"D" Titled Films!
These are all the movies I have seen that start with the letter 'D'. It will be continually updated as I view more and more films....
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- DirectorAlex TurnerStarsHenry ThomasPatrick FugitNicki AycoxA group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.Co-starring: Mark Boone Junior, Isaiah Washington, Muse Watson, Russell Durham Comegys, Donna Biscoe
This film is set around the Civil War period.
Mark Boone Junior improvised the moment when his character Joseph bites down on a stolen gold coin and proclaims that it's real.
The opening scenes in the town which include the bank robbery were filmed during the last two days of shooting.
The town scenes were shot on the old sets of 'Tim Burton''s Big Fish (2003). - DirectorAdam RifkinStarsEdward FurlongGiuseppe AndrewsJames DeBelloIn 1978, four rebellious teenagers try to scam their way into a KISS concert.Also starring: Lin Shaye, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, Miles Dougal, Nick Scotti, David Quane, Shannon Tweed, Kristin Booth, Joe Flaherty, Matthew G. Taylor, Aaron Berg, Richard Hillman, Ron Jeremy, Kevin Corrigan, Steve Schirripa, Lindy Booth, Julian Richings, Johnie Chase, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Jason Biggs (uncredited)
The four youthful leads themselves are in a garage band called "Mystery". The "S" in the "Mystery" logo is a lightning bolt from the KISS logo.
At 14:58 seconds you can see Jason Biggs who is uncredited. He is wearing a red track suit and brown mullet.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas was considered for the role of Hawk. He was also considered for the role of Jam.
Amanda Finch, the woman who picks up Hawk at the nightclub, is played by Shannon Tweed, partner of Gene Simmons, the bass player with KISS.
The KISS pinball machine you see in the 'Smiley Mart' grocery store was provided by a local KISS fan as stated by director Adam Rifkin on the Detroit Rock City audio commentary track.
Although he only had a cameo, James De Bello also appeared with Natasha Lyonne in American Pie the same year.
The Bassett Hound which brings Lex the Frisbee is the same dog that appears in a number of television commercials for Maytag appliances.
Each of the members of the band Mystery (Hawk, Trip, Jam, and Lex) mirror the members of the band KISS and even get together with girls appropriate to their counterparts: Hawk is like Paul Stanley, and gets the supermodel; Jam is like Peter Criss, and gets Beth (named after his solo song); Trip is like Ace Frehley, and gets the spacey girl; and Lex is like Gene Simmons, and gets Christine (named after one of his trademark songs).
The first protesting mother seen outside the KISS concert (with brown curly hair and glasses) is Pamela Bowen, credited as the MATMOK Lieutenant. Pamela Bowen was the real-life spouse of Paul Stanley, lead singer and guitar player for KISS. They divorced in 2001.
On the highway, Christine makes a remark about the possibilty of KISS producing a disco song. The boys laugh it off, but in fact, the year after which the movie takes place (1978) , KISS did indeed come out with a hit disco song - "I Was Made For Lovin' You". Christine's remark is a joke pertaining to the song.
Much of the memorabilia used in the film is from Gene Simmons personal collection.
Was the first movie to be released on DVD before VHS. - DirectorMimi LederStarsRobert DuvallTéa LeoniElijah WoodA comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.Co-starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau, Laura Innes, Mary McCormack, Richard Schiff, Leelee Sobieski, Blair Underwood, Bruce Weitz, Mark Moses, Derek de Lint, W. Earl Brown, Denise Crosby, Tucker Smallwood, Francis X. McCarthy, Kurtwood Smith, Christopher Darga, Thomas Rosales Jr.(uncredited) and Charles Martin Smith (uncredited)
This film shared a very similar plot with the Michael Bay film "Armageddon," which was released the same year. Téa Leoni previously appeared in "Bad Boys," also directed by Bay.
19 years before this movie, Maximilian Schell had starred in The Black Hole (1979). One of that film's science fiction competitors in the theaters that year was Meteor (1979), another movie about the Earth being threatened by an impact with an astronomical object.
Morgan Freeman portrays the President in this movie, in 'Olympus Has Fallen' he portrays the Speaker of the House (2013), and in 'London Has Fallen' (2016) he portrays the Vice President.
The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell; and one Oscar nominee: James Cromwell
In a 2016 interview with the New York Times, Lori McCreary (president of the PGA and Morgan Freeman's producing partner) recounted that when Mimi Leder wanted to cast Freeman as the U.S. President, the studio objected on the basis that it wasn't realistic to cast a black person as president. McCreary recalled that one studio executive said, "we're not making a science-fiction movie; you can't have Morgan Freeman play the president." Aside from the obvious racism present in the notion that a black president is inherently unrealistic (just a decade after this movie's release, the United States did elect a black president), the executive was also mistaken about Deep Impact not being a science fiction movie.
Just before the movie's release, astronomers announced that the asteroid 1997 XF11, about one mile across, will impact the Earth at a speed of over 100,000 mph at 6:30pm on Thursday 26th October 2028 - greatly boosting ticket sales. Just after the movie's release, a new orbit (based on a sighting from many years before) predicted that 1997 XF11 will miss by 600,000 miles.
Morgan Freeman played President Tom Beck with James Cromwell portraying Treasury Secretary Alan Rittenhouse. In The Sum of All Fears (2002), Cromwell played President J. Robert Fowler while Freeman portrayed CIA Director William Cabot.
When Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) is trying to send email about the approaching comet, we see the first few entries in his e-mail inbox. Two of the messages are from "cshoemaker arizona.unv", one of which has the subject line "101 Mir jokes". Carolyn Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker are well-known comet experts, credited as "comet advisors" to the movie.
Director of Photography Dietrich Lohmann was very ill during the production phase of the film, and the cast and crew found out he was dying from leukemia. A special dedication to Lohmann was put in the movie's closing credits, as he passed away not long after the film was finished.
An actual giant object from space did once strike the general area of the Eastern Seaboard where "Biederman" impacted in the film. Hitting the Norfolk, Virginia vicinity, it created the huge, now-buried Chesapeake Bay impact crater.
At the beginning of the movie when Dr. Wolf is using his computer the screen reads May 10, 1998, the date of the film's release.
The scene where Jenny Lerner first meets the President was filmed in the actual kitchen where Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning for the presidency of the United States.
The ship that goes to destroy the comet is called The Messiah. This is not only an appropriate name, but also an inside joke. When the first space shuttle was being conceived, NASA constructed a full-scale, wooden mock up of the STS Orbiter. It was nicknamed 'The Messiah' because, according to Flight Controller Jerry Greene, everyone who walked into it said, "Jesus Christ!" in reference to its size.
After discovering the comet, one of the astronomers is killed in a car accident. This mirrors the real life car accident death (July 18 1997, in outback Australia) of astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet.
A line was edited in the President's press conference scene. President Beck stated "Life will go on, we will prevail." Originally, President Beck said "Life will go on, we will prevail...THIS IS NOT ARMAGEDDON!" The producers later realized that the movie was going to be in box office competition with the movie Armageddon (1998).
Morgan Freeman wanted his character (the President) to be wearing an earring. Director Mimi Leder turned him down. Later we see the President addressing the nation from the oval office. His sleeves are rolled up and one of Freeman's tattoos is showing. The director liked this. She felt it gave the President an everyman look.
During the school assembly, one student makes the observation "You're going to have more sex than anyone else in our class!" to Leo Biederman. This line was improvised by Jason Dohring, and the reactions from the other students are genuine. - 19961h 29mR6.5 (62K)53MetascoreDirectorParis BarclayStarsShawn WayansMarlon WayansKeenen Ivory WayansA parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).Co-starring: Suli McCullough, Darrel Heath, Helen Martin, Lahmard J. Tate, Chris Wayans, Kim Wayans, Vivica A. Fox, Toshi Toda, Omar Epps, Faizon Love, Bernie Mac, Antonio Fargas, LaWanda Page, Yvette Wilson, Guy Torry, Damien Dante Wayans, J.W. Smith, Paula Jai Parker, Alex Thomas, Virginia Watson
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsShauna MacdonaldNatalie MendozaAlex ReidA caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.Among the bones that Sarah falls into is a wolf's head which came from one of the werewolves from Neil Marshall's previous film Dog Soldiers (2002).
The cast members were taken to a rock-climbing center in Derbyshire to help prepare them for filming.
Except for Sarah's husband, and some non speaking extras in the hospital scene, no men appear the film.
Shauna MacDonald is slightly claustrophobic so she found it easy to act scared and panicky while underground.
The title refers to not only the girls journey through the caves but the characters slow descent into madness.
The filmmakers considered it too dangerous to film in an actual cave. It also would have been far too time-consuming, so they opted to build one instead.
The "crawlers" were designed to resemble Nosferatu from the film of the same name. They also had huge white eyes to begin with but this idea was done away with because they looked too silly. It took three and a half hours in makeup to transform an actor into a "crawler." They had to shave off their body hair as well.
The appearance of the creatures was kept secret from the cast members until the first scene in which they encounter them was filmed. When the cast were finally filming the scene where the girls encounter the crawlers, the girls were genuinely scared and screamed the building down, running off set and laughing. - DirectorRudolph MatéStarsEdmond O'BrienPamela BrittonLuther AdlerFrank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.Also starring: Lynn Baggett, William Ching, Neville Brand, Laurette Luez, Frank Gerstle, Diana Barrymore (uncredited) Frank Cady (uncredited) Roy Engel (uncredited), Peter Leeds (uncredited) Hugh O'Brian (uncredited) Jerry Paris (uncredited) Phillip Pine (uncredited)
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
Pamela Britton plays Paula Gibson, the insecure and pushy girlfriend of Frank Bigelow, played by Edmond O'Brien. In 1951 Britton would be cast as Marge Porter in TV's The Bigelow Theatre (1950), a series of teleplays, but which had nothing to do with the name of Edmond O'Brien's character in this film.
"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 21, 1951 with Edmond O'Brien reprising his film role.
When Frank Bigelow registers at the Allison Hotel in Los Angeles, the name directly above is Russell Rouse, one of the writers. Also on the register is Ernest Laszlo, the director of photography and Marty Moss, the assistant director.
The scene in which Bigelow runs in panic through the streets after learning he has been poisoned was a stolen shot. The pedestrians had no idea a movie was being made and no warning that Edmond O'Brien would be plowing through them.
This film is listed as Neville Brands film debut but he had appeared in two films a year earlier , "My Foolish Heart" and "Port of New York" in uncredited bits. "D.O.A" however is his 1st credited part as his name is in the credits beating "Halls of Montezuma" by coming out first.
Two famous "O'Brien's" are in this film. The star of the film Edmond O'Brien of course and in a uncredited bit, a young Hugh O'Brian, who this was one of his earliest appearances on film. (his 3rd). - DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsTom NealAnn SavageClaudia DrakeThe life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.Ann Savage and Tom Neal made three movies together at Columbia Pictures before Detour. PRC re-teamed them for "Detour" to exploit the publicity and press buildup they had been given in 1943 and 1944.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
To save on production costs, Leo Erdody, the film's composer, was recorded and filmed playing two classical piano pieces, Frédéric Chopin's "Waltz No. 7 in C# minor" and Johannes Brahms' "Waltz Op. 39 no. 15 in Ab Major" as a favor for director Edgar G. Ulmer. Al Roberts (Tom Neal) "performs" the piano pieces during scenes set in the "Break of Dawn" nightclub. Erdödy's hands, in close-up, can be seen playing the Brahms.
German filmmaker Wim Wenders called Ann Savage's performance as Vera "30 years ahead of its time".
According to Ann Savage, she and Tom Neal did not get along during filming. Savage stated that Neal embarrassed her on the set by putting his tongue in her ear. She retaliated by slapping his face as hard as she could. After that incident, they did not speak to each other except when filming scenes. - DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsChristopher GeorgeLeslie NielsenLynda Day GeorgeA battle for survival ensues after a group of hikers encounters a chemically imbalanced forest.Also starring: Michael Ansara, Ruth Roman, Jon Cedar, Paul Mantee, Walter Barnes, Andrew Stevens, Susan Backlinie, Kathleen Bracken, Bobby Porter, Michelle Stacy, Walt Gorney (uncredited)
The "grizzly bear" that Leslie Nielsen fights is actually a North American cinnamon bear.
Andrew Prine was approached to play the role of Frank Young, but turned said offer down. Jon Cedar, who was initially considered to play the sheriff, was cast as Frank instead.
Susan Backlinie played the young swimmer who was the first victim to die at the beginning of Jaws (1975). In this film she plays the first victim to die. Besides acting onscreen and being an animal trainer, Backlinie also served as Lynda Day George's stunt double for this film.
This film was sometimes mistaken as a sequel to William Girdler's Grizzly (1976), mostly because it has basically the same plot, cause director, production and distribution company, producer and features Richard Jaeckel and Christopher George, who appeared in "Grizzly". There was a sequel made for Grizzly (1976) called Grizzly II: The Concert (1987), but it never got properly completed and never released into theaters and home video / DVD. A work-print has surfaced of the film on the Internet. - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsBruce WillisJeremy IronsSamuel L. JacksonJohn McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.Co-starring: Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman, Sam Phillips Kevin Chamberlin, Aldis Hodge, Edwin Hodge, Joe Zaloom, Patrick Borriello, Ali A. Wahhab (uncredited)
David Thewlis was originally going to play Simon. And he would looked more believable as Alan Rickman's brother because of their resemblance to one another, but Jeremy Irons replace him.
Aldis Hodge and his brother Edwin, made their acting debuts in this film. And Aldis would later appear in another " Die Hard" film (A Good Day to Die Hard) eighteen years later as a different character named 'Foxy'.
When posing as a city engineer, Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) uses a heavy American accent to fool his adversaries. The same trick was used by his brother Hans (Alan Rickman) in Die Hard (1988).
Each of the Gruber brothers, Simon and Hans, recruit a Karl on his team. Karl in Die Hard (1988) is the terrorist shot by Sgt. Powell at the end. In this film Karl is stationed at the Federal Reserve bank and is killed by McClane in the elevator sequence.
There are two solutions to the water jug riddle in the park, at the elephant fountain. To place exactly 4 gallons of water on the scales when you only have two jugs which hold 3 and 5 gallons respectively, you must do either of the following. 1. Fill the 5 gallon jug and decant the water into the 3 gallon jug. This leaves two gallons in the big jug. 2. Empty the 3 gallon jug and pour in the two gallons from the 5 gallon jug, leaving space for one gallon in the small jug. 3. Refill the 5 gallon jug and pour water from it into the 3 gallon jug until the small jug's full. 4. That leaves exactly four gallons in the big jug; put it on the scale and the bomb is disarmed. The second method is: 1. Fill the 3 gallon jug and pour the water into the 5 gallon jug. 2. Refill the 3 gallon jug, and pour into the 5 gallon jug until the big jug is full, leaving one gallon in the small jug. 3. Empty the big jug, and transfer the one gallon from the small jug to the big jug. 4. Refill the small jug and pour all three gallons into the 5 gallon jug, resulting in four gallons in the big jug. Place the big jug on the scale and the bomb is disarmed.
Despite not being set at Christmas, it still references Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990) (which were set at Christmas) with sarcastic comments regarding Santa Claus. The shoplifting kids also say "It's Christmas, you could steal city hall!" While in the aqueduct, McClane further mentions "We got a report of some guy coming through here with eight reindeer", then shoots the terrorist and continues, "They said he was a jolly old fat guy, with a snowy white beard, and a cute little red-and-white suit. I'm surprised you guys didn't see him."
The school kids "trapped" by the madman's plot are singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." It's the same song that the kids trapped by the madman in Dirty Harry are forced to sing.
Anthony Peck, who plays Ricky Walsh was also in the original Die Hard. He is credited as "Young Cop".
Laurence Fishburne was the original choice to play Zeus Carver, but turned down the part. When he reconsidered the decision, Samuel L. Jackson was already cast.
In Greek mythology, Zeus was a god who summoned lightning and thunder. In this movie, Zeus Carver is an electrician.
Sean Connery was John McTiernan's very first choice for the role of Simon Gruber. He turned down the role, saying that he didn't want to play such a diabolical villain.
The sex scene between Jeremy Irons and Sam Phillips was added in at the last minute because John McTiernan knew that the film would get an R rating and he might as well put a sex scene in.
Although he wasn't hired for the film, Alan Rickman is still credited as playing Hans Gruber (in McClane's flashback, using stock footage from Die Hard (1988)).
The studio told screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh to remove the scenes with McClane walking around Harlem wearing a sign that says, "I hate *beep* They allowed him to keep the scene when he threatened to take the script to another studio. The sandwich board that Bruce Willis wore while filming in Harlem was originally blank, rather than text, to ensure no one was offended by the racist message. The "I Hate *beep* was added with CGI in post-production. Some television broadcasts use an alternate version where the sign reads "I hate everybody", which is sometimes erroneously said to be the original version of the sign used for filming, but this too was added with CGI in post-production.
Although Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson had both appeared in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) and Pulp Fiction (1994), this is the first movie where the two appear on-screen together.
Director John McTiernan acknowledged the errors concerning the gold in the dump trucks and its respective weight. McTiernan and Samuel L. Jackson were permitted to lift a genuine bar of gold to get a feel of how heavy gold really was. A standard gold bar kept at the Federal Reserve weighs approximately 25 lbs.
Jonathan Hensleigh was actually detained by the FBI after completing the script for the film because he knew extensive information about the Federal Gold Reserve in downtown Manhattan. Hensleigh stated that he got all the information from an article written in the New York Times. - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsBruce WillisAlan RickmanBonnie BedeliaA New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Also starring: William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Paul Gleason, Alexander Godunov, De'voreaux White, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Dennis Hayden, Al Leong, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Rick Ducommun, Rebecca Broussard, Betty Carvalho, Tracy Reiner, Fred Lerner
Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were considered for John McClane in die hard and it went to their pal Bruce Willis, who they later worked with in the expendables movies. There is a reference to Die Hard in Expendables 2 where Arnold says Bruce's line "yippie Kai yay" after Bruce says Arnold's line from Terminator, "I'll be back."
Hart Bochner, who plays Harry Ellis, is the son of actor Lloyd Bochner, who co-starred with 'Frank Sinatra' (QV) in The Detective (1968), based on the novel by author Roderick Thorp. Die Hard (1988) is based on Thorp's novel "Nothing Lasts Forever", the sequel to "The Detective." Clint Eastwood originally owned the rights to the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" on which the film is based, and planned to star in the film around the early 1980s.
When Powell circles the Nakatomi parking lot, McClane looks on, saying "Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?" As Argyle waits in the limo parked in the garage, "Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder plays on the stereo.
This movie, set during Christmas time in Los Angeles, has the lead terrorist named Hans Gruber. The Christmas Carol "Silent Night" was composed in Salzburg, Austria by Franz Gruber, a school teacher and church organist. He wrote the melody for a guitar arrangement at the request of the 6-stanza poem's author Fr. Joseph Mohr, a Roman Catholic priest and assistant pastor at St. Nicholas Church, who wrote it in 1816. Mohr and Gruber first sang the song "Stille Nacht" at midnight mass on December 24, 1818, while Mohr played his guitar.
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore tied the knot at the Golden Nugget hotel in Las Vegas during this shoot, Moore having recently broken her engagement to actor Emilio Estevez. Little Richard presided over the ceremony and former brat packer Ally Sheedy was a bridesmaid.
The centerfold that John McClane sees and ultimately uses as a point of reference while navigating his way from the elevator shaft to the air vent is that of Playboy Playmate Pamela Stein (November 1987). Another Playboy Playmate, May 1982 star Kym Malin, has a small role in the picture as the hostage who is originally discovered by the terrorists having sex with another party goer, and a third, July 1988 Playmate of the Month Terri Lynn Doss, plays the woman at the airport who runs past McClane to hug another arriving passenger.
Bruce Willis took the role of John McClane after it had been turned down by Robert De Niro. Willis had just been turned down to play the Charles Grodin role opposite De Niro in Midnight Run (1988). Ironically both films eventually opened the same weekend.
When talking to Powell on CB, McClane tells him, "They have missiles, automatic weapons and enough plastic explosives to orbit Arnold Schwarzenegger." Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally considered for the role of McClane. Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, who are now both known as for making action movies with a dark humor, later became good friends.
Sam Neill turned down the role of Hans Gruber.
When they first meet Takagi tells John McClane that 'Pearl Harbour didn't work out so we hit you with stereos'. James Shigeta who played Takagi also played Vice Admiral Chiuichi Nagumo, one of the architects of the attack on Pearl Harbour in the film The Battle of Midway (1976).
Hans Gruber was also the name of an adversary in Our Man Flint (1966) with James Coburn.
Bruce Willis was the sixth choice for the main character. It originally went to Arnold Schwarzenegger, then Sylvester Stallone, then Burt Reynolds, then Richard Gere, then Harrison Ford, then Mel Gibson before Willis got it.
The LAPD officer who gives medical attention to Sgt. Powell following the terrorists shooting up his car is actor Anthony Peck, who also plays NYPD Detective Ricky Walsh in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995).
Ironically, Bruce Willis, sneered at for being an all-American hero by the head German terrorist, is actually more German than most of the villains; Alan Rickman is English and Alexander Godunov was Russian. Bruce Willis was born on March 19th 1955 in West Germany to an American father and a German mother.
Deputy Chief Robinson says that John McClane (Bruce Willis) "could be a *beep* bartender for all we know" (because of McClane's claim to be able to "spot a phony ID"). Prior to becoming a well-known actor, Willis was a bartender.
Bruce Willis was also shooting Moonlighting (1985) concurrently which accounts for why nearly all of McClane's scenes take place at night. Willis would shoot his TV series during the day and then come to the Fox lot in the evening to work on this film.
There are two references to the Japanese naval attack on Pearl Harbor on he 7th December 1941. The first occurs when John McClane questions whether the Japanese celebrate Christmas. Takagi replies "We're flexible, Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks". The second is the breaking of the code key for the vault. The password "Akagi" (Red Castle in English) is the name of one of the Japanese aircraft carriers which carried out the strike on Pearl Harbor.
This was based on a book by Roderick Thorp entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" - a sequel to another book entitled "The Detective", which in 1968 was made into a film starring Frank Sinatra. Because of a clause in Sinatra's contract for The Detective (1968) which gave him the right to reprise his role in a sequel, he was actually the first person offered the McClane role, even though he was 73 years old at the time. Also, Coincidentally, Bruce Willis made his movie debut in The First Deadly Sin (1980) walking out of a bar as Sinatra walks into it.
There are two FBI Agent Johnsons and a Harvey Johnson who were characters in the film. This is an in-joke aimed at co-star Reginald VelJohnson. In the "Making of" Featurette for Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Reginald VelJohnson said that after his appearances in the first two Die Hard films, he would be frequently teased and joked at by friends and people on the street for his character's obsession of Twinkies, with some people even going so far as to buy twinkies and throwing them into his car while he was inside, and saying things like "Oh we knew you wanted some of those".
On Alan Rickman's first day of shooting he filmed the scene where Hans Gruber first runs into John McClane. He made a jump off the ledge about three feet high. He injured his knee when he landed and damaged some cartilage in his knee. He was told by his doctor not to put any weight on that leg and he had to use crutches for a week. For the rest of the scene where Hans Gruber is standing and talking to John McClane, Alan Rickman is standing on one leg for the entire time and has a leg brace on under his pants.
The line "Yippee-ki-yay, *beep* is used in all Five Die Hard movies (this one, Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), {although a gunshot masks the *beep* part in the PG13 cut} and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)). It also translates in Urdu to "here eat this." The line was voted as the #96 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.
Director John McTiernan found it necessary to smash cut away from Hans Gruber's face whenever he fired a gun, because of Alan Rickman's uncontrollable habit of flinching from the noise and muzzle flash. If you look at Rickman's face when he shoots Takagi, you can see him wincing.
The scene where McClane falls down a shaft was a mistake by the stuntman, who was supposed to grab the first vent, as it originally was planned. He slipped and continued to fall, but the shot was used anyway; it was edited together with one where McClane grabs the next vent down as he falls.
Special, extra loud blanks were made for use in the film to add to the "hyper-realism" director John McTiernan was looking for. Unfortunately for Bruce Willis, some of these blanks were used for the scene where he kills a terrorist by shooting him through the bottom of a table where the terrorist is standing. The proximity of the gun to Willis' ear during this scene caused permanent hearing loss for Willis.
The scene in which Gruber and McClane meet was inserted into the script after Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) was found to be proficient at mimicking American accents. The filmmakers had been looking for a way to have the two characters meet prior to the climax and capitalized on Rickman's talent. This was Alan Rickman's feature film debut. - DirectorRenny HarlinStarsBruce WillisWilliam AthertonBonnie BedeliaJohn McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.Also starring: Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Dalton Thompson, Tom Bower, Don Harvey, Tony Ganios, Robert Patrick, John Leguizamo, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Mark Boone Junior, Tom Everett, Colm Meaney, Robert Costanzo
Robert Patrick, along with Jai Courtney, both share the distinction of appearing in the Die Hard franchise and the Terminator franchise. Robert Patrick appears in Die Hard 2 (1990) as a henchman and in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) as the T-1000. Jai Courtney appears as Jack McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and as Kyle Reese in Terminator Genisys (2015).
Carmine Lorenzo (Dennis Franz) asks McClane if he thinks he is "playing John Wayne". In the original Die Hard, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) also compares McClane to John Wayne.
In the "Making of" featurette for Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Reginald VelJohnson said that after his appearances in the first two "Die Hard" films, he would be frequently teased and joked at by friends and people on the street for his character's obsession with Twinkies, with some people even going so far as to buy Twinkies and throw them into his car while he was inside, and saying things like, "Oh we knew you wanted some of those".
The first time Holly McClane is seen on the plane, the woman sitting next to her is reading a magazine advertising the VHS release of Lethal Weapon. Both the first two Die Hard movies and the Lethal Weapon franchise were produced by producer Joel Silver.
Actors Dennis Franz and Robert Costanzo, who played Carmine and Vito Lorenzo, would work together again in 1993, during the first season of ABC's NYPD Blue (1993), when Costanzo would play mobster Alphonse Giardella, with whom Franz's Sipowicz had an ongoing feud that would end in the detective's near-execution in the pilot episode.
In Die Hard (1988), Sgt. Al Powell is humming along with the song "Let It Snow!" sung by Vaughn Monroe; the same song plays both at the end of this film and Die Hard.
The subplot involving Esperanza being turned over to the US government is a reference to the real-life Panamanian general, Manuel Noriega, who was overthrown for brutality and drug trafficking in Panama in the 1980s.
It was Renny Harlin's idea that William Sadler, the film's main villain be introduced naked doing martial arts exercises during the film's opening sequence. He would later say that it was "an effective, but unusual way to introduce a character".
John McTiernan had planned to direct this film, but could not because of his commitment to directing The Hunt for Red October (1990).
Black & Decker paid to have its cordless drill featured in a scene with Bruce Willis. When the scene was cut, the company sued 20th Century Fox in the first-ever product placement lawsuit for a film. The $150,000 claim was settled out of court.
The General is from Val Verde, the fictitious Latin-American country used in Commando (1985).
In the original Die Hard (1988), John McClane only had a few scripted one-liners. However, Bruce Willis ad-libbed so many one liners and audiences liked them so much that in this sequel (and the next one), more gags were added and Willis was told he could ad-lib as many more as he saw fit.
Renny Harlin made sure that the scene where Major Grant says to McClane that he is "the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time", with McClane responding "Yeah, story of my life", ended up in the movie's trailer, because it perfectly summed up McClane's character.
According to John Leguizamo in his autobiography, his role was intended to be much larger until the filmmakers realized how short he was. His part was cut down to one line which was dubbed by someone else. However, he got his way years later in Executive Decision (1996), another picture produced by Joel Silver and often described as 'Die Hard on a Plane'. - DirectorTony ScottStarsKeira KnightleyMickey RourkeEdgar RamírezA recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.also starring: Mo'Nique, Mena Suvari, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Dabney Coleman, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Stanley Kamel, T.K. Carter, Lew Temple, Lucy Liu, Christopher Walken, Joe Nunez, Jerry Springer, Tom Waits, Jack McGee, Donna W. Scott, and the real Domino Harvey
Ron Jeremy appeared in one scene as a bail jumping drug dealer who was chased by Domino and Ed, but was cut from the film.
Mickey Rourke's character, Ed Moseby, is based on real-life bounty hunter Ed Martinez, while Delroy Lindo's character, Claremont Williams III, is based on real-life bail-bondsman Celes King III, Domino Harvey's real boss. Both men were used as technical advisors on the film.
Jacqueline Bisset, who plays Domino's mother (renamed Sophie Wynn in the film), actually knew Domino Harvey's real life mother Paulene Stone. They knew each other from their time as models and had worked together.
Domino Harvey died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl on 27 June 2005, months before the release of the film, which was subsequently dedicated to her. Tony Scott and Mickey Rourke were among the people who attended her funeral. - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Also starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Paul Benjamin, Frankie Faison, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Miguel Sandoval, Rick Aiello, John Savage, Samuel L. Jackson, Rosie Perez, Roger Guenveur Smith, Martin Lawrence, Frank Vincent, Luis Antonio Ramos, Steve Park, and Nicholas Turturro (uncredited)
Da Mayor: Doctor...
Mookie: C'mon, what. What?
Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.
Mookie: That's it?
Da Mayor: That's it.
Mookie: I got it, I'm gone.
Tina: Trust you? The last time I trusted you, Mookie, I ended up with a son.
Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much a**. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt, he's down. Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love.
This film was inspired by an actual incident in New York where some black youths were chased out of a pizzeria by some white youths in a section of New York known as Howard Beach.
Spike Lee originally wanted Robert De Niro for the role of Sal. But De Niro turned down the part, saying that it was too similar to many of the parts he had played in the past.
Spike Lee's first choice for the role of Pino was Matt Dillon.
The character of Smiley was not originally in the script. Roger Guenveur Smith approached Spike Lee requesting a role, and his scenes were added in during shooting.
All of the scenes of the "Corner Men" Robin Harris, Paul Benjamin, and Frankie Faison were improvised.
The key scene when Danny Aiello and John Turturro talk alone approximately midway through the film was partly improvised. The scripted scene ended as the character Smiley approached the window. Everything after that until the end of the scene was completely ad-libbed.
Graffiti on the wall behind Mookie and Jade reads "Tawana told the truth" in reference to the Tawana Brawley alleged rape and abduction case of 1987.
The scene in which Sal (Danny Aiello) and Buggin Out (Giancarlo Esposito) argue about there being no African-Americans on the wall of the restaurant - only "American Italians" - is somewhat ironic, as Giancarlo Esposito is an Italian-American.
According to President Barack Obama at a fundraiser in New York, he and First Lady Michelle Obama saw the movie on their first date in 1989 though they were also planning on seeing Driving Miss Daisy.
Martin Lawrence's feature film debut.
The title comes from a Malcolm X quote: "You've got to do the right thing." - DirectorMichael BrandtStarsRichard GereTopher GraceMartin SheenA retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.Also starring: Odette Annable, Lawrence Gilliard Jr.,
Tom Highland: I've never liked the coffee at the White House. I think it has something to do with the 150 year old china.
Paul Shepherdson: If the Russians used their women instead of missiles, we'd be wearing furry hats right now.
Martin Miller: [about Bozlovski] This guy has used every single weapon you can think of. From an M-24 from 800 meters, to a rusty nail.
When Geary's wife says "welcome to our humble commode", she is making a joke. This is an intentional error. - DirectorScott StewartStarsKeri RussellJake BrennanJosh HamiltonAs the Barrett family's peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them, one which may have arrived from beyond the stars.Co-starring: J.K. Simmons, Josh Stamberg
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Title Card: Two possibilities exist... Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke
J.K. Simmons was cast at very short notice for his key cameo of Pollard. - DirectorMark AtkinsStarsMarc SingerBrian ThompsonJason ConneryWhen an ancient warlord summons a mythological beast, a young hero must complete a series of quests to awaken the dragon that will defeat the monster.Arkadi's shirt keeps changing from a reddish collared one to a light collarless one in the same scene all the time
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsLee MarvinErnest BorgnineCharles BronsonDuring World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.Also starring: John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini López, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker, Robert Webber, Dick Miller (uncredited)
Major John Reisman: Any questions?
Maggot: Suh? Do we have to eat with *beep*
[Jefferson jumps Maggot]
Sergeant Clyde Bowren: [as Reisman exits the room] : What's going on, sir?
Major John Reisman: Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now.
Major John Reisman: What do you think, Sergeant?
Sergeant Clyde Bowren: I think you'll do just fine, sir.
Major John Reisman: [emphatically] Don't give me that! I said what do you think?
Sergeant Clyde Bowren: I think the first chance one of those lovers gets, he's going to shoot the Major right in the head... sir.
The opening credits don't occur until 10 minutes into the film. While it is common nowadays for films to have a pre-credits sequence, it was considered innovative in 1967.
As film production ran over-schedule, Frank Sinatra advised 'Trini López' to quit so that his recording career wouldn't lose it's momentum or popularity. So Lopez took Sinatra's advice and quit. (Or, according to another account, his agent unwisely demanded more money, which Robert Aldrich refused to grant. Originally, Lopez's character, Jimminez, was supposed to be one of the heroes. He was to be the one to ignite all of the dynamite that would destroy the entire chateau. But with Lopez's abrupt departure, his character was written off as being killed during the parachute jump.
Robert Aldrich was told that he could be in line for an Oscar as Best Director for the film if he cut out the scene of Jim Brown dropping hand grenades into the bomb shelter. The scene was considered controversial because the Germans (including women) were locked inside the bunker and had no chance to survive. Aldrich considered it but elected to leave the scene in to show that "war is hell".
Production on the film ran for so long that Jim Brown was in danger of missing training camp for the up-coming 1967-68 football season. As training camp and the NFL season approached, the NFL threatened to fine and suspend Brown if he did not leave filming and report to camp immediately. Not one to take threats, Brown simply held a press conference to announce his retirement from football. At the time of his retirement, Brown was considered to be one of the best in the game and even today is considered to be one of the NFL's all-time greats.
Stars from this movie George Kennedy, Clint Walker, Ernest Borgnine and Jim Brown were reunited to play the voices of the soldiers some thirty-one years later in Small Soldiers.
"The Dirty Dozen" author E.M. Nathanson may have gotten the idea for the title (if not the plot) of his best-selling novel from a real-life group of World War II 101st Airborne Division paratroopers nicknamed "The Filthy Thirteen." These men, demolitionists in Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st, supposedly earned their nickname by not bathing or shaving for a long period of time during training prior to the Normandy invasion. Members of The Filthy Thirteen can be seen in famous vintage film footage and still photos, their faces painted with Indian "war paint," before boarding their planes for the D-Day jump.
Charles Bronson's character says his father was a coal miner from Silesia (Central Europe). In real life, this is true. Charles Bronson's real father was a coal miner from Lithuania.
The sub-machine guns being used by most of the Dirty Dozen are M3, .45 ACP Cal., sub-machine guns know as the "Grease Gun". It came into use late in the war replacing Thompson sub-machine guns. It was not a general issue weapon to infantryman, normally it was the crew weapon on a tank. Many "found" their way to the frontline troops. This earlier model weapon had a charging lever on the side. Later models (M3A1) were charged by simply pulling back on the bolt by inserting your finger into a recess in the bolt. The M3A1 wire stock included a tab to help load magazines, the ends threaded to accept a cleaning brush to clean the barrel and was used as a wrench to unscrew the barrel for disassembly. The weapon, only manufactured during WWII by General Motors Headlight division, at a cost about $20 vs. the Thompsons at a few $100 each.
The scene where one of the dozen pretends to be a general inspecting Robert Ryan's troops was initially written for Clint Walker's character. However, Walker was uncomfortable with this scene, so Robert Aldrich decided to use Donald Sutherland instead. The scene was directly responsible for Sutherland being cast in MASH, which made him an international star.
John Wayne was first offered the part of Maj. John Reisman, but he declined and went on to star in and direct another war film (The Green Berets). The part was then offered to Lee Marvin, who took it. Wayne's refusal was due to his disapproval of the original script where Reisman has a brief affair with a married woman whose husband is fighting overseas. Lee Marvin (Marines), Telly Savalas (Army), Charles Bronson (Army), Ernest Borgnine (Navy) and Clint Walker (Merchant Marine) all served in World War II.Donald Sutherland was a late casting decision, replacing an actor who dropped out because he thought the role was beneath him. Jack Palance turned down the Telly Savalas role because he disapproved of the character's racist overtones. - DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsLee MarvinErnest BorgnineKen WahlDuring WW2, American General Worden orders Major Reisman to pick 12 soldiers from the military prison for the dangerous mission of killing a Nazi General.Also starring: Sonny Landham, Richard Jaeckel, Wolf Kahler, Gavan O'Herlihy, Ricco Ross,
Maj. John Reisman: For those of you who forgot, my name is Reisman. You have all volunteered for a mission that gives you three ways to go. You can foul up during training, you can foul up in action, in which case I will blow your brains out, or you can do as you're told. In which case you may just get by. This is your new home. Do not try to escape. There will be no excuse, no appeal. Any attempt by one of you and you will all be sent directly back to prison for execution of sentence. You are therefore dependent upon each other. Any one of you try anything smart, and you all get it right in the neck. Am I clear?
The operation count-off is as follows: One: Sixkiller and Otto hop in the freight, the rest of us in position and wait; Two: The choo-choo stops for a brew, lowers the spout and Sanders comes out; Three: The engineer has life to fear, Otto and Sanders have their guns in the air; Four: The Major and Dregors are at the front door, Valentine and Le Clair support the rear; Five: We catch the krauts by surprise, we do our job and get out alive; Six: The Germans are caught in a bad fix; Seven: Demolition of the car by grenades, Baxley and Wells blow them to hell; Eight: The General and the devil keep their date, Wright and Anderson makes sure they're dead - everyone gets a bullet in the head; Nine: We board the train and take out the line; Ten: Kilometers more for The Dirty Dozen; Eleven: We turn the train over to our French friends - we're flown out and home again; Sixkiller only: And the army lets us out of the pen
As they're departing for training camp, Maj. Reisman (Lee Marvin) asks MP Sgt. Bowren (Richard Jaeckel) "What do you think?" to which he replies "I think the first chance one of these guys gets, he'll shoot the Major in the back." That's the same exchange the two had in The Dirty Dozen.
Television movie debut for Lee Marvin. This is despite appearing in a number of television series episodes and the movie The Killers. According to the book, Movies Made for Television, The Killers was originally made for television but ended up being released theatrically because it was thought to be too violent for TV.
Ernest Borgnine is the only actor from the original The Dirty Dozen movie to appear in all four original "Dirty Dozen" movies [See: The Dirty Dozen ; The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission ; Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission].
This is the only movie sequel that Lee Marvin ever appeared in. His character Major John Reisman did not appear in the next two "Dirty Dozen" TV movie sequels, Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission and The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission. His character was replaced by Major Wright played by Telly Savalas. Savalas had appeared in the original The Dirty Dozen movie as Archer Maggott where his character was killed-off.
Lee Marvin reprises his role as Major Reisman in this tele-movie for the only ever time after the original The Dirty Dozen . While serving in the Marine Corps, Marvin became best friends with John Miara of Malden, MA. Miara became Marvin's model for the character of Major Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, and subsequently also, this tele-movie.
This is the first ever sequel to The Dirty Dozen and was made a staggering eighteen years after The Dirty Dozen. - DirectorGraeme CampbellStarsDelta BurkeRyan MerrimanVyto RuginisA divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her.Sally Cambridge: I know you know what time it is. Jack, Where have you been? Have you been at the mall all this time?
[Jack ignores her]
Sally Cambridge: Don't you walk away from me like that?
Jack Cambridge: Look Mom, I'm sorry I'm late. Now if you don't mind just leave me alone OK?
Sally Cambridge: Where's you're homework? I want to see it. Jack, I called Coach Young. I know he's benched you this week and next week because of your grades.
Sally Cambridge: What? Mom, I can't believe you called him! Look, I bombed a couple of English papers alright but I'm making it up.
Sally Cambridge: And what about Biology? *Yelling* This is completely unacceptable!
Jack Cambridge: *Yelling* Mom, I said I'm making it up!
Sally Cambridge: You lied to me. Jack, honey I...
Sally Cambridge: No, ju- *he brushes her off*
Sally Cambridge: We've always been able to talk to each other. Now whatever it is. If there's a problem at school or your feeling a little bit sensitive about your skin...
Jack Cambridge: What about my skin huh?
Sally Cambridge: Nothing. I...
Jack Cambridge: *Yelling* Mom just get out of here alright? just get out of here! *slams door and punches it* - DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsChristian SlaterTammy LaurenBrian BloomThe story of murder among a trio of teenagers after a boy breaks up with a girl and she runs into the arms of his vulnerable best friend.Co-starring: Scott Paulin, Amy O'Neill, Michael Flynn, Gary Bullock