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unusual facts about 1985 film



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The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America

Ann Jillian

In 1985 she played The Red Queen to Carol Channing's White Queen in an all-star television musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.

Avondale Mall

After Sears closed and before renovations began, some indoor and outdoor shopping mall scenes for the Chuck Norris movie "Invasion USA" were filmed here.

Charlotte Barker

Her television works included her debut in the 1985 film Frankie and Johnnie by Martin Campbell.

Dadeland Mall

The outer part of the mall, particularly the original main entrance, was featured in the 1985 Chuck Norris film Invasion U.S.A. The inside and outside of the mall was featured in the 1990 Alec Baldwin film Miami Blues.

Dwan Smith

She continued to make appearances in films such as Cop on the Beat, Brothers (opposite Bernie Casey), the ill-fated and critically panned The Concorde...Airport '79 and Hell Squad followed by her role of Dr. Irma Foster on the groundbreaking soap opera General Hospital, a role she played from 1987 to 1989.

Johannes Schmoelling

He was also a key performer during their prolific soundtrack years in the 1980s and has soundtracks to movies such as Thief, Risky Business, Firestarter and Legend to his credit.

Joseph Pilato

He is perhaps best known for his performance as the psychopathic Captain Rhodes in the 1985 film Day of the Dead.

Jungle Warriors

Though is not a well-known film, it stars -among other recognized names- Sybil Danning (a famous American B-movie actress), Dana Elcar (McGyver’s boss on the celebrated TV series) and Paul L. Smith (who appeared in movies like Midnight Express, Dune and Red Sonja).

Leighton House Museum

The house's pseudo-Islamic court has featured as a set in various film and television programs, such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Brazil, and an episode of the British television drama series Spooks, as well as the music video for the songs "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers and "Gold" by Spandau Ballet.

Made in Canada

The company's cash cows are two series, The Sword of Damacles (sic), a parody of mythological adventure series such as Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Beaver Creek, a parody of Canadian period dramas such as Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea.

Maggie Gray

She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Brazil and again in 2010 for her work in The Young Victoria.

Patricia Hamilton

Patricia Hamilton (born 1938) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known as "Rachel Lynde" in Anne of Green Gables, its sequels: Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story, and Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, and several Anne of Green Gables related films (such as Road to Avonlea).

Pennsylvania Route 741

The route's intersection with US 30 was briefly seen in the 1985 film Witness starring Harrison Ford.

Pipes of Peace

In 1993, Pipes of Peace was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series, with the previously unreleased "Twice in a Lifetime" (the title song for a 1985 film), his 1984 hit from the Rupert Bear project, "We All Stand Together", and "Simple as That", released in 1986 on an anti-heroin charity album – all as bonus tracks.

Robert Hambling

Hambling worked as an assistant editor on numerous feature films including Pink Floyd's The Wall (1982), Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), King David (1985), Steaming (1985), Link (1986) and Aliens (1986).

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco.

Sawtooth National Recreation Area

Clint Eastwood's 1985 film Pale Rider was filmed in the SNRA, mostly in the Boulder Mountains in the fall of 1984.
The opening credits scene was shot south of Stanley in front of the Sawtooth Mountains.

Sheila Gish

While filming That Uncertain Feeling for BBC2 in 1985, she met actor Denis Lawson, who was to become her second husband.

The Slow Empire

The several console terminals on the planet Goronos reminded Anji of that film done by the man who did Time Bandits and was originally going to be titled 1984 and a Half.

Tommy Dysart

His films included The Man from Snowy River (1982), Bliss (1985), Garbo (1992), and Flynn (1996).

Will Hare

Hare's other distinctive film credits include Black Oak Conspiracy (1977), The Electric Horseman (1979), Eyes of Fire (1983), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), The Aviator (1985) he also had a small appearance in the 1985 film, Back to the Future as Old Man Peabody.


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Al Christy

He appeared in episodes of Falcon Crest, The Twilight Zone, Knots Landing, and Punky Brewster, played Dr. Holmes in the 1985 film Stand Alone, and played one half of the third "documentary couple" in When Harry Met Sally from 1989.

Avner the Eccentric

He performed at Renaissance fairs and on stages, before playing the title role in the 1985 film The Jewel of the Nile, a film that also featured his fellow vaudevillians The Flying Karamazov Brothers.

Crazy for You

Vision Quest (also released as Crazy for You to capitalize on the popularity of Madonna and her theme song), a 1985 film starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino

Deadly Intentions... Again?

Again? is a 1991 television film, and a sequel to the 1985 film Deadly Intentions.

Desert of the Heart

The story was adapted loosely into the 1985 film Desert Hearts, directed by Donna Deitch.

Dutch Girls

Dutch Girls is a 1985 film, released by the London Weekend Television Company, produced by Sue Birtwistle, directed by Giles Foster, and written by William Boyd.

Emptiness

Mark Romanek's 1985 film Static tells the surreal story of a struggling inventor and crucifix factory worker named Ernie who feels spiritually empty because he is saddened by his parents' death in an accident.

Étienne Roda-Gil

Roda-Gil's book La Porte marine was published through Éditions du Seuil and his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot for director Andrzej Żuławski became the 1985 film L'amour braque.

Flight without End

The novel was adapted into a 1985 film directed by Michael Kehlmann.

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

The scene in Trevor Nunn's 1985 film, Lady Jane, in which Frances kills a deer in white snow, establishes early on in the film that she is the evil character, a wicked Queen to Jane's Snow White.

Franklin, Kansas

In Disney's 1985 film Return to Oz, Dorothy Gale lived with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry outside of Franklin or near it in Crawford County.

Hands on Me

It was mentioned as a possible choice for the second single in a June 2007 article in Entertainment Weekly, which wrote that it "sounded tailor-made for a rom-com trailer coming soon to a theater near you." Irv Gotti, the head of Carlton's label, The Inc. Records, was quoted as saying that the song reminded him of the 1985 film The Breakfast Club.

Ikey Robinson

Robinson appeared in the 1985 film Louie Bluie, directed by Terry Zwigoff, a documentary about fellow musician Howard Armstrong.

Ivor Barry

Many younger movie fans may remember him as Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet (Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science.

KGB: The Secret War

KGB: The Secret War is a 1985 film directed by Dwight H. Little.

Ladyhawk

Ladyhawke, a 1985 film starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer

Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks

Much of the 1985 film The Goonies was filmed there, and the final scenes of the 1991 film Point Break were filmed at Indian Beach in the park.

M41 highway

In the 1985 film Spies Like Us, the decoy GLG-20s played by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd are told to meet their contacts on the "road to Dushanbe," a reference to the M41 highway.

My Man Adam

My Man Adam is a 1985 film co-written and directed by Roger L. Simon.

Ove ruke nisu male... 2

The compilation features the material released on the second studio album, Svi za mnom!, as well as unreleased material from the period, including a live version of "Ne, ne, ne", a cover of the Smetana violin theme "Humoreska" and unreleased soundtrack for the Želimir Žilnik 1985 film Lepe žene prolaze kroz grad, the band had recorded but never released.

Ozma of Oz

Elements from Ozma of Oz and the previous novel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, were incorporated into the 1985 film Return to Oz, featuring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy.

Puente Hills

In the scene from Back to the Future (1985 film), Doc Brown introduces the iconic Delorean time machine in the parking lot of Puente Hills Mall.

Reanimator

Re-Animator: The Musical, an American rock musical based on the 1985 film

Re-Animator, a 1985 film, the first in a series of films based on the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West–Reanimator

Robbery Under Arms

1985: Film and mini-series starring Steven Vidler as Dick Marston and Sam Neill as Captain Starlight, released in separate versions for screen and television.

Sandra Ceccarelli

Daughter of Franco Ceccarelli, guitarist of the 1960s and 1970s Italian rock group Equipe 84, and Sandra von Glasersfeld (daughter of philosopher Ernst von Glasersfeld), Ceccarelli had her film debut at the age of sixteen in Giuseppe Bertolucci's 1985 film Segreti segreti.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

He starred, as a trucker who resembles John Wayne, in Tampopo, a 1985 film about ramen, as well as co-starring in The Ramen Girl, a 2008 film about ramen, with Brittany Murphy.

Van Stephenson

It also included two songs featured on movie soundtracks: "Make It Glamorous" from the 1984 film The Wild Life and "No Secrets" from the 1985 film Secret Admirer.

Walt Curtis

He is mainly known for his autobiographical work, Mala Noche (1977), which became the basis for Gus Van Sant's 1985 film of the same name.

We Are Not Alone

"We Are Not Alone", song by Karla DeVito from the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Breakfast Club