Kiefer Sutherland is recalling a candy anecdote from the set of Stand via Me and remembering his overdue co-star River Phoenix.

The 24 actor is taking a look again at his time whilst filming the Rob Reiner coming-of-age drama film and shared a heartwarming tale about Phoenix that still got here to in all probability affect the name of the movie.

“We have been making Stand via Me, which was once a Stephen King quick tale referred to as The Frame, and River Phoenix was once studying guitar and taking part in guitar and he was once in reality very, excellent. And he was once getting actually excellent at an excessively, very rapid charge,” Sutherland stated right through an interview on The This night Display starring Jimmy Fallon. “And I used to be taking part in Stand via Me and making a song that track, and he stated, ‘Oh, I really like the melody of that track,’ and he hadn’t heard it prior to.”

Sutherland persevered, “So I used to be instructing it to him and Rob Reiner walked via and stated, ‘Oh, I haven’t heard that track for a very long time, I adore it. After which that was once the top of that dialogue.’”

Reiner ended up the usage of the Ben E. King track within the movie and Sutherland says that naming the movie after the track “was once a part of the dialog.”

Stand via Me was once launched in 1986 and revolves round 4 boys who pass on a hike to search out the lifeless frame of a lacking boy. The movie stars Wil Wheaton, Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell.