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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Across the Wide Missouri (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Across the Wide Missouri (1951) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951).
About the movie:
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
Harris Yulin
: As Detective Oller.
b.
The film was produced independently by Lee Daniels Entertainment, and the completed film was caught in a battle between potential distributors The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate after its initial success at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
Oprah Winfrey
s Harpo Productions and
Tyler Perry
s 34th Street Films signed on to lend promotional assistance to the production, and Perrys existing relationship with Lionsgate helped land the film a release through that distributor.
c.
In order to film in Technicolor while shooting on location, heavy Technicolor cameras and equipment had to be transported in by mule.
d.
The last fairy tale produced by the studio up until
The Little Mermaid
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
No spoken dialogue.
b.
Brittany Murphy has a non-speaking role as one of the girls at the party playing spin the bottle who first kisses Andrew.
c.
Clark Gable
personally chose
William A. Wellman
to direct because he admired
Battleground
.
d.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 23, 1949 with
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
reprising his film role.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
Director
Chris Weitz
said this was an easier process than his other film
The Golden Compass
as he found "a lot less interference from Summit Entertainment and a lot more understanding of the books than New Line had of The Golden Compass" - which Chris said ended up being "completely re-cut" by the studio. He thinks that Summit Entertainment "understands the importance of the Twilight books - members of which who have read the books and appreciate them - not just see them as engines of possible profit".
b.
When Milo is seen accepting awards, he is accepting them from Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and from Miguel de Icaza, creator of GNOME and Vice President of Developer Platform at Novell.
c.
Basil Poledouris
had originally been scheduled to score
Dances with Wolves
but reluctantly dropped out to score this film for his close friend
John Milius
, with extremely damaging results to his career when he found himself suddenly unemployable at any studio making a picture with the then-hot
Kevin Costner
. To make matters worse, the films release was delayed by nearly two years so he could have easily had time to score both films.
d.
When the original version of the finished film was submitted to MGM executives, they didnt like it. The film went through heavy editing, and a producer had the idea of tying together the surviving pieces by adding voice-over narration from Mitchells grown up son, as if he is telling his fathers life story.
Howard Keel
, who had just finished making
Show Boat
, was brought in for this purpose. The changes led to director
William A. Wellman
effectively disowning the film. When asked about it in an interview, he said "Ive not seen it, and I never will."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
First choices for the part of the princess were
Jean Simmons
and
Suzanne Cloutier
.
Elizabeth Taylor
was also considered for the part. Both Taylor and Simmons had to be immediately ruled out as they were preoccupied with other projects at the time.
b.
Final film of
Jack Holt
.
c.
The huge figure of a naked man wielding a club which is created by the Indian sorcerer is an accurate representation of the ancient Celtic chalk carving known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, which is 60 metres in height and is located on a hillside overlooking the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England.
d.
Gerrit Graham
has talked about the infamous "musical chairs" casting, where
William Finley
almost wound up with no part to play. The studio considered casting
Paul Williams
as Winslow, Graham as Swan and
Peter Boyle
as Beef. Williams turned down the role of Winslow not only because he didnt feel physically fit or menacing for the role, but he didnt want to use the role of Winslow as a message against the recording industry. Somehow, Boyle was unavailable, Graham took the Beef role, and Finley ultimately took the Winslow role. In fact, director
Brian De Palma
actually wrote the part with his colleague Finley in mind.
William Finley
said in a recent interview that
Jon Voight
was at one time considered for the role of Swan.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
Most of the "Native Americans" in this movie are all portrayed by Hispanic or Caucasian actors, because there was a noticeable lack of Native American actors at MGM at the time this movie was made.
b.
When
Louise Fletcher
neared the end of her Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech, she finished with a unique touch (a first in American Sign Language): "For my mother and my father, I want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. Thank you."
c.
After Andrew Lees parole in 1998,
Sean Penn
hired him as a personal assistant.
d.
Mario Kassar
decided to start production by building sets, ships, and other logistical details in Malta before the first revised draft of the script was ready. He also sold the foreign distribution rights before the first revised draft.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
Anthony Hopkins
described his voice for Hannibal Lecter as, "a combination of
Truman Capote
and
Katharine Hepburn
."
b.
Simon Pegg
described Scotty as a Scot stereotype, but a positive one ("Scots are the first people to laugh at the fact that they drink and fight a bit"), and that Scotty comes from a long line of Scotsmen with technical expertise, like John Logie Baird and Alexander Graham Bell.
c.
James Horner
s schedule only allowed for him to work on the film for 6 weeks. He arrived in London to perform his duties, only to find that they were still shooting, much less editing. He sat around for 3 weeks before being able to get started.
d.
During the filming,
Ricardo Montalban
received a spinal injury which required a 9-1/2 hour operation and which has left him in constant pain ever since.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Across the Wide Missouri (1951)?
a.
The lyric for the opening chant of "The Circle of Life" is: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama / Nants ingonyama bagithi baba / Sithi uhhmm ingonyama / Ingonyama Siyo Nqoba / Ingonyama Ingonyama nengw enamabala". This translates as: "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, its a lion / Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, its a lion / A lion Were going to conquer / A lion A lion and a leopard come to this open place".
b.
The film was originally shot in color, but more than half of it was ruined on location. It was converted to black and white, the remaining footage winding up in later pictures.
c.
This is the first Bond film to feature an Aston Martin as the Bond car since
The Living Daylights
.
d.
Debut of
Timothy Carey
.
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