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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/StacyKeach and Scott Wilson were last-minute replacements for Nicol Williamson and Creator/MichaelMoriarty, who were originally slated to play the roles of Colonel Kane and Captain Cutshaw. Wilson is also an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]] for Dick Callinan, who played the astronaut later confirmed to be Cutshaw in ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/StacyKeach and Scott Wilson were last-minute replacements for Nicol Williamson Creator/NicolWilliamson and Creator/MichaelMoriarty, who were originally slated to play the roles of Colonel Kane and Captain Cutshaw. Wilson is also an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]] for Dick Callinan, who played the astronaut later confirmed to be Cutshaw in ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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** According to Creator/StacyKeach, he got the role of Col. Kane because one of Creator/NicolWilliamson's temper tantrums basically resulted in him being kicked off the set.
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* SelfAdaptation: Was written, directed and produced by
William Peter Blatty who wrote the original book.
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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/StacyKeach and Scott Wilson were last-minute replacements for Nicol Williamson and Creator/MichaelMoriarty, who were originally slated to play the roles of Colonel Kane and Captain Cutshaw. Wilson is also an [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin]] for Dick Callinan, who played the astronaut later confirmed to be Cutshaw in ''Film/TheExorcist''.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/MichaelMoriarty was set to play Captain Billy Cutshaw but dropped out of the production and was replaced by Scott Wilson, who was originally cast in a different role.
* TheDanza: Joe Spinell as Spinell.
* TheDanza: Joe Spinell as Spinell.
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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Nearly all of Joe Spinell's dialogue was ad-libbed, as his character didn't exist originally.
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* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptation of ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, who had directed ''Film/TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.
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* TheOtherMarty: Creator/StacyKeach and Scott Wilson were last-minute replacements for Nicol Williamson and Creator/MichaelMoriarty, who were originally slated to play the roles of Colonel Kane and Captain Cutshaw.
* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptationof ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, Creator/WilliamFriedkin, who had directed ''Film/TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.himself.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to his diaries, Creator/CharltonHeston was interested in playing Killer Kane in the early seventies.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to his diaries, Creator/CharltonHeston was interested in playing Killer Kane in the early seventies.
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* InMemoriam: When the film was remastered, an “In Loving Memory” dedication to Peter Vincent Galahad Blatty (the late son of the film's writer-director William Peter Blatty) appears after the closing credits.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This actually [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools improves the film]] in some ways, for one, Kane dying in the act of saving Cutshaw's life provides a stronger case for Kane's belief in the possibility of [[HeroicSacrifice selfless acts for another.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This actually [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools improves the film]] in some ways, ways; for one, Kane dying in the act of saving Cutshaw's life provides a stronger case for Kane's his belief in the possibility of [[HeroicSacrifice selfless acts for another.]]
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* InMemoriam: In When the 2016 remastered edition, film was remastered, an “In Loving Memory” dedication to Peter Vincent Galahad Blatty (the late son of the film's writer-director William Peter Blatty) appears after the closing credits.
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* InMemoriam: In the 2016 remastered edition, a an “In Loving Memory” dedication to Peter Vincent Galahad Blatty, the Blatty (the late son of the film's writer-director, writer-director William Peter Blatty, Blatty) appears after the closing credits.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This actually [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools improves the film]] in some ways, for one, Kane dying in the act of saving Cutshaw's life provides a stronger case for Kane's belief in the possibility of [[HeroicSacrifice selfless acts for another.]]
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This actually [[TropesAreNotBad improves the film]] in some ways, for one, Kane dying in the act of saving Cutshaw's life provides a stronger case for Kane's belief in the possibility of [[HeroicSacrifice selfless acts for another.]]
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* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptation of ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, who had directed ''TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.
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* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptation of ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, who had directed ''TheExorcist'', ''Film/TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.
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Categorizing the film's message as a Broken Aesop seems to me like it would be more fitting on a YMMV tab if there was one.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This fixes the intended lesson - that humans are capable of selflessness - which would be [[BrokenAesop broken]] by suicide.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Titus}} Ken Titus]] and [[Series/StElsewhere Doctor Westphall]] take over the asylum where [[Series/TheWalkingDead Hershel Greene]], [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Frank Lopez]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Father Karras]] are living!
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In the film's original ending (and the story on which it was based), Kane palmed the knife and committed suicide, but the studio insisted at the last minute on changing a line of dialogue to imply that he was actually stabbed in the chaos. This fixes the intended lesson - that humans are capable of selflessness - which would be [[BrokenAesop broken]] by suicide.suicide.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Titus}} Ken Titus]] and [[Series/StElsewhere Doctor Westphall]] take over the asylum where [[Series/TheWalkingDead Hershel Greene]], [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Frank Lopez]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Father Karras]] are living!
* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptation of ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, who had directed ''TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Titus}} Ken Titus]] and [[Series/StElsewhere Doctor Westphall]] take over the asylum where [[Series/TheWalkingDead Hershel Greene]], [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Frank Lopez]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Father Karras]] are living!
* TroubledProduction: In the beginning. Blatty had trouble getting studio backing for a film adaptation of ''The Ninth Configuration'' and William Friedkin, who had directed ''TheExorcist'', was unable to join the production. Blatty's white knight came in the form of [=PepsiCo=], which supported half the film's budget with money from block funds in Hungary, where the film was shot. The rest of the money came from Blatty, who took up the task of directing the film himself.
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