1955 continued @ Future Features

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NOV 12 SAT

NOTE

It seems most likely that Marty-as-Calvin didn't just hang around at Doc's all week. Marty asks George after the Darth Vader incident where he has been all day, suggesting he's been at school. This makes sense, given he can have more control over the situation he has caused if he's at school than if he "disappears"

PART 1

6:00 AM

Doc lands the Delorean behind the billboard at the Lyon Estates, just as Marty did a week ago on November 5, 1955 on his first trip through time

PART 2

NOTE

Biff lives with his grandmother, Gertrude Tannen, at 1809 Mason St. A sign out front says 'No Trespassers. Violators will be prosecuted. This means You! Another sign says 'Keep off the Grass'

PART 2

12:00 PM

Old Biff arrives in 1955.

Note: 12PM is a guess-timate based on several different sources of information, none of which completely agree on the exact time.

PART 2

NOTE

When Biff is harassing Lorraine on the street, there is a Zale's Jewellers in the background

By 1985 Zale's Jewellers has moved to the Lone Pine Mall and is advertised on a bench in this same square

PART 1 & 2

NOTE

Not only do Marty's clothes stand out, he's not being very careful. He's almost seen by Old Biff who is hiding behind a tree

PART 2

NOTE

UCLA did, in reality, beat Washington 19 to 17 on November 12, 1955! Read the details here

PART 2

MULTIPLICITY

Not only are there two Martys in town, there are also two Doc Browns and two Biffs. Plus, up until Old Biff leaves, there are three Deloreans - one in Doc Brown's garage, one behind the Lyon Estates billboard, the one that Old Biff brought back from 2015

PART 2

6:38 PM

NOTE

Old Biff leaves 1955

PART 2

What has Old Biff being doing all this time? Check out the official Bob Gale/Robert Zemeckis FAQ answer here

PART 2

7:55 PM

Marty and Doc Brown are at the clock tower

PART 1

QUOTE

Doc Brown: "Are you sure about this storm?"
Marty: "Since when can the weatherman predict the weather, let alone the future."

PART 1

NOTE

While Doc talks about the future and then warns Marty not to tell him any more, a man in the background rides past on a familiar bicycle. He is dressed very much like the Doc Brown from the future in Part II, including the hat.

Zemeckis and Gale must have noticed this guy in the background while writing the sequel. Here, though, he is riding toward the cafe, whereas in Part II he is riding toward the clocktower itself.

Obviously, Doc Brown isn't supposed to be in 1955 at this point in the evolution of the timeline - but it is a very clever reference point between the two films.

PART 1

MUSICAL NOTE

"Papa Loves Mambo" performed by Perry Como ... playing on the radio in Biff's car as he approaches the tunnel on his way to the dance

PART 2

FROM THE CINEMA

The tunnel here is the same one used as the entrance to ToonTown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

PART 2

QUOTE

Doc Brown 85: (on walkie-talkie to Marty) "Whatever happens, you must not let your other self see you. The consequences could be disastrous."
Doc Brown: "Excuse me, sir. Yes, you with the hat."
Doc Brown 85: "Who me?"
Doc Brown: "Yes, be a pal and hand my 5/8 wrench out of that toolbox."
Doc Brown 85: "5/8? Don't you mean 3/4?"
Doc Brown: "Why, you're right."
Doc Brown 85: "I presume you're conducting some sort of weather experiment."
Doc Brown: "That's right. How did you know that?"
Doc Brown 85: "Oh, I happen to have a little experience in this area."
Doc Brown: "Yes, well, I'm hoping to see some lightning tonight , although the weatherman says there is not going to be any rain."
Doc Brown 85: "There's going to be plenty of rain alright. Wind, thunder, lightning. It's going to be one hell of a storm."
Doc Brown: "Well, thanks. Nice talking to you. Maybe we'll bump into each other some time again in the future."
Doc Brown 85: "Or in the past."

PART 2

QUOTE

NOTE

Marty: (reading over a letter he's written) "Dear Doctor Brown, On the night I go back in time, you will be shot by terrorists. Please take whatever precautions are necessary to prevent this terrible disaster. Your friend, Marty."

PART 1

The letter also specifies the time Doc Brown is killed - 1:30 AM. The envelope Marty puts the letter in is marked 'Do Not Open Until 1985.' The envelope is from Lou's Cafe - Hill and Main, Hill Valley, California

PART 1

CUT!

When the policeman asks to see Doc Brown's permit, the Doc offers him a bribe of 20 dollars. The cop hopes Doc Brown doesn't set fire to anything "this time". Doc assures him that he won't. After the cop leaves, Marty reveals his apprehension over this plan to "hit on" his mother - worrying that it might screw him up permanently! There is also a touching line from Marty - worrying about when he might disappear, if the plan doesn't work. Doc's response is less-than-helpful! (But amusing...)

DVD alert! This scene is included on the disc for Part I

PART 1

NOTE

The footage of Crispin Glover as George McFly shot for BTTF dancing at the "Enchantment Under the Sea" is the most obvious use of Crispin Glover's image as George McFly in the BTTF sequel. Glover sued Universal Studios and Executive Producer Stephen Spielberg over the improper use of his image in a film that he was not starring in or receiving any residual payments for. The proceeding was settled "with mutual satisfaction." SAG (the Screen Actors' Guild) now has strict rules about the illicit use of an actor's image because of the legal action brought about by Crispin Glover

PART 2

MUSICAL NOTE

"Night Train" Performed by Marvin Berry and the Starlighters ... at the 'Enchantment Under the Sea' Dance

PART 1

QUOTE

OUT OF THE BOX

Strickland: "One day I'll have you right where I want you - in detention."

PART 2

With the above quote, screenwriter Bob Gale references himself in an homage to an episode of "Amazing Stories" (1985) that he co-wrote with Mick Garris and Tom McLoughlin. In the episode, No. 32 - "Go to the Head of the Class" (which originally aired: 21 November 1986), the line is uttered by actor Christopher Lloyd. BTTF co-creator Robert Zemeckis directed this episode of the Stephen Spielberg-produced anthonology series

PART 2

NOTE

Marty watches himself and Lorraine arrive for the 'Enchantment Under the Sea Dance'

PART 2

NOTE

Marty discovers his mother drank and smoked while at high school

PART 1

CUT!

CONTINUITY

QUOTE

Part of the scene with Marty and Lorraine in the car was cut for the original film but was reinstated for the sequel

PART 1 & 2

We can hear the additional dialogue in Part II as Marty slides past the car

PART 2

Lorraine: "When I have kids, I'm going to let them do anything they want. Anything."
Marty (in the car): "I'd like to have that in writing."
Marty (outside the car): "Yeah, me too."

PART 2

8:59 PM

George checks his watch. It's time for Marty's plan to go into action

PART 1

CUT!

NOVEL APPROACH

A scene cut from the final film should go here. Not trusting his watch, George goes outside to a phonebox to check the time. While in there, the red-headed kid who later tries to cut in on him at the dance with Lorraine locks George inside the phone booth. But Strickland happens along and lets him out of the phonebooth in time. In the novelisation, George gets trapped in the bathroom, when he goes there after getting sick from anxiety

DVD alert! This scene is included on the disc for Part I

PART 1

In the novelisation, George gets trapped in the bathroom, when he goes there after getting sick from anxiety

PART 1

NOTE

The sign on Strickland's office door gives his initials as S.S. This is surely a dig at Strickland's strictness being Nazi-like. Also, under his name is the single word "Discipline," which resonates nicely with what Marshall Strickland tells his son back in 1885 - to remember that word. It has been passed through a couple of generations, obviously

In the novelisation for Part I, Strickland's first name is given as Gerald, although it was never given in the fourth draft script by Gale and Zemeckis

PART 2

MUSICAL NOTE

"Pledging My Love" by Johnny Ace ... playing on the radio (faintly)

PART 1

QUOTE

Lorraine: "This is all wrong. I don't know what it is but when I kiss you, it's like I'm kissing my brother. This doesn't make any sense, does it?"
Marty: "Believe me, it makes perfect sense."

PART 1

NOTE

Marty's plan seems to go out the window when Biff arrives to take the $300 in damages to his car out of Marty's ass

PART 1

NOTE

Marty discovers that what Strickland confiscated from Biff was not Grey's Sports Almanac, but a girlie magazine named Oh La La

PART 2

FUTURE HISTORY

George sticks to the plan, but has to face Biff, forever changing their relationship

PART 1

NOTE

When George goes to hit Biff, his hand gesture - the flex - is reminiscent of a gesture he make in 1985 early in the original film

PART 1

QUOTE

NOTE

Marty: "Talk about deja vu."

PART 2

He watches as George helps Lorraine up, just as he did the last time he was here, but from a different angle

PART 2

QUOTE

Marty: "Okay. Everybody let's back up now, let's backup, let's everybody just back up. Give him a little bit of room. Okay, a little bit of air. It's okay. I know CPR, I know CPR."
Guy in crowd: "What's CPR?"
(Biff regains consciousness.)
Biff: (to Marty) "You!"
(Marty punches him, knocking him out and takes the Sports Almanac and runs off)
Guy in crowd: "Hey, did you just take his wallet? Hey, he just took that guy's wallet."

PART 2

NOTE

Doc Brown flies off from behind Lyon Estates Billboard, catching the penant string on the undercarriage of the Delorean. The destination readout is still playing up

PART 2

THE PHOTOGRAPH

Dave is completely gone. Half of Linda is also missing

PART 1

9:31 PM

Doc Brown is at the clocktower as the winds begin to whip up

PART 1

QUOTE

Doc Brown: "The storm..."

PART 1

QUOTE

Marty: "Hey guys, you gotta get back in there and finish the dance."
Band Member #1: "Hey man, look at Marvin's hand. He can't play with his hand like that and we can't play without him."
Marty: "Look Marvin, you gotta play. See, that's where they kiss for the first time on the dancefloor. And if there's no music they can't dance. And if they can't dance, they can't kiss. And if they can't kiss, they can't fall in love and I'm history."

PART 1

MUSICAL NOTE

"Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" by Performed by Marvin Berry and the Starlighters

PART 1

NOTE

Marty begins to lose the ability to play guitar when George is prevented from kissing Lorraine

PART 1

THE PHOTOGRAPH

Now Linda is gone and Marty is fading from the picture

PART 1

NOTE

The red-headed guy who cuts in on George and Lorraine is the same guy who was kicking George in the ass in the school hallway

PART 1

NOTE

Marty's hand becomes transparent in front of his eyes

PART 1

NOTE

George and Lorraine kiss

PART 1

NOTE

Marty is chased into the gym by Biff's gang

PART 2

QUOTE

Skinhead: "Where'd he go? He just came in here?"
3-D: "Look. How'd he get up on stage?"
Skinhead: "I dunno, but when he gets down we're gonna nail him."
Match: "How the hell he change his clothes so fast?"

PART 2

QUOTE

Marty: "This is an oldy but - well, it's an oldy where I come from... Guys, this is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes and try to keep up."

PART 1

MUSICAL NOTE

NOTE

"Johnny B. Goode" Performed by Marty McFly with the Starlighters

PART 1

This track is actually credited at the end of the film as above, with the name Marty McFly. Accoring to the liner notes of the soundtrack CD, Marvin Berry is sung by Harry Waters and Marty McFly is sung by Mark Campbell.

The guitar Marty plays is Gibson ES-345, a model which didn't exist until 1959

PART 1

NOTE

Marty climbs up to the rigging above the stage where his earlier self is playing Johnny B. Goode

PART 2

QUOTE

NOTE

Marvin: "Chuck, Chuck. It's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you've been looking for? Well, listen to this!"

PART 1

Of course, Chuck Berry originally recorded this song

PART 1

QUOTE

CONTINUITY

Lorraine: "That was very interesting music."

PART 1

Lea Thompson's delivery of this line is noticeably different in Part II. Also, in the original we can see George in the background waiting to take Lorraine home. Obviously it was reshot so as not to include George in the frame. Due to Cripsin Glover's lawsuit in regard to the use of his image, the producer's were playing it safe - to a degree. There is an insert of Crispin as George at the dance in Part II anyway.

PART 2

QUOTE

George: "Marty, I'd like to thank you for all your advice. I'll never forget it."

PART 1

NOTE

Marty watches as his other self talks with Lorraine and George, but he's interrupted by Biff

PART 2

CONTINUITY

On his way out of the gym, Marty slams the door open, where he was pretty gentle with it in the original film. Of course, in the sequel, he has to hit himself in the face

PART 2

QUOTE

NOTE

Lorraine: "Marty, such a nice name."

PART 1

Before Marty went back in time, he may well have been named after Seamus McFly's brother, Martin. Marty may well be a common family name

PART 1 & 3

QUOTE

Biff: "Are you, chicken? That's it, isn't it? Nothing but a little chicken."
Marty: "Nobody calls me chick-"
(Marty gets hit in the face with a door that is slammed open by the earlier version of him.)

PART 2

QUOTE

Marty: "There he is, Doc. Let's land on him and cripple his car."
Doc Brown: "Marty, he's in a '46 Ford. We're in a Delorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil."
Marty: "So, what do we do?"
Doc Brown: "I have a plan."

PART 2

NOTE

As Marty hovers alongside Biff's car, the radio reports the football scores of the day and also mentions they will repeat the earlier (and misleading) weather forecast. The storm is only just starting then

PART 2

NOTE

The Doc rescues Marty by dropping the pennant string down to him from the Delorean above

PART 2

FUTURE HISTORY

Biff's Pleasure Paradise matchbook changes to Biff's Auto Detailing

PART 2

NOTE

There is considerable irony in Marty destroying the Almanac with matches from Biff's Pleasure Paradise

PART 2

H.V. TELEGRAPH

Changes from GEORGE McFLY MURDERED - Local Author Shot Dead to GEORGE McFLY HONORED - Local Author Receives Award

PART 2

H.V. TELEGRAPH

NOTE

Changes from EMMET BROWN COMMITTED - Crackpot Inventor Declared Legally Insane to EMMETT BROWN COMMENDED - Local Inventor Receives Civic Award
Other news item changes from:
* Nixon to seek Fifth term to * Reagan to seek second term;
* BiffCo to Build New Dioxin Plant to * Mayor Wilson Vetoes Zoning Bill

PART 2

The photograph of Doc Brown being commended is a homage to news anchor Charles Kurault, who once appeared in a photograph in the same pose - crossing his arms, holding a plaque, shaking hands

PART 2

MULTIPLICITY

There are two Martys, two Docs and two De Loreans - one at the Clock Tower and one flying above the Lyons Estate billboard

PART 2

QUOTE

FROM THE CINEMA

Doc Brown: "I almost bought the farm!"

PART 2

This is another reference to the film The Right Stuff, which is homaged in the opening credit sequence of Part II and referenced again in Part III. The pilots use the term frequently in the film and it becomes synonymous with the fight pilot-jock image throughout the picture. It is appropriate, then, that Doc says it when he is flying in the DeLorean

PART 2

9:45 PM

Doc Brown is struck by lightning and is sent back to 1885

PART 2

MULTIPLICITY

There are two Martys and two De Loreans - one at the Clock Tower and one buried in the Delgado mine... as soon as the "time ripple effect" catches up

PART 2

QUOTE

Western Union Man: "Mr McFly?"
Marty: "Huh?"
Western Union Man: "Is your name Marty McFly?"
Marty: "Yeah?"
Western Union Man: "I've got something for you. A letter."
Marty: "A letter for me? That's impossible. Who the hell are you?"
Western Union Man: "Western Union."

PART 2

QUOTE

Marty: (reading from letter) "Dear Marty, if my calculations are correct you will receive this letter immediately after you saw the Delorean struck by lightning. First let me assure you that I am alive and well. I've been living happily these past eight months in the year 1885. The lightning bolt- 1885?! September 1, 1885."

PART 2

9:56 PM

Doc is waiting impatiently for Marty

PART 1

NOTE

Doc Brown carries at least three watches. It seems his obsession with time has been long-held, or at least since he hit his head

PART 1

THE PHOTOGRAPH

Everyone has been restored to the photograph

PART 1

9:58 PM

A branch breaks off a tree and disconnects the lighting rod on top of the clock tower from the wire that has been strung between two lamp posts

PART 1

9:59 PM

Doc Brown gets to the top the clock tower to repair the damage

PART 1

10:00 PM

The clock begins to chime, almost causing Doc Brown to fall to his death, which would cause a major paradox...

PART 1

10:01 PM

Marty takes off in the Delorean and Doc Brown begins to climb across the clock-face...

PART 1

NOTE

Doc Brown breaks a piece off the ledge under the clock, they haven't fixed that by 1985 either

PART 1

NOTE

Doc can clearly be seen to be wearing velcro lacing shoes in this sequences. Velcro shoes weren't sold until the 1960s

These shoes are from Doc's 1985 suitcase that contained the hairdryer from the previous "Darth Vader" scene... History remains unchanged

PART 1

10:02 PM

Again, Doc Brown almost falls and Marty is having trouble getting the Delorean started...

PART 1

10:03 PM

The Delorean reaches 75 MPH, but the Doc still hasn't fixed the problem with the wires...

PART 1 & 3

10:04 PM

Marty leaves 1955 at 88MPH after the clock-tower is struck by lightning to arrive in 1985

PART 1, 2 & 3

FROM THE CINEMA

The TOWN complex is showing The Atomic Kid (1954)

PART 1, 2 & 3

MULTIPLICITY

There is now only a single Marty and De Lorean in 1955, the car being in the Delgado mine. There are two Docs, however. One at the clocktower and one buried in the cemetary near the Delgado mine!

PART 2 & 3

10:05 PM

Marty arrives at the courthouse square

PART 2 & 3

QUOTE

Marty: "Doc. Doc. Doc, Doc!"
Doc Brown: "What?"
Marty: "Doc!"
(Doc Brown turns, sees who it is and screams.)
Marty: "Relax, Doc. It's me. It's me, it's Marty."
Doc Brown: "No, it can't be. I just sent you back to the future."
Marty: "Oh, I know you did. You did send me back to the future. But I'm back. I'm back from the future." Doc Brown: "Great Scott!"

Doc Brown faints and hits his head on the road, again threatening a paradox.

PART 2 & 3

END CREDITS

Back to the Future, Part II

After the 'To Be Concluded...' notation, the original release prints of Part II included scenes from Part III with titles at the end which read: Back to the Future, Part III - Coming Summer 1990. Not surprisingly, the Coming Summer 1990 was dropped from the video release. Also not surprisingly, the Part III montage is usually dropped for network television airings

PART 2

CONTINUED...