Taps - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[albert]

Sean Penn and a handful of other actors received military horsemanship training for the scenes as the leader of the school's mounted cavalry. He later stated "It's not like riding out on a backwoods trail-The trick is to salute, control the horse, keep in step with the other riders and try not to fall off."

[tom]

Rob Lowe wrote in his autobiography that he sought to audition for the film but was unable to get a meeting with the filmmakers.

[ella]

Actor Brendan Ward became a New York City Police Officer in 1989, retiring in the rank of Sergeant in 2010.

[stephanie]

Publicity for this picture stated that the character of Cadet Major Brian Moreland (played by Timothy Hutton) was "intensified" for the film version of Devery Freeman's "Father Sky" novel.

[bernard]

Timothy Hutton and Ronny Cox also appeared together in the Leverage Episode: The D.B. Cooper Job, where Hutton played the younger version of Cox's character.

[gerald]

Prior to the production of the film, the key actors -Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise and others - were required to participate in a 45-day-long period of orientation with the students of Valley Forge Military Academy. They were given uniforms, borrowed from their real life counterparts at the school and given authentic military haircuts. They slept in campus barracks and were subjected to the same rigors and hardship that all Valley Forge cadets went through. While most of the actors enjoyed and excelled at their orientation, Cruise opted to leave the training for the comforts of a nearby hotel until filming began.

[chad]

The third of four times George C. Scott portrays a general grade officer. "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb": General Buck Turgeson, USAF. "Patton" and "The Last Days of Patton": General George S. Patton Jr., U.S. Army.

[terry]

This was only Tom Cruise's second film, appearing in it at the age of nineteen, playing Cadet Captain David Shawn. Cruise received fifth billing in the casting list.

[christina]

One of many projects that were delayed by the 1980 strike by the Screen Actor's Guild, which was finally settled late that year. Taps immediately started filming in January 1981.

[dustin]

Due to the 1980 Screen Actors Guild writer's strike, filming on the campus of Valley Forge Military Academy took much longer (60 days) than originally planned. It caused such a disruption that the commandant of the school subsequently advised his colleagues not to allow film productions at their schools. The next year both Valley Forge and the Citadel military academies denied filmmakers of The Lords of Discipline (1983) access to their grounds, leading it to be filmed in England instead.

[amber]

The gate seen at the end of the quad area was built specifically for the film and was dismantled after filming ended.

[kim]

George C. Scott headlined this 20th Century Fox military movie. He had previously starred in, and won a Best Actor Oscar in another Fox military movie, Patton (1970). Scott once said of his role as Brigadier General Harlan Bache in TAPS: "I have sympathy for Bache. He's lived by the rules. His values were Patton (1970)'s values - duty, honor, country. He's a proud man, and the school officials won't give him his due. Of course, his influence on the cadets is imbalanced. Unfortunately, they have no perspective on the man".