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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Airport 1975 (1974) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Airport 1975 (1974) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974).
About the movie:
A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
The picture of Rockin Ricky Rialto is a picture of
Don Steele
.
b.
Mike Tyson
improvised his lines.
c.
All vehicles driven by the main characters are Fords. There is the Ford/Shelby GT500 Mustang that Neville drives in the beginning, the Ford Expedition he drives throughout the film, and the Ford Escape used to depart New York at the end.
d.
Charlton Heston
spent time on the American Airlines 747 simulator in Fort Worth, Texas, in preparation for the role.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
At the beginning of the film, Melvin Dummar sings a song that he has penned, "Santas Souped Up Sleigh." He tells Howard Hughes that he sent the words - along with a sum of money - to the Hollywood Music Company, an outfit that puts its customers song lyrics to music for a fee. Although Melvin doesnt realize it, the tune that the company used is not an original one: they paired his lyrics with the melody of "Wabash Cannonball."
b.
The script was originally submitted to Universal studios TV division. Executive producer
Jennings Lang
liked it so much he thought he could pass it off as a theatrical release.
c.
Scott Careys cat was played by feline actor
Orangey
, according to the book "Hollywood Cats".
d.
Ian Bryce
,
Kenny Bates
: Producers appear as workers/agents at Hoover Dam.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
Shooting overlapped somewhat with the tail-end of production on Universals "other" disaster film of 1974,
Earthquake
, forcing
Charlton Heston
,
George Kennedy
, cinematographer
Philip H. Lathrop
and producer
Jennings Lang
to juggle their schedules between the two films. This movie was released first.
b.
Originally released as a 124-minute feature. After the Hays Code was instituted, some of the more "sinful" scenes were cut for the films re-release in 1944. At this time a newly filmed prologue and epilogue were added, so that the films running time remained more or less the same as the original release.
c.
In the early 1980s, world class sports athlete and fight film collector, Jim Jacobs acquired surviving original nitrate print elements of this 63mm film. He took these elements to ASC cinematographer and film restoration specialist, Karl Malkames who designed and built a printer to copy the film to standard 35mm and 16mm formats. Its because of Jacobs and Malkames that these fragments of the film are viewable today.
d.
When Scuttle is providing "vocal romantic stimulation" to Eric and Ariel while they are rowing in the lagoon, he is squawking
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
s "Romeo and Juliet".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
The excerpt that Colonel Brandon reads to Marianne near the end of the film ("nothings lost but may be found if sought...") belongs to Edmund Spensers epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590). It is part of the second canto in Book V: Justice.
b.
Although
Jane Wyman
had no trouble faking the fingering of a dummy violin,
Olivia de Havilland
had to have someone do it for her. In all her close-ups, the arm doing the fingering belonged to a professional hidden from view, or the fingers were hidden from view. She controlled only the bow.
c.
David Yates
is the first director since
Chris Columbus
to make more than one Harry Potter film.
d.
Gloria Swanson
appears and wrote all her own dialogue. She also delivers the last line of the film. This was her first film in 22 years. She explained, "I was holding out for a picture I could take my grandchildren to see, something exciting and contemporary without senseless violence."
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
Helen Hayes
was reportedly so appalled by her performance that she tried to buy the movie from the studio so that she could destroy it.
b.
When the boys are in the pool watching Wendy Peffercorn, the dialog: "She dont know what shes doing" and the answer "Yes she does, she knows exactly what shes doing" is the same as in a similar scene in
Cool Hand Luke
.
c.
Was to originally be directed by
Sam Raimi
but he left the project early to direct
Darkman
. Producers brought in
William Friedkin
and the project suffered through several rewrites sending co-writer
Stephen Volk
into a breakdown. Friedkin eventually took over the writing duties.
d.
William Frye
, who was producing, fantasized about adding
Greta Garbo
to the cast, but she turned him down flat. She found it boring to play an aged actress, saying, "What could be worse than playing an old movie star?"
Gloria Swanson
then stepped in and played the role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
The owners of the Sheraton Palace Hotel allowed Disney to film the scene of Herbie crossing their large regal dining area only after the Herbie used was rigged to run on battery power (no gas exhaust) and the bottom of the car was drip-proofed. It was filmed at a time of day where there is low traffic at the dining area. The diners in the foreground (in front of Herbie rolling through) were actually blue screened in later.
b.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by
Harry Medved
and
Randy Lowell
.
c.
Susan Hayward
s singing was dubbed by
Jane Froman
.
d.
Film debut of
Jean Harlow
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
Matt LeBlanc
s feature film debut.
b.
Dana Plato
claimed that she had been offered the role of Regan but her mother Kay had turned it down. In the book "Former Child Stars: The Story of Americas Least Wanted"
William Peter Blatty
later said that he had "no such recollection" of this actually happening, and that Plato herself may have been the source for this rumor.
c.
In the third movie of TCM that came out in 1990 there was supposed to be a scene where Leatherface takes off his mask, but to keep the R rating they had to cut it out. In this movie, that scene is re-shot and seen.
d.
Final film of
Gloria Swanson
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
After the frogs start to fall, Jim Kurring and Donnie Smith take cover under a Mobil gas station. The original name of Mobil was Magnolia Petroleum.
b.
The 747 used in the film cost $30,000 per day to rent from American Airlines. All exterior shots of the aircraft (and one interior shot of
Charlton Heston
at the controls) were completed in two days (landing shots in Salt Lake City, aerial shots over the Wasatch mountain range in Utah, evening and early morning flight shots, and a stunt shot involving engine #1 ramming into an outbuilding). The evening taxi and takeoff shots were filmed as the plane, with the re-badged "Columbia Airlines" logo on the fuselage, was being delivered to Salt Lake City for the two days of filming.
c.
Principal photography was done in a converted warehouse. The bathroom set was built while the other locations were existing rooms redressed.
d.
Unlike many lost films, precious little advertising material seems to exist for this serial.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
The Boeing 747 used in the film was originally delivered to American Airlines in 1971. It was a 747-123, registration number N9675, serial number 20390; the 136th 747 off the production line. Its basic American Airlines color scheme was modified to the notional Columbia Airlines colors for filming of exterior sequences. The aircraft was flown by United Parcel Services as a freighter, re-registered N675UP until 2005.The aircraft, N9675, is now stored in Roswell aircraft storage facility, and has been withdrawn from active service with UPS.
b.
Director
Gary Ross
acknowledges these cinematographic homages: The scene of
J.T. Walsh
in front of the bowling alley scorecard recalls Pattons speech in front of the American flag in
Patton
; The courtroom segregated into black-and-white characters downstairs and "colored" characters upstairs recalls
To Kill a Mockingbird
; The scene in which
Tobey Maguire
spins in the rain recalls
The Shawshank Redemption
.
c.
Final film of
Thurston Hall
.
d.
Chuck Jones
: as a customer in the seen in the supermarket queue eating carrots. He utters the line regarding buying the aspirin, "At eight hundred dollars a bottle, whod want to?"
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airport 1975 (1974)?
a.
Seen only for a second, here are the 15 steps as laid out by the Bloom brothers as young boys for their first con: 1. Bloom talks to girl 2. Bloom wins kids trust 3. Stephen finds a cave 4. Stephen loosens dirt in cave 5. Stephen buys supplies 6. Cut % OHenrys 7. Bloom further endears self 8. Stephen scouts church 9. Stephen procures non-slip boots 10. Bloom comes home to find Stephen filling coolers 11. Bloom pitches the tale 12. Bloom leads kids to cave 13. Mud mud mud! 14. Bloom/Stephen busted 15. OHenrys Pay off! rocket pops
b.
There are various references in the film towards the Mandarin, Iron Mans arch-nemesis: the organization that kidnaps Stark is called "the Ten Rings," after the ten rings that comprise the Mandarins arsenal (
Jon Favreau
has stated that The Ten Rings, in fact, works for The Mandarin) the commandant Raza speaks of Genghis Khan and Asia Raza is seen occasionally fiddling with an ornate gold ring rings are worn by Stark, Stane, Rhodes and Raza (that is to say those in positions of power).
c.
In the opening post-invasion scenes, shot in black and white and matted, a column is briefly shown of A27M Cromwell tanks, one the more effective British armoured vehicles of the Second World War. Elements of the Cromwells design were incorporated within the later A34 Comet, arguably the best British tank of the Second World War. A Bridge Too Far may have been both the cinematic debut and sole appearance of the A27M in a major post-1945 war film production.
d.
Joan Crawford
was approached to play the role of an "aging alcoholic actress". However, she refused and the character was played by
Myrna Loy
.
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