I'm confused. There's only one Larry Linville noted on imdb.com, but I can't believe the LL in this movie is the same one who was in M*A*S*H on TV all those years. I saw this movie a few years ago, saw Dr. Bob, and it's just not the same LL - can't be. AND in LL's movie listing, there's a movie listed for 2002, 2 yrs after LL's death! Are there 2 LLs and imdb combined their movie histories?
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In the actual credits of the movie, Linville as "Dr. Bob" and Rick Overton as "Dr. Rick" are both given top credits, almost next to Davis and Goldblum. However, I just watched the DVD and don't recall either Overton or "old ferret face" in the film! Maybe they are lost in those TV spoofs the aliens were watching? But then why the high billing? They'd only be on screen for a few seconds each!
I know where 'Old Farrett Face' is. If you have a widescreen verison, you can see him and Rick Overton (sans facial hair) when Ted is working out at the gym. Rick has the first few lines and Larry, well, all he says is Ah. But, he is seen.
I think he should have been given more screen time so people could recongize him.
it took me a couple of viewings to figure this one out too, but the above poster is right. he's in the gym scene, which may have been a bigger scene that got cut down. at any rate, Larry Linville probably was given such high billing because he was one of the bigger "stars" at the time. remember, this was at the beginning of most of the main character's careers. let me clarify that statement. although this film was released theatrically in 1988, it was filmed much earlier than that. i think it was around 1984 or '85. so even tho The Fly was released before EGAE, this is the film they met and fell in love on - i'm talking about Geena and Jeff, of course.
shareAnd I fell in love with Gina when I first saw her in Accidental Tourist. Then everyone fell for her in Beetlejuice.
Getting back on the subject, both Earth Girls players Linville and Rocket are dead now, though. A double loss.
Well, I'm responding to an ancient post, but thedivas-1 has some misinformation here. The film was not released in 1988, it was released in 1989 (as usual, imdb is off). Goldblum and Davis met while working on TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000, which came out in 1985. EARTH GIRLS was filmed in 1987/early 1988, after THE FLY -- it was supposed to go into production in 1986, but director Julien Temple's ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS bombed, so nervous studio executives delayed EARTH GIRLS' production (and it eventually changed studios numerous times).
The original cut of the film "was a problem" (according to marketing and distribution president Larry Gleason, of the doomed DEG, who were backing the film), so it underwent more than five months of editing and reshoots ("'Cause I'm a Blonde" was added after the initial filming had wrapped). Presumably, Linville and Overton had bigger roles but were basically trimmed out of the movie -- which seems to frequently happen. I can think of several films were actors are credited in the film's credits despite the fact they've been completely removed from the movies.
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