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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) More at IMDbPro »

• Candy Clark, with a large black hat strategically pulled low over her face, played Thomas Jerome Newton in one scene while David Bowie was ill and unavailable to work the day it was shot.
  
  
• Toward the end of the film, in the record store, Bryce walks past a display for David Bowie's "Young Americans" album.
  
  
• The music that Oliver Farnsworth is listening to in the first scene we see him in and in one of the last is Gustav Holst's "The Planets".
  
  
• Nicolas Roeg originally wanted to cast the 6'10" author Michael Crichton in the lead role of the alien.
  
  
• Originally intended as a vehicle for Peter O'Toole.
  
  
• At one point Mary-Lou shouts to Tommy, "Tommy Can You Hear Me?" which is a reference to the The Who's rock opera Tommy (1975) and the song of the same name.
  
  

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