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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

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About the movie: A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		John Carpenter: One of the SWAT team members flying the helicopter chasing Halloway.
b.		According to director John Sturges commentary track on the Criterion Laserdisc, this film was also filmed simultaneously in a standard 4:3 ratio version (as well as Cinemascope), because MGM executives were unsure of the wide screen version. It was never released.
c.		Lance Henriksen was a front runner for the part of the lobotomized driver of the Chevy Malibu. Dennis Hopper was considered for the role of Bud, but his erratic behavior at the time ultimately made him unsuitable for the part.
d.		The studio built the baseball diamond on an actual farm in Dyersville, Iowa. After the filming was completed, the family owning the farm kept the field, and added a small hut where you could buy inexpensive souvenirs. As of 1990, visitors were free to come to the field and play baseball as they please.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		The US soldiers unit patches identify them as from the 2nd Infantry Division, the "Indian Head" division. In real life, they were actually defending the town of St Vith, Belgium during the events in the opening scene.
b.		Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios.
c.		The cost of the special effects made this the most expensive Bud Abbott and Lou Costello feature up to that time.
d.		Average Shot Length (ASL) = 10 seconds

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		The suit that Tracy wears throughout the film was bought by him off the rack, at his insistence.
b.		Two Nitrate prints (1 Complete, 1 Incomplete) of this film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and neither are listed for Preservation.
c.		The film has been banned in Malaysia because of the use of fictional Malaysian Prime Minister as the subject of assassination. It was originally also banned in neighboring Singapore, but the ban has since been lifted.
d.		The original setting was in Chicago, Illinois in Daniel Kunkas original script but Renny Harlin changed the setting in New Orleans.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		MGMs then president Nicholas Schenck was actively opposed to the film as he felt the storyline was subversive.
b.		Arthur Roberts wore his own clothes.
c.		The Italian pop version of the song "The Circle of Life", sung in Italian by Ivana Spagna, was a major hit in Italy in 1994/95, alongside the original version by Elton John.
d.		When all the secrets are being revealed in the climax near the END of the movie, the street sign that Tony is handcuffed to reads "End".

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		Based on a teleplay by Rod Serling that ran on "Kraft Television Theatre" (1947) in January 1955. It featured several of the same actors that would appear in the movie, including Everett Sloane and Ed Begley. However the part of Fred Staples, the lead, was originated by Richard Kiley. Begleys character, Bill Briggs, was called Andy Sloane in the original version. Serlings teleplay won him the first of his six Emmy Awards.
b.		The script called for Tracys character to light matches one-handed. Tracy had difficulty with this and convinced the director to let him use a Zippo lighter, as every veteran he ever met had one.
c.		When Dr. Mickler takes his wife out for dinner, you can clearly see the woman who was Don Juans last conquest at the beginning of the movie, alone and playing with her spoon as she was while waiting in the first encounter.
d.		Robert Goulet plays Priscilla Presley villainous love interest in this movie. Years earlier, Elvis Presley, Priscellas famous then-husband, once shot his TV because Robert Goulet appeared on it. That TV is now a collectors item.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		Screenwriter Arthur C. Pierce appears briefly as one of the mutants escaping from the jail cell in the underground citadel.
b.		Although he died eleven years prior to this films release Mel Blanc receives credit for the voice of Baby Dino. The voice is actually reused from The Flintstones TV show
c.		In the original short story, MacReedy brandishes a Beretta and brags of his prowess with it, but in the movie, he uses judo - an idea meant to suggest that MacReedy is Japanese-American.
d.		Robert De Niro had a deal with Leonardo DiCaprio who was interested in playing the films protagonist Edward Wilson. De Niro planned to shoot the movie in the fall of 2004 but DiCaprio couldnt do it then because he was making The Departed for Martin Scorsese. The role ultimately went to Matt Damon, who played DiCaprios antagonist in The Departed. Both movies were nominated for Oscars in 2007.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		All of the tattoos worn by Vin Diesel in this movie are fake.
b.		The projectionists records have revealed that over the years this has become one of the most frequently shown films in the screening room of The White House.
c.		Assistant Director Oren Haglunds name shows on the back of a fight ticket as O.H. Haglund.
d.		Actor/Writer Billy Burke was originally meant to star in the role of "The Drifter", but he landed a role in the film Ladder 49 and had to take it. So, he suggested to the director that their friend Brent David Fraser would be a good choice to replace him.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		Breakthrough movie role of American Broadway actor Nathan Lane.
b.		Stanley Kubrick, who originally was slated to direct the film, wanted Spencer Tracy to play Sheriff Dad Longworth. Marlon Brando, whose production company already had Karl Malden on salary, refused to replace him with Tracy.
c.		Jerome Robbins initially refused to work on the film unless he could direct it. Producer Walter Mirisch was nervous about handing the reins entirely over to Robbins, who had never made a film before, so he enlisted Robert Wise to direct the drama while Robbins would handle the singing and dancing sequences. Robbins developed a habit of shooting numerous takes of each scene, to the point where the film went over budget and behind schedule. This led to his firing.
d.		According to one biographer of Spencer Tracy, the script did not originally call for the lead character to be a one-armed man. The producers were keen to get Tracy but didnt think hed be interested, so they gave the character this disability with the idea that no actor can resist playing a character with a physical impairment.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		Blondy says: "So much for the golden future." This is a quote from Judas Priests track Breaking the Law.
b.		The opening shot with the train was added after preview audiences did not like the original version. The sequence was created by filming with a helicopter flying away from the train and running the film backwards. (Source - audio commentary by John Sturges on Criterion laserdisc.)
c.		Some other Tôhô monsters appear via stock footage during the voice over for the film. Those monsters are Varan (from Varan the Unbelievable), Baragon (from Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon), Gaira (from Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira), Gezora (from Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû), Titanosaurus (from Mekagojira no gyakushu), Megaguirus (from Gojira tai Megagirasu: Jî shômetsu sakusen), Mechagodzilla (in fake Godzilla form - from Gojira tai Mekagojira), and Godzilla Junior (Minira) (from Gojira VS Desutoroiâ).
d.		In 1958, MGM reissued this film on a double bill with King Solomons Mines.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)?
a.		The original script for this version was written by J.F. Lawton.
b.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 15, 1943 with Alice Faye reprising her film role.
c.		According to author Garson Kanin in his memoir "Tracy and Hepburn", Katharine Hepburn was reportedly so furious at the way Montgomery Clift was treated by Sam Spiegel and Joseph L. Mankiewicz during the filming that, after making sure that she would not be needed for retakes, she told both men off and actually spat at them (although it remains unclear just which one of the two she spat at, or if she spat at both.)
d.		Don Siegel (I) called Bad Day at Black Rock the best screenplay he had ever read (to that point) and lobbied unsuccessfully to direct it.

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