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Keep your eyes peeled throughout the movie - there are many well-known people in very small parts - Chaka Khan, John Candy, Frank Oz, John Landis himself.  Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn, two of the Blues Brothers, were musicians that were part of the Stax label music scene in Memphis. Both were part of the MGs (as in Booker T & the MGs, whose catalog of songs included "Green Onions", a familiar instumental blues song used in numerous commercials and movies). They also backed up many of the famous Stax artists, such as Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave. Cropper, in fact, was a co-writer of such famous songs as "Knock on Wood", "In the Midnight Hour", and "Dock of the Bay." Cropper is further immortalized as a guitarist on record by being the "Steve" referred to by Sam & Dave on the classic song "Soul Man" ("play it Steve"), a song which became a Blues Brothers staple. John Wayne's son, Ethan Wayne, was a stunt driver in the movie! -Thanks to MckayThis film still holds the world record for the number of cars crashed. -Thanks to On A Mission From GOther than the jail sequences, Elwood never takes off his sunglasses, and Jake never takes off his hat -Other than toward the end when he's on his knees in the tunnel begging for forgiveness! -Thanks to StaceyThe young woman in the choir at the Triple Rock Church is R & B singer Chaka Khan. -Thanks to SalukilawThe 'Woman on the cutting-room floor' (Shirley Levine) in the credits, is John Landis' mother. -Thanks to Car Five FiveThe Illinois State Trooper, in the initial chase through the Dixie Mall, who said, "I think I broke my watch" is the popular musician Stephen Bishop ("On and On", "It Might Be You" (Love Theme from the movie "Tootsie"). Stephen Bishop was also the guy sitting on the steps in "Animal House" playing the guitar which John Belushi smashed. -Thanks to SalukilawJohn Belushi's wife, Judy Jacklin, has a cameo as a waitress in the scene where Jake and Elwood go to convince Murph and Magictones to rejoin the band. -Thanks to Chad HutchinsonWhen Jake and Elwood go to get Mr. Fabulous, the waiter who takes their wine order is Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman. -Thanks to Lady BarclayAnne Murray (Canadian Singer) is the Mother Superior -Thanks to Rob StewartThe woman Elwood flirts with when they're waiting for the gas truck to arrive ("Ya want I should wash the dead bugs off your windshield?") is Twiggy, a famous British model. -Thanks to Lady BarclayIn the car chase scene in the mall, the lady that tosses up a cake and runs away is Kitty O'Neal, a famous (and deaf) stuntwoman in the 1970's. -Thanks to Rex RandolphAt the time Blues Brothers was made, the mall scene contained the most expensive car-chase scene ever filmed up to that time. -Thanks to Lady BarclayGary McLarty, the customer in 'Toys 'R' Us', who asks for the Grover toy, appears in the credits three times - once as the customer, once as the stunt co-ordinator, and he is also one of the stunt men listed in the credits. -Thanks to Da Chi Town GuyIf you look on the wall behind the band at the end of the movie, you will see a sign that say's "its never to late to mend". That was taken from the solitary building, on the floor at the entrance engraved in cement of the front door when you enter the buliding. -Thanks to Todd CausleySteven Spielberg is in fact the cook county tax man. Frank Oz is the clerk at the prison who gives Jake back his belongings. -Thanks to Ryan EllisElwood tells Jake that he put "1060 West Addison St." on his driver's license as his home address. This is the real-life address of Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. -Thanks to JamesJoe Walsh, from the Eagles, makes a brief appearance as a prisoner at the end of the movie. -Thanks to David JonesDuring most of the car crash scenes, you will hear someone saying that their watch broke, or some reference to their watch. You have to listen closely for a lot of them. -Thanks to ScarpCurrently in Melbourne, Australia, the world's longest running late show - dedicated to the blues brothers - is into it's 20th year. On the first friday of every month approx 200 people attend the Westgarth Cinema to watch the movie and a group of approx 20 groupies who get up on stage and perform parts of the movie. When Blues Brothers 2000 was being filmed John Landis invited the Melbourne Blues Brothers to be extras in the bluegrass scene. Approx 15 of them managed to fly over to Canada with 2 weeks notice to be in the movie. -Thanks to Miss JenniGraffiti on the bridge the Blues Brothers hide their car under during the show reads "John *heart* Debbie." This is a reference to director John Landis and his wife Deborah. Another graffiti outside the tunnel is "disco sucks". This refers to local dj Steve Dahl's radio promotion "disco demolition" which happened the same year as the movie -1979. -Thanks to Lee BAnother occurrence of the John Landis "See you next Wednesday" in-joke is the film poster behind which Daniel and Mount's Police Cruiser hides before starting to chase the boys. This is relevant for both The Blues Brothers and The Blues Brothers 2000. For Aretha Franklin's song in both films, the thinnest of the back-up singers (and I apologize for pointing her out in that manner, but not having the film with me this very moment I can't describe her clothing) is actually Aretha Franklin's sister! At the end of the movie, while the band is playing in prison, watch carefully when the camera shows the other inmates. The first convict that jumps up on the table (he is located right in front) is none other than Joe Walsh from the Eagles. -Thanks to SianElwood always has the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up past his elbows so that it does not show at his wrists and he wears white socks. Jake on the other hand, keeps his sleeves all the way down and they often come several inches past his coat sleeve. -Thanks to Elwood'S GirlIn the big concert scene at the end of the movie John Belushi had allegedly sprained or fractured his ankle after falling down and had to take a bunch of pain killers before the scene because of all the dancing that he had to do. -Thanks to David DIn a scene with Henry Gibson as the Nazi chief, sitting in his office discussing the Blues Brothers with an underling, he's painting a statue of a falcon with gold paint - an obvious (at least to me) take on the Maltese Falcon, where a fake lead statue was painted over to disguise the fraud. -Thanks to Michael SiskoAfter the Good Old Boys' motor home leaves the freeway during the final chase, and before it crashes through the barn and into the lake, it passes a shop called "Mr. Bill's". This is only visible on screen for about one second, but it's there. A tribute to their SNL connection? -Thanks to Jim Barrett« Click here to add some Blues Brothers trivia Rediscover your favorites! If you like Blues Brothers or 80's Comedy classics, then be sure to check out this list: ..... Tootsie ..... Raising Arizona ..... Good Morning, Vietnam ..... Heathers ..... Fast Times At Ridgemont High ..... This Is Spinal Tap ..... Naked Gun ..... Adventures In Babysitting ..... Airplane ..... License To Drive ..... Money Pit ..... Porky's ..... Risky Business ..... Twins ..... Soul Man .....[More] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Featured Movie Location: The Building and Sculpture that Jake and Elwood use as a landmarkWanna see the real life filming location used for The Building and Sculpture that Jake and Elwood use as a landmark in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at Richard J Daley Center & "Chicago Picasso", located in Chicago, Illinois. [New! Show Google Map] The scene where the Police Crusier crashes into a Billboard while chasing the Blues Brothers was filmed in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. The big state police car pile up was done at the intersection of Illinois Rte. 12 and 176 in Wauconda. Wauconda was also the site of the beach scene where the Brothers are in the car with the loudspeakers on top announcing the show that night. That was filmed at Cook's Picnic grove on Bangs Lake. [Thanks to Glenn Lewis] In late 1979 me and a friend were driving thru Griffith Park in Los Angeles one weekday and on the side of the road in Griffith Park there was this low to the ground billboard advertising a King Kong like movie, that some guys with pickup trucks were painting. One of the trucks had a Universal Studios sticker on the door. Knowing that Griffith Park is used for filming Movie and TV shows we got curious, so we turned around and went back and stopped and asked one of the painters if this was going to be some kind of new movie Universal was advertising. "No" he told us "they're doing a movie with the guys from Saturday Night Live." He said "We're doing all this painting just so they can crash a car into it!", and walked away. Later on in the day we tried to come back to see if they were filming something but the street was now blocked off so we couldn't see them film. When me and my friend went to see the Blues Brothers for the first time when that scene came on we just looked at each other and said "that's the billboard we saw!" We later confirmed this when we later rented the video release and watched it in slow-mo. Country Bobs Bunker where the Band plays in the country western bar was shot on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot. It was located right across from the Jaws attraction on the Tram Tour. In some of the scenes where John Belushi is stalling for time to pay his beer tab and Dan Aykroyd is in the Bluesmobile writing out a phony check, you can see a lake right behind them, that's the lake for the Jaws attraction. I took the Universal tour in 1980 and 'The Bunker' was still there to promote the movie. Unfortunately it's no longer there. The motor home of the Good O'le Boys that Dan Aykroyd sprays glue to the accelerator and it crashes into the lake was filmed at the end of Universal's 'Five Points' western sets next to a lake that they call 'Singapore Lake' where the motorhome crashes into. [Thanks to Jeff Stone] The prison was the Joliet Correction Center in Joliet, Chicago. The Bluesmoobile jumps the East 95th Street Bridge over the calumet river. The Soul Food Restaurant is on Maxwell Street. Wrigley field is 1060 West Addison Street. The shopping mall is the Dixie Mall in Harvey. The Brothers first appearance was at "The Palace Ballroom", which is, in fact, the South Shore Country Club, South Shore Drive at Est 71st Street. The Siege with Stephen Spielberg was at the City Hall and County Building on Clark Street. The interior of the Palace Hotel Ballroom where the concert scene takes place is the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [Thanks to Stan] The Blues Brothers get pulled over for the very first time in front of a Funeral Parlor on the corner of Talcott and Greenwood in Park Ridge, IL [Thanks to Gerard Kaszubowski] The mall in which the chase scene was filmed is the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. The mall had been shuttered one year earlier. The large building (100 stores or so) still stands vacant and in amazingly good shape. For more information on this fabled mall visit DeadMalls.com and browse to Dixie Square in the Illinois section. [Thanks to Doug Holtz] As the mall was abandoned, the production company asked a lot of the stores to come back and decorate the fronts of their old stores. All the cars in the parking lot were mostly taken from local new car dealers to fill in the lot. As of today the inside is just about how it was left after the movie, except really run down in the past 20+ years. The only change is now the Harvey police department has built a station in one corner of the parking lot. Perhaps to await the return of Jake and Elwood! [Thanks to Albert] The location of the mall that was literally destroyed during the police chase scene was never mentioned. I had it on good authority from the husband of one of the stunt people that it was the old (or original) Fox Hills Mall, near West Los Angeles. It was being torn down to be rebuilt into a newer, larger shopping center.[Thanks to Bob Sardo] The mall used for the police chase in the movie was originally an abodoned building but during the making of the movie the creators thought that it would be funny to have a car chase scene through a mall so they built an entire replica of a mall out of the abondoned building for the scene [Thanks to david d] The scene that shows Jake & Elwood driving on the beach with the loudspeaker on top of the car was filmed at Bangs Lake in Wauconda. [Thanks to Jim C.] The Mall chase was filmed in "Dixie Square Mall" in Harvey IL, at approx Western and 150th street. The "Palace Hotel" is really a South Shore Country Club. The Demolished flophouse is "Pioneer" on Wabash in the loop? The car is first pulled over (by State Police) around Thacker and Devon in Park Ridge. [Thanks to L Redfield] The area where the Nazi Pinto falls to the ground from the overpass is actually a road salt storage area. It was chosen because when the movie was filmed it wasn't in use (no people around) -yet it was still within the city limits to show the skyline. [Thanks to Albert] The bridge in the park where they run the Nazi's off is Marquette Park,Chicago. Two blocks or less from the park is Rockwell Hall which was the actual headquarters for the Illinois Nazi Party. The park is at 67th and Kedzie and the hall was around 71st and Tallman. [Thanks to joey] You appear to be missing the 95th street bridge, the drawbridge jumped in the start of the movie. For those taking a trip to the bridge stop in at Calumet Fisheries. They have photos of the movie shoot on display. Great food there as well. From Downtown, take 41 south until you hit 95th street. Take a left on 95th street, it is the first drawbridge (0.5 mile) that you cross. Calumet Fisheries is on the south side of the street. The film was shot from the south side and all of the buildings on the north side of 95th street have been torn down seen in the film have been torn down. [Thanks to Jeff Terry] The entire sequence where the Bluesmobile is being chased by the Illinois Nazis down a freeway segment that ends (the Bluesmobile stops with the front wheels hanging off, they go into reverse and it flies over the Nazi's car which then drives off the freeway) was filmed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where there were freeway ramps left unfinished that were supposed to connect with a proposed Lake Freeway, which was never built. You can notice the shift as the Bluesmobile drives, a tall white building can be seen in the background which is the U.S. Bank (formerly FirStar, formerly First Wisconsin) building in Downtown Milwaukee. [Thanks to William Kucharski] The beach scene with the loudspeaker was at Phils beach in Waconda, IL [Thanks to Jim] Ray's Music Shop in Calumet City is not filmed in Calumet City. The mayor at thought that being in the movie would give the city "a bad image." [Thanks to Eric] The Holiday Inn where the brothers find Murph and the Magic tones is now a Days Inn located on Manheim Road north of I-294 , 1/2 mile south of O'Hare airport. [Thanks to Bobby] The church scene, with James Brown, is on the South Side at the corner of 91st and Burley. It still looks pretty much the same as it did in the movie. It is just a few blocks from the 95th street bridge they jump. [Thanks to Chas] CCL Custom Manufacturing, 1 Hegeler Lane, Danville, Illinois 61833 was where the deleted factory scenes with Dan Akroyd were filmed. There were even more scenes than what made the special DVD, including a speaking scene with the security and one where he walks out of the building, which my father is in. He was paid $50 to walk behind Akroyd. The woman working on the line is not Dan Akroyd's mother. The factory is much the same - and is in fact and always has been a high-production aerosol plant. I used to work in the same office they filmed the quitting scene in. They must have spent a fortune filming all the way down here in Danville, and none of the footage made the original cut. The plant is roughly 130 miles due south of downtown Chicago. Mr. Belushi was not on the Danville set - but director Landis was. [Thanks to Ben Taylor] The gas station scene in the movie was filmed at Gary's Mill Road and Il Route 59 in West Chicago. The vacant lot used was actually just north of an old existing gas station, which I believe wasn't used because there would've been too many houses in the background, and they wanted a more "middle-of-nowhere" look. [Thanks to Ed Barczak Jr.] The restaurant that Jake and Elwood visit to convince the "maitre d" to come back and join the band is the very expensive, very posh, Chez Paul. This is the same restaurant where Ferris Bueller was filmed where he poses as "Ed Frohman" the sausage king of Chicago [Thanks to Paula P.] The motel in the scene where Twiggy is shown waiting for Dan Akroyd to meet her at midnight is the West Wind Motel on Roosevelt Rd. in West Chicago, Il. It is still there and is on the south side of Roosevelt Rd. just east of Illinois Route 59.[Thanks to Tom Thomas] The "Ray's Music Exchange" building (with mural) was shot at 300 E.47th St. on the south side of Chicago. The mural is still there, and in amazingly good shape considering it's age. It's now a pawn shop, so the "Ray's Music Exchange" on the mural is covered up and says instead "Shelly's Loan Co.". You can actually buy musical instruments there! The big street dancing scene was also shot at that same location on 47th St., right under the elevated tracks. [Thanks to Jerry Eaglebarger] Jake and Elwoods Apartment was filmed at: 22 W. Van Buren Street, downtown Chicago, Ill. [Thanks to Dylan Tyler]
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The Soundtrack for this movie is great. The entire movie is scattered with great songs from many fine artists, and unlike a lot of movie soundtracks, the songs are an integral part of the movie. Our search device, below, has been programmed to take you to a special import, limited edition 35 Track 2CD Set Compiling 3 Albums: Blues Brothers Original Soundtrack, Definitive Collection, & Very Best Of. Also Features 2 Previously Unreleased Tracks. Grab it while you can! "The Girl from Ipanema" is the music that is played in the elevator scene - a piece of music which is present in other John Landis films. -Thanks to Joliet Jake« Click here to add new music trivia for Blues Brothers Soundtrack Available: On CD | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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