Catching Things In Familiar Movies

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 5:50pm

Did you ever watch a favorite movie & catch something you never saw before

Watched Magnum Force for the 100 th time the other night ( as nothing else on ) & I noticed the cop in the shootout scene looked familiar

It was Will Hutchins in an uncredited role . He was the old Sugarfoot in the TV series of the same name

Anyone else have a similar experience

[Dark_Angel]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 5:54pm

Yes. Many times. I was watching "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and I noticed in Columbia's bedroom, propped up against a wall was the soundtrack to that other 20th Century-Fox cult classic, "Beyond The Valley of the Dolls".

[lildogs]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 5:55pm

The plot of the novel in FLOWER OF MY SECRET is also the plot to VOLVER.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 6:04pm

I am still looking for Elizabeth Taylor as an extra in Quo Vadis

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 8:04pm

KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY and FAR FROM HEAVEN both share the same subplot.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 8:11pm

In Rent, during the "I'll Cover You" scene, there is an extra who is bopping his head to the music.

[Mistress_Spouzic]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 8:21pm

I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar with Glenn Carter, and noticed one of the ensemble members looks like theyre giving jesus the finger during the scene where theyre begging him to heal them.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:36pm

I always look for the goofs in movies like

Rubber Spears held by the Romans in King Of Kings
Jesus wearing white loafers carrying his cross . I saw a picture of this in the souvenir book I still have
Everything in Plan 9 From Outer Space

[Dark_Angel]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 12:28am

During the last segment of "Steppin' To The Bad Side", when the Dreamettes start clapping and singing: "Step, Step to the Bad Side" Jennifer Hudson moves in the wrong direction.

[misschung]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 8:54am

haha, Mean Girls style

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:44am

In Anchors Aweigh, when the cops bring in Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra to the police station to try to get tiny, little Dean Stockwell to go home, Sinatra cracks up and starts looking around at the other actors, but then tries to go back to serious again. I love seeing him break character.

[wexy]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:55am

I don't remember which movie it was but hanging on the wall was the same embroidered kangaroo that my mother made when I was a kid.

In "Little Miss Sunshine," they're eating dinner with mismatched glasses and someone has an old Mayor McCheese glass that I still have.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 10:55am

There are a million of them from "The Wizard of Oz."

One that I didn't notice until just a few years ago...

The famous shot of Dorothy (in black & white) opening her front door to walk out into the Technicolor Munchkinland actually uses TWO actresses. The first isn't Judy Garland, it's her stand-in Bobbie Koshay, wearing a B&W (actually sepia tone) version of the blue-checked dress, a black wig, and sepia/grey makeup on her arms. She's carrying Toto as she runs to the door, and opens it. She steps back out of the shot as she pulls the door open. Off-Camera, she hands the dog to Judy Garland, who is in her Technicolor version of the same outfit, and she walks through the front door in full color! One shot, one dog, two Dorothys (one B&W and one color). That's why the shot is so effective, and the switch to color gets a "gasp" from the audience (when it was in a movie theatre). It's actually more stage theatrics than special effects. A simple trick of using a double. But it works!

And it was something I didn't realize until about 10 years ago, when I actually saw the B&W (sepia tone) dress on display. It was a costume used for that one shot in the film only.

Updated On: 3/7/07 at 10:55 AM

[lildogs]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 2:36pm

I always like watching the out of step homo in "Is There Anyone Here for Love?" in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES too...

I also used to argue with my brother over whether or not Luke yelled "Carrie!" instead of "Leia!" when he comes back after blowing up the Death Star in STAR WARS (which I always have to pronounce like Greer Garson at the Oscars)

[worrell4077]

Posted: 3/7/07 at 3:33pm

In High Anxiety, there is a scene where Mel Brooks goes into a bathroom with some guy, and if you look up you can see the boom mike.

In Ghostbusters II, when Vigo throws back the beams at the guys or whatever that was, if you look closely you can see Harold Ramis going off in a different direction than the others, but then in the next shot, they fall right next to each other.

In the Ghostbusters II montages, the one after they go back in business and at the end of the movie during the credits, several shots were used in deleted scenes such as the shot of Slimer towards the end of the credits, that was part of a scene where Louis was trying to catch Slimer with a proton pack and had a maginfying glass attached to the back of his head or something like that.

Allegedly but I can't find him, Tim Burton has a cameo in Batman as one of The Joker's goons in the musuem scene.

In Batman Returns, Bob Kane's wife(I forget her name, I think it's Elizabeth Sanders) has a cameo in the scene after The Penguin saves the mayor's baby. She says "He like the frog that became a prince." She also went on to play Gossip Gerty in the 3rd and 4th Batman movies.

I found this out on the Ghostbusters commentary, the scene where Venkman meets Dana where he pops up, if you listen carefully, you hear a click on the door that Murray jumps over. That sound is his footing hitting the door. There is also a scene in the movie during the montage after they catch Slimer where they are running in Rockefeller Plaza, they were being chased by security cause apparently you can't film there or something. I don't think that exists anymore but that what I heard on the commentary.

During the riot scene in Batman Returns, Making Christmas from NBC can be heard.

The Blues Brothers make a cameo in Beetlejuice and so does Jack Skellington.