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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Battle of the Bulge (1965) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Battle of the Bulge (1965) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965).
About the movie:
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
This was originally supposed to be a
Walter Matthau
/
Jack Lemmon
movie. with the role of Matt Douglas written for Matthau. However, due to illness, Matthau pulled out and was replaced by
James Garner
.
b.
In the scene where
Montgomery Clift
and
Elizabeth Taylor
are gaily zooming around the lake in a speedboat, director
George Stevens
wanted the engine to sound more ominous. Recordings of German Stuka dive bombers were used.
c.
The films dedication credits statement states: "This picture is dedicated to the one million men who fought in this great battle of World War II".
d.
Michael Saad who played the Sheriff was so full of theater and movie trivia, had such a great time he invested some money to insure the low budget gorilla-style film gets released.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
This was the last acting role for
Percy Kilbride
.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
, which was filmed several years earlier, was not released until 1955.
b.
The two front buckles on
Matt Damon
s cowboy hat form the letter "B", the letter used on caps and hats to represent his hometown Boston Red Sox baseball team.
c.
Stanley Baker
was offered the
Robert Shaw
part.
d.
In 1995, BBC Radio broadcast a new version with Paige OHara in the title role.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
The stage musical adaption of the movie opened at the Broadway Theater in New York on December 1, 2005, ran for 910 performances and was nominated for the 2006 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book and Score.
b.
This film was shot in Ultra Panavision for showing in Cinerama venues.
c.
Hoffmans former New York roommate,
Gene Hackman
, was vying with him for Best Actor for
Mississippi Burning
. When Hoffman won, he hugged Hackman as he left his seat on the way to the podium where he affectionately mentioned Hackman in his acceptance speech.
d.
Producers contacted Royce Clayton, the first batter Morris faced in the Major Leagues, and got his permission to use his name, etc for the film. It actually took Morris four pitches to strike him out. Clayton managed to hit one foul. But it was too difficult to film a ball going foul, so they left it out.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
In a scene in Bergmans office,
Mike Wallace
tells
Lowell Bergman
, "I dont plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio." In reality, Bergman left CBS in 1998 (not right after the
Jeffrey Wigand
piece, as depicted in the movie) to work for Public Television.
b.
Chapter Titles: 1. Legend of Genghis Khan 2. Key to the Legend 3. Ghost Town 4. Terror in the Sky 5. Pursuit 6. Stolen Cargo 7. The Fatal Shot 8. Fatal Testimony 9. The Prisoner Spy 10.The Secret Meeting 11.Secret of the Altar 12.Liquid Jewels
c.
The sequence of the train transporting the big guns was expanded with additional footage shot after principal photography. The extra footage consisted of POV shots from the front of the train and shot at a lower frame rate to make the train appear to be traveling very fast around the curves in the track. This was done to show off the Cinerama process in much the same way as the famous rollercoaster sequence in
This Is Cinerama
. Much of this footage was removed from the general release version.
d.
Brad Pitt
was attacked while hanging out in West Belfast to perfect his Northern Irish accent for the movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
The version of the film released on DVD contains approximately 1196 shots in 9397 seconds of action. This equates to an average shot length of about 7.9 seconds.
b.
The man whose parachute fails to open is wearing pixel-gray Army Combat Uniform fatigues, meaning he was most likely a soldier in the United States Army.
c.
Before the movie starting shooting, Michael J. Fox was still keeping his Parkinsons disease a secret. He felt he would lose the role if
Rob Reiner
found out. During a basic and routine fitness screening, Fox was terrified that clinicians would detect the periodic shaking in his left hand and eventually connect it to Parkinsons. Fortunately for Fox, he took his medication in time to quell the shaking and the test amounted to nothing more than checking heart rate and blood pressure.
d.
The bar in Alaska is called "Eski-Moes", a homage to "Moes Tavern" in Springfield.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
This was
Dashiell Hammett
s only original screenplay (adapted by
Max Marcin
, with the eventual script by
Oliver H.P. Garrett
).
b.
During production
Billy Wilder
was continuously working on the script. One day he asked
Audrey Hepburn
to feign illness so he would have enough time to finish the scene to be shot.
c.
The name of the song that the Germans sing is "Panzerlied". However, only the first four lines of the song are actually sung.
d.
After the release of the movie,
Martha Raye
claimed publicly that the character
Bette Midler
portrayed was a rip-off of her own career and especially the efforts she had made during several wars. Raye sought compensation in court, but after hearing the evidence of both sides, the judge decided that Raye did not have a case.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
The film was shot on Super 16mm before the marriage of the characters and on RED during the marriage dissolution.
b.
In issue 73 of Your Sinclair magazine in January 1992, the Spectrum stealth game adaptation of this movie was voted the 23rd best game of all time.
c.
The two guys chasing Billy Ray and Guile are the movies directors,
Makoto Yokoyama
and
Koichi Sakamoto
.
d.
The films senior military advisor, Maj. Gen.
Meinrad von Lauchert
, was the commander of the German 2nd Panzer Division during the real Battle of the Bulge. He then had the rank of Oberst (Colonel).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
The film was
Eddie Murphy
s last for Paramount under his exclusive contract with the studio.
b.
The character of the German Colonel was first intended to be the real life Panzer officer Joachim Peiper, the youngest man in the Nazi Army to be make the rank of full colonel (SS-Standartenführer, the direct SS equivalent to an Oberst or full colonel in the German army). However, since Peiper, a protégé of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler , the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the second most powerful man in Germany after
Adolf Hitler
, was promoted to the ran at the age of 29. However, as he was still living at the time the film was produced and was still a committed Nazi, his character was quickly changed to a fictitious Regular German Army officer, so as not to give Peiper any connection to the film or risk a libel suit. It was Peipers unit of the Waffen-SS, Kampfgruppe Peiper of the 1st SS Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (German for "Adolf Hitlers Bodyguard Regiment") that was responsible for the Malmedy massacre of American prisoners depicted in the film. After the War, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted by the American Occupation Force as the trial had been fraught with illegalities, and he served only 11 years in prison, despite having perpetrated war-crimes on both the Eastern and Western fronts. Peiper was assassinated at his home in France, likely by French communists, in 1976.
c.
Geena Davis
auditioned in
Penny Marshall
s backyard.
d.
The TV advertisements specifically promoted this film as a "date movie" for male-female couples. "Real people" were interviewed outside early screenings, with each of the women commenting on how their husbands loved the picture and loved
Dolly Parton
. This strategy failed to take off, however, as "Straight Talk" garnered mainly an audience of women and Partons devotees.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
The interiors of the Valenaris restaurant was actually a set designed and built by Richard Sylbert on a soundstage.
b.
The idea for "Emulation" came to
Tom Getty
when he was sitting in a movie theater waiting for the film
Death Sentence
to begin. It was during the trailer for
Michael Clayton
that it occurred to him, "It wouldnt be very much fun to live in a movie. Too hectic."
c.
Although it is claimed by knowledgeable film people that so-called Super-Cinerama was already in use as early as 1962, this was the first film that was actually advertised in the trailers as being shown in that format. The resulting image did not turn out to be larger than ordinary Cinerama, since the film was actually shot in Ultra Panavision, shown with one projector instead of three electronically synchronized ones, and merely blown up in size to fit the giant curved screen.
d.
To prepare for his role, actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
spent a week visiting cities and towns in Kansas where the book is set.
Scott Heim
, author of the original novel, guided him around the locations and had him meet the actual people on whom the characters are based.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Battle of the Bulge (1965)?
a.
Robin Williams
: the mime instructor.
b.
When
Carrie Fisher
was a guest on the Tonight Show, she admitted that this was one of the worst movies she ever starred in.
c.
This film was denounced by former President (and Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WW2)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
soon after its release in a press conference due to its glaring historical inaccuracies.
d.
Nearly all of the actors in the film were non-professionals that had been hand-picked by David Gordon Green through random circumstances. The most interesting of these circumstances was how Green met with actor Donald Holden, who played George Richardson. Green has said that he met with Donald Holden on a beach near where he lived at the time and simply asked him to be in the film.
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