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Film facts for the 1982 Dance / Music movie starring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David
Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins, David Bingham, Jenny Wright, Alex McAvoy, Ellis Dale, James Hazeldine, Ray Mort, Margery Mason, Robert Bridges, Michael Ensign, Marie Passarelli, Winston Rose Update Cast
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Bob Geldof, of course, would do something in real life that a man like Pink never would. He staged Live Aid in 1985, THE charity concert of the decade... --Probably the most significant concert of all time.Rewind Archive
Jenny Wright, who plays the groupie who tries to help Pink, had roles in the classic 80s movies "St. Elmo's Fire" and "The Wild Life".Rewind Archive
Joanne Whalley (the future squeeze of Val Kilmer) plays a groupie in this movie. One of her fellow band chicks is played by Nell Campbell, whom we all know and love from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Shock Treatment". One of the paramedics who tries to save Pink is played by Vincent Wong, a man occasionally referenced by Monty Python's Flying Circus (Ref.: "The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail"). Finally, last but most definitely NOT least, Roger Waters, one of Pink Floyd's main men, as well as this movie's screenwriter and narrator in song, plays a guest as Pink's wedding.Rewind Archive
The poetry that young Pink was caught with during "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" is the second verse in "Money", from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". Far from being "absolute rubbish", this album stayed longer on the Billboard chart than any other album: more than 700 weeks.Rewind Archive
Oddly enough, there's another connection to "Shock Treatment" in this movie. The choreographer of this movie, Gillian Gregory, also choreographed "Treatment".Rewind Archive
The lyrics sung by Pink as he huddled in the bathroom stall later resurfaced in "Moment of Clarity" in Waters' solo album: "The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking" He also uses some lines which surfaced in Pink Floyd's next album, "The Final Cut". Waters originally presented the band with the concepts for both "The Wall" and "Pros and Cons" and the band decided to do "The Wall".Rewind Archive
Roger Waters staged a live version of the album at the Berlin Wall in 1990. The participants included Bryan Adams, Paul Carrack, Tim Curry, The Band, Thomas Dolby, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithfull, Albert Finney, James Galway, Jerry Hall, Ute Lemper, The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor.Rewind Archive
The shot of Mother when young Pinky is asking a girl to dance reveals the "mask" on the curtains behind her.Thanks to Nick
This movie also has a connection to 1984's "Ghostbusters": here, actor Michael Ensign portrays the aggrieved hotel manager, seen in "Comfortably Numb". Ensign later went on to play the manager of the Sedgewick Hotel named 'Morris Grout' in the animated series) after this.Thanks to Connor Dipaola
In the scene when Bob Geldof shoves his hand in the glass in "One of my turns", was not fake. They had to give him medical attention after the scene.Thanks to Jacob
In "One of My Turns" as Pinky goes CRAZY and trashes his hotel room, Pink (Bob Geldof) is smashing the bedroom and puts his hand though the sliding closet doors. If you watch carefully he stops and looks at his hand, then the scene cuts to the living room. This is because he has cut his hand wide-open, with a sharp piece of wood from the doors. Alan Parker (director) decided to leave this in for realism.."Movie roomers say this is the real reason why his hand is bleeding in the next scene in the pool (Don't leave me now)" However, this is not true, It's the Left hand he had cut during the shot, and he bleeds in the pool due to the glass cut staged for the film after grabbing the window frame.
----TIDBIT : After he cut his hand "IN REAL LIFE" you see his left hand covered with a blue shirt throughout the rest of the song. If you take a close look at that shot of him screaming out the window, You will see bandages underneath the blue shirt. Poor Bob, anything for the shot..
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The war movie on the television in Pink's hotel room is the classic WWII film Dam Busters, The (1954).Rewind Archive
Aside from his singing at the concert and reciting of lyrics in the bathroom stall after shouting "Stop!", Bob Geldof has only one line in the entire movie: "Next time, f***ers" when he trashes his hotel room.Rewind Archive
Roger Waters took the plaque from the church of the men killed in Anzio, Italy as a keep sake, while Art Director Gerald Scarfe took the lamps from Pink's hotel room, because he thought they would look nice in his house.Bogus Trivia
There's often fake stuff floating round, y'know? -Like the 'ghost boy' that can allegedly be seen in "Three Men And A Baby".
But, nothing bogus that we know yet for "Pink Floyd: The Wall".
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