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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Shot in the Dark (1964) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Shot in the Dark (1964) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964).
About the movie:
As murder follows murder, beautiful Maria is the obvious suspect; bumbling Inspector Clouseau drives his boss mad by seeing her as plainly innocent.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
Among the page-two headlines advertised on the front page of the Daily Bugle: "Public Clamors for Pest Control" and "New York Fears the Bug - 20 Victims to Date."
b.
Dijon has appeared once on the DuckTales cartoon series, in the two-part episode "The Golden Goose".
c.
For the musical background to the chase in the mines of Moria,
Howard Shore
wanted some heavy chanting, so he cast a Maori choir.
d.
Body count: 14 humans and 1 crow. (Four killed in the Ballon mansion, four by Dreyfus during Clouseau & Marias date, and six killed at the end of the movie by the bomb Dreyfus put in Clouseaus car.)
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
The film was adapted from the play "A Shot in the Dark" by
Marcel Achard
which opened at the Booth Theater on October 18, 1961 and ran for 389 performances closing on September 22, 1962. The original cast included
Walter Matthau
(Winner of 1962 Tony Award® Best Featured Actor in a Play),
Julie Harris
,
William Shatner
and
Gene Saks
.
b.
Spike Jonze
: Derek Mantinis assistant.
c.
The house depicted in the films colorful German poster is the same house from the mini-series
Salems Lot
.
d.
Erewhon Prison is a reference to Samuel Butlers "Erewhon", about a city in which the protagonist is imprisoned and in which many of the normal rules of society are reversed.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
The character of Sheryl Ann Candy Cane DuJean, portrayed by
Sherilyn Fenn
, is a fictitious character. However, she is a composite of several real-life women including stripper
Candy Barr
(who befriended Jack Ruby),
Marilyn Monroe
(of whom Candy Cane is a look-alike) and
Judith Campbell Exner
(who said she had affairs with both Sam Giancana and John F. Kennedy).
b.
It was
Cole Hauser
s idea for Johns to shoot up the drugs into his eye.
c.
Peter Sarsgaard
learned to play guitar for the film.
d.
Of the 9 murders committed in the film, four of them are victims of Dreyfus, and the only other murder not related to the mansion itself is that of the crow that Inspector Clouseau shoots. Clouseau is the only character who kills a non-human character, and Dreyfus is the only character who kills more than one person.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
Vector is left-handed. You can see this when he is inside of his home playing the Nintendo Wii. He uses his left hand, hinting that his left is the dominant hand.
b.
In the scene where Clouseau and Hercule try to synchronize their watches before Clouseau goes into the Ballon house,
Peter Sellers
and
Graham Stark
improvised the dialog.
c.
Attenboroughs directors cut was 147 minutes, 12 minutes longer than the version shown in cinemas. Attenborough has said that the cuts damaged the film.
d.
Director Trademark: Wes Craven Police portrayed as incompetent.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
According to the DVD liner notes of the films first release (before the Pink Panther box set), the audience enjoyed the Inspector Closeau cartoon that played over the credits so much that the entire preview audience applauded and gave the cartoon a standing ovation, to which the theater had to stop the movie until everyone settled again.
b.
This serial was scheduled to be shown on a weekly basis on public television during the summer of 1979. Unfortunately, most of the chapters were not shown, due to the coverage of the SALT II hearings.
c.
The film enabled
Will Smith
to tackle a subject which has always fascinated him from a different perspective: how do men overcome their traumas? How do they continue to live when everything is going wrong?
d.
David Hasselhoff
contracted food poisoning during the shooting of the movie; a production assistant had to fill in for Hasselhoff for a fair share of the scenes in which his character Simons face is covered by a mask. Moreover, Hasselhoff did most of his own stunts and accidentally knocked out an Italian stuntmans tooth on his first day of doing stunts.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
The play, "My Sister Eileen," opened on December 26, 1940 at the Biltmore Theatre. The Broadway production, directed by
George S. Kaufman
, adapted for the stage from
Ruth McKinney
s book by
Joseph Fields
and
Jerome Chodorov
. The production featured
Shirley Booth
as Ruth and
Jo Ann Sayers
as Eileen, with
Richard Quine
as the soda jerk Frank Lippincott. (He reprises his role in the 1942 film.) The play moved three times, and closed on January 16, 1943, after a run of 864 performances. In 1952, Fields and Chodorovand adapted "My Sister Eileen" into the musical, "Wonderful Town," with music by
Leonard Bernstein
. The Broadway production of "Wonderful Town" opened at the Winter Garden Theater in New York on February 25, 1953 and ran for 559 performances. In 1955, Columbia Pictures made a separate musical of
My Sister Eileen
, starring
Janet Leigh
,
Betty Garrett
, and
Jack Lemmon
, and directed by
Richard Quine
.
My Sister Eileen
also became a short-lived TV comedy series starring
Elaine Stritch
and
Shirley Bonne
.
b.
For his performance as Homer Parrish,
Harold Russell
became the only actor to win two Academy Awards for the same role.
c.
Every time Inspector Clouseau says Miguel, he pronounces it incorrectly by adding the sound of the letter u. All the other characters who say it pronounce it correctly (with a silent u).
d.
Filming was temporarily delayed on the London soundstage due to the sound of amorous pigeons in the rafters above.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
According to
Graham Stark
, who plays Clouseaus assistant Hercule, in the scene where Clouseau gets his hand stuck in the globe,
Peter Sellers
ad-libbed the line "Look at that! Ive got Africa all over my hand!"
b.
Fernand Ledoux
worked three days; his fee was £2,000.
c.
Although the onscreen credits list
Richard Carle
and
George S. Kaufman
for "story," the sources of the film were actually plays that each wrote.
d.
Fess Parker
s final movie performance.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
A then-unknown
Norma Shearer
has an uncredited bit part in this film.
b.
According to
Blake Edwards
in the DVD boxed set documentary, a week into filming,
Peter Sellers
disappeared. When he returned, from an apparent holiday, Edwards was ready to kill him until Sellers told him of a peculiar hotel manager he met who had a funny French accent which Sellers was to give to the Clouseau character....Thus was born Clouseaus trademark odd pronunciations such as "beump" for bump and "meuths" for moths.
c.
Average Shot Length = ~5.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~4.9 seconds.
d.
Third of seven movies that paired
Claudette Colbert
and
Fred MacMurray
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: A Shot in the Dark (1964)?
a.
The cockroaches were in a kind of deep freeze coma. They were placed where necessary for the scene and heated with a hair dryer. The crew could only hope that they went in the right direction and no one knew quite where they went after filming of the scene was completed.
b.
For one of the track on her new album,
Cyndi Lauper
wrote lyrics inspired by the films screenplay.
c.
Contrary to the oft-repeated rumor that "A Shot in the Dark" was filmed prior to
The Pink Panther
, it did not go before the cameras until September of 1963, the same month "The Pink Panther" was being previewed in Hollywood.
d.
Prior to filming, director
Peter Faiman
and writer/producer
John Hughes
and producer
Richard Vane
took a road trip throughout the Georgia, The Carolinas (North and South), Mississippi and Tennessee to scout the route the films characters, Dutch Dooley and Doyle would take to drive back home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Faiman liked most of the places that hed seen during the trip and they ended up in final film.
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