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Back to the Future Part III is a movie starring Michael J. Fox that opened on 25 May 1990. It is the third part of a trilogy, following Back to the Future
and Back to the Future Part II
. It grossed $23 million in its first weekend of US release and $87.6 million altogether in US box office receipts – $243 million worldwide. It was not as successful as the second film but was not a disappointment either, especially given that it was released six months after the second film. On 17 December 2002 Universal Studios released Back to the Future Part III in a boxed set with the first two films on DVD and VHS which did extremely well when it was released. In the DVD widescreen edition there was a minor framing flaw that Universal has since corrected, available in sets manufactured after 21 February 2003.

The movie won a Saturn Award for Alan Silvestri (composer) and Thomas F. Wilson and an AOL DVD Movies Premiere Award.

Back to the Future Part III may be described as a science fiction Western, since it contains elements of both these genres. This third installment of the hugely popular series is set mainly in the Wild West of America in the year 1885. Back to the Future Part III ends with a freight train destroying the original time machine. The film ends with a message to all viewers that one's future is not written yet, but depends on what we make it to be.

Rock band ZZ Top recorded the track Doubleback for the end credits. They also made a cameo appearance in the movie as a Wild West musical trio.

Plot

Like Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III picks up where its predecessor left off. Doc Brown has been accidentally sent back to 1885. However, he is able to send Marty a letter, telling him where the time machine is. Marty works with the 1955 Doc, and they recover the De Lorean from a mine. Before leaving the mine, they discover the tombstone that shows where Doc was buried in 1885. Doc has been shot by Biff's great grandfather Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen for allegedly horseshoeing Tannen's horse incorrectly.

They haul the car back to Doc's mansion and restore it to working order with new white-wall tires, and a series of vacuum tubes to imitate the integrated circuit chip. Instead of going back to 1985 as ordered, Marty goes back to 1885 to rescue his comrade. After surviving scares from Indians, a bear, and even the cavalry, he finds refuge with his own great-grandfather Seamus McFly (also played by Fox). He introduces himself as Clint Eastwood, and Seamus and his wife equip Marty with appropriate clothing. Marty finds out where the Doc lives and the two are set to return home, only for Marty to tell Doc that he ripped the fuel line. A devastated Doc tells Marty that "there won't be a gas station for years to come...", ergo they are out of gas and out of luck.

Doc devises a plan to push the De Lorean with a train locomotive, only to find himself infatuated with the town's schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Tannen, initially intent on shooting Doc in the back, is now hellbent on killing Marty (who introduced himself as Clint Eastwood) in a shoot-out. Marty is able to defeat Tannen (using a trick from an Eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars
, which was foreshadowed in the second movie) and persuade Doc to come back with him. However, Clara sneaks aboard the train as they attempt to push the De Lorean back to 1985. Clara slips on the outside of the train, but Doc saves her (Marty slips Doc the hoverboard he took back with him from 2015) and Marty is sent back to the future by himself after all.

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