The Cast
Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly/Seamus McFly
Lea Thompson as Maggie McFly/Lorraine McFly
Matt Clark as Chester the Bartender
Marc McClure as Dave McFly
Jeffrey Weissman as George McFly
Todd Cameron Brown as Jules Brown
Hugh Gillin as Mayor Hubert
Kaleb Henley as Marshal Strickland’s son
James A. Rammel as Festival dance caller
Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton
James Tolkan as Chief Marshal James Strickland
Wendie Jo Sperber as Linda McFly
Flea as Douglas J. Needles
Dannel Evans as Verne Brown
Leslie A. Prickett as Celebration man
Brad McPeters as Eyepatch
Rod Kuehne as Ticket agent
Larry Ingold as Train fireman
Glenn Fox as Boy holding Marty’s gun
Freddie as Einstein
Time: 103 min
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
The supposed conclusion (You never know about sequels. They might just want to make one more) of the trilogy sends Marty McFly on a rescue mission to the year 1885, where he must save Doc Brown from death at the hands of yet another member of the Tannen clan. And the Western Mad Dog. However, there are a number of complications preventing a quick return to the future: a lack of gasoline for the time-traveling DeLorean, a band of gun slinging outlaws and a school m’am with affections for the smitten Doc.
Shot along with Back to the Future II, this final movie in the series is less hectic than the other two, in a whole new setting. The opening scene is mind blowing as they are transported to the outlaw west. Just imagine a poster of the wild in a drive in theater. You are heading towards it and then suddenly you are actually in the scene with a few Indians chasing you! In between Michael does meet his grandparents, the original immigrants to the US. A few scenes are touching. Family bonding is, isn’t it?
Michael J. Fox’s character ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of Christopher Lloyd at the hands of a gunman. Director Robert Zemeckis successfully blends special effects with a Western cowboy story, and comes up with something original and fun. This movie has more laughs than the first two.. Though the first had sweet romance as the mother romances her son, this one has more laughs- pure laughs..silly laughs. Watch the scenes where Mad Dog makes him dance.
Eventually, this series is a fun filled scifi flick.
Trivia
In the scene where ’’Mad Dog’’ tries to lynch Marty, Michael J. Fox was accidentally hanged, rendering him unconscious for a short time. He records this in his autobiography ’’Lucky Man’’ (2002)
As in all the movies of this series, Mad Dog ends up eating horse shit… and the one liner ‘I hate shit’
First movie to use Universal’s new 75th Anniversary opening studio logo. The logo ran until 1997.
Actor and former President Ronald Reagan was originally approached to play the part of Mayor Hubert because of his fondness for the first film in the trilogy. He reluctantly turned down the role, and the part went to Hugh Gillin instead.
Marty uses a Frisbie pie plate to knock a gun out of Mad Dog’s hand. In 1871, the Frisbie Pie Company started in Connecticut. Their pie pans were thrown on the campus of Yale and these eventually lead to the invention of Frisbees (tm).