Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 55 Days at Peking (1963) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 55 Days at Peking (1963) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963).

About the movie: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		The film, which was shot in Spain, needed hundreds of Chinese extras, and the company sent scouts throughout Spain and the rest of Europe to hire as many Asiatic-looking actors as they could find. The casting web in 1962 reached as far as London, Lyon and Marseilles, so the result was that many Chinese restaurants in those cities closed for the summer 1962 during filming because the restaurant staff - often including the restaurants owners - was hired away by the film company. The company hired so many that for several months there was scarcely a Chinese restaurant to be found open in Spain and those 3 other cities.
b.		Don Johnson and Richard Dean Anderson, both established action stars in television, were considered for the role of John McClane.
c.		Restored from the original camera negatives at UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2008 and premiered at the 2009 UCLA Festival of Film Preservation.
d.		Third last theatrical movie for Lee Marvin. Only Canicule and The Delta Force would follow with a tv movie The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		The production was troubled almost from the beginning. It ran into financial troubles, there were conflicts among the cast, and director Nicholas Ray argued so violently with producer Samuel Bronston that he eventually walked off the set and quit the picture, and soon afterward suffered a severe heart attack. Andrew Marton and Guy Green finished directing the picture, uncredited.
b.		While the thieves are spying on Steve Frezelli in his home, Michael Caine is seen on the large screen television in a clip from Alfie.
c.		The line "Elvis has left the building!", which Will Smith yells toward the end of the movie, is translated "Last train to Mikkeli has just left!" on the Finnish DVD. Mikkeli is a town in Finland.
d.		Sir Ian McKellen plays Death, a character out of Ingmar Bergmans film Det sjunde inseglet. In that film, Death was played by Swedish actor Bengt Ekerot.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		The china used in the tea house when Kathy Bates, Lynn Redgrave and the other sisters is Royal Albert Old Country Roses. This china is frequently used in movies where tea is being served.
b.		Harry Cohn resisted the idea of casting Montgomery Clift as Prewitt as "he was no soldier, no boxer and probably a homosexual". Fred Zinnemann refused to make the film without him.
c.		The siege of the Peking Legation Quarter was a great backdrop for dramatic effect and story-telling as the basis of this movie because it involved so many nationalities and personalities through a real crisis in an exotic location. Some survivors of the Legations, however, felt they did not have as tough a time as those caught three miles away in the concurrent more closely confined siege by Boxers and soldiers of Pekings Northern Cathedral. Defended by only 25 French and 15 Italian marines, the Catholic Bishop Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier (1837-1905) held out for 56 days against sniping, bombardment and mining, losing 10 of his marines killed and 500 of his Chinese congregation. There is enough material in the cathedral siege for a movie in its own right.
d.		Californias Panavision Corporation chose this movie for the launch of its then new Panaflex, a compact camera that enabled Steven Spielberg to shoot complex shots inside a patrol car.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
b.		Michael Simon, Moustache and O.E. Hasse were offered key roles.
c.		Noel Neill: Lois Lanes mother. Neill played Lois Lane in Superman and Superman.
d.		Bobby Lee drives a 1970 Plymouth fury, Grady and Bobby Lees stock car is a 1955 Chevy.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		The film is presumed lost.
b.		The original play takes place in the heart of bandit-infested Mexico, but to capitalize on the interest in China, the location was changed to China.
c.		It is still possible to walk around the area of Beijing which was the actual location of the Siege of the Peking Legations in 1900, and to recognize sites and street layout depicted with admirable accuracy by the sets constructed in Spain for 55 Days At Peking. The former legation quarter is east of Tiananmen Square, bounded in the north by Changan Avenue and south by Qianmen Street. One such important site is the gate of the former British Legation in Zhengyi Road, looking remarkably as it did in photos taken in 1900. Much of the area has been occupied for many years by Chinese Government agencies. Most of the heritage buildings remaining of the old legation quarter are reconstructions after the Boxer uprising. The areas tourist potential has been little exploited. The post-Boxer former French Legation post office is the foyer of the Dongjiaominxiang Hotel. The site of the former US Legation has been renovated for up-market restaurants, bars and event venues.
d.		At one point in the movie Johnny says, "Im a stranger here myself." This was Nicholas Rays own personal motto, a recurring theme in his movies, and reportedly the working title for just about every movie he directed.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		UCLA Film Archives has a viewable print of this film.
b.		Based on the life of construction worker/welder-turned-dancer Maureen Marder.
c.		This is Rene Russos first comic book film. She was previously considered for the role of Chase Meridian in Batman Forever, but was replaced by Nicole Kidman when Michael Keaton left the project and was replaced by the younger Val Kilmer.
d.		In China at the time working as a professional mining engineer, future President of the United States, Herbert Hoover and his wife were civilians under siege at the foreign legations compound. The future first Lady, Louise "Lou" Henry Hoover, collected shrapnel from Boxer artillery that is on display at the Presidential Library in West Branch, IA. The Hoovers picked up Mandarin Chinese while in China and used it at the White House when they didnt want to be overheard.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		Arthur Kennedy had been retired and living in Savannah, Georgia. During a dinner with his daughter and her agent, he asked if there was anything out there for him and the result was his role in this film.
b.		When the trailer was released on Internet on 7 April 2001, it was downloaded 1.6 million times in the first 24 hours.
c.		The Japanese Colonel Shiba, played by Ichizo Itami, is the only major character among those depicted in the besieged legations who has the real name of a key participant in the actual historical events. Shiba Goro (1860-1945), then with the rank of colonel, was military attaché at the Japanese Legation. The real life Colonel Shiba emerges as a true hero and the most admired military leader within the legations in contemporary newspaper accounts and memoirs, including by English and American authors. Wikipedia has an interesting article about his career.
d.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 18, 1952 with Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell again reprising their film roles.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		In the original novel, the Spirit of Christmas Past carries an extinguisher, a small funnel which was used to put out candles. This was eliminated for the movie version, although the Spirit does appear more or less solid, depending on the scene, to correspond with the description in the book.
b.		Although the films original title was "The Hunchback of UCLA," it was actually shot across town at the University of Southern California (UCLAs rival).
c.		Due to mainland Chinas hostility and isolation from the Western world, a full-scale 60-acre replication of Peking 1900 (sewers and all) was built in the plains outside Madrid, and Chinese/Asian extras were flown in from all over Europe to provide the local Peking (the old name of Beijing) citizenry. A number of costumes for the Royal Chinese Court (the Empress, Prince Tuans, etc.) were authentic ones from Tzu Hsis actual court. They were loaned by an illustrious Florentine family (which wished to stay anonymous) but was able to rescue them from the collapse of the dynasty right after the Boxer rebellion.
d.		Residents of the area around Stockton, California were used as extras in the film; often, director Robert Rossen would give them speaking parts and film the "rehearsals" to get a more spontaneous effect.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		The rumor that Stephen Boyds double was killed during the chariot race is false. According to second-unit director Yakima Canutt, the "Messala" that was run over, a Roman soldier standing on the center island who was hit by a chariot and the driver of a spilled rig who jumped out of the way of one chariot but was immediately run over by another one were all articulated and weighted dummies (made with movable arm and leg joints), so when they were hit they "reacted" the way a normal human body would in that situation. A combination of adroit placement and expert editing made the dummies look like real people being run over.
b.		The conical First Earth Battalion solar stove used by George Clooneys character bears an uncanny resemblance (though miniature) to the Sibley stove which was also conical but used wood coals as its heat source. It was invented for the U.S. Army in the 1850s by Major (later Confederate General) Henry Hopkins Sibley, and the Army discontinued its use by World War II.
c.		Charlton Hestons character, Major Matt Lewis, was loosely based on the real-life officer in charge of the marine guard at the US Legation, then Captain, later Lieutenant General, John Twiggs Myers USMC (1871-1952). Myers was in the forefront of some of the toughest fighting in the besieged legations.
d.		The films history traces back to when the project was originally at Miramax under Disneys banner around 1995, when the Weinsteins were running that division. This is one of several projects that they took with them when they sold their stake of Miramax to Disney outright in 2005 and then announced a distribution deal with MGM soon after that this film was among those such as Lucky Number Slevin, Clerks II and 1408 to name a few.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 55 Days at Peking (1963)?
a.		Urban legend has it that the sound quality was so poor that the actors had to be re-dubbed for theatrical release or TV. In fact, the only re-dubbing done was on the 59-minute British reissue print of the feature version, for reasons unknown. A disclaimer was inserted into the credits of this version claiming that the soundtrack had been affected by "variable atmospheric conditions" in 1935 Guatemala, where parts of the serial were shot. In fact, the bad soundtrack was the result of the cheap equipment used on the British re-dub - (see The New Adventures of Tarzan). No such disclaimer ever appeared on the serial release prints original titles, and the originally-recorded 1935 soundtrack is being heard there as well as in the second feature version Tarzan and the Green Goddess.
b.		This American financed picture was shot mostly in Australia and utilized a mainly Australian crew there.
c.		Charlton Heston wanted Jeanne Moreau for the role of Baroness Ivanoff.
d.		Danny Kayes daughter, Dena Kaye, said for the rest of his life, when people recognized Danny in a restaurant, they would walk up and spout the entire "brew that is true" speech.

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