Trivia for
White Nights (1985) More at IMDbPro »

• The 747 aircraft is actually a 707 with an artificial hump on the top of the forward fuselage, as the studio couldn't afford to lease a 747.
  
  
• A real Aer Lingus 747 was used for the air-to-air sequences, and part of the landing, but for the crash, a 707 with an artificial hump was used.
  
  
• On the walls of his Siberian flat, Gregory Hines has photos of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, as well as album covers for "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane and "What's Going On?" by Marvin Gaye.
  
  
• Mikhail Baryshnikov reportedly was insistent with the film's producers that gramatically-correct Russian be spoken in the film instead of the often nonsensical hybrid often used in American motion pictures.
  
  
• The plane crash sequence was filmed at Campbeltown Airport on the south west coast of Scotland. Mainly due to its remoteness and the runway is around 2.5 miles long. A number of local people were cast as extras for interior shots of the plane.
  
  
• The opening theatre sequence was filmed at the Bristol Hippodrome and the gentleman paging the curtain for Baryshnikov is John Randall (sadly now deceased) who was the Theatre's technical director at the time.
  
  
• Lionel Richie's song "Say You, Say Me" wasn't included on the soundtrack album to the film. This is because Motown Records did not want Richie's first single since the Can't Slow Down album to appear on another record label.
  
  
• Helen Mirren and director Taylor Hackford met on the set of this movie and would eventually marry.
  
  

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