The film was adapted by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman from author Forrest Carter's 1973 novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales ( republished, as shown in the movie's opening credits, as Gone to Texas ).

All that is seen of him are his hair and his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes.

Examples include Princess Leia's acquisition of the Death Star schematics ; Luke Skywalker using his binoculars to observe the movie's opening battle and trying to convince his friends at Tosche Station of what he saw ; a skyhopper race that results in Luke's vehicle being damaged ( seen in the movie in the background of his Tatooine garage ); Han Solo's encounter with Jabba the Hutt's agent, " Heater "; Vader's interrogation of Princess Leia ; and Admiral Motti's attempts to convince Grand Moff Tarkin to leverage the Death Star as a political tool.

During the opening credits ( or in some cases, on the copyright screen immediately following the ending credits ) of an Eirin-approved film, the Eirin logo is displayed prominently underneath the movie's title.

The bulk of the movie's running time is consumed in the opening and closing credits — all for Newland — except for " Marv Newland produced by Mr. & Mrs. Newland ", Miss Caselotti as the studio owner, and the city of Tokyo " for their help in obtaining Godzilla for this film.

At the time of its release, the movie's opening credits sequence featured the longest computer graphics shot that had ever appeared in a film.

A 13-second clip would be played after Letterman threw his blue index cards through the " glass " window behind his desk, and was often combined with a video clip of the turkey buzzard soaring in the sky during the movie's opening sequence.

The movie's opening theme song is " Night Shift " by Quarterflash.

Real-life sportswriters Allan Malamud, Doug Krikorian, and Jeff Fellenzer and boxing publicist Bill Caplan appear in the movie's opening and closing scenes at a Santa Barbara bar as Stump's friends and fellow scribes.

The Escaflowne OST was released on July 5, 2000 and contains twenty-six tracks, including the movie's full opening and ending themes.

The ' correct ' Monty Python movie's opening credits play properly from there.

A World War II veteran, accompanied by his family, makes his way to the grave of Captain John Miller ( played by Tom Hanks ) and segues into the movie's opening battle sequence, the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach.

In the third movie's opening scenes, Dr.

Honey first resists and shoots scenes with no emotion but when Cecil demands better results, Honey gives an over the top performance in the movie's opening scene which pleases him.

* Day & Night ( 2010 ), an animated short film created by Pixar and which was shown along with Toy Story 3 during the movie's opening in the U. S., featured an excerpt from one of Dyer's lectures.

The Colonial fleet dispatched to escort the Quorum consisted of the President's Battlestar, Atlantia, and four others, the Galactica, Pacifica, Acropolis, and Triton ( the opening movie's novelization lists another, the Solaria ).

She also claims credit for the movie's opening sequence, which consists of shots of a miniskirt-clad Kodar walking down streets while rubbernecking male admirers ( unaware that they are being filmed ) stop and openly stare.

Bobby is only seen in the movie's opening scenes when he and Eddie are caught cheating at a high stakes poker game.

She is not billed in the opening credits and is listed last in the movie's closing credits.

However Marine Jahan's role was not listed on the movie's opening or ending credits, and because the movie was a huge hit by the time the truth had come out, some felt deceived to find out it was neither Beals ' body nor her dancing.

Grant and Doreen wanders into the desert until picked up by the oil surveyor from the movie's opening scenes.

He collaborated with Billy Corgan on the soundtrack to the movie Spun, singing the movie's opening song, a cover of Iron Maiden " s " Number of the Beast ".

At the movie's end, Turaga Vakama picked up the six stones used in the opening and follows Takanuva, Jaller and Hahli to the light.

But there is another, deeper problem with their relationship, one that is hinted at in the prologue of the movie as the opening credits roll and then explained near the movie's end.

The movie's website states that "‘ Syriana ’ is a real term used by Washington think-tanks to describe a hypothetical reshaping of the Middle East.

When the movie's star, Al Jolson, sings, however, the film shifts to sound recorded on the set, including both his musical performances and two scenes with ad-libbed speech — one of Jolson's character, Jakie Rabinowitz ( Jack Robin ), addressing a cabaret audience ; the other an exchange between him and his mother.

When describing Witherspoon's role in the movie, The Christian Science Monitor concluded, " She is not the movie's main attraction, she is its only attraction.

When the Back to the Future film came out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to Bob Gale, one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing the car in the film.

USA Today gave the film three out of four stars and Mike Clark wrote, " When a movie's premise repels all rational analysis, speed is the make-or-break component.

When a movie's sound and picture are out of synchronization, this is known as lip flap.

When the studio refused to hire Texas Guinan, the performer upon whom one of the movie's characters was based, because of her age, Raft advocated for the casting of his friend, Mae West, in a supporting role in his first film as leading man, Night After Night ( 1932 ), which launched her movie career.

) When the movie was in production, Born to Be Wild was used simply as a placeholder, since Peter Fonda had wanted Crosby, Stills and Nash to do the movie's soundtrack.

It was directed by John Sturges and featuring a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris, and the movie's supporting cast included Rhonda Fleming, John Ireland, Jo Van Fleet, Martin Milner, Dennis Hopper, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, DeForest Kelley, Earl Holliman and Charles Herbert.

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".

Chaplin only had a supporting role, but the movie's success meant it was pivotal in advancing his career.

The movie's title was changed after shooting to tie it to Plato's famous past, but was not connected in any way to the sitcom other than through her involvement.

In Germany, the movie's release was hindered by public authorities for almost 10 years.

The first article about the movie's storyline was published in a 1977 issue of " Japanese Giants " ( published by Brad Boyle ) and was written by Richard H. Campbell, creator of The Godzilla Fan News Letter.

( Two Remans appear in the background in an episode of Star Trek Enterprise which, while set two hundred years before the events of Star Trek: Nemesis, was filmed after the movie's publication.

Dudeism, an online religion devoted largely to spreading the philosophy and lifestyle of the movie's main character was founded in 2005.

The centerpiece of this viewpoint was that Walter Sobchak is " a neocon ," citing the movie's references to then President George H. W. Bush and the first Gulf War.

The movie's soundtrack album was released by Columbia Records in July 1989.

The scandal was kept secret with the aid of the movie's studio, Warner Bros.

By April 1981, a revised script was completed that moved the character's death to the movie's final act.

Nielsen was the movie's linchpin, his deadpan delivery contrasting with the continual absurdity surrounding him.

The movie's soundtrack is credited for starting the career of pop singer Christina Aguilera, whose first song to be released in the U. S. was her rendition of " Reflection ", the first single from the Mulan soundtrack.

Stef Hutchinson wrote the 24-page comic Day of the Dead: Desertion, which was exclusively released to celebrate the movie's 25th anniversary and shows the origins of Bub, before becoming a Zombie.

Though the success of The Jazz Singer was due largely to Jolson, already established as one of America's biggest music stars, and its limited use of synchronized sound hardly qualified it as an innovative sound film ( let alone the " first "), the movie's profits were proof enough to the industry that the technology was worth investing in.

The movie's Oscar-nominated score was composed by Frank DeVol.

In addition, the movie's poster was ranked as # 19 of " The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever " by Premiere.

* The Coasters ' song Poison Ivy was used for the Batman and Robin movie's original soundtrack in 1997, as a cover by Me ' Shell NdegéOcello.

Like the movie's Hickory High School, Milan was a very small high school in a rural, southern Indiana town.