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   compound that Sarah, John, and the T-800 head to after the
   hospital. Director 'James Cameron' (qv) decided to cut it because it
   made the T-1000 look to much like it had X-Ray vision.
 - At the abandoned gas station, a scene involved Sarah and John talking
   with the T-800 about learning. He tells them that his CPU was
   switched to read-only before being sent out. Cyberdyne doesn't
   want them to learn too much while on the own. John asks can it be
   switched and he says yes. You then see the T-800's face in a
   ``mirror'' talking Sarah through the procedure. A puppet was used
   for the foreground Sarah to work on and Linda's twin sister
   Leslie was in the mirror mimicking Linda's hand movements. After
   the CPU is removed, the T-800 shuts-down and Sarah places it on a
   table. She picks up a hammer and tries to smash it to render him
   inoperative. John stops her and says they need him. He starts to
   show authority for the first time and says to Sarah, ``How am I
   supposed to be a world leader if my own mother won't listen to
   me?''
 - While in the desert, John attempts to teach the T-800 to smile. He
   tells him that he looks like a dork because he doesn't smile. He studies a
   man on the phone and tries to copy him.
- The badge on the T1000's uniform reads ``Austin'' (named after producer
  'Stephanie Austin' (qv)), although it is not fully visible in the film.
- A promotional trailer for the film included a scene not in the film: the
  T800 being constructed.
- The T800's ``point-of-view'' scenes at the biker's bar identify a Harley
  Davidson ``Fatboy'', and a carcinogen in the cigar smoke.
- The T800 carries a gun in a box of roses.  Some of the soundtrack was written
  by ``Guns 'n Roses''.
- For the truck scene, they modified a normal truck to hide the usual steering
  wheel, and added a cosmetic steering wheel on the right side.  In addition,
  the truck had a mirror-image license plate and other necessary stuff.
- The T800's bike jump into the stormwater drain was performed by a stuntman
  'Peter Kent' (qv).  The motorbike was supported by 1-inch cables, so that
  when they hit the ground, the bike and rider only weighted 180 pounds.  The
  cables were later digitally erased.
- More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed.
- SFX crew had to incorporate 'Robert Patrick' (qv)'s football-injury limp in
  their animation of the T1000.
  Next, they filmed the stuff with the T1000 pretending to be driving from
  the right-hand steering wheel (wearing a mirror-image police uniform),
  while the real driver was hidden under a black hood at the lowered real
  steering wheel.  For the final film, the scenes were flipped left-to-right
  to make it all look right, and combined with footage shot with a normal
  truck driving in the drain.  This was done so that actor Robert Patrick could
  concentrate on acting rather than driving.  They accidentally caught a street
  sign; after they mirror-imaged the scene, they digitally reversed the text on
  the sign so it would appear correct.
- After throwing the T800 through the shopping center window, the T1000 glances
  at a mannequin that is entirely covered with chrome.  Reminiscent of Reese
  shooting the T800 in the Tech Noir bar in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv).
- The T1000 tells the helicopter pilot to ``Get out!''.  This is an interesting
  parallel to _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv), in which the T800 gives the same
  command to a truck driver under similar circumstances.
- The T800 loses its left arm, and hauls itself forward with its right.  The
  same thing happened to the T800 in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv).
- The T1000 has at least three hands when it is flying the helicopter.
- 'Linda Hamilton' (qv)'s twin 'Leslie Hamilton' (qv) played the T1000 when it
  was imitating Sarah Connor.
- Identical twins 'Don Stratton' (qv) and 'Dan Stratton' (qv) played the
  hospital security guard and the T1000.
- The T-800 says ``I need a vacation'', which 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)
  previously said in _Kindergarten Cop (1990)_ (qv).  This was not in the
  script, but ad-libbed.
- Schwarzenegger said during the making of this film that he would never play
  another evil character again.
- The cryo-truck ``Benthic Petroleum'', the name of the company in
  _The Abyss (1989)_ (qv), also directed by Cameron.
- A ``T800'' is a parallel CPU usually found running OCCAM.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!''
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: during the opening credits: the
  cut from the playing children to the dark future.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: the terminator in the future crushes
  a skull with its foot.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When the T800 and the T1000 meet for
  the first time, the T800 takes the gun out of the flower box and walks over
  the roses.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When Sarah, John and the T800 are
  chased by the T1000 through the psychiatric clinic, the T1000 walks over the
  sunglasses that the T800 had discarded.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]


# Terminator, The (1984)
- 'O.J. Simpson' (qv) was considered for the role of the terminator, but
  the producers feared he wouldn't be taken seriously.
- 'Lance Henriksen' (qv) originally cast as the terminator, with
  'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv) as the hero.  Schwarzenegger read the script,
  and asked to play the terminator instead.
- Just after the first scene in the nightclub TechNoir, we hear a police
  radio report a ``two-eleven in progress at Bob's Liquor, corner of Third
  and Cameron,'' an possible reference to director 'James Cameron' (qv).
- Shots through the Terminator's vision show Apple 2+ assembly code, taken
  from ``Nibble'', a computing magazine.  Other code visible is written in
  COBOL.
- Schwarzenegger's voice is used in exactly 16 lines, with 17 sentences
  spoken.  The terminator has two other lines onscreen,  one with the voice of
  a police officer overdubbed, and one with the voice of Sarah's mother
  overdubbed.  There are also many lines with the voice of Sarah's mother,
  and we learn that the terminator is actually saying them, but we don't see
  it.
- Science Fiction author 'Harlan Ellison' (qv) filed a lawsuit against
  Cameron, claiming that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories,
  namely ``Soldier'' and ``Demon With a Glass Hand''.  Theo concept of
  ``Skynet'' could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called
  ``I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream''.  Newer prints of the film acknowledge
  Ellison.
- A scene in which a person picked up the CPU of the terminator after it was
  crushed was filmed, but not included.
- ACTTRADE(Arnold Schwarzenegger): ``I'll be back!'' (first)
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: in the future sequence, there is a
  close-up of tank treads rolling over human skulls.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: when the Terminator approaches the
  house of the first ``Sarah Conner'', it crushes a small toy truck.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: after the terminator kills Sarah's
  friend, he walks over her walkman headphones.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: Sarah's burning photo turning into
  Sara sleeping in Reese's arms.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]


# Territory, The (1981)
- 'Wim Wenders' (qv) borrowed the entire cast and crew of this movie to make
  _The State of Things (1982)_ (qv).


# Terror, The (1963)
- Having finished _The Raven (1963)_ (qv), 'Roger Corman' (qv) shot this film
  in only four days using the same set and the same actors.


# Tess (1979)
- Set in England but filmed in France, as director 'Roman Polanski' (qv) was
  wanted on sex-related charges in England.
- This film was dedicated to Polanski's wife 'Sharon Tate' (qv), who was
  murdered under orders from 'Charles Manson' (qv).  Tate gave Polanski a
  copy of the novel as she boarded the liner back to the United States, the
  last time they would see each other.


# Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
- Director 'Tobe Hooper' (qv) based Leatherface on mass-murderer
  'Ed Gein' (qv), who was arrested when he was young.
- 'Marilyn Burns' (qv), whose character was chased by Leatherface through the
  undergrowth actually cut herself on the branches quite badly, so a lot of the
  blood on her body and clothes is real.
- The actor whose character was hung up on a meat hook was actually held up
  by a nylon cord that went between her legs, causing a great deal of pain.
- CAMEO(John Laroquette): narrator


# Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
- Some prints are missing 'Bette Davis' (qv)' part.


# That Forsyte Woman (1949)
- 'C. Aubrey Smith' (qv) was originally scheduled to play the part of Jolyon
  Forsyte, but the illness preceding his death prevented it.


# That Lady in Ermine (1948)
- Director 'Ernst Lubitch' (qv) died early in production; 'Otto Preminger' (qv)
  completed the film.


# That Royle Girl (1926)
- No copy of this film is known to exist.  Please check your attic.


# That's Dancing! (1985)
- Director 'Jack Haley, Jr.' (qv)'s credits are shown over a picture of his
  father, 'Jack Haley' (qv) in the role of the Tin Woodman in
  _The Wizard of Oz (1939)_ (qv).


# Them! (1954)
- CAMEO(Leonard Nimoy):


# Theodore Rex (1995)
- 'Whoopi Goldberg' (qv) wanted to leave the film during the production.


# There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
- 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) was promised the lead role in
  _The Seven Year Itch (1955)_ (qv) if she appeared in this film to boost the
  box-office potential.  The role of Vicky was written especially for this
  purpose, and songs such as ``Heatwave'' originally intended for Molly were
  assigned to her.


# They Live (1988)
- The two critics speaking against violence on film criticize director
  'John Carpenter' (qv).
- Writer 'Frank Armitage' (qv) is actually director 'John Carpenter' (qv).
- The fight between Nada ('Roddy Piper' (qv)) and Frank ('Keith David' (qv))
  was only supposed to last 20 seconds, but Piper and David decided to fight
  it out for real, only faking the punches to the face.  Carpenter was so
  impressed he kept the scene intact.


# They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
- Desert location shooting was so hot at times that the film melted in
  the camera.


# Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)
- The Persian Prince is played by 'Mathilde Comont' (qv), a female.


# Third Man, The (1949)
- 'Orson Welles' (qv) wrote all of his own lines in the picture and practically
  directed the scenes in which he appeared. He considered using a double for
  some of the sewer shots because he was asthmatic and afraid of the cold and
  damp air in the corridors.


# This Is Cinerama (1952)
- Original director 'Robert Flaherty' (qv) became ill and died shortly
  after filming General MacArthur in Chicago on April 26, 1951, a wet and
  windy day. The sequence was not included.
- The roller coaster ride was filmed several times using ``short ends''
  and the complete circuit contains two skilfully edited takes.  It was
  directed by 'Michael Todd Jr.' (qv).  At the time, Todd was a 21 year old
  college student on vacation from Amherst.  Apart from salaries, the
  sequence cost thirty-three dollars (rental of a station wagon
  and the cost of bolts to fix the cameras to the roller coaster).
  Todd Jr. also directed most of the European footage.
- Musical Director 'Louis Forbes' (qv) was basically a conductor.
  'Max Steiner' (qv) composed much of the original music used, but did so
  secretly, as he was under contract to Warner Brothers at the time.
- When released in Franco's Spain in 1958, several censorship cuts were made.


# This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- The actors are all competent musicians, and the soundtrack is actually them
  playing.
- Much of the dialogue was ad-libbed.


# Three Daring Daughters (1948)
- 'Pat Hyatt' (qv) dubbed 'Ann E. Todd' (qv)'s singing, 'Jean Garbo' (qv)
  dubbed 'Mary Eleanor' (qv)'s.


# Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)
- 'Del Porter' (qv) dubbed 'Charles Smith' (qv)'s singing, 'Carol Stewart' (qv)
  'Vera-Ellen' (qv)'s.


# Three Little Pigskins (1934)
- 'Jerry Howard' (qv) (Curly) broke a leg after riding down the dumbwaiter.
- 'Larry Fine' (qv) lost a tooth when a punch was mis-timed.


# Three Little Words (1950)
- Vocals for 'Vera-Ellen' (qv) were dubbed by 'Anita Ellis' (qv).
- Vocals for 'Debbie Reynolds' (qv) were dubbed by 'Helen Kane' (qv).


# Three Musketeers, The (1974)
- Shot at the same time as _The Four Musketeers (1975)_ (qv), and resulted in
  a lawsuit.  See _The Four Musketeers (1975)_ (qv).


# Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
- The title comes from the 'Patsy Cline song' (qv): ``Throw Mama From the
  Train, a kiss, a kiss, Wave Mama from the train a goodbye...''
- CAMEO(Rob Reiner): Larry's character's agent.


# Thunderball (1965)
- The budget was $5,500,000 ($500,000 of which was spent on Largo's
  yacht the Disco Volante).
- The title song was originally to be ``Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'' sung by
  'Dionne Warwick' (qv) , but was changed at the last minute to ``Thunderball''
   sung by 'Tom Jones' (qv).
- The first 007 movie to be filmed in Panavision.
- Stuntman 'Bill Cumming' (qv) was paid a $450 bonus to jump into Largo's shark
  infested pool.
- Intended to be the first 007 movie, but legal wrangles with its co-author
  lead to _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv) being chosen instead.
- 'Molly Peters' (qv) is the the first Bond girl to appear in the nude (albeit
  behind shower glass).
- Martine Beswick ('Paula Catlin' (qv)) had previously appeared in
  _From Russia with Love (1963)_ (qv).
- The many underwater scenes stem from writer 'Kevin McClory' (qv)'s interest
  in watersports.
- 'Claudine Auger' (qv) was a former Miss France, but being French her voice
  was dubbed.  See also _From Russia with Love (1963)_ (qv).


# Thunderheart (1992)
- Based on a true story, documented as _Incident at Oglala (1992)_ (qv).


# THX 1138 (1970)
- ``THX'' stands for ``Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment''.  Tomlinson Holman was
  a friend of director 'George Lucas' (qv), and inventor of the THX sound
  system used extensively by Lucas.


# Time Bandits (1980)
- DIRTRADE(Terry Gilliam): [burst]: horse and rider from closet


# Timecop (1994)
- While riding in the sled which will transport him into the future,
  'Jean Claude Van Damme' (qv) takes out a stick of chewing gum called ``Black
  Black'', a brand of Japanese gum.  During 1994, Van Damme appeared in
  television commercials for ``Black Black'' chewing gum in Japan.


# Tip Off, The (1931)
- The working titles were ``The Lady Killer'' and ``Eddie Cuts In''.


# Titanic (1997)
- Contains real footage of the titanic, shot on location beneath the sea.


# To Be or Not to Be (1983)
- A street sign reads ``Kubelski Avenue''.  _To Be or Not to Be (1942)_ (qv)
  starred 'Jack Benny' (qv), whose real name is Benny Kubelski.


# To Catch a Thief (1955)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 10 minutes in, sitting next too
  John Robie on a bus.
- There are subliminal shots of a black cat the first few times that John
  appears.  John's nickname is ``the cat'' because of his stealth ability.


# To Die For (1995)
- The briefcase that [Suzanne's lawyer] ('Joyce Maynard' (qv)) carries
  contains Maynard's mother's ashes.


# To Have and Have Not (1944)
- 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv) and 'Lauren Bacall' (qv) fell in love during
  production.  Director 'Howard Hawks' (qv) afterward said that it was
  actually Bacall's character Marie that Bogart had fallen for, ``so she had
  to keep playing it the rest of her life.''
- 'Ernest Hemingway' (qv) had bet Hawks that Hawks couldn't film this novel.
  Hawks did it by deleting most of the story, including the class references
  that would justify the title, and shifting to an earlier point in the
  lives of the lead characters.
- The setting was shifted to Martinique because the Office of
  Inter-American Affairs would not have allowed export of a film showing
  smuggling and insurrection in Cuba.
- 'Andy Williams' (qv) dubbed Bacall singing ``How Little We Know''.


# Tombstone (1993)
- 'Kevin Jarre' (qv) began as director, filming all of 'Charlton Heston' (qv)'s
  scenes.
- Director 'George P. Cosmatos' (qv) is quoted as saying that all lightning
  and moustaches are real.
- ACTTRADE(Val Kilmer): flipping a poker chip over his knuckles.


# Tommy (1975)
- Some of the scenes with 'Robert Powell' (qv) parallel his scenes in
  _Mahler (1974)_ (qv), also directed by 'Ken Russell' (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): [snake]: crawling out of the skeleton's pelvis.
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): [colors]: colors of sets during ``Acid Queen'',
  ``Cousin Kevin'', and ``Uncle Ernie'' sequences.  Lighting during
  ``Pinball Wizard''.
- DIRCAMEO(Ken Russell): One of the cripples during "Eyesight to the
  Blind/ Marilyn Monroe" sequence


# Too Many Girls (1940)
- 'Trudy Erwin' (qv) dubbed 'Lucille Ball' (qv)'s singing.



# Tootsie (1982)
- The working title was ``Would I lie to you?''.  'Dustin Hoffman' (qv)
  suggested ``Tootsie'', which was his mother's nickname for him when he
  was a child.
- DIRCAMEO(Sydney Pollack): Michael/Dorothy's agent, George Fields.


# Top Gun (1986)
- American F-5s double as the MiG-28s.
- ACTTRADE(Val Kilmer): flipping a pen over his knuckles.


# Top Hat (1935)
- Early drafts of the script called for 'Irving Berlin' (qv) songs ``Wild
  About You,'' ``Get Thee Behind Me, Satan'' (to be sung by
  'Ginger Rogers' (qv)) and ``You're the Cause,'' but they were not used in
  the final version.
- Beddini's motto was originally, ``For the men the sword, for the women the
  whip.'' The script was changed to ``For the women the kiss, for the men the
  sword'' after the Hollywood censors objected.
- For contrast to the ``Big White Set'' of the Lido, the water in the canals
  was dyed black.
- During ``Cheek to Cheek,'' Rogers' gown shed its feathers, exasperating
  'Fred Astaire' (qv) and causing delays in order to sew the feathers down.
  Rogers earned the nickname ``Feathers'' from Astaire as a result.
- The end portion film was trimmed down after preview-goers complained of
  the length. Small parts by 'Donald Meek' (qv) and 'Florence Roberts' (qv)
  were cut. One of the last scenes to go, in which 'Eric Blore' (qv) insults
  a policeman, is still present in some prints (including the RKO
  Collection videotape version from Turner Home Entertainment).
- A 78 minute version of the film was released by RKO in 1953. Cuts to the
  dance numbers were severe. Prints are still in circulation.


# Top Secret! (1984)
- The ``German'' that Nick learns in the train is not a language at all.
  Words like ``Vlichtmitten'', ``Blitzen'' or ``Flachmatuche'' are great fun
  for German listeners, but have no proper meaning.  In the German-dubbed
  version, Val Kilmer learns a German dialect mainly spoken in the former GDR.


# Topaz (1969)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 30 minutes in at the airport
  getting out of a wheelchair.
- 'Leon Uris' (qv) wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but Hitchcock
  declared it unshootable at the last minute and called in 'Samuel Taylor' (qv)
  (writer of _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv)) to rewrite it from scratch.  Some scenes
  were written just hours before they were shot.
- Hitchcock shot two versions with completely different endings.  Both of them
  are included in the Laserdisc reissue.
- According to Hitchcock, this was another of his experimental movies.
  In addition to the dialogue, the plot is revealed through the use of
  colors, predominantly red, yellow and white.  He admits that this did
  not work out.


# Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- The Japanese section of the film was originally to be directed by
  'Akira Kurosawa' (qv).
- Actor 'Jason Robards' (qv) was actually present at the bombing of Pearl
  Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941.


# Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
- DIRCAMEO(Charles Walters): auditions as one of the dancing partners.


# Torn Curtain (1966)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): early in the film sitting in a hotel
  lobby with a baby on his knee.
- The scene where Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult
  it really can be to kill a man.
- 'Keith Waterhouse' (qv) and 'Willis Hall' (qv) did extensive (uncredited)
  rewrites on the script.
- 'Bernard Herrmann' (qv) wrote the original score, but Universal Pictures
  executives convinced Hitchcock that they needed a more upbeat score.
  Hitchcock and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the score was dropped and
  they never worked together again.


# Torrid Zone (1940)
- 'George Reeves' (qv), 'Victor Varconi' (qv), 'Joseph Calleia' (qv),
  'Alan Hale' (qv), and 'George Tobias' (qv) all tested for the role of
  Rosario, with the part going to Tobias.


# Total Recall (1990)
- During filming, 'Sharon Stone' (qv) complained to director
  'Paul Verhoeven' (qv) that she wasn't sure whether her character really was
  married to Doug.
- Johnnycab whistles the Norwegian national anthem.


# Touch of Evil (1958)
- 'Janet Leigh' (qv) broke her left arm before filming commenced, but appeared
  nonetheless.
- The film takes place in a fictional Mexican bordertown, Los Robles,
  but was filmed in Venice, California because the place looked convincingly
  run-down and decayed.
- CAMEO(Joseph Cotten):
- CAMEO(Mercedes McCambridge):


# Toy Soldiers (1991)
- CAMEO(Jerry Orbach):


# Toy Story (1995)
- First fully computer generated full-length feature film.  The images
  required 800,000 hours generation time on a RenderFarm consisting of 87
  2-CPU SparcStation 20's, 30 4-CPU Sparc-Station 20's and a SparcServer 1000.
- When Woody is holding the staff meeting, several books are visible behind
  him.  The names of the books refer to previous Pixar films:
  _Red's Dream (1987)_ (qv), and Knickknack (1989).
- The desk lamp and yellow ball with a blue stripe and a red star are
  references to the previous Pixar film _Luxo Jr. (1986)_ (qv).
- Syd Phillips is said to be inspired by a former Pixar employee of the same
  last name who was known to disassemble toys and use the parts to build
  bizarre creations.
- Syd's sister serves Buzz tea from a Utah Teapot, a famous data model seen
  in countless computer animations.
- The toolbox that Buzz Lightyear ('Tim Allen' (qv)) pushes off the milk crate
  bears the name ``Binford Tools'', the name of the company which sponsors
  Allen's character's show in _"Home Improvements" (1991)_ (qv).
- One of the cars' license plate is ``HTT1195'', which references the
  company ``Hi Tech Tunes'', which produced the film.
- Rendered for an aspect ratio of 1.66 : 1 and it was supposed to be matted in
  theatres to 1.85 : 1 (the aspect ratio for which the team tried to compose).
  For reasons too complex to go into here, they aimed for 1.85 : 1 and missed,
  but only by a little. After careful consideration, and consultation with
  director 'John Lasseter' (qv) they nudged the window open a tiny bit to
  1.78 : 1.


# Toys (1992)
- The words used by the General in an attempt to stop the rampaging sea
  creature are ``Klaatu, Barada, Nikto'', the same words used to command the
  robot Gort in _The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)_ (qv).


# Trading Places (1983)
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: on a poster in the apartment.


# Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
- 'Peter Sellers' (qv) died during filming, which explains Inspector Clouseau's
  sudden disappearance.


# Train Robbers, The (1973)
- 'John Wayne' (qv)'s and 'Ann-Margret' (qv)'s character names, ``Lane'' and
  ``Mrs.  Lowe,'' are the same as Wayne's and 'Geraldine Page' (qv)'s
  characters' names in _Hondo (1953)_ (qv).


# Train, The (1965)
- An out-of-service railway station was blown up for this film.


# Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
- DIRCAMEO(John Huston): the man who Dobbs begs money from three times
  early in the film.
- This is the origin of the ``stinkin' badges'' line, used in many other
  movies, including _Blazing Saddles (1974)_ (qv).  The actual dialog is:
  ``Badges? We ain't got no badges!  We don't need no badges!  I don't have to
  show you any steenkin' badges!''.


# Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
- 'Gene Tierney' (qv) was originally cast as Katie Nolan.  When Tierney became
  pregnant, 'Dorothy McGuire' (qv) was given the role.
- 'Fred MacMurray' (qv) campaigned for the role of Johnny Nolan and
  'Alice Faye' (qv) was at one time considered for Aunt Sissy.


# Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
- 'Spencer Tracy' (qv) was cast as Jeremy Roderick, but after an argument with
  director 'Robert Wise' (qv) he was fired and replaced by 'James Cagney' (qv).


# Trick or Treat (1986)
- DIRCAMEO(Charles Martin Smith): the high school teacher


# Triple Trouble (1918)
- Composed of old 'Charles Chaplin' (qv) footage and new non-Chaplin material.


# Tron (1982)
- All the live action that occurred inside the computer wwas filmed in black
  and white, and colorized later with photographic and rotoscopic techniques.
- Flynn's program is named ``Clu''.  CLU is an old programming language.
- After Flynn escapes from the light cycles arena, it is possible to
  hear a ``Pac-Man'' video game and see a graphic on the map he is watching.
- In the ``solar sailer'' sequence, you'll see, for a brief moment, the
  silhouette of Mickey Mouse on the ground made to look like part of the
  terrain.


# Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): about 20 minutes in, walking past the
  limousine of a man looking at the paintings.
- 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).
- Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously for just
  $11,000.


# True Lies (1994)
- The US Government supplied 3 Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee
  of $100,736 ($2,410 per hour).
- ``Rehnquist'' was used in 'Robert Anton Williams' (qv)' book
  ``Schrodinger's Cat'' as slang for ``penis''.
- References to: _The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)_ (qv), _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv),
  _Total Recall (1990)_ (qv), _For Your Eyes Only (1981)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]


# True Romance (1993)
- Writer 'Quentin Tarantino' sold the script to fund
  _Reservoir Dogs (1992)_ (qv).
- Tarantino's original ending had Clarance dying in the
  gun battle, leaving Alabama a widow.  Tarantino said that he intended
  Alabama to turn to crime and join with Mr. White, a character from
  _Reservoir Dogs (1992)_ (qv) (which he wrote and directed).  In a flashback
  scene in _Reservoir Dogs (1992)_ (qv), Mr. White is asked about ``Alabama''.


# Tsui Kun II (1994)
- Director 'Kar-leung Lau' (qv) and star 'Jackie Chan' (qv) clashed during
  filming, with Lau wanting to include more hidden-wire stunts.  Lau
  eventually left the film, with Chan taking over as director.
- Chan indicated that one day's filming typically produces three seconds
  screen time.  The seven-minute fight at the end of the film took nearly four
  months to shoot.
- The fight at the end was originally to be Chan versus 'Ho Sung Pak' (qv),
  but Sung Pak repeatedly strained his ankle.  Instead, Chan had 'Ken Lo' (qv)
  train intensively (lots of stretching and fast kicking) for three months to
  take the part.


# Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
- 'George Lucas' (qv) and 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) each own one of the only 50
  Tucker cars ever made.
- CAMEO(Lloyd Bridges)
- CAMEO(Dean Stockwell)


# Turtle Diary (1985)
- CAMEO(Harold Pinter): bookstore customer


# Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- Director 'Terry Gilliam' (qv) first met 'Bruce Willis' (qv) while casting
  his film _The Fisher King (1991)_ (qv).  He was impressed by the sensitivy
  shown by Willis in the scene from _Die Hard (1992)_ (qv) where McClane
  (Willis) talks to his wife while pulling glass from his feet.  Talking to
  Willis, Gilliam discovered that this part was ad-libbed by Willis.  Gilliam
  remembered this, and was convinced to cast him in
  _Twelve Monkeys (1996)_ (qv).
- Willis said that this is only the second film where he decided to take
  a role in a film after only one reading of the script.  The other film was
  _Pulp Fiction (1994)_ (qv).
- Gilliam gave willis a list of ``Willis acting cliches'' not to be used
  during the film, including the ``steely blue eyes look.''
- Features a fresnel (flat) lens, as did _Brazil (1985)_ (qv), also directed
  by Gilliam.
- Many 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv) and _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv) references:
 - title sequences similar
 - long clip from _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv).
 - Like 'Kim Novak' (qv) in _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv), Dr. Railly's transformed to
   a blonde, but the result doesn't look like Novak.  Instead it's the
   spitting image of 'Eva Marie Saint' (qv) in
   _North by Northwest (1959)_ (qv), another 'Alfred Hitchcock' (qv)
   masterpiece.
 - The theme from _Vertigo (1958)_ (qv) can be heard when Dr. Railly leaves the
   airport bathroom with a blonde wig (both trademarks of Hitchcock's).
- The insane asylum rec room is introduced by a shot of a TV showing a
  cartoon of an animal bouncing off a mattress and doing flips. Near the
  end, the whorehouse is introduced by a shot of kids in a vacant lot
  doing the same thing.


# Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
- The working title was ``Hot Air''.


# Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- Mention is made of Sergeant Neidermeyer getting ``fragged'' by his own
  troops.  This was the fate given to Neidermeyer in the ending of
  _National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)_ (qv), also directed by John Landis.
- On 23rd July, 1982, actor 'Vic Morrow' (qv), plus two juvenile Asian actors
  were killed during an accident on set.  SFX caused a helicopter to crash,
  killing all three instantly.  A decade later, director 'John Landis' (qv)
  and four others were found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: spoken in German when Bill is being
  shot at on the building.


# Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
- The secret policy is closely based on the 1957 book ``Nuclear Weapons and
  Foreign Policy'' by Henry Kissinger in which the future Secretary of State
  outlines a strategy committing the US to promoting regional conflicts to
  deter the Soviets initiating full scale war.


# Twin Dragons (1992)
- CAMEO(John Woo): Priest at the wedding
- CAMEO(Tsui Hark): Card player


# Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
- The film's original title was ``Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me, Teresa
  Banks and the Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer'', but was shortened
  sometime before release.
- In most versions of the film certain sequences are sub-titled - at the
  nightclub where the music drowns out the dialogue and when characters speak
  backwards - but not in the British version. Apparently, director
  'David Lynch' (qv) changed his mind so often as to whether they should be
  included or not, by the time he came to a final decision, the British
  distributors had already made all their prints (without subtitles) and
  couldn't afford to make any more.
- Dale Cooper was allegedly named after the man who hijacked an aircraft over
  Washington state, bailed out with a parachute, and has never been seen again.
- 'Bob Engels' (qv) claims the script that he and Lynch wrote is much longer
  than the version that Lynch actually filmed.  He claims there is enough
  story for a sequel.  Indeed, as with many other Lynch films, about five hours
  of footage was shot. Many of the scenes that ended up on the cutting room
  floor involved characters who appeared in the television series but didn't
  the movie. These scenes include
 - Sheriff Harry Truman singing to girlfriend Josie Packard

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