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The Terminator (1984)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1984
Running Times: 107m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono/Dolby Digital/Dolby EX 6.1 (re-release)
DIRECTION
Director: James Cameron
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cinema 84 / Euro Film Funding / Hemdale Film Corporation
/ Pacific Western
Executive In Charge Of Production: Bruce M. Kerner
Executive Producers: John Daly, Derek Gibbon
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Production Manager: Donna Smith
Production Co-Ordinator: Kathy Breen
Assistant Production Co-Ordinator: Anne St Johns
SCRIPT
Script: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Original Screenplays: Soldier and Demon
with a Glass Hand by Harlan Ellison (credited
on only later prints)
Additional Dialogue: William Wisher
DIRECTION
Director: James Cameron
2nd Unit Director (Action): Jean-Paul Ouellette
2nd Unit Director (Effects): Stan Winston
1st Assistant Director: Betsy Magruder
Additional 1st Assistant Director: Thomas Irvine
2nd Assistant Director: Robert Roda
Script Supervisor: Brenda Weisman
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Sharon Kirkpatrick
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Adam Greenberg
2nd Unit Director Of Photography: Chuck Colwell
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Sean McLin
Insert Photography Camera Operator: Anne Coffey
Additional Camera Operator: Alec Hirschfeld
Assistant Camera: Vance Piper
Insert Photography Camera Assistant: Gary Wagner
Electricians: Mark Morton, Mark Peterson, Rick West
Best Boy Electric: Tim Morton
Best Boy: Mark Ellensohn
Gaffer: Dennis Bishop
Key Grip: Dylan Shephard
Grips: Bruce Byall, Elliot Nachbar, Tim Collins (uncredited)
Dolly Grip: David Michels
2nd Unit Grip And Equipment: Mario Davis
Focus Puller: Bernard Auroux
Colour Consultant: Peter Silverman
Stills: Joyce Rudolph
Video Playback Operator: Roger Schweitzer
Labs: Consolidated Film Industries, Hollywood, California, USA
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Mark Goldblatt
1st Assistant Editor: Lorna Anderson
Assistant Editor: Spike Allison Hooper
Associate Editor: Michael Bloecher
Negative Cutter: Mary Nelson
Post-Production Supervisor: Donna Smith
Post-Production Services: Consolidated Film Industries
MUSIC
Music: Brad Fiedel
Songs: Ricky Phillips (You Can't Do That); Jay Ferguson (Pictures of
You); Tahnee Cain, Pug Baker, Jonathan Cain (Photoplay); Linn Van Hek,
Joe Dolce (Intimacy); Tahnee Cain, Mugs Cain, Dave Amato, Brett Tuggle,
Ricky Phillips (Burnin' In The Third Degree)
Songs Performed By: Tryanglz (You Can't Do That; Photoplay; Burnin'
In The Third Degree); 16mm (Pictures of You); Linn Van Hek (Intimacy)
Music Editor: Emilie Robertson
Music Consultant: Budd Carr
Music Post-Production Co-Ordinator: Robert Randles
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Richard Lightstone
Boom Operator: Kenneth Brocious
Re-Recording Mixers: David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe, Terry Porter
Supervising Sound Editor: David Campling
Assistant Sound Editor: Elizabeth Barnard
Sound Effects: Mayflower Films Inc
Synthesized Sound Effects: Robert Garrett
Sound Effects Editors: Greg Dillon, Jim Fritch, Jim Klinger, Mike Le-Mare,
Horace Manzanares, Gil Marchant, Rob Miller, Gary Shepherd, Karola Storr
Foley Artists: Gordon Daniel, John Post
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Hilary Wright
Costume Supervisor: Deborah Everton
Second Unit Costumer: Julia Gombert
Costume Production Assistant: Virginia Hartman
Make Up Department Head: Jefferson Dawn
2nd Unit Make Up: Kyle Tucy
Hair: Peter Tothpal
2nd Unit Hair: Kyle Tucy
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Fantasy II Film Effects; Stan Winston Studio
Special Effects Co-Ordinator: Ernest D. Farino
Special Terminator Effects Created By: Stan Winston
Terminator Special Effects: Jack Bricker, Richard Landon, Shane Mahan,
John Rosengrant, Brian Wade, Tom Woodruff Jr
Terminator Mechanical Effects: Ellis Burman Jr, Bob Williams
Special Effects: Frank DeMarco, Roger George
Mechanical Effects: David B. Miller
Assistant Mechanical Effects: Ron Macinnes
Process Photography Cinematographer: Austin McKinney
Process Photography Camera Assistant: Eric Peterson
Process Photography Rear Screen Projectionist: Gerald McClain
Process Photography Technical Assistant: Steven Fagerquist
Optical Effects: Image Three
Opticals: Ray Mercer and Company
Fantasy II Film Effects
Production Supervisor: Leslie Huntley
Special Effects Supervisor: Gene Warren Jr
Terminator Stop Motion: Peter Kleinow
Stop Motion Terminator Model: Doug Beswick
Model Shop Supervisor: Michael Joyce
Model Makers: Paul Kassler, Gary Rhodaback
Pyrotechnics and Fire Effects: Joseph Viskocil
Optical Effects: Phil Huff, Laurel Klick
Special Optical Consultant: Mark Sawicki
Matte Artist: Ken Marschall
Camera Operator: John Huneck
Production Assistants: Don Bland, Jane A. Pahlman
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: George Costello
Assistant Art Director: Shay Austin
Set Decorator: Maria Rebman Caso
Set Dressers: Cindy Rebman, Greg Wolf
Property Master: Tommy Estridge
Assistant Property Master: Kerry Jennings
Graphic Effects Animator / Title Designer: Ernest D. Farino
Construction Supervisor: John Curran
Carpenters: Mark Freedman, David Reece, Stephen Reece
Scenic Artists: Amy McGary, Kristen McGary
Art Assistants: Kurt Meisenbach, Jewel Myrow, Stephen Rinehart, Jennie
Ryan, Linda Schoeneck
Lead Man: Gary Schoeneck
OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: Marilyn Tasso
Assistant Production Accountant: Jo Barnett
Set Production Assistants: George Parra, Deborah A. Hebert
Production Assistant: Scott Javine
2nd Unit Production Assistant: Terry Benedict
Assistants to Producer: Polly Apostolof, J. Randolph Harrison, T. Elizabeth
Sonne
Assistant to the Art Director: Joe Rainey
Craft Service: Eric Rasmussen
First Aid: Pattison Newberry
Publicist: Andrew Marx
Transportation Co-Ordinator: Wayne Stone
Transportation Captain: Wayne Nelson
Utility Man: Kevin Patterson
Robots Supplied and Operated By: Ellison Machinery Co; Yaskawa Electric
America
Laser Guns: Laser Products Corporation
Animals Supplied By: Birds and Animals Unlimited
Insurance: Albert G. Ruben and Company Inc
Vehicles Provided By: Studio Picture Vehicles
Completion Services: Film Finances Inc
LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA; South Pasadena, California,
USA
Location Manager: Joseph A. Liuzzi
STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Ken Fritz
Stunts: Tony Cecere, Jeff Dashnow, Hill Farnsworth, J. Suzanne Fish,
Marion Green, Tom Hart, Gene Hartline, Jean Malahni, Gary McLarty, Frank
Orsatti, Jim Stern, Peter Turner
Stunt Double For Arnold Schwarzenegger: Peter Kent (uncredited)
CASTING
Casting: Stanzi Stokes
Extras Casting Co-Ordinator: Gregory Robbins
Extras Casting: Christal Blue Casting
Talent Co-Ordinator: Michael Thomas Slifkin
CAST
Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator)
Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese)
Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor)
Paul Winfield (Detective Lieutenant Ed Traxler)
Lance Henriksen (Detective Vukovich)
Rick Rossovich (Matt)
Bess Motta (Ginger)
Earl Boen (Dr Silberman)
Dick Miller (pawn shop clerk)
Shawn Schepps (Nancy)
Bruce M. Kerner (desk sergeant)
Franco Columbu (future terminator)
Bill Paxton (punk leader)
Brad Rearden, Brian Thompson (punks)
William Wisher Jr, Ken Fritz, Tom Oberhaus (policemen)
Ed Dogans (cop in alley)
Joe Farago (TV anchorman)
Hettie Lynne Hurtes (TV anchorwoman)
Tony Mirelez (station attendant)
Philip Gordon, Anthony T. Trujillo (Mexican boys)
Stan Yale (derelict)
Al Kahn, Leslie Morris, Hugh Farrington, Harriet Medin, Loree Frazier,
James Ralston (customers)
Norman Friedman (cleaning man)
Barbara Powers (ticket taker)
Wayne Stone (tanker driver)
David Pierce (tanker partner)
John E. Bristol (phone booth man)
Webster Williams (reporter)
Patrick Pinney (bar customer)
Bill W. Richmond (bartender)
Chino 'Fats' Williams (truck driver)
Gregory Robbins (motel customer)
Marianne Muellerleile (wrong Sarah)
John Durban (sentry)
PLOT SUMMARY
In the near future, the defence computer SkyNet
turns on humanity and conquers the world with its army of Terminator
cyborgs. A resistance movement fights back and is gaining ground. To
prevent defeat, SkyNet hatches a desperate plan - a Terminator is sent
back in time to 1984 to track down and kill Sarah Connor, the mother
of the still unborn leader of the resistance, John Connor. In turn,
the resistance send one of their own back through time to try to protect
her.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Still Cameron's best film and one
of the key science fiction movies of the 1980s. Schwarzenegger was
never going to be this good again in the role he was born to play.
Carefully plotted (the time paradox stuff actually makes some sort
of sense), brilliantly directed and tightly edited it's the kind of
film that Cameron should have continued to make instead of getting
bogged down in the popular but vapid effects-fests that marked the
rest of his career. A landmark film that still works as well now as
it did when it first opened.
AVAILABILITY
France
Laserdisc Distributor: TF1 Video (500164 - includes: theatrical trailer;
French theatrical trailer)
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (1591745Z7 - includes: deleted
scenes; making of documentary; DVD-ROM features); TF 1 Video
Germany
Video Distributor: VCL Communications GmbH
DVD Distributor: MAWA Film & Medien (22608); MAWA Film & Medien
(50208)
UK
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (15917 DVD - includes: Terminator:
A Retrospective documentary; Other Voices documentary; terminated scenes;
James Cameron artwork; production and visual effects stills; publicity
materials; original treatment script stills)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Orion Pictures Corporation
Video Distributor: Video Distributors: Artisan Entertainment; Home Box
Office; Thorn EMI
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 2940 NSB - includes:
original theatrical trailer); Image Entertainment (ID 6677 HB); Image
Entertainment (ID 8316 HD); Hemdale (2535)
DVD Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 3949 NSBDVD); MGM Home Entertainment
(15917 DVD - Special Edition)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 16
Australia
Rating: M
Chile
Rating: 18
Finland
Rating: K-16
Norway
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18 (in 1984); 15 (in 2001)
USA
Rating: R
West Germany
Rating: 18
AWARDS
1985
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA (Saturn
Awards)
Best Make-Up (Stan Winston) - winner
Best Science Fiction Film - winner
Best Writing (James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd) - winner
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
Grand Prize (James Cameron) - winner
TIMELINE
1984
October
26: USA - theatrical release
1985
January
11: UK - theatrical release
February
8: Sweden - theatrical release
15: Finland - theatrical release
March
25: West Germany - theatrical release
28: Norway - theatrical release
April
18: Argentina - theatrical release
24: France - theatrical release
1991
July
Day Unknown: USA - laserdisc release (Image Entertainment (ID 8316 HD))
1995
March
22: USA - laserdisc release (Image Entertainment (ID 2940 NSB))
1997
September
3: USA - DVD release (Image Entertainment (ID 3949 NSBDVD))
1998
August
1: Germany - DVD release (MAWA Film & Medien (22608))
December
8: France - DVD release (TF 1 Video)
2001
February
21: France - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (1591745Z7))
March
16: UK - theatrical re-release
19: UK - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (15917 DVD))
POSTER TAGS
The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end.
In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet
devised the ultimate plan. The would reshape the Future by changing
the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No
fear. Something unstoppable. They created 'THE TERMINATOR'
LINKS
SEQUELS
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
Terminator 3 (2002)
SEE ALSO
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
Encino Man (1992)
It's Tough to Be a Bug (1999)
La jetée (1962)
Otto - Der Neue Film (1987)
Planet of Junior Brown, The (1997)
Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
The Wizard of Oz (1991)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)
He's Back...
The Terminator Story (2003)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
DVD Review no.20 (2000) p.6 (UK)
illustrated note (World News: Prepare to Terminate!)
Entertainment Weekly no.565 (27 October
2000) p.126 (UK)
review (by Daniel Fierman)
Hollywood no.12 (October 1996) p.72 (Croatia)
review (by Rade Dragojevic)
Premiere April 1985 p.13 (France)
review (by Jean-Philippe Guerand)
Total Film no.159 (October 2009) p.77 (UK)
illustrated article (In His Own Words James Cameron)
Video Watchdog no.8 p.19 (USA)
review
NEWSPAPERS
Diário de Notícias (14 April 1999) p.55
(Portugal)
article
BOOKS
The Psychotronic Video Guide p.561
credits, review
The Terminator (London: BFI Modern Classics
(1996))
review (by Susan French)
KEYWORDS
cyborgs, time travel, the future, hydraulic presses,
department stores, los angeles, motorcycles, forensic psychologists,
lasers, waitresses, artificial intelligence, computers, war, factories,
post-apocalypse, trucks, motels, gas stations, police stations, police,
cyberpunk
Last Updated:
30 October, 2009
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