In almost every scene where no music is playing there is a slight ringing in the background, the sound of the main character's tinnitus.
The character Elle Woods was named after Elle magazine, the world's bestselling women's lifestyle and fashion magazine.
In Philip K. Dick's original short story on which the film is based, John Anderton is short, fat, and balding, not at all like Tom Cruise.
The film was later turned into a stage musical. Whoopi Goldberg appeared in a limited run of the London performance, this time playing Mother Superior.
In Benny's dream, Babe Ruth says, 'I don't know why, but can I have this?' referring to Hank Aaron's baseball card. Aaron would go on to break Babe Ruth's all-time home run record.
Director Wolfgang Petersen was only allowed to scout the titular location after Harrison Ford personally called the White House.
The 'UFO ABDUCTION INSURANCE' banner across an RV is from a real company that was paid by Warner Brothers to use their novel idea in the movie.
While filming the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' sequence, both Mike Myers and Dana Carvey developed severe pain in their necks from all the headbanging.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has earned more money from this film through international sales, video/DVD sales and TV screenings, than from any of the 'Terminator' movies.
This is the first known feature film to show a character using a cordless mobile cellular telephone.
The film's original title was 'Teenie Weenies', which was rejected on the grounds that it sounded too much like a kids' film with no appeal to adults.
Axel Foley's T-shirt is from Mumford, an actual Detroit-area school one of the filmmakers attended. When the film came out, the school received orders for shirts from all over the world.
The Three Storms were partly the inspiration for the character of thunder god, Raiden, from the 'Mortal Kombat' video game series, while David Lo Pan was the inspiration for the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung.
John Lennon's son Sean Lennon knew nothing about his father's time among The Beatles, until he saw this movie at his babysitter's home.
Jim Carrey's suit was covered in yak hair, which was dyed green, and sewn onto spandex.
At 90-minutes long, this is the shortest film to earn the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Stars Lee Marvin, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine, Clint Walker, Robert Ryan, and George Kennedy all served in World War II.
Unusually for the time, Walt Disney insisted on children providing the voices for the animals when they were young, instead of using adults mimicking youngsters.
Agatha Christie, aged 84, made her last public appearance at the 1974 premiere of this film. She reportedly called it the best adaptation of her work.
Michael Crichton was inspired to write this film after visiting Disneyland, where he saw animitronics on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
Filming was almost interrupted when a local mafia group tried to extort protection from the crew. In fact, the nightclub where the film was shot was hit with a small firebomb.
The pet cemetery in an early scene features a grave bearing the name of Zero from 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.
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