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Silverado (1985) More at IMDb Pro »

• Earl Hindman plays Wilson on "Home Improvement" (1991) where the lower half of his face is always obscured. In the scene where the house is on fire, he appears gagged, with the lower half of his face obscured.
  
  
• Kevin Costner was offered the role of Jake by Lawrence Kasdan, in part to make up for his role in The Big Chill (1983) being cut out of that film.
  
  
• The set for Silverado was built for this movie and has since been used in such movies as Young Guns (1988), Wyatt Earp (1994), Last Man Standing (1996/I), "Lonesome Dove" (1989), All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Wild Wild West (1999). In Wild Wild West "Kasdan Ironworks" can be seen on the side of one of the buildings as a reference to Lawrence Kasdan.
  
  

• Shooting lasted 96 days, between November 1984 and March 1985.
  
  
• In the scene where Augie tries to jump on Kevin Costner's character Jake's horse and falls to the ground, the horse is wearing Jake's hat. This was Costner's idea just before the cameras rolled to keep with his character's goofy nature. Kasdan loved the idea and it stayed in the film.
  
  
• This was Richard Jenkins's film debut.
  
  
• Director and producer Lawrence Kasdan cast two of his children and his wife in small roles in the film. His brother and co-writer Mark Kasdan also had a small role as a doctor that was filmed but ended up on the cutting room floor.
  
  

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