TRICKS AND TREATS

In the Halloween scene (shot in October 1981), Elliott and his older brother (Robert MacNaughton) dress up E.T. so he can elude authorities and go into the forest to contact his mother ship. On the set, Spielberg joined the fun by dressing up as an old woman and bobbing for apples with the young cast members. “Steven really understands children and treated it like a big holiday,” Wallace says. “He kept an organized set, but it was still loose.”