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- The General is from ``Valverde'', the fictitious Latin-American country used
  in _Commando (1985)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Renny Harlin): [finland]: ``Finlandia Hymn'' by Jean
  Sibelius is used in some scenes.


# Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
- McClane ('Bruce Willis' (qv)) tells Zeus ('Samuel L. Jackson' (qv)) ``I
  was just getting used to my day job,  smoking cigarettes and watching
  Captain Kangaroo'', which is a line from the song ``Flowers on the Wall'' by
  The Statler Brothers from the soundtrack of _Pulp Fiction (1994)_ (qv),
  which starred both Willis and Jackson.  Willis' character (Butch) was singing
  this song in Gabrielle's car when he spotted Marsellus Wallace.
- Character ``Dr. Fred Schiller'' is a reference to the 18th century German
  poet 'Friedrich Schiller' (qv), who wrote the lyrics used by
  'Ludwig van Beethoven' (qv) in his 9th symphony, which is the music used
  in _Die Hard (1988)_ (qv).
- Original ending had Simon getting away with the gold, and McClane tracking
  him down to Austria, where he defeats him in a game of ``chicken'' with
  rocket launchers.


# Diplomatic Courier (1952)
- CAMEO(Lee Marvin):
- CAMEO(Charles Bronson):


# Dirty Harry (1971)
- The title role was originally intended for 'Frank Sinatra' (qv).  After he
  refused, it was offered to 'John Wayne' (qv), and then 'Paul Newman' (qv),
  finally being accepted by 'Clint Eastwood' (qv).
- After Harry has foiled the bank robbery at the beginning of the film, he
  strides over to the one surviving robber.  In doing so, he walks in front of
  a theatre which is showing _Play Misty for Me (1971)_ (qv), which
  Eastwood directed and starred in.
- When Callahan (Eastwood) is being run all over town by Scorpio, he passes
  a wall which bears the graffiti ``Kyle'', the name of Eastwood's son.
- The final scene where Harry throws his badge in the river is a homage to a
  similar scene from _High Noon (1952)_ (qv).
- 'Andrew Robinson' (qv) (Scorpio) had to get an unlisted phone number, and has
  received a death threat.
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): man running down the street.


# Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
- An entire day was spent shooting the trailer, which does not appear in the
  film.  The trailer shows Freddy and Lawrence walking along the boardwalk,
  politely moving out of the way of other people, etc, with a voice saying
  something like ``There are numerous distinguised gentlemen in the world...
  refined, cultured gentlemen.... nice men.......  but nice men
  finish last''.  As these last few lines are spoken, Freddy pushes an old lady
  into the water, and Lawrence shoves an kid's face into his ice cream.


# Do You Love Me? (1946)
- CAMEO(Betty Grable): The fan who calls for Barry ('Harry James' (qv)) in her
  car at the end.  Grable and James were married at the time.


# Dockpojken (1993)
- References to _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv).


# Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Director 'Sidney Lumet' (qv) claims that 'Al Pacino' (qv) and
  'Chris Sarandon' (qv)'s phone conversation was improvised.


# Dolores Claiborne (1994)
- A fire on the set in Nova Scotia, Canada caused one million dollars damage.


# Don Juan DeMarco and the Centerfold (1995)
- 'Johnny Depp' (qv) agreed to be in the film on the condition that
  'Marlon Brando' (qv) was cast in the psychiatrist's role.
- In order to learn a Spanish accent, Depp watched a tape of
  _"Fantasy Island" (1978)_ (qv) re-runs.


# Don't Bet on Love (1933)
- Working titles was ``In the Money''.


# Dona Herlinda y Su Hijo (1985)
- 'Guadalupe del Toro' (qv) was offered the role of Dona Herlinda in exchange
  for helping finance the movie.


# Doors, The (1991)
- Prior to the audition, 'Val Kilmer' (qv) memorized the lyrics to all songs
  written by Jim Morrison.  He also sent director 'Oliver Stone' (qv) a video
  of him performing a few Doors songs, which Stone claimed hurt Kilmer's image
  as Morrison.
- Kilmer wore special contact lenses which made his pupils seem dilated
  in the scenes where Morrison was stoned
- Closeup shots use Kilmer's voice, long distance shots use Morrison's.
- 'Patricia Kennealy Morrison' (qv) played the High Priestess in the
  handfasting scene.
- 'John Densmore' (qv) (The Doors drummer) was the recording engineer.
- 'Bonnie Bramlett' (qv) (of 60's group Delaney and Bonnie) played the
  bartender.
- Stone's son plays the young Jim Morrison in the accident scene.
- DIRCAMEO(Oliver Stone): Morrison's film professor.


# Dorado, El (1996)
- Shot entirely on location, with entirely ad-libbed dialog.


# Double Indemnity (1944)
- Director 'Billy Wilder' (qv) originally filmed an ending where Keyes watches
  Walter Neff go to the gas chamber.


# Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
- 'Nick Nolte' (qv) spent five weeks as a homeless person in preparation for
  his role.


# Down Argentine Way (1940)
- 'John Hay Whitney' (qv), head of the motion picture section of the Office of
  the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs convinced 20th Century Fox to
  spend $40,000 for reshooting scenes that described native customs in an
  slight unfavorable light.
- Director 'Irving Cummings' (qv) thought the dance number by the Nicholas
  Brothers ('Fayard Nicholas' (qv) and 'Harold Nicholas' (qv)) was too long,
  but dance director 'Nick (II) Castle' (qv) convinced him to leave it uncut
  at a test screening. The test audience cheered so much that they had to
  rewind the film.


# Dr. Death: Seeker of Souls (1973)
- CAMEO(Moe Howard)


# Dr. No (1962)
- _Thunderball (1965)_ (qv) was originally going to be the first 007 movie,
  but legal wrangles with its co-author lead to _Dr. No (1962)_ (qv) being
  chosen instead.
- Author 'Ian Fleming' (qv) wanted his cousin 'Chrisopher Lee' (qv) to play
  Dr. No.  See also _The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)_ (qv).
- The budget was only $1,000,000 but when costs over run by $100,000
  United Artists wanted to pull the plug fearing they would never recoup
  its outlay.
- Fleming originally asked 'Noel Coward' (qv) to play the part of Dr. No,
  Coward replied in a telegram ``Dr. No? No! No! No!''.
- Actors considered for the lead role included: 'Cary Grant' (qv),
  'David Niven' (qv), 'Trevor Howard' (qv), 'Rex Harrison' (qv), and
  'Roger Moore' (qv).
- 'Sean Connery' (qv) was chosen for the part of 007 after Cubby Broccoli's
  wife saw him in Disney's _Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)_ (qv).
- After the film's release in Italy, the Vatican issued a special communique
  expressing its disapproval at the film's moral standpoint.
- The voice of Honey Rider is not that of 'Ursula Andress' (qv).
- Connery is morbidly afraid of spiders.  Shot of spider in his bed was
  originally done with a sheet of glass between him and the spider, but when
  this didn't look realistic enough, the scene was re-shot with stuntman
  'Bob Simmons' (qv).
- A painting of the Duke of Wellington, stolen in 1960 and never recovered,
  can be seen on the wall of Dr. No's headquarters.
- The rights to the famous theme song were bought from 'Monty Norman' (qv) for
  a ridiculously low sum of money, and subsequently appeared in many later
  Bond films.
- The Japanese office of United Artists originally translated the title as
  ``We don't want a doctor'', and even had posters printed with that title.
  The mistake was discovered at the last moment.


# Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
- Based on the novel ``Red Alert'' and originally conceived as a tense
  thriller  about the possibility of accidental nuclear war.  Director
  'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) was working on the script when he noticed that many
  scenes he had written were actually quite funny.
- 'Peter Sellers' (qv) plays three roles, and was to play Major T. J. Kong as
  well.  He broke his leg, so the role went to 'Slim Pickens' (qv).
- Major Kong's comment about the survival kit (``a fella could have a pretty
  good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff,'') originally refered to Dallas
  instead of Las Vegas, but was overdubbed after President Kennedy's
  asassination in Dallas.
- Kubrick intended the film to end with a custard pie fight between the
  Russians and the Americans in the War Room.  The footage was shot, but
  he decided not to use it because he considered it too farcical to fit in
  with the satirical nature of the rest of the film.
- General Ripper ('George C. Scott' (qv)) was not scripted to fall over in the
  war room when he gets excited, but when it happened, Kubrick decided it
  was in character, and left it in.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [three-way]: USA vs. Russia vs. General Ripper.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: General Turgidson, General Ripper,
  and Dr. Strangelove.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [114]: Name of the message decoder ``CRM-114''.


# Dracula (1931/II)
- Filmed with the same sets as _Dracula (1931/I)_ (qv).


# Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
- 'Jason Scott Lee' (qv) had no previous Martial Arts training.  He was
  trained especially for this role, and had numerous stunt doubles.


# Dragonwyck (1946)
- "Ernst Lubitsch" (qv) was intended to direct the film.  When he suffered
  from illness, cinematographer 'Joseph L. Mankiewicz' (qv) took over.


# Draughtsman's Contract, The (1982)
- Directer 'Peter Greenaway' (qv), a former art student, created the sketches
  that feature in the film.


# Drop Dead Fred (1991)
- CAMEO(Bridget Fonda): Annabella.


# Drop Zone (1994)
- If you unscramble 'Wesley Snipes' (qv)' character's name ``Nessip'', you get
  'Snipes'.


# Drowning by Numbers (1987)
- Three generations of ``Cissie Colpitts'' were introduced in
  _The Falls (1980)_ (qv), also directed by 'Peter Greenaway' (qv).


# Duck Soup (1927)
- Adapted from a sketch written by 'Stan Laurel' (qv)'s father.


# Duck Soup (1933)
- The mirror trick was previously used in _The Floorwalker (1916)_ (qv).


# Duellists, The (1977)
- The swords were hooked up to batteries to produce the sparks, and
  'Harvey Keitel' (qv) said he was heavily shocked more than once.


# Dune (1984)
- 'Ridley Scott' (qv) worked on bringing the flim to the screen, but was
  unsuccessful.  'H.R. Giger' (qv) (who worked with Scott on
  _Alien (1979)_ (qv)) was hired as a production designer.
- Director 'David Lynch' (qv) and producer 'Raffaella De Laurentiis' (qv)
  arranged a screen test in New York with 'Sean Young' (qv) for the role of
  Chani.  Young's agent never told Young about the meeting, and she was in
  fact booked on a flight that evening to Los Angeles.  Lynch and De Laurentiis
  missed their flight back to Los Angeles, and ended up catching the same
  plane as Young.  During the flight, De Laurentiis noticed Young and told
  Lynch ``I bet that girl's an actress.''  A stewardess told the pair that
  her name was ``Sean Young'', and De Laurentiis confronted Young about
  standing her a Lynch up.  The misunderstanding sorted out, the three
  ended up drinking champagne and reading the script together upon returning
  to Los Angeles.
- The inspiration for the design of the stillsuits was the medical textbook
  ``Gray's Anatomy''.
- Once scene called for Duke Leto ('Jurgen Prochnow' (qv)) to be strapped
  to a black stretcher and drugged.  During one take, a high-powered bulb
  positioned above Prochnow exploded due to heat, raining down molten glass.
  Remarkably, Prochow was able to free himself from the stretcher, moments
  before before glass fused itself to the place he had been strapped.
  During the filming of the dream sequence, the Baron ('Kenneth McMillan' (qv))
  approached Leto, who had special apparatus attached to his face so that
  green smoke would emerge from his cheek when the Baron scratched it.
  Although thoroughly tested, the smoke gave Prochnow first and second degree
  burns on his cheek.  This sequence appears on film in the released version.
- The tendons visible when Paul hooks the worm were made from condoms.
- Two hundred workers spent two months hand-clearing three square miles of
  Mexican desert for location shooting.
- Some special effects scenes were filmed with over a million watts of
  lighting, drawing 11,000 amps.
- There are rumor of a 6-hour long director's cut, but there has never been
  any concrete proof of it being released.  A book by 'Frank Herbert' (qv)
  himself claims that only five hours of footage was filmed.
- Some scenes were filmed in the same location and at the same time as scenes
  from _Conan the Destroyer (1984)_ (qv).
- Lynch disowned the television cut.
- SMITHEE(David Lynch): disowned the television cut.
- DIRCAMEO(David Lynch): A radio operator on the mining ship that Paul
  and Duke Leto Atreides rescue from a sandworm.
- DIRTRADE(David Lynch): [singer]: 'Sting' (qv).


# Dynamite (1929)
- 'Carole Lombard' (qv) was replaced during filming, but can still be seen in
  the released print.


# E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- ET's face was modeled after poet 'Carl Sandburg' (qv) and Albert Einstein.
- At the auditions, 'Henry Thomas' (qv) thought about the day his dog died
  to express sadness.  Director 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) cried, and hired him
  on the spot.
- 'Harrison Ford' (qv) played the school principal, but his scenes were cut.
  There is a rumor that you can still see his back.  Ford's wife
  'Melissa Mathison' (qv) wrote the screenplay.
- Reese's outbid M&M's for product placement.  There is a rumour that M&M's
  were used initially, but the company asked for them to be removed, suspecting
  that the film would flop.
- The extraterrestrial's plant collection includes a triffid (from
  _The Day of the Triffids (1962)_ (qv)).
- ET's voice was performed by 'Pat Walsh' (qv), with help from
  'Debra Winger' (qv).
- ET's communicator actually worked, and was constructed by
  'Henry Feinberg' (qv), an expert in science and technology interpretation
  for the public.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [father]: Elliot's father deserts the family to
  go to Mexico with Sally.


# Early Bird, The (1963)
- The game of golf with 'Jerry Desmonde' (qv) is a reprise of the
  Variety act he used to do as 'straight man' to 'Sid Field' (qv).


# East of the River (1940)
- 'James Cagney' (qv) turned down the role of Joe Lorenzo.


# Easter Parade (1948)
- Garland's husband 'Vincente Minnelli' (qv) was originally slated to direct,
  but Garland's psychiatrist advised them not to work together.
- Following the success of pairing 'Gene Kelly' (qv) with 'Judy Garland' (qv)
  in _The Pirate (1948), MGM cast them together again for this film.
  Unfortunately, Kelly broke his ankle shortly after rehearsals started, and
  'Fred Astaire' (qv) was given the role.
  due to an injury.
- The shedding feathered gown worn by Garland in one number is an in-joke
  reference to 'Ginger Rogers' (qv) problematic gown in _Top Hat (1935)_ (qv).
- A Garland solo number, ``Mr. Monotony,'' was cut from the film.


# Easy Rider (1969)
- 'Peter Fonda' (qv), 'Dennis Hopper' (qv), and 'Jack Nicholson' (qv) were
  really smoking marijuana on camera.
- The final campfire scene was left out of the original shooting
  schedule and was shot after both motorcycles had been stolen.
- CAMEO(Phil Spector): the cocaine dealer.


# Easy Virtue (1927)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): walking past a tennis court carrying a
  walking stick.


# Echoes of a Summer (1976)
- 'Richard Harris' (qv) thought the script was faulty and threatened
  director 'Don Taylor' (qv) with a good thrashing.  He also locked fellow
  star 'William Windown' (qv) in his dressing-room for several hours.


# Edge of Eternity (1959)
- DIRCAMEO(Don Siegel): man at a hotel pool


# Edge of the World, The (1937)
- When he was young, 'Michael Powell' (qv) saw a documentary on the evacuation
  of the island of Hirta (St. Kilda), West of the Hebrides and he thought he
  could make a great film about it.
- The cast and crew stayed on Foula for many months, this was before the
  airstrip was built and they had to use local fishing boats as ferries.


# Eegah! (1963)
- Producer/director 'Nicholas Merriwether' (qv) and actor
  'William Watters' (qv) are actually the same person: 'Arch Hall, Sr.' (qv),
  the president of Fairway International Pictures and father of 
  'Arch Hall, Jr.' (qv), who plays Tom.

# Egyptian, The (1954)
- 'Marlon Brando' (qv) signed up for the lead role, but dropped out at the
  last minute.


# Eika Katappa (1969)
- The film ends with a character dying while saying ``Life is very precious,
  even right now''; a character dies saying the same phrase in
  _Gods of the Plague (1970)_ (qv), released in the same year.


# El Dorado (1967)
- 'John Wayne' (qv) starred in _Rio Bravo (1959)_ (qv) (of which this film is a
  remake), and after reading the script for ``El Dorado'' he asked to play
  J.P. Hara, but the part went to 'Robert Mitchum' (qv).


# El Mariachi (1992)
- This film initially cost $7000 to make.  Director 'Robert Rodriguez' (qv)
  raised $3,000 of the $7,000 by volunteering to be a human ``laboratory
  rat''. He was used to test a cholesterol reducing drug.  Paid $100 a day for
  30 days, he wrote most of the script while locked in the lab.
  'Peter Marquardt' (qv) was a fellow ``rat'', but could not speak Spanish.  He
  delivered his lines from card held in his hand or out of shot.  Most of the
  $7,000 was spent on film for the camera.  The version seen in most cinemas
  has had approximately $1 million of post-production work and promotion
  behind it.
- Rodriguez claims the other actors were ``innocent'' passers by. He gave them
  lines as and when they were needed.
- For the moving camera shots, Rodriguez sat in a broken hospital wheelchair
  and was pushed around.
- The movie was intended to go ``straight to video''.
- Sound was recorded with an ordinary cassette recorder and mike.  The sequence
  with the pit bull terrier was shot specifically so that Rodriguez could
  synchronize the sound with the picture later.
- Rodriguez says he made the movie to ``practise''.
- Rodriguez was producer, director, writer, special-effect man, etc, the only
  job he didn't do was act, as there would be no one else to operate the
  camera.


# Electric Dreams (1984)
- CAMEO(Georgio Moroder): radio station executive at the very end.


# Elephant Man, The (1980)
- This film was executive produced by 'Mel Brooks' (qv), who was responsible
  for hiring director 'David Lynch' (qv) and obtaining permission to film
  in black and white.  He deliberately left his name off the credits, as
  he knew that people would get the wrong idea about the movie if they
  saw his name on the film, given his fame as a satirist.


# Elephant Walk (1954)
- 'Vivian Leigh' (qv) was originally cast.  Her mental illness begun affecting
  things during filming, and so she was replaced by 'Elizabeth Taylor' (qv).
  Many long shots and shots from behind are still of Leigh.


# Elusive Pimpernel, The (1950)
- Originally filmed as a musical.


# Empire of the Sun (1987)
- ``Suo Gan,'' the movie's theme song, is a lullaby sung in Welsh.
  Director 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) chose it after casting Welsh actor
  'Christian Bale' (qv) as Jim.
- DIRTRADE(Steven Spielberg): [music]


# Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
- Lighting for SFX was so strong that several models melted.
- The AT-AT's were based on ship loading structure in an Oakland, California
  shipyard.  Walking patterns of elephants were studied to make the movements
  seem as realistic as possible.
- Before this film was made, 'Mark Hamill' (qv) (Luke) was driving his BMW
  along a highway.  Realizing was missing his turn, he swung sharply, but
  ended up rolling his car and suffering facial scarring.  Despite the efforts
  of plastic surgeons, his appearance was noticeably different.  For this
  reason, the scene where Luke receives facial scars from a Wampa was written.
- Further scenes with the Wampa Ice Creatures were shot, and later cut.  R2-D2
  encountered one within the Rebel base, where it was killed by troopers.
  Later, the beasts were lured into a prison within the complex. In the
  completed film, a medical droid is seen examining the wounds of a Tauntaun
  killed by a Wampa, and Princess Leia mentions the ``creatures'' while
  discussing the Imperial Probe Droid.  A scene filmed but cut had Han, Leia
  and C-3PO running through a corridor.  Han went to take a short-cut through
  a door with a sign on it, but Leia warned him ``that's where those creatures
  are kept''.  They run off, but not before C-3PO rips off the sign, hoping
  that the stormtroopers will enter the room.
- Luke cuts off the Wampa's hand.  C-3PO loses an arm when blasted by the
  Stormtroppers.  Darth Vader cuts off Luke's hand.  See also
  _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv) and _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- The blasers used by the stormtroopers were constructed from Sterling
  submachine guns.
- There is a rumor that one of the asteroids is actually a potato.
- The following characters ``have a bad feeling about this'': Leia.  See
  also: _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv) and _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- Security surrounding this movie was so intense that 'George Lucas' (qv) had
  regular reports about ``leaks'' from actors.  Lucas was so determined that
  the ending be kept secret that he had actor 'David Prowse' (qv) (Darth Vader)
  say ``Obi Wan Kenobi is your father'', and dubbed it later to be ``I am your
  father''.
- 'Denis Lawson' (qv), plays Wedge Antilles.  See also
  _Return of the Jedi (1983)_ (qv).
- The designers at ILM wanted a radical design for Boba Fett's ship.  They
  ended up using the end of a lamp post from the street outside the ILM
  building.
- This is 'Carrie Fisher' (qv)'s favorite movie of the trilogy.  Despite this,
  there were claims that she was heavily into drugs at the time.  The scene
  where Han Solo ('Harrison Ford' (qv)) was to be carbon frozen was a long a
  complex scene which required many takes.  Eventually, Leia says ``I love
  you'' to Han Solo.  Ford had heard this line so many times that he changed
  the scripted ``I love you too'' to ``I know''.  Lucas didn't want to film
  the scene again, and thought it read much better that way, so it remained.


# Enemy Mine (1985)
- Shot in Hungary, where labour was cheap enough to build the sets.
- Author 'Barry Longyear' (qv) reported at a convention that the studio
  insisted on adding a subplot involving a mine, the studio thinking the
  audience would not realize that the ``Mine'' in the title was a possessive
  rather than an object.


# Enforcer, The (1976)
- Of the five Dirty Harry movies, this is the only one in which Harry Callahan
  does not have a personal quote that he repeats twice during the movie.


# Enter the Dragon (1973)
- 'Jackie Chan' (qv) appears briefly towards the end of the film in the big
  fight scene in the cave, where [Bruce Lee] breaks his neck.


# Equinox (1971)
- Originally a student film project by 'Dennis Muren' (qv).


# Escapade (1935)
- 'William Powell' (qv) was so impressed with 'Luise Rainer' (qv) that he
  insisted that she be give co-billing with him above the title.


# Escape from New York (1981)
- CAMEO(Jamie Lee Curtis): opening narration, and voice of the computer.
- The name ``Snake Plisskeen'' was changed to ``Hyena'' for the Italian
  release.
- DIRTRADE(John Carpenter): [names]: Cronenberg, Romero.


# Escape to Athena (1979)
- DIRTRADE(George P. Cosmatos): [aerial]



# Evil Dead II (1987)
- One of the books on the can that traps Ash's possessed hand is ``A Farewell
  to Arms''.
- A glove belonging to _A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)_ (qv)'s Freddy
  Krueger can be seen hanging near the steps in one of the cellar scenes.
  This was in response to the use of _The Evil Dead (1983)_ (qv) on a
  television screen in _A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)_ (qv).


# Evil Dead, The (1983)
- Director 'Sam Raimi' (qv) and star 'Bruce Campbell' (qv) were friends from
  high-school, where they made many super-8 films together.  They would often
  collaborate with Sam's brother 'Ted Raimi' (qv).  Campbell became the
  ``actor'' of the group, as ``he was the one that girls wanted to look at''.
- Filmed in a real-life abandoned cabin.
- Total budget for this film was $50,000.  Investors were initially annoyed
  when the film appeared to be a comedy although they were told it would be a
  horror story.  As of 1988, the investors have had a 150% return.
- There is a ripped poster of _The Hills Have Eyes (1978)_ (qv) visible.  See
  also: _The Hills Have Eyes (1978)_ (qv),
  _A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)_ (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Sam Raimi): [3-stooges]:


# Ewok Adventure, The (1984) (TV)
- One of the matte paintings includes Winnie the Pooh sitting in a tree.


# Exorcist III, The (1990)
- 'Brad Dourif' (qv) plays a character in jail.  Asked how he is able to get
  in and out of jail without being seen, he replies: ``It's child's play''.
  Dourif plays the voice of Chucky in _Child's Play (1988)_ (qv),
  _Child's Play 2 (1990)_ (qv), and _Child's Play 3 (1992)_ (qv).
- CAMEO(C Everett Coop): in the restuarant.
- CAMEO(Larry King): in the restuarant.
- CAMEO(John Thompson): (coach of the Georgetown Hoyas Basketball Team)
  outside the restaurant.


# Exorcist, The (1973)
- 'Mercedes McCambridge' (qv) had to sue Warner Brothers for credit as the
  voice of the demon.
- There are semi-subliminal single-frame shots in this film:  when the priest
  is dreaming of his mother coming up out of the subway, there is a single
  frame shot of a face ('Jason Miller' (qv)), painted black and white,
  grimacing.
- 'Jane Fonda' (qv) and 'Shirley McClaine' (qv) were approached to play the
  role of Chris MacNeil.
- CAMEO(William Peter Blatty): producer of the film that Chris is acting in;
  he's seen talking to Burke.


# Explorers (1985)
- The view of the ``city lights'' is a model which includes a suburb that looks
  suspiciously like a circuit diagram, complete with logic gates and an
  integrated circuit.
- A newspaper headline is ``Kingston Falls Mystery Still Unsolved''.  Kingston
  Falls was the town in _Gremlins (1984)_ (qv), which 'Joe Dante' (qv) also
  directed.
- The school is named after animator 'Chuck Jones' (qv).


# Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989)
- 'Madonna' (qv) was originally approached for the role which was picked up by
  'Michelle Pfieffer' (qv).  Madonna turned it down because the plot was ``too
  mushy''.


# Faccia a Faccia (1967)
- Originally a four-episode TV series: 1. Separation; 2. The Border;
  3. Twilight Land; 4. The Return.  A total of 200 minutes cut down to 135
  minutes.


# Fail-Safe (1964)
- The film shows many US Air Force bombers, but they are all actually all shots
  of the same plane, taken from a stock piece of film after the Department of
  Defense declined to cooperate with the filmmakers.
- _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)_ (qv)
  has a remarkably similar premise, and was being made by
  'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) at the same time.  Kubrick threatened legal action,
  claiming plagiarism.  The issue was settled when Columbia Pictures agreed to
  push Kubrick's film at the expense of _Fail-Safe (1964)_ (qv), which
  subsequently bombed at the box office.


# Fair Game (1995)
- Originally set in San Francisco, changed to Miami to suit
  'Sylvester Stallone' (qv), who subsequently left the project.


# Falcon in Mexico, The (1944)
- The exterior footage is supposedly from 'Orson Welles' (qv)' never completed
  RKO documentary _It's All True (????)_ (qv).


# Falcon's Brother, The (1942)
- Originally intended to be the last of the ``Falcon'' movies, as
  'George Sanders' (qv) wanted out of the series.


# Falling Down (1993)
- The stripper for Prendergast ('Robert Duvall' (qv)) is named ``Suzie''.
  When she starts dancing, someone says ``Susie Q'', a reference to
  _Apocalypse Now (1979)_ (qv), which also starred Duvall.


# Falls, The (1980)
- Fragments of director 'Peter Greenaway' (qv)'s short films
  _A Walk Through H (1978)_ (qv) and _Vertical Features Remake (1976)_ (qv)
  appear in the film.
- CAMEO(Michael Nyman):
- CAMEO(Bob Godfrey): G. Odfrey.
 

# Family Plot (1976)
- DIRCAMEO(Alfred Hitchcock): in silhouette 45 minutes into the film
  behind the door at the registrar of births and deaths.
- 'Roy Thinnes' (qv) was originally hired to play Arthur Adamson, but
  Hitchcock was dissatisfied with his performance and fired him one month
  into the filming.
- DIRTRADE(Alfred Hitchcock): [bathroom]: features a modern chemical
  toilet.


# Fantasia (1940)
- The Sorceror (in ``The Sorceror's Apprentice'') is named ``Yen Sid'', which
  is ``Disney'' spelt backwards. 
- The demon in ``Night on Bald Mountain'' was supposedly modeled on
  'Bela Lugosi' (qv).  It was named ``Chernobog'' after the god of evil in
  Slavonik mythology.
- A segment featuring 'Claude Debussy' (qv)'s ``Clair de Lune''  was animated
  but cut.
- The soundtrack was re-recorded for the film's 50th anniversary.


# Fantastic Voyage (1966)
- 'Issac Asimov' (qv) was approached to write the novel from the script.  He
  perused the script, and declared the script to be full of plot holes.
  Receiving permission to write the book the way he wanted, delays in filming
  and the speed at which he wrote saw the book appear before the film.
  Many plot holes (see the Goofs entry) were fixed in the book version.


# Far and Away (1992)
- Director 'Ron Howard' (qv) wasn't happy with 'Nicole Kidman' (qv)'s facial
  reaction during the shooting of the scene where her character lifts the bowl
  covering Joseph's (her husband 'Tom Cruise' (qv)'s) crotch.  Without telling
  Kidman, he asked Cruise to remove the his underwear.  Howard got the
  reaction he wanted, and it appears in the film.


# Far Out Man (1990)
- CAMEO(Cheech Marin): ???.  Marin was director 'Tommy Chong' (qv)'s
  former partner in the comedy duo ``Cheech & Chong''.


# Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
- While the Coyote and Roadrunner are chasing each other through a freeway
  cloverleaf, the soundtrack plays ``I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover''.
# Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Original ending had Alex committing suicide while dressed in white, and Dan
  being arrested for her murder.  Changed when preview audiences felt that
  justice was not served onto Alex.  This ending still appears in the Japanese
  release.  The ending was reshot in the worship room of the Unitarian church
  in Mt. Kisco, NY.
- Alex starts the film wearing white, but gradually switches to be wearing
  black at the end.  See also _Dial M for Murder (1954)_ (qv),
  _Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)_ (qv).
- 'Barbara Hershey' (qv) and 'Debra Winger' (qv) both turned down the role
  of Alex.


# Faust (1926)
- When the film was already finished and edited, the UFA began to dislike
  'Hans Kyser' (qv)'s text and asked German writer 'Gerhard Hauptmann' (qv) to
  work on it.  Kyser disagreed, but when Hauptmann was finished finally the
  UFA disliked Hauptmann's text even more and the film was released with
  Kyser's original.
- 'Lillian Gish' (qv) was asked to star in the movie, but her demands were
  unacceptable.  'Leni Riefenstahl' (qv) applied for the femal lead role,
  but was turned down.


# Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, The (1967)
- Producer 'Martin Ransohoff' (qv) discovered 'Sharon Tate' (qv) on the set of
  _"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)_ (qv), and insisted that director
  'Roman Polanski' (qv) use her instead of 'Jill St. John' (qv) as Polanski
  had planned.


# Fedora (1978)
- The character and career of Fedora in the original 'Thomas Tryon' (qv) short
  story is based on elements from the lives and careers of
  'Marlene Dietrich' (qv), 'Greta Garbo' (qv), 'Pola Negri' (qv),
  'Olga Tschechova' (qv), and 'Elfi von Dassanowsky' (qv).  The
  Hungarian-accented director in the flashback is modeled after
  'Michael Curtiz' (qv).


# Feuer, Eis & Dynamit (1990)

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