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This article is from the Movie Trivia,
by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions
by others.
27 Gremlins (1984)
- In the first scene, Mr. Peltzer walks in front of a broken down
American Motors Company ``Gremlin'', left in front of the old man's shop.
- The theatre marquee is showing a double bill: ``A Boy's Life'' (the working
title for 'Steven Spielberg' (qv)'s
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)" (qv)), and ``Watch the Skies'' (the
working title for Spielberg's
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)" (qv)).
- 'Zack Galligan' (qv) had a crush on 'Phoebe Cates' (qv) during filming.
- Billy crosses the street and calls ``Hello'' to the town's doctor -- Doctor
Moreau, from the 'H.G. Wells' (qv) story of the same name.
- Robby the Robot is in a couple scenes. In one, he's talking on a phone in
a phone booth wearing a hat. His lines are his end of the conversation with
the cook of the C57-D in "Forbidden Planet (1956)" (qv) where Cookie is
trying to get him to produce booze.
- A subplot about Mrs. Deagle trying to buy some homes in Kingston Falls to
build a nuclear plant was shot but cut.
- A scene where Billy and Kate discover Gerald in the bank vault was added to
the NBC TV showing.
- Billy says he bought a comic at Dr. Fantasy's. Dr. Fantasy is a nickname for
executive producer 'Frank Marshall' (qv).
- The old lady in the bank is a homage to the Wicket Witch of the East from
"The Wizard of Oz (1939)" (qv).
- While the father is talking on the phone from the inventor's convention, the
machine from "The Time Machine (1960)" (qv) can be seen in the background
winding up to full power. The scene cuts to the house, and when we cut back
again, the machine has gone, leaving only a wisp of colored smoke.
- CAMEO(George Lucas): at the inventor's convention, riding a bicycle.
[rumor]
- CAMEO(Steven Spielberg): the man in the electric wheelchair with a TV
monitor.
- CAMEO(Chuck Jones): The man who looks at Billy's cartoon in the bar.
There is a Warner Brothers cartoon playing on the TV.
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