Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in "Foul Play"

[chardman]

Foul Play is a bit overrated, I think. Sure, there's some good chemistry between Chevy and Goldie, and cute turns by Dudley Moore as a would-be swinger and Billy Barty as an overbearing Bible salesman. But the whole thing -- well, I've just never found it that hilarious. Certainly not in the same league as What's Up, Doc? Now, THAT picture is funny!

The best thing about "What's up Doc?" are the out-takes, most notably those showing director Peter Bogdanovich playing the Barbara Streisand role in rehearsals with Ryan O'Neil.

 

[chardman]

My dad said that they really ran a train into a station for that scene, since they were demolishing the station anyway.

Sorry, but...

The climatic train crash at the end of the film was shot in an airplane hanger with a replica locomotive and a replica train station, both replicas were built especially for the movie. The engine crashing into the station was filmed in two adjoining hangars at the Lockeed Aircraft Plant in Burbank, California using a full-sized mock-up of the FP-7A locomotive. The replica of the Chicago train station spanned several acres. The train crash was filmed using nine cameras and amounted to just fourteen seconds of screen time. The cost of the set, its filming and equipment totaled $500,000 which averaged about $36,000 for each second of the sequence.