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  Two different versions of the film (one in English and the other
  in Arabic), were shot simultaneously, scene by scene.  Two completely
  different sets of actors shared the same set; once a scene had been
  established, one actor would play a character in one language, and then the
  whole scene reshot with his corresponding number speaking in the other
  language.  The main (English) version was released as ``The Message'', whilst
  the Arabic version became ``Al-Risalah''.


# Aladdin (1992)
- Bears a similar plot and characters to
  _The Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)_ (qv).
- The genie appears in the following guises:  a nightclub entertainer, a
  Scotsman, a Scots dog, 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv), 'Senor Wences' (qv),
  'Ed Sullivan' (qv), a slot machine, 'Groucho Marx' (qv), a boxing trainer, 
  a fireworks rocket, a French maitre d', a roast turkey, a pink rabbit, a
  dragon, a certificate, a pair of lips, 'Robert De Niro' (qv), a flight
  attendant, 'Carol Channing' (qv), a sheep, a hammock, a muscle man,
  Pinocchio, a magician, a frenchman in a beret and striped shirt, a chef,
  Julius Caeser, 'Arsenio Hall' (qv), a tailor, a game-show host, a drum major,
  'Walter Brennan' (qv), a little boy, a fat man, TV parade hosts, a tiger, a
  goat, a harem girl, 'Ethel Merman' (qv), 'Rodney Dangerfield' (qv),
  'Jack Nicholson' (qv), a teacher, a talking lampshade, a bee, a submarine,
  a one-man band, a script prompter, a ventriloquist, a
  _Fantasia (1940)_ (qv)-like devil, 'William F. Buckley' (qv), Jafar,
  cheerleaders, a baseball pitcher, a tourist with a Goofy hat, and the moon.
  For release in India, Disney replaced the game show host with a cricket
  commentator.
- In early drawing, Aladdin resembled 'Michael J. Fox' (qv).  As the story
  developed, 'Jeffrey Katzenberg' (qv) didn't think Aladdin had enough appeal
  to weomen, so he asked Aladdin to be beefed up a bit to resemble
  'Tom Cruise' (qv).
- Jasmine's appearance was influenced by 'Jennifer Connelly' (qv), as well
  as the sister of her animator, 'Mark Henn' (qv).
- The stack of blocks that Jasmine's father plays with is sitting on a toy of
  the Beast from _Beauty and the Beast (1991)_ (qv), another Disney animated
  movie.  Sebastian from _The Little Mermaid (1989)_ (qv) and
  _Pinocchio (1940)_ (qv) can also be spotted.
- Aladdin's animator claimed she based his character on 'Tom Cruise' (qv).
- When the Genie changes Abu into a car, the license plate reads ``ABU 1''.
- The lyrics of the opening song, ``Arabian Nights'', were changed for the
  video release due to pressure from groups who were offended by the original
  lyrics.  The original lyrics were: ``Where they cut off your ear if they
  don't like your face.  It's barbaric, but hey it's home.'' The new lyrics
  are: ``Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense, it's barbaric,
  but hey it's home''.
- The two men in the crowd that Aladdin pushes through are caricatures of a
  couple of the animators ('John Musker' (qv) and 'Ron Clements' (qv)); the
  original plan was to use film critics 'Gene Siskel' (qv) and
  'Roger Ebert' (qv), but they couldn't get permission.
- The rumor that after Aladdin climbs up the balcony and gets confronted
  by the tiger he whispers ``Take off your clothes'' is false.  He actually
  says ``Take off and go.''
- Early scripts included Aladdin's mother, who sang a song called ``Proud of
  Your Boy'', and another song for Jafar called ``Humiliate the Boy''.  Jafar's
  song was cut, as it was considered too cruel for Disney.


# Alamo, The (1960)
- 'Lagene Etheridge' (qv) was murdered during filming by her boyfriend.
- Lieutenant Finn's fall from his horse was unscripted and unintentional.
- The huge Alamo set took two years to construct.


# Alex in Wonderland (1970)
- CAMEO(Frederico Fellini)


# Alexis Zorbas (1964)
- 'Anthony Quinn' (qv) had a broken foot during filming, and thus couldn't
  perform the dance on the beach as scripted, which called for much
  leaping around.  Instead, he did a slow shuffle.  Director
  'Michael Cacoyannis' (qv) asked Quinn what the dance was, and Quinn made
  up a name and claimed it was traditional.


# Alibi (1929)
- Alternative scenes were shot for a silent version of the film which was
  released simultaneously.


# Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Color screen tests of 'Mary Pickford' (qv) as Alice were made for a proposed
  live-action/animation version of the story.


# Alien (1979)
- Originally to be directed by 'Water Hill' (qv), but he pulled out and gave
  the job to 'Ridley Scott' (qv).
- The alien's habit of laying eggs in the stomach (which then burst out) is
  similar to the life-cycle of the tsetse fly.
- The entire plot is identical to the science fiction story ``Voyage of the
  Space Beagle'', by 'A. E. Van Vogt' (qv).
- Much of the dialog was ad-libbed.
- An early draft of the script had a male Ripley.
- 'Veronica Cartwright' (qv) was originally to play Ripley, but producers
  opted for 'Sigourney Weaver' (qv).
- In the scene where Dallas, Kane and Lambert are leaving the ship, the actual
  actors walking past the Nostromo's landing struts are 3 children (two of
  whom were Scott's dressed in scaled down spacesuits. This has the effect of
  making the ship look bigger.
- A sex scene between Dallas and Ripley was in the script, however was not
  filmed.
- The front (face) part of the alien costume's head is made from a real human
  skull.
- The rumour that only 'John Hurt' (qv) and the crew knew exactly what
  was going to happen during the stomach-bursting scene is false.
- ``Nostromo'' is the title of a 'Joseph Conrad' (qv) book.  The shuttle that
  Ripley escapes on is called the ``Narcissus'', a reference to another
  Conrad book.  See also _Aliens (1986)_ (qv).
- Apparently, in the final scene with Ripley and the Alien, the sounds of
  people having sex can be heard.
- Conceptual artist H. R. Geiger's designs were changed several times, becuase
  of their blatant sexuality: the top of the eggs resembled a vagina too
  closely.
- Extra scenes filmed but not included, due to pacing problems:
 - Ripley finds Parker and Brett cocooned.  Brett is covered in ``maggots'',
   and begs Ripley to kill him.  She does so with a flame thrower.
 - Ripley and Lambert discuss whether Ash has sex or not
 - Alternative death scene for Brett: Ripley and Parker come across an alive
   Brett being lifted from the ground
 - Ripley finds cocoons (one of which is Dallas) and destroys them with a
   flame thrower.
  These extra scenes were not restored to the re-released version, probably
  for this reason, but possibly because it would conflict with the
  subsequently released _Aliens (1986)_ (qv)' view of the alien's life-cycle.
- Scott is reportedly quoted as saying that originally he wanted a much
  darker ending. He planned on having the alien bite off Ripley's head in
  the escape shuttle, sit in her chair, and then start speaking with her
  voice in a message to Earth. Apparently, 20th Century Fox wasn't too
  pleased with such a dark ending.


# Alien 3 (1992)
- Multiple proposed scripts caused misleading advertising which inferred that
  the movie would be set on Earth.  'William Gibson' (qv) also drafted a
  script in which Ripley spent most of the film in a coma.
- Original script had the alien impregnating a cow, not a dog.


# Alien Attack (1976) (TV)
- This TV movie was edited from scenes of two episodes (``Breakaway'' and
  ``War Games'') of _"Space: 1999" (1975)_ (qv).


# Aliens (1986)
- A draft of the script had Gorman being paralyzed by a stinger on the tail
  of an alien, rather than being clobbered by falling equipment.
- The ``special edition'' includes extra scenes: Newt's parents discovering
  abandoned alien ship on LV-426, scenes of Ripley discussing her daughter,
  Hudson bragging about his weaponry, robot sentry guns repelling first alien
  raid, Hicks and Ripley exchanging first names.  Also included is a scene
  on LV-426 where a child rides a low-slung tricycle similar to one ridden
  in _The Terminator (1984)_ (qv), also directed by 'James Cameron' (qv).
- The mechanism used to make the facehuggers thrash about in the stasis tubes
  in the science lab came from one of the ``flying piranahs'' in one of
  Cameron's earlier movies _Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)_ (qv).  It took
  9 people to make the face hugger work; one person for each leg and one
  for the tail.
- The APC was modeled after an airplane tug.
- ``Sulaco'' is the name of the town in 'Joseph Conrad' (qv)'s ``Nostromo''.
  See also _Alien (1979)_ (qv).
- Hicks was originally played by 'James Remar' (qv), but 'Michael Biehn' (qv)
  replaced him a few days after principal photography began, due to ``artistic
  differences'' between Remar and Cameron.
- ``She thought they said `illegal aliens' and signed up...'' said Hudson.
  This line (directed towards Vasquez) was in inside joke amongst the actors.
  'Jenette Goldstein' (qv) (Vasquez) had gone to the audition thinking the
  film would be about illegal immigrants.  She arrived with waist-long hair
  and lots of makeup.  Everyone else was wearing military fatigues.
- The ``special edition'' includes the sound of a face-hugger scurrying from
  left to right as the final credits fade.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nice cut]: a few minutes into the movie, we see
  Ripley lying in the cryo-tube, and then the scene fades to the picture of
  the earth; the earth directly fits into the silhouette of Ripley's face.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When the soldiers arrive on LV426
  and jump out of the armored vehicle.  See also _The Abyss (1989)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: When Ripley drives the APC, she
  crushes an alien's head under one of the wheels.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [feet]: close-ups of the power-lifter's feet.
- DIRTRADE(James Cameron): [nuke]


# Alive (1993)
- Director 'Frank Marshall' (qv) was discussing the film on his car phone,
  when he was cut off by a truck with a bumper sticker that read ``Rugby
  Players Eat Their Dead''.  Marshall decided to make the film, saying ``You
  have to go with those kinds of things.''
- CAMEO(John Malkovich): The narrator.


# All About Eve (1950)
- The working title was ``Best Performance''.
- Although he received screen credit, 'Eddie Fisher' (qv)'s scene was cut before
  the film's release.
- 'Daryl F. Zanuck' (qv) envisioned 'Marlene Deitrich' (qv) as Margo Channing,
  'Jeanne Crain' (qv) as Eve Harrington, and 'Jose Ferrer' (qv) as Addison
  DeWitt.  Director 'Herman Mankiewicz' (qv)'s early choices for the Margo
  Channing role were 'Claudette Colbert' (qv) and 'Gertrude Lawrence' (qv).


# All Men Are Liars (1995)
- All secondary characters are played by locals, and some lines in the film
  were ad-libbed, as they couldn't remember the script.


# All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- A sequence with 'Zasu Pitts' (qv) was included in the silent version, but
  cut and refilmed with 'Beryl Mercer' (qv) when sound was added.


# All the Right Moves (1983)
- 'Tom Cruise' (qv) and 'Lea Thompson' (qv) had body doubles for the sex scene.


# Alligator (1980)
- Graffiti on a wall in a sewer at the end of the film reads ``Harry Lime
  Lives'', a reference to the character from _The Third Man (1949)_ (qv) who
  was killed in a sewer.
- On a blackboard in the background of a press conference, a message refers to
  one of the victims being Edward Noron, a character from [The Honeymooners],
  who was a sewer worker.


# Allonsanfan (1973)
- Title derived from the first two words of the French national anthem.


# Altered States (1980)
- Author 'Paddy Chayefsky' (qv) disowned this movie.
- The book was partially based on dolphin researcher John Lilly, who invented
  the isolation tank, and first started taking drugs while ``tanking''.
- DIRTRADE(Ken Russell): [snake]: the dream sequence


# Always (1989)
- When Dorinda returns home in the plane, she is dressed like Ripley from
  _Aliens (1986)_ (qv), and similarly, she has a ginger tom cat.  The cat,
  however, is named ``'Linda Blair' (qv)''.
- This film is a remake of _A Guy Named Joe (1943)_ (qv), which was watched
  on television in _Poltergeist (1982)_ (qv), which was co-written by
  director 'Steven Spielberg' (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- Subtle crossovers between sketches [...]
- The name ``Don 'No Soul' Simmons'' keeps popping up.
- The ``release date'' for the movie keeps changing: ``We now return to our
  feature film, the 195?  classic, Amazon Women on the Moon...''.
- The names in the ``Titan Man'' sketch (George Bailey, Violet and Mr. Gower)
  are taken from the _It's a Wonderful Life (1946)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [filmmakers] Appearances by director
  'Russ Meyer' (qv), composer 'Ira Newborn' (qv), and ``Famous Monsters of
  Filmland'' editor 'Forrest J. Ackerman' (qv).



# America's Deadliest Home Video (1993) (V)
- CAMEO(Eva Scott-Berry): [production assistant]: Newswoman
- CAMEO(Steven Diller): [Co-producer]: Debbie's lover
- CAMEO(Lou Wynhoff): [Producer's father]: Security Guard


# American Gigolo (1980)
- 'John Travolta' (qv) was originally slated to play the role of Julian Kaye.


# American Graffiti (1973)
- License plate on John Milner's car is ``THX-138''.  _THX 1138 (1970)_ (qv)
  is a film also directed by 'George Lucas' (qv).
- There is a rumor that while Lucas and a co-worker were editing the film, the
  co-worker asked Lucas for ``Reel Two, Dialog Two'', which abbreviated to
  ``R2D2'', a name which surfaced in Lucas' later film _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).


# American President, The (1995)
- The dialogue refers explicitly at one point to the films of
  'Frank Capra' (qv).  His [grandson???], 'Frank Capra III' (qv), was first
  assistant director of this film.


# American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
- All the songs in this film have ``moon'' in the title.
- DIRTRADE(John Landis): [SYNW]: the porno film showing when David
  meets Jack and his zombie friends.  A poster for the film appears in the
  London Underground when the man is killed.


# Andre (1994)
- The ``seal'' is acually a sealion, as seals are notoriously difficult to
  train.


# Angels in the Outfield (1951)
- CAMEO(Barbara Billingsley): hat check girl


# Anna Christie (1930/II)
- German version, filmed directly after _Anna Christie (1930/I))_ (qv) using
  the same sets.


# Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
- Only one reel of this film can be found.  Please check your attic.


# Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
- 'Judy Garland' (qv), originally cast as Annie, was taken ill during early
  filming and production was halted until 'Betty Hutton' (qv) finished
  _Let's Dance (1950)_ (qv) and was called in to replace her.  Director
  'Busby Berkeley' (qv) was also replaced, first by 'Charles Walters' (qv) and
  finally by 'George Sidney' (qv).  'Frank Morgan' (qv), in the role of
  Buffalo Bill, died suddenly and his scenes had to be re-shot with his
  replacement 'Louis Calhern' (qv).  'Howard Keel' (qv) broke his leg during
  filming when a horse fell on it.


# Annie Hall (1977)
- The working title was ``Anhedonia'' (the inability to feel pleasure).
  Screenwriter 'Marshall Brickman' (qv)'s suggestion was ``It Had To Be Jew''.
- Alvy's ('Woody Allen' (qv)'s) sneezing into the cocaine was an unscripted
  accident.  When previewed, the audience laughed so loud that director Allen
  decided to leave it in, and had to add footage to compensate for people
  missing the next few jokes from laughing too much.


# Anniversary, The (1968)
- Original director, 'Alvin Rakoff' (qv) was replaced by 'Roy Ward Baker' (qv)
  when 'Bette Davis' (qv) demanded the change.


# Another Country (1984)
- Loosely based on the life of 'Guy Burgess' (qv), a key figure in the
  Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.
  The upper class establishment refused to believe he was a spy because he
  had been to public school.


# Another Dawn (1937)
- Before this movie was made, any Warner Brothers film which showed a movie
  marquee would indicate that a movie named ``Another Dawn'' was playing at
  the cinema.  Unable to come up with a title for this film, they decided to
  actually create a movie named ``Another Dawn.''


# Another Stakeout (1993)
- 'Richard Dreyfuss' (qv) won an Oscar for his role in
  _The Goodbye Girl (1977)_ (qv).  One of his lines in that movie was ``And
  I don't like the panties hanging on the rod''.  In this movie, Chris repeats
  this line, while standing in front of a line of drying panties.


# Apartment, The (1960)
- To create the impression of a very large bureau in the scenes where Baxter is
  behind his desk, director 'Billy Wilder' (qv) used dwarf actors and specially
  designed furniture.
- Wilder directed 'Marilyn Monroe' (qv) in _The Seven Year Itch (1955)_ (qv)
  and _Some Like It Hot (1959)_ (qv).  He grew to despise her demands for
  star treatment and her poor work ethic, and thus included the party-girl
  Monroe-esque character in this film.


# Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Director 'Francis Coppola' (qv) proposed this film ten years before he
  was given funds to do it.  The studio didn't think he could handle such a
  large production, so he went and made _The Godfather (1972)_ (qv) and
  _The Godfather: Part II (1974)_ (qv), becoming extremely famous, rich, and
  respected.
- Originally scheduled to be shot over six weeks, ended up taking 16 months.
- 'Martin Sheen' (qv)'s scenes in his hotel room were intentionally performed
  drunk, and were entirely ad-libbed.  Sheen did not mean to smash the mirror
  with his hand; this was a result of his drunken stupor.
- 'Harvey Keitel' (qv) originally cast as Captain Willard.  Two weeks into
  shooting, Coppola replaced him with Sheen, saying Keitel's Willard was too
  assertive.
- A typhoon destroyed sets, causing a delay of several months.
- Filmed in the Philippines, where Ferdinand Marcos agreed to supply the
  helicopters and pilots.  Marcos's government also needed them for fighting
  the rebels, and sometimes withdrew them during filming, sending different
  pilots not familiar with the filming.
- A second sequence featuring the Playmates was filmed but cut.  The patrol
  boat crew encounter the Playmates' helicopter which had run out of fuel.
  They swap some gasoline in exchange for a chance to sleep with the three
  girls.  'Lynda Carter' (qv) was originally cast as one of the girls, but
  was replaced by 'Colleen Camp' (qv) due to the unforseen production delays.
- 'Marlon Brando' (qv) paid $1 million in advance.  Threatened to quit and
  keep the advance.  Coppola told his agent that he didn't care, and if they
  couldn't get Brando, they would try 'Jack Nicholson' (qv),
  'Robert Redford' (qv), and then 'Al Pacino' (qv).  Brando eventually turned
  up late, drunk, 40kg overweight, and admitted he hadn't read the script or
  even ``Heart of Darkness'', the book it was based on.  Read Coppola's
  script, and refused to do it.  Argued for days over single lines of
  dialog.  They eventually agreed on an ad-lib style script, and this was shot
  according to Brando's stipulations that he appear in shadows.
- Sheen had a heart attack during the filming; some shots of Willard's back
  are actually of someone else.
- 'Sam Bottoms' (qv) was on speed, LSD, and marijuana during the shooting
  of parts of the movie.
- 'Dennis Hopper' (qv) was originally going to play Willard's predecessor, but
  he was too affected by drugs to play a military type, so Coppola wrote him a
  part as a crazy photo-journalist.  Hopper and Coppola argued over whether it
  was possible to forget your lines when you didn't learn them in the first
  place.
- The photo journalist quotes two 'T. S. Eliot' (qv) poems.  In a late scene
  in the film, a slow pan over a table in Kurtz's room shows a copy of ``From
  Ritual to Romance'', a book by 'Jessie Weston' that inspired Eliot's poem
  ``The Wasteland''.
- Kurtz's Montagnards were played by Ifugao people.  Coppola's wife Eleanor
  saw them performing animal sacrifice, and convinced her husband to use this
  in the film.
- Coppola invested several million dollars of his personal wealth after the
  film went severely over budget.
- Coppola threatened suicide several times during the making of the film.
- There are three different treatments of the ending and credits.  In the 35mm
  version, the credits roll over surrealistic explosions and burning jungle
  as the air strike occurs.  The 70mm version has none of this, no credits,
  nothing but a one-line copyright notice at the end.  Both versions are
  available on video.  The 70mm version has been letterboxed.  A third version
  has the credits rolling over a black background.
- There are no opening credits or titles.  The title of the movie appears as
  graffiti late in the film.
- Entire set of scenes cut, where Willard and company find a river-side French
  colony.  Made the ``journey back through time'' symbolism more apparent:
  Vietnam War to French Colony to Jungle Culture.
- 'Carmine Coppola' (qv) (director's father) wrote the score for this film.
- 'Harrison Ford' (qv)'s character wears a name badge which reads
  ``G. Lucas''.  'George Lucas' (qv) directed Ford in
  _American Graffiti (1973)_ (qv) and _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv), two films which
  made Ford famous.  'G.D. Spradlin' (qv)'s character is named ``R.  Corman'',
  after producer 'Roger Corman' (qv).
- DIRCAMEO(Francis Coppola): filming a war documentary.
- Coppola's wife Eleanore filmed and recorded the making of this film, and has
  been released as a feature film called
  _Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)_ (qv).  It includes
  clips from the movie, as well as later interviews.


# Apollo 13 (1995)
- The cast and crew flew 628 parabolic flights in NASA's KC-135 airplane to
  achieve real weightlessness.  Each of the flights got them 23 seconds of zero
  gravity, making a total of 4 hours and 44 seconds.
- CAMEO(Marilyn Lovell): an extra in the grandstands at the launch.
- CAMEO(Jim Lovell): captian of the USS Iwo Jima.


# Arachnophobia (1990)
- ``Canaima'' (the town attacked by the spiders) is the name of the avenging
  spirit of the Guyana Indians.


# Army of Darkness (1993)
- The magic words Ash must use to claim the Book of the Dead are ``Klaatu,
  Barada, Nikto'', the same words used to command the robot Gort in
  _The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)_ (qv).
- Director 'Sam Raimi' (qv) shot two different endings.  One ending has Ash
  battling a she-demon in a department store in the present.  The alternative
  ending has Ash imbibing a secret potion that would make him sleep one
  century for each drop of the potion he drinks.  He then goes to a cave to
  sleep.  However, he drank one drop too many and wakes up to find a barren
  post-apocalyptic landscape.  The final shot is Ash screaming in rage at a
  red sky.  The Great Britain video version shows the `` potion'' ending, and
  the version shown in US theatres showed the ``she-demon'' ending.
- CAMEO(Bridget Fonda): Linda
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [shemp]:
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [3-stooges]: The skeletons do a classic routine.


# Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
- Origin of the term ``cameo'', meaning in this case a small part by a famous
  person.
- The following famous people appear in small parts in the film, and are
  credited: 'Red Buttons' (qv), 'A.E. Matthews' (qv), 'Alan Mowbray' (qv),
  'Andy Devine' (qv), 'Basil Sydney' (qv), 'Beatrice Lillie' (qv),
  'Buster Keaton' (qv), 'Cesar Romero' (qv), 'Charles Boyer' (qv),
  'Charles Coburn' (qv), 'Col Tim McCoy' (qv), 'Edmund Lowe' (qv),
  'Edward R. Murrow' (qv), 'Evelyn Keyes' (qv), 'Fernandel' (qv),
  'Finlay Currie' (qv), 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), 'George Raft' (qv),
  'Gilbert Roland' (qv), 'Glynis Johns' (qv), 'Harcourt Williams' (qv),
  'Hermione Gingold' (qv), 'Jack Oakie' (qv), 'Joe E. Brown' (qv),
  'John Carradine' (qv), 'John Mills' (qv), 'Jose Greco' (qv),
  'Luis Miguel Dominguin' (qv), 'Marine Carol' (qv), 'Marlene Dietrich' (qv),
  'Melville Cooper' (qv), 'Mike Mazurki' (qv), 'Noel Coward' (qv),
  'Peter Lorre' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Reginald Denny' (qv),
  'Richard Wattis' (qv), 'Robert Morley' (qv), 'Ronald Colman' (qv),
  'Ronald Squire' (qv), 'Cedric Hardwicke' (qv), 'John Gielgud' (qv),
  'Trevor Howard' (qv), 'Victor McLaglen' (qv).
- The barge used in Bangkok was belonged to the King of Thailand, who loaned
  it to producer 'Michael Todd' (qv).


# Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- In the scene where Mortimer Brewster is sitting on a tombstone in the
  graveyard outside his Aunt's home, one of the headstones behind him reads
  ``Archie Leach''.  'Cary Grant' (qv)'s real name is Archie Leach.  See also
  _His Girl Friday (1940)_ (qv).
- The movie went unreleased for 3 years after it was finished, waiting for the
  Broadway play to finish its run.  On stage, 'Boris Karloff' (qv) played
  'Raymond Massey' (qv)'s character who ``looks like Karloff'' (qv).


# Aryan, The (1916)
- Sources differ as to the director of this film.


# Arzt von St. Pauli, Der (1968)
- DIRCAMEO(Rolf Olsen): man in mortuary


# Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- The editor is credited as ``James T. Chance'', which was the name of
  'John Wayne' (qv)'s character in _Rio Bravo (1959)_ (qv), on which this
  film was based, but the actual editor was director 'John Carpenter' (qv).


# Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993) (TV)
- The film showing at the drive-in when Nancy goes on her rampage is
  _Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)_ (qv).


# Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
- 'Ed Nelson' (qv) ``played'' the crab monster with 'Beach Dickerson' (qv)
  operating the monster's claws.


# Autrichienne, L' (1989)
- 'Robert Hossein' (qv) was choosen as the director of the movie until he
  asked for another year and a half before starting to shoot.  Producer
  'Raymond Danon' (qv) then turned to 'Pierre Granier-Deferre' (qv) because
  the film was scheduled  for the 300th anniversary of the French revolution
  and 'Ute Lemper' (qv) was only free for the period set.
- The movie script is based entirely on the proceedings' minutes of the trial
  of Marie-Antoinette.


# Avaleuses, Les (1973)
- This film exists in many different versions, with different titles, with
  additional and/or deleted footage, and even with different credits, although
  the latter is largely due to variations of 'Jess Franco' (qv)'s pseudonyms.
  The versions range between hardcore porn with little horror on the one
  extreme to plain horror with little sex on the other.


# Awakenings (1990)
- 'Robin Williams' (qv) accidentally broke 'Robert De Niro' (qv)'s nose during
  a rehearsal of the scene where Dr Sayer tries to get Leonard to go back on
  the drug.


# Babe (1995)
- The talking pig is a combination of 48 real Yorkshire pigs plus an
  animatronic double.  A makeup artist added toupee and eyelashes to each, and
  computer digitization manipulated pictures of the snout to make the pig
  appear to talk.
- When 'James Cromwell' (qv) was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed
  through it to see how many lines he had.  He saw that he didn't have
  that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film.  What he
  didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than
  any of his previous films.
- The man who buys three of Fly's puppies is head animal trainer
  'Karl Lewis Miller' (qv).


# Babysitter, The (1995)
- 'Alicia Silverstone' (qv) is rumoured to have turned down the
 part in this film on numerous occasions. She finally agreed after
 her nude scenes were removed.


# Bachelor Mother (1939)
- Working titles were ``My Fifth Avenue Girl'' and ``She Said I Do''


# Back to the Future (1985)
- 'Eric Stoltz' (qv) originally cast as Marty McFly, but changed because he
  didn't act enough like a teenager.  When 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) was cast, his
  costume was completely revamped.
- The ``main street'' is the same one used in _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv).
- The theatre in 1955 is showing a double bill: ``A Boy's Life'' (the working
  title for 'Steven Spielberg' (qv)'s
  _E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_ (qv)), and ``Watch the Skies'' (the
  working title for Spielberg's
  _Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)_ (qv)).  See also
  _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv).
- The device in Doc Brown's lab that Marty plugs his guitar into is labeled
  ``CRM-114'', which was the name of the message decoder on the B-52 in
  _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)_ (qv),
  and the serial number of the Jupiter explorer in
  _2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)_ (qv), both directed by 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv).
- Doc Brown's dog is named Einstein.  This may be a vague reference to
  _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)_ (qv), where the inventor of a miracle car
  owned a dog named Edison.
- The mall where Marty McFly meets Dr. Brown for their time travel experiment
  is called ``Twin Pines Mall''.  Dr. Brown comments that old farmer Peabody
  used to own all of the land, and he grew pines there.  When Marty goes back
  in time, he runs over and knocks down a pine tree on the Peabody's property.
  When he comes back to the mall at the end of the film, the sign at the mall
  identifies the mall as ``Lone Pine Mall''.
- Farmer Peabody's son is named Sherman. Sherman was the name of the little boy
  time traveler in one segment of Jay Ward's cartoon show, ``The Rocky &
  Bullwinkle Show.''  The dog who owned his time machine was named Mr. Peabody.
- One scene only shown in a 1990 TV was the 1955 Doc investigating his 1985
  counterpart's suitcase, discovering a hairdryer and a copy of Playboy.
- The dialogue where Lorraine says that when she grows up she'll let her kids
  do anything they want was cut.
- Another deleted scene shows Marty peeking in on a class in 1955 and seeing
  his mother cheating on a test.
- The scene where Marty asks if he and Jennifer become ``assholes'' in the
  future was reshot for television.
- The newscaster on TV in the opening sequence is 'Deborah Harmon' (qv), who
  appeared in director 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv)' _Used Cars (1980)_ (qv).
- When Marty gets back to 1985, he spots a bum on the bench.  He calls him
  ``Red'': ``Red Thomas'' was mayor in 1955.
- The radio in Marty's room plays ``Back in Time'', by Huey Lewis and the News,
  who wrote and performed some songs for the film.
- The ``Mr Fusion Home Energy Converter'', which is sitting on the DeLorean
  when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups
  coffee grinder.
- The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the
  gull-wing door of the Delorean, this was improvised during filming as the
  door mechanism became faulty.
- CAMEO(Huey Lewis): the high-school band judge.
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): The driver of the pickup truck that gives
  Marty a lift to school.


# Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Filmed at the same time as _Back to the Future Part III (1990)_ (qv).  In
  the five years since the original was made, 'Michael J. Fox' (qv) had
  forgotten how to ride a skateboard.
- A movie theatre advertises ``Jaws 19'', directed by ``Max Spielberg''. 
  Executive producer 'Steven Spielberg' (qv), who directed _Jaws (1975)_ (qv),
  has a son Max.
- 'Crispin Glover' (qv) played George McFly in the original, but was replaced
  by 'Jeffrey Weissman' (qv) in Part II and Part III.  There is a rumour that
  Glover had some emotional/mental problems which caused this.
- 'Elisabeth Shue' (qv) was cast as Jennifer, and all the closing shots of
  _Back to the Future (1985)_ (qv) were reshot for the beginning of this film.
  Persistent rumours are that 'Claudia Wells' (qv) (Jennifer in
  _Back to the Future (1985)_ (qv)) was in no condition to act any more.
- When Marty arrives in 2015, he looks in the window of an antique store, where
  there is a Roger Rabbit doll and a _Jaws (1975)_ (qv) Nintendo game.

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