The Goonies

The Goonies' director, Richard Donner, spent months building the life-size pirate ship in secret. He remembered: "The day we were going to film them first ...

These theme park ships were later used as inspiration for the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, which featured a number of life-size ships. Sean Astin - who would go on to play Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings - later said: "My mouth dropped open. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN was majorly influenced by The Goonies decades before the film's pre-production had even begun. Despite the fact The Goonies films all of their scenes on The Inferno, when filming came to an end, its destruction was ordered. The shop's biggest sail was 30ft by 60ft. On 'action' they knew what they were going to see, but they didn't know what it was going to look like."