Brent Spiner portrays the android Data ; rumors before the film's release suggested that since Data's skin had been largely removed at the end of the story, it would allow another actor to assume the role.

The actor went into his own closet with the film's wardrobe person and picked out clothes that he had thought the Dude might wear.

The film's success introduced James Dean to the world and established him as a popular actor.

* Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.

After the film's debut, Beery declared Cooper was a " great kid " but that he would not work with the child actor again, a promise he broke within the year.

In 1938, Ford gave Wayne a copy of the film's script by Nichols with a request to recommend an actor to play the Ringo Kid.

The director and the actor had differing views as to how the role should be played, and they clashed throughout the film's production, while Kinski's tantrums terrorized both the crew and the local natives who assisted the production.

With Leonard Nimoy the film's executive producer, the 71-year old Kelley was paid US $ 1 million for the role, assuring a comfortable retirement for the veteran actor.

Hawke later described the opportunities he was offered as a result of the film's success as critical to his decision to continue acting: " I didn't want to be an actor and I went back to college.

The film's final scene is set fourteen years later ( approximately 1999 ): the mature Billy ( dancer / actor Adam Cooper ) takes the stage to perform the lead in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, as Jackie, Tony, and Michael watch in the audience.

When the film's budget was not large enough for the $ 1 million needed to complete the sequence, lead actor Sylvester Stallone agreed to cut his salary by the same amount.

The film's Producer is Tim Major, who has worked on ' The Scar Crow ', ' Not Alone ' and ' Kill Keith ' and is also a very successful Film and TV actor in his own right.

It is left to the film's other main actor, Gustav von Wangenheim ( Eddie Izzard ) to explain to them that the mysterious lead is apparently an obscure German theater performer named Max Schreck ( Willem Dafoe ), who, according to Murnau, is a highly professional character actor.

The film's producer, Albin Grau ( Udo Kier ) however, suspects that Schreck is not really a German theater actor, and is confused when Murnau tells him that he in fact found Schreck in the old castle.

Veteran Irish actor Dan O ' Herlihy was cast as Conal Cochran, the owner of Silver Shamrock and the witch from the film's title ( a 3000-year-old demon in Kneale's original script ).

Also by arrangement with Dove, ISIS Publishing Ltd produced a numbered exclusive edition signed by Douglas Adams ( ISBN 1-85695-028-X ) in 1994. To tie-in with the 2005 film, actor Stephen Fry, the film's voice of the Guide, recorded a second unabridged edition ( ISBN 0-7393-2220-6 ).

He also did the skydiving scenes himself and the film's aerial jump instructor Jim Wallace found that the actor was a natural and took to it right away.

The film's director Adrian Lyne used a famous body horror technique in which an actor is recorded waving his head around at a low frame rate, resulting in horrific fast motion when played back.

The film's crew and cast included Nick Castle, cinematographer ; John Carpenter, film editor and original music ; James Rokos, director ; Johnny Crawford, lead actor ; and Kristin Nelson, lead actress.

The Washington Post criticised the film's focus on Morrissey's character and called the actor " overmatched by Stone " and " a sad sack ", and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called him " a charisma-challenged non-entity ".

Before the film's release, rumors stated that actor Hugh Jackman identified the character as Emma Frost in the film's trailer at Comic-Con 2008, though no such identification was made.

The film's producers wanted a known actor to play the part but kept coming back to Butler's screen tests and decided he was their man.

Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

Jordan also believed the film's success was a result of the film's British / Irish political issues being either lesser-known or completely unknown to American audiences, who thus flocked to the film for what Jordan called " the sexual politics.

One of the film's technical advisors / horse wranglers in Jordan was a descendant of Auda abu Tayi.

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

Moore requested that someone involved with the film's production company — and DC Comics parent company — Warner Bros. officially retract the comments and / or apologise.

A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by Touchstone Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures, and the Kennedy / Marshall Company.

In François Truffaut's book-length interview, Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), Hitchcock said that MGM wanted North by Northwest cut by 15 minutes so the film's length would run under two hours.

This segment was later edited for the film's Gold Classic Collection VHS / DVD release to remove one scene in which Goofy is smoking a cigarette.

The day before the film's real-life premiere in San Francisco, the movie had its fictional opening in Wistful Vista during that week's radio episode, and Bergen and McCarthy made a guest appearance (" Premiere of Look Who's Laughing " ( 11 / 11 / 41 )).

Other features include: " The Surprise Attack ", a multi-angle breakdown of the film's most exciting sequence ( 30 minutes ), which includes multiple video tracks ( such as previsualization and final edit ) and commentaries from veterans / Also included is the " Pearl Harbor Historic Timeline ", a set-top interactive feature produced by documentarian Charles Kiselyak ( 68 minutes ).

The film's average critic score on Metacritic is 63 / 100.

The film's writer / director as well as members of the cast and crew are residents of the township.

According to writer / director Sidney J. Furie, the film's working title was Junior Eagle.

The shot of the exploding house at the end of the Grimaldi sequence was originally to be rotoscoped, but as the film's release date had been moved up from October / November to August 7, 1981, a lack of time prevented this.

The authors lampooned the film's surrealistic style and quoted numerous critics who found it to be pretentious and / or incomprehensible.

Scores are written by one or more composers, under the guidance of, or in collaboration with the film's director and / or producer, and are then usually performed by an ensemble of musicians – most often comprising an orchestra or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – and recorded by a sound engineer.

* Hilary Duff as Elizabeth " Lizzie " Brooke McGuire, the film's main protagonist / Isabella Parigi, Paolo's ex-girlfriend and ex-singing partner

The second was the 1981 fantasy / adventure film Clash of the Titans, and the third was that film's 2010 remake Clash of the Titans, which was followed by a sequel called Wrath of the Titans in 2012.

It landed a notable third credit in Avildsen's Best Picture-winning Rocky ( 1976 ), where it was an integral part of the film's Philadelphia street jogging / training sequences and the run up the Art Museum's flight of stairs, as well as the fight scenes ( where it can even be plainly seen in operation at the ringside during some wide shots of the final fight ).

R / Greenberg Associates created the film's optical effects, including the alien's ability to become invisible, its thermal vision point-of-view, its glowing blood, and the electrical spark effects.