FILM 2321: BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (1990)

TRIVIA: 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.

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).

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the DeLoreans used in the filming of this movie was on display at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii until the restaurant's closure in 2010. It was suspended from the ceiling and hung upside down to give restaurant patrons a better view of the vehicle from above.

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.

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.

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