We’ve all seen Caddyshack a numerous amount of times. We watch it, we quote it, we cuddle with it. It’s part of our DNA. Here are 10 things you may not have known about the greatest golf film ever made.
10. While the movie was filmed in Ft Lauderdale, FL the country club was supposed to be located in Kentucky. In preparation for filming certain scenes they spent many days spray painting the grass blue around the clubhouse.
9. According to ‘Harold Ramis on the DVD Commentary, he claims that he wanted to score the movie to Pink Floyd music but the studio wouldn’t allow him to do that.
8. The gopher sequences were written and filmed after most of the movie was shot. Originally, director Harold Ramis wanted to cast a live animal to play the gopher. When that did not work out, the animatronic gopher and its tunnels were built by John Dykstra.
7. The rowdy, improvisational atmosphere around the filming, created by Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Rodney Dangerfield, didn’t sit well with all the members of the cast. Ted Knight, widely regarded as a very nice man, got fed up with the constant shenanigans. Initially, Murray’s and Dangerfield’s role were to be cameo appearances. But their deft improvising caused their roles to be expanded much to the chagrin of Scott Colomby and some of the other cast members whose roles were reduced as a result.
6. The scene where Carl and Ty are talking in Carl’s “house” was almost entirely improvised between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase.
5. The second story of the clubhouse was fake, it was only added for the movie and was empty inside.
4. The song played on the radio attached to Al Czervik’s golf bag (during the actual filming of the movie) was “My Sharona” but was replaced with “Anyway You Want It” in post production.
3. In the scene where the Bishop (played by veteran actor Henry Wilcoxon) is having his best round of golf ever during a thunderstorm, he misses an easy putt, looks skyward and yells “rat farts!”, and is immediately struck down by a bolt of lightning. The background music in this scene was from Cecil B. DeMille’s classic The Ten Commandments (1956), in which Wilcoxon played the part of Pentaur.
2. The song being played by the musical horn on Al Czervik’s Rolls Royce is “We’re In The Money”
1. The noise the Gopher makes are actually vocalized by a dolphin, and the dolphin sound effects used are the same ones that were used for “Flipper” (1964).
Thanks IMDB
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