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  be seen in the background bearing the last name of director
  'Russell Mulcahy' (qv).


# Shadowlands (1993)
- The ``Bird and Baby'' pub was actually ``The Eagle and Child'' pub, where
  'C.S. Lewis' (qv) was a regular.


# Shakes the Clown (1991)
- CAMEO(Robin Williams): the mime instructor.
- CAMEO(Florence Henderson): Shake's one-night stand at the start.


# Shall We Dance? (1937)
- Working titles were ``Watch You Step'' and then ``Stepping Toes''.


# Sharpe's Honour (1994) (TV)
- The scene in which Sharpe and the Marquesa Dorida are thrown from horseback
  into the stream was an unscripted accident, but director 'Tom Clegg' (qv)
  liked it so much he kept it in the movie.


# Sharpe's Rifles (1993) (TV)
- 'Sean Bean' (qv) replaced 'Paul McGann' (qv) in the rol of Richar Sharpe
  after McGann was injured.


# Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
- The role of Tommy Williams was intended for 'Brad Pitt' (qv).


# She Loves Me Not (1934)
- While filming this picture, the spirit gum holding 'Bing Crosby' (qv)'s ears
  back failed; he insisted on completing the film with his ears out, and
  never used the gum again.


# She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Director 'Spike Lee' (qv) wanted to cast 'Eriq La Salle' (qv) in the role of
  Greer Childs, but La Salle thought the role was too shallow, and had joined
  the Screen Actors Guild, making him ineligible for the part.


# She's Having a Baby (1988)
- The BMW's license plate is ``SHAB'' which is an acronym of the title.


# Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
- The working title was ``Sherock Holmes Saves London''.


# Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
- In one scene at a train station, 'Buster Keaton' (qv) was hanging off of a
  tube connetcted to a water basin. The water poured out and washed him on to
  the track, fracturing his neck.  This footage appears in the released film.


# Shining, The (1980)
- 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) had a large stack of books that he was looking
  through to find a movie project.  For a couple of hours, his secretary could
  hear him pick up a book, read it for about a minute, and then hurl it into
  the wall.  She then noticed that this hadn't happened in a while, so she went
  in to check on him, and found him reading 'Stephen King' (qv)'s
  ``The Shining''.  King says that this is really strange, because the start
  of the book is very slow, and doesn't have much to do with the rest of the
  story.
- During the making of the movie, Kubrick would call King at 3am and ask him
  questions like ``Do you believe in God?''.
- The Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood in Oregon was used for the exteriors, but
  all the interiors were specially built.
- The management of the Timberline Lodge requested that Kubrick not use room
  217 (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay
  in that room ever again.  Kubrick changed the script to use the non-existant
  room number 237.
- The book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence (``All work and no
  play makes Jack a dull boy'') repeated over and over.  Kubrick had each page
  individually typed.  For the Italian version of the film, Kubrick used the
  phrase ``Il mattino ha l' oro in bocca'' (``He who wakes up early meets a
  golden day'').  For the German version, it was ``Was Du heute kannst
  besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf Morgen'' (``Don't postpone something,
  that can be done today.'')
- Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive was unworkable, so
  he opted for a hedge maze instead.
- Rumor has it that 'Jack Nicholson' (qv) had to be physically restrained after
  working himself into a frenzy during the scene where he axes the door.
- The axe used in some shots is made from rubber.
- Danny can be seen wearing a sweater with a crude drawing of a rocket and
  the text ``2001'' on it: a reference to Kubrick's
  _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Jack, as he chases his son
  through the maze.


# Shock to the System, A (1990)
- Graham ('Michael Caine' (qv)) said his father was a London bus driver.
  Caine's father was a London bus driver.


# Shopping (1994)
- In one scehe, Billy and Jo talk about travelling while lying back in
  the remains of a car. This short scene took an extremely long time to
  shoot, because of two tramps who refused to move from the area and
  who kept shouting at one another. Once the tramps quietened down the
  crew had to contend with the deafening sound from a helicopter hovering
  above a nearby hospital.
- All actors had extemsive training in stunt driving.


# Shopworn Angel, The (1938)
- The costume worn by the chorus girls in the final song were used in
  _Born To Dance (1936)_ (qv)'s final number ``Swinging the Jinx Away''.


# Short Circuit (1986)
- At the beginning of the movie, you see a close-up of flowers on a green
  field, and then the tanks roll over them. This resembles
  'James Cameron' (qv)'s style (see also _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv)).
- the robots are designed very similar to the large fighting machines in the
  future battle scenes in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv).


# Show Boat (1929)
- Filmed as a silent, with some of the scenes later reshot with dialogue and
  songs.  For the premiere, a 18 minute prolouge was added, featureing members
  of the original Broadway cast: 'Helen Morgan' (qv) (Julie),
  'Jules Bledsoe' (qv) (Joe) and 'Tess Gardella' (qv) (Queenie).
- 'Laura La Plate' (qv)'s singing was dubbed by 'Eva Olivotti' (qv).


# Show Boat (1936)
- In the scene, where ``Ah Still Suits Me'' is sung, we can see a
  ``Aunt Jemina Pancake Mix''- box standing on the Table. 'Tess Gardella' (qv),
  (Aunt Jemina) played the role of Queenie on Broadway in the original
  Ziegfeld production of ``Show Boat''.


# Showgirls (1995)
- Branded ``unproduceable'', the script made the Hollywood rounds for years
  before being picked up by 'Paul Verhoeven' (qv) and 'Joe Eszterhazs' (qv).


# Sign of the Cross, The (1932)
- Third film in 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv)'s biblical trilogy, following
  _The Ten Commandments (1923)_ (qv) and _The King of Kings (1927)_ (qv).
- Originally released as a 124 minute feature.  After the Hays Code was
  instituted, some of the more ``sinful'' scenes were cut for the film's
  re-release in 1944.


# Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
- The events in this film occur after the events in _Manhunter (1986)_ (qv).
  Although there are several characters common to both films, there are only
  two actors who appear in both movies.  Ironically, both actors play different
  characters in both movies. 'Frankie Faison' (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 entomologist in
  _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv).
- 'Gene Hackman' (qv) was first offered the role of Hannibal Lector, and
  was set to direct.  When 'Jonathan Demme' (qv) took over as director, he
  offered the role of Clarice first to 'Michelle Pfeiffer' (qv).


# Silent Movie (1976)
- 'Marcel Marceau' (qv) speaks the only word in this movie (``No!'') when
  refusing a role in the silent film.


# Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The (1947)
- 'Preston Sturges' (qv) wrote this screenplay in order to entice
  'Harold Lloyd' (qv) out of retirement.  Sturges and 'Howard Hughes' (qv)
  formed an independent production company for the project.  Shortly after
  it's release by United Artists, Hughes withdrew it from distribution
  and then re-edited it and re-issued it as ``Mad Wednesday'' in 1950
  through his own RKO Radio Pictures.


# Singin' in the Rain (1952)
- The script was written after the songs, and so it had to generate a plot
  into which the songs would fit.
- The rain consisted of water plus milk.
- 'Jean Hagen' (qv)'s voice can be heard through the overdubbed
  'Debbie Reynolds' (qv).
- Film critic turned director 'Francois Truffaut' (qv) claims that
  'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv)'s favorite scene in any movie is the one where,
  after Kathy, Cosmo and Don dance the ``Good morning, good morning'' scene,
  they land on an overturned sofa.  As she falls, Kathy's skirt lands a little
  too high up her thighs, and she quickly flips it back over her knees.


# Singles (1992)
- Inspired by the death of singer 'Andrew Wood' (qv).
- CAMEO(Tim Burton): video director
- CAMEO(Eric Stoltz): mime
- CAMEO(Adam Ant): Kyra's date on the roller Coaster
- CAMEO(Chris Cornell): man listening to car radio
- CAMEO(Stone Gossard): Guitarist
- CAMEO(Jeff Ament): Bassist/van driver
- CAMEO(Eddie Vedder): Drummer


# Sky's the Limit, The (1943)
- 'Bernard "Babe" Pearce' (qv) was hired as choreographer but was let go a
  few weeks before filming.
- The character played by 'Fred Astaire' (qv) refers to 'Ginger Rogers' (qv)
  and 'Rita Hayworth' (qv), Astaire's former co-stars.
- The character played by 'Joan Leslie' (qv) refers to 'James Cagney' (qv),
  Leslie's former co-star.
- Astaire's character says he learned to dance at Arthur Murray.  Astaire had
  previously been in a dispute with the dancing school chain over the
  unauthorized use of his likeness.
- Leslie's mouthed words at the fadeout were intended to be indecipherable.
- Leslie's vocals for ``My Shining Hour'' were dubbed by
  'Sally Sweetland' (qv).
- Astaire cut his shins and ankles on the broken glass generated during ``One
  for My Baby.''
- The song ``Hangin' on to You'' was written for the film but not used.
- An Astaire solo dance number (on a railroad track) was cut from the film,
  although a print containing it was shown in New York until at least 1948.
- The song ``Harvey, the Victory Garden Man,'' performed by
  'Ella Mae Morse' (qv), was cut from the film.



# Sleeping City, The (1950)
- In order to overcome New York Mayor O'Dwyer's objections to the negative
  portrayal of hospital procedures, Universal Studios provided an
  introduction, spoken by 'Richard Conte' (qv), in which he the story was
  fictitious and did not take place in any particula U.S. city.


# Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
- Obvious references to _An Affair to Remember (1957)_ (qv).
- This film's director ('Nora Ephron' (qv)) wrote
  _When Harry Met Sally... (1989)_ (qv), which also starred 'Meg Ryan' (qv),
  and was directed by 'Rob Reiner' (qv), who appears in
  _Sleepless in Seattle (1993)_ (qv)
- Mary Kelly was the name Sam Baldwin gave as the eighth girl he ``made it
  with'' in college.  'Mary Kelly' (qv) is the Script Supervisor and also
  played a bit role as the nervous woman on the plane.


# Sleepwalkers (1992)
- CAMEO(Mark Hamill): one of the police officers who enters the house
  at the beginning.
- CAMEO(Tobe Hooper): technician


# Sliver (1993)
- The script originally called for full male frontal nudity, but
  'William Baldwin' (qv) changed his mind after the scenes had been shot.
- The original script called for a different ending in which Zeke turns out to
  be the killer, but was reshot when it fared poorly with test audiences.


# Sloane (1984)
- Action BEHIND the camera rivaled the action in front: a Guerilla army was
  shooting at Americans, passports were confiscated by military dictator's
  wife, an actress attempted to leave country with screenwriter in tryst
  during last week of shoot and had her passport revoked by the Americans who
  kidnap her at Manila airport and forced her back to the set, sabotage,
  the Lone Ranger (from the original radio series) saved the film, the
  original director of the film escaped the producer's wrath and fled to
  South Africa, crew members critically sunburned, weapons and drugs allegedly
  smuggled across international borders and crew members supporting and
  meeting with key figures in a forthcoming political revolution!


# Small Back Room, The (1949)
- CAMEO(Robert Morley): A Guest.


# Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
- Based on the life of 'Dixie Lee' (qv).


# Snapper, The (1993) (TV)
- As with _The Commitments (1991)_ (qv), this film is based on a
  'Roddy Doyle' (qv) novel about the Rabbitte family in Dublin.  For legal
  reasons, ``Rabbitte'' was changed to ``Curley''.


# Sneakers (1992)
- The name ``Werner Brandes'' was inspired by Dr 'Werner Brandes' (qv), an
  associate teacher at Exeter Prep School in New England.
- Mother ('Dan Aykroyd' (qv)) wants a Winnebago.  Aykroyd co-wrote and starred
  as Elwood Blues in _The Blues Brothers (1980)_ (qv). That film featured
  ``The Good Ole Boys'', a country and western band which drive around in a
  large Winnebago that Elwood was responsible for the destruction of.
- Mother wears a T-shirt bearing the name ``Aleka's Attic'', a band formed by
  co-star 'River Pheonix' (qv).
- Whistler is seen eating a box of ``Capt'n Crunch''.  In the 1970's, ``Capt'n
  Crunch'' came with a small whistle in the box.  A hacker named ``Captain
  Crunch'' (John Draper) discovered that this whistle could be used to get
  free phone calls (``phreaking'').  Whistler is patterned after Joe Engressia,
  a blind telephone expert born with perfect pitch.


# Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Scenes planned, but never animated:
 - The queen holds the prince in the dungeon and uses her magic to make
   skeletons dance for his amusement.
 - Fantasy sequence accompanying ``Some Day My Prince Will Come'' in which
   Snow White imagines herself dancing with her prince in the clouds beneath a
   sea of stars
 - Dwarves building Snow White a bed with help from woodland creatures.
 - The song ``Music in Your Soup'' where the dwarves sing about the soup that
   Snow White had just made them.


# So ein Tag (1982)
- Voice of the radio reporter talking about the football game is that of
  director 'Juergen Roland' (qv).


# Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
- The three main characters have names relating to 'The Rolling Stones' (qv): 
  Amanda Jones, named after a song of the same name (which is played in the
  film); a drummer called Watts; and a character called Keith.


# Some Like It Hot (1959)
- 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) wanted the film to be shot in color (her contract
  stipulated that all her films were to be in color), but director
  'Billy Wilder' (qv) convinced her to let it be shot in black and white when
  costume tests revealed that the makeup that 'Tony Curtis' (qv) and
  'Jack Lemmon' (qv) wore gave their faces a green tinge.
- Monroe required 47 takes to get ``It's me, Sugar'' correct, instead saying
  either ``Sugar, it's me'' or ``It's Sugar, me''.  After take 30, director
  Wilder had the line written on a blackboard.  Another scene required
  Monroe to rummage through some drawers and say ``Where's the bourbon?''
  After 40 takes of Monroe saying ``Where's the whiskey?'',  `Where's the
  bottle'', or ``Where's the bonbon?'', Wilder pasted the correct line in
  one of the drawers.  After Monroe became confused about which drawer
  contained the line, Wilder had it pased in every drawer.  59 takes were
  required for this scene.
- After many takes of a kissing scene, Curtis complained that kissing
  Monroe was ``like kissing Hitler.''
- Wilder described making this movie as ``I knew we were in midfight, and
  there was a nut on the plane.''


# Something Wild (1986)
- The two old ladies in the re-sale shop are the mothers of 'David Byrne' (qv)
  and director 'Jonathan Demme' (qv).
- The band that plays at the highschool reunion is ``The Feelies'', a
  favourite of Demme's.  Demme shot the video for their song ``Away''.


# Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
- Filming was halted on January 16, 1942 due to the death of
  'Clark Gable' (qv)'s wife 'Carole Lombard' (qv) and resumed on February 23.


# Sommersby (1993)
- The cow is named ``Clarice'', which was the name of 'Jodie Foster' (qv)'s
  character in _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv).


# Son in Law (1993)
- References to _Encino Man (1992)_ (qv), which also starred
  'Pauly Shore' (qv).


# Son of Tarzan, The (1920)
- "Tabler" broke several ribs in a fight scene with "Burr".
- While filming Tantor the Elephant rescuing Korak ('Kamuela C. Searle' (qv)),
  who was tied to a stake, the elephant slammed Searle down so violently that
  the stake shattered.  Searle later died of these injuries.
- The producer hired 'Norman Tuckey' (qv) (music) and 'Osborne Tedman' (qv)
  (lyrics) to write the first Tarzan song: ``Tarzan, my Jungle King,'' sheet
  music ``Written and composed especially for Son of Tarzan'' (which was,
  ironically, a silent movie).


# Sonar Kella (1974)
- The title means ``The Golden Fortress'', a reference to the fort at
  Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India, which is built of a kind of sandstone that
  resembles gold.


# Song of Bernadette, The (1943)
- Using an actress to play ``the lady'' was controversial enough, and further
  controversy fulminated when 'Loretta Young' (qv) was passed over in favor of
  sultry 'Linda Darnell' (qv).  At that time, Darnell had an almost
  pornographic reputation.  'Franz Werfel' (qv), the author of the book on
  which the film was based, threatened to remove his name from the project.
  To make matters worse, Darnell was pregnant.  Nothing would change
  'Daryl Zanuck' (qv)'s mind, and Werfel was told that an unknown actress was
  chosen.  Wearing a little more drapery than the simple dress and veil
  described by the historical Bernadette, Darnell played the role in bright
  light.


# Song of the Gringo (1936)
- Real-life train robber 'Al Jennings' (qv) was also hired to teach
  'Tex Ritter' (qv) how to handle his guns.
- Just prior to start of filming on his first movie, Ritter went to a
  barber shop for a  haircut.  He fell asleep in the barber's chair and
  too much hair was cut off.  Thus in most of this movie Tex keeps his
  hat clamped  tightly on his head.  When he does remove his hat, he is
  wearing a very obvious wig.


# Sound of Music, The (1965)
- 'Marni Nixon' (qv) (see _West Side Story (1961)_ (qv),
  _The King and I (1956)_ (qv), and _My Fair Lady (1964)_ (qv)) has her only
  on-screen role in this film, playing sister Sophia.
- The first musical number in the film, ``The Sound of Music'', was the final
  sequence shot in Europe before the cast and crew returned to Los Angeles.
  It was filme d in late June and early July of 1964.  Despite the warm and
  sunny appearance, 'Julie Andrews' (qv) notes that she was freezing running
  up that mountain over and over again.  Additionally, the downdraft from the
  helicopter kept knocking her off er feet.


# Soup To Nuts (1930)
- CAMEO(Rube Goldberg): a non-paying customer in Klein's restuarant.


# South Pacific (1958)
- Early casting considerations for the role of Nellie Forbush included
  'Doris Day' (qv), 'Audrey Hepburn' (qv), and 'Elizabeth Taylor' (qv).


# Soylent Green (1973)
- The technical consultant for the film was 'Frank R. Bowerman' (qv), who was
  president of the ``American Academy for Environmental Protection'' at the
  time.


# Spaceballs (1987)
- One of the ships parked at the diner is the the Millenium Falcon from
  _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
- When President Skroob meets the twins, he tells them to ``chew their gum.''
  This is a reference to ``Doublemint'' commercials featuring twins.
- Colonel Sanders is the name of the man who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken.
  Dark Helmet says ``What's the matter, Colonel Sanders?  Chicken?''
- When Dark Helmet asks for transformation into Meter Maid he says ``Perpare
  for Metamorphosis, are you ready Kafka?'' 'Franz Kafka' (qv) wrote a novel
  called ``The Metamorphosis.''
- President Scroobs' name is an anagram of 'Mel Brooks' (qv)', the man
  who plays him.
- The ``chestbuster'' scene in the interstellar diner features
  'John Hurt' (qv), who suffered the same fate in _Alien (1979)_ (qv). In an
  obscure joke, the creature emulates the singing frog in the classic Warner
  Brothers cartoon ``One Froggy Evening''. 


# Spartacus (1960)
- 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) was brought in as director after 'Kirk Douglas' (qv)
  had a major falling out with the original director, 'Anthony Mann' (qv).
- Kubrick was not given control of the script, which he felt was full of stupid
  moralizing.  Since this film, Kubrick has kept full control over all aspects
  of his films.
- Of the 167 days it took Kubrick to shoot Spartacus, six weeks were spent
  directing an elaborate battle sequence in which 8,500 extras dramatized the
  clash between the Roman troops and Spartacus's slave army.  Several scenes
  in the battle drew the ire of the Legion of Decency and were therefore cut.
  These include shots of men being dismembered (Dwarfs with false torsos and
  an armless man with a phony ``break-away'' limb were used to give
  authenticity.) Seven years later, when the Oscar winning film was reissued,
  an additional 22 minutes were chopped out, including a scene in which
  Varinia watches Spartacus writhe in agony on a cross. Her line ``Oh, please
  die, my darling'' was excised, and the scene was cut to make it appear that
  Spartacus was already dead.
  [Question: are the scenes mentioned as ``edited out'' of the other two
  releases of Spartacus restored in the DC? I'm sure the ending features
  Spartacus on the cross, with Varinia showing him their baby. What about the
  graphic battle scene?]
- The original version included a scene where Marcus Licinius
  ('Laurence Olivier' (qv)) attempts to seduce Antoninus ('Tony Curtis' (qv)).
  When the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency both
  objected, the scene was cut.  This scene was put back in for the 1991
  restoration, but since the soundtrack had been lost, Curtis and
  'Anthony Hopkins' (qv) (Olivier had died) dubbed the dialog.


# Special Agent (1935)
- The Hays office objected to a bit of dialogue by character Nick Carston
  so rather than reshoot the scene, the sound was eliminated.


# Speed (1994/I)
- The bus jump scene was done twice, as the bus landed too smoothly the
  first time.  The bridge was actually there, but erased digitally.


# Speedy (1928)
- ``Speedy'' is 'Harold Lloyd' (qv)'s real-life nickname, given to him by
  his father.


# Spellbound (1945)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 40 minutes in, coming out of the
  elevator at the Empire hotel carrying a violin.
- One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
- The dream sequence was designed by 'Salvador Dali' (qv), and was originally 
  supposed to run for 20 minutes. It included a scene with Dr. Peterson
  covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in 
  the release version.
- The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel 
  pointing at Peterson was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant
  gun to get the perspective correct.
- The snow valling on John Ballentine and Dr. Peterson during the skiing
  scene was actually cornflakes.


# Spies Like Us (1985)
- CAMEO(B.B. King): CIA agent at the drive-in.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: on the recruitment poster behind the desk of
  the commander of the army training post.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [filmmakers] Appearances by directors
  'Michael Apted' (qv), 'Martin Brest' (qv), 'Joel Coen' (qv),
  'Larry Cohen' (qv), 'Costa-Gavras' (qv), 'Terry Gilliam' (qv),
  'Frank Oz' (qv); 'Sam Raimi' (qv); filmmaker 'Ray Harryhausen' (qv);
  cinematographer 'Robert Paynter' (qv); and visual effects artist
  'Derek Meddings' (qv).



# Spirit of '76, The (1990)
- Production team includes a number of relatives of famous movie people.  One
  of the executive producers is 'Roman Coppola' (qv) (son of
  'Francis Coppola' (qv)).  'Sofia Coppola' (qv) is credited for costume
  design.  Produced/casting by 'Susan Landau' (qv) (daughter of
  'Martin Landau' (qv)).
- CAMEO(Barbara Bain): (wife of Landau):
- CAMEO(Carl Reiner): (father of director):
- CAMEO(Rob Reiner): (brother of director):


# Spiritualist, The (1948)
- 'Carole Landis' (qv) was originally scheduled to play the part taken by
  'Lynn Bari' (qv), but she committed suicide a few days before shooting
  began.


# Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- As filmed, this film included a sequence in which Wilma Dean Loomis
  takes a bath while arguing with her mother. The bickering finally becomes so
  intense that Wilma jumps out of the tub and runs nude down a hallway to her
  bedroom, where the camera cuts to a close-up of her bare legs kicking
  hysterically on the mattress.  Both the Hollywood censors and the Catholic
  Legion Of Decency objected to the hallway scene, finding the bare backside
  unsuitable for public display.  Consequently, director 'Elia Kazan' (qv)
  dropped the piece, leaving an abrupt jump from tub to bed.


# Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977)
- The first 007 movie in which the theme song focuses on Bond, rather than
  the villain.
- First 007 movie to be filmed in Dolby stereo.
- $1 million of the $13.5 million budget was spent by production designer
  'Ken Adam' (qv) on building the largest sound stage in the world:
  336'x139'x44'.  The set was used for the interior shots of Stromberg's
  supertanker.  The tank had a capacity of 1.2 million gallons .
- Fleming was so displeased with his novel that his contract with EON only
  allowed the title to be used.  One storyline had Blofeld returning, but
  'Kevin McClory' (qv) (who co-wrote _Thunderball (1965)_ (qv)) threatened
  legal action, claiming that he had exclusive use of the SPECTRE concept.  At
  the same time, McClory begins work on his rival Bond movie ``Warhead''
  (renamed _Never Say Never Again (1983)_ (qv)).
- 'Rick Sylvester' (qv) was paid $30,000 for the skiing stunt in the opening
  sequence.
- Jaws was played by 'Richard Kiel' (qv), who played an almost identical part
  a year earlier in _Silver Streak (1976)_ (qv).
- After the film's release, demand for white Lotus Esprits surges to the point
  that new customers had to be placed on a three year waiting list.


# Stage Fright (1950)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): turning to look at Eve in her disguise as
  Charlotte's maid.


# Stagecoach (1939)
- Director 'John Ford' (qv) deliberately only allowed one take, so that actors
  would remain nervous.
- Ford refused to place the camera on a movable dolly, insisting that all shots
  were pans from a stationary camera.
- The first ``camera in a hole with a train going over'' shot.


# Stakeout (1987)
- 'Richard Dreyfuss' (qv) and 'Emilio Estevez' (qv) were having a movie trivia
  contest on the set one day.  Estevez asked Dreyfuss to identify the movie
  that the line ``This is no boating accident'' was from.  Dreyfus didn't
  recognize the quote, despite the fact that he was the actor who said it in
  _Jaws (1975)_ (qv).  Deciding that this was too good to pass up, this
  incident was re-enacted for the film.


# Stand by Me (1986)
- The names of all the towns (except Castle Rock) in the movie (set in Oregon)
  are real places in Maine, where author 'Stephen King' (qv) grew up and lives.
- 'Corey Feldman' (qv) and director 'Rob Reiner' (qv) tested thirty different
  laughs before deciding upon the one for Teddy Duchamp.  The laugh happens to
  be similar to that described in King's story.


# Stand der Dinge, Der (1982)
- 'Wim Wenders' (qv) borrowed the entire cast and crew of
  _The Territory (1981)_ (qv) to make this film.


# Star Trek (1964) (TV)
- This was the first pilot episode of the cult series
  _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv). In 1964 It was presented to the NBC executives,
  which rejected the pilot and asked for a second pilot.
  (_Star Trek - Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) (TV)_ (qv)).
- The first pilot was not aired on TV until 1988, when is was used as a
  filler episode for _"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)_ (qv) due to
  a writers strike.
- Footage of this pilot has been used to create the two part
  _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv) episode ``The Menagerie''. Because of a production
  delay they had only one week to produce two episodes, and so they edited
  this pilot into two new episodes.

# Star Trek - Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) (TV)
- This is the second pilot of the cult series _"Star Trek" (1966)_ (qv). It
  was made because _Star Trek (1964) (TV)_ (qv) has been rejected by the
  NBC executives.
- Altough this is the real pilot episode, it was aired as episode no. 3
  after ``The Man Trap'' and ``Charlie X''.
# Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
- There are several books in the container that shelters Khan's followers on
  Ceti Alpha VI. Two of the titles are ``Moby Dick'' and ``King Lear'', and
  a lot of Khan's lines are directly taken from those books.
  In particular, the final monologue of Khan is identical to the last words
  of Captain Ahab from Melville's book.
- The ``Genesis'' sequence called for a long and massive explosion.  ILM rented
  the Cow Palace in San Francisco for the effect.  They covered the ceiling
  with a black cloth and placed the camera on the floor looking up at it.  The
  explosion would occur directly above the camera so the fall-out would appear
  to rush directly towards the point of view.  A special high-speed camera
  was constructed.  One of it's components was a spinning prism, which bent the
  image onto the film as it rushed past.  This increased exposure time without
  having to slow the frame rate.  The camera ran at 2,500 frames per second,
  which meant that the 0:01.20 long explosion would appear to take 1:40.
- Director 'Nicholas Meyer' (qv) envisioned the film as the ultimate extension
  of Star Trek creator 'Gene Roddenberry' (qv)'s idea of ``Horatio Hornblower
  in space''.  Therefore, prior to filming he had the cast watch
  _Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)_ for inspiration.
- When Spock and Savik speak to each other in Vulcan, the actors
  actually spoke in English, and then sound people created the Vulcan
  words to match the movements of the actors' mouths.


# Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- The punk on the bus is 'Kirk Thatcher' (qv) (associate producer), who also
  wrote and performed the song that is playing on his stereo at the time.
- Some shots of the whales were in fact four foot long animatronic models.
  Four models were created, and were so realistic that after release of the
  film, US fishing authorities publically criticised the film makers for
  getting too close to whales in the wild.  The scenes involving these whales
  were shot in a highschool swimming pool.  The shot of the whales swimming
  past the Golden Gate Bridge were filmed on location, and nearly ended in
  disaster when a cable got snagged on a nuclear submarine and the whales
  were towed out to sea.
- CAMEO(Bob Sarlatte): waiter in the restuarant.


# Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
- The movie was originally to be an extension of an episode of the original
  television series.  In the movie, they would be searching for the villain.
  During filming, they changed to the ``Search for God''.
- The surface of Shaka-Ri as viewed during reconnaissance by Captain Kirk was
  generated from an electron microscope image of a lobster's claw.
- One of 'William Shatner' (qv)'s daughters appears as the yeoman that holds
  Kirk's malfunctioning Captain's log.
- The cat creature that Kirk fights on Nimbus III screams exactly the same
  as 'James Brown' (qv).


# Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
- 'William Shatner' (qv) was distressed when he saw how wide his bottom was in
  the scene where he walks across the bridge (away from the camera).
  He had them airbrush the entire scene to make his butt look narrower.
- General Chang's eyepatch has three bolts that go into the skull.  They all
  have the Klingon insignia engraved on them.on 
- _Frankie and Johnny (1991)_ (qv) was being filmed in the same studio, and
  required 'Al Pacino' (qv) to have a surprised expression on his face after
  opening a door.  Director 'Garry Marshall' (qv) arranged for Kirk and Spock
  be on the other side of the door that Pacino opened.
- After filming was through one day nearing the end of production,

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