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  'Kim Cattrall' (qv) posed nude for some steamy photos on the bridge set.
  Director 'Leonard Nimoy' (qv) was furious with Cattrall and seized the
  negatives to protect the franchise.
- The traitor on the Enterprise was originally intended to be Saavik, but
  creator 'Gene Roddenbery' (qv) convinced the producers that Saavik was
  too popular to have her become a villian.
- Shatner originally wanted Sulu to not command a starship, but producers
  overrode his wishes.


# Star Trek: Generations (1994)
- Kirk's death scenes were re-shot after preview audiences reacted badly to
  the original version, wanting a more ``heroic'' death.
- The horse that Kirk ('William Shatner' (qv)) rides is owned by Shatner.


# Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- When Spock travels through V'ger and sees all the incredible imagery,
  Darth Vader and Miss Piggy can be seen.  It comes right after his line
  ``Who or what are we dealing with?''.  Occurs 94 minutes into the film.


# Star Wars (1977)
- 'George Lucas' (qv) consulted with world reknowned mythologist
  'Joseph Campbell' (qv) to develop the script.
- Lucas had trouble getting funding for this movie, most studios thinking that
  people wouldn't go to see it.
- The Director's Guild of America (DGA) didn't like the fact that there were
  no specific credits at the beginning of the film.  They ``ordered'' Lucas
  to recut the film and put some credits at the beginning.  Lucas refused,
  claiming that this would destroy the opening of the film.  The DGA fined
  Lucas, who paid up, and promptly quit the DGA.
- The Millenium Falcon was originally modelled after a hambuger with an
  olive next to it.
- Derived from (among other things) a Japanese movie called
  _The Hidden Fortress (1958)_ (qv).  Obi Wan Kenobi was modeled after a
  Samurai warrior, and C-3PO and R2-D2 are derived from a couple of petty
  crooks he conscripted to help rescue a princess.
- The word ``Jedi'' is derived from the Japanese words ``Jidai Geki'' which
  translate as ``period drama.''  A period drama is a Japanese TV soap opera
  program set in the samurai days.  Lucas mentioned in an interview that he
  saw a ``Jidai Geki'' program on TV while in Japan a year or so before the
  movie was made and liked the word.
- 'Sissy Spacek' (qv) originally cast as Leia, but when 'Carrie Fisher' (qv)
  refused to do the nude scenes in _Carrie (1976)_ (qv), they swapped roles.
- 'Jodie Foster' (qv) was Lucas' second option for Princess Leia,
  'Christopher Walken' (qv) was second in line for Han Solo.  Lucas also
  considered 'Nick Nolte' (qv) for the role of Solo.
- 'Burt Reynolds' (qv) was originally cast as Han Solo, but he dropped out.
- A great deal of the film was shot by vintage 1950's VistaVision cameras,
  because they were of higher quality than any others available.  After the
  film was released, the prices of these cameras skyrocketed.
- The episode number and subtitle ``A New Hope'' did not originally appear in 
  the film's opening crawl. These were added in a later re-release to be 
  consistent with those seen in _The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv).
- There is a rumor that while Lucas and a co-worker were editing 
  _American Graffiti (1973)_ (qv), the co-worker asked Lucas for ``Reel Two,
  Dialog Two'', which abbreviated to ``R2-D2'', a name which stuck in Lucas'
  mind.
- Scene of escape pod leaving Leia's ship was the first ever done by ILM.
- C-3PO originally scripted as a ``used car salesman'' type, and designed after
  the robot from _Metropolis (1926)_ (qv).
- The Tatooine scenes were filmed in Tunisia.  There is a town in Tunisia
  called ``Tatahouine''.  Some of the interiors of Luke's house were filmed
  in a hotel in Tunisia.
- The sounds of the lasers were made by striking one of the guy wires of a
  power pylon.
- There is a rumor that 'Anthony Daniels' (qv) (C-3PO) was having trouble
  timing his conversations with R2-D2, as R2-D2's dialog was to be dubbed in
  later.  Supposedly, Daniels asked Lucas to make some kind of noise to help
  him, but when Lucas forgot, the matter was dropped.
- Chewbacca was modeled after Lucas' dog, Indiana.  See also
  _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)_ (qv).
- C-3PO loses an arm when attacked by the Sandpeople.  Ben cuts off a
  creature's hand in the Cantina.  See also
  _The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv) and _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- The following characters ``have a bad feeling about this'': Luke and Han. See
  also _The Empire Strikes Back (1980)_ (qv), and
  _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- A scene where Jabba the Hutt confronts Han Solo in front of the Millenium
  Falcon was filmed with a human standin, but cut due to pacing problems.
- A small pair of metal dice can be seen hanging in the cockpit of the 
  Millenium Falcon as Chewbacca makes preparations to depart from Mos Eisley.
  They don't appear in subsequent scenes.
- Han and Luke ``transfer'' Chewbacca from cell block 1138: Lucas directed a
  film called _THX 1138 (1970)_ (qv).  ``THX-1138'' was going to be the serial
  number of the guard with the faulty transmitter on the Death Star, but this
  was changed.
- 'Harrison Ford' (qv) deliberately didn't learn his lines for the intercom
  conversation in the cell block, so it would sound spontaneous.
- When the stormtroopers enter the room where C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding, one
  of them ``accidentally'' bumps his head on the door, complete with sound
  effects.
- Scenes featuring Luke and his Tatooine friend ``Biggs'' were cut from the 
  film. Biggs was a young pilot who left the Imperial Academy to join the 
  Rebellion. Luke mentions him to his ``aunt'' and ``uncle'' during the
  breakfast scene, and the character later shows up as a Rebel pilot who
  accompanies Luke down the final run on the Death Star trench (and is killed
  by Darth Vader).
- 'James Earl Jones' (qv) supplied the voice of Darth Vader, but specifically
  requested that he not be credited, as he felt he had not done enough work to
  get the billing.  'David Prowse' (qv) was supposedly extremely annoyed at
  not being told that his voice would be dubbed.
- Cardboard cutouts are used for some of the background starfighters in the 
  Rebel hanger bay.
- 'Mark Hamill' (qv) held his breath for so long during the trash compactor
  scene that he broke a blood vessel in his face.  Subsequent shots are from
  one side only.
- 'Denis Lawson' (qv), plays Wedge Antilles, despite his name being misspelt
  in the credits as ``Dennis Lawson''.  See also
  _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- The final battle has been described as borrowed from
  _The Dam Busters (1954)_ (qv), but much more closely resembles one in
  _633 Squadron (1964)_ (qv).
- Most of the crowd watching the heroes receive their medallions are cardboard
  cutouts.
- It is rumoured that the shots of Owen and Beru's burning bodies were added
  to avoid an MPAA rating of ``G'', which it was believed would hurt ticket
  sales.


# Stargate (1994)
- Concieved by director 'Roland Emmerich' (qv) during film school in 1979.


# Staying Alive (1983)
- DIRCAMEO(Sylvester Stallone): bumps into Tony on the street.


# Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- The stunt where the wall falls on 'Buster Keaton' (qv) was performed with
  an actual full-weight wall.  Half the crew walked off the set rather than
  participate in a stunt that would have killed Keaton if he had been slightly
  off position.


# Steel Magnolias (1989)
- The character Shelby Latcherie was based on author 'Richard Harling' (qv)'s
  sister.


# Stella Dallas (1937)
- 'Samuel Goldwyn' (qv) would have preferred 'Ruth Chatterton' (qv) for the
  title role, but she   turned it down, having just played a less-than-perfect
  wife in _Dodsworth (1936)_ (qv).


# Storia di ragazzi e di ragazze (1989)
- Director 'Pupi Avati' (qv) wanted to make the film in black and white, and
  had a black and white version made from the color negative.


# Storm Warning (1951)
- The studio wanted 'Lauren Bacall' (qv) and 'Doris Day' (qv) to star in the
  film, but Bacall went to Africa with her husband ''Humphrey Bogart' (qv)
  to film _The African Queen (1951)_ (qv)


# Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The (1939)
- 'Jean Sablon' (qv) refused the part of the French singer played by
  'Louis Mercer' (qv) because of its size, but his voice is used on the
  soundtrack.


# Straight Time (1978)
- Producer '[???] Hoffman' (qv) was originally going to direct, but dropped
  out a week before shooting started with a confidence crisis.


# Strange Cargo (1940)
- 'Joan Crawford' (qv)'s wardrobe consists of three ready-to-wear dresses
  which cost under $40.
- Received a condemned rating from the Legion of Decency for ``irreverent use
  of Scripture'' and ``lustful complications.''  Even after the studio made
  the changes demanded, distribution was sharply cut by cities refusing to
  book it.
  

# Strangers on a Train (1951)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the film boarding a train
  carrying a double bass fiddle as Guy gets off the train (see also his cameo
  in _The Paradine Case (1947)_ (qv)).
- Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the
  price down, and got them for just $7,500
- 'Raymond Chandler' (qv) is credited as the main author of the script, but it
  was almost completely written by 'Czenzi Ormonde' (qv) who was credited as
  second author.
- The stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with trick
  photography.  Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever
  performed under his direction, and would never allow it to be done again.


# Street of Chance (1930)
- Loosely based on life of 'Arnold Rothstein' (qv), a well-known gambler in New
  York in the 1920s.


# Street Trash (1987)
- CAMEO(Roy Frumkes): the businessman whose face is burned off by the melting
  bum on the fire escape.


# Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- 'Viven Leigh' (qv), who suffered from bipolar disorder (manic-depression) in
  real life, later had difficulties in distinguishing her real life from that
  of Blanche DuBois.


# Striking Distance (1993)
- Co-star 'Robert Pastorelli' (qv) accidentally blurted out the big plot twist
  during an appearance on _"Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)_ (qv) long
  before the film was released.


# Striptease (1996)
- Underwent last minute editing when preview audiences laughed at the wrong
  parts.


# Submarine D-1 (1937)
- 'Ronald Reagan' (qv) had a role in this film, but it was completely edited
  out.


# Subway (1985)
- DIRTRADE(Luc Besson): [reno]
- DIRTRADE(Luc Besson): [music]


# Sudden Impact (1983)
- ACTTRADE(Clint Eastwood): ``Go ahead. Make my Day'' (first)?


# Sugarland Express, The (1974)
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [father]: Clovis


# Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The role of Norma Desmond was initially offered to 'Mae West' (qv) (who
  rejected the part), 'Mary Pickford' (qv) (who demanded too much project
  control), and 'Pola Negri' (qv) (who, like Mae West, turned it down) before
  being accepted by 'Gloria Swanson' (qv).
- 'Montgomery Clift' (qv), signed to play the part of Joe Gillis, broke his
  contract just two weeks prior to the start of shooting.  'Billy Wilder' (qv)
  quickly offered the role to 'Fred MacMurray' (qv); he said ``no.''
  'William Holden' (qv) was also not interested in the part; however, being
  only a contract player at Paramount, he was ordered to play Joe Gillis.
- The ``Desmond mansion'' had been built by a 'William Jenkins' (qv) in 1924
  at a cost of $250,000.   Its second owner was 'J. Paul Getty' (qv) who
  purchased it for his second wife.  Mrs. Getty divorced her millionaire
  husband and received custody of the house; it was she who rented it to
  Paramount for the filming.
- Originally opened and closed the story at the Los Angeles County Morgue. In a
  scene described by director 'Billy Wilder' (qv) as one of the best he'd ever
  shot, the body of Joe Gillis is rolled into the Morgue to join three dozen
  other corpses, some of whom - in voice-over - tell Gillis how they died.
  Eventually Gillis tells his story, which takes us to a flashback of his
  affair with Norma Desmond. The movie was previewed with this opening, in
  Illinois and Long Island. Because both audiences inappropriately found the
  morgue scene hilarious, the film's release was delayed six months so that
  a new beginning could be shot in which police find Gillis's corpse floating
  in Norma's pool while Gillis's voice narrates the events leading to his
  death.  Distortion caused by water meant that this scene had to be filmed
  via a mirror placed on the bottom of the pool.
- The movie that Joe and Norma watch in the private screening room is
  _Queen Kelly (1929)_ (qv). Filmed in 1928, the movie had not yet been
  released.  It was directed by 'Erich von Stroheim' (qv) who plays the butler.
- The script planned by Joe and Betty (the story of a couple, which is
  never together because of jobs with incompatible working time)
  exists: it was written by 'Billy Wilder' (qv) and 'Max Kolpe' (qv)
  for _Blaue vom Himmel, Das (1932)_ (qv).
- CAMEO(Cecil B. de Mille):
- CAMEO(Buster Keaton):
- CAMEO(H.B. Warner):
- CAMEO(Hedda Hopper):


# Superman (1978)
- 'Marlon Brando' (qv) received $4 million for his ten minutes on screen.
- Credits sequence cost more than most films made up to that point.
- 'Christopher Reeve' (qv) worked out so much during the making of the film
  that the traveling matte shots taken of him at the beginning of the shoot
  did not match the later shots, and had to be re-taken.
- CAMEO(Kirk Alyn): Lois Lane's father.  Alyn played Superman in the serials
  fo ``Superman''.
- CAMEO(Noel Neill): Lois Lane's mother.  Neill played Lois Lane in the
  serials of ``Superman''.
- CAMEO(Rex Reed): himself


# Superman II (1980)
- Many scenes shot at the same time as _Superman (1978)_ (qv) by original
  director 'Richard Donner' (qv), who was replaced by 'Richard Lester' (qv)
  due to creative differences.
- Original script had the nuclear missle from _Superman (1978)_ (qv) releasing
  Zod and companions from the Forbidden Zone.


# Suspicion (1941)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 45 minutes in, mailing a letter ati
  the village post office.
- In the scene where Johnnie brings a glass of milk up to Linda, Hitchcock
  had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Johnnie to be guilty, but the studio insisted
  that the public wouldn't accept 'Cary Grant' (qv) as a murderer.  Hitchcock's
  original ending had Johnny convicting himself by mailing a letter that
  Linda had written.
- A big latticed window casts a spider's web-like shadow across the actors.


# Suspiria (1977)
- A glass feather is plucked from an ornament.  Director 'Dario Argento' (qv)'s
  feature film debut was directing
  _The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969)_ (qv).


# Sweet Charity (1969)
- Original producer Ross Hunter dropped out after a conflict with director
  Bob Fosse over how to handle the racy story line.


# Swing Kids (1993)
- On location in Prague in near freezing weather, Christian Bale was visited
  by 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) (director of his feature film debut
  _Empire of the Sun (1987)_ (qv)), who was also in Prague filming
  _Schindler's List (1993)_ (qv).


# Swing Time (1936)
- The film originally began with a musical number, ``It's Not in the Cards,''
  which was cut due the film's length and because the number was judged as
  not very good. Only a bit remains in the final version. The music is also
  used in the background during the first few scenes.
- The shadow dance idea for ``Bojangles of Harlem'' occurred to choreographer
  'Hermes Pan' (qv) and 'Fred Astaire' (qv) during rehearsals, when three
  different light sources illuminating Astaire produced three shadows.
- The climax of ``Never Gonna Dance'' took 47 takes in a single day and
  required many demanding spins of 'Ginger Rogers' (qv); her feet bled.
- In ``The Way You Look Tonight'', Rogers is seen to be washing her hair.
  The crew dried various soaps, shampoos, and even egg white, but it always
  ran down her face too quickly.  They achieved success with whipped cream. 


# Swiss Miss (1938)
- 'Stan Laurel' (qv) was ill during filming, appearing pale and tired.


# Tales of Hoffman (1951)
- 'Michael Powell' (qv) began the project after hearing 'Thomas Beecham' (qv)
  playing the score on piano and singing all of the parts.


# Tales of Manhattan (1942)
# Tales of Manhattan (1942)
- 'W.C. Fields' (qv) and 'Margaret Dumont' (qv) appeared in a section of the
- 'W.C. Fields' (qv) appeared in a section of the film that was cut from
  film that was cut from the final version.
  the final version.

- Amused by 'Charles Boyer' (qv)'s thick French accent, 'Rita Hayworth' (qv)

  giggled her way through the filming of their love scenes together.


# Tall Guy, The (1989)
- The name ``Ron Anderson'' is remarkably similar to the name of the actor who
  plays him: 'Rowan Atkinson' (qv).  One of the other contenders for the award
  that Anderson won was 'Griff Rhys-Jones' (qv), the ``Jones'' half of the
  comedy duo ``Alas Smith and Jones''.  'Mel Smith' (qv) (the Smith half)
  directed the film.  Smith, Jones, and Atkinson starred together in the TVu
  series ``Not the Nine O'Clock News''.  Also Anderson refers to his
  side-kick ('Jeff Goldblum' (qv)) on stage as ``Perkins''. When performing
  live, Atkinson frequently uses 'Angus Deayton' (qv) as his sidekick
  who is always called ``Perkins''.  Deayton makes a small appearance in the
  film as an actor looking at several excellent roles while Dexter gets
  offered a single role as a tall American.
- The car that races to the Hospital in at the end of the film
  (a blue Aston Martin registration ``COMIC'') belonged to Atkinson.
  Dexter is pulled over by the police for speeding just as Atkinson
  was in real life in the very same car. Atkinson received a driving ban as a
  result of the incident.
- DIRCAMEO(Mel Smith): the backstage drunk who congratulates and then
  collapses.


# Tango & Cash (1989)
- The scene where Tango ('Sylvester Stallone' (qv)) faces an oncoming bus
  with nothing but a gun was borrowed from _Police Story (1985)_ (qv), where
  'Jackie Chan' (qv) (a good friend of Stallone's) performed the stunt.


# Tank Girl (1995)
- 'Emily Lloyd' (qv) was originally cast in the title role, but turned it
  down after refusing to shave her head for the part.


# Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
- There is a scene in which Tarzan, standing on a tree limb with Jane, pulls
  at Jane's scanty outfit and persuades her to dive into a lake with him. The
  two swim for a while and eventually surface. When Jane rises out of the
  water, one of her breasts is fully exposed. Because various groups,
  including official censors of the Hays Office, criticiaed the scene for
  being too erotic, it was cut by MGM.


# Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
- 'James Pierce' (qv) said of this picture: ``Because of poor direction,
  terrible story treatment and putrid acting, the opus was a stinkeroo.  I
  emerge with nothing to show for my strenuous effort except being typecast as
  Tarzan. I was out of a job.''


# Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
- In the second week of filming Dinky the chimp bit 'Mike Henry' (qv) on the
  jaw.  It took 20 stitches to repair the wound.   Henry had monkey fever
  delerium for three days, and took three weeks to recuperate. The chimp was
  destroyed and replaced.


# Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
- This is essentially the second half of the previously released
  _The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)_ (qv) with a little additional footage.


# Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
- 'Gordon Scott' (qv) got along well with the natives involved in the movie.
  A Masai warrior nicknamed him ``Mtu Ule Na Panda Miti Minegu'' (Warrior Who
  Climbs Tall Trees).
- On the set, Scott won a bet by capturing and riding a wild giraffe for
  five minutes.
- A 500 pound lion with whom Scott had worked for over a month tore open his
  leg (32 stitches).


# Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
- 'Johnny Weissmuller' (qv)'s stunt double 'Angel Garcia' (qv) was killed
  while diving from the cliffs at Acapulco.


# Tarzan Escapes (1936)
- Originally directed by 'James McKay' (qv), who filmed many gruesome
  scenes, and was replaced by 'John Farrow' (qv).


# Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
- In the original script Jane was to have died ('Maureen O'Sullivan' (qv)
  wanted out of the Tarzan series).  Fan protest forced a last-minute rewrite
  in which Jane recovers from her near-fatal wound, admitting she had been
  wrong to disobey Tarzan.


# Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
- The Temple of Buddha's Footprint, a sacred Thai shrine, was photographed
  for the first time in this movie. Crew members worked without shoes
  and in nearly complete silence.


# Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
- Young men from the New Orleans Athletic Club played the ape parts.
- In one scene a lion is supposed to crawl through the window of
  Tarzan's cabin to devour Jane. Tarzan grabs him and pulls him out.
  In fact the old and drugged lion turned on 'Elmo Lincoln' (qv) who stabbed
  and killed him.  ``I stepped on him to beat my chest.  As my foot
  pressed down on him, the remaining air in his lungs escaped with a
  loud whoosh. I was alredy shaken and you should have seen me jump!''
  The lion wound up as a lobby display when the picture opened on Broadway.


# Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
- First Tarzan movie with sound that didn't feature the ape-call.  Despite
  protests from fans, the producers decided it had been ridiculed too often
  to remain effective.


# Tarzan the Mighty (1928)
- The original star was to have been 'Joe Bonomo' (qv), promoted by the studio
  as ``the greatest of all Tarzans.'' Near the end of work on another picture,
  _Perils of the Wild (1925)_ (qv), Bonono fractured his left leg and injured
  his sacro-iliac.  'Frank Merrill' (qv), who had doubled for
  'Elmo Lincoln' (qv) in _Perils of the Jungle (????)_ (qv)  was offered the
  job and began work the next day.
- When a friend of Merrill's learned of a physical culture contest in England
  he entered Merrill's photo without his knowledge.  Merrill was voted second
  runner-up for ``World's Most Perfectly Developed Man'' and the publicity
  from this added to attendance at the movie. The irony is that Merrill's
  body was more thoroughly covered than any other Tarzan.


# Tarzan the Tiger (1928)
- This movie was released in both silent and ``sound'' versions. The sound
  consisted of a crude musical score, sound effects and a few lip-synched
  lines on a record.
- The record contains the very first Tarzan yell, invented by
  'Frank Merrill' (qv).
- ``Tarzan the Terrible'' (qv) was planned but the studio decided Merrill's
  voice wasn't right for talkies and the film was scrapped.


# Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
- Jane's absence was explained in a letter saying that she's visiting
  relatives in England.  'Maureen O'Sullivan' (qv) (who had played Jane
  on many occasions previously) wanted nothing more to do with Tarzan movies
  by this time.


# Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
- 'Gordon Scott' (qv) was nearly killed by the 18-1/2 foot python with which
  he wrestles in this movie. It took six men to pull the snake off him.


# Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
- Cheetah appears only during one line (``So long, Cheetah'').  This is
  because the chimpanzees brought from England to Kenya for the filming
  were so terrified of the jungle night noises they wouldn't perform.
- 'Sean Connery' (qv) was paid $5,600 for his role in this movie.  When asked
  to play in the next Tarzan movie, he said he couldn't because ``Two fellows
  took an option on me for some spy picture, and are exercising it.  But I'll
  be in your next.''  The ``spy picture'' was _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv).
- Producer 'Sy Weintraub' (qv) also wanted Anthony Quayle to come back for
  another Tarzan movie, but Quayle had been offered a part in
  _Lawrence of Arabia (1962)_ (qv) after having been seen in this film, and
  couldn't accept.


# Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
- 'Gordon Scott' (qv) and 'Vera Miles' (qv) married while making this film.


# Tarzan's Peril (1951)
- First Tarzan film to be shot in Africa, where it was set.
- The company arrived in Africa just before winter set in. The chimps
  wouldn't perform, so Cheetah's part had to be cut. the area around
  Mount Kenya was so cloudy that 'Lex Barker' (qv)'s tan disappeared and he
  had to use body makeup. The first time Barker showed up in a loin cloth
  the native extras burst out laughing.
- The film was originally shot in color, but more than half of it was
  ruined on location.  It was converted to black and white, the
  remaining footage winding up in later pictures.


# Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
- The photo of Lord Greystoke is really 'Lex Barker' (qv) in a beard and
  mustache.


# Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
- Due to many budget cutbacks following the death of 'Irving Thalberg' (qv)
  many stock shots from former movies were used.


# Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
- During the filming, 'Jock Mahoney' (qv) contracted amoebic dysentery and
  dengue fever, and finally pneumonia, going from 220 to 175 pounds before
  finishing the film.


# Taxi Driver (1976)
- The scene where Travis Bickle is talking to himself in the mirror was
  completely ad-libbed by 'Robert DeNiro' (qv).
- 'Bernard Herrmann' (qv) wasn't going to write the score for this film, but
  agreed to do it (his last) when he saw the scene where Bickle pours Schnapps
  on his cereal.
- 'Harvey Keitel' (qv) rehearsed with actual pimps to prepare for his role.
  The scene where his character and Iris dance is improvised, and is one of
  only two scenes in the film that don't focus on Bickle.
- Director 'Martin Scorsese' (qv) claims that the most important shot in the
  movie is when Bickle is on the phone trying to get another date with Betsy
  The camera moves to the side slowly and pans down the long, empty hallway
  next to Bickle, as if to suggest that the phone conversation is too painful
  and pathetic to bear.
- DeNiro worked as a taxi driver as part of his preparation for this
  role.  He also studied mental illness.
- DeNiro claimed that the final shoot-out scene took particularly long,
  because of technical problems and the humor which arose from the tension
  created by the carnage in the scene.
- DIRCAMEO(Martin Scorsese): sitting down, behind Betsy as she walks into
  the Palantine campaign headquarters in slow-motion.  He also appears as the
  irate husband in Bickle's cab.


# Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
- Filmed in 3D, released in 2D.


# Teen Kanya (1961)
- Collection of three short films: ``Postmaster'', ``Monihara'' and
  ``Nishkriti''. ``Monihara'' was dropped for the ``Two Daughters'' version.


# Tempest (1982)
- DIRCAMEO(Paul Mazursky): First guest to be greeted by the architect
  at the New Year's Eve party.


# Temple Tower (1930)
- No print is know to exist of this film.  Please check your attic.


# Temptress, The (1926)
- 'Mauritz Stiller' (qv) was fired after 10 days of production and replaced
  with 'Fred Niblo' (qv).


# Ten Commandments, The (1923)
- Remade as _The Ten Commandments (1956)_ (qv), again by
  'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv).


# Ten Commandments, The (1956)
- 'Cecil B. DeMille' (qv) previously filmed this story as
  _The Ten Commandments (1923)_ (qv).
- Since DeMille's death in 1959, most people have believed the director's
  claim that the voice of God was his own. (He was clearly the film's
  narrator.)  But two other people later insisted that they had provided
  God's voice: 'Charlton Heston' (qv), and the singer-actor
  'Jesse Delos Jewkes' (qv), who died in 1984.  There is no screen credit for
  God's voice, and the fact is that only DeMille and his sound director,
  'Loren L.  Ryder' (qv), who died in 1985, knew the truth - because the voice
  used in the film was run through mixers, changers, and echo chambers.


# Tender Comrade (1943)
- Screenwriters 'Dalton Trumbo' (qv) and 'Edward Dmytryk' (qv) did not
  conceal their Communist sympathies, and 'Ginger Rogers' (qv) began noticing
  anti-American speeches in her dialogue.  Upon complaining, the speeches
  were given to other actresses.


# Tenebrae (1982)
- According to director 'Dario Argento' (qv), 'James Franciosa' (qv) was often
  drunk on set.


# Terminator 2: 3-D (1996)
- Costed $60 Million to make.  Per second that works out to $83,333.33.   The
  Live shoot was $20 Million.


# Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Scenes in the screenplay but not filmed:
 - Extended Future War sequence where the resistance won and enter
   a SkyNet lab where they find the time-portal and a storage
   facilities of Terminators. You also see Reese talking to John.
 - Sarah's ECT where Sarah is fitted for electro-convulsive thearpy
   and voltage is pumped into her.
 - Salceda's death sequence. Sal's dog starts barking, Sal goes
   out tries to shoot the T-1000 and fails. T-1000 uses the
   pointed finger/sword trick to Sal's shoulder blades saying
   ``I know this hurts. Where is John Connor''. Sal curses him
   and his hands searchs around the ground near some crates
   that held grenades. He kills himself and hopefully the T-1000
   with one. No luck. T-1000 head falls off but like the little
   piece in the asylum escape sequence, it oozes back into his
   boots. Yolanda sees this and hugs the baby as T-1000 steps
   closer. T-1000 picks up the baby and gets the info from
   her as where John and others had gone.
 - Gant Ranch. This section was a longer version of Sal's and
   refers to Travis Gant, ``crazy ex-Green Beret'' that John
   mentions his mother seeing before she was caught. Longer
   and has romantic notions between the two. After Sarah, John
   & the T-800 left, T-1000 kills Gant as he did like with John's
   ``Mom''. Disguised as Gant's lover, he easily stepped up to him
   and tortured him for answers before killing him.
 - Dyson's Vision Sequence. Dyson, the creator of the new processor
   had a dream sequence before he died and dropped the device on the
   trigger. In it he saw a picture of his family before a nuclear
   explosion turned it to ash. He sees his family running and then
   a scene of the sun as it pulls back to reveal Dyson's dying eye
   before he closes it and drops the book.
- Scenes filmed but not included in the theatrical release:
 - Sarah Connor was to have a dream where Reese appears and warns
   her that THEIR son is in danger. She has to save him, etc. They
   kiss and then she wakes up. This is the only scene 'Michael Biehn' (qv)
   was in, and appeared in some promotional trailers.
 - Another hospital scene was cut that took place directly after the
   pre-med students peer into Sarah's room. The doctor reminds the
   orderlies to make sure she gets her medication. The cut scene was
   of the staff coming in to give her the pills. They smack her in
   the gut with their batton and force the pills down her throat,
   then kick her while she's on the floor doubled over in pain.
 - After the T-1000 kills John's foster parents, he ventures outside
   to get the dog to shut-up. He reaches down and snatches the
   collar off the dog, thus killing the dog. On the collar is
   stamped the dog's name ``Max''. The T-1000 realizes he has been
   duped by John (actually the T-800 imitating John's voice) by
   calling the dog ``Wolfie''.
 - After killing the dog, the T-1000 goes to John's room to try to
   any clues as to where John might be. He stalks around the room
   waving his arms and ``feeling'' things on the shelves, on the
   walls, etc.  He eventually stops in front of a poster, and
   without feeling it, realizes there is something behind it. He
   rips it down and finds a box of momentos (pictures, and the
   like). This must be where the T-1000 figures out about the desert

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