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# Lolita (1962)
- Both 'Noel Coward' (qv) and 'Laurence Olivier' (qv) refused the part of
  Humbert Humbert.
- 'Tuesday Weld' (qv) was considered for the title role.


# London After Midnight (1927)
- 'Lon Chaney' (qv) wore a set of false animal teech that hurt him so much
  that he could only wear them for a few minutes at a time.


# Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
- 'John Carradine' (qv) was warned by 'Chuck Norris' (qv) for kicking too
  hard during the final scene.



# Long Riders, The (1980)
- CAMEO(Ry Cooder): the saloon singer.  Cooder composed the soundtrack.


# Long Voyage Home, The (1940)
- 'John Wayne' (qv) was asked by director 'John Ford' (qv) to play the part of
  Ole Olson, who happened to be Swedish.  Wayne wasn't sure he could
  pull off the Swedish accent, and was worried that the audience would laugh.
  Ford persuaded Wayne to take the role.


# Longest Day, The (1962)
- 'Richard Todd' (qv) (Major Howard of the British 6th Airborne)
  was himself in Normandy on D-Day, as Lt. Todd of the British 6th Airborne.
- As a 22-year-old private, 'Joseph Lowe' (qv) landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day
  with the Fifth Ranger Battalion and scaled the cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc.  He
  scaled those hundred-foot cliffs all over again, for the cameras, some 17
  years later, acting as a member of the 505th Infantry Battle Group.


# Longxiong Hudi (1986)
- While filming a stunt, 'Jackie Chan' (qv) missed a tree branch and hit his
  head on a rock, nearly killing him and leaving him with a permanent
  thimble-sized hole on the right side of his head.


# Lords of the Deep (1989)
- CAMEO(Roger Corman):


# Love Happy (1949)
- 'Groucho Marx' (qv) informed 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) that he had a role which
  called for ``a young lady who can walk by me in such a manner as to arouse
  my elderly libido and cause smoke to issue from my ears.''  Monroe obliged
  and was quickly cast.


# Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
- CAMEO(Gene Kelly):


# Lucifer Rising (1970)
- Lucifer was originally played by 'Chris Jagger' (qv), but squabbling between
  him and 'Kenneth Anger' (qv) led to Jagger returning to London and Anger
  taking over the role.


# Lucky Partners (1940)
- The working titles were ``Good Luck'' and ``Change Your Luck''.


# Lust for Life (1956)
- Director 'Vincente Minnelli' (qv) had a portion of a field spray-painted
  yellow to closer resemble Vincent Van Gough's painting.


# M (1931)
- 'Peter Lorre' (qv)'s whistling was dubbed by director 'Fritz Lang' (qv).


# Mable's Strange Predicament (1914)
- Banned by Swedish censons, who found it ``brutalising'' becuase of the
  amorous scenes.


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


# Mackenna's Gold (1969)
- The canyon was purchased as unsafe by the movie company, and actually
  destroyed on film.


# Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
- The Drug Squad officer was originally to be called MacKenzie but was
  renamed Stringer at a late stage because there is a real life MacKenzie at
  Scotland Yard.
- Although 'Tim Sewell' (qv) is credited with writing the screenplay from an
  original story by director 'Henry Cole' (qv), shortly before the
  start of principle photography, Cole himself re-wrote some sections
  of the script to bring out the British upper-class eccentricity which he
  felt was missing.
- CAMEO (Patrick Lichfield): the photographer taking a family portrait of the
  Dyer family at their country seat.


# Mad Max (1979)
- Often shown with American voiced dubbed in.
- The car that Max drives (the ``last of the V8 interceptors'') is a
  production car, the Ford ``XB Falcon Hardtop'', sold in Australia from
  December 1973 until August 1976.  The car in the film had a standard 351
  cubic inch (5.8 litre) V8 motor.


# Mad Max 2 (1981)
- Released as ``The Road Warrior'' in the United States, and was dubbed with
  American accents.


# Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
- The script called for Aunt Entity ('Tina Turner' (qv)) to drive a vehicle.
  All of the vehicles were stick-shifts, which Turner couldn't drive, so a
  special automatic had to be constructed.


# Made in America (1993)
- The African Craft Shop is in the same street as a cinema advertising ``A
  Paula Prentiss Retrospective''.  Prentiss is the wife of director
  'Richard Benjamin' (qv).


# Made in Heaven (1987)
- CAMEO(Debra Winger): Emmert, the apparently male entity who ``runs
  things'' in heaven.


# Madness of King George, The (1994)
- The ``III'' was dropped from the title of the film for fear that American
  cinemagoers might think it was a sequel.


# Maedchen Juanita, Das (1945)
- This comedy with the working title ``Frau ueber Bord (Kabine 27)'' could
  not be finished in 1945 because of the end of World War II.  It was then
  edited with material from the archives and released in West Germany seven
  years later in 1952.


# Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
- The newspaper showing headlines indicating the explosion that injured
  George Amberson Minafer.  Also visible in that newspaper is an article
  written by ``Jed Leland'', a character from _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv),
  also directed by 'Orson Welles' (qv).
- RKO chopped 20 minutes of the film and added a happy ending when Welles
  was out of the country.


# Magnificent Doll (1946)
- The night before shooting was to start, a game of hide-and-seek was held
  during a party.  'Primula Niven' (qv) (wife of 'David Niven' (qv)) opened
  a door she thought led to a closet and fell down the stairs to her death.


# Major and the Minor, The (1942)
- It was decided to include scenes of [?]'s ('Ginger Rogers' (qv)'s) mother.
  'Spring Byington' (qv) was the first choice but was appearing in another
  film.  Rogers suggested her real mother 'Lela Rogers' (qv), who got the role.


# Make Mine Music (1946)
- Animation in the Tone Poem: Blue Bayou was originally created for the deleted
  ``Clair de lune'' sequence of _Fantasia (1940)_.


# Mallrats (1995)
- 'Jason Mewes' (qv) was nearly replaced as Jay, the studio attempting
  to replace him up until the screening of the first dailies.
- Numerous references to _Clerks (1994)_ (qv), also directed by
  'Kevin Smith' (qv).


# Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
- 'George Raft' (qv) was originally cast as Sam Spade.  He turned it
  down because it was ``not an important picture'', taking advantage of a
  clause in his contract that he did not have to work on remakes.
- The Shakespeare reference that ends the film was suggested by
  'Humphrey Bogart' (qv).
- CAMEO(Walter Huston): Captain Jacobi
- DIRTRADE(John Huston): [father]


# Mambo Kings, The (1992)
- 'Antonio Banderas' (qv) couldn't speak English when this movie was filmed,
  and thus performed all his lines phonetically.


# Man About Town (1939)
- Originally, this film was to feature 'Betty Grable' (qv) opposite
  'Jack Benny' (qv) in the role of Diana Wilson, but because of illness
  she had to be replaced by 'Dorothy Lamour' (qv).  She recovered in time,
  however to contribute a song.


# Man Called Adam, A (1966)
- Adam's trumpet playing was actually done by 'Nat Adderley' (qv).


# Man in the White Suit, The (1952)
- The strange noises made by the laboratory apparatus were produced for the
  sound track by a tuba and a bassoon.


# Man of the House (1995)
- Ben Archer ('Jonathan Taylor Thomas' (qv)) can be seen sitting under a tree
  reading a comic book based on _The Lion King (1994)_ (qv), which also
  starred Thomas.


# Man Who Came Back, The (1931)
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) was 'Charles Farrell' (qv)'s voice coach.  He and
  several other actors had thought they were getting Farrell's part.


# Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
- The power-boat jump in this movie broke the world record for distance,
  previously set during the making of _Live and Let Die (1973)_ (qv).


# Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
- The gun battle at the end was based on an unprecedented real-life ``Sidney
  Street siege'' that had recently occured in London.
- Remade as _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)_ (qv), again by
  'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv).


# Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in the Moroccan marketplace watching the
  acrobats with his back to the camera just before the murder.
- 'Bernard Herrmann' (qv) (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting
  the orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
- The plot calls for a man to be discovered as ``not Moroccan'' because he was
  wearing black makeup.  The makeup artists couldn't find a black substance
  that would come off easily, and so they painted the fingers of the other man
  white, so that he would leave pale streaks on the other man's skin.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
  and consists of 124 shots.
- The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four
  other pictures of the same periods') were bought back by Hitchcock and left
  as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've been known for long as the
  infamous ``5 lost Hitchcocks'' amongst film buffs, and were re-released in
  theathers around 1984 after a 30-years absence. They are
  _Rear Window (1954)_ (qv), _The Trouble with Harry (1955)_ (qv),
  _Rope (1948)_ (qv), _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv) and
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)_ (qv).
- 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) previously filmed this story as
  _The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)_ (qv).


# Man Who Talked Too Much, The (1940)
- 'George Reeves' (qv)' role as the first hotel clerk was filmed but cut.
- The script was unfinished at the start of production and was revised
  throughout.


# Man with the Golden Arm, The (1955)
- 'Marlon Brando' (qv) was offered the role of Frankie Machine, but
  'Frank Sinatra' (qv) jumped at the opportunity and was signed before Brando
  could accept.


# Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)
- Title role originally offered to 'Jack Palance' (qv), but was eventually
  played by 'Christopher Lee' (qv).  Lee is author 'Ian Fleming' (qv)'s cousin.
  See also _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv).
- 'Britt Ekland' (qv) auditioned for the role of Scaramanga's mistress, but
  director 'Guy Hamilton' (qv) offered her the role of Mary Goodnight after
  seeing her in a bikini.
- J W Pepper ('Clifton James' (qv)) is a sheriff from Lousiana that James Bond
  met in _Live and Let Die (1973)_ (qv).  While chasing Scaramanga, Bond teams
  up with Pepper, who is on holidays in Thailand.
- The spiral ``Javelin Jump'' was inspired from an American Motors Corporation
  promotional tour which was running around the time the movie was made.  The
  jump was performed of a modified 1974 Hornet X: special suspension, a six
  cylinder engine (for reduced weight), centered steering wheel, and a special
  fuel system to stop the car stalling when turning over.  During AMC's
  promotional tour, they had a few mishaps (including a roof landing when the
  car stalled on approach to the ramp), but the stunt that appeared in the
  film was done on the first take.  A group of university students came up with
  the original idea, and used a computer to calculate the necessary
  environment.  Although the bridge halves look dilapidated, they were
  constructed to these exacting specifications.  The stunt car had to approach
  the ramp at right-angles, do a sharp turn, and then hit the ramp at a
  predetermined speed.
- 'Alice Cooper' (qv)'s ``Muscle of Love'' album has a song ``Man With the
  Golden Gun'' on it.  The CD version includes notes claiming it was to be the
  theme song of the movie, but the producers chickened out.
- First 007 movie to be shown at the Kremlin.
- The last 007 movie co-produced by 'Harry Saltzman' (qv).  Following many
  creative differences, he sold his 50% share in the Bond franchise to United
  Artists.


# Man with Two Brains, The (1983)
- CAMEO(Sissy Spacek): the voice of Ann Uumellmahaye.


# Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
- 'Frank Sinatra' (qv) broke one of his fingers in the fight sequence with
  'Henry Silva' (qv).
- 'Angela Lansbury' (qv) plays the lead character's mother, even though she is
  actually younger than him.
- All the members of the platoon in Korea are named after cast and crew of
  the TV show ``You'll Mever Get Rich''.
- It took a full week to film the opening dream sequence.  Director
  'John Frankenheimer' (qv) rushed a rough edit of the sequence to Sinatra,
  then decided to keep the cut in the final movie unchanged.


# Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
- Lead role written for 'Mia Farrow' (qv), but 'Dianne Keaton' (qv) got the
  role following Farrow's breakup with the film's director 'Woody Allen' (qv).


# Manhunter (1986)
- The events in this film occur before the events in
  _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv).  Although there are several
  characters common to both films, there are only two actors who appear in
  both movies.  Ironically, they both play different characters in both films.
  'Frankie Faison' (qv) plays Lt Fisk in _Manhunter (1986)_ (qv), and Barney in
  _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv), and 'Dan Butler' (qv) plays an FBI
  fingerprint expert in _Manhunter (1986)_ (qv), and an entymologist in
  _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv).


# Manpower (1942)
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) was originally cast in this film, but
  'George Raft' (qv) refused to work with him.


# Marathon Man (1976)
- 'Dustin Hoffman' (qv) (being a ``method actor'') stayed up all night to play
  a character who has stayed up all night.  Arriving on the set,
  'Laurence Olivier' (qv) asked him why he looked they way he did.  Hoffman
  told him, to which Olivier replied in jest: ``Why not try acting?  It's much
  easier.''



# Maria Rosa (1916)
- 'Lou Tellegen' (qv) (who had starred on Broadway as Andreas in the stage
  version) was consulted in the production of this film, the result of
  which was that he met and married the film's star ('Geraldine Farrar' (qv)).


# Marie Antoinette (1938)
- Originally to be directed by 'Sidney Franklin' (qv), but replaced by
  'William S. Van Dyke' (qv).


# Marked Woman (1937)
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) and 'Mayo Methot' (qv) fell in love during production.
  They were married as soon as he had divorced his second wife
  'Mary Philips' (qv).


# Marnie (1964)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): 5 minutes into the film, in the hotel
  corridor as Marnie walks by.
- The production company created for the film, ``Geoffrey Stanley'' was named
  after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
- Hitchcock and 'Tippi Hedren' (qv) had a major falling out during the filming
  and by the end he directed her through intermediaries.
- 'Bruce Dern' (qv) can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.
- Hitchcock wanted 'Grace Kelly' (qv) to make her screen comeback in the title
  role, but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
  playing a compulsive thief.


# Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
- 'Robert De Niro' (qv) studied stroke victims to get a purchase on speech
  that is struggling to emerge.


# Masquerade (1988)
- About thirty minutes in the movie, there's a cut to a night scene on a beach.
  It's rumoured that there is a subliminal message (visible only in widescreen)
  written on the face of the wave in the lower right corner of the screen.


# Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
- For the table tennis scene, 'Kim Hunter' (qv) and 'Roger Livesey' (qv) were
  trained by 'Alan Brooke' (qv), the British champion who has played many
  games with International champion 'Victor Barna' (qv).  During a visit to
  Denham Studios the two champions played a couple of games before an admiring
  audience of artists and technicians.  For luck, Hunter borrowed one of
  Brook's tournament bats for her film game.
- The huge escalator linking this World with the Other, called ``Operation
  Ethel'' by the firm of engineers who constructed her under the aegis of the
  London Passenger Transport Board, took three months to make and cost 3,000
  pounds (in 1946).  ``Ethel'' had 106 steps each 20 feet wide and was driven
  by a 12 h.p. engine.  The full shot was completed by hanging minatures.
- The backcloth of the High Court scene, suggesting tiers of seats stretching
  into infinity, measured 350 feet long and 40 feet high.  Altogether 8
  backcloths of similar large dimensions were used in Other World scenes, and
  29 elaborate sets were constructed.  In all these vast scenes 5,375 crowd
  artistes were used, including real R.A.F. crews, Red Cross nurses and
  W.A.A.C.s.


# Maurice (1987)
- CAMEO(Helena Bonham Carter): ???.  Carter starred in director
  'James Ivory' (qv)'s previous film, _A Room with a View (1986)_ (qv).


# Maverick (1994)
- 'Meg Ryan' (qv) was the original choice for Annabelle.
- 'Mel Gibson' (qv) had special lessons to learn how to draw a gun from
  a holster.
- CAMEO(Danny Glover): bank robber.  Glover's and 'Mel Gibson' (qv)'s
  characters appear to almost recognize each other.  This is a reference
  to _Lethal Weapon (1987)_ (qv),  _Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)_ (qv), and
  _Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)_ (qv), all of which were also directed by
  'Richard Donner' (qv).


# Maximum Overdrive (1986)
- DIRCAMEO(Stephen King): man who the ATM swears at.


# Mean Streets (1973)
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): the hit man who shoots Johnny Boy.
- DIRTRADE(Martin Scorsese): [mother]: the woman who comes to Teresa's aid
  when she has an epileptic fit.
- CAMEO(Elizabeth Scorsese): the woman who comes to Teresa's aid when she
  has an epileptic fit.


# Meatballs Part II (1984)
- Cheryl ('Kim Richards' (qv)) is asked if she comes from another planet (due
  to her lack of experience with boys).  Cheryl replies that she sort of is. 
  Richards played a young alien girl, marooned on earth, in two Disney movies:
  _Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)_ (qv), and
  _Return from Witch Mountain (1978)_ (qv).


# Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Producer-lyricist 'Arthur Freed' (qv) dubbed the singing for
  'Leon Ames' (qv).
- 'Van Johnson'(qv) was supposed to play John Truett, but 'Tom Drake'(qv)
  took over.
- To get just the right emotional response from 'Margaret O'Brien' (qv) in
  the famous backyard snowman-bashing scene, director 'Vincente Minnelli' (qv)
  told the child just before shooting that her pet dog had been run over.  He
  then ordered the scene to roll, and O'Brien carried it out on a near-
  hysterical level.


# Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- The soundtrack by 'Shirley Walker' (qv) was the first major Hollywood studio
  picture with a complete orchestral score written by a woman.


# Men at Work (1990)
- The two hit men drive a car with a number plate ``HITMEN''.


# Men in Black (1934)
- The bizarre medical terminology used by the Stooges was ad-libbed.
- 'Curly Howard' (qv)'s famous line ``Woo-woo-woo-woo'' was used when
  he forgot his lines, but soon became a standard.


# Mermaids (1990)
- 'Winona Ryder' (qv) replaced 'Emily Lloyd' (qv) becuase it was thought that
  Lloyd looked to genetically dissimilar to 'Cher' (qv).


# Merry-Go-Round (1922)
- 'Erich Von Stroheim' (qv) was replace by 'Rupert Julian' (qv) becuase
  producer 'Irving Thalberg' (qv) discovered that Von Stroheim wanted all
  the extras to wear silk underwear embroidered with the Austrian/Hungarian
  crown, despite the fact that they would never be seen.


# Metropolis (1926)
- A version of this silent film was released in 1984, featuring a soundtrack
  produced by 'Georgio Moroder' (qv).  This version is also color tinted.


# Meyer aus Berlin (1919)
- The film was believed to be lost, but it was discovered in the Netherland's
  film archives titled ``Sally geht auf Reisen''.


# Midnight (1939)
- 'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv) was originally slated for the role of Eve Peabody,
  but was replaced by 'Claudette Colbert' (qv) because of scheduling problems.
- 'Mary Astor' (qv)'s pregnancy caused some filming problems.


# Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- CAMEO(M. Emmet Walsh):


# Midnight Run (1988)
- 'Robert De Niro' (qv) spent time with bounty hunters as part of his
  preparation for this role.
- 'Charles Grodin' (qv) changed a line in the screenplay from ``As an
  accountant'' to ``As your accountant'' to show the growing bond between the
  two characters.
- Universal Studios wanted to cast 'Robin Williams' (qv) instead of Grodin.
  Williams was eager to play the part, willing to do many screen tests.
  Director 'Martin Brest' (qv) was so impressed with the way that Grodin and
  De Niro worked together that he cast Grodin against the wishes of the studio.
- Grodin has permanent scars resulting from the real handcuffs he had to wear
  for a great deal of the film.


# Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935)
- 'Mickey Rooney' (qv) broke his leg during filming, and was wheeled around
  behind bushes on a bicycle during filming.


# Midway (1976)
- Originally shown in Sensurround, a system which had special low-pitch woofers
  for sound effects.


# Mighty Ducks, The (1992)
- Number 10 on the Duck's rival team, the Hawks, is named Herek.  The film was
  directed by 'Stephen Herek' (qv).


# Milky Way, The (1936)
- When a suitable white horse for Burheigh could not be found, make-up artists
  were called upon to bleach a dark-colored horse blonde.


# Miller's Crossing (1990)
- CAMEO(Frances McDormand): the mayor's secretary


# Millions Like Us (1943)
- Charters and Caldicott are characters who also appeared in
  _Night Train to Munich (1940)_ (qv) and _The Lady Vanishes (1938)_ (qv)
  films also written by 'Sidney Gilliat' (qv) and co-director
  'Frank Launder' (qv).


# Mirror Has Two Faces, The (1996)
- 'Dudley Moore' (qv) was originally cast in the role of [Jeff Bridges].


# Misery (1990)
- A video of _When Harry Met Sally... (1989)_ (qv) (also directed by
  'Rob Reiner' (qv)) is visible in the general store.
- The ``guy who went mad in a hotel nearby'' is a reference to
  _The Shining (1980)_ (qv), also based on a novel written by
  'Stephen King' (qv).
- CAMEO(J.T. Walsh): park ranger
- DIRCAMEO(Rob Reiner): the helicopter pilot.


# Misfits, The (1961)
- United Artists executives were unhappy with the rough cut of the film, so
  director 'John Huston' (qv), producer 'Frank E. Taylor' (qv), and writer
  'Arthur (I) Miller' (qv) all agreed to reshoot several scenes.
  'Clark Gable' (qv) had script approval, however, and he rejected the idea.
  Other disagreements over the final cut resulted in the elimination of a
  shot of 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv)'s naked breast from the bedroom scene.
- Bored while waiting for Monroe to turn up on the set, Gable opted to do
  his own stunts, which included being dragged by a truck travelling at
  30 mph.
- On the last day of filming, Gable said ``Christ, I'm glad this picture's
  finished.  She [Monroe] damn near gave me a heart attack.''  The next day,
  Gable suffered a massive heart attack and died 11 days later.


# Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
- CONT: Sergeant O'Hara's shirt is wet with sweat as he leaves the radio tent
  but dry as he exits.


# Mission: Impossible (1996)
- Crew member 'Andrew Eio' (qv)'s name appears as an IMF agent on the ``NOC
  list''.


# Mit den Augen einer Frau (1942)
- Banned by censors since 4th Nov, 1942.


# Mixed Nuts (1994)
- the landlord's name is Tannenbaum (German for ``christmas tree''). After he
  is shot, his body is disguised as a Christmas tree.


# Mo' Better Blues (1990)
- 'Joi Lee' (qv) is director 'Spike Lee' (qv)'s sister.  At the wedding, her
  character is given away a character played by their real-life father Bill.


# Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
- When Arthur rides into the village where the ``witch'' is about to be burnt,
  Bedivere is holding a coconut slung between two swallows.
- Some major scenes scripted, but never filmed:
   - additional ``Knights who say Ni!'' scene, they intend to call themselves
     ``the Knights of Nicky-Nicky''
   - additional police detective scenes
   - several scenes where Arthur and the knights meet ``King Brian, the Wild''.
   - After the Bridgekeeper, they come upon the Boatkeeper.  ``He who would
     cross the Sea of Fate Must answer me these questions twenty-eight!''
- The gorilla hand turning the pages was director 'Terry Gilliam' (qv)'s.
- At the beginning of the ``Bring out your dead'' scene, two nuns with gigantic
  mallets can be seen.  The original script called for them to be pounding on a
  man tied to a cart, but the scene was cut and that glimpse is all that
  remains.
- Many scenes were filmed in a city park beside one of London's busiest
  intersections.
- Many subtle instances of cat abuse: during the ``bring out your dead'' scene,
  the old woman the knights say ``Ni!'' at, etc.
- Most of the castles were cardboard cutouts, and indeed the trailer shows
  one of them falling over.


# Moon Over Parador (1988)
- DIRCAMEO(Paul Mazursky): in drag


# Moonraker (1979)
- Drax' Venice laboratory has an electronic lock on it.  The sequence which
  unlocks the door is the hailing tune from
 _Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)_ (qv).
- Despite the previous 007 film telling us that James Bond will return in
  _For Your Eyes Only (1981)_ (qv), producer Cubby Broccoli choose
  _Moonraker (1979)_ (qv) as the next installment after the success of
  _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
- The role of Drax was originally offered to 'James Mason' (qv).
- 'Lois Chiles' (qv) had originally been offered the role of Anya in
  _The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)_ (qv), but turned down the part when she
  decided to take temporary retirement. She got the role of Mary Goodhead by
  chance when she was given the seat next to 'Lewis Gilbert' (qv) on a flight.
- 'Richard Kiel' (qv) returns as Jaws, a role he first played in
  _The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)_ (qv), his only line is ``Well, here's to us.''


# Moonstruck (1987)
- 'Nicholas Cage' (qv) plays Ronny, a man with only one arm.  In Cage's
  previous role in _Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)_ (qv), Cage's character
  begged Peggy to marry him, saying he doesn't know what the future might
  bring: he might lose his arm.


# Moonwalker (1988)
- The bad guy's name is ``Frank Lideo''.  One of the film's executive
  producers is 'Frank Deleo' (qv), 'Michael Jackson' (qv)'s long-time manager.


# Mountain Eagle, The (1925)
- No prints of this film ('Alfred Hitchcock' (qv)'s second) are known to have
  survived and no one has seen it since the late 1920s.


# Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about half way through the movie passing
  David Smith in front of his building.
- Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by
  'Carole Lombard' (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Alfred Hitchcock): [bathroom]: a conversation is made difficult
  by a noisy flushing toilet.


# Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
- References to: _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv).


# Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
- Begun as a Charlie Chan film (``Charlie Chan at the Ringside'', but upon the
  death of Chan star 'Warner Oland' (qv), the script was hastily rewritten to
  accommodate Fox's other Asian sleuth, Mr. Moto.  The presence of Chan's son
  Lee is evidence of the grafting of one movie onto another series.


# Mr. Sycamore (1974)
- CAMEO(Oingo Boingo): inmates in the asylum.


# Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
- When the family is looking for Mrs. Doubfire's replacement, the last name
  they cross off their list of applicants is ``'Paula DuPree' (qv)''.  DuPree
  was the film's associate producer.
- When Mrs. Doubtfire ('Robin Williams' (qv)) loses her teeth in the drink at
  the restaurant, she says ``Carpe Diem'', a reference to
  _Dead Poets Society (1989)_ (qv), which also starred Williams.
- Mrs. Doubtfire's accent was inspired by 'Bill Forsyth' (qv), the Scottish
  director that Williams had just worked with on _Being Human (1993)_ (qv).


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


# Muenchhausen (1943)
- Writer 'Berthol Buerger' (qv) is a pseudonym for 'Erich Kaestner' (qv).
  Kaestner was a banned author in Nazi Germany and his books were among those
  burnt in 1933. For this movie he got the allowance to write the script but
  was required to choose a pseudonym. The german word ``Buerger'' means
  citizen.
- 'Josef Goebbels' (qv), Reichs-minister of propaganda and also chief of the
  German UFA-studios, ordered this film to be made for the 25th anniversary of
  the UFA.


# Muppet Christmas Carol, The (1992)
- There is a store called ``Micklewhite''.  'Michael Caine' (qv)'s real name is
  Maurice Micklewhite.


# Muppet Movie, The (1979)
- 'Jim Henson' (qv) spent an entire day in a 50 gallon steel drum submerged in
  a pond for the opening scene of Kermit in the swamp.


# Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
- Hormel Foods Corporation, manufacturers of ``Spam'' canned ham, sued the
  film production company for making the name of the ugly villian ``Spa'am''.
  Their suit was defeated on September 22, 1995.


# Murder! (1930)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about an hour into the movie walking past
  the house where the murder was committed.
- A German version called ``Mary'' was filmed at the same time using German
  actors, but the same sets.
- The scene where Sir John thinks out loud in front of a mirror had to
  be filmed with a recording of the lines and an orchestra hidden behind the
  set as it was not possible to dub the soundtrack later.


# Mussert (1967)
- Because of many discussion around the controversial nature of this
  documentary, the first showing on television was delayed for two years.


# Mute Witness (1995)
- Originally set in Chicago, Waller changed the location when told that Moscow
  would provide much cheaper sets/labor.
- Director 'Anthony Waller' (qv) filmed 'Alec Guinness' (qv)' scenes nine
  years before the rest of the film from an earlier draft of the screenplay.
  Guinness gave his performance in one morning before catching a plane.  When
  Waller needed an additional scene, he used the film from earlier and
  reversed it.
- CAMEO(Alec Guinness): The Reaper


# My Brilliant Career (1979)
- DIRCAMEO(Gilliam Armstrong): cabaret backup singer


# My Fair Lady (1964)
- 'Audrey Hepburn' (qv)'s singing was dubbed by 'Marni Nixon' (qv), despite
  Hepburn's lengthy preparation for the role.
- 'Rex Harrison' (qv) wanted 'Julie Andrews' (qv) for the role of Eliza, since
  they had played together in the Broadway version.


# My Father the Hero (1994)
- CAMEO(Emma Thompson): Isabel


# My Pal Trigger (1946)
- 'Dale Evans' (qv) did her own stunt ruding until ordered to stop by director
  'Yakima Canutt' (qv).


# Mystere Picasso, Le (1956)
- Special transparent 'canvases' were constructed so that
  'Pablo Picasso' (qv) could paint on one side and '[?] Renoir' (qv) and
  'Henri-Georges Clouzot' (qv) could film the other.


# Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- The movie was believed to be lost until the late sixties.


# Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
- The cover of the issue of ``Playboy'' that Papshmir is reading in his
  Learjet features 'Anna Nicole Smith' (qv), who plays Tanya Peters.


# Naked Prey, The (1966)
- 'Cornel Wilde' (qv) was ill through much of the filming but continued, noting
  that it seemed to add to his proformance.


# Nashville (1975)
- CAMEO(Elliot Gould):
- CAMEO(Julie Christie):


# National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
- Co-writer 'Chris Miller' (qv) based the National Lampoon short stories that
  gave rise to the film on his expereriences in Alpha Delta fraternity at
  Dartmouth (from which he graduated in 1962).
- Babs becomes a tour guide at Universal Studios.  The credits for this film
  (and other 'John Landis' (qv) films) include an advertisement for a tour at
  Universal Studios.  The ad says ``Ask for Babs''.  As of 1989, Universal
  Studios no longer honor the ``ask for Babs'' promotion, which was either
  a discount or a free entry.


# Natural Born Killers (1994)
- There were 150 shots that were either cut or redone in order to get an

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