Mysteriously, the dodo vanishes during the final battle in the film.

Buster Keaton made his final film appearance in the role of Erronius.

* In the film Caddyshack, Carl Spackler, played by Bill Murray, mumbles the song under his breath while he is connecting the wires to the plunger as he prepares for his final battle with his gopher nemesis.

Shortly after the publication of his memoirs, Chaplin began work on what would be his final completed film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), based on a script he had written for Paulette Goddard in the 1930s.

The ratio between shot footage and footage forming the final edited film would often be high, for example 53 takes per a finished take in The Kid.

Elwes returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D ( 2010 ), the seventh and final film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

Her final feature, the comedy film With Six You Get Eggroll, was released in 1968.

Though Janssen's scenes were cut from the final release, he also appeared as a journalist in the film Inchon, which he accepted to work with Laurence Olivier who played General Douglas MacArthur.

' Cut ' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.

Director's cuts generally remain unreleased to the public because, as far as film is concerned, with most film studios the director does not have a final cut privilege.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

" The Dark Knight Rises is the first film to use the new logo as seen in the final trailer.

Lomax's film won awards worldwide in the late 1960s for recording the final weeks of Campbell's life.

This was Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973.

Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.

Although ridiculed for making the film, Coppola has defended it, saying he is not ashamed of the final cut of the movie.

The negative cutter referred to this list while processing the negative, splitting the shots into rolls, which were then contact printed to produce the final film print or answer print.

An editor's cut ( sometimes referred to as the " Assembly edit " or " Rough cut ") is normally the first pass of what the final film will be when it reaches picture lock.

Because it is the first pass, the editor's cut might be longer than the final film.

This was done by exposing the film one frame at a time, and moving the letters a little bit towards their final position between each exposure.

Yasujirō Ozu made his final film, An Autumn Afternoon, in 1962.

Mikio Naruse directed the wide screen melodrama When a Woman Ascends the Stairs in 1960 ; his final film was 1967's Scattered Clouds.

Highlights of the strip's final decades include " Boomchik " ( 1961 ), in which America's international prestige is saved by Mammy Yokum, " Daisy Mae Steps Out " ( 1966 ), a female-empowering tale of Daisy's brazenly audacious “ homewrecker gland ," " The Lips of Marcia Perkins " ( 1967 ), a satirical, thinly-veiled commentary on venereal disease and public health warnings, " Ignoble Savages " ( 1968 ), in which the Mob takes over Harvard, and " Corporal Crock " ( 1973 ), in which Bullmoose reveals his reactionary cartoon role model, in a tale of obsession and the fanatical world of comic book collecting.

The Christ, as both God and Man, is seen in Christian theology as fulfilling this role in the redemption of man and of the earth and in the final judgment against evil.

During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.

Elwes had a recurring role in the final season ( from 2001 to 2002 ) of The X-Files as FBI Assistant Director Brad Follmer.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

In 1945, it was made available to farmers as an agricultural insecticide, and it played a minor role in the final elimination of malaria in Europe and North America.

Austria played a major role in the final defeat of France — in recognition of this, Francis, represented by Clemens von Metternich, presided over the Congress of Vienna, helping to form the Concert of Europe and the Holy Alliance, ushering in an era of conservatism in Europe.

In 1964 Hawks made his final comedy, Man's Favorite Sport ?, which starred Rock Hudson ( since Cary Grant felt he was too old for the role ) and Paula Prentiss.

He published his final work The Aesthetic Dimension in 1979 on the role of high art in the process of what he termed " emancipation " from bourgeois society.

The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster ( his final gangster role was in The Big Shot in 1942 ).

On these trips, he sought to engage with Canadians through various ceremonies and events ; he was keenly interested in his role as Chief Scout of Canada, and, in preparation for his kicking of the opening ball in the 1946 Grey Cup final, practised frequently on the grounds of the royal and viceroyal residence, Rideau Hall.

Produced at a cost of almost $ 9 million with a high-profile cast including John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne and, in his final role, Robert Mitchum, the film marked a significant departure for the director from his previous features.

The overriding message of violence inevitably leading to more violence attracted Cagney to the role of an Irish Republican Army commander, and resulted in what some critics would regard as the finest performance of his final years.

Recently, a lighthouse played a pivotal role in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, and was featured in the final shot of the film.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

She went on to direct the Bergman-penned Faithless and in 2003 reprised her role from Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband, Bergman's final telemovie.

Brando was slated to reprise his role as Vito Corleone for the final scene of The Godfather Part II in 1974.

During the final century of the Merovingian rule, the dynasty was increasingly pushed into a ceremonial role.

The institution of one-party rule, the establishment of order at the expense of political liberty, and the acceptance of the army's role of final political arbiter created the conditions that encouraged the emergence of the Stroessner regime.

In his final years, Trudeau commanded broad respect in Canada, but was regarded with suspicion in Quebec for his role in the 1982 constitutional deal which was seen as having excluded that province, while dislike for him remained commonplace in western Canada.

Due to the legitimate role that referees play in wrestling of serving as liaison between the bookers backstage and the wrestlers in the ring ( the role of being a final arbitrator is merely kayfabe ), the referee is present, even in matches that do not at first glance appear to require a referee ( such as a ladder match, as it is no holds barred, and the criteria for victory could theoretically be assessed from afar ).