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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Absence of Malice (1981) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Absence of Malice (1981) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Absence of Malice (1981).
About the movie:
Michael Colin Gallagher is the son of a long dead Mafia boss who is a simple liquor warehouse owner...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Absence of Malice (1981)?
a.
Luther Adler
s last film.
b.
Most of the individuals in the film have only their first names listed in the end credits.
c.
When "My Man Godfrey" was adapted and broadcast as an episode of the Lux Radio Theater on May 9, 1938,
David Niven
portrayed Tommy Gray. Niven would later star in the remake,
My Man Godfrey
.
d.
The name of the villain, Maxwell Dent, is a combination of two names that were used as "house pseudonyms" by Street & Smith Publishing for its 1930s pulp fiction magazines: Maxwell Grant (aka Walter Gibson), author of "The Shadow", and Lester Dent (aka Kenneth Robeson), author of "Doc Savage".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Absence of Malice (1981)?
a.
Art director
Ken Anderson
came up with the idea of overlaying cels of line drawings over the painted backgrounds to match the Xeroxed cels of the characters. For the next twenty years, all Disney features - with the exception of
The Jungle Book
and the animated segments in
Mary Poppins
and
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
- would use this technique for their backgrounds. With
The Fox and the Hound
, Disney returned to fully painted backgrounds, with a brief reprise of the cel overlay for
Oliver & Company
.
b.
Paul Newman
and director
Sydney Pollack
were both gourmet chefs and had a running culinary competition throughout filming with
Sally Field
as the judge. Though a good sport at first, Sally grew tired of eating gourmet night after night, and began begging off her judging duties in favor of hamburgers and omelettes at local diners.
c.
Catherine Martin
,
Kym Barrett
: The production designer and the costume designer make cameo appearances as Gloria Capulets maids. They are seen in the film dressing Juliets mother in her Cleopatra costume before the ball.
d.
Brian De Palma
was also considered to direct but the producers were dragged to a private screening of
Mean Streets
(
Robert De Niro
and
Martin Scorsese
s previous collaboration) before they told Scorsese he could direct, but only if he got De Niro to play the lead.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Absence of Malice (1981)?
a.
Brock Yates
: the films writer appears as the organizer of the race.
b.
Writer
Kurt Luedtke
, a veteran newspaperman, based the protagonist of this film on the real-life son of a reputed gangster in Detroit. The alleged gangster was tried and convicted of the crime. At his retrial potential jurors were asked if they had seen this movie, to determine if they would be prejudiced in their evaluation of the evidence. Ultimately the gangster and his partner were both convicted and sentenced to jail terms for labor-related extortion.
c.
The heavyset boy who appears twice (during the Kipper Kids boxing musical number, and who Grampa Hercules steals the pie from), was someone that Richard Elfman had known from his neighborhood. He was so shy that during his intended musical performance, he froze up on camera. His mouth was superimposed with Matthew Brights.
d.
During the first scene set in Coralines bedroom you can see that the photo frame containing the photo of her friends from back home is set on a stand in the shape of a Praying Mantis. This links to the Praying Mantis tractor that the Other Father drives later on in the film.
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