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This Is Spinal Tap Movie Behind The Scenes

Making This Is Spinal Tap

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Does for rock and roll what 'The Sound Of Music' did for hills

Production

Go behind the scenes on the 1984 Comedy movie starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner

Tony Hendra, Fran Drescher, June Chadwick, Bruno Kirby, Ed Begley Jr., Dana Carvey, Jean Cromie, Chazz Dominguez, Shari Hall, David Kaff, Danny Kortchmar, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Maher, R.J. Parnell, Julie Payne, Kimberly Stringer Update Cast


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Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean were given $10,000 to write a script, and made a 20-minute version of the film with the money to better demonstrate the improvisation they had in mind. Several scenes from this demo are in the final movie.
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Much of the dialogue was ad-libbed.
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In the scene where Derek comes and gets Nigel and David to come hear a song from their past on the radio, the radio announcer's voice is being supplied by Harry Shearer, who played Derek.



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Deleted Scenes

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Alternate Versions

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Early home video versions of the film, which included the mock music video "Hell Hole" and other extras, had a special disclaimer inserted at the very end stating that the band did not actually exist.
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There were many deleted scenes for this movie. Most every home video has variants on this footage. Criterion Collection's laserdisc and DVD has an hour of deleted footage, including 15 minutes different from MGM's footage. MGM had different scenes on the VHS and the DVD as well.



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1984 Embassy Pictures Corporation
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