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When Doc and Marty are at the drive-in preparing the DeLorean for the trip to 1885, Marty mentions Clint Eastwood and Doc replies, 'Clint who?' In this shot, there is a movie poster on the drive-in's wall showcasing Revenge of the Creature (1955) and Tarantula (1955), containing some of the first film appearances of a young, then-unknown Eastwood. Marty even looks to and briefly points to the poster as he says to Doc 'That's right, you haven't heard of him yet.'

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Clint Eastwood was asked for permission about his name being used for Marty in the film. He consented and was said to be tickled by the homage.

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According to the book 'Billy Gibbons: Rock & Roll Gearhead', ZZ Top was hanging around the set, and was asked to be the town band. During one take, the camera broke. While waiting for the camera to be repaired, Michael J. Fox asked if they would play 'Hey Good Lookin' which they did. Afterwards, more requests were played. Two hours later, someone inquired if the camera had been repaired. Robert Zemeckis replied that it had been fixed for quite a while, he just didn't want to stop the party that had evolved.

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Thomas F. Wilson who plays Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen, performed all his horse riding stunts himself. He also did the trick where he lassoes Marty just before we meet the 1885 Doc.

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When Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen tried to lynch Marty, Michael J. Fox was accidentally hanged, rendering him unconscious for a short time. He records this in his autobiography 'Lucky Man' (2002).

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Marty uses a 'Frisbie's' pie plate to knock a gun out of Mad Dog's hand. In 1871, the Frisbie Pie Company started in Connecticut. Their pie pans were thrown on the campus of Yale, and this eventually lead to the invention of Frisbees.

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For Back to the Future Part II (1989) and III, two years were spent building the sets and completing the scripts. They were filmed back-to-back over eleven months, in order to take advantage of Michael J. Fox's extended break from Family Ties (1982), which was coming to the end of its run. While Part III was being filmed, Part II was being edited.

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The first scene in this movie, where Marty goes back to the future in the time machine, powered by a bolt of lightning striking the clock tower, appears in all three films.

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The 1885 time setting was partly due to a suggestion by Michael J. Fox, who had commented to producers how he always thought it would be fun to act in a Western.

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To film the destruction of the DeLorean (right after Marty McFly's eventual return to 1985), the filmmakers consulted with the engineer of the diesel freight train (The VCRY #9, which belonged to the Ventura County Railway) that would smash the DeLorean to pieces. When asked if smashing the car might derail the train, the engineer replied, 'Are you kidding? I've been waiting to do this my whole life!'

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The character of Clara Clayton is in reference to Clara Clemens, Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain's) daughter. Clara Clemens went on a sleigh ride with her future husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the horse took fright from a wind-swept newspaper and bolted while Gabrilowitsch lost control. At the top of a hill, next to a fifty foot drop, the sleigh overturned, throwing Clemens out. Gabrilowitsch leaped to the ground and caught the horse by the head, stopping it as it was about to plunge over the bank, dragging Clemens with her dress caught in a runner.

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The three old timers in the saloon were played by Dub Taylor, Pat Buttram, and Harry Carey, Jr., who played sidekicks, town drunks, and colorful townsfolk in hundreds of westerns and television shows.

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Actor and former President Ronald Reagan was originally approached to play the part of Mayor Hubert because of his fondness for the first film in the trilogy. He reluctantly turned down the role, and the part went to Hugh Gillin instead. Had Reagan appeared, it would have marked his first appearance in a film in nearly 30 years.

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The drive-in theater was constructed specifically for this film. It was built in Monument Valley, and demolished immediately after filming. No films were ever screened there.

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When Marty comes back from 1885 on the train track, you can see that the ravine is now called 'Eastwood Ravine,' not 'Clayton Ravine.' Because Marty, known as Clint Eastwood, presumably died in the crash.

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The part of Seamus McFly was originally written for Crispin Glover.

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This is the only film in the trilogy where Marty and Doc Brown exchange catchphrases. Marty says 'Great Scott!' and Doc Brown replies 'Yeah, this is heavy' while talking about the tombstone photo.

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Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen is arrested by Marshal Strickland's Deputy, rather than the Marshal himself. During the arrest, when the charge 'robbing the Pine City Stage' is read, the camera cuts away to Marty and Emmett. There is a reason for both of these: Buford was originally arrested for the murder of Marshal Strickland. The murder scene was deleted, as it was deemed too dark for a family film, and the line was dubbed over.

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In the first movie, Doc tells Marty that he was inspired to create the flux capacitor after hitting his head on the bathroom sink while trying to hang a clock over his toilet. In this movie, when Doc freaks out after seeing Marty in his house and runs into the bathroom, you can just see the clock hanging above the toilet, on which he slipped.

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It's believed that Doc's kiss with Clara marks Christopher Lloyd's first kissing scene in his movie career, but actually he had an on-screen kissing scene with Lesley Ann Warren in Clue (1985).

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: In every film, Marty is knocked out. He always wakes up and says 'Mom?', Lea Thompson is always present, she tells him to 'be still now', and tells him for exactly how long he's been out cold.

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The DeLorean used in the filming of this movie was on display at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is suspended from the ceiling and hung upside down to give restaurant patrons a better view of the vehicle from above. The restaurant closed in 2010.

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There exists enough clues in all three movies to reconstruct the travels of the DeLorean precisely (to within a few minutes at worst, except 2015 Biff's arrival in 1955 and Doc's personal travels). There are a few interesting things to note: Not counting the time Doc traveled by himself, the DeLorean spent nearly seventy-one years (on its own time scale) from its first time travel to its destruction. By the time Marty made his ultimate return to 1985, he was approximately fourteen days, three hours, and twenty-seven minutes older than he should have been; Jennifer, on the other hand, is seven hours and twenty-six minutes younger than she should have been. Another interesting conclusion is a point of contention. There are two theories, one of which drops the last item. On November 12, 1955, between the time Biff arrived (or 6 a.m., whichever came later) and 6:38 p.m. (the time he left), there were four DeLoreans present in Hill Valley (ordered from its point of view): (1) The instance when Marty was trapped in 1955 in the original movie. (2) The instance when Biff came to 1955 to give himself the almanac. (3) The instance when Marty and Doc came back to 1955 to take the almanac back. (4) The instance when it was waiting in the abandoned mine. Those who do not agree with (4) argue that according to the 'ripple effect' timeline as presented in the films, there wouldn't be a DeLorean hidden by Doc in the mine until later that evening, when the lightning blast would accidentally send Doc back to 1885, thereby altering the timeline. It is *entirely true* that *we* do not ever witness a moment in the films where all four instances coexist, but the text 'ordered from its point of view' above should hint at a solution. Once the DeLorean is in 1885, consider what it would detect (if it were in a position to witness the comings and goings of its former selves): over seventy years of peace, then (1) arrives, then (2) and (3) arrive in some order; (2) then leaves at 6:38 p.m., (3) leaves around 10 p.m., and (1) leaves at 10:04 p.m. (4) itself leaves soon after that. If we grant that all three of those instances (1-3) continue to exist in the 'final' timeline, then there should be no problem accepting this theory. Still not convinced? Consider the one hundred-year gap near the end of this movie, when Marty takes the DeLorean on its final journey. Seventy years into it, for a few hours, there are four instances of the car.

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According to the clock behind them, Doc and Marty have their picture taken at 8:08 p.m. This is possibly a reference to the eighty-eight miles per hour speed the DeLorean must reach before it can travel through time.

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A horse dealership in 1885 is owned by the Statlers. In Back to the Future (1985) there is an ad on the radio for 'Statler Toyota' in 1985. In 1955, 'Statler Motors Studebaker' is visible near the town theater.

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Michael J. Fox compared the filming of all three movies to 'being back in school', as it seemed like someone was always teaching him something for the films. During the course of filming the trilogy, Fox was taught how to play a guitar, how to ride a horse, and how to shoot a gun.

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The name on the manure wagon in 1885 reads 'A. Jones'. In Back to the Future (1985), the name on the manure truck from 1955 read 'D. Jones'.

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This film marks the only time in the trilogy when Doc Brown exchanges dialogue with a member of the Tannen family. He had previously 'interacted' with Biff in the alternate 1985 in Back to the Future Part II (1989) by knocking him down on the roof of Biff's Pleasure Palace with the opening gull-wing DeLorean door.

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The town was in Chinese Camp, California, and was, in an eerily fitting way, destroyed by lightning in 1996.

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Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis figured that for this movie, they had already done all that they could with Marty's family, so the focus of the film was shifted to Doc Brown.

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The role of Clara Clayton was written specifically for Mary Steenburgen.

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The death of Michael J. Fox's father delayed filming for two weeks.

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On November 7, 2010 the DeLorean used during filming, was put back on the exact set of tracks used for the vehicle's final scene for part of the week-long celebration of the 25th Anniversary.

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The saloon in 1885 Hill Valley is in the same location as Lou's Café in 1955, the gym in 1985, and the Café '80s in 2015.

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Before the new courthouse clock is reset to 8:00 ready for its official 8:00 start, it can be seen behind Doc and Marty when they are looking at the map of the ravine where it reads 10:04, the precise time in the future it is destined to stop.

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: In each film in the trilogy, Thomas F. Wilson ends up covered in manure.

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Clara can be seen behind Marty and Doc while looking at the map at the train station.

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In the course of the year that it took to film Back to the Future Part II (1989) and this movie, Michael J. Fox lost his father, but gained a son.

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For approximately three weeks, Robert Zemeckis would fly to Los Angeles after his day's filming of the train climax of this movie to approve the sound dub that Bob Gale had been supervising of Back to the Future Part II (1989). He would then get up at 4:30 a.m. the next day to fly back to the northern California set to continue with his filming for that day.

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A bottle of Tabasco sauce is visible at the saloon during the 'wake-up juice' scene. It has the design consistent with the time period.

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In 2011, the DeLorean with the white-walled 1950's wheels was finally restored after a good six to seven year period, by Back to the Future enthusiast, Joe Walser. His team cleaned up both this version of the DeLorean, as well as the original DeLorean used for production of all three films.

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Mary Steenburgen's children were the ones who persuaded her to be in the film.

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: The song 'The Power of Love' is played during the second scene of the trilogy, and the second-last scene of the trilogy.

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Thomas F. Wilson based his characterization of Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen on Lee Marvin's Liberty Valance in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).

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The photographer at the festival is the film's Director of Photography Dean Cundey.

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In 1976, Matt Clark played Kelly the bartender in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), serving Josey Wales. Here, he plays Chester the bartender serving 'Clint Eastwood' (Marty McFly).

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The clock for the Hill Valley Clock Tower can be seen in the background being unloaded from the train as Doc and Marty talk to the conductor about the train's speed.

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There are two DeLoreans at the same time in this film, the one hidden in the mine waiting to be fixed in 1955, and the one that Marty uses to save Doc.

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Michael Winslow ('Jones' of Police Academy fame) performed the sound effects of Michael J. Fox's feet during the break dancing sequence.

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Doc Brown states his German ancestors' surname was 'von Braun'. This is a reference to Wernher von Braun, one of Germany's leading rocket scientists, who was taken to America following World War II, and assisted greatly in the N.A.S.A. program.

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Each of Needles' henchmen comes from one of the other gangs in the trilogy. J.J. Cohen played Skinhead in Biff's gang in Back to the Future (1985) and Back to the Future Part II (1989). Ricky Dean Logan played Data in Griff's gang in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Christopher Wynne played an unnamed member of Buford's gang in this film. Cohen appears in all three movies.

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If you start this movie after the lightning rod is hit on the 1955 clock tower, at the end of the second movie, as Doc then reconnects the wire, it will play seamlessly from the second to the start of this movie.

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In the 'Making of' DVD, Producer and Screenwriter Bob Gale describes the character of Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen as 'Biff's worst intentions realized'.

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The second and third Back to the Future movies were shot consecutively over the course of eleven months (with a three week break between Back to the Future Part II (1989) and this movie).

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Before sending Marty back to 1885, Doc mentions that he uses the drive-in theater, so Marty doesn't run into a tree that existed in the past. In Back to the Future (1985), one of the first things Marty does in 1955 is run into farmer Peabody's pine tree that existed in the past.

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Filmed at the same time as Back to the Future Part II (1989). In the four years since Back to the Future (1985) was made, Michael J. Fox had forgotten some of his skateboarding techniques.

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Early in 2008, several directors, including Steven Spielberg voted on an attraction room for Universal Hollywood, that would contain rare and old costumes and props. Two of the items pulled out from storage vaults were the miniatures of Doc's time travel train and the railroad version of the DeLorean. The full sized version of the time train can be seen at Universal Studios Orlando.

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In some shots for the scene where Marty is dragged by the horse, Michael J. Fox was actually being dragged by the 'Benny the Cab' go-kart from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

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First movie to use Universal's new 75th Anniversary opening studio logo. The logo ran until 1997.

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Just recently, a prop and building set preservation committee submitted a request and got it granted for the Ponachee Drive-in theater to be re-built for display.

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The person who has time traveled the farthest into the future is Clara Clayton. At the end of the film, when Marty asked Doc where he's headed 'Back to the future?' Doc responds with 'Nope, already been there.' Clara was with him during the time travels, and assuming they visited the year 2015, she traveled one hundred thirty years into the future. Many believe the DeLorean traveled the farthest back to the past, but actually it's the hoverboard. Being from October 21, 2015, it traveled all the way to September 2, 1885, for a total of one hundred thirty years, one month and nineteen days. Coincidentally, both of those dates fell on a Wednesday.

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Bob Gale owns two pieces of the destroyed DeLorean; the time circuit display, and a table lamp, made out of Mr. Fusion, by Special Effects Supervisor Michael Lantieri.

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In the 1880s, the fastest steam locomotive in active service was the Eight Wheeler Steam Engine (wheel configuration 4-4-0) with a top speed of forty-five miles per hour. Thus, Marty and Doc Brown were faced with the task of doubling the speed of the fastest steam engine then in existence.

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Each movie in the trilogy has an early scene that foreshadows an event that occurs in the third act. In the first movie, a figure of a guy clinging to a clock is seen in Doc's lab which foreshadows the climax of the movie in which Doc clings to a clock in a similar way. In the second movie, Doc says that he wishes the post office was as punctual as the weather and at the end a post office man gives a letter to Marty in 1955 at the precise time Doc is sent to 1885. In the third movie, when Doc is explaining to Marty at the Clayton Ravine how the train is going to push the DeLorean to eighty-eight miles per hour, he laments that nobody is going to be there to witness it. At the end, Doc remains with Clara, and thus witnesses the event.

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Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, James Tolkan, Marc McClure (who appeared in a deleted scene in Back to the Future Part II (1989)) and J.J. Cohen are the only actors to appear in all three films.

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The twinkly piano cue, used at the start of the main title theme of Back to the Future III is an homage by Alan Silvestri to the George Pal movie, H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (1960). An almost identical twinkly piano or harpsichord motif can be heard at the start of a track called 'Fear', used in the original Russell Garcia score from the 1960 classic.

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: Marty is in 1955 and 1985 at some point in each film of the trilogy.

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Pat Buttram's last on-screen role, as a patron in the saloon. All of the roles he performed afterwards were voice actor roles.

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: In each film of the trilogy, Marty ends up in a chase through the town with a member of the Tannen family and his three goons.

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The train station is near the site of the station built for Pale Rider (1985), another Clint Eastwood movie. The two halves of the 'Pale Rider' station became new buildings in 'Hill Valley'. One can be seen at the north end of town by the corrals and tracks, and the other at the south end by the waterwheel.

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In a scene that was cut from the film, Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen shoots Marshal Strickland in the back, just as the disgruntled schoolboys try to gun down their former school principal in Part II. It appears that multiple generations of rowdy defiant Hill Valley residents have consistently wanted to kill the stern 'by the book' Strickland men, who became authority figures throughout the decades.

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The editor of Hill Valley's newspaper in 1885 is 'M. R. Gale', a tribute to trilogy screenwriter Bob Gale.

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If Marty had killed Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen in the duel, Biff Tannen would never had been born, and he would be erased from existence, unless Buford had already fathered a son before the events depicted in this movie.

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In this film, Mary Steenburgen played Clara Clayton, a 19th Century woman who falls in love with a time traveller from the 20th Century. In Time After Time (1979), she played Amy Robbins, a 20th Century woman who falls in love with a time traveller from the 19th Century.

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Doc's flying time-travel train is a culmination of technology used by Doc in all three films - the train (1885), time travel (originated in 1955, completed in 1985); and hover conversion and fusion (2015).

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The brief clip of Clara yanking the emergency cord aboard the train car is used on a regular routine on the tram cars for the Universal Backlot Tour as part of safety regulations.

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In the Back to the Future trilogy, the 'present' date is October 26, 1985 (2015 is the future, 1885 and 1955 are the past). Exactly twenty-five years later on October 26, 2010, the trilogy was released on Blu-ray in a 25th Anniversary Edition.

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The man in the saloon with barbed wire, with whom Doc Brown converses, is not named, but is John Warne Gates, who was a salesman for the Southern Wire Company of St. Louis, Missouri, which merged with the wire company of William Edenborn to form Braddock Wire Company, from which Consolidated Steel and Wire Company was organized in 1888. With the help of Chicago attorney Elbert Henry Gary, he created a monopoly in the U.S. wire industry in 1898 with American Steel and Wire Company, which was sold in 1901 to J.P. Morgan in a deal (also negotiated by Gary) to become part of the new U.S. Steel conglomerate.1. Gates was a founder of The Texas Company which became the Texaco oil company. This is another reference to the Texaco company which is represented in the first and second movie and (due to this reference) in all time frames.

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When Doc blows the train whistle he exclaims 'I've wanted to do that all my life!' This was also said by the boy in The Polar Express (2004), when he blew the train whistle. Both movies were directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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The scene in which Marty crashes into the fence and his found by his paternal great-great grandfather is similar to the scene in Back to the Future (1985) in which he is hit by his maternal grandfather's car.

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The DeLorean makes its longest single leap through time in this movie, travelling one hundred years, one month, and twenty days, from September 7, 1885, to October 27, 1985.

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The steam locomotive used in this movie is Sierra No. 3, painted and rigged to look like an 1880's steam locomotive. This type of locomotive was actually built in 1891.

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The clock in the clock tower started running at 8:00 p.m. on September 5, 1885. The date is provided by the caption on the photograph Doc gives Marty at the end of the movie. The lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955. This means that the clock tower operated for exactly seventy years, two months, seven days, two hours, and four minutes.

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The steam locomotive in the film, Sierra #3, has been recently returned to service at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in California following an extensive overhaul.

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The scene in 1885, where Marty enters the saloon and tries to order ice water, is similar to the original, where in 1955, Marty enters Lou's Cafe, and tries to order a Tab cola.

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In the scene where Doc and Marty are analyzing the map and talking about how Clayton ravine is then called Shonash ravine, Miss Clara Clayton can be seen in the background in her purple dress. You can also see the soon-to-be clock for the courthouse.

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The film takes place from November 12 to November 16, 1955, from September 2 to September 7, 1885 and on October 27, 1985.

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By the end of the trilogy, Marty, Biff/Griff, Doc, and Jennifer all get knocked out or pass out.

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The film is the final chapter of the Back to the Future trilogy. However, an animated television series based on the trilogy premiered on September 14, 1991, and it ran for two seasons. The series took place after this movie, and it depicted the further adventures of Marty, Doc, Clara, their sons Jules and Verne, their family dog Einsten, and the DeLorean time machine is rebuilt, and is now voice-activated. In 2016, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd unofficially return in their roles for a Back to the Future Part IV trailer, which was a parody of the trilogy, and the trailer saw Marty and Doc embarking on one last adventure. However, Doc inventing a time travel machine out of a steam train hinted at a possible second trilogy or spin-off. But, due to Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Disease, Fox returning as Marty is doubtful.

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Ranked #35 on Empire Magazine's 50 Greatest Movie Sequels in 2009.

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This film marked the second time Christopher Lloyd (Doc) worked in a film with Pat Buttram (black hat cowboy), as they also appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) as Lloyd played Judge Doom, and Buttram was the voice of one of the Talking Bullets.

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The bandanna Doc Brown is wearing is made from the shirt he wore in Back to the Future Part II (1989).

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Bill McKinney was the train engineer when Doc and Marty hijacked the engine. He was also in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) as the villain, Red Legs Quantrill.

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Two versions of the DeLorean were used for the smashing of the time machine. One was simply half flattened, while the other was destroyed with small explosions. The one that is half smashed is suspended upside down at Planet Hollywood in Honolulu.

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This film was released in North America on May 25, 1990, Bob Gale's 39th birthday.

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The train that crashes into the bottom of the ravine was actually a model.

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TRADEMARK (Steven Spielberg): [stars]: When Doc and Clara kiss while looking at the stars.

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The Colt salesman tells Marty that the shooting game is so easy a baby can do it. In Back to the Future Part II the kids in Cafe 80's make fun of the shooting game saying it's like a baby's toy.

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In Back to the Future Part II (1989), in the alternate 1985, Biff's hotel is called 'Biff's Pleasure Palace'. In this movie, the saloon is known as the 'Palace Saloon'.

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As mentioned before, ZZ Top cameos as the town band during the big dance scene; if you watch closely, they do their trademark guitar spin right after Marshal Strickland breaks up the fight between Marty and Tannen and says, 'Let's have some fun!'

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When filming the sequence with the train and DeLorean, for safety's sake, the builders rigged it so that the DeLorean could flip off at any given time.

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At the scene in the saloon, Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen makes Marty dance by shooting at him on the floor. After Marty flips the spittoon onto him, Tannen tries to shoot right at Marty, but he is luckily saved, because Tannen ran out of bullets. In the scene where the Libyans shoot Doc at Twin Pines Mall in the first movie, they also shoot at Marty, who tries to escape. Then the Libyan terrorist also tries to shoot right at him, but Marty is luckily saved, because the Libyan terrorist's gun jammed.

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Mary Steenburgen, who plays Clara Clayton Brown, and Jules Verne, for whom her characters sons Jules Brown and Verne Brown are named, share a birthday.

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Mary Steenburgen is Cristopher Lloyd love interest in Goin' South (1978).

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From the outset, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were adamant that Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990) be released within six months of each other. This was so that audiences wouldn't have to wait too long in between installments.

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At the end of the film, Doc Brown's wardrobe is inspired by Professor Marvel's in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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Doc Brown stands at the bar with a shot of whiskey in his hand all night, and then promptly passes out after drinking it, after which, the bartender makes a special concoction called 'wake up juice' to revive him. In Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971), Doc Schultz (Dub Taylor), who is already quite drunk, is similarly seen drinking a single shot of whiskey at the bar before immediately passing out, after which, the bartender concocts a special drink of the Doc's own design to revive him quickly. In this movie, Dub Taylor plays one of the three old-timers in the bar who heckles Marty and Doc Brown.

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Although Marty mentions Clara's name several times throughout the film, he never actually addresses her as such, instead choosing to simply refer to her respectfully as 'ma'am'.

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Biff 'has a lot of room to talk' when he accuses Marty of being 'the little hothead' in Part II, since his own great-grandfather Buford lost his cool when Marty said, 'You're Mad Dog Tannen', and started ferociously shooting up the saloon. It appears that getting terribly upset, offended, and defensive whenever they are called an uncomplimentary, or unflattering name ('chicken', 'yellow', et cetera) is a long-running trait of some of the males in both the McFly and Tannen families.

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The DeLorean that was specifically used for travelling back to 1885 is the only other fully intact on-screen DeLorean to have been shown to the public other than the original A Car (the one used in all three films), by the time the A Car reached the Peterson Auto Museum. Both cars have been on display there, but not at the same time.

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When Marty travels back to 1985, the sign reads Eastwood Ravine, which means that everyone in 1885 thinks Marty crashed and died, or Doc told them so, as to explain his sudden disappearance.

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It is never explained why the Tannens hate, bully and antagonizes the McFlys in the Back to the Future trilogy.

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The location of 1885 Hill Valley was the same one used for Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider (1985). Ironically, that film was knocked off the number one slot at the box office in 1985 by..Back to the Future (1985).

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It is estimated that Universal saved between $10 and $15 million by filming Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990) concurrently.

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In the dedication to the Clock Tower scene, the fireworks ignited are the exact same pattern as when the lightning struck the tower in the first movie.

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When Marty, in the Hilldale neighborhood, decides to 'race' Needles, as Needles' truck swerves away from the Rolls-Royce, you can see a street sign that reads 'Clark'. Clark and Hilldale was a very popular spot for Bay Area rock bands in the 1960s, and is even mentioned in the title of a song on Love's 'Forever Changes' album in 1967.

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In 1996, Lego released their line of time travel themed sets. As part of the promo for both the Time Cruisers and the Wild West sets being released, the comic section of the Lego magazine did a two part piece sending a character to the Wild West.

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According to The Making of 'Back to the Future III' (1990), the manure consisted mainly of horse feed pellets, noting that the pellets going in and out of the horse look pretty much the same.

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The scene were a machine is making breakfast is reminiscent of a scene in Chitty Chitty bang bang were another inventor has an automated cooking machine. This could be a nod to another Crack Pot inventor Caractacus Pott.

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The number of people shown on the DVD covers corresponds with the number of the film. In part 1, it's just Marty (one person), in part II it's two people (Marty & Doc) and in this film, it's three people, (Marty, Doc, & Clara).

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The scenes shot in Monument Valley were in unusually cold temperatures even though Doc and Marty are dressed in summer gear.

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The location shoot was so dusty that many of the crew took to wearing paint masks.

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The recent release of the Diamond Select Toys' 1:15 scale model of the railed version of the DeLorean, is the first model of the railed version to have wheels strong enough to support the body of the car, as well as not having the train track bed as part of the model display.

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The railed version of the DeLorean released to the public in a 1:18 sized scale by Sun Star Models was the last DeLorean model to be released, leaving a two to three year span in between model releases when the 1:15 sizes of the DeLorean by Diamond Select Toys were released.

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The 1:15 scale DeLorean model with the rail wheels from Diamond Select Toys was originally set to be released on December 29, 2010. However, because of the 25th Anniversary of the franchise, it was rushed into release on December 26, 2010.

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Buford says to Doc's dance date (Clara), 'Well, looky what we have here.' Biff says the same thing to Marty's dance date (Lorraine) in the first movie.

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The steam engine is blowing black smoke out the chimney as if it were burning coal, but the tender is full of wood and when burned would produce a blue smoke

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The Delorean's wheels are conveniently located for riding on railroad tracks. The car's track width is 62.6', and the front wheels are 6' wide. The standard gauge used on U.S. railroads is 56.5'.

During the scene where they are prepping the DeLorean at the drive in theater, Marty says 'You know, Doc, it's gonna be a hell of a long walk back to Hill Valley.' He's really not kidding. From Monument Valley, UT, where they constructed the drive-in set, to the zip code of the fictional Hill Valley, CA, 95420 (actually Caspar, CA), the shorter of the two major routes (driving) is 1,092 miles along Interstate 40. If Doc actually did walk it, the most direct route is 1,002 miles/334 hours, which walking eight hours a day, would take approximately 42 days.

Marty McFly's house was filmed only ¼ mile (½ Km) from a scene in Caesar and Otto's Paranormal Halloween (2015).

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ZZ Top: One of the film's composing bands has a cameo as the band in 1885, playing a variation of 'Doubleback'.

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Robert Zemeckis: [citation] When Marty walks along the railroad tracks and finally reaches the town, he comes to the railway station. Then he walks into the town, while the camera slowly rises up above the station and finally shows Marty at a long distance walking into the town. This scene is shot exactly the same way as the scene in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), when Jill arrives at the station.

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In the novelization, after the little boy hands Marty back his gun, he asks him where he got the idea to wear the oven door under his clothes, Marty replies he saw it in a movie. The boy asks Marty what a movie is. Before Marty can answer, a woman calls out the name, 'David.. David Llewelyn Wark Griffith'. This is the real name of pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, who, having been born in 1875, would've been nine or ten years old in 1885.

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The scene where Marty and Jennifer kiss on the porch was the only scene shot while Back to the Future Part II (1989) was being made.

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In Back to the Future Part II (1989), Biff watches A Fistful of Dollars (1964) in the alternative 1985, in which Clint Eastwood's character uses steel plating underneath his poncho. Marty (calling himself 'Clint Eastwood') uses the hatch from a stove under his poncho in 1885. The sign at the train crossing in 1985 identifies the location (formerly Clayton Ravine) as 'Eastwood Ravine' named for Marty's character.

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In the mid 1990s, there was plans for Back to the Future Part IV. One discussed plot would have involved Doc and his family going to Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, with Michael J. Fox appearing only in a cameo role. In 2004, Michael J. Fox talked about doing Back to the Future Part IV, saying that he wanted Marty McFly to be a mentor to a different family.

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Throughout the trilogy, the DeLorean, and its duplicates created via time travel make fifteen trips through time, thirteen on-screen. They are: 1) Doc's dog, Einstein, is sent one minute into the future to test the machine. 2) Marty travels back to 1955 from 1985. 3) Marty returns to 1985 from 1955. 4) Doc travels to 2015 from 1985. 5) (Not seen on-screen) Doc travels to some point beyond 2015 to learn that Marty's family has unraveled. 6) (Also not on-screen) Doc travels to 2015 from the future to find the beginning of the unraveling of Marty's family. 7) Doc returns to 1985 from 2015. 8) Doc takes Marty and Jennifer forward to 2015 from 1985. 9) Biff travels from 2015 to 1955 to give himself the sports almanac, thus creating an alternate timeline. 10) Biff returns to 2015 from 1955. 11) Doc, Marty, and Jennifer return to the alternate 1985 from 2015. 12) Marty and Doc travel back to 1955 from the alternate 1985 to get the sports almanac from Biff. 13) Doc accidentally travels from 1955 to 1885 when the DeLorean is hit by lightning. 14) Marty travels from 1955 to 1885 to rescue Doc. 15) Marty returns to 1985 from 1885. A sixteenth (fourteenth on-screen) time travel voyage is made by Doc and his family in the Time Train from the future to 1985 to introduce Marty and Jennifer to Jules and Verne, and to give Marty an undamaged photo of him and Doc Brown in front of the clock. Additional off-screen time travelling has occurred as stated by Doc Brown (presumably in both the DeLorean and the Time Train), but these are the sixteen confirmed travels.

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In the deleted scene (shown on DVD), Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen was supposed to shoot Marshal Strickland in the back, killing him. His son was present at the time. This was edited out of the final cut, as it was deemed too depressing. This is why Strickland's Deputy arrests Buford at the end of the movie, rather than Strickland himself. The Deputy's dialogue from the latter scene had to be re-dubbed to compensate for the change.

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In every film of the trilogy, there is a scene where Marty is knocked unconscious and awoken by someone resembling his mother, as he thinks the whole film a has been a dream. There is always a scene with him entering a public drinking place where Biff (or one of his relatives) enters calling for one of Marty's relations. There is always a scene with Marty being chased by someone resembling Biff (or Biff himself) and his gang (in Part I, he was on a skateboard; in Part II, he was on a hoverboard). The time machine always becomes unusable at some point. Characters related to Biff have been covered in manure in every film, and are always beaten up by Marty.

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By the time it is destroyed, the time machine is made up of components of each era it visited in the films: 1980's DeLorean chassis, 2015 Mr. Fusion and flying conversion, 1955 vacuum tubes and transistors (replacing a burned out microchip), and 1885 train wheels.

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FRANCHISE TRADEMARK: In each of the three films, a common theme, is that Marty always ends up in a public drinking place, shortly after arriving at his time destination, and is confronted by a Tannen shouting 'Hey McFly!' In Back to the Future (1985), shortly after Marty arrives in 1955 he walks into a café and is drinking a cup of coffee, while his father George is sitting next to him. Biff Tannen comes in and shouts 'Hey McFly!', to which Marty acknowledges, but doesn't realize Biff is shouting at his father. In Back to the Future Part II (1989), shortly after arriving in 2015 with Doc, Marty enters the Café '80s, when Griff Tannen (Biff's grandson) shouts 'Hey McFly!' to Marty's future son (Marty, Jr.) who just entered after him. In this movie, shortly after arriving in 1885, Marty enters the saloon, and is confronted by Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen, who shouts 'Hey McFly!' confusing Marty with Marty's great, great grandfather Seamus.

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If the DeLorean was equipped with a time odometer which measured years travelling backwards or forwards in time incrementally (much like a standard odometer measures miles travelled forwards incrementally), it would have travelled a grand total of five hundred seventy years through time before being destroyed. Here's how the time odometer would have been measured (for the sake of simplicity, any short time hops, such as Einstein's one minute future jump in 1985, and Doc's one day future jump in 2015 will be ignored, as will the exact times for each jump listed): 1) 1985 to 1955 = thirty years (Marty's original trip to 1955). 2) 1955 to 1985 = sixty years (Marty's return to 1985). 3) 1985 to 2015 = ninety years (Doc's trip to 2015). 4) 2015 to 1985 = one hundred twenty years (Doc's return to 1985 to warn Marty and Jennifer). 5) 1985 to 2015 = one hundred fifty years (Doc, Marty, and Jennifer's trip to 2015). 6) 2015 to 1955 = two hundred ten years (Old Biff's trip to 1955 to give his younger self the Almanac). 7) 1955 to 2015 = two hundred seventy years (Old Biff's return). 8) 2015 to 1985A = three hundred years (Doc and Marty's trip to Alternate 1985). 9) 1985A to 1955 = three hundred thirty years (Doc and Marty's trip to 1955 to retrieve the Almanac and restore 1985 time line). 10) 1955 to 1885 = four hundred years (Doc's trip to 1885, when the DeLorean was struck by lightning). 11) 1955 to 1885 = four hundred seventy years (DeLorean was buried in 1885, and sat undisturbed for seventy years, before being unearthed in 1955, and used to travel to 1885). 12) 1885 to 1985 = five hundred seventy years (Marty's return to 1985, and final trip of the DeLorean).

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The locomotive that smashed the DeLorean at the end of the film, belonged to the Ventura County Railway.

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