The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Danzig trams figure extensively in the early stages of Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel ( The Tin Drum ).

Günter Grass's The Tin Drum ( 1959 ).

Dwarfism is depicted in many books, films, and TV series such as Willow, Austin Powers, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, A Son of the Circus, Little People Big World, The Little Couple, Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire, Seinfeld, In Bruges, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, Game of Thrones ( TV series ), and the film The Station Agent.

Schmeling's role as a paratrooper in WWII is mentioned in Gunter Grass's famous 1959 novel " The Tin Drum "

Skat features prominently in Günter Grass's novel The Tin Drum and leads a trail connecting the plot.

After leaving Hansa-Ariola, the band signed with Virgin Records who released their last studio albums, Gentlemen Take Polaroids ( 1980 ) and Tin Drum ( 1981 ).

Three of the singles from the Tin Drum album also peaked in the UK Top 40, with its unconventional single " Ghosts " reaching No. 5, becoming Japan's biggest domestic hit.

The Tin Drum album itself peaked just outside the UK Top 10, and was the band's first record to be certified by the BPI, being awarded a Silver disc within a month of release, and reaching Gold status within four months.

In 2011, thirty years after its release, Tin Drum was awarded BBC Radio 6 Music's ' Goldie ' award posthumously for the best album of 1981.

With personality conflicts leading to rising tensions within the band, Tin Drum was to be the band's final studio album.

* Günter Grass-The Tin Drum

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The grim realities of modern combat, and the nature of mechanized society insured that the anti-war viewpoint found presentation in Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five and The Tin Drum.

* Tin Drum ( 1981 )

Grass wrote the following passage, somewhat metaphorically, in his famous novel The Tin Drum:

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d ' or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff's next film was the most successful and ambitious of his career, and perhaps the most important film of post-war Germany: The Tin Drum, released in 1979.

Schlöndorff had been a great admirer of Wilder for many years and sought his advice during the making of The Tin Drum

Schlöndorff returned to Germany in 1996 to make The Ogre, his most well regarded feature film since The Tin Drum.

Based on a novel by Michel Tournier and starring John Malkovich as the titular Abel Tiffauges, the film revisited many of the themes and time period of The Tin Drum.

On the audio commentary for The Tin Drum, Schlöndorff said that he had wanted to film a sequel to The Tin Drum, as the film was based only on the first two thirds of the novel.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

Their influence extends from independent acts like Tin Omen, to industrial metal stars Nine Inch Nails, who opened for Skinny Puppy for a short time on their 1988 North American tour.

Lassie is one of only three animals ( and one of very few fictional characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny ) to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — the others being silent-film stars Rin Tin Tin and Strongheart.

Rin Tin Tin guest stars included veteran Western film star and singer Roscoe Ates and Dean Fredericks, later Steve Canyon, guest starred in six episodes.

One of the new company's first big stars would be the dog Rin Tin Tin.

AllMusic gave Ben Folds Five 4 out of 5 stars, calling it " a potent, and extremely fun, collection of postmodern rock ditties that comes off as a pleasantly workable combination of Tin Pan Alley showmanship, Todd Rundgren-style power pop, and myriad alt-rock sensibilities.

Other notable guest stars included James Brown ( of Leonard's previous show, " Rin Tin Tin ," multiple times and the actual Rin Tin Tin dog once with a guest starring credit as a guide dog in " Absence of Tears "), James Caan, Robert Duvall, Dorothy Malone, George Kennedy, Joey Heatherton, Ben Johnson, E. G.

It is an extant film and stars canine actor Rin Tin Tin

The guest stars are Bob Widmer as the Tin Man, Tara Strong as Meg's singing voice, and Gene Simmons as himself and an anonymous prisoner.

The stage version starred David C. Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame.

A fictionalized account of Lee Duncan finding and raising Rin Tin Tin is a major part of the novel Sunnyside by Glen David Gold

* Jasen, David A. Tin Pan Alley: The Composers, the Songs, the Performers and Their Times.

* David Bowie-" Absolute Beginners ", " Blue Jean ", " Day-In Day-Out ", " Tin Machine " ( 10 minute promo video shown in cinemas before the 1989 film " Lenny Live and unleashed ")

The Marvelous Land of Oz was dedicated to David C. Montgomery and Fred Stone, the comedians " whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land ..." This is referred to in the acknowledgements for Son of a Witch where Gregory Maguire acknowledges all of the cast of the stage musical, especially Joel Grey, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel.

( Baum had wanted Fred Stone and David Montgomery to reprise their roles as the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman for the second show, but the two refused, fearing typecasting, and the characters were omitted completely form the play.

Following a tour with Lyle Lovett, Jones enlisted David Was to helm her idiosyncratic album of covers, Pop Pop, ranging from jazz and blues standards to Tin Pan Alley to Jimi Hendrix's " Up from the Skies ".

David C. Montgomery played the Tin Woodman, Niccolo Chopper ( who played the piccolo ), opposite Fred Stone as the Scarecrow, and the team became headliners.

In the commercials, the Tin Man ( played by Australian actor David Somerville ) is pursued by groups of children due to the fact that an oversized Beef Ravioli can label has been affixed to the back of his cylindrical torso ( which he doesn't notice until the midpoint of the first commercial ); thus, he appears to be a very large, mobile can of ravioli.

The role of Tik-Tok was a straight man role similar to that of David C. Montgomery's Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz.

Some of his better known artists include Fleetwood Mac ( Penguin in 1973 ), Bryan Ferry ( In Your Mind in 1977 ), Penguin Cafe Orchestra, XTC ( Mummer in 1983 ), Japan ( Tin Drum in 1981 ), David Sylvian ( Brilliant Trees in 1984, Gone to Earth in 1986, Secrets of the Beehive in 1987 ), Clannad, TM Network, Scary Thieves ( Scary Thieves in 1984 ), as well as Frank Zappa ( Joe's Garage ) amongst others.

During the early 1970s, Crouch moved from California to New York City, where he shared a loft with tenor saxophonist David Murray above an East Village club called the Tin Palace.

In addition, author Günter Grass had already asked him to play in a film adaptation of his novel, The Tin Drum, a role that ultimately went to the young David Bennent after Dunn's death.

* The Tin Drum ( 1979, by Volker Schlöndorff ), with Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach.

* Tin Woodman ( novel ), a short sci-fi book written by Dennis Bailey and David Bischoff in 1979

David Bowie's memories of the Sales ' contribution to the recording led him to invite the pair to join Tin Machine in the late 1980s.

Tin Machine was a hard rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by singer David Bowie.

" Tony Sales and Hunt Sales, members of Tin Machine, had performed with David Bowie in support of Iggy Pop in the late seventies.

* 2006 Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel The Tin Men

Performers who have played the venue include The Who, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Oasis, The Smiths, Iron Maiden, David Bowie, Tin Machine, Queen, Lily Allen, James Blunt and Take That.

Craven's film credits include Meatballs, Happy Birthday to Me, Tin Men, Blue Steel, Jacob's Ladder, K2, A Few Good Men, Indian Summer, Crimson Tide, The Juror, Paulie, Dragonfly, The Life of David Gale, Timeline, The Clearing, Assault on Precinct 13, Déjà Vu and Disturbia.