The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1999
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After nearly 30 years out of feature films, he returned to perform character roles, including the sympathetic Walley World theme park founder Mr. Roy Walley in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and Duncan's Toy Chest toy store owner Mr. Duncan in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
- Clark's Original Scheme
- In Plane Sight
- Christie Brinkley's Actual Character Identity Revealed?
- Both Script and Body Changes
- Lessons Learned
- Unearthing The Lost Treasure
The unseen original final scenes begin after Clark goes to the sporting goods store and purchases a BB gun. But instead of heading back to Walley World, Clark heads straight to the top instead. DANA BARRON: Chevy has his breakdown where he loses it and gets a BB gun. ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL: The original ending was going to be Chevy as Clark Griswold,...
The forced poolside dancing at Roy Walley's house was not the only scene that was cut from the film. The film's actual ending screened for test audiences also showed the Griswolds on a plane — after a trip to the park that is never seen but alluded to. (Fun fact: The only vestige of the original ending that still exists in the film is the very last...
Among the many rumors out there is that in the original ending, the Griswolds are saved from arrest not by Roy Walley, but by his daughter. And that daughter is played by… Christie Brinkley! Credited in the film as "Girl in the red Ferrari," Brinkley pops up throughout the movie as an object of Clark's sandwich-dancing desire, culminating in a mote...
John Hughes wrote a new ending for the film that would be shot months later over four days at Magic Mountain amusement park. But the new ending was not the only noticeable change for the reshoot. BARRON: Anthony Michael Hall shot up like a giant. It's hysterical. He looks completely different. HALL: Puberty kicked in hard for me. They called everyb...
While test screening crowds are often blamed for stifling creativity and risk-taking in favor of safer, blander choices, the director and cast of Vacationall see the feedback from those early audiences as a perfect example of how the process can work and greatly improve a film. HALL: So, Chevy as Clark Griswold does not make it ever to Walley World...
Much like the disappointment of the family learning Walley World was closed, many fans have clamored to see the still unreleased original ending to Vacation. And fans aren't the only ones. Not even the Griswolds themselves have ever watched it — except perhaps Chevy Chase, who claims on that old commentary track that "I have it on a tape. I have th...
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Eddie Bracken. Actor: Hail the Conquering Hero. This owl-faced comic actor enjoyed his first featured film role in the RKO production Too Many Girls (1940), in which he reprised the role of "JoJo Jordan" that he had played in the Broadway stage version of that musical.
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National Lampoon's Vacation, sometimes referred to as simply Vacation, is a 1983 American road trip black comedy directed by Harold Ramis starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, John Candy, and Christie Brinkley in her acting debut with special appearances by Eddie Bracken, Brian Doyle-Murray, Miriam Flynn, James ...
Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld : Well, uh, he kidnapped me, Mr. Walley, but I tell ya, I had a great time on your rides. It was the most fantastic time I ever had in my life! I like the part where it goes REALLY way up. Roy Walley : I'm glad you liked it. [to policeman]
Eventually an LAPD SWAT team arrives along with park owner Roy Walley (Eddie Bracken) and they arrest the whole family. Clark manages to talk to Roy who surprisingly understands Clark's impassioned epitome of the American Vacation, describing his own memory of a less-than-enjoyable cross-country trip he took with his own family to Florida.
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Nov 16, 2002 · Besides appearances in various television series, he was most widely seen as Mr. Wally, the proprietor of the Disneyland-like Wally World in ''National Lampoon's Vacation'' (1983) and as E....
