire  cinema career. Alas, being this a silent movie, his line ("You sure  you cant move?") appeared written on the screen.'),
('185608',' Archive footage of Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman from two silent  Our Gang comedies is incorporated into the story, as Mary shows  Mickey an old photo album.'),
('185609',' 14th episode in the Boy Friends 2'),
('185610','reel comedy series'),
('185611',' Edward Everett Horton (qv)s first film.'),
('185612',' The only copy of the film was destroyed in a fire at  Orson Welles (qv) villa in Madrid, Spain, in August 1970.'),
('185613',' Judy Holliday (qv)s film debut.'),
('185614',' Joseph Cotton (I) (qv)s first film.'),
('185615',' First episode, fourth and final series of The Gumps 2'),
('185616','reel comedy  series'),
('185617',' Howard Duff (I) (qv)s final film.'),
('185618',' Entire film shot in 3 days.'),
('185619',' Loretta Young (qv) and Grant Withers (qv) made this during the  time that they were married, but it came out after they divorced.  One of the reasons she gave for the divorce was because she had been  too young to marry (she was only 17 when they got married)'),
('185620',' Filmed in 1957 as "Rebels Die Young", not released until 1962 under  the title "So Young, So Immoral"'),
('185621',' Despite using nine storm fans for the storm effects,  Ketan Desai (qv) could not get the desired effect. So, he hired  200 locals and made them climb the trees and shake them.'),
('185622',' "Aaya Toofan" (title song) was the last song Kishore Kumar (qv)  sung for an Amitabh Bachchan (qv) movie before he died.'),
('185623',' Crazy Eights Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival,  Santa Fe Film Festival.'),
('185624',' The tools in the toolbox belong to Tobe Hooper (qv).'),
('185625',' Lucky McKee (qv) was originally set to play the part of the  killer, but dropped out to work on his own horror film  _Woods, The (2006)_ (qv).'),
('185626',' Demi Moore (qv) auditioned for a role in the film but her voice  was considered a problem.'),
('185627',' Copies of this film survive at George Eastman House (Rochester, New  York) and the Betzwood Film Archive (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania).'),
('185628',' A copy of this film survives at George Eastman House (Rochester, New  York).'),
('185629',' A copy of this film survives at the Betzwood Film Archive (Blue  Bell, Pennsylvania).'),
('185630',' The only surviving print of this film is in the hands of a private  collector. Its condition is unknown.'),
('185631',' The game was cut in half during beta testing a few cutscenes,  backgrounds and animations that never made it can be seen at one of  the artists web pages.'),
('185632',' This was the first animated cartoon in CinemaScope.'),
('185633',' The reel where Shemp practices his dentistry was actually filmed for  _Merry Mavericks (1951)_ (qv) but was too long for inclusion as it  ran, and too funny to edit or throw out.  _Merry Mavericks (1951)_ (qv) had come in ahead of time and somewhat  under budget, so producer Hugh McCollum (qv) persuaded Columbia to  allow him two days extra to film additional material to round it  out, and used the dental school sequence to set up this short.'),
('185634',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Hash House Count, The (1913)_ (qv).'),
('185635',' Dustin Hoffman (qv) suggested the title, which was his mothers  dogs nickname.'),
('185636',' DIRCAMEO(Sydney Pollack (qv)): Michael/Dorothys agent, George  Fields.'),
('185637',' According to Dustin Hoffman (qv), he wanted Bill Murray (I) (qv)  to play his friend while director Sydney Pollack (qv) disagreed.'),
('185638',' While being profiled for "The Directors" series,  Sydney Pollack (qv) claimed that Dustin Hoffman (qv) refused to  continue working on the film unless Pollack played his agent.  Pollack refused up until Hoffmans agent Michael Ovitz (qv)  intervened and Pollack reconsidered. He later agreed to play the  role. The scenes featuring Hoffmans and Pollacks characters were  meant to reflect what happened behind the scenes between the two  when they would argue.'),
('185639',' Bill Murray (I) (qv) agreed to omit his name from the opening  credits to prevent audiences expecting a "Bill Murray" movie along  the lines of _Meatballs (1979)_ (qv) or _Caddyshack (1980)_ (qv).'),
('185640',' All of Bill Murray (I) (qv)s lines were improvised.'),
('185641',' Geena Davis (qv)s film debut.'),
('185642',' The character of Dorothy originally did not speak with a Southern  accent, but in doing research Dustin Hoffman (qv) discovered his  voice fell more closely into the range of female pitch while doing  the accent.'),
('185643',' The films working title was "Would I Lie to You?".'),
('185644',' Well known transvestite actor Holly Woodlawn (qv) was hired by the  producers of Tootsie (qv) to coach actor Dustin Hoffman (qv) in  his role as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels (qv) in the intricate  art of being a man acting as a woman in films as he prepared for  this role.'),
('185645',' The crew would only give bad news to Dustin Hoffman (qv) if he was  in drag. They said he was "much nicer as a woman".'),
('185646',' Writer Larry Gelbart (qv) once said that he did not meet the other  writers on this project until they were on stage together collecting  their awards.'),
('185647',' Producer Dick Richards (I) (qv) was also supposed to direct but  was replaced by Sydney Pollack (qv).'),
('185648',' Dustin Hoffman (qv) first got the idea to do this film while  working on _Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)_ (qv). He felt his character in  that film had to be both a mother and a father, so he started  thinking about how to play a man and a woman. Several scripts,  several writers and a few directors later, this was the result.'),
('185649',' In the first scene where Michael Dorsey is waking up to dress as  Dorothy, there is a picture of Dustin Hoffman (qv)s mother next  to the alarm clock.'),
('185650',' Ellen Foley (qv) has a mostly non verbal role as the assistant to  the soap opera producer. Her character originally had dialog but it  was cut because Foley was recording an album that hurt her speaking  voice.'),
('185651',' The bit where Jessica Lange (qv)s character reaches behind her  and accidentally grabs a corn cob instead of the phone was a genuine  mistake in blocking. The director decided to leave it in.'),
('185652',' Robert Garland (I) (qv) did uncredited work on the script.'),
('185653',' During the credit sequence Sydney Pollack (qv) provides the voice  of the unseen play director who tells Michael Dorsey  (Dustin Hoffman (qv)), "Were looking for someone older," then,  "Were looking for someone younger," and finally, "Were looking for  someone else."'),
('185654',' The movies line "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever  was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?" was voted as the #61  of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.'),
('185655',' The movies line "That is one nutty hospital." was voted as the #44  of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.'),
('185656',' The greatest challenge for Dustin Hoffman (qv) was getting  Dorothys voice right '),
('185657',' he reportedly received help and coaching  from Meryl Streep (qv) (with whom he had just co'),
('185658','starred in  _Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)_ (qv)). He would read the role of Blance  DuBois in _Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)_ (qv) and she would  offer feedback.'),
('185659',' Southwest General is a parody of _"General Hospital" (1963)_ (qv),  even referencing the "Sally Armitage is Max Hedges!" storyline plot  twist.'),
('185660',' In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #69 Greatest  Movie of All Time.'),
('185661',' Sydney Pollack (qv) had originally wanted Dabney Coleman (qv) to  play Dustin Hoffman (qv)s agent. During a conversation that  Hoffman had with Pollack, Hoffman wanted to know what forced his  character to wear a dress and pretend to be a woman. Pollacks  response was that, if he didnt, he would never work again. Hoffman  replied that he wouldnt put on a dress if Coleman told him he would  never work again, because Coleman was a fellow actor, and he  wouldnt believe him. Because Pollack was the director, Hoffman  insisted, he would convince Hoffman to wear a dress. Pollack still  refused to play the part, so Hoffman sent him red roses every day  with the note, "Please be my agent. Love, Dorothy" until Pollack  agreed to take the role.'),
('185662',' Dustin Hoffman (qv)s "breasts" were custom'),
('185663','fitted prostheses  purchased from an outlet specializing in post'),
('185664','mastectomy products,  at a cost of $175 each.'),
('185665',' Cinematographer Owen Roizman (qv) was initially opposed to  Dorothys character wearing glasses, as the reflective nature of  their lenses tend to hamper lighting crews. After some tests,  however, it was decided that glasses added a distinct, flattering  dimension to Dorothy: Hoffmans prominent nose became less obtrusive  and the glasses further feminized his personality, creating a more  noticeable gender separation between the Dorothy/Michael characters.  The glasses stayed, but a compromise was reached when  Sydney Pollack (qv) suggested that the production try a special  non'),
('185666','reflective coating developed by then Panavision head,  Robert Gottschalk (qv). The spray had been used to coat camera  lenses, improving light transmission through the front elements.  When the spray was used on Dorothys glasses, it proved to be a  godsend.'),
('185667',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('185668',' Originally shot and edited in 3'),
('185669','D, the idea of this film was to for  the audience to experience a major Broadway show in the best seat in  the house for the price of a movie ticket. Unfortunately, the film  was released flat when the 3'),
('185670','D craze ended and no longer exists in  that format. Two versions of the film exist, one with extended  scenes and longer numbers. The current broadcast version is the  truncated version.'),
('185671',' Herbie Fayes movie debut.'),
('185672',' Emmaline Henrys film debut.'),
('185673',' Kilmer, Val (qv) did not want to be in this film, but was forced  to by contractual obligations.'),
('185674',' Modine, Matthew (qv) was originally selected to play Maverick but  he turned the part down.'),
('185675',' One of the unused call'),
('185676','signs Tombstone can be seen on a black  fighter pilot helmet with three red arrows in promotional photos  featuring Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson.'),
('185677',' The aircraft used for the fictional MiG'),
('185678','28s are Northrop F'),
('185679','5E  (single seat) and F (two seat) Tiger IIs, which were used by TOPGUN  as aggressor aircraft.'),
('185680',' Anthony Edwards (qv), Michael Ironside (qv), and  Rick Rossovich (qv) all went on to roles in the t.v. series  _"ER" (1994)_ (qv). Edwards: Dr. Mark Greene, Ironside: Dr. William  "Wild Willy" Swift, Rossovich: Dr. John "Tag" Taglieri'),
('185681',' During the final furball, Stinger orders, "Ready Willard and Simkin  on cats 3 and 4" '),
('185682',' a reference to dogfight choreographer "Rat"  Willard and naval consultant Semkin.'),
('185683',' Bryan Adams (I) (qv) was asked to allow his song "Only the Strong  Survive" on the soundtrack, but he refused because he felt that the  film glorified war.'),
('185684',' In several locker scenes, one of the lockers is labeled as belonging  to "TEX". This is the call sign for one of the top gun instructors  and Mig pilots that worked on the film, Lt. William Tex Spence.'),
('185685',' Charlies "older man" date at the officers club is the real'),
('185686','life  "Viper", Pete Pettigrew. He is a retired Navy pilot and TOPGUN  instructor, and shot down a MiG during the Vietnam War. He served as  the technical consultant on the film.'),
('185687',' ACTTRADE(Val Kilmer): flipping a pen over his knuckles.'),
('185688',' The piano scene and the final bar/jukebox scene were shot in a San  Diego restaurant called Kansas City BBQ, at the corner of Kettner  Blvd and W. Harbor Drive. The restaurant now houses many props and  memorabilia from the film, including the jukebox and Mavericks  flight helmet sits behind the bar in a locked display case.'),
('185689',' The scene where Maverick follows Charlie into the bathroom was  filmed at the Headquarters Building at Recruit Training Command, San  Diego.'),
('185690',' During the filming of some sequences from civilian aircraft,  longtime Hollywood stunt pilot Art Scholl (qv) was killed. A  biplane he was flying crashed off the Pacific Coast. The film is  dedicated to his memory.'),
('185691',' Director Tony Scott (I) (qv) wrote a quick check for $25,000 to  the commander of the aircraft carrier in order to capture one vital  external shot.'),
('185692',' The love scene between Tom Cruise (qv) and Kelly McGillis (qv)  was filmed after initial test screenings. Moviegoers complained that  there was no love scene, so the company obliged. McGillis, however,  had already dyed her hair darker for her next film. This is why the  scene is tinted blue. Also noticeable as a subsequent shoot due to  the longer length of Tom Cruises hair (particularly in front).'),
('185693',' Like the love scene, the elevator scene (where Maverick and Charlie  meet after Mavs workout) was filmed post'),
('185694','production.  Kelly McGillis (qv)s hair had already been colored for another  movie role, that is why she is wearing a hat. Tom Cruise (qv)s  hair is longer in the shot, as well.'),
('185695',' Just before the film started production, one of the producers  announced that they wanted to use the Bruce Springsteen (qv) song  "Born in the USA" but attempts to secure the song were unsuccessful.'),
('185696',' Both John Carpenter (I) (qv) and David Cronenberg (qv) turned  down the chance to direct.'),
('185697',' An early trailer was scored to the Cars song "Stranger Eyes", from  the album "Heartbeat City". The song is not in the movie or on the  soundtrack.'),
('185698',' Riding on the back of this films success, the US Navy set up  recruiting booths in the major cinemas to try and catch some of the  adrenaline charged guys leaving the screenings. They had the highest  applications rate for years as a result.'),
('185699',' A script for "Top Gun 2" was completed shortly after the release of  the film, but it broke down in pre'),
('185700','production because 1) the  militarys technology had become updated and they didnt want camera  crew anywhere near their new aircraft and 2) Cruise did not want a  sequel and finally agreed to star in one for a very high amount that  was deemed "unaffordable." The script followed the further  adventures of Maverick as an instructer at the Top Gun academy, the  twist being a cocky female reminiscent of himself joining the team.'),
('185701',' Most of the actors who portrayed F'),
('185702','14 crewmembers received backseat  rides in the F'),
('185703','14, and several of the scenes which appear in the  film were filmed with the actors in the air.'),
('185704',' Voted #3 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in  London.'),
('185705',' Following the movie, some of the F'),
('185706','5s used as the "MiG'),
('185707','28s"  maintained their black paint schemes and served as "aggressor"  aircraft simulating enemy planes in the real'),
('185708','life Top Gun program.'),
('185709',' The pilot that gets "flipped off" by Maverick and Goose is Admiral  Robert F. Willard, the lead flight choreographer for the film. He is  now (2005) the Vice Admiral of Naval Operations for the US Navy.'),
('185710',' After the "Car chase" when Charlie tells Marverick that she didnt  want anyone to find out she was falling for him, Maverick originally  had a line to say. Tom Cruise (qv) forgot the line and "ad libbed"  by kissing Kelly McGillis (qv) instead. The director liked it so  much, he left the scene like that.'),
('185711',' Judas Priest were asked to contribute the song "Reckless" to the  soundtrack, but declined because they thought the movie would flop.  Two years later, they contributed a cover of "Johnny B. Goode" to  the movie of the same name, which turned out to be a flop.'),
('185712',' Director Tony Scott (I) (qv) was officially fired three times  during production.'),
('185713',' Harold Faltermeyers music score was the first to be performed and  recorded on the polyphonic 16 bit stereo Synclavier Digital Music  System.'),
('185714',' During the opening dogfight, music from the film Thief of Hearts,  composed by Top Gun composer Harold Faltermeyer, can be heard  over'),
('185715','scoring action. The sequence had originally been temp'),
('185716','tracked  to this music, so it was used when Harold Faltermeyer had left the  project and the Top Gun score incomplete.'),
('185717',' The callsign Ghostrider that Maverick uses for his plane was the  name of a real F'),
('185718','14 squadron (VF'),
('185719','142), and a model of a Tomcat from  that squadron can be seen behind Sundown in the shot where Maverick  tells Slider he stinks.'),
('185720',' The motorcycle ridden by Tom Cruise in the movie is a Kawasaki Ninja  900 / GPz900R, then the fastest production motorcycle in the world.'),
('185721',' Pete "Maverick" Mitchells first name was Evan in early scripts of  the film. It was later changed to Pete as an homage to Pete  Pettigrew, who worked on the film (Pettigrew appears in the bar  scene early in the film as Charlies older male date.)'),
('185722',' In early drafts of the film, the character whose call sign is Merlin  actually had the last name of Merlin, and his call sign was Wizard.'),
('185723',' SPOILER: The film was originally going to have a scene near the end  where Maverick visited Gooses grave. A filmed version of this scene  was never released, however still screen shots from what such a  scene would have looked like are available on the special edition  DVD.'),
('185724',' Giorgio Moroder wrote most of the music for the songs on the  soundtrack. Tom Whitlock, who wrote the majority of the lyrics to  these songs, was actually the mechanic who worked on Moroders  sports car.'),
('185725',' An official release of Harold Faltermeyers score for the film has  never been done. Two pieces of score appear on the current  soundtrack, but the complete score has yet to be released.'),
('185726',' The movies line "I feel the need '),
('185727',' the need for speed!" was voted  as the #94 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).'),
('185728',' The Navy only authorized two actual missile shots to be filmed for  the movie. You can clearly pick out these two shots, ultimately shot  from several angles each in order to use both shots repeatedly  during the dogfighting scenes, because the aircraft firing the  missile is holding a steady altitude and heading, something that  would never happen in a real close'),
('185729','in dogfight. All other missile  shots shown in the movie were conducted using miniatures of both the  planes and rockets. The company that produced and fired the model  missiles did such a good job that the Dept. of the Navy conducted a  preliminary investigation into whether any additional live firings  of missiles, beyond the two originally authorized, were done for the  filmmakers.'),
('185730',' While Tim Robbins played the role of a RIO (Radar Intercept Officer,  or the "guy in the back seat"), he could never fit in the cramped  cockpit of an F'),
('185731','14 Tomcat. In fact, its widely rumored that Tom  Cruise is the only actor playing a pilot in the film that actually  meets the Navys maximum height requirements for the F'),
('185732','14!'),
('185733',' In preparation for his role, Tom Cruise (qv) was allowed to take a  ride in the F'),
('185734','14 Tomcat. He reportedly got sick during the ride.'),
('185735',' While many terms used in the movie either match or are closely based  on real terms used by naval aviators and the pilots in general, the  term "going ballistic" has no real correlation to any aviation or  naval term. It was made up for the movie. Ironically, "going  ballistic" is now in common usage by pilots, and is used for any  maneuver where the aircraft is put into a vertical or  nearly'),
('185736','vertical climb.'),
('185737',' When the film was first released on VHS, it included a fighter  pilot'),
('185738','themed Diet Pepsi commercial prior to the film.'),
('185739',' Early drafts of the script called for Irving Berlin (I) (qv) songs  "Wild About You", "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" (to be sung by  Ginger Rogers (qv)) and "Youre the Cause", but they were not used  in the final version.'),
('185740',' Beddinis motto was originally, "For the men the sword, for the  women the whip." The script was changed to "For the women the kiss,  for the men the sword" after the censors objected.'),
('185741',' For contrast to the "Big White Set" of the Lido, the water in the  canals was dyed black.'),
('185742',' During "Cheek to Cheek", Ginger Rogers (qv) gown shed its  feathers, exasperating Fred Astaire (qv) and causing delays in  order to sew the feathers down. Rogers earned the nickname  "Feathers" from Astaire as a result.'),
('185743',' Ginger Rogers (qv) had planned an elaborate blue dress, heavily  decked out with ostrich feathers, for the "Cheek to Cheek" routine.  Once director Mark Sandrich (qv) and Fred Astaire (qv) saw it,  they knew that the dress would get in the way of the dance routine.  Sandrich suggested that Rogers wear the white gown she had worn for  the "Night and Day" number in _Gay Divorcee, The (1934)_ (qv).  Rogers felt that all the men of the production were ganging up on  her, and enlisted the support of her mother, Lela E. Rogers (qv).  The arguments got so heated that Rogers ended up walking off the  set, only to return when Sandrich agreed to let her wear the  offending dress. As there was no time for rehearsals, she wore the  dress for the first time on camera, and, just as Astaire and  Sandrich feared, feathers started to come off the dress. In his  autobiography, Astaire claimed it was like "a chicken being attacked  by a coyote". The dress is in the final film and some stray feathers  can be seen drifting off it, albeit not quite to the same extent as  Astaire would have us believe. To patch up the rift between them, a  few days later Astaire presented his co'),
('185744','star with a locket of a gold  feather. It was from this incident that Rogers nickname of  "Feathers" came about.'),
('185745',' Fred Astaire (qv) and Ginger Rogers (qv) dance together five  times in this film. They would dance that many times together in  only this film.'),
('185746',' The end portion film was trimmed down after a preview audience  complained of the length. Small parts by Meek, Donald (qv) and  Roberts, Florence (I) (qv) were cut. One of the last scenes to go,  in which Blore, Eric (qv) insults a policeman, is still present in  some prints (including the RKO Collection videotape version from  Turner Home Entertainment).'),
('185747',' A 78'),
('185748','minute version of the film was released by RKO in 1953. Cuts to  the dance numbers were severe. Prints are still in circulation.'),
('185749',' The two'),
('185750','minute dance of "The Piccolino" was filmed in one take.'),
('185751',' Earned $3 million at the box office (a huge amount at the time), the  only other film in 1935 to outgross it being  _Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)_ (qv).'),
('185752',' One of the productions that rescued RKO from bankruptcy (the other  being _King Kong (1933)_ (qv).)'),
('185753',' Fred Astaire (qv) didnt care for the big finale production number  "The Piccolino" so he handed singing duties on it over to  Ginger Rogers (qv).'),
('185754',' The titles appear over a top hat. Vincente Minnelli (qv) would  borrow this device for the titles of _Band Wagon, The (1953)_ (qv)  in 1953.'),
('185755',' The first time Fred Astaire (qv) and Ginger Rogers (qv) had a  screenplay written specifically for them.'),
('185756',' Erik Rhodes (I) (qv) Italian characterization so offended the  Italian government '),
('185757',' and dictator Benito Mussolini (qv) in  particular '),
('185758',' that the film was banned in Italy. The same fate befell  _Gay Divorcee, The (1934)_ (qv) the year before.'),
('185759',' Mark Sandrich (qv), who directed five of the  Fred Astaire (qv)'),
('185760','Ginger Rogers (qv) musicals, was a physicist  before he got into filmmaking, and would devise blueprints for every  scene, so he would know exactly where to put the cameras and the  actors.'),
('185761',' In one scene at the Lido, Madge orders a drink called a "horses  neck". It is traditionally served with a spiral of lemon (or orange)  peel hanging over the edge of the glass, suggesting the curve of a  horses neck. It calls for 2 oz of bourbon or brandy, 4 oz of ginger  ale, and a dash of bitters, over ice.'),
('185762',' To promote another Universal Film, Peggy Ryan (qv)s character at  one point says (for no apparent reason): "Frankenstein meets the  Wolf Man."'),
('185763',' Under the title "Melville Goodwin, USA", the film was to star  Humphrey Bogart (qv) and Lauren Bacall (qv) '),
('185764',' both of whom had  already filmed costume and makeup tests '),
('185765',' but Bogarts terminal  illness forced his withdrawal from the project. He was replaced by  Kirk Douglas (qv). Bacall withdrew shortly afterward, opting  instead to remain at home with her dying husband, and was replaced  by Susan Hayward (qv).'),
('185766',' The black conductor calling for tickets in ostensible German is  actually reciting the old Yiddish saying, "May you grow like an  onion, with the head in the ground."'),
('185767',' The Latin spoken by the priest at Fleurgendorf Prison on the way to  the execution room is just random phrases, borrowed partly from the  religious, medical and legal professions, with various other words  and names thrown in (Rick Dureus). At one point, he also says in Pig  Latin: "Ooreyay oingay ootay etgay iedfray in the airchay," which  translates, "Youre going to get fried in the chair."'),
('185768',' The scene where Hillary and Nick go into the Swedish bookstore was  staged, shot and then run backwards to make the dialog sound  "unique." If you record the scene and play it backwards, you will  find all of the dialogue to be exactly what is shown in the  subtitles except for the title of the book Hillary asks for. The  title she actually asks for is "Europe On 5 Quaaludes A Day."'),
('185769',' After receiving an order, one of the German officers replies with,  "Ich liebe Dich, mein Schatz," which translates to "I love you,  honey."'),
('185770',' In Dr. Flammonds laboratory, the sound effects heard in the  background are taken directly from  _Man in the White Suit, The (1951)_ (qv), which also featured  Michael Gough (I) (qv).'),
('185771',' The hotel in which the dance is held is called "Gei Schluffen." In  Yiddish this means "go to sleep."'),
('185772',' The waiter who asks if Nick is ready to order, ostensibly in German,  is actually using the Yiddish curse "go take a s**t in the ocean".'),
('185773',' In the restaurant scene, when Hillary places an order with the  waiter in apparent German, shes actually speaking in Yiddish. A  rough translation of her line is, "Go bash your head in."'),
('185774',' The surfing sequences were filmed at Holywell Bay, Cornwall, UK (a  few miles down the coast from Newquay, a popular surfing town). The  palm trees were fake, and the surf shack was in fact the actual  lifeguards hut (which is still there). The beach is recognizable by  the two large rock formations located at the left of the beach,  approx 100 meters out to sea.'),
('185775',' DIRCAMEO(Jim Abrahams (qv), David Zucker (qv) and  Jerry Zucker (I) (qv)): as the German soldiers who show up at the  door of the prop room to arrest Nick.'),
('185776',' When Nick is leaving the East German checkpoint by train you can  hear on the PA a voice saying "Der Zug der jetzt auf Gleis 3  steht.... hat uns alle überrascht!" which translates to "The train  on railtrack three... surprised us all!"'),
('185777',' German dub version uses next to no Yiddish, opting instead on either  Saxonian accent or High German. Several jokes are rewritten to spoof  the GDR to make up for the fact that the script did not excel in  research of GDR specifics. It also dispenses with the films notion  of portraying the East German (GDR) regime as "born'),
('185778','again Nazis".'),
('185779',' The idea of skeet surfing came out of the Zucker brothers trying to  outdo each other at press junkets. They would specifically concoct  outlandish stories to amuse themselves and bewilder journalists.'),
('185780',' Val Kilmer (qv)s first feature film.'),
('185781',' The film had a budget of $8 million and came in a million under.'),
('185782',' Cows hate having things put on their feet, so to get one to wear two  pairs of Wellington boots, the bottoms had to be cut out and then  the boots were attached to the cows legs with Velcro.'),
('185783',' In the shot of the newspaper headlines, announcing that "Rivers To  Play East German Festival" two other headlines appear: "Scientists  Prolong Orgasm To Double Figures" and "Meteorite Lands Near Baby".'),
('185784',' The sight gag of Peter Cushing (qv) and the magnifying glass is a  parody of a similar shot of Cushing from Terence Fisher (qv)s  _Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)_ (qv).'),
('185785',' The songs that Val Kilmer (qv) sings in the film are actually  performed by Kilmer himself and were featured on the films  soundtrack released in 1984 under Kilmers characters name Nick  Rivers.'),
('185786',' Directors were very happy that Omar Sharif (qv) accepted the role  of British agent, so they invited him to a dinner after he completed  his scenes. Sharif accepted the invitation, and a very special  dinner was prepared for him. But he didnt show up, and soon it was  found out he already left England. When he was later asked why he  didnt come, he replied, "Its a tradition in my culture not to  refuse any offer. Example: someone offers you a drink, you should  accept it even though you wont drink it." Unaware, ZAZ enjoyed a  very expensive dinner, all by themselves.'),
('185787',' The scene in which Lucy Gutteridge (qv) looks down from the  balcony onto the street to see hamsters and mice was in fact a  miniature from _Superman (1978)_ (qv). The Zucker Brothers and  Jim Abrahams (qv) stated in their DVD commentary that they found  it in the old Shepperton studios and thought it would be a great  idea to use it in somewhere in the movie.'),
('185788',' The "German" that Nick learns in the train is not a language at all.  Words like "Vlichtmitten", "Blitzen" or "Flachmatuche" are great fun  for German listeners, but have no proper meaning. In the  German'),
('185789','dubbed version, Val Kilmer (qv) learns a German dialect  mainly spoken in the former GDR. The word blitzen is German for  lightning. In the group of Santas reindeer, donner and blitzen are  German for thunder and lightning.'),
('185790',' When Nick Rivers is in jail, a head shot of Cher (I) (qv) can be  clearly seen on the wall of the cell several times.  Val Kilmer (qv) was dating Cher (I) (qv) at the time.'),
('185791',' In the Swedish bookstore, the one book whose title can be seen is  "Lesbian Bars of North Carolina."'),
('185792',' Even though it has been pointed out that the "German" phrases Nick  was learning on the train were basically gibberish, the translations  for those phrases include, "I want a schnauzer with my  weinerschnitzel," and, "There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen."'),
('185793',' The Swedish Bookstore scene has no cuts and lasts for 88 seconds.  Amusingly, like the scene, 88 makes sense forwards AND backwards.'),
('185794',' The car featured is a red Mazda RX'),
('185795','7.'),
('185796',' This game is Taitos response to Segas _Out Run (1986) (VG)_ (qv).  This game was the forerunner of the Taito Z system on which Taitos  driving games were based from 1988'),
('185797','91.'),
('185798',' As well as the standard upright model, this game came as a huge  sit'),
('185799','in red car.'),
('185800',' This was a special variety show in aid of Kutis Mission, a mission  to help raise money for the Bangladeshi floods. The show was filmed  and broadcast within a week to coincide with St Georges Day. Due to  technical problems with the Outside Broadcast Unit, the programme  suffered from poor sound and colour'),
('185801','shift and was not repeated or  listed for future acquisitions, making it an expensive under'),
('185802','taking.'),
('185803',' This documentary appears on the First Descent DVD'),
('185804',' The method of travel is explained in the story as being part of an  effect known as the "Tannhauser Gate." Tannhauser Gate was the name  of a battle mentioned by Roy Batty in _Blade Runner (1982)_ (qv).'),
('185805',' In episode 5, as Noriko and Kazumi fly over the hull of the now  decommissioned battle cruiser Exelion, the Proteus from  _Fantastic Voyage (1966)_ (qv) can be seen in the background working  on the ship.'),
('185806',' Norikos love interest, Smith Toren was named after Toren Smith, the  president of Studio Proteus. He is acquainted with various members  of the Japanese animation industry, and his company prepares English  versions of Japanese comics.'),
('185807',' Animator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (qv) was the animator responsible for  giving Noriko her distinctive "bouncing bustline".'),
('185808',' The head of the Sizzler combat robot is based on the evil bird'),
('185809','like  monsters Gyaos as seen in the Gamera movies.'),
('185810',' The main title of Gunbuster, Top O Nerae! (Aim for the Top!), is a  reference to the 1970s anime series Ace O Nerae! (Aim for the Ace!)'),
('185811',' This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of  Congress, in 1996.'),
('185812',' DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)): about 30 minutes in at the  airport getting out of a wheelchair.'),
('185813',' Uris, Leon (qv) wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but  Hitchcock declared it unshootable at the last minute and called in  Taylor, Samuel A. (qv) (writer of _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv)) to  rewrite it from scratch. Some scenes were written just hours before  they were shot.'),
('185814',' Hitchcock shot two versions with completely different endings. Both  of them are included in the Laserdisc reissue.'),
('185815',' According to Hitchcock, this was another of his experimental movies.  In addition to the dialogue, the plot is revealed through the use of  colors, predominantly red, yellow and white. He admits that this did  not work out.'),
('185816',' Knowing that he had no ear for music, Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)  didnt even bother listening to Maurice Jarre (I) (qv)s completed  score for the film, slotting it onto the images without a quibble.'),
('185817',' According to Donald Spotos book "The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty  Years Of His Motion Pictures", Executives of Universal Pictures  forced the project "Topaz" on Hitchcock.'),
('185818',' Was reportedly one of Alfred Hitchcocks most unhappy directing  jobs.'),
('185819',' The original play opened on 9 October 1928 in Paris, France.'),
('185820',' Although the movie was passed by The National Board of Review for  showing in the USA in 1933, it was refused a Production Code  Administation (PCA) certificate for re'),
('185821','release in 1936, when the  Code was more strictly enforced.'),
('185822',' Louis Jouvet (qv)s first screen appearance.'),
('185823',' Cited by _"Mission: Impossible" (1966)_ (qv) TV series creator  Geller, Bruce (I) (qv) as the inspiration for his own series.'),
('185824',' Six weeks after the release of Topkapi, a similar, real'),
('185825','life heist  took place at a New York City museum. Although 22 gems were stolen,  they were recovered within 48 hours.'),
('185826',' Used sets left over from _Day of the Evil Gun (1968)_ (qv).'),
('185827',' First released as an underground film, it was thanks to John Lennon  that the film acquired a worldwide distribution. He was so impressed  by this movie that he urged a close friend of his to buy the rights  and take charge of distribution.'),
('185828',' The title of the movie and the main characters name are a metaphor  of the underground cinema in the sixties. The mole digs holes so as  to emerge from the underground to the surface. This was happening  with some low'),
('185829','budget movies that quickly gained mainstream  popularity.'),
('185830',' Producer Hal Roach (qv) wanted W.C. Fields (qv) and  Jean Harlow (qv) to costar as George and Marian Kerby, but neither  was available at the time.'),
('185831',' This was the first black & white film to be "colorized" in 1985.'),
('185832',' The fancy finned'),
('185833','back car driven by the Kerbys was custom built by  the Bohman & Schwartz Co. using a 1936 Buick Roadmaster chassis.  Originally, the producers had in mind using a coffin'),
('185834','nosed Cord, but  it wasnt large enough. In the custom'),
('185835','made Buick, there were special  compartments for camera equipment, etc. The appearance of the Buick  resembles a Cord, but the supercharger pipes on the side were just  decorations. After the filming of _Topper (1937)_ (qv) the Buick was  owned by the Gilmore Oil Company for many years and was used for  promotional purposes. It was updated in 1954 with Chrysler Imperial  chassis and drive train. The car used by Cosmo Topper is a 1936  Lincoln Model K.'),
('185836',' Steve Martin attached to play Cosmo Topper, an up'),
('185837','tight estate  liquidator whos hired to sell off the estate of George and Mimi  Kirby, a recently'),
('185838','deceased wealthy young socialite couple who have  no intention of letting their ghostly forms stop them from  partying... or from trying to show Topper what lifes all about.'),
('185839',' In the film, Eddie (played by Eddie Rochester Anderson (qv))  says that hes going back to "Mr. Benny", an in'),
('185840','joke reference to  the fact that Anderson played Rochester, the valet, on  Jack Benny (qv)s radio program and later TV show.'),
('185841',' Reginald Owens final performance.'),
('185842',' First Takashi Miike film to be released.'),
('185843',' Includes all teen idols of 1960s in Finland.'),
('185844',' The dogs are properly named Spike and Tyke now here.'),
('185845',' Last appearance of Tyke.'),
('185846',' When Angela tosses the empty gun into the grave the crew buried the  prop for real. When it came to shooting the car park scene a week  later the producer had to go and dig it up.'),
('185847',' Director Thomas Massengale (qv) reported that co'),
('185848','star  Quentin Crisp (qv) was delightful to work with.'),
('185849',' Weber, Lois (qv) refused the opportunity to direct this film  because she felt the material was racially insensitive.'),
('185850',' As Sir Arthur Sullivan and his mistress Fanny Ronalds casually  discuss aborting their baby, the incidental music is a passage from  Gilbert and Sullivans "Iolanthe." The lyric which goes with the  music is, "Plead for my boy. He dies."'),
('185851',' The tower structure on the backdrop of the Mikado set is a painting  of the Pagoda at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a few miles away  from Richmond Theatre where the scenes were filmed.'),
('185852',' W.S. Gilberts quip about a prostitute dying of consumption in a  garret refers to Verdis opera "La Traviata."'),
('185853',' Gilbert suggests that Ibsens works are "suitably dull". The irony  is that Ibsens most famous play, "A Dolls House" was considered so  risqué it was banned in many countries.'),
('185854',' Andy Serkis (qv) learned to play the violin for a scene which  didnt make it to the final cut.'),
('185855',' Most modern recordings and performances of the Mikados solo, "A  More Humane Mikado" feature a bloodthirsty laugh between the verses.  This touch was added by Darrel Fancourt, a DOyly Carte performer  from 1920'),
('185856','1953, and has been copied ever since '),
('185857',' which is why the  laugh is not performed by Richard Temple (Timothy Spall).'),
('185858',' At lunch, George Grossmith, Durward Lely, and Rutland Barrington  discuss the news of the defeat and death of British General Charles  Gordon in Khartoum. The British relief force which rescued Gordons  troops and defeated the Mahdi rebels was commanded by General Sir  Garnet Wolseley. Wolseley was one of Victorian Englands most  flamboyant and well'),
('185859','known military figures, and widely believed to  have been the "model of a modern major general" upon whom Grossmith  based his portrayal of Major General Stanley in "The Pirates of  Penzance."'),
('185860',' When Richard Temple performs "A More Humane Mikado" during the dress  rehearsal, the script cuts out the third verse. Partly this may have  been because of time considerations, but also because the original  verse used the word "nigger" and was not changed until the 1940s.'),
('185861',' In the actual opening'),
('185862','night performance of "The Mikado", the Act 2  finale began with "The Threatened Cloud Has Passed Away". This  version was felt to be too short, so "For Hes Gone and Married  Yum'),
('185863','Yum" was later added, as seen in the film and modern  performances.'),
('185864',' In his dressing room after the performance of "Princess Ida" in  which he strains his voice, Richard Temple recites some dialog from  "H.M.S. Pinafore". Temple created the character of Dick Deadeye in  "H.M.S. Pinafore", and sang it during the initial 1878 run and  several subsequent revivals.'),
('185865',' The Japanese section of the film was originally to be directed by  Kurosawa, Akira (qv).'),
('185866',' Actor Robards, Jason (qv) was actually present at the bombing of  Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941.'),
('185867',' When Japanese characters in the film refer to the date of the  attack, they are actually saying "December 8," which is technically  correct, as Japan is a day ahead of the U.S.; however, it is  translated as "December 7" in the subtitles to avoid confusing U.S.  audiences.'),
('185868',' The U.S. Navys Office of Information was inundated with complaints  from U.S. citizens when the military agreed to allow active U.S.  servicepersons to participate in the recreation of the attack on  Pearl Harbor, which some viewed as glorifying Japanese aggression  and showing Americans as unprepared.'),
('185869',' The P'),
('185870','40 crashing in the flight line was an unplanned accident '),
('185871',' it  was a life'),
('185872','sized mockup powered by a gasoline engine turning the  propeller and steered by using the wheel brakes, just like real  airplanes, but was specifically designed not to fly. The aircraft  shown was loaded with explosives which were to be detonated by radio  control at a specific point down the runway. Stunt actors were  strategically located and rehearsed in which way to run. However  shortly after the plane began taxiing down the runway it did begin  to lift off the ground and turn to the left. The left turn would  have taken it into a group of other mockups which had also been  wired with explosives, but werent scheduled to be destroyed until  later. The explosives in the first P'),
('185873','40 were detonated on the spot  in order to keep it from destroying the other planes, so the  explosion occurred in a location the stunt men werent prepared for.  When it looks like they were running for their lives, they really  were. This special effect was filmed with multiple camera so that it  could be reused in other shots in the film, as were all the major  special effects.'),
('185874',' The 30+ "Japanese" airplanes flying in the movie are all converted  American trainers. No genuine Japanese warbirds were to be found in  flying condition at the time. Instead, several American planes had  to be rebuilt at a cost of about $30,000 each. They were later sold  at auction for $1,500 or so apiece, and most of them are still  flying in private hands.'),
('185875',' The P'),
('185876','40s destroyed on the ground are full'),
('185877','scale mock'),
('185878','ups, some  remote'),
('185879','controlled to taxi.'),
('185880',' In the movies opening scenes, Admiral Yamamoto meets his officers  aboard a battleship. The ship was a full scale replica, complete  from bow to stern, and had even a mock'),
('185881','up floatplane on a catapult.  It was built on a beach in Japan, next to the replica of the  aircraft'),
('185882','carrier "Akagi." The Akagi set consisted of about  two'),
('185883','thirds of the deck and the island area.'),
('185884',' The Japanese aircraft in the film were highly modified American AT'),
('185885','6  and BT'),
('185886','13 trainers. The fighters, "Zeros," were AT'),
('185887','6s, the  divebombers, "Vals," were BT'),
('185888','13s, and the torpedo'),
('185889',' and  levelbombers, "Kates," consisted of AT'),
('185890','6 fronts and wings and BT'),
('185891','13  tails.'),
('185892',' One of the B'),
('185893','17s shown in the film has been fully restored and (as  of 2000) is on display at the Yankee Air Force museum in Ypsilanti,  MI.'),
('185894',' Many of the replica Japanese aircraft are owned by members of the  Confederate Air Force, an organization that specializes in  re'),
('185895','enactments and aircraft preservation. They are used every year in  the annual CAF air show, where a re'),
('185896','enactment of the Pearl Harbor  attack takes place. This has been going on since 1972.'),
('185897',' The "one wheel up" emergency landing by a B'),
('185898','17 was an unplanned  accident during filming. The airplane was repaired and went back to  forest'),
('185899','fire'),
('185900','bombing duty afterwards.'),
('185901',' Many of the replica Japanese planes were also used in the filming of  _Midway (1976)_ (qv), _Final Countdown, The (1980)_ (qv) and  _Pearl Harbor (2001)_ (qv).'),
('185902',' The USS Yorktown (CVS'),
('185903','10) was disguised as the Japanese carrier Kaga  to film scenes of aircraft taking off and landing. It was fitted  with a false bow to disguise the catapults. Although it appears as  though steam is leaking from the bow, Japanese carriers actually  used steam to indicate wind speed and direction over the bow. The  steam trail was lined up with the painted white lines on the bow. It  was unofficially named "USS Kaga" for the duration of filming. The  USS Enterprise seen entering Pearl Harbor at the end of the movie is  actually the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA'),
('185904','31).'),
('185905',' This is believed to be the first major Hollywood production to be  distributed on Fujicolor release prints.'),
('185906',' Although numerous active duty US Navy personnel appeared in the  movie, they were only allowed by the Navy to work during their  off'),
('185907','duty hours, and the production had to pay them as they would any  other extras.'),
('185908',' The film was considered a flop when it was released in the United  States, but was a huge success in Japan.'),
('185909',' Akira Kurosawa (qv) agreed to direct the Japanese part of the film  only because he was told that David Lean (I) (qv) was to direct  the American part. This was a lie, David Lean was never part of the  project. When Kurosawa found out about this, he tried to get himself  fired from the production '),
('185910',' and succeeded.'),
('185911',' Shogo Shimada (qv) and Hisao Toake (qv), who played Ambassadors  Nomura and Kurusu, were the only cast members to work with both the  Japanese and American units. Shimadas English language dialog was  looped by Paul Frees (qv).'),
('185912',' Admiral Yamamoto most likely did not utter his famous quote about  having "roused a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible  resolve" '),
('185913',' it seems to be a post'),
('185914','war invention based on Yamamotos  actual beliefs on the likely outcome of war with the United States  and his affinity for the US in general. By contrast, his warning  earlier in the about attacking in the USA that begins with "If I am  told to fight... I shall run wild for the first six months..." is  largely accurate.'),
('185915',' The peak filmed and pointed out by the actors as the site for the  new radar antenna, where they were having trouble securing access  from local forestry officials, is nowhere near Opana Point. The peak  is actually Puu Kanehoalani on Oahus east coast. It is one of the  narrowest and most inaccessible peaks on the island, even for daring  mountain climbers.'),
('185916',' The manned radar antenna site depicted as "Opana Point" was actually  Koko Head which is just above Oahus famous Hanauma Bay. This is on  the opposite side of the island from the real'),
('185917','life location. Today,  it is home to many antennae including the FAAs CKH VORTAC.'),
('185918',' Since the U.S. military presently runs a restricted communications  installation at the site, the memorial dedicated to the role of  Opana Point in WWII is located down the road, between the hotel  lobby and beach of the Turtle Bay Resort.'),
('185919',' The wounded sailor shown firing back at the strafing Japanese planes  is based on Chief Ordnanceman John William Finn, stationed at  Kaneohe Naval Air Station on 7 December 1941 who set up a .50  caliber machine gun mount and, despite being wounded several times,  defiantly fired back at strafing Zero fighters during the second  attack wave, hitting several of them and even shooting down one, the  combat unit leader Lt. Fusata Iida. Finn was later awarded the  Congressional Medal of Honor for valor beyond the call of duty.'),
('185920',' Of all the time and money spent by Akira Kurosawa (qv), less than  one minute of the film he shot is in the final release version.'),
('185921',' The mockups of the American ships in Pearl Harbor were constructed  upon ocean'),
('185922','going barges which were extremely expensive to rent,  causing director Richard Fleischer (qv) to comment during  production, "If the Japanese had attacked us with ocean'),
('185923','going  barges, we couldnt afford to make this film!"'),
('185924',' Akira Kurosawa (qv) attempted to cast friends and business  associates, including some high'),
('185925','level industrialists, in key roles  in the films Japanese segments as a quid'),
('185926','pro'),
('185927','quo for later funding  of future films. Twentieth Century Fox was not amused by this, and  finally, the breach became the cause for Kurosawas dismissal from  the project.'),
('185928',' The bandana or "hachimaki" Commander Mitsuo Fuchida wore on his  flight to Honolulu translates to "Certain Victory". He flew in the  lead Nakajima B5N2 bomber with Lt. Mitsuo Matazaki piloting and  Norinobu Mizuki navigating.'),
('185929',' Average Shot Length = ~7.1 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~6.9  seconds.'),
('185930',' This film marked Joan Crawford (I) (qv)s return to MGM after a  ten year absence. She was previously under contract to MGM from  1925'),
('185931','1943.'),
('185932',' The farm scene was filmed at the Knuth Farm in Denville, NJ.'),
('185933',' DIRCAMEO(Paul Bogart (qv)): auditions as one of the dancing  partners.'),
('185934',' Matthew Broderick (I) (qv), playing Alan in the movie, originated  the role of David on stage.'),
('185935',' Matthew Broderick (I) (qv) was asked to do the role of Alan, but  he felt it was too soon after his auto accident in Ireland. He  didnt reply to the producers, so Tate Donovan (qv) was cast  instead. The second day of rehearsals, Broderick called  Harvey Fierstein (qv) on set and agreed to do the role.'),
('185936',' Writer Harvey Fierstein (qv) wanted to create a role to highlight  the work of Charles Pierce (I) (qv) so he added scenes to the role  of Bertha Venation in honor of him.'),
('185937',' Paul Joynt (qv) played the role of Allen in the original Broadway  cast of "Torch Song Trilogy".'),
('185938',' The person living next door to the doorway used for the sequence at  the end of the movie where the actors are performing in front of  Arnolds doorway did not give permission to film outside his home.  When the director would shout, "Action," the resident would either  put his radio or television really loud, or open his door, thus  ruining the shot. The crew got really fed'),
('185939','up with his antics so they  nailed his door shut, which caused a law suit to be filed against  New Line.'),
('185940',' The idea for the Stud Bar came from an actual bar in New York that  was known for its infamous "back room" called The International Bar.  Patrons though, when speaking of the bar, would insert the word  "stud" after the word "international" and the name stuck after many  years.'),
('185941',' During the shooting, which took place in southern Ohio over the  month of January 2005, there was record breaking rainfall and  flooding. This created many nightmares for the production and  ultimately delayed the shooting of the final three scenes.'),
('185942',' Although the onscreen credits state this is an original story, it is  actually a remake of _Murder Will Out (1930)_ (qv), which has a  virtually identical plot and uses many of the same character names.'),
('185943',' The print actually credits the "original story" to  Murray Leinster (qv) and Will Jenkins. Perhaps the filmmakers  didnt realize that "Will Jenkins" is a pseudonym for Leinster, but  it was probably just an inside joke.'),
('185944',' Lee Phelps (I) (qv) is credited in studio records as "Detective",  but he is not seen in the movie.'),
('185945',' Actors Sol Gorss (qv) (First Cab Driver), Allen Mathews (qv)  (Second Cab Driver) and Jack Wise (qv) (Steward) are listed in  casting call lists/studio records for their roles in this movie, but  did not appear. Bob Baker (I) (qv) is erroneously listed for the  role of "Assistant Bank Manager" in a modern source, but that role  was played by Art Baker (qv). Some actors (Tom Wilson (I) (qv)  and Loia Cheaney (qv)) are barely visible and have no lines.'),
('185946',' Torchy works at the Daily Star '),
('185947',' same newspaper that Lois Lane  worked at in her first comic book appearance. (Later, Lanes paper  was called the more'),
('185948','familiar Daily Planet.)'),
('185949',' Two cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear  or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names): Vera Lewis (qv) (Landlady) and  Eddy Chandler (qv) (Announcer)'),
('185950',' 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): Leo White (I) (qv) (Bettor),  Paul Panzer (qv) (Vendor), Al Lloyd (qv) (Vendor) and  Sally Sage (qv).'),
('185951',' A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.'),
('185952',' Two cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear  or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their  character names): Larry Williams (III) (qv) (Reporter) and  Jack Mower (qv) (Duncan).'),
('185953',' Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails contributes the back'),
('185954','up vocals in  the chorus of "Past the Mission"'),
('185955',' The video for Talula uses the Tornado Mix (3.43), remixed by BT  (Brian Transeau) and was featured in the movie  _Twister (1996)_ (qv). The album version clocks in at 4.08.'),
('185956',' The video for Crucify uses the Remix version (4.12). The Remix  version is shorter, and features additional guitar instrumentation.  The album version clocks in at 4.58.'),
('185957',' The video for China uses the Edit version (3.55). The second verse  has been omitted from this version. The album version clocks in at  4.58.'),
('185958',' The Cornflake Girl (U.S. Version) uses the Edit version of the song  (3.53). This version of the video was directed by Tori Amos. The  European Video version uses the album version of the song which  clocks in at 5.06.'),
('185959',' The video for Hey Jupiter uses the Dakota Edit version (4.13). The  Dakota Edit version contains completely different music, a  rearrangement of the original lyrics, an omission of one of the  verses, and additional lyrics as well. The album version clocks in  at 5.10.'),
('185960',' The video for Spark contains the Edit version (4.05). The intro  music has been slightly shortened. The album version clocks in at  4.15.'),
('185961',' The video for Winter uses the Edit version (4.38). Some of the  second verse has been modified and the last chorus has been  shortened. The album version clocks in at 5.40.'),
('185962',' The Raspberry Swirl video uses the Lip Gloss version (3.38). The Lip  Gloss version is about 20 seconds shorter than the album version and  features slightly different instrumentation. The album version  clocks in at 3.58.'),
('185963',' A portion of the score actually came from William Castle (qv)s  _House on Haunted Hill (1959)_ (qv) which Allied Artists had  distributed the previous year.'),
('185964',' DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)): early in the film sitting in  a hotel lobby with a baby on his knee.'),
('185965',' The scene where Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult  it really can be to kill a man.'),
('185966',' Waterhouse, Keith (qv) and Hall, Willis (qv) did extensive  (uncredited) rewrites on the script.'),
('185967',' Herrmann, Bernard (qv) wrote the original score, but Universal  Pictures executives convinced Hitchcock that they needed a more  upbeat score. Hitchcock and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the  score was dropped and they never worked together again.'),
('185968',' The Swedish actor Jan Malmsjö (qv) (who had a small uncredited  role as photographer in the final scenes in Helsingborg harbour and  customs) found that a lot of signs were not written in correct  Swedish so he helped the film crew to correct them.'),
('185969',' In the shot in which Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv)s cameo occurs, the  music briefly changes to "Funeral March of a Marionette" by  Charles Gounod (qv), which is best known as the main theme for  _"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)_ (qv).'),
('185970',' SPOILER: A scene showing actor Wolfgang Kieling (qv), who played  Gromek, also playing Gromeks brother was cut. In it he shows  Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman (I) (qv)), who has just killed  Gromek, a picture of Gromeks three children. It was believed that  this would have shifted audience sympathy away from Newman to the  dead man. Unfortunately, a close'),
('185971','up of the brother cutting a sausage  with a knife similar to the one used in the murder, a  characteristically Hitchcockian shot, was also lost.'),
('185972',' In the Book "Its only a movie", Hitchcock said like this about Torn  Curtains ending '),
('185973',' "THERE WAS AN ENDING written for Torn Curtain",  Hitchcock said "which wasnt used , but I rather liked it. No one  agreed with me except my colleague at home (Alma). Everyone told me  that you couldnt have a letdown ending after all that. "Newman  would have thrown the formula away. After what he has gone through,  after everything we have endured with him, he just tosses it. It  speaks to the futility of all, and its in keeping with the kind of  naivete of the character, who is no professional spy and who will  certainly retire from that nefarious business."'),
('185974',' According to the Book "Its only a movie", Brian Moore (III) (qv)  was chosen to write the screenplay, but shooting began before  Hitchcock was satisfied with the script, dictated by the limited  availability of Julie Andrews (I) (qv).'),
('185975',' Hitchcock wanted to cast Eva Marie Saint (qv) for the leading  female role. But the studio forced him to cast  Julie Andrews (I) (qv).'),
('185976',' Some villagers at Llangranog were used as extras in the film. Jane  Ann Jones played a mother and her sister Beryl Jones played her  child in arms. Photographs taken during filming of the village  participants can be seen in the Pentre Arms on the sea front at  Llangranog'),
('185977',' Director Ken Cole documented thirteen storm chases with Reed Timmer  and Joel Taylor during Spring 2003, three of which are featured in  the movie. Of all thirteen chases, four chases successfully produced  at least one tornado.'),
('185978',' In issue 73 of Your Sinclair magazine in January 1992, this was  voted the 10th best game of all time.'),
('185979',' "Smoken Bobs" Hot Dog cart, seen in one of the town scenes, is a  dead giveaway for the Winnipeg shooting location. Also recognizable:  the Garry Theatre.'),
('185980',' In the scenes in the newsroom of a fictitious TV studio, producers  actually went to Austin, Texas then'),
('185981','rechristened FOX affiliate,  KTBC.'),
('185982',' The house used in the film is the same homestead used in the  original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.'),
('185983',' John Fords directorial debut. It is believed to be lost.'),
('185984',' Original length was either two or three reels, depending on the  source.'),
('185985',' 12 "well known and experienced" lumberjacks had been extras in the  film, paid $10 per day for their work which had last seven to ten  days.'),
('185986',' The first non'),
('185987','civil defense film on tornadoes, it was the first to  treat tornadoes as a scientific phenomena rather than as a hazard.  The film was highly popular, having shown on television multiple  times as well as in schools and public safety training.'),
('185988',' An alternative ending where Sigurd Framrus (Pierre Renoir (qv))  dies and is buried by the two lovers (Jean Chevrier (qv) and  Mila Parély (qv)) was written by Jean'),
('185989','Paul Sartre (qv) but never  filmed.'),
('185990',' This is the only game in the Mega Man Legends series where the  character of Bon Bonne is dubbed over in the US localization. Mega  Man Legends and Mega Man Legends 2 left Bon Bonnes voice as the  original track performed by Ikue Ohtani. It doesnt matter,  actually, since the character only speaks in variations of the  nonsense word "Babu".'),
('185991',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('185992',' The red car and rusty tanker truck that Fords gang dodges in the  beginning of the film are the same ones from the  Steven Spielberg (qv) film _Duel (1971/I) (TV)_ (qv)'),
('185993',' DIRCAMEO(Joseph Kahn (qv)): passenger on the train as the bike  drives through the car.'),
('185994',' At one point, Cary says, "I live my life a quarter mile at a time."  Shane responds with, "Thats the dumbest thing Ive ever heard!"  This was an intentional poke at  _Fast and the Furious, The (2001)_ (qv). Vin Diesel (qv)s  character used the phrase in that movie (which was also produced by  Neal H. Moritz (qv)).'),
('185995',' Jesse James (VII) (qv) of West Coast Choppers and Monster Garage  makes a cameo appearance in the scene where Ford and Shane are  talking inside the tent. Two of his custom choppers are used later  in the movie as the bikes Henry James drugs are stored in.'),
('185996',' The "Jet Turbine" Y2K bike that Cary Ford rides to catch Henry  actually exists '),
('185997',' one is owned by Jay Leno (qv). Its an MTT  Turbine SUPERBIKE, powered by a Rolls'),
('185998','Royce Allison 250 turboshaft  engine commonly used in helicopters.'),
('185999',' Ice Cube (qv) says the line "Fuck The Police", a reference to his  song (when he was the rapper from N.W.A. back in 1988) by the same  name.'),
('186000',' "Sam & Twitch", displayed on Agent McPhersons t'),
('186001','shirt, are  characters that originally appeared in Todd McFarlane (qv)s dark  comic book Spawn. They were popular enough to eventually get their  own series.'),
('186002',' When Ford drives past the road sign at the start of the film it  spins and reads "cars suck".'),
('186003',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Work of Director Spike Jonze, The (2003) (V)_ (qv).'),
('186004',' American film debut of Greta Garbo (qv).'),
('186005',' Joel McCrea (qv) doubled for Greta Garbo (qv) in a horse'),
('186006','riding  sequence.'),
('186007',' Many filmographies attribute the cinematography to  Augusto Tiezzi (qv). Tiezzi was indeed the original photographer  on the film but was replaced just after a few days by Piero Pupilli.  None of his work is included in the final release print.'),
('186008',' George Reeves (I) (qv), Victor Varconi (qv),  Joseph Calleia (qv), Alan Hale (I) (qv) and George Tobias (qv)  all tested for the role of Rosario, with the part going to Tobias.'),
('186009',' Originally was to premiere on 11 September 2001, but was postponed  due to the terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC and in  Pennsylvania.'),
('186010',' Won 2 awards at Festival de courts métrages "Projection Courte":  Best Actor: Arthur Chazal (qv), Best Technics'),
('186011',' The AFI Catalogue lists Sammy Fong in the role of "Squid Owner".  This may have been a typographical error in studio records, since  Willie Fung (qv), who was not listed, had a very similar role.'),
('186012',' The food that Martin Naranjo cooks was prepared by Mary Sue Milliken  and Susan Feniger who run restaurants in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.'),
('186013',' The three poems that Letis "secret admirer" sends her are "To His  Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "Her Face, Her Tongue, Her Wit" by  Arthur Gorges, and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert  Herrick. The last note is from Titanias speech in Act III, Scene 1  of Shakespeares "A Midsummer Nights Dream."'),
('186014',' First appearance of Cecil Turtle.'),
('186015',' A blueprint of Cecils turtle shell is shown at one point in the  cartoon. In the bottom right'),
('186016','hand corner of the blueprint the name  Sasanoff is visible. This is a reference to Robert Clampett (qv)s  layout artist Michael Sasanoff (qv).'),
('186017',' The dialog between Bugs (in his old'),
('186018','timer disguise) and Cecil is  drawn heavily from catch phrases used in the radio program, Fibber  McGee and Molly. (Example: "That aint the way I heered it,  Johnny!")'),
('186019',' On the newspaper announcing the race, one of the secondary headlines  reads "Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide".'),
('186020',' A small amount of stock footage from _Tortoise Beats Hare_ (qv)  (1941) is used for the opening sequence.'),
('186021',' Max Hares name and cocky personality are based on boxer  Max Baer (qv).'),
('186022',' Many Warner Bros. animators have admitted that Max Hare is the  inspiration for Bugs Bunny.'),
('186023',' Michael Caine (qv) was the original casting choice for the  Tortoise. He was unable to stay with the project due to its  production delays.'),
('186024',' Orlando Jones was once cast to voice the Hare.'),
('186025',' When this movie was shown in 1967 one of the promos was a pack of  torture garden seeds given to patrons as they entered the theater.  The seeds were actually grass seeds.'),
('186026',' Despite being present from opening and also top billed, Jack Palance  does not speak until 75 minutes into the film.'),
('186027',' This feature may never have been released.'),
('186028',' Renoir, Jean (qv) directed only the first 5 scenes before the war  interrupted and sent him back to France.'),
('186029',' This production was originally broadcast live, and in three parts '),
('186030','  each part corresponding to each act, and each act performed and  broadcast from the exact location, and at the exact time of day the  action in the particular act occurs. To accomplish this unheard'),
('186031','of  feat, the singers were outfitted with tiny, nearly invisible radio  transmitters plugged in their ears, which enabled them to hear the  orchestra playing the accompaniments in the studio as the singers  actually sang live in their respective locations.'),
('186032',' A print of this film survives in the Pacific Film Archives.'),
('186033',' The only television broadcast of a Toscanini'),
('186034','conducted opera; this  was also simulcast on NBC Radio at the time. It was later released  on records and on CD.'),
('186035',' The "blanket" was actually a patchwork quilt made by Chet Chittlings  grandmother.'),
('186036',' The last Tom & Jerry theatrical short produced or directed by  William Hanna (I) (qv) and Joseph Barbera (qv).'),
('186037',' River Phoenix (qv) was originally attached to the project, but the  part of Rimabud went to Leonardo DiCaprio (qv) after Phoenixs  death.'),
('186038',' John Malkovich (qv) was initially attached to play Verlaine, but  pulled out.'),
('186039',' David Thewlis (qv) shaved part of his head especially for the film  so as to look like the real Verlaine.'),
('186040',' Ouzo was used as a replacement for absinthe for the drinking scenes  filmed on the first day. Because the scene turned out so well,  method drinking was adopted for the rest of filming. As a result,  Thewlis had admitted in a interview that he cant really remember  making the film at all.'),
('186041',' Sixth episode, fourth and final series, of The Gumps 2'),
('186042','reel comedy  series'),
('186043',' David Cronenberg (qv) was set to direct and even wrote a few  drafts of the script before Paul Verhoeven (I) (qv) took over.'),
('186044',' Over 40 drafts of the script were written, some of which depicted  Quaid as a mild'),
('186045','mannered accountant (instead of a construction  worker).'),
('186046',' Jeff Bridges (I) (qv), Patrick Swayze (qv)Matthew Broderick (qv)  and Richard Dreyfuss (qv) were each considered for the role of  Quaid.'),
('186047',' SPOILER: During filming, Sharon Stone (I) (qv) complained to  director Paul Verhoeven (I) (qv) that she wasnt sure whether her  character really was married to Doug.'),
('186048',' Johnnycab whistles the Norwegian national anthem.'),
('186049',' Doug Quaid signs into the hotel as "Brubaker", the name of the  captain from _Capricorn One (1978)_ (qv), a movie about a faked trip  to Mars.'),
('186050',' References to "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy " include the  annoyingly polite robot (Johnnycab), wrapping a towel around your  head to avoid being found, and the triple'),
('186051','breasted whore.'),
('186052',' SPOILER: When Quaid is being shown the monitor in the implant room,  some of the drawings scrolling by are concept drawings of the  reactor on Mars.'),
('186053',' Robert Picardo (qv) was voice of and facial model for the  "Johnnycab" robot.'),
('186054',' When Quaid is dressed up as the fat lady, the passport he hands the  guard is the actual passport of Allen, Priscilla (qv) (who played  the fat lady).'),
('186055',' The subway scenes were filmed in the Mexico City subway system,  specifically, the Insurgentes station of the Line 1:  Constituyentes'),
('186056','Pantitlan.'),
('186057',' Some of the large ads seen after Quaid gets off the subway were real  signs featured above the Insurgentes subway station in Mexico City,  most noticeable the Fuji Film and Coca Cola signs, the Coca Cola  sign still stands today'),
('186058',' The original cut of the movie was given an X'),
('186059','rating by the MPAA for  excessive violence. Some violence was trimmed and different camera  angles were used in some of the more over the top scenes and the  movie was then re'),
('186060','rated R.'),
('186061',' On the graph that Quaid is shown at Rekall, it appears that  traveling by space shuttle has been getting more and more dangerous  as time goes on!'),
('186062',' The short story on which it was based was first optioned in 1974, 16  years before the film finally was released.'),
('186063',' Patrick Swayze (qv) was signed to play Quaid when the movie began  preproduction in Australia before Dino De Laurentiis (I) (qv)  company went bankrupt. After Arnold Schwarzenegger (qv) heard  about this, he persuaded Carolco to buy the script for him.'),
('186064',' Quaids metal briefcase contains a workers ID for the Pyramid Mines  on Mars.'),
('186065',' All of the crew fell ill due to food poisoning during production,  with the exception of Arnold Schwarzenegger (qv) because he always  had his food catered from the US. Three years earlier, he had fallen  ill due to drinking tap water in Mexico during production of  _Predator (1987)_ (qv).'),
('186066',' The miniatures used for shots showing Martian geography were based  on Martian photographs.'),
('186067',' SPOILER: The final scene involving the mountain providing Mars with  air was rejected by the initial producer  Dino De Laurentiis (I) (qv) because of cost. After De Laurentiis  left the project due to financial difficulties, the new producers  approved the idea.'),
('186068',' One of the early versions of digital rendering of real'),
('186069','life objects  was used in the scene where Quaid removes the fat lady mask.'),
('186070',' One of the heavily re'),
('186071','edited scenes to get an R'),
('186072','rating was the  escalator shootout where Quaid uses a human body to shield himself  from bullets.'),
('186073',' Body count: 77'),
('186074',' Kurtwood Smith (qv) was offered the role of Richter, but he turned  it down because he felt the role was too similar to his character in  _RoboCop (1987)_ (qv).'),
('186075',' Christopher Reeve (qv) was offered, but turned down, the role of  Douglas Quaid.'),
('186076',' Both the adaptation of the screenplay (written by  Piers Anthony (qv)) and early drafts of the script had the main  characters name as Douglas Quail. The original  Philip K. Dick (qv) story has the name Quail as well. The film was  being made during the Bush administration, with Dan Quayle (qv) as  Vice President and it is presumed that this was the reason for the  change.'),
('186077',' During Quaids Rekall orientation, a monitor momentarily shows an  illustration of a green Martian from Edgar Rice Burroughs (qv)  Martian novels.'),
('186078',' The portable locator used by Michael Champion (qv) (Helm) was  built by Casio.'),
('186079',' SPOILER: The final scene fading into white is intentionally done by  Paul Verhoeven (I) (qv) to leave some question marks regarding  whether everything was a dream and Quaid got lobotomized in the end.'),
('186080',' Marshall Bell (qv) had a full'),
('186081','body make'),
('186082','up for the Kuato scenes.  The head of Kuato was fully animatronic.'),
('186083',' Bruce Beresford (qv) was hired to direct and began pre'),
('186084','production  on the film until Dino De Laurentiis (I) (qv) company went  bankrupt.'),
('186085',' The escalator chase scene was filmed in Mexico Citys "Chabacano"  Subway Station (Intersection for Lines 2, 9 and 8, though 8 wasnt  operating at the time). The only changes made are direction signs in  English, and the station names replaced.'),
('186086',' Arnold Schwarzenegger (qv) was originally going to play the title  role in _RoboCop (1987)_ (qv) but problems with the costume caused  them to drop the idea. Schwarzenegger heard about this and saw  Robocop. Afterwards he expressed that he loved the movie and wanted  to work with director Paul Verhoeven (I) (qv). They both heard  about this movie and decided to work on that.'),
('186087',' The 22 August 1989 draft of the screenplay credits revisions to  Steven Pressfield (qv). He is not credited in the final film.'),
('186088',' Many of the vehicles used in the movie were designed and built  between 1977 and 1984 by Quincy'),
('186089','Lynn Enterprises, now Robert Q.  Riley Enterprises and featured in magazines like Popular Mechanics  and Mechanix Illustrated. Plans are still available to build your  own.'),
('186090',' The android who serves coffee in the CPB office is named Robby. This  is a tribute to Robby the Robot (qv).'),
('186091',' Nominated as "Best Alternative Video" at the 5th Annual "Adult Video  News" GAYVN Awards (11 March 2004)'),
('186092',' Filmed in early 1997 entirely on location in the Chicago  neighborhood of Wicker Park, this film is an important time capsule  of sorts. In interiors and exteriors, it features Wicker Park  establishments such as Urbis Orbis Cafe, Quaker Goes Deaf Records,  and the Busy Bee Bakery, all of which were mainstays in the  neighborhoods early to mid'),
('186093','90s creative heyday but went out of  business within a couple years of filming due to skyrocketing real  estate prices as the neighborhood continued "gentrifying". As such,  the film inadvertently captures a very specific time, place, and  lifestyle for Chicagos "Gen Xers."'),
('186094',' No special effects were used in the scene where the frustrated woman  throws papers in the air and they fall all around. However, 75  sheets of additional paper were dropped from above to make the shot  last longer.'),
('186095',' The song playing in the background while Andrew is trying to open  the crate is actually performed by the two lead actors'),
('186096',' It was during the recording session of this special that  Wayne Allwine (qv) (Mickeys official voice since 1983) met his  wife, Russi Taylor (qv) (Minnies official voice since 1985).'),
('186097',' Shot in Stephens home town of Round Lake, Illinois.'),
('186098',' First released to United States theaters in 1962 as an Adults'),
('186099','Only  movie entitled "Its Hot in Paradise". Three years later (1965),  trimmed of its nude scenes, it was re'),
('186100','released in the U.S. as a  horror/sci'),
('186101','fi monster film, "Horrors of Spider Island".'),
('186102',' Also included as one of the selections in Elviras  (Cassandra Peterson (qv)) "Something Weird" collection (seen on  Comcast On Demand, Oct. 2006).'),
('186103',' Many of the railway scenes in the movie were shot on a preserved  railway line between Dendermonde and Puurs, Belgium.'),
('186104',' As some of the locations were rather remote (particularly the  unguarded railway crossing at Sint Amands), much of the technical  crew and equipment was carried on the train.'),
('186105',' This is Italys first color film.'),
('186106',' The title originates as a spin off from the big hit of  _Marcelino pan y vino (1955)_ (qv) where Pablito Calvo (qv) acted  the title role. The name was kept just for advertising reasons, even  if the plot has little to do with the other movie, if not the fact  that the kid is an orphan.'),
('186107',' This movie is inspired by the real'),
('186108','life scandal of Chu Mei'),
('186109','Feng, a  Taiwanese politician and former member of the parliament who found  her sex life bootlegged onto VCD and sold for pennies.'),
('186110',' The debut of Liz Fraser.'),
('186111',' Was screened at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair, where judges (and  then critics) Jean'),
('186112','Luc Godard (qv) and François Truffaut (qv)  awarded it the top'),
('186113','prize. It was said the film was a great influence  on starting Godards and Truffauts illustrious careers, both of  whom within a year went on to make their first films  _À bout de souffle (1960)_ (qv) and  _Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)_ (qv), respectively.'),
('186114',' Marlene Dietrich (qv) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (qv) share a title card  ("Guest Starring Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor"). Gabor has a bit  part; she is onscreen for twenty seconds at most. Dietrich has a  pivotal role and appears in four crucial scenes including the  finale.'),
('186115',' Orson Welles (qv) shot predominantly at night in order to fend off  meddlesome studio suits.'),
('186116',' Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv) reportedly reworked  Dennis Weaver (I) (qv)s quirky motel clerk character in this one  for _Psycho (1960)_ (qv).'),
('186117',' The nighttime filming of the long, single tracking shot opening  sequence had many retakes. It took so long that the sequence used  was the last chance that night; the first light of the breaking dawn  is visible in the background.'),
('186118',' When Welles, Orson (qv) discovered that his film was recut, he  wrote a letter to the production house with specifics on how he  would have wanted the film to be released. This memo, thought to be  lost, was found to be in the possession of star  Heston, Charlton (qv) and was the basis for the re'),
('186119','edited 1998  re'),
('186120','release.'),
('186121',' Janet Leigh (qv) broke her left arm before filming commenced, but  appeared nonetheless. The arm was in a cast, hidden from the camera,  for many scenes. In the more revealing motel scenes, the cast was  removed for filming, and re'),
('186122','applied afterwards.'),
('186123',' The film takes place in a fictional Mexican border town, Los Robles,  but was filmed in Venice, California because the place looked  convincingly run'),
('186124','down and decayed.'),
('186125',' Orson Welles (qv) was originally hired only to act in the film,  but due to a misunderstanding, Charlton Heston (qv) understood  that Welles was to be the director. To keep Heston happy, producer  Albert Zugsmith (qv) allowed Welles to direct. Welles made major  changes to the already'),
('186126','completed script, including changing Hestons  character from a white district attorney to a Mexican narcotics  agent, changing Janet Leigh (qv)s character from Mexican to  American, and changing the setting of the movie from a small  California town to a Mexican'),
('186127','American border town..'),
('186128',' At first, Orson Welles (qv) wanted nothing to do with the picture.  He reluctantly agreed after a contract deal forced him to.'),
('186129',' Orson Welles (qv) was fired as director during post'),
('186130','production,  and the film was recut contrary to his wishes. Before his death, he  left instructions on how he wanted the film to be edited, and in  1998 a version was made the way he intended.'),
('186131',' CAMEO(Joseph Cotten (I) (qv)):'),
('186132',' CAMEO(Mercedes McCambridge (qv)):'),
('186133',' The customs officer in the long opening shot, who converses briefly  with Heston, Charlton (qv) and Leigh, Janet (qv), flubbed his  lines several times. Eventually, director Welles, Orson (qv) told  him to simply mouth the words.'),
('186134',' The officials from Universal Pictures only found out that  Marlene Dietrich (qv) was playing Tanya when they saw the rushes  for that days filming; she had filmed her part in one day as a  personal favor to Orson Welles (qv) and he had not told anyone  about it. She agreed to appear at minimum union wages, but when the  officals decided to give her onscreen credit, they had to pay her  more.'),
('186135',' The music used throughout the movie was from sound sources that  pertained to the film: radio transmissions, jukeboxes, player piano.'),
('186136',' Oscar winner Mercedes McCambridge (qv), only appears in the film  because she was having lunch with Orson Welles (qv) during filming  and Welles convinced her to film a scene. Welles had her wear a  leather jacket, he cut her hair himself and had her character say  the sinister line, "I wanna watch."'),
('186137',' Scenes that the studio ordered to be retaken were not filmed by  Orson Welles (qv), but by Harry Keller (qv).  Charlton Heston (qv) at first refused to be filmed by anyone other  than Welles and caused a delay of one day. He later reimbursed the  studio $8,000 for the delay.'),
('186138',' While at Universal working on this film, Orson Welles (qv) picked  up some extra work by doing the narration for the trailer for the  science fiction classic _Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)_ (qv).'),
('186139',' Premiered as the second half of a double bill (hence its B movie  status) after main feature _Female Animal, The (1958)_ (qv) directed  by Harry Keller (qv), the same director hired to re'),
('186140','shoot parts of  the film after Orson Welles (qv) was fired.'),
('186141',' Orson Welles (qv) wanted to shoot the film in Tijuana, Mexico, but  the studio refused his request.'),
('186142',' The first scene filmed was the interrogation of Sanchez, under the  watchful eye of Universal executives. Orson Welles (qv) did it  quickly as proof he could make the film within the budget ($825,000)  provided and with a 38'),
('186143','days shooting schedule.  Joseph Cotten (I) (qv) said in an interview, the final cost was  $900,000 and it was completed in 39 days.'),
('186144',' Orson Welles (qv) wanted the credits to appear at the end of the  film so as not to distract the audience from the long (and famous)  initial tracking shot. He finally got his wish with the 1998  alternate version, dubbed the directorss cut.'),
('186145',' The film was a box office failure in the U.S. in 1958, but was well  received in Europe.'),
('186146',' The 1975 alternate version added more than 15 minutes of footage and  removed most (if not all) of the footage reshot by  Harry Keller (qv) in 1957, after Orson Welles (qv) was fired.'),
('186147',' After filming was completed, Orson Welles (qv) left to go to  Mexico to continue filming his version of "Don Quixote". It was  during this time that Universal asked for cuts, and since he wasnt  around, they began cutting it themselves.'),
('186148',' There has been much debate over the aspect ratio of the 1998  re'),
('186149','release. Apparently Orson Welles (qv) wanted to shoot the movie  in widescreen, but Universal ordered him to film it in full screen.  When the film was restored, the production team offered to do the  restorations in full screen, but Universal had them release it in  widescreen, which the DVD is. However, TV viewings in full screen  help viewers see the full framing that Welles clearly intended for  the picture.'),
('186150',' The 1998 restoration was supposed to premiere at the 1998 Cannes  Film Festival. However, the day before the premiere, the showing was  canceled by Beatrice Welles (qv), Orson Welles (qv)s daughter  who has a long history of interfering with showings of her fathers  work through threats of litigation.'),
('186151',' The restored DVD was to have included a commentary as well as a  documentary on the film and restoration titled Restoring Evil. Both  of their inclusions on the DVD were stopped by Orson Welles (qv)s  daughter, Beatrice Welles (qv).'),
('186152',' Despite popular speculation, Orson Welles (qv) is wearing make'),
('186153','up  throughout the film. For hours every night, theyd add pounds and  pounds onto him, and use prosthetics for his face. He once said that  he was late going to a dinner party at his house during the filming,  and arrived with his make'),
('186154','up still on. A famous actress approached  him when he entered and in all seriousness said: "Orson! You look  wonderful!"'),
('186155',' Interviews with Orson Welles (qv) in his later years noted that  the majority of footage that was cut out of his original version  were around 20 minutes of humorous scenes involving the Grandi  family, adding a light'),
('186156','hearted approach to the picture. However,  despite the numerous changes, he was somewhat pleased with the way  it was re'),
('186157','cut as a darker picture. His 58'),
('186158','page memo aimed to keep  the film bleak, and didnt try to include these scenes, happy enough  with the transitions that Harry Keller (qv) filmed.'),
('186159',' Orson Welles (qv) initially despised the title "Touch of Evil",  having had nothing to do with its conception. Over the years,  however, he grew to like it, and eventually considered it the best  title out of all his films.'),
('186160',' Orson Welles (qv) claimed to have only seen this film once, at the  one screening that the studio provided prior to his writing of the  memo.'),
('186161',' The role of the motel night manager was written specifically for  Dennis Weaver (I) (qv), because Welles admired his work on  _"Gunsmoke" (1955)_ (qv) and wanted to work with him.'),
('186162',' Orson Welles (qv) was initially offered to only act in the film,  but when Charlton Heston (qv) demanded that Welles direct, the  studios offered him the directors chair as long as he wouldnt get  paid for the writing or directing, only for his original salary as  an actor.'),
('186163',' Orson Welles (qv) claimed to have only read "Badge of Evil" by  Whit Masterson (qv), the novel on which the film was based, after  he completed the film. He based his rewrite of the screenplay upon  Paul Monash (qv)s initial treatment.'),
('186164',' The entire film was shot on real locations, apart from the infamous  ten'),
('186165','minute take in the Mexican shoe store clerks apartment, which  is actually a set. The studio wanted the entire film to be shot on  sets, even going so far as to build numerous locations on its lots,  but Orson Welles (qv) insisted on filming in a real city, settling  for Venice, California, when he couldnt get his initial choice of  Tijuana.'),
('186166',' Orson Welles (qv) was said to have based the drug scenes on his  own experiences, with the Grandi kids use of marijuana symbolizing  his own indifference towards the legality of the drug, and the  violent use of heroin representing his feeling that anything harder  than that was just "suicide", as he once put it.'),
('186167',' Orson Welles (qv) said that this was the most fun hed ever had  filming a picture, unlike most of his Hollywood films, because he  wasnt troubled by studio interference (until after he completed the  picture, anyway), he was given a healthy budget and he was working  with a crew of some of his favorite actors on a script that didnt  involve as much symbolism and all'),
('186168','out cinematic tricks as something  like _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv).'),
('186169',' Orson Welles (qv) dubbed Joseph Cotten (I) (qv)s line, "Now you  can strain him through a sieve."'),
('186170',' Orson Welles (qv) stated his goal with the film was the infuriate  the audience with the plot, the same way Howard Hawks (qv) did  with _Big Sleep, The (1946)_ (qv). The story became even more  confusing once the studio re'),
('186171','cut the picture.'),
('186172',' The opening scene took an entire night to get right, mainly because  the actor playing the customs officer kept blowing his lines. It was  beginning to get light on the horizon when Orson Welles (qv) made  the final take of the night, saying to the cast, "All right, lets  try it one more time." Then he looked at the actor and said, "If you  forget your line this time, just move your lips and well dub it in  later, but please God do NOT say, Im sorry, Mr. Welles!" This is  the take seen in the film.'),
('186173',' Orson Welles originally wanted Lloyd Bridges in the role of  "Menzies". The studio refused, and instead cast veteran actor Joseph  Calleia. But Welles was pleased with this new choice, because he had  seen Calleia on stage as a child and thought he was very talented.'),
('186174',' In the movie Ed Wood, the character Orson Welles complains to the Ed  Wood character about administrative meddling in a directors  artistic vision, "Im supposed to do a thriller with Universal, but  they want Charlton Heston to play a Mexican," referring to this  film. Ed Wood also tells him, "Ive even had producers re'),
('186175','cut my  films," a significant issue for Orson Welles with this film.'),
('186176',' According to Welles, Universal didnt want the film to be screened  at the Brussels Worlds Fair, but the head of distribution had such  faith in the film that he submitted it without the studios  knowledge. He was subsequently fired once it was awarded the top  prize.'),
('186177',' The Toronto wedding scene was shot at Casa Loma, Torontos famed  castle built by Sir Henry Pellat before the first war. It is now a  tourist attraction but actually often is rented for weddings.'),
('186178',' The title "Touch of Pink" is a play on the old Cary Grant movie  _That Touch of Mink (1962)_ (qv).'),
('186179',' DirCameo(Ian Iqbal Rashid (qv)): in the background sitting at a  desk at the beginning of the movie when Alim is at the movie studio.'),
('186180',' Body doubles were used for Kyle MacLachlan and Jimi Mistrys ice  skating scene.'),
('186181',' Quancetia Hamilton (qv) and Jimi Mistry had originally filmed more  scenes in the airplane, but they had to be cut from the film due to  length.'),
('186182',' The character of Karim was added to the script just before filming  had started. Ian Iqbal Rashid felt that Nuru should also have a love  interest and a happy ending.'),
('186183',' Sue Mathew (qv) wore a padded body suit to make her belly and hips  look bigger.'),
('186184',' Satans "I am a friend and companion of the night..." speech is  taken from Howard Philp Lovecrafts short story "The Horror At Red  Hook"'),
('186185',' When characters are tempted by Satan, it is their corresponding  actors voice beckoning them to join him.'),
('186186',' Released as a split reel along with the drama  _Up the Thames to Westminster (1910)_ (qv).'),
('186187',' Peter Cushing replaced an actor who dropped out.'),
('186188',' A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.'),
('186189',' Working title: "Some Sunny Day."'),
('186190',' This is a real story about young disabled girl who had  correspondence with Elvis Presley (qv) up to 1963 when she died.'),
('186191',' French censorship visa #25.166'),
('186192',' Italian censorship visa #17225 delivered on 19 September 1954.'),
('186193',' The movie took a total of 16 weekends to shoot, and two years to  edit.'),
('186194',' Jane Seymour actually turned the script down several times before  accepting the role.'),
('186195',' Some of the long distance shots of Simon and Joe climbing the  mountain are played not by the lead actors, but by body doubles, who  were Simon Yates and Joe Simpson themselves.'),
('186196',' ! At the end of the movie, theres a written line claiming that  Simon faced "strong criticism" from the climbing community after his  return to England. This claim has been repeated in several press  statements and reviews, but its not correct. What really happened  is that, one month after his return in Europe, Simon went climbing  in the Alps, unaware that the Daily Mail newspaper had published a  wildly incorrect version of the Siula story, implying that Simon had  tried to kill Joe. This was of course absurd, and the British  climbing community dismissed it immediately as nonsense. However,  back home Simon discovered that a small group of senior members of  the Mount Everest Foundation (the body that manages founding for  climbing expeditions in the Greater Ranges) had misjudged the story  and now wanted Simon excluded in the future from the MEF funds '),
('186197',' a  move that could basically kill Simons climbing career. At this  point however, Joe Simpson had a correct version of the Siula story  published in a respected climbing magazine, and the whole issue was  cleared. Howwever, in the DVD commentary, Joe Simpson himself  clearly says that Simon came under much criticism after returning  home, and that he wrote Touching the Void to defend Simon.'),
('186198',' Again at the end of the movie, another line claims that the route  opened by Simon and Joe has never been repeated. This also partially  incorrect. Political unrest in the area (because of Sendero Luminoso  activities) prevented climbers to reach Siula for many years.  However, in 1999, Carlos Buehler, one of the most talented US  alpine'),
('186199','style climbers, repeated the route with a companion. In the  last section (the one covered by Joe and Simon in their last day on  the West face), Buehler decided conditions were too dangerous, and  thus opened a more direct variant (humorously named "Avoiding The  Touch") going straight up the summit, more technically difficult but  safer. They went up the summit ridge but not to the summit proper  (as Joe had originally considered), choosing to descend back the  climbing route in order to avoid the treacherous North Ridge.'),
('186200',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Touching the Void (2003)_ (qv).'),
('186201',' This is the last Tom and Jerry cartoon to be nominated an Academy  Award.'),
('186202',' Tuffy sings and speaks in this cartoon.'),
('186203',' One of a handful of films shot with "The new Garutso lens for  3'),
('186204','Dimensional effect". The lens in question was hardly "new", having  been developed and used in films since the 30s, but it made great  ballyhoo. The lens is an extreme wide angle device that could be  used with a large assortment of diopter filters, hence making  everything seem, from foreground to background, in perfect focus.'),
('186205',' Robert Greig (qv), Robert Livingston (I) (qv) and  Lewis Stone (qv) were in early production charts as actors in this  film, but they were not in the released print. Sidney Bracey (qv)  (Briggs), Sherry Hall (qv) (Jones) and Don Rowan (qv) (Powers)  were in studio records or casting call lists for those roles, but  were not seen in the movie.'),
('186206',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Wifeys Ma Comes Back (1912)_ (qv).'),
('186207',' Adolph Caesar (qv) was signed on to play Leon Little. However, in  the weeks of filming, Caesar died of a heart attack and  Eli Wallach (qv) took over his role.'),
('186208',' After the police fire at the train, Sgt. Deke Yablonski  (Charles Durning (qv)) says, "What is this, Gunfight at the O.K.  Corral?". Burt Lancaster (qv) and Kirk Douglas (I) (qv) both  starred in _Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)_ (qv); Lancaster  played Wyatt Earp, and Douglas played Doc Holliday in the classic  western.'),
('186209',' Red Hot Chili Peppers played themselves in the movie. They were big  on the local scene but wouldnt crack the big time until the album  "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" in 1991'),
('186210',' Norman Mailer (qv), in the directors commentary on the DVD, said  that he was counseled to cut the ending of the scene in which Ryan  ONeal (qv)s character Tim Madden reads a note from his  ex'),
('186211','girlfriend Madeline informing him that his wife was having an  affair with her husband in which he exclaims "Oh God! Oh Man! Oh  God! Oh Man!" due to ONeals poor performance. Mailer kept it in  because he thought the poor line'),
('186212','reading actually added something to  the picture. ONeal, who had been friendly with Mailer, turned on  him as the bit revealed his short'),
('186213','comings as an actor and  embarrassed him.'),
('186214',' Roger Donahue (born 11/20/30 Yonkers, NY '),
('186215',' died 8/20/06 Greenport,  NY) was the prizefighter thanked by Norman Mailer for telling him  the anecdote that resulted in the title. The anecdote was: Frank  Costello, the Murder Inc. honcho, and his gorgeous girlfriend greet  three champion boxers in the Stork Club. Costello demands that each,  in turn, dance with the woman, and each nervously complies. The  last, Willy Pep, suggests that Mr. Costello dance. Costello replied,  Tough guys dont dance.'),
('186216',' This short is very rarely seen due to Fetchit, Stepin (qv)s  performance, which is considered highly racist today. The owners of  the Little Rascals TV rights have completely withdrawn it from their  package.'),
('186217',' Released in four versions with a different language spoken by the  actors in each one: English, Spanish, French, and German. The new  dialogue was not dubbed in; instead, each scene was shot four times,  one take for each language. This process was helped with the aid of  language tutors, blackboards placed out of camera range with the  phonetic dialogue written on them, and the hiring of foreign actors  for the incidental roles. This process was also used in the Little  Rascals shorts _First Seven Years, The (1930)_ (qv) and  _When the Wind Blows (1930)_ (qv).'),
('186218',' Spike Lee was the first person offered to direct the film after  Russell Simmons saw School Daze. Lee politely turned it down and  wrote and directed Do the Right Thing instead.'),
('186219',' Although he was never seen on screen, Eddie Murphy spent a lot of  time on the set of the film hanging out with Run DMC and crew.'),
('186220',' Originally broadcast as Part of the PBS television series "Say  Brother" on 20 June 1976.'),
('186221',' Production was suspended in 1968 during the Soviet invasion of  Czechoslovakia because a temporary military bridge had been erected  across the Danube at the filming location. Production resumed in  1970, and the film was released in 1971.'),
('186222',' This film is believed to be Africas first avant'),
('186223','garde film.'),
('186224',' First release in the "Secrets of the Beauty Parlor" 2'),
('186225','reel comedy  series.'),
('186226',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Billies Mother (1916)_ (qv).'),
('186227',' Created for the DVD release of _Cock and Bull Story, A (2005)_ (qv).'),
('186228',' This documentary is featured on the Special Edition DVD for  _Platoon (1986)_ (qv), released in 2001.'),
('186229',' The opening sequence with the items flying out of the cabinet was  filmed with the cabinet nailed to the ceiling and the crew where on  top of the ceiling flinging items straight down. When it is shown in  the film, it gives the illusion that the items are flying straight  out.'),
('186230',' SPOILER: "Shailar" and "Coby" are the first and middle names of the  directors son '),
('186231',' Shailar Coby does not exist.'),
('186232',' Though the masked killer was called Davey, the production crew have  since dubbed him "Plasterface".'),
('186233',' The plaster used in the death scene was actually dough.'),
('186234',' Connors "parents" in the movie were actually played by Schmoellers  parents.'),
('186235',' The mannequin who gives the female lead something to drink is  actually Schmoellers then'),
('186236','wife.'),
('186237',' It was Connors idea to distinguish between Slausen and Plasterface  by having Slausen walk with a limp.'),
('186238',' The script originally called for nudity, but Schmoeller said he was  too bashful and embarrassed to bring it up with Tanya Roberts (qv)  and the other actresses during casting. When they got to the lake  scene, he finally asked them if theyd be willing. The collective  answer was no.'),
('186239',' Tanya Roberts (qv) insisted on running through the woods barefoot  in one scene. She thought it would help her better project a sense  of pain and fear. The result was also that her feet were bloodied.'),
('186240',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('186241',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _What the Doctor Ordered (1912)_ (qv).'),
('186242',' Meagan Good (qv) was originally set to play the character of  Shuga, but conflicting schedules prevented her from being available.'),
('186243',' Visa dexploitation en France # 11609.'),
('186244',' Visa de contrôle en France # 18017'),
('186245',' Visa dexploitation en France : #104824'),
('186246',' Selected as the official entry from Switzerland in the Best Foreign  Language Film for the 2006 Oscars.'),
('186247',' The press screening was held at the UGC Normandie theater in Paris.'),
('186248',' This is the first Warner Brothers film to begin with the famous  Warners fanfare, which was composed by Max Steiner (I) (qv). The  fanfare had a bombastic beginning but no real end, as it was meant  to transpose into the music of the picture it introduced, which led  to new and creative chord modulations in each film in which it was  featured.'),
('186249',' The original play opened in Paris on 13 October 1933.'),
('186250',' Robert E. Sherwood (I) (qv)s English adaptation opened in London  on 24 April 1935. Melville Cooper (qv) reprised his stage role for  the movie.'),
('186251',' Bois, Curt (qv) made his American film debut in this movie.'),
('186252',' Colbert, Claudette (qv) became ill during production, causing the  film to fall behind schedule.'),
('186253',' When Maurice Murphy (I) (qv) replaced Allan Conrad (qv) in the  role of Georges Dupont, six days of retakes were needed, putting the  movie further behind schedule.'),
('186254',' Claudette Colbert (qv) fought with director Anatole Litvak (qv)  throughout most of the filming. Her main problem was with Litvaks  cinematographer, Charles Lang (I) (qv). Colbert, famous for  demanding that when she was photographed from the side it be only  the right side, didnt feel that Lang was photographing her  according to her wishes, and demanded that he be fired. Litvak  refused, setting off almost constant battling between the two that  lasted the entire length of shooting.'),
('186255',' This was the first drama series for the Dutch television'),
('186256',' Louis Bouwmeester (II) (qv) was 11 years old during the making of  this movie. Right after the recording he got a fine because he was  found to be too young to work.'),
('186257',' Live broadcast'),
('186258',' Twelfth episode, second series, of The Gumps 2'),
('186259','reel comedy series'),
('186260',' Made for less than 1000 PLN (Polish Zloty) thats around $300.'),
('186261',' The printing of the movie posters was more expensive than the budget  of the movie.'),
('186262',' In the beginning, the movie was made to be a low'),
('186263','budget home'),
('186264','made  action movie. After the movie was completed, and won few awards, one  of the distribution companies became interested in distributing the  movie.'),
('186265',' Feature film debut of James Garner (qv).'),
('186266',' The "Gilbert XF'),
('186267','120" is actually the prototype Martin XB'),
('186268','51, an  unsuccessful tactical bomber design.'),
('186269',' Revived by the Imperial War Museum in London with a special showing  at the museum cinema on 3 July 2003.'),
('186270',' Robin Askwith (qv) is dubbed'),
('186271',' This film is considered lost. Please check your attic.'),
('186272',' Basil Rathbone (qv) was forced, due to scheduling conflicts, to  simultaneously work on _Rio (1939)_ (qv) during the first week of  production. Rathbones assignment on this film also effectively  prevented him from being cast on the far more prestigious  _Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1939)_ (qv) at RKO.'),
('186273',' Production wrapped on 4 September 1939, 10 days and nearly $80,000  over budget.'),
('186274',' After a preview screening in November, 1939, studio heads were  alarmed that the score contained nothing but period music and  ordered a new score be written. Time considerations ultimately  prevented this, with Frank Skinner (I) (qv) cobbling together  pieces from his score from _Son of Frankenstein (1939)_ (qv). Only  pieces of the original score survived the final cut.'),
('186275',' The battle scenes were an ordeal to film. Principally shot on August  19, 1939 at a ranch in Tarzana, the fog machine proved ineffective  in the face of high winds. The 100'),
('186276','degree heat caused the 300 extras  to suffer and rain machines caused the soldiers cardboard helmets  and shields to disintegrate. Additional battle scenes were shot on  August 22 and on September 4, 1939, but the California heat  continued to play havoc with the cast, crew and equipment.'),
('186277',' The Battle of Bosworth is made up of stock footage from the original  Universal version of _Tower of London (1939)_ (qv).'),
('186278',' This feature was planned for filming in color. On the Thursday  before the Monday start of principle photography, uncredited  executive producer Edward Small informed producer Gene Corman that  it was going to be shot in black and white.'),
('186279',' According to producer Gene Corman, he and his brother, director  Roger Corman, considered leaving the production several times due to  the cost cutting measures forced on them by uncredited executive  producer Edward Small.'),
('186280',' Disney used this TV movie to test the waters of turning Disney Theme  Park attractions into movies. What followed was  _Mission to Mars (2000)_ (qv), _Country Bears, The (2002)_ (qv),  _Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)_ (qv),  _Haunted Mansion, The (2003)_ (qv) and others.'),
('186281',' Most of the tower footage in the film, both interior and exterior,  were shot at the actual Tower of Terror attraction at the Disney MGM  Studios.'),
('186282',' Many bit players from _Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)_ (qv) also  appear in this film'),
('186283',' Based on two novels: "The Tower" by Richard Martin Stern (qv), and  "The Glass Inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia (qv) and  Frank M. Robinson (qv). After the success of  _Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)_ (qv), disaster was hot property and  Warner Brothers bought the rights to film "The Tower" for $390,000.  Eight weeks later Irwin Allen (I) (qv) (of 20th Century Fox)  discovered "The Glass Inferno" and bought the rights for $400,000.  To avoid two similar films competing at the box office the two  studios joined forces and pooled their resources, each paying half  the production costs. In return, 20th Century Fox got the US box  office receipts and Warners the receipts from the rest of the world.'),
('186284',' Scriptwriter Silliphant, Stirling (qv) combined the two novels to  create one screenplay. The combined three words that make up the  titles of the two novels were combined to give the name of the film,  and the name of the building that is on fire (The Glass Tower).'),
('186285',' Screenwriter Stirling Silliphant (qv) took seven main figures from  each novel and incorporated them into the screenplay, as well as the  major climax of each novel: the lifeline rescue to an adjacent  rooftop from "The Tower", and the exploding water tanks from "The  Glass Inferno".'),
('186286',' At Steve McQueen (I) (qv)s insistence, he and co'),
('186287','star  Paul Newman (I) (qv) had to have exactly the same number of lines  of dialogue in the script'),
('186288',' Irwin Allen (I) (qv) originally wanted Steve McQueen (I) (qv) to  play the part of building architect Doug Roberts. McQueen however,  fought for and got the role of fire chief OHalloran. The role of  Doug Roberts went to Paul Newman (I) (qv).'),
('186289',' Paul Newman (I) (qv) and Steve McQueen (I) (qv) were both paid  the same: $1 million and 7.5% of box office each.'),
('186290',' Paul Newman (I) (qv)s and Steve McQueen (I) (qv)s names are  staggered in the opening credits, closing credits, and on the  posters so that, depending on which way you read it (top to bottom  or left to right), both appear to get top billing. This is known as  "diagonal billing", This strategy was being worked on when Newman  and McQueen almost co'),
('186291','starred together in  _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)_ (qv), but McQueen  eventually dropped out of the project and was replaced by the lesser  known Robert Redford (I) (qv).'),
('186292',' Two of the stars, Steve McQueen (I) (qv) and Faye Dunaway (qv)  left strict instructions that they should not be approached by  visitors to the set. McQueen also refused to give any interviews.  Paul Newman (I) (qv) asked only that he not be surprised.'),
('186293',' This film marked the first ever joint production by two big'),
('186294','name  movie companies; Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox.'),
('186295',' Principal photography was completed on Sept. 11th 1974.'),
('186296',' An instrumental version of the song "The Morning After" from  _Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)_ (qv) can be heard in the background  in certain scenes.'),
('186297',' Desperate to capture a truly surprised reaction from the cast,  Irwin Allen (I) (qv) actually fired a handgun into the ceiling  without warning the actors, who were understandably "surprised". The  trick worked and he got his shot.'),
('186298',' In an interview given years after the film was released, writer  Stirling Silliphant (qv) said that he always sat under a sprinkler  system head when visiting a building. He said he did that because he  learned it from a fireman he interviewed while researching this  project.'),
('186299',' Both novels were inspired by the construction of the World Trade  Center in the early'),
('186300','1970s, and what could happen in fire in a  skyscraper. In Richard Martin Stern (qv)s novel, "The Tower", the  fictional 140'),
('186301','floor building was set next to the north tower of the  World Trade Center. The climax of the novel was centered around a  rescue mounted from the north tower of the World Trade Center.'),
('186302',' The role of Lisolette Mueller (as played by  Jennifer Jones (I) (qv)) was originally offered to  Olivia de Havilland (qv).'),
('186303',' Jennifer Jones (I) (qv)s final film.'),
('186304',' Steve McQueen (I) (qv) did most of his stunts for the film,  including having 7,000 gallons of water dumped on him in the  climactic final attempt to put out the fire.'),
('186305',' During filming an actual fire broke out on one of the sets and  Steve McQueen (I) (qv) found himself briefly helping real firemen  put it out. One of the firemen, not recognizing McQueen, said to the  actor, "My wife is not going to believe this." To this McQueen  replied, "Neither is mine."'),
('186306',' The fancy "blinkenlights" computer which runs the Glass Tower is, in  fact, composed of parts leftover from an obsolete Air Force system  which, in the 1960s and 70s, protected the US from Soviet bomber  attack. The computer was named AN/FSQ'),
('186307','7, and about a dozen of them  were installed around the US. Based on vacuum tube technology, the  Q'),
('186308','7 in action took up the whole first floor of a "bomb'),
('186309','proof"  concrete blockhouse, and generated as much raw heat as five  single'),
('186310','family houses. The whole system became obsolete when missiles  replaced manned bombers as the main threat. In the film, only the  main control and maintenance consoles are used. As an ironic  afterthought, the only reliable source today of vacuum tubes is the  former Soviet Union.'),
('186311',' Paul Newman (I) (qv) did most of his own stunts, including  climbing up and down the bent stairwell railing.'),
('186312',' Of the 57 sets built for the production, only eight remained  standing when filming ended.'),
('186313',' The building used in the film was a series of miniatures and matte  paintings. Only sections of the building were actually constructed  for the actors and stunt people to perform their scenes. Exterior  shots of the building were of San Franciscos Hyatt Rejency with an  additional 50 stories of matte paintings added.'),
('186314',' In the original script the role of the fire chief (known at the time  as Mario Infantino) was considerably smaller. According to director  John Guillermin (qv), the role was offered to  Ernest Borgnine (qv) with Steve McQueen (I) (qv) playing the  architect. McQueen later said, "If somebody of my caliber can play  the architect, Ill play the fire chief," and Paul Newman (I) (qv)  was brought onto the project as the architect.'),
('186315',' According to Esther Williams (I) (qv) in her memoirs, she was  personally contacted by Irwin Allen (I) (qv) and offered roles in  both this film and _Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)_ (qv), but  declined both.'),
('186316',' Irwin Allen (I) (qv) directed all the action sequences in the  film, including the climactic final explosions to put the fire out.'),
('186317',' The HH'),
('186318','1N helicopters are in the original paint scheme used by NAS  Lemoores Search and Rescue Flight. Later on, they were painted Red  and White. Up until the units disbandment in 2004, the Flight was  still pointing out it was their helicopters used in the movie.'),
('186319',' For years, during the 80s and 90s, this is the movie Swedish TV  used to show on New Years Eve, just after midnight.'),
('186320',' The winter mountain scenes (filmed in Sun Valley, Idaho) started  filming in the early winter. Unfortunately, there was no snow on the  ground at the time. Several scenes were filmed with manmade snow.  After filming these scenes, over a foot of natural snow feel the  next day. Some of the scenes were re'),
('186321','shot in the "natural"  background.'),
('186322',' The film was released (2001) three years after filming initially  began (1998).'),
('186323',' Considered to be one of the biggest box office disasters of all  time. ("Pluto Nash" (2002) is the largest in terms of financial loss  with a budget of $100 million and a domestic gross of $4.41 million)  Town & Country cost around $90 million to make, and it pulled in  only $6.7 million [domestically] at the box office.'),
('186324',' The production was hounded by re'),
('186325','shoots, rewrites, recasting, bad  advance press, and an increasing budget.'),
('186326',' Gerard Depardieu (qv) was cast but had to replaced by  Garry Shandling (qv) because of an road accident'),
('186327',' Filmed by Pennebaker in 1971, but the rushes were consigned to the  filmmakers vaults as unusable after their initial viewing. After  meeting and marrying Pennebaker in the mid'),
('186328','1970s,  Hegedus, Chris (qv) discovered the footage and edited together the  final version of the film for release in 1979. The film went on to  enjoy a five'),
('186329','year cinematic release in the United Kingdom.'),
('186330',' Michael Craig (I) (qv) is dubbed'),
('186331',' Michael Craig writes in his memoirs that his character scenes were  shot a couple of months after the rest of the film was finished.'),
('186332',' This movie is a semi'),
('186333','documentary based on the real life string of  mysterious killings that terrorized the people of Texarkana Texas in  1946. The murder spree became known as the "Texarkana Moonlight  Murders" and ultimately would claim five lives and injure many  others, the only description of the killer ever obtained was of a  hooded man. To this day no one has been convicted and these murders  remain unsolved.'),
('186334',' Filmed entirely with a three'),
('186335','person crew over the course of four  years.'),
('186336',' Christine Kaufmanns American film debut.'),
('186337',' The name Ben Gardner is a tribute to _Jaws (1975)_ (qv).'),
('186338',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _How Birds Feed Their Young (1916)_ (qv).'),
('186339',' Mark Torgl (qv) was offered the chance to return as Melvin.'),
('186340',' This film is made up of half the footage shot for Toxic Avenger Part  II.'),
('186341',' The original Toxic Avenger II edit was over 4 hours long, so the  Troma team split it into 2 movies.'),
('186342',' John Altamura (qv) was fired during production. Ron Fazio (qv),  an executive of Apokalypse Inc., was originally only to be the Toxic  Avengers distant shot double but was asked to play the part and  provide the characters voice. Producers kept the scenes with John  Altamura, hence both men are credited with the title role.'),
('186343',' Jennifer Prichard (qv) and Robert Prichard (qv) fell in love on  the set and got married.'),
('186344',' Look for future Oscar'),
('186345','winner Tomei, Marisa (qv) as an extra  (coming out of a shower).'),
('186346',' The violent'),
('186347','looking crushing of a childs head in the movie was  accomplished by injecting a melon with corn syrup and red food dye.  A wig was placed on the melon and it was fitted onto a dummy. Though  cheap, the effect is highly unsettling.'),
('186348',' The scene where the seeing eye dog gets shot received the most  complaints by Troma up to that time.'),
('186349',' Patrick Kilpatrick (qv) who played Leroy (the face'),
('186350','painted  criminal at the Mexican restaurant) quit the film after having to  point a shotgun at a baby.'),
('186351',' The fast food robber who has his arm ripped off actually only had  one arm. In the scene one can see that his right arm is a  prosthetic, as he never moves or uses this arm until Toxie rips it  off.'),
('186352',' The rollbar installed in the car that is wrecked off of a cliff  malfunctioned, almost killing the stunt driver.'),
('186353',' The crew reportedly ate the large sandwich that Pat Ryan (I) (qv)  lay on top of for his role as The Mayor.'),
('186354',' Mark Torgl (qv) caught fire from the police officers flaming  hands. You can see the fire drop on him during an overhead shot.'),
('186355',' While shooting in Shinbone Alley, a homeless man stole a prop gun  from one of the trailers and threatened the crew.'),
('186356',' The spinning newspapers were simply newspapers placed on a spinning  cheese rack.'),
('186357',' Although Andree Maranda (qv) was dating one of the films main  producers, she won her part through an audition.'),
('186358',' It took four hours to get Mitch Cohen (qv) into the Toxic Avenger  costume. While wearing it, he could only eat through a straw.'),
('186359',' The head'),
('186360','crushing scene was based on a time when  Lloyd Kaufman (qv) was backing a car out of his garage and  accidentally hit his younger sister. Nobody was harmed, but the  memory haunted him for years.'),
('186361',' After going behind the scenes on _Rocky_ (1976) ,  Lloyd Kaufman (qv) decided to make a movie in a Health Club with  his friend Michael Herz (qv). After reading a magazine article  with the headline "Horror Film Is Dead", Troma decided to change it  into a horror movie. The films working title was "Health Club", and  lobby cards bearing this title can be viewed on Tromas website.'),
('186362',' The seeing eye dog that was shot had been trained to glide across  the floor on command and its "guts" were spaghetti covered in gray  paint.'),
('186363',' The sheep that Mark Torgl (qv) had to kiss was infested with lice,  but he did not find that out until after the scene was shot.'),
('186364',' A deleted scene, which is available on the DVD, shows Toxie throwing  a Peanut Butter and Drano sandwich, smacking the face of Saras next  door neighbor. Playing Saras next door neighbor is  Mitch Cohen (qv) without his Toxic Avenger make'),
('186365','up.'),
('186366',' All aspects of this film were made within 48 hours from writing the  script to handing in the film as part of the 48 hour film challenge  2004.'),
('186367',' This was one of 12 Finalists in the 2004 New Zealand 48 hour film  challenge.'),
('186368',' The "boys" who bought the adulterated mouthwash, ("Mr Burg, Mr  Zarpas '),
('186369',' Billy Tepper sold you a bottle of mouthwash with vodka in  it... you have three seconds to hand it out here.") are two of this  films producers, Mark Burg (qv) and Chris Zarpas (qv).'),
('186370',' First fully computer'),
('186371','generated full'),
('186372','length feature film. Each frame  took 4 to 13 hours (depending on the complexity of the shot) of time  on a RenderFarm consisting of 87 2'),
('186373','CPU SparcStation 20s, 30 4'),
('186374','CPU  Sparc'),
('186375','Station 20s and a SparcServer 1000.'),
('186376',' The animation team perfected the movement of the toy soldiers by  gluing some sneakers to a sheet of wood and trying to walk around  with them on.'),
('186377',' Rendered for an aspect ratio of 1.66:1, and it was supposed to be  matted in theatres to 1.85:1 (the aspect ratio for which the team  tried to compose). For reasons too complex to go into here, they  aimed for 1.85:1 and missed, but only by a little. After careful  consideration and consultation with director John Lasseter (qv),  they nudged the window open a tiny bit to 1.78:1.'),
('186378',' The carpet texture in the hallway of Sids house is the same as the  carpet texture in _Shining, The (1980)_ (qv).'),
('186379',' The desk lamp and yellow ball with a blue stripe and a red star are  references to the previous Pixar film _Luxo Jr. (1986)_ (qv).'),
('186380',' The scene where Buzz is knocked out of the window contains several  references to _Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv), including the  music.'),
('186381',' WILHELM SCREAM: When Buzz Lightyear is knocked out of the window.'),
('186382',' Woody and Buzz Lightyear are inspired by director John Lasseters  own childhood toys. He based Woody on his own pull'),
('186383','string Casper  doll, and once he grew out of Casper he moved on to a G.I Joe, a  flashy toy at the time of his childhood.'),
('186384',' Rex uses a few of George McFlys lines from  _Back to the Future (1985)_ (qv): "I dont like confrontations" and  "I dont think I could take that kind of rejection."'),
('186385',' Sids sister serves Buzz tea from a Utah Teapot, a famous data model  seen in countless computer animations.'),
('186386',' The toolbox that Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen (I) (qv)) pushes off  the milk crate bears the name "Binford Tools," the name of the  company which sponsors Allens characters show in  _"Home Improvement" (1991)_ (qv).'),
('186387',' In the scene where Woody is giving everyone warning to get a moving  partner, the book "The Tin Toy" can be seen on the shelf behind him.  This is the story "Toy Story" was based upon. Its author is listed  as "Lasseter," a reference to director Lasseter, John (qv).'),
('186388',' When Woody is holding the staff meeting, several books are visible  behind him. The names of the books refer to previous Pixar films:  _Reds Dream (1987)_ (qv), and _Knick Knack (1989)_ (qv).'),
('186389',' Sid Phillips is said to be inspired by a former Pixar employee of  the same last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the  parts to build bizarre creations.'),
('186390',' The top of Sids backpack reads "Julie Macbarfle has cooties!", a  reference to camera manager Julie M. McDonald (qv), who lobbied  people to put her name in the film. "Jujus house of food" is  another reference to her.'),
('186391',' The moving company ("Eggman Movers") is named after art director  Eggleston, Ralph (qv). The license plate of the truck ("MLY1K9",  meaning "Molly, one canine") is a reference to Pixars resident  sheepdog.'),
('186392',' One of the cars license plate is "HTT1195," which references the  company "Hi Tech Tunes," which produced the film.'),
('186393',' When Buzz is lying on the skateboard while "repairing" his ship,  there are stacked blocks that read "B" and "Z." B.Z. Petroff was the  animation and layout manager on "Toy Story."'),
('186394',' When the Pizza Planet delivery boy enters the Dinoco gas station, he  asks for directions to West Cutting Boulevard. West Cutting  Boulevard is the street where Pixar Animation Studios was located in  Richmond, California, at the time (Pixar moved its entire operation  to Emeryville, California, in 2000).'),
('186395',' Buzz Lightyears facial features are loosely based on those of the  films director, John Lasseter (qv); most notably his eyebrows,  cheekbones and the dimple in his chin. Lasseter demonstrated this by  sketching a rough self'),
('186396','portrait of himself on the U.K. breakfast  show _"Big Breakfast, The" (1992)_ (qv) and then adding the  spacesuit helmet to transform himself into Buzz.'),
('186397',' The license plate on Andys mothers car reads "A 111" on the front  and "A 113" on the rear. A111 and A113 are two rooms used by the  animation department at CalArts '),
('186398',' alma mater of a large number of  Pixarians, including Lasseter, John (qv).'),
('186399',' The carpet in Sids house is modeled after the horrible carpet in  the basement of the house Peter Docter (qv) (writer/lead animator)  lived in as a child. When Buzz gets wacky at the "tea party" he  calls himself Mrs. Nesbit. The name of one of Peters grade school  teachers and in college, he had a Toyota pickup truck pretty much  like the one the pizza delivery guys used. It too had a "YO" on the  gate.'),
('186400',' Whenever a characters eyes blink, they never blink together, but  one at a time.'),
('186401',' The "Hand" in the Box in Sids room plays the same music that the  toy did from _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv), the short movie Toy Story was  based upon.'),
('186402',' When Buzz and Woody fight at the gas station, Woody reminds Buzz  that he is "just a toy!" Buzz answers, "You are a sad, strange,  little man. You have my pity. Farewell," and he waves good'),
('186403','bye with  his hand, giving the typical Vulcan salute from  _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv).'),
('186404',' The license plate on the van (A113) is the same as the Masters  apartment in Disneys _Brave Little Toaster, The (1987)_ (qv).'),
('186405',' Slinky Dog (voiced by Jim Varney (qv)) says "Gollybob Howdy" in  one scene. That was a catchphrase of Varneys other popular  character, Ernest P. Worrell.'),
('186406',' Crystal, Billy (qv) was originally offered the chance to voice  Buzz Lightyear.'),
('186407',' Tim Allen (I) (qv) has said in many interviews that Pixar  originally wanted Jim Carrey (qv) to voice Buzz Lightyear and  Paul Newman (I) (qv) to voice Woody, but they couldnt due to the  low budget they were given for the film.'),
('186408',' Towards the end of the movie '),
('186409',' when Woody and Buzz fly behind the  car and Molly sees them on the side mirror '),
('186410',' you can hear "Hakuna  Matata" from _Lion King, The (1994)_ (qv) playing on the car radio.'),
('186411',' The realtors sign on the lawn of Andys house reads "Virtual  Realty."'),
('186412',' The character of Andy is named for Andries "Andy" Van Dam, a Brown  University Professor and computer science and animation pioneer who  taught many of makers of this film.'),
('186413',' Another of the books on Andys bookshelf is titled "Smyrl, Smryl,  Twist and Twirl," a reference to Eliot Smyrl (qv) on the modeling  team.'),
('186414',' Mr. Potato'),
('186415','Heads line "What are you looking at, ya hockey puck?" is  one of actor/comedian Don Rickles (qv) catchphrases.'),
('186416',' Another book on Andys bookshelf is "Reds Dream". This is the title  of another animated short by John Lasseter (qv) and Pixar.  _Reds Dream (1987)_ (qv) is the dream of fame of a red unicycle  that is on sale at a bicycle store.'),
('186417',' The toy Shark, wearing Woodys hat, proclaims, "Look at me, Im  Woody! Howdy howdy howdy!" This references a cowboy'),
('186418','eating vulture  in one of Gary Larson (qv)s "The Far Side" daily comic strips,  from the early 1980s: "Hey everyone, look at me, Im a cowboy!  Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!"'),
('186419',' The filmmakers have indicated in interviews that the moving'),
('186420','van  chase scene at the end of the film was partially inspired by the toy  train chase scene from  _Wallace and Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)_ (qv). The Pixar  animators considered the toy train sequence to have set a standard  for action which they had to surpass in this full'),
('186421','length computer  animated film.'),
('186422',' Originally the main character was going to be Tinny, the title  character in _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv). He would have gotten lost during  a family trip and joined up with a sarcastic ventriloquist dummy in  a search for a home. Eventually, Tinny was replaced with a toy  astronaut named Lunar Larry, which then became Buzz Lightyear. The  dummy, meanwhile, was given the identity of a cowboy, eventually  becoming Woody.'),
('186423',' Pizza Planet was originally Pizza Putt, a combination  pizzeria/mini'),
('186424','golf course.'),
('186425',' Voted number 5 in Channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films"'),
('186426',' Bill Murray (I) (qv) was considered for the role of Buzz  Lightyear.'),
('186427',' The manner in which Andy writes his name on Woody is identical to  how the character "Andrew Beckett" in Philadelpha (1993) has his  name written in cement from when he was a child. Tom Hanks is  featured in both Philadelphia and Toy Story.'),
('186428',' When the soldiers are watching the pile of presents disappear during  the birthday party, two silhouette pictures can be seen on the wall.  These pictures are available at Walt Disney parks worldwide, and are  cut freehand, with no prior sketchwork, using nothing but paper and  scissors by the parks employees.'),
('186429',' An early possible title for the film was "You Are A Toy".'),
('186430',' In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #99 Greatest  Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the  list.'),
('186431',' The dust in the scene where Woody meets Wheezy set a record for  number of particles animated for a movie by computer.'),
('186432',' The settings on Zurgs gun are numbered to eleven, a reference to  Nigel Tufnels amplifier in _This Is Spinal Tap (1984)_ (qv).'),
('186433',' In the opening sequence, when Buzz is on an alien planet, and  ultimately battles the Emperor Zurg, many of the sound effects are  directly from the Star Wars trilogy, including lightsaber sound  effects, the torture droids hum, and the scraping metal noise the  AT'),
('186434','ATs make as they lumber across the plains of Hoth in  _Star Wars: Episode V '),
('186435',' The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv).'),
('186436',' The truck that Buzz and the rest of his pals drive when going to  rescue Woody is the same pizza delivery truck that Buzz and Woody  climb into at the gas station in _Toy Story (1995)_ (qv). See also:  _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv).'),
('186437',' Various scenes are reprised with a twist from  _Toy Story (1995)_ (qv). For example, when Jesse fights Woody, she  has him on the ground, foot on his back, pulling his arms back '),
('186438','  exactly the same position Buzz Lightyear had him in the gas station.  Buzz Lightyear also yells "You are a TOY!" to Woody, as Woody had  yelled to Buzz in the previous film. As well as the scene where Zurg  and Buzz (2) are fighting on top of the elevator. As Buzzs talk  button is repeatedly hit it skips the message "Buzz... Buzz... Buzz  Lightyear to the rescue." This occurred in the fight between Woody  and Buzz underneath the car at the gas station.'),
('186439',' There is _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv) calendar hanging in Andys  room.'),
('186440',' The storybook Mrs. Potato Head reads to the Little Tykes is  _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv).'),
('186441',' Heimlich the caterpillar from _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv) can be  seen crawling up a branch right before Buzz cuts through it.'),
('186442',' There are _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv) toys on display in Als Toy  Barn.'),
('186443',' Slinkys line, "I may not be a smart dog, but I know what road kill  is" is a reference to _Forrest Gump (1994)_ (qv), which starred  Tom Hanks (qv), the voice of Woody.'),
('186444',' In Jessies song "When She Loved Me" the tree with the tire that  they swing on, is the same tree that tops Ant Island in  _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv).'),
('186445',' After Rex jumps out of the car in Als Toy Barn to chase after the  Zurg help book, he runs to catch the car. Mr. Potato Head views him  in the review mirror '),
('186446',' a reference to _Jurassic Park (1993)_ (qv)  when the T'),
('186447','Rex chases the crew in the jeep.'),
('186448',' The partially missing ear on the Rock'),
('186449','em'),
('186450','Sock'),
('186451','em Robot is a  reference to the notorious Mike Tyson '),
('186452',' Evander Holyfield match, in  which Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfields ear.'),
('186453',' Before Andy leaves for Cowboy Camp, his shirt and hat bear the logo  of the "Triple R" Ranch. This was the name of the ranch from the  "Spin and Marty" serials on the original  _"Mickey Mouse Club, The" (1955)_ (qv).'),
('186454',' Andy wears a Triple'),
('186455','R shirt during the film. This is a reference to  Spin and Marty, a cowboy TV series that was part of the Mickey Mouse  Club.'),
('186456',' "The Cleaner", the old man who restored Woody, is featured as a  chess player in the Pixar short feature _Geris Game (1997)_ (qv).  As he opens the drawers of his chest looking for his glasses, the  middle drawer contains chess pieces.'),
('186457',' During the opening credits, the Pixar trademark lamp can be seen in  the stars in the upper right side of the screen.'),
('186458',' When the toys are planning the rescue of Woody, Etch'),
('186459','a'),
('186460','Sketch shows  a map to Als Toy Barn located at 1001 West Cutting Boulevard. This  is the address of Pixar Animation Studios in Richmond, California.'),
('186461',' In the airport, an announcement is made for Lasset Air, Flight A113.  Thats two references in one: to director Lasseter, John (qv), and  to room 113 at Cal Arts College, famous its alumna, including many  Pixar animators. A113 is also Andys Mums license plate number.'),
('186462',' In the scene where Hamm is flipping rapidly through television  channels looking for the Als Toy Barn commercial, many of the  images seen briefly on the TV are previous Pixar projects, including  _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv).'),
('186463',' The Life Magazine issue with Woody and Bullseye on the cover is  dated January 12th, 1957. This is director Lasseter, John (qv)s  birthday.'),
('186464',' When the toys are entering the airport an announcement for "Leon  Rich" can be heard. This is in reference to Lee Unkrich (qv) who  added story material, his voice, and co'),
('186465','direction to the movie.'),
('186466',' The box that Zurg comes out of in Als Toy Barn has "Printed in  Point Richmond" written on it. Pixars offices were in Point  Richmond in Richmond, California when the movie was made.'),
('186467',' This was the first sequel for Tom Hanks (qv) and  Tim Allen (I) (qv)'),
('186468',' Originally intended as a direct'),
('186469','to'),
('186470','video release, but the early test  scenes played so well that Pixar started over and redeveloped it  into a theatrical release movie.'),
('186471',' When Al hangs up the phone with the Japanese investor, he says  "Dont touch my mustache." This refers to an English mnemonic for  the Japanese phrase meaning "Youre welcome": "Dou itashimashite."'),
('186472',' Barbies dance steps were based on Ann'),
('186473','Margret (qv)s moves in  _Viva Las Vegas (1964)_ (qv).'),
('186474',' The background for Zurgs planet is exactly the same as the dry  riverbed in _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv), except with different  shading and some floating rocks.'),
('186475',' The baggage handler at the airport who shouts "Hold it! Theres a  couple more bags coming from the terminal!" is the voice of UK  television personality Peters, Andi (qv). When filming a  documentary on the making of Toy Story 2, he was offered this one  small line in the film by Lasseter, John (qv) himself. The  recording almost didnt happen because Andi Peters did not have a US  work permit, but was allowed to record the dialogue from a London  studio, supervised by John Lasseter via satellite.'),
('186476',' The Life Magazine issue with Woody and Bullseye on the cover says  "Doctors Say Americans Dont Eat Enough Fat."'),
('186477',' The scene where Zurg identifies himself as Buzzs father is, of  course, a reference to The Empire Strikes Back.  John Ratzenberger (qv), who plays Hamm, had a small part in  _Star Wars: Episode V '),
('186478',' The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv), as  Major Derlin.'),
('186479',' When Al is in the elevator en route to the airport, you can hear an  "elevator'),
('186480','music" version of the theme from  _Bugs Life, A (1998)_ (qv).'),
('186481',' The floating platforms Buzz Lightyear hops on play "Thus Spake  Zarasthustra", the theme to _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).'),
('186482',' The Green Three Eyed aliens have a circled pizza (pepperoni and  mushroom) on their fronts.'),
('186483',' In the final "Woodys Roundup" episode, Stinky Pete the Prospector  attempts to extinguish a dynamite fuse by sitting on it. Having  scorched his rear, he exclaims, "My biscuits are burning!" This line  was originally used by Yosemite Sam (experiencing a similar  predicament) in the film _Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)_ (qv).'),
('186484',' Wheezy the penguin is a tribute to the Linux mascot, Tux.'),
('186485',' In Als office, there is an abstracted version of a shot from Bugs  Life, A (1998) (qv). The shot was reputedly abstracted to prevent  people from identifying the shot until they got the video version  and looked hard at it.'),
('186486',' When Jessie (Joan Cusack (qv)) first meets Woody  (Tom Hanks (qv)), she exclaims, "Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!"  Abraham Lincolns mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Tom  Hanks. Tom Hanks is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.'),
('186487',' When Buzz says goodbye to Buzz #2 he gives him the Vulcan salute, a  Star Trek reference.'),
('186488',' In the scene with Rex in the car in Als Toy Barn holding the How to  Defeat Zurg book, at 45:17 into the movie, there is one frame where  we see a clear glimpse of the bottom corner of the book. As a  lighthearted jab at Canadians the cover price is shown as $4.95 and  $50.00 in Canada. It should be about $6.95.'),
('186489',' When the toys are playing cards during Woodys nightmare after being  "shelved," all the cards are the ace of spades. In fortune telling,  the ace of spades represents death.'),
('186490',' Directly after Rex lands back in the car in Als Toy Barn,  Tour'),
('186491','Guide'),
('186492','Barbie quotes "remain seated please" then repeats it in  Spanish. This is a reference to the safety spiel on the Matterhorn  at Disneyland.'),
('186493',' When the toys pull up in the pizza truck at the airport to save  Woody, you can hear in the background the phrase "The white zone is  for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only". The voice  is very similar to the voice from the movie "Airplane" saying the  exact same phrase. This same phrase is also heard in the first "Toy  Story" when the pizza truck pulls up in front of Pizza Planet.'),
('186494',' Many of the ideas that were not used in _Toy Story (1995)_ (qv)  appear in this film; the Buzz Lightyear cartoon, the yard sale, and  Woodys nightmare.'),
('186495',' For the scene where Woody looks at the merchandise from Woodys  Roundup, mock'),
('186496','ups of the toys were shown to Tom Hanks (qv) in the  recording booth. Hanks spontaneous reactions to the toys were  recorded and used for Woodys dialogue.'),
('186497',' The floating rocks in the canyon at beginning of the movie were an  accident, but John Lasseter (qv) liked the effect, so it was used  in the final film.'),
('186498',' Early drafts of the original _Toy Story (1995)_ (qv) had a Barbie  doll in the role that became Little Bo Peep, but Mattel refused to  license the character to Disney. The huge popularity of the movie  (and boost in sales for Mr. Potato Head and other featured toys) led  them to agree to have Tour Guide Barbie included in this film.'),
('186499',' Among the emblems on the Woodys Roundup plates in Als apartment is  a Virginia Tech logo. It is on the bottom right part of the Woody  plate.'),
('186500',' While driving around Als Toy Barn, the gang drives down the Buzz  Lightyear aisle. Tour Guide Barbie tells them "back in 1995  short'),
('186501','sighted retailers did not order enough dolls to meet demand".  This is an in'),
('186502','joke and a fact: When the original Toy Story was  released in 1995, toy sellers did not think the movie would be a hit  and they indeed did not order enough dolls to keep up with demand.'),
('186503',' Originally, this was going to be a one'),
('186504','hour direct'),
('186505','to'),
('186506','video side  project between Disney and Pixar. Eight months before it was due to  Disney, Pixar decided that they did not want to ruin their name by  creating a sub'),
('186507','par video, so they changed it to be a better,  full'),
('186508','length feature.'),
('186509',' The enormous amount of Sheriff Woody merchandise is a reference to  the similarly themed Disney merchandizing phenomenon, Davy Crockett,  from the 1950s.'),
('186510',' As the green suitcase containing Jesse goes up the baggage conveyor  toward the Far East cargo hold, the sound track plays a snippet of  music sampled from the theme of Akira Kurosawa (qv)s  _Shichinin no samurai (1954)_ (qv)'),
('186511',' The truck that drives by just before the toys cross the street under  the safety cones is the Eggman Movers moving van from  _Toy Story (1995)_ (qv).'),
('186512',' The valley that Buzz flies through during the opening sequence, was  going to be a river in a "Bugs Life" but was abandoned as the rocks  are floating where the river should be.'),
('186513',' The design of the cleaner character that fixes Woody for Al was  based on renowned makeup artist Stuart Freeborn (qv).'),
('186514',' The car that Buzz and Hamm use to find Woody is a Gyoza (a pun on  Toyota). Gyoza is a type of Asian dumpling.'),
('186515',' According to rottentomatoes in 2007, this is the best reviewed movie  of all time.'),
('186516',' Many people think the Woodys Roundup sequence was filmed with real  puppets. But really they took the same CG models and made small  changes to make them look like puppets. Then they animated the  puppet versions of the characters in a CG black and white set. Then  they used this technique called the keno scope effect, which adds  scratches, hairs, and pieces of grain to the image to make it look  old.'),
('186517',' SPOILER: The plot of the movie is loosely based on the original  treatment for the first Toy Story, which had Tinny (from  _Tin Toy (1988)_ (qv)) getting lost at a rest stop and being found  by a junk man, who throws him into back of his truck. Tinny meets a  ventriloquist dummy and they both decide to stick together. But in  the they end up in a preschool where theyll never get lost or  outgrown.'),
('186518',' Is included on the Toy Story 10th Aniversary DVD. The filmmakers  reflecting in here are all writers of the original story.'),
('186519',' Porky Pig makes a cameo appearance in this short in the form of a  line of Porky Pig Dolls that Sniffles hides in on the counter of the  toy section.'),
('186520',' The play "Frou'),
('186521','frou" by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy opened in  Paris, France on 30 October 1869. Its English adaptation, "Frou  Frou," by Augustin Daly, opened in New York on 15 February 1870.'),
('186522',' Scott Schwartz (I) (qv) (who played Eric Bates) became a porn star  later in life.'),
('186523',' The framed picture seen behind Mr. Morehouse in his office is  actually actor Ned Beatty (qv)s high school graduation  photograph.'),
('186524',' In his E! True Hollywood Story bio, Scott Schwartz says that the  hardest part of making this movie was working with Jackie Gleason.  Because Schwartz was trained to memorize his lines, he would always  get thrown off by Gleasons improvisations, resulting in his getting  yelled at repeatedly by Gleason.'),
('186525',' The Renault 5 driven by Berenice is actually 2 different cars. The  first vehicle used was written off and a second identical one had to  be found and bought during the shoot.'),
('186526',' In Brians garage there is a wheel clamp which was used as part of  the set dressing after it was removed from a crew vehicle. The van  in question was immobilized by an illegal group of clampers in  Londons east end.'),
('186527',' The snow seen in the latter part of the movie was completely  unexpected. The shooting schedule was re'),
('186528','written in order to film  exterior chase and death sequences to great effect.'),
('186529',' During the post production process the company computers were seized  by the bailiffs. A couple of vital scenes and the majority of the  soundtrack were lost. The film was completed by piecing together  what remained on laptops and from earlier recording sessions.'),
('186530',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Ambian Oddities (1916)_ (qv).'),
('186531',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Trip to Honolulu, A (1916)_ (qv).'),
('186532',' The words used by the General in an attempt to stop the rampaging  sea creature are "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto", the same words used to  command the robot Gort in  _Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)_ (qv).'),
('186533',' The "electric jacket" worn by Robin Williams (I) (qv) was created  by the Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini (qv).'),
('186534',' DIRTRADE(Barry Levinson (I)): Ralph Tabakin (qv) (Fred) has  appeared in every Levinson picture from _Diner (1982)_ (qv) to  _Liberty Heights (1999)_ (qv).'),
('186535',' As of May, 2001 the Zevo Tombstone (the stone elephant) resides at  Planet Hollywood in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.'),
('186536',' It took director Barry Levinson (I) (qv) over 10 years to develop  the film. It took 10 months to shoot.'),
('186537',' The field scenes were filmed in the Palouse region of Washington  State. Just outside of Washington State University'),
('186538',' Much of the look draws its inspiration from surrealist painter  René Magritte (qv). This is most obvious in the break in scene  where Leslie and Alsatia pretend theyre doing a music video  featuring raining men in the background.'),
('186539',' A long'),
('186540','cherished project for Barry Levinson (qv), this was  originally set to be his directorial debut.'),
('186541',' The scene where General Zevo is trying to kill a fly with his gun is  a reference to a Confucius quote: "Never use a cannon to kill a  fly."'),
('186542',' The blue car that Leslie drives is a very rare 1950 Muntz Jet, of  which less than 400 were made.'),
('186543',' The black SUV that Patrick drives is a Lamborghini LM.'),
('186544',' Jamie Foxx (qv)s film debut.'),
('186545',' Former Fleischer Studio cartoon creation KoKo is repeatedly seen as  a toy in the background, and Famous Studios star Popeye is briefly  seen as a toy in the parade.'),
('186546',' This was one of the final "Screen Song" cartoons produced by  Paramount, featuring the "bouncing ball" progression through the  lyrics of "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".'),
('186547',' Director Richard Rush appears briefly.'),
('186548',' Actor/director Jackie Cooper financed this project.'),
('186549',' Completely banned in the UK by the BBFC due it not having any  "journalistic, educational or other justifying context for the  images shown".'),
('186550',' Filmed in just 14 days.'),
('186551',' First feature film to use Mondrian multi'),
('186552','frame compositions for the  entire length.'),
('186553',' It was during production of this film (or soon after), that it was  discovered that this was the only hardcore sex film  Traci Lords (qv) made after her 18th birthday. The resulting  controversy in America (where 18 is the minimum age for appearing in  adult films) resulted in all her earlier films being pulled from  stores and members of the adult film industry threatened with  criminal charges. Lords never made another porn film and, after  laying low for a time, reemerged as a popular b'),
('186554','movie actress.'),
('186555',' American punk band New Bomb Turks named their album "Drunk on Cock"  after a line of dialog in this film.'),
('186556',' The young Linda is seen with posters of George Harrison (I) (qv)  (executive producer of the film) and David Bowie (star of Roegs  hit _Man Who Fell To Earth, The (1976)_ (qv)) on her bedroom wall.'),
('186557',' Average Shot Length = ~10 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~9 seconds.'),
('186558',' Started as a short story and was developed into a script for a short  film.'),
('186559',' This movie was shot in order to help maintain continuity of the  actors and properly show the toll the various locations and  conditions had on their characters.'),
('186560',' The music for this film is performed by Archie Roach, a popular  aboriginal country musician.'),
('186561',' The role of 1st Sgt. Jack Falen was originally meant for  Jack Nicholson (qv).'),
('186562',' By a brilliant and timely stroke of luck the filmmakers were able to  tag along with a _"Relic Hunter" (1999)_ (qv) 2nd unit crew to shoot  all the antique steam train footage.'),
('186563',' Based on Peter Landesmans 25 January 2004 New York Times Magazine  cover story about sex slaves.'),
('186564',' Milla Jovovich (qv) was going to play Veronica, but backed out of  the role.'),
('186565',' Sothern, Ann (qv)s character proved so popular in this movie, it  was spun off to create series of "Maisie" films.'),
('186566',' First movie in which Joan Bennett (I) (qv) appeared as a brunette,  the hair color for all of her subsequent films.'),
('186567',' This featurette is included on the DVD for  _Weather Man, The (2005)_ (qv).'),
('186568',' An edited version of the main title theme became the basis for all  MGMs Tarzan movies (30s and 40s) main title theme music.'),
('186569',' Halfway through filming, MGM sent a sound crew to Africa because of  the publics desire for all'),
('186570','talking sound pictures. However, the  sound quality was so poor almost all the dialogue sequences were  reshot at MGMs Culver City Studio. African natives  Mutia Omoolu (qv) and Riano Tindama (qv) were brought back to  Hollywood for some additional filming. When this activity caused  rumors to circulate that the entire production was filmed on the  back lot, MGM scrapped much of the new footage, including scenes  with Marjorie Rambeau (qv), who had replaced Olive Carey (qv) as  Edith Trent.'),
('186571',' When Africans Mutia Omoolu (qv) and Riano Tindama (qv) were  brought to Hollywood for re'),
('186572','shoots, they were refused admission to  the Hollywood Hotel because they were black.'),
('186573',' MGM secretly sent a second unit crew to Tecate, Mexico to avoid the  American laws about ethical treatment of animals. Animals were shot  fighting each other, and lions were reportedly starved to promote  vicious attacks on hyenas, monkeys and deer.'),
('186574',' Director W.S. Van Dyke (qv) and many of the crew contracted  malaria and were treated with quinine. Two fatal mishaps occurred  during the African filming: a native crewman fell into the river and  was eaten by a crocodile, and a native boy was killed by a charging  rhino (which was captured on film and is in the movie). Other  misfortunes also plagued the production, including flash floods,  sunstroke, swarming locusts, and tse'),
('186575','tse fly and ant attacks.'),
('186576',' According to Alfred Hitchcock (I) (qv), audiences at the first  screening of this film laughed when C. Aubrey Smith (qv) suddenly  appeared in the story.'),
('186577',' Wilderness Tales documentary series.'),
('186578',' Chapter Titles: 1. Sea Saboteurs 2. Death Takes the Deck 3. Five  Fathoms Down 4. On Target 5. The Fire Ship 6. Collision 7. War in  the Hills 8. Native Execution 9. Mass Attack 10.Machine Murder  11.Underwater Ambush 12.Twisted Vengeance'),
('186579',' Released as a split reel along with comedy  _Polish and Pie (1911)_ (qv).'),
('186580',' Last movie with Andre the Giant (qv), who died a year before this  movies US release.'),
('186581',' The punch line of Bunnys story ("...and she stepped on the ball")  is a reference to _Auntie Mame (1958)_ (qv), in which Gloria Upson  tells a joke with the same punch line.'),
('186582',' While she was making this picture, Curtis, Jamie Lee (qv) stayed  in Dietrich, Marlene (qv)s apartment (12E) at 993 Park Avenue in  Manhattan. Shed been engaged to Dietrichs grandson, production  designer Riva, J. Michael (qv).'),
('186583',' The story about the Dukes cornering of the orange juice market was  probably inspired by the "Silver Thursday" market crash of 27 March  1980: where the Hunt brothers of Texas tried to corner the silver  market and subsequently failed to meet a $100 million margin call.'),
('186584',' The character Clarence Beeks shares his name with a jazz musician  who recorded under the name "King Pleasure."'),
('186585',' The exterior shots of Louis Winthorpes house are of a real house on  a very affluent street in Philadelphia. The wreath on the door was  replaced when the producers wanted something bigger and better. They  borrowed a hand'),
('186586','made wreath from a house across the street.'),
('186587',' Pryor, Richard (qv) was originally considered for the role of  Billy Ray Valentine.'),
('186588',' Ray Milland (qv) was the first choice for the role of Mortimer  Duke.'),
('186589',' The main titles are accompanied by the overture to "The Marriage of  Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (qv), and in an early scene, as  Louis is leaving his office he whistles the beginning of the aria  "Se vuol ballare" from the opera. In that aria, Figaro declares his  plan to turn the tables on his master '),
('186590',' just as Louis and Billy Ray  will eventually outwit the Duke brothers.'),
('186591',' The exterior of the mens club is really the Curtis Institute of  Music.'),
('186592',' The film was conceived as a vehicle for Gene Wilder (qv) and  Richard Pryor (qv). But when Pryor dropped out and  Eddie Murphy (I) (qv) came on board, he made a motion to get  Wilder replaced because he didnt want people to think he was just  trying to be another Pryor.'),
('186593',' The original title: "Black and White".'),
('186594',' G. Gordon Liddy (qv) was offered the part of Clarence Beeks but  turned it down after discovering Beekss fate. Beeks is reading  Liddys book, "Will", on the train. Maurice Copeland (qv) who  plays the Secretary of Agriculture also played Attorney General John  Mitchell in the television movie  _Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (1982) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('186595',' When Valentine chases Winthorpe out of the Christmas party he grabs  a man in a Santa Claus suit. This man is Mike Strug, a television  reporter who still works for a network affiliate in the city of  Philadelphia.'),
('186596',' A scene in the movie not included in the final cut but seen  frequently when the movie is shown on television (presumably to fill  a longer time slot with commercials) occurs after Clarence Beeks  talks to the Dukes via telephone and Billy Ray eavesdrops on their  scheme. In the original cut, Beeks goes from the phone booth to the  Amtrak train platform, holding the briefcase with the crop report.  In the added scene, we see Beeks procure the reports from a secured  vault where he pays off a security guard and opens a safe'),
('186597','deposit  box.'),
('186598',' DIRTRADE(John Landis (I) (qv)): [look to camera]: When the Duke  brothers talk down to Billy Ray Valentine about commodities, he  looks directly into the camera as if saying, "These guys must think  Im a complete idiot."'),
('186599',' In the scene when Louis visits the club to borrow money, the actress  who plays "Muffy" is Kelly Curtis (I) (qv), the sister of  Jamie Lee Curtis (qv).'),
('186600',' Don Ameche (qv)s strong religious convictions made him  uncomfortable with swearing. This proved a problem for the scene at  the end of the movie where he had to shout out "Fuck him!" to a  group of Wall Street executives. When he did act out the scene, it  had to be done in one take because Ameche refused to do a second  one.'),
('186601',' DIRTRADE(John Landis (I) (qv)):[SYNW]: on a poster in the  apartment.'),
('186602',' The premise is similar to that of _Hoi Polloi (1935)_ (qv),  The Three Stooges (qv) film. Two rich guys are arguing about what  matters most: breeding or upbringing. One bets the other they can  take any bum off the street and make him a gentleman.'),
('186603',' Frank Oz (qv) plays a role practically identical to his role in  _Blues Brothers, The (1980)_ (qv), and _Spies Like Us (1985)_ (qv),  also directed by John Landis (I) (qv).'),
('186604',' Louiss (Dan Aykroyd (qv)) prison number is 7474505B, which is the  same prison number as Jake (John Belushi (qv)) in  _Blues Brothers, The (1980)_ (qv), also directed by  John Landis (I) (qv) and starring Aykroyd.'),
('186605',' In the opening montage of Philadelphia there is a shot of the statue  erected in _Rocky III (1982)_ (qv) that was released the previous  year.'),
('186606',' The electronic status board at Duke & Dukes (seen prominently in  the Christmas scene) is the "Big Money" board from  _"Family Feud" (1976)_ (qv).'),
('186607',' Randolph and Mortimer Duke later appear in Eddie Murphy (I) (qv)s  movie _Coming to America (1988)_ (qv), where, in a cameo appearance  the two are homeless on the street and Prince Akeem gives them a a  large amount of money to get them back off the streets.'),
('186608',' The home used in the film is not the Rosenbach Museum and Library,  but is a private home two doors west. Both houses, however, were  built at the same time and originally had an identical floor plan.  During the filming of the movie, DeLancey Place was closed for a few  days. Denholm Elliott (qv) was the only actor in the film to visit  the Rosenbach. The staff of the museum were all given Pennsylvania  State Film Commission tee shirts.'),
('186609',' CAMEO(George Folsey Jr. (qv)): The Executive Producer appears as  first man to greet Winthorpe at Duke & Duke. (Dan Aykroyd (qv)  refers to him by his real name as well with the line "Morning  Folsey".)'),
('186610',' When Eddie Murphy (I) (qv) is released from jail, he stands near  three men in trench coats on the steps of the precinct. The man with  his back to Murphy holding a briefcase is director  John Landis (I) (qv).'),
('186611',' The trading scene at the end of the movie was filmed at 4 World  Trade Center, which obviously is no longer there.'),
('186612',' Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All  Time" in 2006.'),
('186613',' Filmed during an actual Canadian snow storm.'),
('186614',' Michael Douglas (I) (qv) originally declined the role of Robert  Wakefield, and it was offered to Ford, Harrison (I) (qv), who  accepted. Ford worked with director Steven Soderbergh (qv) to  improve the character, but then decided not to do the movie. Douglas  liked the change in the character so much, he accepted the revamped  part.'),
('186615',' Kevin Costner (qv) was reportedly also offered the Judge Wakefield  part.'),
('186616',' Al Pacino (qv) was also asked to play Judge Wakefield but couldnt  fit it into his schedule and Richard Gere (qv) was considered  before Douglas came on board.'),
('186617',' Writer Gaghan, Stephen (qv) originally planned to set the  Wakefield family storylines in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.  During his research, he determined that Cincinnatis bad  neighborhoods looked worse than Louisvilles, and would serve the  finished film better, so he moved the Wakefields stories to Ohio.'),
('186618',' The film has 135 speaking parts and was shot in over 110 locations  in eight different cities.'),
('186619',' The films soundtrack, except for the musical score, was recorded in  mono.'),
('186620',' The scenes that take place in the White House were shot on the set  of the television series _"West Wing, The" (1999)_ (qv), which is a  near'),
('186621','exact replica (albeit wider, to allow for free movement of the  cameras) of the actual interiors of the White Houses West Wing.'),
('186622',' Zeta'),
('186623','Jones, Catherine (qv) was pregnant during filming, and the  role was adjusted to suit her condition. Originally, her character  was already a mother of two instead of six months pregnant.'),
('186624',' In the movie, Michael Douglas (I) (qv)s character lived in the  suburb Indian Hill, which is a real neighborhood ten miles outside  of Cincinnati. The scenes were actually filmed at a house in Hyde  Park, an affluent suburb within city limits.'),
('186625',' This is a remake of the British mini'),
('186626','series  _"Traffik" (1989) (mini)_ (qv), produced and shown by Channel Four.'),
('186627',' Catherine Zeta'),
('186628','Jones (qv) and Michael Douglas (I) (qv) were  engaged before filming began; they married soon after. They do not  appear in any scenes together.'),
('186629',' Helena Ayalas license plate is 2GAT123. The same California license  plate also appears in _Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)_ (qv),  _L.A. Story (1991)_ (qv), _Mulholland Dr. (2001)_ (qv),  _Pay It Forward (2000)_ (qv)), _"Two and a Half Men" (2003)_ (qv),  _S.W.A.T. (2003)_ (qv), and _Go (1999)_ (qv) and  _Crazy/Beautiful (2001)_ (qv).'),
('186630',' After filming one day, actor Brolin, James (qv) returned to his  car to find two youths attempting to break in. Still in his  generals uniform, he frightened away the would'),
('186631','be thieves, who  mistook him for a real military officer.'),
('186632',' In the original theatrical release it was mentioned that Caroline  and her friends went to a school called Cincinnati Country Day, a  small prep school in Cincinnati. When CCD protested being associated  with drug addiction, references to the name of the school were  removed from the video version.'),
('186633',' Four people won Oscars for this film. Their names were Steven,  Stephen, Stephen and Benicio.'),
('186634',' Benicio Del Toro (qv) is one of only four actors to have won an  Academy Award for a part spoken mainly in a foreign language (most  of Del Toros dialogue is in Spanish). Sophia Loren (qv),  Robert De Niro (qv), and Roberto Benigni (qv) are the other  three.'),
('186635',' When a critic commented that it seemed unrealistic that the  daughters high school record was almost perfect when she was taking  drugs, screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (qv) pointed out that the high  school record in the movie was his and that he had been abusing  drugs at the time.'),
('186636',' In the original big screen release, Caroline  (Erika Christensen (qv)) states that she attends Cincinatti  Country Day. Stephen Gaghan (qv), (screenplay), attended a private  school in Louisville, KY called Kentucky Country Day and was  expelled the week before his graduation for driving a go'),
('186637','cart down  the halls of the school.'),
('186638',' Every scene that takes place in Tijuana is shot with a hand'),
('186639','held  camera.'),
('186640',' The scene where Michael Douglas (I) (qv) takes his trip to the  California border crossing to discuss drug interdiction took place  at the Tijuana crossing. The video and sound quality is so low in  part because it was never supposed to be part of the movie. Douglas  started asking, out of character, Rudy M. Camacho (qv) about drug  trafficking on the border. Camacho was, at the time, the actual  Customs chief in charge of the California border crossings.  Soderbergh began filming it with a handheld camera, praying that  Camacho wouldnt address the actor as "Mr. Douglas".'),
('186641',' The company that Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle (qv)) and Ray Castro  (Luis Guzmán (I) (qv)) go to apprehend Eduardo Ruiz  (Miguel Ferrer (qv)) is called Perennial Storage. Director  Steven Soderbergh (qv) has used the name "Perennial" for companies  in several of his films. The courier company that  Terence Stamp (qv)s character visits in _Limey, The (1999)_ (qv)  is called Perennial Couriers and it is also referenced in  _Out of Sight (1998)_ (qv) and _Underneath (1995)_ (qv).'),
('186642',' To prepare for the scenes in which they were high, the teens had to  have peppermint dust blown into their face to make their eyes and  noses red.'),
('186643',' During the party scene where Bowman ODs, the teens were snorting  dried milk. Corey Spears (qv) (Bowman) snorted so much that he  became ill.'),
('186644',' Senator Harry Reid (III) (qv) is shown speaking with  Michael Douglas (I) (qv)s character at the beginning of the  movie. A script was written for the senator, but he didnt like it.  Instead, he had the actor ask him the question and he responded as  he would normally.'),
('186645',' To achieve a distinctive look for each different vignette in the  story, Steven Soderbergh (qv) used three different film stocks  (and post'),
('186646','production techniques), each with their own color  treatment and grain for the print. The "Wakefield" story features a  colder, bluer tone to match the sad, depressive emotion. The "Ayala"  story is bright, shiny, and saturated in primary colors, especially  red, to match the glitzy surface of Helenas life. The "Mexican"  story appears grainy, rough, and hot to go with the rugged Mexican  landscape and congested cities.'),
('186647',' Director Steven Soderbergh (qv) is known as being first camera on  many of his films, as a result, he was operating the camera for most  of the shooting.'),
('186648',' On the first day of production of  _Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)_ (qv) '),
('186649',' Steven Soderbergh (qv)s  first film '),
('186650',' the producers of that movie sent a telegram to  Soderbergh. They teased him good'),
('186651','naturedly, telling him theyd heard  reports he "couldnt direct traffic". Twelve years later, Soderbergh  won an Oscar'),
('186652','for directing "Traffic".'),
('186653',' The hotel that Eduardo Ruiz was being kept at, The Hotel San Diego,  was imploded in 2006 to make way for the expansion of the Federal  Courthouse in San Diego.'),
('186654',' Filmed on paper filmstrips, this is  Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (qv)s second known film, produced  in October 1888. Only photographic copies of it survive today. The  Leeds Bridge was filmed because it provided action.'),
('186655',' Director Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (qv) disappeared under  suspicious circumstances whilst on a train traveling back to France,  he was never seen again.'),
('186656',' This cartoon was inspired by a bumpy taxi ride that  Disney, Walt (qv) experienced.'),
('186657',' The first movie not based on a play or book to get a Broadway  opening.'),
('186658',' Universals press copy boasted that they had spent $200,000 to  produce the film. They also claimed that it featured 700 scenes and  a cast of 800 players. None of this was true.'),
('186659',' This was the first American movie about sexuality.'),
('186660',' Six reels.'),
('186661',' Describing this as the most important film in Universal Pictures  history (and Carl Laemmle (qv)s) may not be an overstatement.  Made for $57,000.00 and tackling the lurid subject of white slavery,  this (Universals first feature length release) earned a whopping  $450,000.00 and it put the company squarely on the map. Its success  convinced Laemmle to head west and build a studio.'),
('186662',' Countless films had adapted books or plays, but this was the first  film to serve as the basis for a novel, once it had had a successful  theatrical release.'),
('186663',' Darren Hamlyn (Actor/Producer), Robin Reyes (Producer), Paul de  Lumen (Director of Photography), Evan Kawaoka (Assistant  Camera/Grip), Yumi Onda (Continuity), Michael Baker (1st Assistant  Director), Gerald Ward III (2nd Assistant Director), Jesse Schoem  (Boom Operator) and Charles Yi (Writer/Producer/Director) all  graduated from San Francisco State University.'),
('186664',' The main three actors Darren Hamlyn, Heather Soon, and Leah Dizon  are "hapa". Darren Hamlyn (Japanese/Caucasian), Heather Soon  (Chinese/Caucasian) and Leah Dizon (Filipina/Chinese/Caucasian). One  of the supporting actors is also "hapa." Jason Jung (who plays the  ex'),
('186665','boyfriend) is half Korean, half Caucasian.'),
('186666',' The first day of shooting was on Jan. 21st, Darren Hamlyns (Ryan)  birthday. And the first scene that was shot slated Roll 1 Scene 21.'),
('186667',' The first scene on the street with Ryan (Darren Hamlyn) and Liane  (Leah Dizon) was filmed in front of San Francisco State University.  The scene was written as a rain sequence, but was changed due to the  lack of rain. The scene was filmed on a Sunday. It rained in San  Francisco on Friday, Saturday, and Monday.'),
('186668',' Only two days after the production of the movie, a running car  shootout on Interstate 10 just south of Phoenix between  immigrant'),
('186669','smugglers, ended with four people dead and five wounded.  The thematic similarities between reality and fiction were very  close, right down to the van used in the film.'),
('186670',' Accepted into competition at Sundance Film Festival, at Park City,  Utah, 2006. Accepted into competition at WorldFest, in Houston,  Texas, 2006. Also accepted into competition at Guadalupe Film  Festival in San Antonio, Texas, 2006'),
('186671',' A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and  Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.'),
('186672',' Richard Vetters TODD'),
('186673','AO 35 lenses won an Academy Award for reducing  anamorphic distortion in close'),
('186674','ups. Vetter also designed the D'),
('186675','150  process used in _Patton (1970)_ (qv).'),
('186676',' Director Roman Polanski (qv)s wife, actress Sharon Tate (qv),  was murdered by Charles Manson three years before the making of the  film. It is believed that due to this traumatic event, Polanski  developed the story to be a more violent representation of  Shakespeares play. For instance, the scene in which Macbeth murders  King Duncan was not in the original play and was instead implied.'),
('186677',' During the set up of the gruesome death scene of Lady MacDuffs  children, director Roman Polanski (qv) was instructing a  four'),
('186678','year'),
('186679','old blonde girl on how to play dead, while smearing tons  of fake blood all over her body. Polanski playfully asked the girl  what her name was, to which she replied, "Sharon".'),
('186680',' The scene in which Macbeths thugs massacre Macduffs household was  based on Roman Polanski (qv)s memory of SS officers ransacking  his house as a child.'),
('186681',' When crew members suggested to Polanski that perhaps the film was  too unrealistically gory for its own good, Polanski reportedly  replied, "I know violence. You shouldve seen my house last summer."'),
('186682',' Roman Polanski (qv) wanted to include a violent bear'),
('186683','baiting  sequence but it posed all kinds of problems. The first bear they  tried to use was too timid and kept running away from the dogs,  while the second was uncontrollably vicious and pawed a crew member.  He eventually opted for an intrepid stuntman in a bear suit, but  understandably the man would only agree to a single dog being set  loose on him, fearing his armored padding wouldnt be up to the job.  Polanski secretly instructed the handlers to loose three dogs,  sending the stuntman cowering in fear, screaming at the director to  call them off.'),
('186684',' Filming began with four grueling weeks in Snowdonia National Park. A  cameraman was nearly killed on the first day when a fierce wind blew  him into a crevice.'),
('186685',' Act Three, Scene Five of "Macbeth" is an interpolation, an addition  to the Shakespeare play from another script. Generally it is not  used in theatrical and movie adaptations for this reason.'),
('186686',' Terence Bayler (qv) is dubbed'),
('186687',' The lyrics to the song that Fleance sings at Macbeths banquet for  Duncan at Inverness are taken from the poem "Merciles Beautè" by  Geoffrey Chaucer.'),
('186688',' Director Roman Polanski originally sought Tuesday Weld for the role  of Lady Macbeth. She refused to do a nude sleepwalking scene so he  cast Francesca Annis in the part.'),
('186689',' The very first "Playboy Production" for the cinema.'),
('186690',' Roman Polanski (qv) owned a painting by British artist  Michael Worrall (qv), which gave him the inspiration to make the  movie. The second scene was based on this painting.'),
('186691',' Original French title is undetermined.'),
('186692',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary  _Harbor of Marseilles, France (1911)_ (qv).'),
('186693',' Welles, Orson (qv) provides the voice for much of Roderigos  dialogue.'),
('186694',' The movie was shot over three years and production was stopped  twice, mainly because Wells ran out of money. He then starred in the  films _Third Man, The (1949)_ (qv) and  _Prince of Foxes (1949)_ (qv). He took his payment from those films  and used them as money for "Othello".'),
('186695',' Welles had another actress, Gudrun Ure (qv), dub all dialogue of  Suzanne Cloutier (I) (qv).'),
('186696',' This is a lost film'),
('186697',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Interrupted Elopement, An (1912)_ (qv).'),
('186698',' Shooting of this film took place in the winter of 1937, with a  deliberately obscure cast (inhibitants of the Borinage region where  the original story unfolded)'),
('186699',' It seems no print of this movie has survived.'),
('186700',' As Roger runs along the top of the logs, there is a whip'),
('186701','pan shot  where the camera passes by a poster for Rigid Tools with a woman  seductively straddling a saw, styled in cheescake 1940s fashion.  This poster became the bane of Disney for several years and resulted  in the laserdisc version of this short getting recalled and  re'),
('186702','issued minus the now digitally'),
('186703','erased poster. Many VHS editions  of the short still contain the full version, though it is actually  only viewable on screen for about 4 frames.'),
('186704',' As Roger and Baby Herman ride past the camera at the beginning of  the flume ride, Baby Hermans eyes have Mickey Mouse heads for a few  frames; then as Roger rides past, his eyes have skulls for the same  amount of time.'),
('186705',' At one point the log Roger and Baby Herman are riding has a bumper  sticker that reads "We Visited Splash Mountain".'),
('186706',' As Roger spits the bees out of his mouth, they have various Disney  character heads like Tinker Bell, Mickey, Evenrude from the  Rescuers, and Genie from Aladdin.'),
('186707',' Released theatrically in the USA with  _Far Off Place, A (1993)_ (qv).'),
('186708',' Animators were told to remove the buttons on the pockets of  Jessicas Park Ranger uniform in her close'),
('186709','up when she leans into  the camera because they were too anatomically suggestive. (They  appear in the longs shots).'),
('186710',' When Roger fumigates his campsite, the bug spray he uses is labeled  "Mink'),
('186711','Off" '),
('186712',' a reference to producer Rob Minkoff (qv).'),
('186713',' American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films, 1941'),
('186714','1950,  incorrectly omits sixth credited Steve Brodie as Logan Maury, and  mixes up the roles played by Billy House, Virginia Sale and Harry  Woods. They are correct as listed above.'),
('186715',' Three stunt players were killed during the filming of the Cooper  River rapids scenes.'),
('186716',' Episode 13 of 29 of the series Grant, Police Reporter.'),
('186717',' John Fords second film as director. He also appeared in a lead  role. As with his first film, no copies of this one can be located.'),
('186718',' 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.'),
('186719',' A 1963 date on this title is questionable. Sources for  Victor Jory (I) (qv) credits usually dont include this  semi'),
('186720','documentary at all. It was distributed by a theatre circuit  based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which had theatres in Minesota,  Montana and Nebraska. This circuit didnt start expanding until  about 1969, and a run, presumably first run, of this film opened on  14 January 1970 in Minneapolis. Northwest Cinema Corp. probably  didnt distribute this picture earlier than 1969. The theatre  circuit eventually went bankrupt and no longer exists.'),
('186721',' The first film to be shot in Three'),
('186722','Strip Technicolor outside of a  studio environment (on location).'),
('186723',' The extant print has the distributors logo which announces  '),
('186724','misleadingly "A Cranfield & Clarke Production."'),
('186725',' Episode 9 has been lost.'),
('186726',' The only known film print is a 35mm print in the Library Of  Congress, which unfortunately is missing Chapter 9. The LOC has  screened this at their Mary Pickford Theater in Washington, DC. They  show it split over two nights '),
('186727',' 140 minutes per night. The total  running time would be 300 minutes if Chapter 9 were included.'),
('186728',' The titles of the 15 chapters are: 1. The Devils Trade'),
('186729','Mark 2.  Purple Dagger 3. Face to Face 4. The Hand of Wang 5. The Eye of  Satan 6. Behind the Mask 7. The Dance of Death 8. Satans Soulmate 9.  The Chained Soul 10. The Ape Man 11. The Red Death 12. The Poisoned  Talon 13. The Phantom Mandarin 14. The House of Shadows 15. The  Yellow Octopus'),
('186730',' Filmed at the same time as _Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)_ (qv).'),
('186731',' David Niven (I) (qv) filmed his scenes for this film and  _Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)_ (qv) at the same time, due to his  ill health. His voice was so weak that professional celebrity  impressionist Rich Little (I) (qv) was hired to dub Nivens voice.'),
('186732',' Peter Sellers (qv) third wife, Lynne Frederick (qv), won a  $1.475 million lawsuit against the makers of this film. She said the  film insulted the memory of her late husband.'),
('186733',' In spite of the screenplay credits for Frank Waldman (qv) and  Tom Waldman (I) (qv), the two actually contributed nothing to the  script. Their credit was solely as a result of usage of the deleted  scenes from _Pink Panther Strikes Again, The (1976)_ (qv) (which the  latter made some uncredited contributions to).'),
('186734',' In the scenes showing the marquee of the movie theater, all of the  movie titles are the names of songs by Canadian rock bands the  Tragically Hip and Rush. Gord Downnie of the Tragically Hip and Alex  Lifeson of Rush, make Cameos in the movie. In the episode of the  series Closer to the Heart, Ricky kidnaps Alex and introduces  Julian to him as Gord Downie.'),
('186735',' Its $1.3million opening weekend is the highest ever for an  English'),
('186736','language Canadian film beating the previous record holder  _Men with Brooms (2002)_ (qv) at $1million (all quotes in Canadian  dollars).'),
('186737',' Julian gets tickets at the movie theater for Wanda and himself to  see "The Dark Canuck". "The Dark Canuck" is a single from the The  Tragically Hips 2002 album, In Violet Light. The video for "The  Dark Canuck" was directed by Trailer Park Boys director Mike  Clattenburg and features performances by Robb Wells (Ricky), John  Paul Tremblay (Julian), and Mike Smith (Bubbles).'),
('186738',' Julian gets tickets at the movie theater for Wanda and himself to  see "The Dark Canuck". "The Darkest One" is a single from the The  Tragically Hips 2002 album, In Violet Light. The video for "The  Dark Canuck" was directed by Trailer Park Boys director Mike  Clattenburg and features performances by Robb Wells (Ricky), John  Paul Tremblay (Julian), and Mike Smith (Bubbles).'),
('186739',' The word Fuck is said 163 times including mouthing, 77% is said by  Ricky'),
('186740',' The Shit Analogies said by Lahey are said 16 times'),
('186741',' The word Fuck and its derivatives are used a total of 548 times.'),
('186742',' This was shot like a movie trailer, complete with credits to  advertise the actors when they first appear on screen and a tag line  toward the end of the film.'),
('186743',' This film was made especially for the Venice Biennale.'),
('186744',' Jack Elam (qv)s first film.'),
('186745',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Joshs Suicide (1911)_ (qv).'),
('186746',' The movie was inspired by the life of Douglas Bransom and his love  of trains and dinosaurs. Douglas was 7 when he was hit and killed by  a frontover accident by a neighbors SUV. The storyline of the  runaway engine became a frequent conversation between father and  son.'),
('186747',' The implosion of the Trojan Nuclear Cooling tower sets the backdrop  for the damaged track for the runaway engine on Train Master.'),
('186748',' The last film of Esther Rolle (qv).'),
('186749',' Final film of Burt Mustin (qv).'),
('186750',' John Wayne (I) (qv)s and Ann'),
('186751','Margret (qv)s character names,  "Lane" and "Mrs. Lowe," are the same as Waynes and  Geraldine Page (qv)s characters names in _Hondo (1953)_ (qv).'),
('186752',' In the opening sequence, the parade of major artists names  stenciled on packing crates '),
('186753',' GAUGUIN, RENOIR, VAN GOGH, MANET,  PICASSO, DEGAS, MIRO, CEZANNE, MATISSE, BRAQUE, SEURAT, UTRILLO '),
('186754',' is  immediately followed by the directors credit for  Frankenheimer, John (qv).'),
('186755',' John Frankenheimer (qv) said of this film, "I wanted all the  realism possible. There are no tricks in this film. When trains  crash together, they are real trains. There is no substitute for  that kind of reality."'),
('186756',' The engine that crashes into a derailed engine was moving at nearly  60 mph. The crash was staged in the town of Acquigny, with extensive  safety precautions and special insurance. Only one take was  possible, and seven cameras were used.'),
('186757',' The engine that we see from track level as its derailed was moving  faster than intended. Three of the five cameras filming the  derailment were smashed.'),
('186758',' The engines and tanks required for some scenes made so much noise  that "action" and "cut" were signaled by codes on the engines  whistles.'),
('186759',' The air raid on the yards was filmed at Gargenville yard, outside  Paris. More than 50 people under Lee Zavitz (qv) needed six weeks  to plant and wire all the charges, which were blown up in less than  a minute.'),
('186760',' The filmmakers hired a train to carry their equipment from one  location to another, and this is the train we see as the art train  in the film.'),
('186761',' The wartime curator of the Musée du Jeu de Paume, represented in the  movie by Mlle. Villard, was in real life Valland, Rose (qv). The  movie was inspired by her 1961 non'),
('186762','fiction book "Le front de lart:  défense des collections françaises, 1939'),
('186763','1945" (The Art Front:  Defence of the French Collections, 1939'),
('186764','1945).'),
('186765',' In real life the museums paintings were indeed loaded into a train  for shipment to Germany, but fortunately, the elaborate deception  seen in the movie was not really required. The train was merely  routed onto a ring railway and circled around and around Paris until  the Allies arrived.'),
('186766',' SPOILER: As the art train is coming to its final stop where von  Waldheim will be killed, we see a closeup of his face. Prominently  placed in the background is a sign on the train, never shown earlier  in the movie, that warns of "danger de mort": lethal danger. (It  actually refers to the live wires that run above some tracks.)'),
('186767',' Director Arthur Penn oversaw the development of the film and  directed the first day of shooting. The next day was a holiday.  Lancaster, dissatisfied with Penns conception of the picture, had  him fired and replaced by John Frankenheimer. Penn envisioned a more  intimate film that would muse on the role art played in the French  character, and why they would risk their lives to save the countrys  great art from the Nazis. He did not intend to give much focus to  the mechanics of the train operation itself. Frankenheimer said that  in the original script Penn wanted to shoot, the train did not leave  the station until page 90. The production was shut down briefly  while a the script was rewritten. Lancaster told screenwriter Walter  Bernstein the day Penn was fired, "Frankenheimer is a bit of a  whore, but hell do what I want." What Lancaster wanted was more  emphasis on action in order to ensure that the film was a hit after  the failure of "The Leopard" by appealing to a broader audience.'),
('186768',' In the final confrontation between Lancasters Labiche character and  the Nazi colonel played by Paul Scofield, the shooting conditions  were so cold that Scofield reportedly had to talk while inhaling so  clouds of warm breath wouldnt appear on film. His voice was looped  in later.'),
('186769',' The budget for the film doubled under Frankenheimer, due to an  emphasis on action and the filming of train wrecks, eventually  reaching $6.7 million. United Artists felt compelled to step in an  assert its completion rights, demanding that principal photography  on the film be finished in seven weeks.'),
('186770',' Lancaster took a day off during shooting to play golf when the  shooting was about half completed. On the links, he stepped in a  hole and re'),
('186771','aggravated an old knee injury. In order to compensate  for the injury, Frankenheimer had Lancasters character shot in the  leg, thus enabling him to limp through the rest of the shooting.'),
('186772',' Burt Lancaster (qv) performs all of his own stunts in this movie.  Albert Rémy (qv) also gets into the act by performing the stunt of  uncoupling the engine from the art train on a real moving train.'),
('186773',' The sequence in which Burt Lancaster evades an air attack on his  locomotive by driving at full speed into a tunnel was based on an  attack on the Great Western Railway during the war. A passenger  train was pursued by a German aircraft along the main line into  Wales. Reaching speeds estimated at 90mph (well above the wartime  restrictions in place) the train successfully escaped into the  tunnel under the River Severn in Gloucestershire and stopped beneath  the river until the driver judged that the danger had passed. The  train was struck several times during the chase but there were no  serious injuries.'),
('186774',' The coffee shop in the beginning of the movie (which was,  incidentally, the first scene shot) is the same shop that was used  in _Se7en (1995)_ (qv) in the scene where Morgan Freeman (I) (qv)  meets Gwyneth Paltrow (qv) to talk. In the window in both movies,  the writing reads "Quality Cafe". The Quality Cafe is also used in  _Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)_ (qv), _Ghost World (2001)_ (qv) and  _Catch Me If You Can (2002)_ (qv).'),
('186775',' The picture of his early years as a cop that Harris  (Washington, Denzel (qv)) shows to Hoyt (Hawke, Ethan (qv)) in  one of the deleted scenes is a still frame from  _Ricochet (1991)_ (qv)'),
('186776',' This film marks the first time LA street gangs allowed cameras to be  brought into the Imperial Courts neighborhood.'),
('186777',' The Quality Cafe is also featured in  _Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)_ (qv) and  _Catch Me If You Can (2002)_ (qv).'),
('186778',' Alonzos car is a 1979 Chevy Monte Carlo, with some modifications:  it has Dayton wire wheels with bullet caps; a Grant steering wheel;  Flowmaster exhaust; and hydraulics. Added to this, the car is  outfitted with a sunroof, which that eras Monte Carlos never had.'),
('186779',' Gary Sinise (qv) and Tom Sizemore (qv) were offered the role of  Alonzo but passed.'),
('186780',' Bruce Willis (I) (qv) was offered the role of Alonzo.'),
('186781',' Before Antoine Fuqua (qv) was involved in the project,  Davis Guggenheim (qv) was set to direct with  Samuel L. Jackson (qv) as Detective'),
('186782','Sergeant Alonzo Harris and  Matt Damon (qv) as rookie Officer Jack Hoyt.'),
('186783',' Tobey Maguire (qv) was seriously considered for the part of  Officer Jack Hoyt. He even followed Undercover Narcotics officers in  Los Angeles for two months and gained pounds for the role. He was  dropped when Ethan Hawke (qv), Fuquas first choice, was finally  available for the shooting schedule.'),
('186784',' David Ayer (qv) wrote the first draft in 1995, way before the  Rampart Scandal made headlines in 1998. In the first draft, Alonzo  was a Latino officer in charge of drug enforcement in the gang  infested area of Pico'),
('186785','Union within the Rampart Division. He was a  loner and didnt have any partner because of his reputation as a  corrupt and racist cop. But the basics elements of the character  were there: he wears expensive jewelry and drives a 1979 Monte Carlo  model.'),
('186786',' The original ending of the script was Hoyt crashing the pad of  Alonzos girlfriend and find his training officer in the middle of  an orgy with two young women. Hoyt shows him the money that Smiley  was supposed to deliver to the Russians and tells him that there is  a crew of hit men looking all over for him. Alonzo then commits  suicide in front of Hoyt.'),
('186787',' To give to his character a much more authentic aspect,  Denzel Washington (qv) decided to have the same look as disgraced  LAPD Officer Rafael Perez.'),
('186788',' Famous crime novelist and LAPD specialist James Ellroy (qv)  described the movie as "a complete waste of time".'),
('186789',' The film had several police technical advisors. Among them is  Detective'),
('186790','Sergeant Brian Davis, an LAPD veteran who is one of the  most respected and decorated officer of the infamous elite Special  Investigation Section.'),
('186791',' Cle Shaheed Sloan (qv), the gang technical advisor of Training  Day, managed to get on screen real'),
('186792','life gang members from Rollin 60  Crips, PJ Watts Crips and B.P.Stones Bloods.'),
('186793',' Alonzo Harriss (Denzel Washington (qv)) house in Training Day is  the same house used as Janieces (Tamala Jones (qv)) house in  _Blue Streak (1999)_ (qv) with Martin Lawrence (I) (qv).'),
('186794',' The word "fuck" is used 211 times.'),
('186795',' David Ayer (qv) was the only writer to work on the script, such a  rarity it merited a congratulatory call from Chairman of Warner  Brothers Pictures.'),
('186796',' Denzel Washington (qv) has frequently said that Detective Alonzo  Harris is his favorite character that hes played.'),
('186797',' An alternate ending on DVD shows Jake Hoyt being approached and  questioned by the "Three Wise Men" as he returns home (their  silhouettes of them leaving the car parked on the street can be  briefly seen in the theatrical version).'),
('186798',' Although not shown in the film, the producers of the movie asked if  the Angelus Temple cross, a famous Echo Park landmark could be used  in the film. When the church declined, they brought in a "fake"  cross and using a crane hoisted it up a few feet in front of the  real Angelus Temple.'),
('186799',' Alonzos weapons of choice in the film are the venerable Smith &  Wesson 4506, of which he carries two in a dual shoulder holster. The  4506 is a .45 ACP semi automatic [previously] used by many police  departments around the country.'),
('186800',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Wild Man for a Day (1913)_ (qv).'),
('186801',' Telly Award Winner'),
('186802',' Telly AWard Winner'),
('186803',' Telly Award Winner'),
('186804',' Telly Award Winner'),
('186805',' Although set in Edinburgh, most interiors, and some of the  exteriors, were shot in Glasgow. A notable exception is the chase  down Princes Street.'),
('186806',' For its American release, the first 20 minutes had to be re'),
('186807','dubbed  to make the Scottish accents more intelligible.'),
('186808',' The writing on the wall of the Volcano Nightclub is the same as that  in the Moloko bar in _Clockwork Orange, A (1971)_ (qv). There are  also paintings of Robert De Niro (qv) and Jodie Foster (qv) from  _Taxi Driver (1976)_ (qv).'),
('186809',' The shot of Sick Boys finger ringing the Rentons doorbell in  London is almost identical to a shot in  _Tirez sur le pianiste (1960)_ (qv).'),
('186810',' References to The Beatles (qv):  '),
('186811',' The scene where the store detectives chase Renton down the street    is reminiscent of the scene in _Hard Days Night, A (1964)_ (qv)    where The Beatles (qv) are pursued by fans.  '),
('186812',' While watching the train, the four friends arrange themselves in    the same manner as The Beatles (qv) did on the back of the album    "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".  '),
('186813',' The scene where the four friends cross the road and enter the    hotel is reminiscent of the cover of the album "Abbey Road".  '),
('186814',' The scene where Renton wakes up on the couch in the morning at    Dianes home and says hello to someone passing through the hallway    while covered with a blanket to his chin, is reminiscent of a    scene in _Help! (1965)_ (qv) where Ringo is found in a trunk of a    car covered up with a blanket, and upon being found, says hello.'),
('186815',' Bremner, Ewen (qv) (Spud) had previously played Renton in a stage  adaptation of the novel.'),
('186816',' Jonny Lee Miller (qv)s character, Sick Boy, is obsessed with  James Bond trivia. Miller is the grandson of Bernard Lee (I) (qv),  who played "M" in the Bond series until 1979.'),
('186817',' In one scene in London, while Renton is "visited" by Begbie, hes  reading a book about actor Clift, Montgomery (qv) who had lots of  experiences with drugs and medication of all kinds.'),
('186818',' CAMEO(John Hodge (I) (qv) (writer)): store security officer in  pursuit of an unruly pair in opening scene.'),
('186819',' The last scene with Spud getting the money in the locker is almost  identical to a scene in _Once Upon a Time in America (1984)_ (qv).  Even the circumstances behind the scenes are very similar.'),
('186820',' CAMEO(Irvine Welsh (qv) (author)): as Mikey Forrester, Rentons  heroin dealer.'),
('186821',' To play the skinny heroin'),
('186822','addicted Renton, Ewan McGregor (qv) was  placed on a simple diet consisting of no alcohol or dairy products  in order to lose weight. It only took him two months to reach  Rentons desired size.'),
('186823',' Danny Boyle (qv) used twins to play the part of baby Dawn, which  meant neither of the babies were forced to be in front of the camera  for too long. All of the cast used to play with the two babies in  between takes so they could brake the tension of the sometimes often  difficult scenes they were about to shoot.'),
('186824',' Many of the books stories and characters were dropped in order to  create a cohesive movie script of adequate length.'),
('186825',' The toilet'),
('186826','diving scene is a reference to Thomas Pynchon (qv)s  1973 novel "Gravitys Rainbow".'),
('186827',' The football team pictured in the opening credits is the Calton  Athletic Club, who are actually drug addiction counselors and were  the primary consultants for the film.'),
('186828',' Christopher Eccleston (qv) was offered the role of Begbie.'),
('186829',' CAMEO(Andrew MacDonald (I) (qv)): the prospective buyer of the  "Victorian Townhouse" that Renton is trying to sell.'),
('186830',' Created much controversy when it was released in the USA for its  content. Senator Bob Dole (I) (qv) charged the film with  glorifying drug use, but later admitted he hadnt seen the film. See  also: _Priest (1994)_ (qv), _Natural Born Killers (1994)_ (qv), and  _Kids (1995)_ (qv)'),
('186831',' Was ranked number 10 on the British Film Institutes all time best  British films.'),
('186832',' Danny Boyle (qv) had his actors prepare by making them watch older  movies about rebellious youths like _Hustler, The (1961)_ (qv),  _Exorcist, The (1973)_ (qv) and _Clockwork Orange, A (1971)_ (qv).  The latter film is directly homaged in the scene set in the Volcano  nightclub, which is very similar to that set in the Milk Bar in  Kubricks film. Indeed, the track playing in the Volcano club is by  Heaven 17 who took their name from  _Clockwork Orange, A (1971)_ (qv).'),
('186833',' Before he took up screenwriting, John Hodge was a doctor and had to  frequently deal with heroin addicts. Some of his experiences have  been worked into the script. One such example is the junkies  stealing a television set from an old folk’s home.'),
('186834',' The scene where Sick'),
('186835','Boy and Renton lie in the park and take  potshots with their air'),
('186836','rifle was originally going to be set to the  theme from _"Mission: Impossible" (1966)_ (qv). Unfortunately  Brian de Palma (qv) was setting up the film version of the TV show  at the time so getting to the rights to the music simply proved to  be too expensive '),
('186837',' approximately three times the films budget. Both  actors were very hungover for the scene in question.'),
('186838',' Although it looks thoroughly offputting, the faeces in the Worst  Toilet in Scotland scene was actually made from chocolate and  smelled quite pleasant.'),
('186839',' The whole film was shot in just seven and a half weeks.'),
('186840',' Danny Boyle (qv) credits the Spike Jonze (qv)'),
('186841','directed music  video for "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys (qv) as a major influence  on the opening sequence of the film.'),
('186842',' Kevin McKidd (qv) (Tommy) missed the photo shoot for the promos  because he was on holiday. This resulted in him being the only lead  cast member not to be in any of the promotional posters or even the  video cover.'),
('186843',' Irvine Welsh (qv) had been approached by film'),
('186844','makers before about  adapting "Trainspotting" for the screen but had resisted their  offers. He was won over by Andrew Macdonald (I) (qv) and  John Hodge (I) (qv)s enthusiasm for the project but only on the  condition that they didnt adopt a Ken Loach semi'),
('186845','documentary  approach to the material.'),
('186846',' For the close'),
('186847','up shots of Ewan McGregor (qv) injecting himself  with heroin, a prosthetic arm was constructed by the make'),
('186848','up  department, complete with pulsing veins, smack tracks and small  pockets of blood that would appear when the skin was punctured by a  hypodermic needle.'),
('186849',' The first English film role of Fredrick Valk.'),
('186850',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy  _Rubber'),
('186851','Neck Percy (1911)_ (qv).'),
('186852',' Filmed in 1957, not released in the US until 1960.'),
('186853',' Second episode in "The Book of Psalms" series of six two'),
('186854','reel short  subjects.'),
('186855',' The script is expanded from a sequence originally written as part of  Argento, Dario (qv)s first film, Uccello dalle piume di  cristallo, L (1969), but never filmed due to time constraints'),
('186856',' Biograph production number 242.'),
('186857',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Poor Excuse That Worked, A (1912)_ (qv).'),
('186858',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('186859','Disc Charlie Chaplin  Collection DVD for Great Dictator, The (1940) (qv), released in  2003.'),
('186860',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the comedy  _Forbidden Cigarettes (1911)_ (qv).'),
('186861',' Probably a French film.'),
('186862',' When Harry and Joans "baby" is introduced, we see that he is also  played by Harry Langdon (I) (qv). This came about because the real  baby that was to be used for the scene wouldnt cooperate, and as a  gag Langdon had the cameraman shoot him playing the baby. After it  was screened, Langdon liked it so much he left it in.'),
('186863',' One of the 50 films in the 3'),
('186864','disk boxed DVD set called "More  Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894'),
('186865','1931" (2004), compiled  by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film  archives. This film is preserved by the Library of Congress  (AFI/James Lippincott collection) and has a running time of 4  minutes.'),
('186866',' The on'),
('186867','screen credits "Ko'),
('186868','Ko Song Car'),
('186869','Tune by Max Fleischer" is  ambiguous. It could refer to Fleischer as writer, animator,  producer, etc., although it is generally known he was the producer  and animator.'),
('186870',' From the musical farce "The Milk White Flag".'),
('186871',' This documentary is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD for  _Forbrydelsens element (1984)_ (qv) (The Element of Crime), released  in 2000.'),
('186872',' Tim Thomerson (qv)s scenes are footage taken from the earlier  Trancers sequels.'),
('186873',' A photograph of Helen Hunt (I) (qv), who played Leena in the first  three Trancers films, can be spotted on Jos refrigerator early in  the film.'),
('186874',' After the interview on TV there is an ad for  _Crash and Burn (1990) (V)_ (qv) also directed by  Band, Charles (qv).'),
('186875',' Richard Lynch (qv)s (Wardo) real life son Christopher can be seen  in this movie playing Wardos cameraman.'),
('186876',' The two hobos asking for chilli and mustard on their hot dogs are  Albert Band and Gordon Hunt, the fathers of director Charles Band  and Helen Hunt, respectively.'),
('186877',' The first Dutch musical.'),
('186878',' Ruven, Paul (qv)s film for his final exam at the Dutch Film and  Television Academy.'),
('186879',' The developer, Larry Roberts, was an airline pilot who created the  game in his spare time.'),
('186880',' Tranquility Base was originally to be published by Edu'),
('186881','Ware  Services, but when Management Sciences America purchased the  company, the game was published under the banner of its Peachtree  Software subsidiary and marketed as an educational product.'),
('186882',' The publishing rights to Tranquility Base were acquired by Jeff  Ford, David Mullich, Wesley Huntress and Pam Pollack so that the  game could be published by their new company, Electric Transit. The  game was enhanced with an expanded moon base and a cargo run  scenario by its developer, Larry Roberts, and published under the  name "Lunar Explorer."'),
('186883',' This game was developed for the Apple II computer. The requirements  were Applesoft, 48K, DOS 3.3 and a floppy disk drive, with keyboard  or joystick controls.'),
('186884',' This film was banned by the British Censor because of its depiction  of sexual bondage (which is now regarded as very tame).'),
('186885',' The initial idea for the screenplay occurred in a conversation  between screenwriter/director Duncan Tucker (qv) and intersex  actress Katherine Connella (qv). While discussing male/female  perceptions, Connella shocked Tucker (they had been sharing a house  for about four months at the time) with the revelation that she had  been raised as a male.'),
('186886',' This is the first non'),
('186887','Miramax film to be acquired by  Harvey Weinstein (qv) and Bob Weinstein (qv).'),
('186888',' Felicity Huffman (qv) nicknamed her prosthetic penis "Andy" during  filming.'),
('186889',' Felicity Huffman (qv) had to finish shooting her scenes earlier  than scheduled when she secured a role on  _"Desperate Housewives" (2004)_ (qv).'),
('186890',' Not knowing the film would be such a success, most of the wardrobe  and props were donated to charity and thrift stores after production  wrapped.'),
('186891',' Felicity Huffman (qv) had to stay in character all day, while  shooting. This included having to keep Brees voice on so that she  wouldnt lose it. If she turned it "off" she would lose the voice.'),
('186892',' Many scenes involve improvisation. The scene where the characters  are riding in the car towards sunset is one of them: the director  asked Felicity Huffman to start poking Kevin Zegers in the stomach  and shoulder. Kevin Zegers stayed in character, and the director  liked the result.'),
('186893',' The film was actually made on $100, and it all went to the catering.'),
('186894',' This 8'),
('186895','minute short film was created from some unused and used  elements filmed for a narrative feature in the Psycho'),
('186896','Spiritual  Thriller vein that just recently completed production.'),
('186897',' A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television  Archives.'),
('186898',' This was the first project Raysh Weiss directed.'),
('186899',' Finished in 1989, but not released until 1991.'),
('186900',' Sets are reused from Robot Jox.'),
('186901',' This documentary is featured on the 2'),
('186902','Disc Collectors Edition DVD  for _Fly II, The (1989)_ (qv), released in 2005.'),
('186903',' The character Windrazor was an exclusive toy for the BotCon 1999  convention.'),
('186904',' Some characters were included in one version of the game and left  out of the other. Terrorasur, Waspinator, Starscream And Airazor  were playable characters in the N64 version but not the Playstation  (although Waspinator did has a brief appearance). Similarly Rampage,  Windrazor and Quickstrike were playable in the Playstation version  but not the N64 version.'),
('186905',' Both games had Transmetal versions of Airazor, Waspinator,  Terrorsaur and Rhinox. While toys were made of them, their  Transmetal forms never appeared in the show.'),
('186906',' An early title was "Transformers Armada: Prelude to Energon"'),
('186907',' The Decepticon Demolishor was originally planed to have been the  boss for the Alaska/Starship level(s) but was later changed to  Starscream (Round 2).'),
('186908',' Many of the lines of dialog were taken from  _Transformers: The Movie (1986)_ (qv)'),
('186909',' The slogan for the movie "Their War. Our World", was the original  slogan for the movie _AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)_ (qv), but at  the last minute it was switched to "Whoever wins... we lose."'),
('186910',' Producer Don Murphy (III) (qv) decided, after listening to  feedback from Transformers fans, to use the voices from the  _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv) (and its spin'),
('186911','off  _Transformers: The Movie, The (1986)_ (qv)). Veteran voice actors  Peter Cullen (I) (qv) and Frank Welker (qv), who provided the  voices for the iconic Transformer leaders Optimus Prime (Cullen) and  Megatron (Welker), were auditioned personally by director  Michael Bay (qv), who feared that their aged voices would be  noticeable. Cullen was confirmed to reprise his role, but Welkers  voice had aged too much and besides didnt suit Megatrons new alien  look, and so Hugo Weaving (qv) took the role of Megatron. However,  Welker reprises his role as Megatron in  _Transformers: The Game (2007) (VG)_ (qv).'),
('186912',' WILHELM SCREAM: When Megatron flicks a human across the street like  a bug.'),
('186913',' SPOILER: Some of the Transformers lines come from either the  original series or the first film,  _Transformers: The Movie, The (1986)_ (qv). Most notably, when  Megatron first talks to Starscream, he says "Youve failed me  again." Something Megatron is routinely saying to Starscream in the  series. And most of the dialog between Megatron and Optimus Prime  comes from their confrontation in the first film including Primes  "One shall stand, one shall fall" speech and Megatrons "Youve  always been weak, Prime." and "Fall! Fall!". Frenzys only  intelligible line, "Oh shit" is a nod to the infamous line spoken by  Spike Witwicky in the original animated movie after his and  Bumblebees attempt to destroy Unicron fails.'),
('186914',' According to the screenwriters, there was to be more lines between  Starscream and Megatron, but most of them had to be cut from the  film, excluding Megatrons classic berating of Starscream.'),
('186915',' The production of "Transformers" is the largest film project the DoD  {Department of Defence} has supported since the film "Blackhawk  Down," released in 2001.'),
('186916',' The Bee that is hanging in Bumblebees front window says "Bee Otch".'),
('186917',' In the film, the name "Autobot" stands for "Autonomous Robotic  Lifeform." In the series the Autobots were so called because their  alternate modes were mostly trucks, vans, cars and other auto  vehicles.'),
('186918',' To prepare for their roles, Josh Duhamel (qv) and  Tyrese Gibson (qv) spent three days in boot camp, and Gibson also  spent time with combat controller Ray Bollinger to make his dialog  sound natural.'),
('186919',' Sometimes, the camera was kept in a bulletproof glass box while  shooting, due to the intense nature of the stunts.  Shia LaBeouf (qv) quipped, "The cameras in a bullet'),
('186920','proof box,  but what about me?"'),
('186921',' For the scene where Sam is clinging to a statue at the top of a  building, there was no safety harness and so Shia LaBeouf (qv)s  terror was real.'),
('186922',' SPOILER: While Jazz does not survive the final battle, a Jazz toy  released from Hasbro to commemorate the film mentioned his being  rebuilt into a tougher (and better'),
('186923','looking) frame; something the  writers say MAY occur in the sequel.'),
('186924',' The bird in Bobby Bolivias petting zoo is a ñandú, a flightless  bird native to Bolivia and other parts of South America.'),
('186925',' When the Autobots first crash to earth in meteor form, a man with a  video camera exclaims, "This is a hundred times cooler than  Armageddon!" an allusion to director, Michael Bay (qv)s earlier  film _Armageddon (1998/I)_ (qv).'),
('186926',' Charles Adler (I) (qv), who voices the Decepticon Starscream in  this film, voiced the Autobot Silverbolt in  _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv). He was the only other voice actor from  the series besides Peter Cullen (I) (qv) to get a role in this  film.'),
('186927',' Two of the Decepticons in this film are named Bonecrusher and  Devastator. In the original toy line and television series,  Bonecrusher was one of six Decepticons, known as Constructicons, who  combines to form Devastator.'),
('186928',' The radio sound bytes Bumblebee uses to communicate include the  voice of Lt. Uhura from _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv) saying, "Hailing  frequencies open" and "Message from Starfleet," and bits of dialogue  from John Wayne (I) (qv), whom voice actor Peter Cullen (I) (qv)  used as an inspiration for Optimus Primes voice.'),
('186929',' SPOILER: In addition to Optimus Primes red sword, Megatrons  ability to turn his right fist into a chain mace (used to smash the  base of the rooftop statue Sam is clinging to) also mirrors the  battle on Sherman Dam from the cartoon, where Megatron summons a  glowing morning star in response to Primes use of the Energon Axe.'),
('186930',' The camouflage uniform that Captain Lennox and his squad are wearing  is the Multicam uniform of the Armys Future Force Warrior system,  part of the Future Combat Systems project.'),
('186931',' In the _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv) series, the Autobots had blue  optics (eyes) and the Decepticons had red optics. The animators  created a new eye design resembling a camera shutter in order to  make the robots more engaging; however, in a nod to the series, the  color scheme remains the same. The only exception is Frenzy, who is  a Decepticon, but has blue optics.'),
('186932',' The gunship that successfully damages and drives off Scorponok  during the attack on Captain Lennox and his men is the AC'),
('186933','130H  Spectre. 40mm and 105mm tracers and impacts in the movie were  generated by CGI; the aircrew did not fire a single shot during  filming.'),
('186934',' SPOILER: During the city battle, shortly after Jazz engages  Brawl/Devastator with Ratchets help, a sign reading "Takara Sushi"  is visible. Japanese toy company Takara was responsible for  Transformers in Japan until sold to Hasbro.'),
('186935',' Josh Duhamel (qv)s character Captain Lennox first appeared in the  comic book "G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers."'),
('186936',' The F'),
('186937','22 Raptor that Starscream turns into is intended to replace  the F'),
('186938','15 Eagle that Starscream originally turned into.'),
('186939',' Sams eBay name LadiesMan217 refers to Michael Bay (qv)s  birthday: February 17th.'),
('186940',' In pre'),
('186941','release screenings of the movie, an additional scene showing  Bumblebee scanning the older model was included just before the cut  to Sam at school. This scene was left out of the general release.'),
('186942',' Bumblebee is a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro and reforms into the new 2009  concept Camaro.'),
('186943',' SPOILER: A stinger shot occurring after the start of the closing  credit roll shows Starscream blasting off vertically into the sky.  This shot closely resembles a shot of Starscream that was used in  the closing credits sequence of _"Transformers, The" (1984)_ (qv)  animated TV series.'),
('186944',' One of the F'),
('186945','22 Pilots has the name Cpt B. Armbruster written on his  cockpit. He is part of the G. I. JOE team and is more commonly known  by his Code Name ACE.'),
('186946',' The fact that Bumblebee speaks through his radio is a nod to the  Junkions in the animated movie, who learned to speak by, and spoke  entirely in the style of, television Broadcasts and commercials.'),
('186947',' SPOILER: The only time in the entire movie that the actual word  "transformer" is used, is when Sams father Ron looks outside of his  house after what he thinks is an earthquake and blackout, and says  that theyve got to call the city because theyve "got a blown  transformer".'),
('186948',' SPOILER: During the battle scene at the end of the movie, when Sam  briefly drops the Allspark, an Xbox 360 being carried by a bystander  becomes a Transformer. During its transformation the sounds used in  Xbox 360 commercials and when an Xbox 360 boots up can be heard.'),
('186949',' SPOILER: The transforming sound from the Generation 1 series are  used five times in the movie: '),
('186950',' When Blackout transforms to attack  the Soccent base at Qatar '),
('186951',' When Bumblebee transforms to save Sam  and Mikaela as they fall off the bridge '),
('186952',' when the Nokia phone  becomes a Transformer after exposure to "cube radiation" '),
('186953',' in the  final street battle, when Ironhide transforms '),
('186954',' and in the last film  (of 3) film clips that are played during the ending credits  (Starscream transforms and flies outside the earths atmosphere)'),
('186955',' WILHELM SCREAM: When Sam kicks Frenzy away, after Mikaela slices him  with a reciprocating saw.'),
('186956',' "Glen Whitman" is named for a friend of the writers, who is  currently a Professor of Economics at Caliornia State University in  Northridge.'),
('186957',' When Sam is talking to Mikaela in the car he says "youre more than  meets the eye," a nod to the toy lines slogan "more than meets the  eye."'),
('186958',' For the scene with Scorponok bursting out from the sand and  attacking the soldiers, the effect was achieved by detonating primer  cord under the sand. The explosions would be in close proximity and  very dangerous to the actors in the scene so before the scene was  filmed, Michael Bay told the actors to run and keep running no  matter what happens or else they could seriously be injured or even  worse, killed. As a result, the look of panic on the actors faces  as they flee from Scorponok in this scene is 100% genuine.'),
('186959',' Howard Stern (qv) was originally approached to make a quick voice  cameo in the film, however his agent talked him out of it.'),
('186960',' In some regions, release prints were delivered to theaters with the  fake title E7.'),
('186961',' Peter Cullen (I) (qv) described reprising his role as Optimus  Prime as "slipping into an old pair of very comfortable shoes that  you havent worn for a while," and was grateful to the fans for  wanting him back. His vocal performance consisted of much  improvisation with Michael Bay (qv) and bringing a sense of humour  to Prime, as well as his traditional heroism.'),
('186962',' To prepare for his role as Sam Witwicky, Shia LeBouf worked out five  days a week for three months and gained 25 pounds of muscle, but he  realized during shooting that Sam required agility rather than  strength.'),
('186963',' In her role as Mikaela Banes, Megan Fox (I) (qv) gained ten pounds  during filming.'),
('186964',' Michael Bay (qv) instructed the ILM animators to watch martial  arts films to get an idea on how to effectively portray the  Transformers movements.'),
('186965',' Michael Bay (qv) originally turned down directing the film,  considering it "a stupid toy movie." However, as a young man he  worked at Lucasfilm Ltd. and had a similar opinion about  _Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)_ (qv), which became a classic hit.  Realizing he was wrong about that film and perhaps about this one,  he signed on to direct the film. He also took the job because he  desired to make a family film, though he wanted to make it edgier  than usual.'),
('186966',' Hasbro released several toys based on the movies characters. These  toys feature new "Automorph Technology," where moving parts of a toy  in transformations allowed some other parts to shift automatically.  This marks a rare time when Transformers toys are designed after  the characters in the fiction, whereas normally, the toys are  designed first.'),
('186967',' While the films scriptwriters experimented with additional  characters, their scripts always included the Autobots Optimus Prime  and Bumblebee and the Decepticons Megatron and Starscream.'),
('186968',' In terms of characterization all the Autobots in this film are based  on their Generation One incarnations. However, their alternate modes  have undergone modern interpretations and overhauls for a realistic  portrayal in the live'),
('186969','action film; in particular, all their modes,  except for Optimus Primes Peterbilt truck and Barricades Saleen  S281E Ford Mustang, are now owned by General Motors as part of a  tie'),
('186970','in deal.'),
('186971',' The character of Arcee was included in the script, but poor fan  reaction caused her to be cut out and replaced with Ironhide.'),
('186972',' Megatrons classic alternate mode was a Walther P38 pistol, but  Hasbro the owners, and official distributors of the toyline stated  that they would not produce a gun of any kind for their characters  (its also illegal to make replica toy guns in several  jurisdictions). Also the writers thought it was like "having Darth  Vader transform into his own lightsaber and someone else swinging  him around," so it was changed to an "interstellar jet." Megatron  was also given a less humanoid face to make him more menacing.'),
('186973',' As part of the promotion campaign for the film, early trailers  showed as little of the Transformers as possible. Many parts of the  robots were hidden from view due to quick cuts. However, later  trailers and commercials showed more of the Transformers.'),
('186974',' Barricades side reads; "To punish and enslave" rather than "To  protect and serve".'),
('186975',' The Optimus Prime portrayed in the film is a Peterbilt 379. In  _Duel (1971) (TV)_ (qv), directed by this films executive producer,  Steven Spielberg, the antagonist is a Peterbilt 281. This marks two  Spielberg films with Peterbilt trucks as main characters, 36 years  apart.'),
('186976',' Don Murphy (III) (qv) originally intended to do a "G.I. Joe" film  in 2003, but he instead negotiated with the Hasbro company to make a  Transformers film.'),
('186977',' The Decepticon Frenzy was originally named Soundbyte. The writers  had Soundwave in the original script, but decided to change the  character to one of his cassettes from the original 84 series due  to the size the robot has in the role. They plan to "do Soundwave  correctly" in the sequel.'),
('186978',' The Decepticon Soundwave was originally in the script, but was  replaced with Blackout (who had originally been named Vortex, and  later Incinerator). He is to appear in the films sequel.'),
('186979',' Michael Bay (qv) did not want the VFX aspects of the film to  overwhelm the live'),
('186980','action elements, and spent most of the films  $150 million budget on 15 practical action sequences.'),
('186981',' According to Lorenzo di Bonaventura (qv), working out the  transformations was done with the help of a mathematical equation,  which explained where each of the parts of the robot went when it  become a vehicle.'),
('186982',' To portray the sentient cars, stunt drivers wore black and  balaclavas to conceal themselves from view.'),
('186983',' Ironhides gun is composed of 10,000 pieces (more pieces than any  other robot), thus making him the bulkiest Transformer in the film.'),
('186984',' Optimus Prime is composed of 10,108 pieces.'),
('186985',' On May 26 2007, two Bell Boeing CV'),
('186986','22 Osprey tilt'),
('186987','rotor jets were  filmed in flight. There are only three such aircraft in the United  States Air Force.'),
('186988',' SPOILER: The Autobot Prowl (who transformed into a police car) was  originally in the script, but the writers and Michael Bay (qv)  loved the idea of an evil police car and so the character was  altered to become the Decepticon Barricade.'),
('186989',' As part of the promotion campaign for the film, a special Sector 7  site was launched that featured videos showing "evidence" of  Transformers having already arrived on Earth. These videos featured:  Grimlock destroying a construction site; Kickback and Laserbeak  being accidentally videotaped; and a security video showing  Bumblebee transforming in a parking garage. All these characters  appeared in _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv) and, interestingly, are  featured in their old designs from that show.'),
('186990',' At one point the Decepticon animal Ravage was included in the  script, but he was removed and replaced with Scorponok, another  robotic animal.'),
('186991',' The Decepticons outnumber the Autobots eight to five. This was a  deliberate move by the writers to emphasize the Autobots teamwork,  and the threat the Decepticons pose to the world.'),
('186992',' Don Murphy (III) (qv) brought in screenwriter Tom DeSanto (qv)  to write the plot, impressed with the way DeSanto had managed the  many characters and storylines in _X'),
('186993','Men (2000)_ (qv). DeSanto, a  big fan of the series since childhood, carried out extensive  research on the Transformers; he held several meetings with comic  book writer Simon Furman (qv); and he invited fans to discuss the  film on Murphys online message board. His treatment explored the  Transformers existence and history, as well as the real  possibilities and consequences of "their war on our world," similar  to a disaster film, which was what Murphy wanted the film to  resemble.'),
('186994',' As an in'),
('186995','joke for fans and a tribute to the original cartoon, a  yellow Volkswagen Beetle, which Bumblebee originally was, can be  seen at the car dealership where Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf (qv))  buys the Chevrolet Camaro, that is later found out to be Bumblebee.  Bernie Mac (qv)s character Bobby Bolivia, even attempts to sell  Sam and his father, Ron (Kevin Dunn (I) (qv)) the Beetle when they  refuse to pay his asking price for the Camaro.'),
('186996',' During filming, Mark Ryan (I) (qv) acted as a stand'),
('186997','in for the  Transformers on set, to give the actors a physical presence to react  to/act against. He also ad'),
('186998','libbed characters during the films  post'),
('186999','production.'),
('187000',' The release date was set without a script or a cast.'),
('187001',' The US government supplied planes and assistance to the production.'),
('187002',' According to one of the CGI artists that created the animated robots  at ILM, if you took all the polygons (CGI building blocks) from all  the autobots and decepticon models they created at the studio, and  strung them end to end, theyd reach to the moon and back and youd  still have enough left over to build the coliseum in Rome two times.'),
('187003',' SPOILER: A nod to other Hasbro toys is seen in two scenes. The first  is when the Autobots arrive, and Ironhide lands in the swimming  pool, the little girl that goes out to investigate has a "My Little  Pony" stuffed toy. The second scene is during the battle in the  city. Bumblebee and Ironhide use a truck with "Furby" on the side as  a shield against Starscreams attack.'),
('187004',' At one point in the film, Glen Whitmann makes a comment about the  gashes in the metal wall made by robots activated by the All Spark,  saying that three gashes are like "Wolverines claws". In addition  to Tom DeSanto (qv) being a co'),
('187005','producer on this and the X'),
('187006','Men  films, it was Marvel Comics that gave Optimus Prime his name.'),
('187007',' The commanding officer of the air base in Qatar is named Colonel  Sharp, played by Glenn Morshower (qv). This is a reference to  _Armageddon (1998)_ (qv), also directed by Michael Bay (qv), which  also had a Colonel Sharp, played by William Fichtner (qv).'),
('187008',' The line "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" was the  winning line of an on'),
('187009','line competition where fans got to write in  their own lines for a chance to hear them on screen. Although this  line was first spoken by Optimus Primal in the spin'),
('187010','off series,  "Beast Wars," the phrase has long been associated with Optimus  Primes character, first appearing in the cut'),
('187011','out Tech Specs on the  back of the packaging for the original G1 figure.'),
('187012',' The Transformers have been given a new design that reflects their  alien origin. According to Lorenzo Di Bonaventura (qv), during the  design process, Optimus Prime was designed in CGI in his classic  boxy look (as seen in the 1984 series), but he looked "fake and  silly." So now, heavily stressed in their looks are advanced  kinematics, realistic engineering and thousands of body parts (which  all move during transformations and produce a better impression of  mass). The Transformers were created with a mix of groundbreaking  computer'),
('187013','generated imagery (by Industrial Light and Magic) and ten  close'),
('187014','up props (by KNB Effects). The props built include Optimus  Primes head, Bumblebees robot mode, Megatrons legs and Blackouts  feet.'),
('187015',' Sam Witwickys father plays a joke on Sam by driving through a  Porsche dealership before taking him to the used car lot. In the  original line and TV Series, the Autobot Jazz was a Porsche; in the  film, he is a Pontiac Solstice.'),
('187016',' SPOILER: In the battle for the city, Jazz messes up Devastators  shot by moving his gun barrel while hes in tank mode. This is a nod  to the original movie where (in a near identical sequence), Kup  messes up Blitzwings (in tank mode) shot by bending the barrel of  his gun.'),
('187017',' When Frenzy transforms to the CD'),
('187018','player after shooting his discs,  the display of the CD'),
('187019','player reads "NO DISC".'),
('187020',' As that there were no running 2009 model Camaros, Bumblebee was  actually created by Saleen inc. The same tuner that created  Barricade. Working with the Pontiac GTO along with data and  wheelbase drawings of the 2009 Camaro provided by GM, Saleen cobbled  together, from the floorboards up, a running "Camaro" in just 30  days.'),
('187021',' Barricade is a 2007 model Saleen S281 "Extreme" based on the Ford  Mustang. The only difference between this Extreme and production  models was the motor. The Extreme normally comes with a 550hp engine  while the Barricade models had the stock motor available on the  standard Saleen models providing a "paltry" 335hp.'),
('187022',' The shot of Capital Hill used near the end was a recycled shot used  previously in _Bourne Identity, The (2002)_ (qv).'),
('187023',' When Bumblebee introduces himself to Sam and Mikaela, speaking  through the radio, he plays the sound bite, "Across the immense gulf  of space"; the voice is that of Orson Welles (qv) from his  infamous 1939 radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds." Wells  provided the voice of the planet devouring transformer named Unicron  in _Transformers: The Movie, The (1986)_ (qv) which was Welles  final film performance.'),
('187024',' The soldiers at the beginning of the movie were originally supposed  to return home in a Humvee. While filming, Michael Bay saw the newly  arrived CV'),
('187025','22s and requested to use them instead.'),
('187026',' The insignia on Agent Simmons body armor are a Combat Infantrymans  Badge and the oak leaves of a Lieutenant Colonel, mostly likely  indicating that he was once an US Army infantry officer before  joining Sector 7.'),
('187027',' Figs last name is Figueroa. Don Fidueroa is a writer and drawer for  the Transformers comics.'),
('187028',' This video originally aired on "The Transformers" television series  in five separate parts in an effort to continue the events that  transpired during _Transformers: The Movie (1986)_ (qv) and lay  groundwork for season 3 of the Transformers television series.'),
('187029',' Activison the game publisher decided to use the original voice Frank  Welker for Megatron, instead of Hugo Weaving the voice of the film  version of Megatron.'),
('187030',' The mall seen in the game is called "Metroplex". Metroplex was the  name of the Autobots city on Earth in the original animated series,  which could transform into a giant robot.'),
('187031',' The demolition company that is seen in the game is called "Bay  Demolition", a reference to Michael Bay (qv), who directed the  film version.'),
('187032',' A restaurant in the game in the suburbs level is named "Chip Chase  Restaurant", a reference to the human G1 Transformers character. His  picture appears on the signs for the restaurant.'),
('187033',' "Seasprays Fish and Chips" billboards appear conspicuously all over  the suburbs, a reference to the G1 Autobot hovercraft Seaspray.'),
('187034',' This film is considered the "bridge" between the second and third  seasons of the cartoon, as several second'),
('187035','season characters are  introduced here and several first'),
('187036','season characters are killed or  altered (e.g. Megatron to Galvatron).'),
('187037',' Welles, Orson (qv) died in 1985 sparking rumors that Leonard Nimoy  took over and provided the voice for Unicron. However, actress  Blu, Susan (qv) (Arcee) has since confirmed that Welles completed  the voiceover work before he died.'),
('187038',' Many of the second season characters (Stunticons, Aerialbots, etc.)  do not appear in the movie because they did not exist at the time  the movie was written. However, they all suddenly appear in the  post'),
('187039','movie episodes.'),
('187040',' Two Cyclonus'),
('187041','style robots are created in the movie; one from  Bombshell (Insecticon) and one from Skywarp (Decepticon jet). Many  fans have speculated which one became the "real" Cyclonus. Cyclonus  was (apparently) originally intended to have many duplicates under  his command ("and his armada..."), like Scourge and his Sweeps.  However, only one duplicate was created on'),
('187042','screen and was never seen  again after that shot. This has led fans to write fanfics about a  character called "Armada".'),
('187043',' The film takes place 20 years after the end of the tv series second  season.'),
('187044',' The sound of Galvatrons arm'),
('187045','mounted laser cannon firing is a  modified version of the sound of Megatrons fusion cannon.'),
('187046',' Almost all of the new characters that appear in the Movie were newly  designed. The Hasbro toys were based on the Movies character  designs. The exception was Ultra Magnus, who already had a toy in  the Japanese "Diaclone" line. His character model was based on the  toy, and given new colors.'),
('187047',' Originally, Ultra Magnus was drawn and quartered by the Sweeps (his  arms and legs were ripped from his body). This was changed a scene  of his being blasted to death. However, the shot of the Sweeps  firing at Magnus shows them using continous beams (almost as if they  were ropes of energy), instead of laser blasts they are seen using  in the rest of the movie.'),
('187048',' The movie was being produced by the same company, and at the same  time, as _G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) (V)_ (qv). It had been agreed  that both movies would suffer the loss of the lead heroes, Optimus  Prime and Duke. Production had begun on G.I. Joe first, and was thus  expected to be released first. During the production of the two  films, G.I. Joe was held up while Transformers finished production.  Release dates were changed and Transformers got theatrical release  in 1986. Optimus Primes death sparked some controversy and caused  the writers to change Dukes death to a coma. G.I. Joe never got to  the theaters, and was released to video instead. Had G.I. Joe been  released first, Optimus Prime might have survived.'),
('187049',' Of the original 18 Autobots featured in the first episode "More than  Meets the Eye", 15 are seen in the movie. Mirage, Trailbreaker, and  Sideswipe do not appear although they were all scripted to appear in  three separate scenes on Earth.'),
('187050',' Some pre'),
('187051','movie characters have very short cameos: Huffer, Hound,  Sunstreaker, and Snarl.'),
('187052',' Officially this was Orson Welles (qv)s final film.'),
('187053',' Grimlocks line to Kup, "Tell Grimlock about petro'),
('187054','rabbits" is a  reference to John Steinbecks "Of Mice and Men" in which Lenny  continuously asks George to "Tell me about the rabbits."'),
('187055',' Although a toy was not released until 2003, an action figure of  Unicron was designed, but the prototype had flimsy arms and a faulty  voice'),
('187056','chip, and was scrapped.'),
('187057',' The movie kills off many of the original characters: Optimus Prime,  Ironhide, Ratchet, Prowl, Brawn, Wheeljack, Windcharger, Megatron,  Starscream, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Shrapnel, Kickback and  Bombshell are all casualties, and it is learned in the third season  that Huffer also died at some point off'),
('187058','camera during the movie.'),
('187059',' Two other characters were scripted to die in the film as well, but  the scenes were not animated. During the attack on Autobot City by  Devastator, Ultra Magnus attacks, accompanied by Sideswipe, Tracks  and Red Alert, and Red Alert is killed by a cannon blast. Also,  towards the end of the movie when Shockwave is frantically calling  for the Decepticons to engage Unicron, Unicrons hand was supposed  to have been seen crushing Shockwaves citadel. The way the movie  was released, after Shockwave calls "Scramble!", Unicrons hand  comes down and smashes a good part of the planets surface, and  Shockwave is never seen again.'),
('187060',' Several other characters had non'),
('187061','speaking cameos, including  Bluestreak, Grapple and Gears.'),
('187062',' The last film with Scatman Crothers (qv) before his death.'),
('187063',' The original wide'),
('187064','screen negative of the movie was either destroyed  or lost, and for a time only the VHS full'),
('187065','screen version of the  movie remained. The North Carolina School of the Filmmaking in  Winston'),
('187066','Salem North Carolina carries a print of the movie assembled  from different reels of other prints of the movie found in their  archives. The pieced'),
('187067','together print is in good condition. The aspect  ratio is in the films original wide'),
('187068','screen ratio.'),
('187069',' The band who sings the songs on the soundtrack called "Nothins  Gonna Stand In Our Way" and "Hunger" is listed on the soundtrack  credits as Spectre General, but the bands name is actually Kick  Axe. When the soundtrack was being assembled, they thought the name  "Kick Axe" sounded too threatening, so they listed them as "Spectre  General". The band was not notified about the change.'),
('187070',' Orson Wells (qv) was said to have hated the movie. When asked  about his role, not only could not remember his characters name,  but he described his role as "a big toy who attacks a bunch of  smaller toys".'),
('187071',' Both Nelson Shin (director) and Flint Dille (story consultant) has  confirmed that, due to his failing health, Orson Welles had much  difficulty recording all his dialogue for the film and all his  recorded lines also included labored breathing and heavy wheezing.  Shin considered all of Welles recorded lines to be unusable but  decided to put the recordings through a voice synthesizer to give  Welles voice a clearer, more ominous tone. According to Shin,  Unicrons onscreen voice is not the "true" Orson Welles but instead,  an enhanced, synthesized version of his voice.'),
('187072',' Originally written as a teleplay but later re'),
('187073','written as an erotic  thriller, the author conceived of the storys premise after viewing  an episode of "Forensic Files" on Court TV.'),
('187074',' The movie was shot in 12 days on a shoestring budget with no  permits. Several times during the production, cops showed up and  kicked the cast and crew off location. Most scene,s in the movie  were shot in one take. Shooting the film was a risk not only for the  cast and crew but also for the artist who provided the graffiti for  the film, for they were real graffiti artist and most of the  property defaced in the film was done without permission.  Writer/director Terrence Williams also did some of the graffiti work  in the film. Having been an ex'),
('187075','tagger and done time for his former  craft, most of the script was based on actual events from the  directors life and some of the locations used were actual spots  where some of the events took place.'),
('187076',' On one filming trip from Florida to New York, three crew members  plus tons of gear drove the thousand mile trip in a pick'),
('187077','up truck  with one bench seat.'),
('187078',' Blonde Redhead were too hard to understand due to their strong  accents, so they had to be subtitled. The process was tough because  the singer, Kazu, kept putting her water bottle in front of her  mouth while answering questions, making lip'),
('187079','reading impossible.'),
('187080',' After shooting the piece on the Alpha record pressing plant, the  band received a call that Dick Smith, the owner and interviewee, had  died. The producers felt honored to have captured his lifes story  one week before his passing.'),
('187081',' Received a 28th Annual (2007) Telly Award, for "outstanding  achievement" in the TV Documentary Category.'),
('187082',' The version of "Atrophy" featured on Transmissions is a drastically  altered retelling of the story. It runs 18 minutes. The original  version runs 45 minutes and is available on its own DVD. The teasers  for the film are from the website and were created to promote the  movie at film festivals.'),
('187083',' "Bonding" is the full, uncut 20'),
('187084','minute version that was banned from  exhibition in Tennessee.'),
('187085',' Directors Brian Greer and Wash Rogers filmed a documentary inside a  cab during a trip to New York in November 2003. The film, "Total  Fuctification", is broken into 5 segments (a 6th one is hidden),  serving as a reference point on the DVD.'),
('187086',' Transmissions is presented as an "alien" transmission beamed to the  viewers television. There are subliminal images spread throughout  the entire 87 minutes.'),
('187087',' Director Brian Greers 70'),
('187088','second "Test Pattern" may cause seizures  or even insanity.'),
('187089',' A documentary in the Bray Magazine series.'),
('187090',' The license plate of the truck Frank steals is 656 STA 13.'),
('187091',' Jason Statham (qv) did most of his own stunts.'),
('187092',' When Lai is using the computer, she browses through several other  pictures before finding Wall Streets. The other pictures are all of  crew members and the names next to the pictures are all jokes  ("Gordon Zola", "Christiane Isme"...).'),
('187093',' When Lai is flipping through the pictures at Franks house, the  photo of the little boy with the monkey is really  Jason Statham (qv).'),
('187094',' Sound editor Vincent Tulli (qv) makes a cameo appearance in the  film as a trash man.'),
('187095',' The trailer for the film showed Statham deflecting a missile with a  tea tray. In the same scene in the film, the assault on Franks  house, there is no sign of this in the released version. It was  taken out at Stathams request because he didnt think audiences  would believe it.'),
('187096',' Among the assault rifles used in the movie are a Steyr StG 77 AUG,  An M'),
('187097','4 carbine, a H&K G36, and a SIG 552 rifle used by Frank when he  is checking shipping containers for the Chinese people.'),
('187098',' Franks car is a BMW 750i E38 (pre'),
('187099','facelift). The car in the movie  is the only one ever produced with a manual six'),
('187100','speed gearbox. This  information is obtained from the full'),
('187101','length audio commentary  available on the DVD. People have made conversions using the manual  gearbox from the BMW 850CSi E31 but that car is genuinely rare.'),
('187102',' Originally, it was unsure if there was going to be a sequel to  _Transporter, The (2002)_ (qv). However, after strong DVD sales, it  was quickly given the green light.'),
('187103',' When discovered at Franks place, Tarconi uses the same excuse ("Im  the cook") that Lai gave to him in the original film.'),
('187104',' Frank drives an Audi A8L W12 (W12 referring to the engine).'),
('187105',' This film is dedicated to the memory of Michael Stone (II) (qv)  who was director of photography and who died in an auto accident on  29 July 2005.'),
('187106',' The song that Kate Nauta (qv) is playing in her headphones that  shes dancing to is "Revolution", a song that she sung.'),
('187107',' The wristwatch that Frank is wearing is an Italian made watch (Swiss  movement) named "Panerai" and is a "Luminor'),
('187108','Daylight" model.'),
('187109',' Only Nokia mobile phones are seen. Among them, the phone used by  Frank in the car is the 8910 model, which was discontinued at least  a couple of years before the release of the film. The 8910 cannot be  used in the United States because it only works on 900 and 1800 GSM  bands. There are only two GSM bands in the US, 850 and 1900. The  other phone (when Frank opens the glove box to reveal 2'),
('187110','3 more  8910s) is a Nokia 6620.'),
('187111',' The gun the girl uses in the opening scene is a Glock 18'),
('187112',' All of the assault weapons featured are Heckler and Koch, with the  exception of the M4 wielded by one of the swat operatives at  Frankss house.'),
('187113',' The pistol used in the private jet towards the end is a Walther P99.'),
('187114',' Visa dexploitation en France : #110985'),
('187115',' Lolas signature automatic handguns are two Glock 18Cs with  extended 33'),
('187116','round magazines, suppressors, and laser designators  attached. These weapons are only available in limited numbers to the  military and law enforcement.'),
('187117',' Was originally supposed to have an R rating, but the studio demanded  a PG'),
('187118','13 rating to attract a wider audience.'),
('187119',' SPOILER: In the special features section on the DVD, the final fight  scene between Frank and Lola is shown in an extended version. In it,  when Lola is killed and is hanging on the spikes, she has blood  running down her lower chest and abdomen in two places. There is  also a tight shot that shows it coming out of her mouth. In the  final version, there is absolutely no blood anywhere on her torso,  and the scene is cut prior to the facial close'),
('187120','up. This was  apparently done to keep the graphic violence factor down so the  movie could retain its PG'),
('187121','13 rating.'),
('187122',' The large knife in the trunk of the car is an Emerson Kandahar  custom knife.'),
('187123',' Tarconis ring tone is from a 1970s soft rock song called "I Go  Crazy" by Paul Davis.'),
('187124',' In the trunk of Franks Audi there is a chrome'),
('187125','plated SigSauer P226R  and what appears to be a H&K G36E.'),
('187126',' Released as a split reel along with the filmed vaudeville act  _Rubber Rompers, The (1916)_ (qv).'),
('187127',' One of The Living Book of Nature animal documentary series.'),
('187128',' The last Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones (I) (qv).'),
('187129',' When Bugs rings the castle doorbell, the chimes play the opening  notes of the TV series _"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)_ (qv).'),
('187130',' The movie was financed by the Dow chemical company in order to spend  "frozen" finances (money that couldnt be spent outside the country  of origin) that the company had in Yugoslavia.'),
('187131',' The title is a pun based on the Glen Miller tune, "Pennsylvania  6'),
('187132','5000".'),
('187133',' Eighth episode in the Girl Detective 2'),
('187134','reel series.'),
('187135',' Worldview Entertainment and the Killiam Collection has released a  set of nine early movies about Christmas collectively called "A  Christmas Past," with an original score by Al Kryszak. This movie is  the third one, and has a running time of 16 minutes.'),
('187136',' This is a lost film'),
('187137',' Episode 17 of 29 of the series "Grant, Police Reporter."'),
('187138',' This is a Lost film.'),
('187139',' The first film project of Lon Chaney Jr. (qv)'),
('187140',' The scenes that Bonzo and Flick speak in other language were  actually the sound of their voices backwards.'),
('187141',' Based on _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).'),
('187142',' TV movie included in the cycle Chicho Ibáñez'),
('187143','Serradors Historias  para no dormir.'),
('187144',' TV movie included in the cycle Narciso Ibáñez Serrador presenta a  Narciso Ibáñez Menta'),
('187145',' Among the first group of motion pictures to be exhibited  commercially in the world, when the Holland Bros. Kinetoscope  Parlor opened on Broadway in New York City on 14 April 1894.'),
('187146',' Sally Marlowe (qv) was cast as Gina Lollobrigida (qv)s stunt  double until Marlowe broke her nose on set. Willy Krause (qv), a  close personal friend of Burt Lancaster (qv), was asked to fill in  as Ms. Lollobrigidas stunt double. He accepted the role.'),
('187147',' Original French title is undetermined.'),
('187148',' In the first scene at the hotel, the telephone rings to the tune of  "Pennsylvania 6'),
('187149','5000", with Fejos (Michael Richards) answering the  line as "Transylvania 6'),
('187150','5'),
('187151','0'),
('187152','0'),
('187153','0" to the beat of the tune.'),
('187154',' During the chase scene, the car driven by Agent Downey and Jack  Sylvester passes the Alto'),
('187155','Nido Apartments (1851 N. Ivar Street,  Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA). In Sunset Blvd. (1950)  this is the apartment building where Joe Gillis lived before he  moved to Norma Desmonds mansion.'),
('187156',' The Dailies (rushes) had to be sent to Toronto, Canada to be  processed and then returned to Dillard, Georgia the next evening for  viewing. rushes were watched in the dining room of the The Dillard  House on a projector shipped from Toronto for the length of the  shoot.'),
('187157',' Movie was edited at Samantha Staleys house in North Hollywood. Cut  on an AVID Film Composer.'),
('187158',' All the letters in the title T.R.A.P.P.E.D are the first letters in  all of the names of the characters in the film. (Troy, Rena, Athena,  Peter, Paradise, Earl, Dylan)'),
('187159',' Won the Grand Prize at the One'),
('187160','Take Film Festival. Zagreb, Croatia,  2003.'),
('187161',' Originally, the film was meant to take place in the south, but  because of filming locations, it was changed to Seattle.'),
('187162',' The film is dedicated to DP Piotr Sobocinski (qv), who died during  filming.'),
('187163',' Originally the movie was going to be entitled "24 Hours", but the  title was changed to avoid confusion with the Fox TV show  _"24" (2001)_ (qv).'),
('187164',' The movie that Marvin and Abigail are watching in the cabin is  _Secret of NIMH, The (1982)_ (qv).'),
('187165',' Actress Courtney Love (qv) suffered a miscarriage during filming.'),
('187166',' In the scene right before the girl is kidnapped, she is watching  _"Simpsons, The" (1989)_ (qv) episode #BABF22 "HOMR".'),
('187167',' Originally the script called for the character of Abby to be  diabetic, but _Panic Room (2002)_ (qv) also featured a little girl  with juvenile diabetes and as it was to be released first, so Abby  was changed to an asthmatic instead.'),
('187168',' During the climactic highway crash, Charlize releases a woman from  the trunk of the over'),
('187169','turned car and then runs up the embankment  toward the road, but when she gets there you can see her left leg  accidentally slip out from under her due to the wet pavement.  According to the directors DVD commentary, though in great pain  Charlize forced herself to crawl the rest of the way to finish the  scene, but once "Cut" was yelled it was realized how seriously her  left knee had been injured and filming was delayed briefly while she  was hospitalized.'),
('187170',' The event portrayed was about the submersible "Sea'),
('187171','Link" accidental  collision with a submerged wreck.'),
('187172',' The three'),
('187173','legged dog "Tripod" was added to the script when the  director saw the dog and its owner among spectators watching filming  while in Elora, Ontario.'),
('187174',' To film the river scenes, crews had to remove large ice blocks from  the Grand River in Elora, Ontario, as the river was frozen in  mid'),
('187175','winter. Local residents were worried that the ice blocks would  flow down river and wipe out the towns landmark "the Tooth Of  Time," a large rock that sits in the middle of a waterfall. This  forced crews to expend extra effort breaking up the ice blocks into  small pieces.'),
('187176',' The town in Trapped In Paradise had to appear virtually buried in  snow so that the characters were "trapped" and couldnt leave. So  filmmakers supplemented real snow with 75,000 pounds of custom'),
('187177','made,  biodegradable potato flakes from Idaho.'),
('187178',' Ninth release in Kalems "American Girl" series.'),
('187179',' The shooting took place during June 2002 on a long'),
('187180','distance bus.  Re'),
('187181','shoots were made on November 2002. The last day, 10 short shots  were filmed in 30 minutes. The bus was leaving and there was no more  days to shoot.'),
('187182',' For budget reasons the whole story was shot on a public park. The  bus just went around it all the time. You can see people and little  kiosks on the film.'),
('187183',' The producers, Julio Gutiérrez and Florencia Fiorentino both made  cameos on the film. Florencia passes in front of camera on one  scene. Julio does this and is also the drivers hand on the opening  titles.'),
('187184',' The original driver was thought to appear on one scene, so the crew  "camouflaged" it so people couldnt recognize his face. Later on the  editing room, they notice the shadows didnt allow a single feature  to be noticed.'),
('187185',' The scene were the pavement and road lines are shown, was shot with  the producer doing camera standing up on the front bumper. One hand  controlled the camera and with the other he hold itself to the  wind'),
('187186','shield wiper.'),
('187187',' Both the actress and the actor had changed hairstyles by the time  the film was re'),
('187188','shot. She had shorter hair and Federicos beard and  hair were longer and more red. This can hardly be noticed on the  film.'),
('187189',' To appear as a busy bus station, a second bus was asked to pass on a  different direction in one scene. This one belonged to the same  company than the one where the film was shot. A car tried to get  between the buses during the shooting of this scene but the bus  driver "bullied" out. The bus company only required that gas and a  little tip for the driver was offered to shot on the bus. The  shooting only took 4 days of 6'),
('187190','7 hours each.'),
('187191',' To shoot most of the scenes, the production team had to remove a row  of seats so the camera could be in front of the actors.'),
('187192',' The extras that appeared on the film were a group of boys and girls  that were having a picnic on the park and a man who was playing golf  with its dog. No one on the film except the bus driver received any  money for its work.'),
('187193',' The original story was also set on a bus but the couple talked to  each other by writing on the dimmed windows. The story also took  place during the night. Budget reasons forced the changing of the  story.'),
('187194',' The title is presented in reference guides as TRA(SGRE)DIRE and in  the film itself with the middle four letters smaller than the rest  of the title. The verb "Trasgredire" translates from Italian as "to  transgress" while the verb "Tradire" (minus the "sgre") translates  as "to betray."'),
('187195',' The second part a trilogy, _Flesh (1968)_ (qv), _Trash (1970)_ (qv),  and _Heat (1972)_ (qv), that was conceived as a reference to the  expression "sex, drugs and rock n roll", then a popular sum'),
('187196','up of  the 1960s generation.'),
('187197',' Paul Morrissey started shooting the movie in the basement of his  brownstone on 6th Street between First and Second Avenue on the  Lower East Side in October 1969. Jed Johson was the films entire  crew, functioning as "gofer, gaffer, grip and editor". Shooting  lasted two weeks.'),
('187198',' Paul Morrissey, who was against drugs, wanted the movie to  deglamorize drug taking. The original title planned for the film was  "Drug Trash," but it was decided it was too obvious.'),
('187199',' This is the first Andy Warhol (qv) film that the transvestite  Holly Woodlawn (qv) appeared in. Holly was only supposed to be in  one scene, but the rushes were so good, Morrissey asked her back to  do more. She was paid the usual acting fee for a Warhol film: $25.00  a day. When they finished shooting her footage, Holly celebrated by  using her final payment of $25.00 on heroin.'),
('187200',' In the winter of 1970, Holly Woodlawn (qv) received a telegram  from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences informing her  that the legendary, Oscar'),
('187201','winning director George Cukor (qv) had  started a campaign to get the Academy to nominate her for an Academy  Award for "Trash," supported by petitions whose signatories included  Ben Gazzara (qv) and Oscar'),
('187202','winner Joanne Woodward (qv).'),
('187203',' Oscar'),
('187204','winner Sissy Spacek (qv), an unknown at the time, appeared  in "Trash," although her scene was later cut. Spacek has said of the  experience, "I was in Andys Trash when I was a teenager....I  didnt mind [that the scene was cut], because I really saw myself as  a singer. I went under the name Rainbo. I had this single called  John Lennon, You Went Too Far This Time, about John and Yoko  posing nude on their album cover."'),
('187205',' Unlike his predecessor John Trevelyan (qv) the new UK censor  Stephen Murphy (IV) (qv) had little time for Warhols movies and,  again unlike _Flesh (1968)_ (qv), Trash would receive a checkered  history in the UK. The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate  in 1971 and only passed the following year after 8 minutes of  distributor edits (mainly to dialogue) and 2 minutes 48 secs of BBFC  cuts which removed a simulated fellatio scene, footage of syringes  and an infamous masturbation scene involving a beer bottle. The  initial 1991 UK video release by Virgin Video was the heavily cut  cinema version, as well as losing a further 1 minute 12 secs of  instructive drug use, bringing the cuts total to 12 minutes. The  1996 First Independent Films video release managed to include the  masturbation and fellatio scenes, as well as the 8 minutes of  distributor edits, from the cinema version but was still missing 2  minutes 20 secs of heroin'),
('187206','related footage. The film was finally  passed completely uncut in the UK in June 2005.'),
('187207',' DIRCAMEO(Mark Anthony Galluzzo): Performs uncredited voiceover  throughout the picture.'),
('187208',' Grip and Truck Driver Tommy Hoe makes an appearance in the end of  the film as the janitor at the university. Hoe also wrote and  performed the song over the closing credits (along with another Grip  Jeff Morris) entitled "Nobodys Children" which was the original  title of the film.'),
('187209',' CAMEO(Alan Ronald (qv)): a monster with a red demonic face.'),
('187210',' CAMEO(Danny James (qv)): a Zombie surgeons assistant with a  surgical mask pushing a trolley during a fight scene.'),
('187211',' Most of the blood Splatter was achieved through the use of a  bicycle pump.'),
('187212',' Screening with directors Q&A held as part of TromaFling 2005.  Inspired by the Tromadance festival in America , TromaFling is a UK  film festival devoted to independent films, filmmakers and fans.  Tuesday August 23rd, 8PM, Iglu Bar, TromaFling Festival, Edinburgh,  UK'),
('187213',' The film won the Best Screenplay award at the 2005 Tromafling  Festival in Edinburgh UK, and was also awarded runner'),
('187214','up position  for Best UK Feature.'),
('187215',' The actor Alfred Then was a clown in real life. He even has an  academic degree in it, but stepped out of the clown business shortly  after the movie was completed. The reason for this decision was a  personal one and had nothing to to with this film.'),
('187216',' The opening sketch that the clown is showing to his audience is an  adaption of a real life sketch done by Alfred Then in his clown  career.'),
('187217',' Originally the "Cart house builder" and the "whistling warden" were  casted vice versa. But two weeks before filming the director decided  to switch the roles; because Manfred Koller just looked more  convincing as an in'),
('187218','patient. Both actors were happy with the  decision.'),
('187219',' All scenes outside the mental house were scheduled to be shot in two  days. But rain came in, so the production was forced to stop  filming. Due to schedule interferences with the cast, those two days  became fife days spread over an entire month. This is also the  reason for the bad weather continuity in the outside scenes.'),
('187220',' The end when the little girl turns the "clown'),
('187221','nose" inside out  wasnt planned in the script. It was an spontaneous idea, since the  actress Kora didnt want to put on the clown'),
('187222','nose. A compromise was  found by the director and her in turning it inside'),
('187223','out.'),
('187224',' This was Dario Argento (qv)s first American production.'),
('187225',' The role of Grace was originally offered to Bridget Fonda (qv).'),
('187226',' An opening sequence was supposed to feature Tom Savini being  accidentally decapitated while the event is witnessed by the killer  therefore triggering his/her dormant trauma.'),
('187227',' The character played by Asia Argento is inspired by her half'),
('187228','sister  Anna (Nicolodis daughter from a previous marriage) who actually  suffered from anorexia. Anna died in a scooter accident in 1994  shortly after the films release, but she is seen in the actual  movie during the closing credits dancing in the balcony.'),
('187229',' SPOILER: Piper Lauries death was much more violent in the shooting  script. The wire was supposed to cut through her mouth therefore  splitting her head in half and not through her neck. Tom Savini also  claims Argento wanted to shoot it from the inside of Lauries mouth,  so he asked to work on an over'),
('187230','sized mouth model in order to place  the camera. But after Argento came up with the idea of the head  saying "Nicholas", the set'),
('187231','piece was scratched out.'),
('187232',' Argentos usual collaborating rock band Goblin was originally  suggested to write and perform the music score for the film, but  were declined by the American producers who wanted something more  friendly to the American audience, therefore Pino Donaggios  orchestral score was used.'),
('187233',' Piper Laurie revealed in 1997 that she never even bothered to see  the finished film because she heard it was terrible, and that she  and Frederic Forrest would constantly sit through the entire  shooting laughing.'),
('187234',' Performance filmed live in the theatre and released on DVD'),
('187235',' Part of the Nazi film series "Die Frontshau" (The Front Show). The  series was produced to screen to German troops to prepare them for  the upcoming 1941 assault on Soviet territories. It was censored  from the German public during WWII.'),
('187236',' Martin Johnsons South Sea Adventures series.'),
('187237',' This was filmed at Alabamas then recently closed Kilby Prison off  of Coliseum Blvd. in Montgomery. As part of an agreement with the  state for filming rights, filmmakers were supposed to have  demolished the prisons massive walls with pyrotechnics during/after  the film. However, the walls were so thick, three charges failed to  do the job, and their remnants stayed around for years afterwards.'),
('187238',' This was one of the first seven films to be foreclosed by the Screen  Actors Guild for non'),
('187239','payment of wages and residuals to SAG members.  On 13 July 2004, rights to the film were sold at auction.'),
('187240',' Josh Hartnett tried out for the role of Pat, but Mark Wahlberg was  given the part instead.'),
('187241',' In Jim McGlynns original (Nicoll Fellowship'),
('187242','winning) screenplay,  Pat died in Bokkys arms while convincing him, in his broken gypsy  dialect, not to leave the traveller family. The ending was  re'),
('187243','written on'),
('187244','location at the behest of Bill Paxton and Jack Green.'),
('187245',' Filmmaker Rick King (I) (qv) held an option on the screenplay for  Traveller (1997) (qv) by Jim McGlynn (qv). However,  Bill Paxton (qv) paid King handsomely to walk away from the  project so that he could produce the film himself, with  Jack N. Green (I) (qv) as director.'),
('187246',' Jim McGlynn (qv) won the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship for his  screenplay.'),
('187247',' First film to be shot in Bhutan, the Himalayan nation/kingdom that  was prototype for _Lost Horizon (1937)_ (qv).'),
('187248',' Dedicated to Joseph Lanners, Bouli Lannersfather.'),
('187249',' Katharine Hepburn (qv) was fired by the producer early in the  filming for demanding too many script changes.'),
('187250',' Joy Bang (qv) auditioned for the role of Tooley by reading for  Katharine Hepburn (qv) but lost the part when Hepburn left the  project. Cybill Shepherd (qv) also read for the role but was told  by director George Cukor (qv) that she couldnt play comedy  after the audition.'),
('187251',' Italian censorship certificate : # 23043/ dated November 17, 1956.  Visa dexploitation en France : # 15104'),
('187252',' Award : Victoire du Cinéma français 1957'),
('187253',' Filmed in color but processed in black and white.'),
('187254',' Carlo Rizzi (qv) stepped in for the late Marcello Viotti (qv)  who was supposed to conduct this opera, but passed away a few months  earlier.'),
('187255',' La Traviata was a live'),
('187256','transmission from a premiere of the Salzburg  Festival, on August 7, 2005.'),
('187257',' Introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips (qv). In the 1980s while a  college student in Texas, Lou was the understudy for Benton Jennings  (who plays Travis) in a production of Noel Cowards "Tonight At  8:30" at the professional theatre Stage West.'),
('187258',' Benton Jennings, who plays Travis, had read for the role of Travis  in the 1988 IMAX film "Alamo. The Price Of Freedom" but the part  went instead to Casey Biggs.'),
('187259',' The film was shot on location in the Italian Aeronautical Academy  (Accademia Aeronautica Italiana) in Caserta. Most cadets featured in  the film were real recruits of the academy.'),
('187260',' Italian censorship visa #29869 delivered on 30 November 1937.'),
('187261',' Available at the Danish Public Libraries (De Danske  Folkebiblioteker)'),
('187262',' Ferdinand Schumann'),
('187263','Heink (qv) is in casting call lists playing  "Cliff" in this movie. But that character was played by  Sam Rice (I) (qv).'),
('187264',' Based on the radio serial "The Show Must Go On."'),
('187265',' Kirstie Alleys character makes all these jokes about looking like  Cinderella. Her wand is actually from the Franklin Mint Collection  and her wand is called "Cinderellas Fairy Godmothers Wand".'),
('187266',' James Finlayson (qv) is shown in an uncredited photograph as  Kellys uncle Stony Harbour.'),
('187267',' This film is considered lost. Please check your attic.'),
('187268',' Filmed in England, not in the West Indies.'),
('187269',' Bobby Driscoll only had a 3 month work permit in England so all his  scenes were filmed first, a long way out of continuity, in order to  complete his role in time.'),
('187270',' Howard Douglas (qv) replaced actor Caven Watson (qv) at short  notice.'),
('187271',' One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was  first telecast in January 1955, as part of the  _"Disneyland" (1954)_ (qv) television program. It was the first  Disney live'),
('187272','action film to be shown complete on television, in two  one'),
('187273','hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the  entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the  1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to  "Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to  NBC.'),
('187274',' Disneys first live action movie. Walt Disney (qv) started the  project when postwar restrictions stopped him from transferring  profits from his cartoons out of Great Britain. Rather than set up a  new animation studio, he used the profits and existing facilities to  produce a conventional film.'),
('187275',' The ship used in the film is The Bounty from the 1962 production of  _Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)_ (qv).'),
('187276',' Clive Wood (qv) was an 11th'),
('187277','hour replacement for Ben Cross'),
('187278',' The name of the ship, "R.L.S. Legacy" is a reference to the books  ("Treasure Island") author, Robert Louis Stevenson (qv).'),
('187279',' When Jim and Dr. Doppler arrive at the space'),
('187280','port they get  directions from two characters using a ladder. These are caricatures  of the two directors: Musker, John (qv) (at the top of the ladder)  and Clements, Ron (qv) (holding the bottom of the ladder).'),
('187281',' This is the first Disney film in which the maquettes (small  reference sculptures of the characters) were not made entirely by  hand, out of clay. Silvers cyborg parts were constructed out of  plastic, using laser technology.'),
('187282',' The animators visited a Benihana restaurant to take notes for the  scene where John Silver chops shrimp.'),
('187283',' The performance of Jim Hawkins was based in part on  James Dean (I) (qv).'),
('187284',' This film was pitched to Disney by John Musker (qv) and  Ron Clements (qv) several times: (1) In 1985, during production on  _Black Cauldron, The (1985)_ (qv), but they ended up assigned to  direct _Great Mouse Detective, The (1986)_ (qv). (2) After directing  _Little Mermaid, The (1989)_ (qv), but they ended up assigned to  direct _Aladdin (1992)_ (qv). (3) After directing  _Aladdin (1992)_ (qv), but the studio wanted them to direct  _Hercules (1997)_ (qv). Musker and Clements agreed to direct that  film only if they were allowed to make Treasure Planet right after  it.'),
('187285',' Dr. Doppler paraphrases Dr. McCoy of _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv) when  he proclaims "Darn it, Jim, Im an astronomer, not a doctor!"'),
('187286',' B.E.N. the robot sings a few bars from "Pirates of the Carribean", a  pirate themed attraction at the Magic Kingdom.'),
('187287',' Three types of animation are used simultaneously in some scenes. The  human characters are hand'),
('187288','drawn. John Silvers mechanical arm and  the robot B.E.N. are flat'),
('187289','rendered CGI, while the ship was created  using Disneys Deep Canvas process.'),
('187290',' At a cost of $180 million (including $40 million for advertising),  and a worldwide gross of $101 million, this is Disneys biggest  financial loss.'),
('187291',' When young Jim is in bed, and he says, "Love you, too", we see a toy  Stitch from _Lilo & Stitch (2002)_ (qv) on one of the shelves next  to his bed.'),
('187292',' The first feature film ever simultaneously released to both regular  and large'),
('187293','format (IMAX) theatres.'),
('187294',' The films look is based on 19th'),
('187295','Century oil painting illustrations.  Since oil paintings were difficult to scan into the computer, all  the backgrounds were created digitally.'),
('187296',' Alan Silvestri left the movie to work on Lilo and Stitch. The  company then wanted James Newtown Howard to score the film, who had  conducted, and recorded all his music scores in less then five  months.'),
('187297',' 10 years in the making.'),
('187298',' Footage from Disneys animated Peter Pan was used to test CGI grafts  onto animated bodies.'),
('187299',' The contest between Jim and Silver, each coaxing Morph to come to  them they could obtain the map, was ad'),
('187300','libbed by the actors.'),
('187301',' In one of the deleted scenes, we learn that Jim Hawkins is 15 years  old.'),
('187302',' A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.'),
('187303',' As with the BYFB film Upstaged, the majority of the cast consisted  of students in further education. But unlike Upstaged several  colleges took part rather than one.'),
('187304',' Sixth episode in the Girl from Frisco 2'),
('187305','reel series'),
('187306',' The movies line "Badges? We aint got no badges! We dont need no  badges! I dont have to show you any stinking badges!" was voted as  the #36 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).'),
('187307',' In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #38 Greatest  Movie of All Time.'),
('187308',' Director John Huston (I) (qv) had read the book The Treasure of  the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (qv) in 1936 and had always thought  the material would make a great movie. Based on a nineteenth'),
('187309','century  ballad by a German poet, Travens book reminded Huston of his own  adventures in the Mexican Cavalry. When Huston became a director at  Warner Bros., starting with the smash success of The  _Maltese Falcon, The (1941)_ (qv), Huston asked to write and direct  the project, which Warner Bros. had previously secured the movie  rights.'),
('187310',' There were scenes in which Walter Huston (qv) had to speak fluent  Spanish, a language he did not know off camera. To fill this need,  John Huston (I) (qv) hired a Mexican to record the lines, and then  the elder Huston memorized them so well that many assumed he knew  the language like a native.'),
('187311',' Just as John Huston (I) (qv) was starting to shoot scenes in  Tampico, Mexico, the production was shut down inexplicably by the  local government. It turns out that a local newspaper printed a  false story that accused the filmmakers of making a production that  was unflattering to Mexico. Fortunately, two of Hustons associates,  Diego Rivera (I) (qv) and Miguel Covarrubias (qv), went to bat  for the director with the President of Mexico. The libelous  accusations were dropped.'),
('187312',' The reclusive novelist B. Traven (qv) was asked if he would like  to visit the set during location shooting. He demurred, but said he  would be sending an associate instead. The associate was actually  Traven himself, using a pseudonym.'),
('187313',' Walter Huston (qv), father of director John Huston (I) (qv), won  the Academy Award for best supporting actor. John won for best  direction. This was the first father/son win.'),
('187314',' To lend authenticity to his role, Walter Huston (qv) was persuaded  by his son John to perform without his false teeth.'),
('187315',' The little boy who sells Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart (qv)) the portion  of the winning lottery ticket is Robert Blake (I) (qv) (of "Little  Rascals" and _"Baretta" (1975)_ (qv) fame).'),
('187316',' John Huston (I) (qv) stated that working with his father on this  picture and his dads subsequent Oscar win were among the favorite  moments of his life.'),
('187317',' DIRCAMEO (John Huston (I) (qv)): the man who Dobbs begs money from  three times early in the film.'),
('187318',' John Huston (I) (qv) was fascinated by mysterious author  B. Traven (qv), who was a recluse living in Mexico. Traven  approved of the director and his screenplay (by letter, obviously),  and sent his intimate friend Hal Croves to the location to be a  technical advisor and translator for $150 a week. The general  consensus is that Croves was in fact Traven, though he always denied  this. Huston was happy not to query him on the subject but his  then'),
('187319','wife Evelyn Keyes (qv) was certain Croves was the mysterious  author, believing that he was continually giving himself away,  saying "I" when it should have been "he", and using phrases that  were exactly the same as those to be found in Travens letters to  Huston. All very ironic, especially considering that Traven was  offered $1000 a week to act as technical advisor on the film.'),
('187320',' SPOILER: John Huston (I) (qv)s original filmed depiction of  Dobbs death was more graphic'),
('187321','as it was in the book'),
('187322','than the one  that eventually made it onto the screen. When Gold Hat strikes Dobbs  with his machete, Dobbs is decapitated. Huston shot Dobbs (fake)  head rolling into the waterhole (theres a quick shot of Gold Hats  accomplices reacting to Dobbs rolling head that remains in the film  and in the very next shot you can see the water rippling where it  rolled in). The 1948 censors would not have allowed that, so Huston  camouflaged the cut shot with a repeat shot of Gold Hat striking  Dobbs. Warner Bros publicity department released a statement that  Humphrey Bogart (qv) was "disappointed the scene couldnt be shown  in all its graphic glory". Bogarts reaction: "Whats wrong with  showing a guy getting his head cut off?"'),
('187323',' John Huston (I) (qv) played one of his infamous practical jokes on  Bruce Bennett (I) (qv) in the campfire scene in which he eats a  plate of stew. Bennett knew that his character was starving so he  wolfed down the food as quickly as possible. Huston then demanded  another take. And another. In both extra takes the rapidly  filling'),
('187324','up Bennett again had to eat a large plate of stew.  Unbeknownst to him, Huston had been happy with the first take. The  cameras werent even rolling for the second and the third. He just  wanted to see how much food Bennett could lower before he became too  stuffed. As soon as the joke was revealed, Huston added insult to  injury by calling for a lunch break.  Filmed in Mexico, though Warners studio head Jack L. Warner (qv)  had the unit return to Hollywood when the budget started to exceed  $3 million (Warner, however, did admit that he thought the film was  one of the greatest ever made).'),
('187325',' Humphrey Bogart (qv) started losing his hair in 1947, round about  the time he was making _Dark Passage (1947)_ (qv), partly because of  hormone shots he was taking to improve his chances of having a child  with wife Lauren Bacall (qv) (although his excessive drinking and  lack of vitamin B were probably also factors in his hair loss). He  was completely bald by the time he arrived in Mexico. Once on  location, Bogart started taking vitamin B shots, and some of his  hair grew back. But he did sport a wig throughout the entire shoot,  albeit one that was artfully muddied and matted to cover up the  joins.'),
('187326',' John Huston (I) (qv) wrote the part of Howard specifically for his  father, Walter Huston (qv). The character that appears in the  original novel is much older. Indeed, author B. Traven (qv) had  envisaged Lewis Stone (qv) in the part.'),
('187327',' It was novelist B. Traven (qv) who suggested that  John Huston (I) (qv) play the part of the American tourist.'),
('187328',' John Huston (I) (qv) has a cameo as an American tourist. This  scene was directed by Humphrey Bogart (qv), who took malicious  pleasure on his director by making him perform the scene over and  over again.'),
('187329',' When John Huston (I) (qv) first started working on the project in  1941, the studio had George Raft (qv), Edward G. Robinson (qv)  and John Garfield (I) (qv) in mind for the three main roles. Then  World War II intervened. By the time Huston came back from making  several documentaries for the war effort, Humphrey Bogart (qv) had  become Warner Brothers biggest star. This was entirely appropriate,  for when Bogart first got wind of the fact that Huston might be  making a film of the B. Traven (qv) novel, he immediately started  badgering Huston for a part.'),
('187330',' As production dragged on, Humphrey Bogart (qv), who was an avid  yachtsman, was starting to get increasingly anxious about missing  the Honolulu Classic, the Catalina'),
('187331','to'),
('187332','Hawaii race in which he  usually took part. Despite assurances from the studio that he would  be wrapped on the picture by then, he started to constantly dog  John Huston (I) (qv) about whether he would be done in time.  Eventually Huston had enough and grabbed Bogart by the nose and  twisted hard. Bogart never asked him how long before the shooting  was over again.'),
('187333',' Producer Henry Blanke (qv) had originally wanted  John Garfield (I) (qv) in the Tim Holt (I) (qv) role, but  Garfield was unavailable. Ronald Reagan (I) (qv) was then  considered.'),
('187334',' On seeing the depth of Walter Huston (qv)s performance,  Humphrey Bogart (qv) famously said. "One Huston is bad enough, but  two are murder."'),
('187335',' Initially thrilled at Walter Huston (qv)s scene'),
('187336','stealing  performance, as the shoot wore on producer Henry Blanke (qv)  started to have second thoughts about Huston upstaging the films  star, Humphrey Bogart (qv), and so John Huston (I) (qv) started  to get notes from the studio telling him to tone down his fathers  performance.'),
('187337',' One of the first American films to be made almost entirely on  location outside the USA.'),
('187338',' Vincent Sherman (qv) was all set to direct a version of the story  during the WWII years until his script fell foul of the Breen office  for being derogatory towards Mexicans.'),
('187339',' John Huston (I) (qv) at the time had not been married very long to  Evelyn Keyes (qv), who he constantly belittled and humiliated on  the location shoot. Eventually Keyes returned to Hollywood to shoot  another picture. During this time Huston decided that he wanted to  adopt a little orphan boy called Pablo who had been hanging around  the set. Keyes first got wind of this when she greeted Huston and  Pablo at the airport upon their return from Mexico.'),
('187340',' The film took 5'),
('187341','1/2 months to shoot and was 29 days over schedule.'),
('187342',' Robert Blake (I) (qv) snatched the water glass and coffee cup '),
('187343','  instrumental props from his big scene '),
('187344',' as mementos of his time on  the film.'),
('187345',' Humphrey Bogart (qv)s and Tim Holt (qv)s very first scene  together was also the very first scene shot.'),
('187346',' The fight scene in the cantina took five days to shoot.'),
('187347',' Walter Huston (qv) learned his famous jig from playwright Eugene  ONeill (I) (qv) when he was performing in ONeills play "Desire  Under the Elms" in 1925. This most famous of dances was unscripted  and was Walters idea.'),
('187348',' Robert Rossen (qv) submitted at least nine drafts of rewrites on  the screenplay when John Huston (I) (qv) was away during the war.'),
('187349',' A doctor was assigned to the unit in Mexico and one night he had to  attend to John Huston (I) (qv), who had an adverse reaction to  marijuana, having smoked it for the first time with his father. He  never touched the stuff again.'),
('187350',' John Huston (I) (qv) originally wanted to cast  Ronald Reagan (I) (qv) as James Cody. Warner Bros. studio boss  Jack L. Warner (qv) instead insisted on casting Reagan in  _Voice of the Turtle, The (1947)_ (qv). Bruce Bennett (I) (qv) was  eventually cast as Cody.'),
('187351',' The bum seated near Walter Huston in the first scene in the Oso  Negro flophouse is Jack Holt (I) (qv), father of  Tim Holt (I) (qv). (Holt is not the man who speaks to Bogart and  Tim Holt in the saloon, as stated by Eric Lax in his DVD commentary.  That actor is Pat Flaherty (qv).)'),
('187352',' John Melanson (qv) was cast because he is a blacksmith in real  life; however, he also played (without credit) the man in black  gloves.'),
('187353',' Coleco is credited with creating a Colecovision follow'),
('187354','up, but they  backed out after a silver horse was buried somewhere in Oregon.  According to Renan, the horse is still there, probably being broken  down by the elements, since a puzzle to find it was never written.'),
('187355',' Cinemataographer Hilyard John Brown (qv) came up with the idea to  do a film with an actual buried treasure for viewers to find. He  opted out of working on the film because director  Sheldon Renan (qv) wanted a lot of helicopter shooting, and Brown  had had too many close calls in helicopters.'),
('187356',' Viewers of the film were given the opportunity to win a 24 karat  gold horse statue and $500,000 for solving the puzzzle; however, no  one solved the puzzle by the deadline and the money and horse were  given to Big Brothers/Big Sisters.'),
('187357',' The book and film were written at the same time, but Amanda was not  yet named when the film was shot, so she is known only as "the Girl"  in the film.'),
('187358',' Benchley had been performing this routine since 1922.'),
('187359',' John Zorn who composed the score for the film won a MacArthur  Foundation, the "Genius" award for his music in 2006.'),
('187360',' Apart from Amedeo Trilli (qv) the cast was composed of officers  and soldiers of the 1st and 2nd "Cuneese" alpine divisions.'),
('187361',' Several entire blocks were constructed in Trollhättan to simulate  locations of Munich and the Hague.'),
('187362',' Stunt coordinator Stefan Kumberg (qv) fell 18 meters deep while  checking out a stunt, his ropes teared. He needed six months for  rehabilitation. Peter Lundberg (IV) (qv) acted as his substitute.'),
('187363',' Sylvester has absolutely no dialogue, one of his very few silent  appearances in a Tweety cartoon.'),
('187364',' Gene Tierney (qv) was originally cast as Katie Nolan. When Tierney  became pregnant, Dorothy McGuire (I) (qv) was given the role.'),
('187365',' MacMurray, Fred (qv) campaigned for the role of Johnny Nolan and  Faye, Alice (qv) was at one time considered for Aunt Sissy.'),
('187366',' Director Elia Kazan (qv) and Betty Smith (I) (qv), author of the  novel the film was based on, were classmates at the Yale School of  Drama.'),
('187367',' After being so impressed by the dailies of the film, executives at  Fox wanted to re'),
('187368','shoot the entire movie in Technicolor, but  Elia Kazan (qv) refused.'),
('187369',' Nicholas Ray came out from New York with Kazan for his directorial  debut. Besides his brief appearance in the cast as a bakery clerk,  various sources have him working as assistant director and assisting  Alfred Newman with the score, but studio records officially list him  as dialogue director.'),
('187370',' Besides Gene Tierney, Mary Anderson and Jeanne Crain were rumored  for the Katie Nolan role while it was reported that Phil Regan was  the leading candidate for the role of Johnny. Alice Faye was the  first actress considered for the role of Katie, not Aunt Sissie,  according to the Hollywood Reporter in 1943.'),
('187371',' The Betty Smith novel was the object of prepublication bidding  competition between several studios with Darryl Zanuck and Fox  ultimately paying $55,000 for the rights.'),
('187372',' Laurel & Hardys only color theatrical short subject.'),
('187373',' Laurel & Hardys bit was filmed one day on their lunch hour.'),
('187374',' In the summer of 1978, Malick had begun work on this film, which was  his most ambitious project. It was called Q at the time, but now it  has returned with the title Tree of Life.'),
('187375',' The opera, composed by Scott Joplin in the early years of the  twentieth century, was not given its world premiere until 1975, when  it was premiered by the Houston Grand Opera. The orchestrations were  made by American composer'),
('187376','conductor Gunther Schuller, and were based  on Scott Joplins original piano/vocal score. Joplin died before  being able to orchestrate it.'),
('187377',' Shot entirely on digital video.'),
('187378',' The movie is a _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) parody and many lines are direct  references: "Thats the thing about trees... theyre silent like the  night! They dont make a noise... they just stand there." "Everyone  out of the woods!" "This was no lawnmower accident!" "We tell them  theres a killer tree on the loose, and youve got pandemonium on  Memorial Day!" "Jim, if you open up those campgrounds on Memorial  Day, well, its like opening up a buffet, for chrissakes!"  "Apparently, a great white pine has staked its claim to the woods  around Hazelville." "A cage wont work with that tree!" "Didnt they  say on TV they caught the tree?" "Youre gonna need a bigger axe."'),
('187379',' Just as _Trees (2000) (V)_ (qv) was a _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) parody,  this film parodies _Jaws 2 (1978)_ (qv).'),
('187380',' Several well'),
('187381','known movies are parodied, with trees replacing  whatever was originally there, including:  _Star Wars: Episode V '),
('187382',' The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv),  _Braveheart (1995)_ (qv), and _Jurassic Park (1993)_ (qv). There is  also an allusion to _The Evil Dead (1981)_ (qv).'),
('187383',' Shortly after the final cut of the film was edited and  post'),
('187384','production complete, a lightning strike irreparably damaged the  hard drive the final cut of the film was stored on, completely  destroying the film. Director Michael Pleckaitis was forced to start  from scratch and completely re'),
('187385','edit the film. The process was so  time'),
('187386','consuming and frustrating, that he never wanted to direct make  another film. As a result, he never made the planned third film in  the "tree'),
('187387','logy" '),
('187388',' "Trees 3: Regeneration". He took a three'),
('187389','year  hiatus before beginning production on "Silent".'),
('187390',' Buscemi, Steve (qv) once was an actual ice cream truck driver on  the streets where his character is shown driving such a truck.'),
('187391',' About 8 minutes in, just before Buscemi drives up to the garage  where he has dialogue with a mechanic about his cars problem, he  passes a parking lot. In the lot are three men walking together in  the distance. Theyre dressed in _Reservoir Dogs (1992)_ (qv) garb  (black suits, white shorts, black tie); an homage to the film that  put Buscemi on the map.'),
('187392',' Argentinas first Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language  Film in 1975.'),
('187393',' The director Sergio Renán did a small participation in the movie,  interpreting Jaimes boyfriend.'),
('187394',' The film was based on the novel from Uruguayan writer Mario  Benedetti.'),
('187395',' Minutes after losing his memory Thanassis turns on the radio and the  song "O Agathoklis" by Yorgos Zambetas is heard. The same year  (1967) Thanassis Vengos played the main character in the movie "Pare  kosme" whose name was Agathoklis. The same song is heard on that  movie too.'),
('187396',' Michael Gross (I) (qv) began filming one day after shooting the  last episode of _"Family Ties" (1982)_ (qv).'),
('187397',' The "graboids" are very reminiscent of the giant worms in  _Dune (1984)_ (qv). Both are giant worms, live underground, live in  the desert, have large mouths on the end, and respond to vibrations  on the surface. Also, both films have the characters escaping the  worms by retreating to rocks where they cant get attacked.'),
('187398',' The license plate for Burt and Heather Gummers vehicle reads, UZI  4U. The bumper sticker on their vehicles right front bumper reads  "Free Afghanistan".'),
('187399',' Valentines belt buckle is in the shape of a heart.'),
('187400',' Originally, the monsters were supposed to be completely dry, not  slimy. This was changed when it was remarked that the gloss paint  effect made them look like they were covered in nail varnish.'),
('187401',' The original ending of the film was much different. Val and Earl  head out to Bixbie and Val doesnt hook up with Rhonda. But it is  implied. The two are looking for their lighter and realize that  Rhonda still has it, they turn around and head back. This ending was  shot, and tested for one audience, and was not well received. It is  available in the documentary on the DVD.'),
('187402',' S.S. Wilson (I) (qv) said that he got the idea for the film while  he was working for the US Navy in the California desert. While  resting on a rock, he imagined what it might be like if something  underground kept him from getting off the rock.'),
('187403',' The "elephant gun" used by Burt to kill the Graboid in his basement  is a Belgian'),
('187404','made William Moore & Co. 8'),
('187405','gauge shotgun.'),
('187406',' Roof scene shot in pouring rain, under a canopy of tarpaulins.'),
('187407',' Uses footage from _Tremors (1990)_ (qv) for some of the Graboids  scenes.'),
('187408',' The film is a virtual TV pilot as it was used to sell the TV series  _"Tremors" (2003)_ (qv), which used all the characters and actors  from the film, old and new.'),
('187409',' In the trailer, the character of Burt Gummer  (Michael Gross (I) (qv)) is referred to as Bert Gummer.'),
('187410',' Mary Gross, which is the sister of Michael Gross, plays a small part  in this movie. She plays the mom who has the line "Thankyou Mr  Goober". She is listed in the credits as "Tourist Mom"'),
('187411',' Michael Gross (I) (qv) was the only person to appear in all four  Tremors movies. In _Tremors (1990)_ (qv),  _Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) (V)_ (qv) and  _Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) (V)_ (qv), he played Burt  Gummer. In _Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) (V)_ (qv), he played  Hiram Gummer, an ancestor of Burt Gummer.'),
('187412',' The actual Playmate for October of 1974 was Ester Cordet, a  brown'),
('187413','haired Panamanian, in contrast to the blondeness of the films  Helen Shaver.'),
('187414',' The actual Playboy centerfold seen in the film is of Debbie Ellison,  Miss September 1970.'),
('187415',' In preparation for the film, the director sent to main cast to a  replica trench for a night to experience the conditions the British  army suffered.'),
('187416',' Controversial upon its release for containing adult themes that some  felt were inappropriate for a Walt Disney movie. This controversy  eventually led to Disney creating its Touchstone Pictures division  in order to release more adult fare.'),
('187417',' The final film of John Justin.'),
('187418',' Like many films produced in Italy in 1944'),
('187419','45, very little  information is available about this film. We know that it was  completed but there is no evidence of it ever being released.'),
('187420',' Memo Benassi(qv) was originally cast in the title role but he had  to abandon the project for health reasons.'),
('187421',' This Documentary has been Nominated as "Best Grand Reportage" by the  "Comité francais de lAudiovisuel" in 1997 in Paris.'),
('187422',' Writer/director Ismael Rodríguez had so much material shot from this  movie that as a producer he decided to use that excess to make  another movie. The result was _Vuelven los García (1947)_ (qv)  released the same year as the original, gaining commercial success  as well as some of the industrys accolades of the year.'),
('187423',' First Mexican animated feature film.'),
('187424',' Special Prize of the Jury in Festival of New Values of Las Palmas,  Spain, in 1962.'),
('187425',' The title was changed from "Looter" shortly before release to avoid  any connection with the 1992 riots in Los Angeles that had recently  occurred.'),
('187426',' Loosely based on _Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)_ (qv).'),
('187427',' The photo of the church within the newspaper clipping with the  caption St. Anthonys Catholic Church is actually Immaculate  Conception Catholic Church, located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on  Garrison Ave.'),
('187428',' Jazz musician John Zorn originally scored the entire film, complete  with multiple cues and even scored both the original and alternate  endings. As with many other films, Walter Hill was unhappy with the  end result and hired old pal Ry Cooder to rescore the whole film.'),
('187429',' In the original script the character of Lucky was actually called  Lucy and was King James girlfriend. Also, Vince and Don were not  from Fort Smith, Arkansas but from Ashland, Kentucky.'),
('187430',' Gloria Swanson (qv) originally hired writer/director  Edmund Goulding (qv) to help her complete Queen Kelly, the  unfinished silent epic shed started with Erich von Stroheim (qv).  After hed spent months editing Von Stroheims footage, Goulding  persuaded Swanson to make The Trespasser instead. He wrote the  script in three weeks, the movie was in theaters by the end of the  year, and Swanson recouped enough money to pay off Queen Kellys  backers.'),
('187431',' Official Selection '),
('187432',' 2005 Temecula Valley International Film  Festival'),
('187433',' Official Selection '),
('187434',' 2006 San Francisco Independent Film Festival'),
('187435',' Official Selection '),
('187436',' 2005 Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival'),
('187437',' The first feature film entirely produced at Boyana Film [bg] after  the national film industry had been nationalized in 1948.'),
('187438',' Louis Joseph Vance admitted that his novel was written with a  single aim." That aim was "to compose a story susceptible to the  adaptation to motion'),
('187439','pictures purposes."'),
('187440',' Although lost, this historical serial has been reconstructed in book  form using the original novel and existing action photo stills as  part of the Serial Squadron Lost Serial Photonovel re'),
('187441','creations. It  was published July 15, 2005.'),
('187442',' In 1996, members of the Yugoslavian Board of the Academy of Film Art  and Science (AFUN) voted this film the 4th best Serbian movie made  in 1947'),
('187443','1995 period.'),
('187444',' Shown on Norwegian, German, Swiss, Czech and Slovak television every  Christmas.'),
('187445',' The film started in the CSSR with 400 copies. For a long time, all  screenings were sold out.'),
('187446',' The actors were both Czechs and Germans and they all spoke their  native language. In the respective editions, they were dubbed to  Czech or German.'),
('187447',' Biograph production number 3268.'),
('187448',' Biograph production number 260.'),
('187449',' Peter Cushing (qv) was given a small role when another film  project fell through.'),
('187450',' The feature film debut of Bernard Hill.'),
('187451',' Vitaphone production reel #1234A'),
('187452',' Sixth episode in Warner Bros. Santa Fe Trail series of 2'),
('187453','reel  Westerns'),
('187454',' Delores Taylor claims that the lyrics of "The Theme from The Trial  of Billy Jack" came to her in a dream.'),
('187455',' The Indian Rights symposium in the film was unscripted. The  testimonials delivered were written by the actual speakers/actors.'),
('187456',' A few months before the release of the film, a potential disaster  threatened the success of the release. In "Variety",  director/star/writer Laughlin read the news that the executives in  charge of the films distribution, Lou Marx (who was once a top  executive at MGM during the studios golden days) and Roger Reese  (who was almost single'),
('187457','handedly responsible for the original films  financial success) had suddenly quit, and they had done it during a  press conference at the National Association of Theater Owners  convention in Atlanta, the biggest event of the year for the  nations theater owners. The reason they had quit, they announced,  was that Laughlin had changed the deal and was now refusing to give  distributors the picture without a cash advance. Laughlin regarded  it as an outright lie. With this development, Laughlin and wife  Delores Taylor knew that their film would be denied exhibition in  each of the 1,200 theaters that agreed to show it. The problem was  resolved and the film went on to become one of the top money'),
('187458','makers  of 1974.'),
('187459',' The actual trial of Old Drum was where the origin of the saying "A  mans best friend is his dog" came from.'),
('187460',' A statue of Old Drum stands in front of the City Hall of Warrensburg  Missouri.'),
('187461',' This film made its American debut on the Disney Channel in 1995.'),
('187462',' John Rhys'),
('187463','Davies accepted the role of Wilson Fisk, also known as The  Kingpin, without knowing that the character is bald and clean'),
('187464','shaved  in the comics. When he learned this, he still refused to shave  either his face or his head, which is why his appearance in this  film is so different from the comics.'),
('187465',' Daredevil is dressed entirely in black in this film, despite his  dark'),
('187466','red costume in the comics. Soon after this film was released,  the comics gave Daredevil a black costume as well, though it later  reverted back to red.'),
('187467',' This was the only time in the history of the TV show and its  Tele'),
('187468','movies, that the Hulk wore his trademark purple pants from the  comics. It occurs in the "trial" dream sequence.'),
('187469',' [[Stan Lee]] has a cameo as the foreman of the jury in the dream  sequence. This marks his first ever cameo in a Marvel Comics  adaptation, though this would become a tradition in later  adaptations.'),
('187470',' Turk, the recurring non'),
('187471','powered, non'),
('187472','costumed, and non'),
('187473','competent  lowlife who has wandered in and out of various Daredevil stories,  appears in this TV movie. A character similar to the Arranger also  appears.'),
('187474',' Originally broadcast on _"Great Performances" (1972)_ (qv).'),
('187475',' The producers, Irving Allen (qv) and Albert R. Broccoli (qv)  took a chance and financed the film themselves. The film dealt with  Oscar Wilde (qv)’s homosexuality, so very few theaters would play  the film. It almost put the Producers to bankruptcy, and broke up  the partnership between them. But in Europe it was a great artistic  success and won several foreign awards.'),
('187476',' Released as a split reel along with the documentary  _Superstitious Ceylon (1916)_ (qv).'),
('187477',' Original French title is undetermined.'),
('187478',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary  _Making Fireworks (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187479',' Winner of Best Short, Open Competition, Torino International Film  Festival 1986. Winner of The Laumic Prize, Best Editing, First Run  Film Festival 1986,'),
('187480',' Many international film festivals including Melbourne and Tyneside.'),
('187481',' Janet Margolin (qv) and Ted Wass (qv) married after making this  together.'),
('187482',' When Tom Cruise arrived he jumped on the top of the transportation  that brought him to the red carpet and waved to the fans.'),
('187483',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the drama  _Secret of the Forest, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187484',' A French Calino comedy. Original title is undetermined.'),
('187485',' John Chambers lived in the Motion Picture '),
('187486',' Television Home where  this documentary was primarily filmed.'),
('187487',' All crew members were uncredited for this special programme'),
('187488',' This documentary is featured on the DVD for  _Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)_ (qv), released in 2004.'),
('187489',' Spencer Tracy (qv) was cast as Jeremy Roderick, but after an  argument with director Robert Wise (I) (qv) he was fired and  replaced by James Cagney (qv).'),
('187490',' Created for the DVD release of  _Very Best of Have I Got News for You, The (2002) (V)_ (qv).'),
('187491',' French censorship visa #20.664'),
('187492',' Italian censorship visa #28271 delivered on 17 January 1959.'),
('187493',' As its animators were working on this cartoon, the Disney studio  asked its comic book unit to produce a special Halloween issue that  would appear on newsstands as the short reached the big screen.  Western Publishing duly sent storyboard stats to its star artist,  asking him to draw a feature'),
('187494','length story similar to that of the  cartoon. But Carl Barks (qv) "soon found that the material  wouldnt fill the 32 pages that were then the length of a feature,  so I ad'),
('187495','libbed some extra stuff", hammering out extensive additions  and revisions. Some of his new material, however (including a spooky  graveyard and a six'),
('187496','armed cyclops named Smorgie), were considered so  dark, grisly, or bizarre that parts of the comic book had to be  redrawn or were censored outright, and when "Trick or Treat"  appeared in Donald Duck # 26 (November 1952), it had been shorn to  23 pages.'),
('187497',' DIRCAMEO(Charles Martin Smith): the high school teacher'),
('187498',' All songs in the movie are written by the band "Fastway" which  consisted of former Motorhead Guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and  current "Flogging Molly" vocalist Dave King.'),
('187499',' Marc Price starred as geeky Erwin Skippy Handleman on the popular  80s comedy sitcom Family Ties.'),
('187500',' Using the Beck'),
('187501','Patents, a conductor was printed into the film at the  lower end of the screen, his movements allowing the conductor in the  cinemas orchestra pit to synchronize the music and image.'),
('187502',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Family Pet Revenge, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187503',' Winner of a Nation Board of Review of Motion Pictures grant, 2004.'),
('187504',' Some of the tricks the magicians re'),
('187505','enact include: '),
('187506',' The Plagues '),
('187507','  Exorcising Demons '),
('187508',' Turning a Man into Salt '),
('187509',' Getting Water from a  Stone '),
('187510',' Turning a Staff into Snakes '),
('187511',' Smiting Diseases.'),
('187512',' This documentary is featured on all 3 DVD releases (Fullscreen,  Widescreen & 2'),
('187513','Disc soundtrack edition) for  _Matchstick Men (2003)_ (qv), released in February 2004 in Region 1  (USA and Canada).'),
('187514',' Available on disc 4 of the 4'),
('187515','disc European R2 DVD release of the  Europa Trilogy (collecting _Forbrydelsens element (1984)_ (qv),  _Epidemic (1987)_ (qv) and _Europa (1991)_ (qv)), distributed in  2005.'),
('187516',' Features unique behind'),
('187517','the'),
('187518','scenes footage of Trier and cast members  from _Europa (1991)_ (qv) shooting the very first footage to a film  entitled "Dimension". Trier shoots footage for this film each year,  and will continue for 30 years, with plans to complete it in 2021.'),
('187519',' Director Rex Ingram (II) directorial debut was  _Black Orchids (1917)_ (qv) made for Universal but they thought it  was too erotic and didnt support its release. When he joined  Metro, Rex remade the same story as _Trifling Women (1922)_ (qv).  The remake was also quite erotic but done in a more subtle manner.'),
('187520',' During production, orangutan Joe Martin (III) (qv) became obsessed  with co'),
('187521','star Barbara La Marr (qv).'),
('187522',' The story is inspired by the classic  _"Twilight Zone, The" (1959)_ (qv) episode "The Monsters Are Due On  Maple Street," which depicts the denizens of the street slowly  becoming crazy after a power failure. In fact, in the films  production notes, Matthew and Annie live on the corner of Maple and  Willoughby (another classic TZ episode, "A Stop At Willoughby"),  obvious allusions to "The Twilight Zone".'),
('187523',' "Trigger Finger" is director Marc Maurinos third short film. He  previously directed "Eggs" and "Last Meal", both of which were also  set and shot in western Massachusetts.'),
('187524',' Director Ti West and actor Reggie Cunningham were almost gunned down  by the police during the shooting of the films finale.'),
('187525',' Biograph production number 36.'),
('187526',' A compilation of three short films produced for ABC Television:  Capote, Truman (qv)s A Christmas Memory (original airdate  December, 1966), Among the Paths to Eden (original airdate December,  1967), and Miriam (original airdate April, 1970).'),
('187527',' Along with _Petulia (1968)_ (qv), the only other American film  chosen for exhibition at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival.'),
('187528',' Production on the segment "A Christmas Memory" was nearly cancelled  when Geraldine Pages commitment to appear in a Broadway play  threatened to coincide with the shooting schedule. The play was a  flop and ran for only ten performances, closing only three days  before shooting commenced in Snowdoun, Alabama.'),
('187529',' Geraldine Page by choice wore no make'),
('187530','up.'),
('187531',' Scheduled to be exhibited during the final week of the 1968 Cannes  Film Festival, a student revolution in France resulted in it never  being screened at the festival.'),
('187532',' During the "Julie" segment, a drive'),
('187533','in theater can be seen showing  the movie "The Night Stalker". This is an in'),
('187534','joke reference to  director Dan Curtis (I) (qv)s TV movie  _Night Stalker, The (1972) (TV)_ (qv).'),
('187535',' In the first segment, "Julie", when Chad goes to get a room, he uses  the fake name of Johnathan Harker, a name taken from the novel Bram  Stokers "Dracula".'),
('187536',' In the episode "He Who Kills", one of the museum security guards is  reading a "Dark Shadows" comic book, and enthuses about how he used  to rush home from school to watch it. Dan Curtis directed the TV  show "Dark Shadows" (1966).'),
('187537',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Highbrow Love (1913)_ (qv).'),
('187538',' One of approximately 60 short films produced by Selig for  meat'),
('187539','packers Armour & Co.'),
('187540',' Sanjay Dutt (qv) was orginally chosen to play the role of Anand  and even shot some scenes for the film. However, because he had to  serve a short prison sentence, the role had to be recast.  Sunny Deol (qv) was offered the role but turned it down.  Anil Kapoor (qv) was then offered the role and accepted.'),
('187541',' Andrew Crawford (qv) was going to star but dropped out before  filming.'),
('187542',' At the end of the movie, a turtle is seen running out into the  middle of a highway. The turtle was supposed to walk along the side  of the highway, but as soon as it was put down, it made a bee'),
('187543','line  (or maybe turtle'),
('187544','line) to the road, and squatted on the dividing  line, as cars and trucks drove over it. But, thanks goodness, the  turtle lived.'),
('187545',' This film became the basis of the television series  _"Strangers with Candy" (1999)_ (qv). Amy Sedaris (qv) modeled  Jerri Blanks voice, mannerisms, and appearance on  Florrie Fisher (qv), and many of Jerris lines throughout the  series were taken verbatim from Fishers speeches.'),
('187546',' Existing prints are seven or eight minutes long, start near 8th and  Market Streets in San Francisco, and end at the Ferry Building at  Market and the Embarcadero. The original film was longer, possibly  starting at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street. This other three or  four minutes of the film is presumed lost. Existing prints do not  have any title info or the name of the production company.'),
('187547',' From some details contained within the film (such as certain  buildings seen to be under construction) this film is believed to  have been made in September 1905.'),
('187548',' James Hausler wrote it when he was 19, started preproduction when he  was 21 and shooting began shortly after his 22nd birthday.'),
('187549',' The part of Colby Francis was written for Christopher Clark.'),
('187550',' Released on a split reel with the cartoon  _Canimated Nooz Pictorial, No. 30 (1917)_ (qv).'),
('187551',' Included in Warner Home Videos 2006 6'),
('187552','disc DVD release "The Busby  Berkeley Collection".'),
('187553',' Released as a split reel along with the comedy  _Stage'),
('187554','Struck Lizzie (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187555',' All of the animals used in this film were Janine Turners own pets.'),
('187556',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the drama  _Vagabond, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187557',' The fictional town of Harrison, Texas was based on Wharton, Texas,  the hometown of playwright Horton Foote.'),
('187558',' Horton Foote would at first not allow another film version of his  play, because he didnt want anybody to play Carrie except  Lillian Gish (qv). He later agreed, but only if either  Geraldine Page (qv) or Kim Stanley (qv) played Carrie.'),
('187559',' With this performance, Geraldine Page became the first person to win  an Oscar and an Independent Spirit Award for the same film.'),
('187560',' The play that this film is based on was one of the biggest Broadway  successes of its time, and is best remembered for turning Charles  Harris song "After the Ball" into a smash hit.'),
('187561',' Released as a split reel along with the cartoon  _Toyland Villain, The (1916)_ (qv).'),
('187562',' Released in the US as a split reel along with the drama  _Reckoning, The (1911)_ (qv).'),
('187563',' This short film is featured on the DVD for  _Saddest Music in the World, The (2003)_ (qv).'),
('187564',' There are no voices or sound effects in this cartoon. All of the  mood and nuance of the on screen action is conveyed via Winston  Sharples music score.'),
('187565',' The film was rejected for a UK certificate 4 times by the BBFC (in  1967, 1971, 1980 & 1988) as it was considered an advertisement for  the use of LSD. The film was finally granted an uncut 18 certificate  in November 2002.'),
('187566',' Some of the music was provided by the group The Electric Flag.'),
('187567',' In order to prepare for the film, Peter Fonda (I) (qv),  Dennis Hopper (qv) and Jack Nicholson (qv) all engaged in a  group LSD trip.'),
('187568',' Roger Corman (qv) also took LSD before starting the film, figuring  he couldnt make a film about LSD without trying it himself. He had  a good experience, and had to ask others what a "bad trip" was like  in order to incorporate it into the film.'),
('187569',' Jack Nicholson (qv) wrote this screenplay for Corman based on his  own experience of taking LSD under controlled laboratory conditions  and also on his marriage break'),
('187570','up with first wife,  Sandra Knight (qv).'),
('187571',' Bruce Dern (qv) wanted nothing to do with the drug culture, and  had to ask director Roger Corman (qv) what LSD was in order to  prepare for his role.'),
('187572',' The band in the club near the beginning is the International  Submarine Band, featuring Gram Parsons on vocals. However, their  early country'),
('187573','rock sounds were removed and the psychedelic sounds of  The Electric Flag were dubbed into the film.'),
('187574',' According to Bruce Dern, Jack Nicholson wrote the part of John for  himself. Corman however would not agree to Nicholson playing the  role and choose Dern instead.'),
('187575',' Falcon Lair Estate served as the setting for much of the film. This  historic site once was home to Valentino, Rudolph (qv), Doris  Duke, Swanson, Gloria (qv).'),
('187576',' The script was originally written as a short about an urban legend  of two guys in Mexico trying to get across the border.  Miles Swain (qv) went back and wrote out their backstory in script  format to figure out who these characters were, and ended up with an  entire screenplay.'),
('187577',' SPOILER: The bookstore in the very last scene where Alan is signing  his book for people is a real life Christian bookstore.'),
('187578',' The screenplay started life as three short scripts, when the budget  became available to make one of those shorts the Director decided to  make all three into a juxtaposed feature.'),
('187579',' Won Audience Award for Best Female Short Film at 2006 Long Island  Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.'),
('187580',' Won Best Narrative International Lesbian Short Movie Award at The  Annual LGBT Film Festival in Tel Aviv in 2007.'),
('187581',' Won Audience Favorite Award at 2006 Sacramento International Gay &  Lesbian Film Festival.'),
('187582',' Aired as a part of the MTV Logo Networks Best in Short Films Season  2.'),
('187583',' Writer/Director Amber Sharp is currently developing a television  series Dont Go.'),
('187584',' May be the same film as The Human Pyramid by Georges Méliès.'),
('187585',' The feature actresses (Lorin, Kay, Stephanie)in this film attended  and passed The California Motorcycle School and received their CA  motorcycle licenses in order to fulfill the characters fully.'),
('187586',' The much noted love/hate scene between Kay and Stephanie was both of  the girls first love barely naked scene. Kay and Stephanie were  truly nervous but knocked it out of the park.'),
('187587',' Lorin does her own stunts throughout the film.'),
('187588',' The crew most of the time consisted of 2'),
('187589','3 people. Largest crew was  8 at one time. Shot all over Los Angeles totally Guerrilla style.'),
('187590',' 4 main actors were paid and the total budget from start to finish  the film including their fees was $13,000.'),
('187591',' Composed of old Chaplin, Charles (qv) footage and new non'),
('187592','Chaplin  material.'),
('187593',' The film is composed of fragments filmed, but not used, in two of  Charles Chaplin (qv)s movies, namely _Work (1915)_ (qv) and  _Police (1916)_ (qv), and footage from a third never released film,  "Life".'),
('187594',' Throughout the film there are many references to the actors more  famous roles. For instance Billy Dee Williams famous for the Star  wars films refers to a dangerous way of life as "the dark side" an  infamous star wars term. Also Ashley Laurence an actress famous for  fighting demons in many films is referred to many times as a demon  as a way of describing her evil nature. Finally, Michael Pare says  at one point "Im trying to stay away from tequila", riffing his  line from Streets of Fire (1984) "Ive always been a tequila man."'),
('187595',' The entire film was completed well within its three week schedule.'),
('187596',' The song Jelious Heart sang by Jimmy'),
('187597','Ray just after the robbery  was both written and performed by Patrick Bergin, the actor playing  his part.'),
('187598',' The film is dialogue'),
('187599','free (though there are some spoken words, they  are incidental.)'),
('187600',' Visible in the Triplets apartment is a framed poster for  _Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Les (1953)_ (qv).'),
('187601',' Visible in the Triplets apartment is a framed poster for  Winsor McCay (qv)s animated short film  _Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)_ (qv).'),
('187602',' In the beginning of the movie, when theyre watching TV, theres an  equation in the bottom of the screen. These are Einsteins Field  Equations and represent the gravitational effects produced by a  given mass.'),
('187603',' A caricatured Django Reinhardt (qv) playing guitar can be seen  early in the black and white portion of the film. The films  soundtrack sounds as though it was greatly influenced by Djangos  music (and he recorded a song called Belleville with  Stéphane Grappelli (qv)).'),
('187604',' The music heard on the soundtrack as Mme. Souza and Bruno follow the  ocean liner is from the opening movement (Kyrie) of Mozarts Mass in  C minor.'),
('187605',' The movie that the triplets watch on TV is Jacques Tati (qv)s  _Jour de fête (1949)_ (qv).'),
('187606',' There is also an animated caricature of dancer/singer/performer  Josephine Baker (qv), a black American entertainer who left the  U.S. in the 1920s because of the virulent racism she encountered and  became a tremendous star in Europe. She was very big in Paris and  often appeared in shows half'),
('187607','nude, as she did in this film.'),
('187608',' The shot we see of a pianist just after the initial Triplettes  footage goes awry is a cartoon version of Glenn Gould (qv)  recording a performance for the CBC.'),
('187609',' The pianist Mme. Souza and young Champion are watching on television  is a caricature of the famous Canadian virtuoso, Glenn Gould (qv),  known for his piano interpretations of  Johann Sebastian Bach (qv)s keyboard works and for the fact that  he would hum along as he played the piano (which can be heard in the  film).'),
('187610',' The obnoxious American tourist family from Sylvain Chomet (qv)s  short animated film _Vieille dame et les pigeons, La (1998)_ (qv)  make a cameo on the streets of Belleville.'),
('187611',' The yellow'),
('187612','jerseyed leader of the Tour de France depicted in the  film is a caricature of five'),
('187613','time tour winner  Jacques Anquetil (qv). It would appear that the year is 1957, the  year of Anquetils first win and the only year he participated which  featured a stage finish in Marseilles.'),
('187614',' Visible in their apartment are pictures of the Triplets with some  period stars including Charles Chaplin (qv), theres also a  picture of the Triplets on the beach with Olive Oyl.'),
('187615',' "Roberte Rivette", the accordionist who plays her instrument atop a  truck while following the cyclists in the Tour de France, represents  Yvette Horner (qv), the mega'),
('187616','selling artist who still records  albums and plays her accordeon to large crowds in France. Horner  recently described her own experiences as very similar to those of  "Roberte Rivette" in "Les Triplettes de Belleville": she continued  playing her accordeon along the Tour de France route with a big  smile as insects ceaselessly were caught in her teeth.'),
('187617',' The song performed by Madame Souza in the piano is called Uma Casa  Portuguesa (A Portuguese House), and was originally performed by  Amália Rodrigues (qv), the queen of Fado music.'),
('187618',' The bicycles are all computer generated and traced, because the  director, Sylvain Chomet (qv), did not believe it was worth the  time to get the look of the bicycles "perfect". The figures on the  bicycles, however, were only thin lines in the computer generated  originals, allowing the animators to breathe life into them.'),
('187619',' In bonus footage on the DVD of this film, the director,  Sylvain Chomet (qv), indicates that he tried to imitate the stance  and walk of tall basketball stars in the triplets.'),
('187620',' The song heard in the background of the barbershop sequence (listed  as the "Barber Song" in the closing credits) has lyrics in Italian,  which are actually complete non'),
('187621','sequitur gibberish referring to  food, clothing, Fellini movies and other words that a non'),
('187622','speaker of  Italian would find difficult to follow.'),
('187623',' In the opening sequence (at the Theatre) Les Triplettes sing a song  in what you can think should be the golden period of les  Triplettes'),
('187624','style music. With Les Triplettes you can see the  performance of Spike Jones (qv) (1911'),
('187625','1965) as the director of the  band, Django Reinhardt (qv) (1910'),
('187626','1953) as the guitar soloist,  Josephine Baker (qv) (1906'),
('187627','1975) dancing some movements of her  most famous "Danse Sauvage" and Frederic Austerlitz Jr. aka  Fred Astaire (qv) (1899'),
('187628','1987) in a tip'),
('187629','tap dancing piece.'),
('187630',' For a long while, Ridley Scott (qv) was attached to direct.'),
('187631',' It rained so much during filming of The Tripper that director David  Arquette, at the wrap party, gave each cast and crew member a  personalized poncho. In fact, one of the few days it DIDNT rain was  when they shot the rain scenes. They had to make rain for these  scenes.'),
('187632',' David Arquette went on a nationwide tour of U.S. cities, with the  help of myspace.com, to promote the film.'),
('187633',' When David Arquette did a panel for this film at the 2006 San Diego  Comic'),
('187634','Con International, the footage he wanted to show was missing.  He offered a reward of a car that was used in the movie for the  return of the footage.'),
('187635',' David Arquette stated during his bus tour that he came up with the  idea for the film during a Reggae party held outside, where he  envisioned a murderer "coming out of the woods and slashing up all  the hippies." The idea eventually led to The Tripper.'),
('187636',' The film was originally going to be a part of After Dark  Productions "8 Films to Die For," but Arquette wanted the film to  be released in theaters and on April 20th (4/20), so they  respectfully parted ways.'),
('187637',' Arquette has said that despite political elements, his intention was  never to further an agenda but to just make a "fun" movie.'),
('187638',' David Arquette, the director, showed up for a screening of this film  in a fake'),
('187639','blood'),
('187640','spattered suit.'),
('187641',' The college Greg is accepted to is called Morehoward, a reference to  two Black colleges called Morehouse and Howard.'),
('187642',' Terry Farrell (qv)s character, Six of One, spoofs the name of  Jeri Ryan (qv)s character Seven of Nine on  _"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)_ (qv). Farrell was an actress on  _"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993)_ (qv).'),
('187643',' This is one of the few Indian films to feature nudity, which caused  some controversy at the time of its release. The nude scene (Pallavi  Joshi taking a bath) '),
('187644',' which is short and essential to the plot '),
('187645','  uses an obvious body double.'),
('187646',' Although Sanjeev Kumar played the father, he was actually several  months younger than Shashi Kapoor, who played his son.'),
('187647',' Originally Ridley Scott (qv) was going to direct the film in the  late'),
('187648','70s, right after his debut film _Duellists, The (1977)_ (qv).  He put the film aside to direct _Alien (1979)_ (qv).'),
('187649',' A screen adaption of an opera composed by Richard Wagner (I) (qv)  in 1856'),
('187650','9. In line with the story of star crossed lovers, the  original score of the final scene of Tristan und Isolde is played  in the final scene of Baz Luhrmann (qv)s  _Romeo + Juliet (1996)_ (qv).'),
('187651',' DIRTRADE(Luis Buñuel (qv)): [amputee]:'),
('187652',' Voted tenth best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996  Spanish cinema centenary.'),
('187653',' The first three reels survive in the hands of a private collector in  the USA.'),
('187654',' Clips from this film were used in an Allied propaganda short  (reportedly the work of a Canadian film editor) set to the British  dance tune, "The Lambeth Walk". The legions of marching soldiers, as  well as Hitler giving his Nazi salute, were made to look like  wind'),
('187655','up dolls, dancing to the music. Nazi propaganda chief Josef  Goebbels is reported to have seen a copy of the short film and was  outraged beyond reason, leaving his screening room kicking chairs  and screaming profanities.'),
('187656',' Only one scene, the review of the German cavalry, actually involved  the German military. The other formations were party organizations  that were not considered part of the military.'),
('187657',' Hitler himself praised the film as being an "incomparable  glorification of the power and beauty of our Movement".'),
('187658',' Leni Riefenstahl (qv) directed an earlier film for the NSDAP  entitled _Sieg des Glaubens, Der (1933)_ (qv), which was of an  earlier rally, but all known copies of the film were destroyed after  Ernst Röhm (qv), who was featured in that film, was suspected of  participating in a plot against Hitler and was executed. Rohm was  head of the Nazi "brownshirts" and all published references to Rohm  were ordered destroyed in an attempt to erase him from history. This  film was produced to replace "Der Sieg des Glaubens", and only one  complete second'),
('187659','generation copy of that earlier film has ever been  found.'),
('187660',' Riefenstahl had been given carte blanche by Hitler in the making of  the film: effectively, the party rally was the first  produced'),
('187661','for'),
('187662','camera event. But at the beginning the word hadnt  gotten through to officials at the airport and in the parade.  Riefenstahls cameramen were pushed away from the plane carrying  Hitler, which is why we see only one out'),
('187663','of'),
('187664','focus shot of Hitler  descending from the plane and why the taxiing of the aircraft is  repeated and out of sequence. During the parade, a shot of the  camera car passing the limo carrying Hitler reveals a dirty look  from one of the passengers. Riefenstahl spoke to Hitler at the hotel  about the way shed been snubbed and from then on had no problems.'),
('187665',' Restored, color corrected video version produced by Bruce Lawton and  Charles Churchman. Released on the DVD collection, INDUSTRIAL  STRENGTH KEATON.'),
('187666',' The film is based upon a famous 18th century play by Pierre de  Marivaux (qv). In keeping with its theatrical roots, there are  brief shots interspersed throughout of a modern audience in the  garden.'),
('187667',' Some of the video boxes for the US video release incorrectly claim  that the Ian Fleming (II) (qv) playing Dr. Watson was the  Ian Fleming (I) (qv) who was the creator/writer of the James Bond  novels. Although both men have the same name'),
