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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).
About the movie:
Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
Over a dozen airline companies provided service to the actors and technicians on this film as they flew from Hollywood to the locations overseas. These included such major companies as Pan Am and TWA, as well as foreign companies such as Middle Eastern and Pakistan Air. Private pilot
Paul Mantz
also provided airline accommodations for producer
Michael Todd
.
b.
Mandy Moore cut her hair short because she felt it suited the role; the movie producers werent happy about it. In the end they compromised and had her wear hair extension for some of the movie and then have her having her hair cut put into the film.
c.
The novelization also fills in some trivia about Maggie. When her boyfriend just walked out on her, she hired a skip-tracer to find him. She got so hooked on the process she decided to become one herself. By the time she caught up with her ex, she wasnt interested anymore in why he left.
d.
On the DVD commentary, visual effects supervisor
Volker Engel
reveals that the fire engine seen tumbling through the air was simply a model purchased at a toy store.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
Shirley MacLaine
wrote that filming a scene with thousands of extras ground to a complete halt because the propman forgot to put the bottle of champagne in the balloon with
David Niven
and
Cantinflas
.
b.
Zack Norman
reprises his role as producer Kaz Naiman, whom he first appeared as in
Henry Jaglom
s
Festival in Cannes
.
c.
To keep things in order during production, director
Guy Ritchie
introduced a system of fines on set. There were fines for mobile phones ringing, arriving late, taking naps during shooting, being "cheeky", being unfunny, and/or moaning and complaining. One staff member was even charged for letting the craft service table run out of coffee cups.
d.
Jed (White Fang) also played the dog/alien in
John Carpenter
s
The Thing
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
At one point, Charlie asks Patsy what shes done all day and she responds, "Ive been sipping champagne with Kirk Douglas". When the scene was filmed
Jessica Lange
actually said, "Ive been sipping champagne with Rock Hudson", but Hudson was revealed to have had AIDS before the film was released and the producers thought a reference to him would be distracting.
b.
Although the action in the film is supposed to take place on fictional "Gloucester Island" off the coast of New England, most of the outdoor scenes were filmed in Mendocino California. Mendocino in the 1960s was a somewhat remote artist colony on a rocky cape projecting into the Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. The harbor scenes were filmed in NOYO Harbor, just south of Fort Bragg, where Carines Fish Grotto and Cappys Bar still exist to this day. (2006)
c.
Shirley MacLaine
to this day contends that she was miscast in this, her third film.
d.
According to
Rich Little
, the voice of
Alfonso Bedoya
was dubbed by
Peter Sellers
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
The scene where John Rooney (
Paul Newman
) and Michael Sullivan (
Tom Hanks
) are playing the piano together, was originally supposed to be an Irish dance sequence shared between the two of them.
b.
Jason Alexander
plays one of the men in the pool hall who con Stanley. On Broadway, he played the role of Stanley in the sequel to
Brighton Beach Memoirs
,
Broadway Bound
.
c.
The fire commands and terminology used by the tank crew in combat are the same as used by U.S. Army tank crews. This was to add military flavor to the movie, and give it a very realistic feel.
d.
Only nine Todd AO cameras were in existence at the time of shooting, and all of them were employed in the making of this film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
Glenn Strange
speaks for the first time as The Monster. This film marks the first time since
The Ghost of Frankenstein
that the character has spoken, though it does not explain how The Monster has regained his voice.
b.
When
George C. Scott
lost the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to
George Chakiris
in
West Side Story
, it essentially started the actors longstanding feud with the Academy over the fact that political decisions were involved in the choice of who won. This ultimately led to Scott rejecting the Oscar he won in 1970 for his performance in
Patton
.
c.
The film was initially released with the screenplay attributed solely to
S.J. Perelman
. This was later changed after
James Poe
and
John Farrow
sued.
d.
The first black and white movie in VistaVision.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
According to
Farley Granger
in his autobiography "Include Me Out,"
Mike Todd
, while shooting on location in Venice, filmed him as a gondolier on the Grand Canal, a cameo that was never used in the film.
b.
Although
Victor Kilian
, as Dr. Morley, is clearly the star of the film, he received no screen credit because he was blacklisted shortly after completing the movie, a victim of the McCarthy "Red Scare" hysteria sweeping the country at the time. This was perhaps the only instance in Hollywood history where the leading actor in a film was deliberately not listed in its cast while everyone else was.
c.
Actress
Courtney Bell
(Tricia) was actually five months pregnant during production.
d.
Several events in this movie are inspired by
Chuck Pfarrer
s real SEAL career.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
Unusually, Wilma is seen wearing a blue dress in this film rather than her usual white.
b.
In order to make the film really stand out from the crowd of epic films, producer
Michael Todd
implored theater owners to promote the film "exactly as you would a Broadway show": organize reserved seats, pass out playbills before the movie, remove clocks from the theater and ban the sale of popcorn.
c.
Named an official selection of the feature competition at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival.
d.
There are no female characters in the film. The only female presence in the movie is in the voice of MacReadys chess computer and the contestants seen on the game show that Palmer watches. A scene containing a blow-up doll was filmed and then left on the cutting room floor. According to
John Carpenter
, only one crew member was female but she was pregnant and this forced her to leave the shoot; she was replaced by a male.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
This movies working titles were Missing Heir and Deceit, the latter of which was used right up until the final week of shooting.
b.
Peter Coyote
s characters name is never revealed, and is referred to as "Keys" in the novelization and end credits because he is identified by wearing a key-chain in the first half of the movie.
c.
In an in-depth interview in the cult Cinema Retro magazine (Issue #18), Corman nominated
The Masque of the Red Death
alongside _The Intruder_ and
X
as his personal favorites among his own films.
d.
Fernandel
was initially stunned at being offered such a tiny part.
Michael Todd
s prowess at persuasion soon won him over.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
During the filming of the cemetery sequence, shot on two separate days, an unexpected accident caused a fast change of script. The car driven by Barbara and Johnny into the cemetery was actually owned by the mother of
Russell Streiner
. Unfortunately, sometime between the two filming sequences, someone ran into the car and put a dent in it that would easily be visible on camera.
George A. Romero
rewrote the scene so the car would come to a stop by crashing into a tree.
b.
Filmed in Entrail-Vision.
c.
When Sarah bites her mother Helen on the neck, blood splatters on a garden trowel hanging on the wall. This is a reference to the original
Night of the Living Dead
, in which the daughter kills the mother with a garden trowel.
d.
Ronald Colman
came out of a 5 year retirement to do his cameo.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)?
a.
Edward Bunker
: wrote the novel on which the film is based after spending time in prison for armed robbery.
b.
The topic of the movie was considered politically so highly sensitive it was censored and prohibited just before its theatrical release in many of the former Iron Curtain countries, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria - and even in neutral countries such as Finland and Sweden. The theatrical premiere for most of those countries was held after the collapse of Soviet Union in 1993.
c.
Film shown in DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process only at presentations of the film at the Rivoli Theater in New York City, premiering 1 April 1923.
d.
Marlene Dietrich
s gown reportedly cost $300,000.
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