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Star Wars (1977) - 71 trivia entries

Directed by George Lucas, starring Alec Guinness, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Cushing, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fi

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The sound of Luke's landspeeder was made with the recording of the sound of a Highway in Los Angeles mixed with a vacuum cleaner.

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Darth Vader appears for a mere 12 minutes in the entire film.

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George Lucas wanted to do a Flash Gordon remake, but couldn't obtain the movie rights and developed Star Wars in its stead - hence the opening title sequence. Following the success of Star Wars, the owners of Flash Gordon decided to make a movie after all. Released in 1980, the same year as The Empire Strikes Back, it flopped.

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While not as beset by disasters as Lucas's previous movie American Graffiti, there were some setbacks. Firstly, filming in Tunisia was delayed when the region experienced its first winter rainstorm in fifty years. Getting R2-D2 to work also proved very problematic, and at one point it started picking up Tunisian radio signals.

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Anthony Daniels is the only cast member of the trilogy to voice his character in the trilogy's National Public Radio's dramatizations (while Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams voiced their characters for "The Empire Strikes Back," they were replaced in "Return of the Jedi" by Joshua Fardon and Arye Gross, respectively).

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When Luke and C-3PO are travelling in Luke's speeder to fetch R2-D2, they are spotted by two Sand People who then set off on a Bantha. The Bantha you see was actually an elephant dressed in a Bantha suit.

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The interrogation droid has a protruding metal object at the top that resembles salad tongs. These are Simpson forceps, which have been used for centuries to deliver babies. Certainly a torture device if the expectant mother has no anesthesia.

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When Han, Luke and Ben emerge from the compartments of the Millennium Falcon after it arrives in the Death Star, a 3-note motif from the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho" can be heard.

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In concept artist Ralph McQuarrie's original concept art, everyone in the Star Wars universe carried lightsabers, even Stormtroopers and Han Solo. It was only later that George Lucas reserved the weapon for the Jedi.

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Before signing on as the film's sound designer, Ben Burtt auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker.

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On the Death Star, just after Darth Vader speaks to the stormtroopers, one of them, in the background, moves and looks stupidly around him while the others are straight.

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When Han and Luke dressed as Imperial stormtroopers take Chewbacca to the Detention Security Area in the Death Star, Chewbacca roars at a skittish mouse droid and frightens it. This scene was improvised on the set and not scripted.

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When the film was first released in movie theatres in 1977, there was no 'Episode IV: A New Hope' on the opening crawl, because the producers said that people would be completely confused by it as there were no other 'Star Wars' films at the time. It was only after the film became a success that George Lucas was able to put the words back on.

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Han Solo's gun is a a distinctly modified Mauser C-96 with a "bull" barrel rented from the Bapty Prop Armory, and was used in an earlier film called "Naked Runner" staring Frank Sinatra. The alternate prop used for the "cantina scene", was an MGC replica of a C-96 Mauser.

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20th Century Fox was able to finance the film, in part, because of the financial success of The Omen.

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The Stormtrooper guns are actually British Sterling MK. IV submachine guns.

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George Lucas originally planned the character of Han Solo to be a huge green-skinned monster with no nose and gills.

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The sounds of the doors banging in the Death Star were actually the big shutters which open and close the big dome at Mount Palomar Observatory in California.

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Makeup artist Rick Baker appears, uncredited, in the Mos Eisley cantina. He plays the cantina band leader, Figrin D'an, and patron Hem Dazon. The latter character is the alien with the triangular head who pops up from the bottom of the screen in the first cantina interior shot.

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In the scene where R2D2 is having his restraining bolt attached the tool that is used is a small brazing tool you can pick up any Radio Shack.

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