spaf@gatech.UUCP (06/14/83)
I recently saw "Evilspeak" for the second or third time (what a truly awful movie!) and realized that it had some of the most interesting credits I have seen in a long time. So, without further ado, I'd like to solicit people's favorite movie credits. Here are some of mine: >From Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Moose correographed by.... >From Evilspeak: Stunt Demon -- (somebody..I missed the name) Mirrored contact lenses by Dr. Horace K. Greenspoon Other candidates? -- "The soapbox of Gene Spafford" Spaf @ GATech (CS Net) Spaf.GATech @ UDel-Relay (ARPA) School of ICS ...!{sb1, allegra}!gatech!spaf (uucp) Georgia Tech ...!duke!mcnc!msdc!gatech!spaf Atlanta, GA 30332
bch@unc.UUCP (06/14/83)
Let us not forget the Roach Wranglers in "Creepshow."
julian@osu-dbs.UUCP (06/15/83)
How about the credit for the breakfast cereal in Superman I.
oz@rlgvax.UUCP (06/16/83)
I am afraid that I am not going to do this complete justice but, here goes: In the movie 'AIRPLANE' there were two bits in the credits that I loved. One came after a long list of things most people don't pay attention to. Makeup by thusandsuch lighting by thisandthat GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens The other one, was the standard disclaimer at the end of the movie "This movie is a work of fiction, any simmilarity to anyone living or dead is purly coincidental, so there. So I paraphrased, OZ
stevea@uiucdcs.UUCP (06/16/83)
#R:gatech:-22700:uiucdcs:10700030:000:142 uiucdcs!stevea Jun 15 10:51:00 1983 How about "Airplane II: The Sequel" Best Boy....................... (don't recall the name) Worst Boy...................... Adolf Hitler
asente@decwrl.UUCP (06/16/83)
My favorite credit is in "Airplane," for "Tale of Two Cities" author...........Charles Dickens Of course "Tale of Two Cities" doesn't appear anywhere in the film! It also concludes the usual copyright notice at the end of the movies (...this movie may not be...without the permission...etc etc) with "So there!" -p
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (06/16/83)
In Airplane, if you stuck it out right to the end you got the usual message about: THIS FILM IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND ANY REPRODUCTION OR OTHER USE WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE PRODUCERS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY RESULTS IN CIVIL LIABILITY AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. SO THERE. The reason you stuck it out to the end, of course, was the guy (taxi driver?) who was still waiting for his passenger to come back after her had just run into the airport for a minute. (I believe that was the passenger who ended up flying the plane.) Incidentally, Airplane was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Also, Cannonball Run showed, as part of the credits, "bloopers" from the original takes (usually with the actors flubbing their lines). Dave Sherman Toronto
rcj@burl.UUCP (06/17/83)
Anyone recognize that guy in the taxi at the end of the movie "Airplane" still waiting for the hero of the film to come back? He was Howard Jarvis, the originator of Proposition 13 in California (the legislation that restructured California's tax system). No fooling, look at the credits if you ever see it again, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd sb1 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj
davido@tekid.UUCP (06/18/83)
I don't remember the movie, but it may have been Airplane II in which the following credit appeared. Key Grip thusandsuch - Gaffer thusandsuch > usual names for lighting crew Best Boy thusandsuch - Worst Boy Adolf Hitler
whm@arizona.UUCP (06/18/83)
American Werewolf (I think) has a line at the end that goes something like "Any resemblance to persons living, dead, or undead is entirely coincidental."
zzz@mit-eddi.UUCP (Mike Konopik) (06/19/83)
My all-time favorite was in the very same Monty Python, shortly after the "moose coreographed by...": Mooses' Noses Wiped By ....
ix710@sdccsu3.UUCP (06/20/83)
One of the most elaborate credits is from the classic movie Around the World in Eighty Days starring David Niven, and tons of other actors in cameo appearances. The credits consisted of a cartoon recreating the journey around the world using a clock to represent Phileas Fogg and a bicycle to represent Passpartout. During the cartoon version of the movie all the actors were identified by name. I believe Around the World has the longest credits of any film.
davew@tekecs.UUCP (06/20/83)
You mentioned the passenger waiting in the cab outside the airport for the driver to return. Most people probably don't know that he is Howard Jarvis, the Calif. tax activist responsible for Prop. 13, the 1% property tax limitation. Dave Williams Tektronix, Inc. ECS
pete@pegasus.UUCP (06/21/83)
Not really strange credits but a odd credit sequence. The second Muppet Movie ( the Great Muppet Caper, I think). Where the characters are commenting about the opening credits as they go by on the screen. (Questions asked such as who reads the credits ( asw: relatives), and what does A.S.C. stand for ( never answered).). Also HELP had a dedication at the end to Elias Howe inventor of the sewing machine.
fred@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/22/83)
At the end of ``An American Werewolf in London'': . . . Any similarity to persons living, dead or undead is purely coincidental . . . There was also a congratulatory message to Princess Diana for her marriage to Prince Charles, in the closing credits.
hytest@ssc-vax.UUCP (06/22/83)
While were on the subject of credits, how about the ending of "The List of Adrian Messanger"? For those of you not familiar, Sinatra, Lancaster, Curtis, ... all play multiple roles with masks and makeup and step through their various characters at the end. Truely delightful. Lee Carlson - Boeing, Seattle - ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!carlson
dje@5941ux.UUCP (06/22/83)
I'm not sure of this, but I think the abbreviation A.S.C. after a person's name in movie credits stands for American Society of Cinematographers.
rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) (06/24/83)
'Airplane!' had some really crazy credits at the end, but I don't remember what they were (I just remember most of us (at MIT, you know how we are) staying in the theater laughing our heads off.) --Randy rh@mit-eddie
mp@mit-eddi.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (06/28/83)
I think it was in "Taming of the Shrew" that they said something like "We wish to thank William Shakespeare, without whom we would have been at a loss for words" "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" had a few amusing credits, including an ad for a furniture store in Sunnyvale. In "The Greek Tycoon", they said "The characters in this film are fictitious and any resemblance..." I'll bet. Mark
stevea@uiucdcs.UUCP (06/29/83)
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uiucdcs!stevea Jun 28 12:29:00 1983
How about at the end of Octopussy, when the vicious killer with the saw blade
on the cable is refered to as "Thug with Yo-yo"?
Steve
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stevea.uiuc@Rand-Relaymcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP (07/11/83)
#R:sdccsu3:-75600:uiucdcs:10700033:000:157 uiucdcs!mcewan Jul 10 13:18:00 1983 Speaking of Octopussy and credit sequences, I think that Octopussy deserves a special award for the absolute WORST credit sequence for a james bond movie!
psal@micomvax.UUCP (08/16/83)
Two of the best credits I've ever seen ar in (on?) "The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". Buried in the opening credits is: "a special guest appearance by THE ROYAL SHAKESPERIAN TOMATOES" And at the end of the 'cast' list: "And every loony within five miles of San Diego County" -Thomas
turner@randvax.ARPA (09/03/83)
I liked the credit for a "Rat Wrangler" in FIRST BLOOD.
dje@5941ux.UUCP (09/13/83)
The political thriller "Z" (1970) starring Yves Montand, Irene Papas and
Jean-Louis Tritignant had a beautiful touch in its credits. In place of
the usual disclaimer that all similarities to real persons are coincidental,
they filled the screen with an "Intentional!" announcement. One of my
all-time favorites.
Dave Ellis / Bell Labs, Piscataway NJ
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...!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!houxf!5941ux!djebarmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (09/14/83)
I caught the end of "Young Doctors in Love" on cable a few nights ago, and the first closing credit said: There were no laser effects used in this film. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
levy@princeton.UUCP (09/15/83)
Another interesting part of the credits of the movie "Z", directed by Costa-Gavras, was a (necessarily incomplete) list of great contributions the Greek people has brought to mankind, including the Socratic Method, the Pythagorean Theorem, perhaps baklava and, at the end, the letter Z. That was the only direct reference to Greece in the film, although it was obvious all the time that the events depicted were based on those occurred there. The name of the film comes from the fact that, in Greek, the word pronounced "zee" (as the English name of the letter) means "he lives", and it refers of course to the guy who was assassinated. -- Silvio Levy
dollas@uiuccsb.UUCP (09/29/83)
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uiuccsb!dollas Sep 27 05:50:00 1983
If the list mentioned in the previous note refers to the end of the movie
comments, this list contains some things that were prohibited during the period
of dictatorship (1967-1974); baclava was never prohibited, nor was the
Pythagorean theorem... ...a good deal of other things were however
(incidentally I can't recall seeing baklava or the Pythagorean theorem in the
list).
Another two or three trivia about the movie. There is a historical error
in the end of the movie: the coup did not happen before the elections, but
several years later. Some of the people involved in the case were convicted
for some years (and now are free again). Also, the journalist who was one
of the most significant contributing factors in the case, "died" during the
dictatorship while he was interrogated (I have not confirmed this last piece
of information but in all likelihood it is correct).
Apostolos Dollas
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