Terminator makes it to US film registry

One of Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous one-liners will be back for generations to come, now that 1984's The Terminator has been selected for preservation in the US national film archive.

The low-budget film directed by James Cameron set a new standard for science-fiction and made Schwarzenegger, now California's governor, a star. The Library of Congress announced yesterday that it is one of 25 films being added to the National Film Registry.

The move will guard Schwarzeneg ger's deadpan, "I'll be back," against deterioration, along with the sounds and images of the other culturally significant picks. Other titles being added to the registry include the groundbreaking all-black-cast film Hallelujah from 1929, Richard Brooks' 1967 film adaptation of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the 1972 John Boorman film Deliverance based on James Dickey's novel about four businessmen on a nightmarish canoe trip through the remote Georgia wilderness.