Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Beach Red (1967) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Beach Red (1967) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967).

About the movie: American troops storm ashore on a Japanese-held island and push inland while their enemies plan a counterattack in this look at warfare...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Lance Armstrong: who is Duprees inspiration, makes three cameos in the movie. First, he is seen in the biking video that Dupree exercises to (despite appearances, this is not stock footage, but filmed specifically for this movie). Second, he appears in the dream sequence, where Carl imagines Dupree and Molly on Bobs boat (Armstrong is wearing Duprees "Say Hello to my little friend" gnome shirt). Finally, in a brief after-the-credits scene, he is shown reading Duprees book, in exactly the same way that Dupree was seen earlier reading Armstrongs book.
b.		In the Special Edition DVD Documentary, Estelle Parsons says she was the only member of the cast who actually researched the history of the Barrow Gang. She also says that early in the filming, she wanted to meet the real Blanche Barrow but Warren Beatty, in his capacity as the producer, was against the idea. Finally, after a week, Warren relented and set up a meeting with Blanche, but at that point Parsons lost interest and never met Blanche. In fact, Warren Beatty brought the script to Blanche for her to read for her approval before she would give permission to use her name. She agreed the script was factual and approved it. While there he played her piano and sang for her. She was very fond of Warren even though the director completely changed the script to make her look as in her own words, "A screaming Horses Ass." She took her third husband Eddie to see the movie with her for the first time and nearly died of embarrassment.
c.		Director Cornel Wilde explained his editing process in an interview with British Films and Filming magazine in October 1970: "I think that a cut from one scene to another should have an impact, should carry you from a certain degree of involvement and excitement to something else without letting you down...I really think that a good deal of happenstance editing still goes on, and part of my style is that I like to feel there is a reason and impact to every frame of film. Nothing should be wasted."
d.		Julian McMahon also starred in the TV show Charmed. Coincidentally, in this show he was in love with a witch called Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) who also had the power of premonitions.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		The film was predominantly filmed in the Philippines (the closing credits state it was also filmed in Japan). The Philippine Armed Forces were used to act as the Japanese army.
b.		Having already had her earlobes pierced especially for her appearance in Black and White, Claudia Schiffer also had her nose, belly button and the cartilage of both ears pierced especially for her part in this movie.
c.		James Horners score is based on the score he did the previous year for Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.
d.		Released on a double bill with The Cyclops, also starring Gloria Talbott.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Peter Bowmans uniquely constructed novel "Beach Red" was published in 1945, near the end of World War II. The book chronicles an assault landing on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific and the subsequent advance of a four-man Army recon patrol in the jungle, through the thoughts of one of its members. A contemporary review of the book stated the novel "looks like unrhymed verse, but...author Bowman stoutly insists (it) is "sprung prose." A modern-day reviewer accurately described "Beach Red" as "...not a novel. It is a 61-page prose poem, organized in non-rhyming stanzas with varying numbers of lines in each stanza."
b.		William Beaudine began the screenplay but withdrew from the project, leaving it unfinished. Harold Tarshis finished the screenplay and received credit for it. Beaudine did not.
c.		In Bulgaria the film is distributed under the title BSP (Besni Strashni Pensii - which means Furious Frightful Pensioners). But BSP is also a mock title referring to the abbreviation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). Its political color is red and its voters are mainly elder and retired people - just like the REDs.
d.		The musical theme accompanying the explosions in the beginning and at the end of the film is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys "1812 Overture"

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		George Raft was originally cast as Sam Spade. He turned it down because it was "not an important picture," taking advantage of a clause in his contract that said he did not have to work on remakes. However, according to the author John McCarty, author of The Films of John Huston, in an ICONS Radio interview (10-07-07) the real reason Raft bowed out was because a successful screenwriter, John Huston, was going to direct his first movie. Raft didnt want to trust his part to this neophyte director.
b.		The whole movie, except for the scenes where Ned Land and Conseil go ashore at New Guinea and meet the cannibals, and most of the underwater scenes with the divers, were filmed at the Disney Studio.
c.		The sequence where the Japanese army mimicked the US Marines by wearing their uniforms was inspired from the source novel. It includes a passage where the Japanese wore American helmets whilst penetrating the American lines.
d.		The musical version of "Big" opened at the Shubert Theater on April 28, 1996, ran for 193 performances and was nominated for the 1996 Tony Awards for the Best Original Book and Score.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Edwin Knopf, who wrote the original story for "The Wedding Night," was a close friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and based the characters played by Gary Cooper and Helen Vinson on Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
b.		The storm drain car chase scene was shot in a large air duct tunnel below the four main bores of the Fort McHenry Road Tunnel in Baltimore, MD. Fort McHenry permits Interstate 95 to pass under Baltimores harbor. The air duct is only accessible from the Tunnels Admin Building by stairs and a small elevator, so the cars in the scene were chopped into several sections, taken three levels below, reassembled and painted. Once filming was complete they were disassembled once again and removed from the duct. The water was hosed in from a nearby sprinkler main.
c.		The opening landing sequence in the Steven Spielberg World War II movie Saving Private Ryan is considered similar to the same in this movie.
d.		In the final shot of the film, the eleven walk past the famous sign in front of the Sands hotel. The five members of the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford) are billed on the sign. They were performing alternately in the hotels Copa Room during production, at the "Summit at the Sands".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Wilford Brimley was only 50 years old at the time of this films production. He had to have his hair dyed gray in order to make him look geriatric.
b.		This film is half of Bucky Beavers Dragon Art Theatre Triple XXX-Rated Double Feature Volume 153 (2006) DVD-R from Something Weird Video.
c.		The movie has only one musical element. This is a song written by Antonino Buenaventura and sung by Jean Wallace. It also is heard in other variations throughout the film.
d.		The party store owner who gives Bad Blake a gift bottle of his favorite Bourbon is named Bill Wilson. In the third act Bad joins a recovery group, (although unnamed), that would seem to be AA, which was co-founded by Bill W., aka Bill Wilson.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Klaatu uses the phrase "tipping point", which is a climatological term meaning the point at which the reversal of climate change becomes impossible. Some scientists believe that this has already happened.
b.		According to Robert Mitchums autobiography, Mitchum himself was openly contemptuous of Shelley Winters throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished Charles Laughton had actually used Winters in the scene when her characters body is seen dead underwater.
c.		The film utilized actual real color combat footage provided by the U.S. Marine Corps filmed during military campaigns in the Pacific Islands.
d.		John Hurt and Michael Gough were considered for major cameos.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		Filming of the movie began before Lee Meriwether was cast for the movie. As a result, Catwoman does not appear with the other villains in the first scene aboard the Penguins submarine.
b.		It is rumored that a different ending was shot, but discarded later on. It featured the (long awaited) marriage between Leia Organa and Han Solo. In the Star Wars "Expanded Universe" books, they go on to marry and raise a brood.
c.		The Japanese language is not subtitled in this movie as with director Cornel Wildes earlier film The Naked Prey.
d.		The inspiration for progressively ascending a pagoda tower to fight opponents was originally featured in Chang Chehs swordplay epic Bao Biao (1969) aka Have Sword Will Travel written by resident Shaw Brother screenwriter Kuang Ni.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		The films reception was so awful it helped coin a new Hollywood term in relation to director Elaine May: "movie jail". The term referred to someone whose perceived failure as a director was so profound, they would not be allowed to helm a movie again for a very long time, if ever again. In fact, May has not directed a single new movie since Ishtar.
b.		According to the sleeve notes of the Australian Warner Home Video cassette release, the name Beach Red was "named after the actual beach chosen by General Douglas MacArthur in 1942 to fulfill his famous promise that We will return."
c.		David makes reference to the notorious characters "Mickey the Mouse" and "Donald the Duck". RKO was Walt Disneys distributor at the time.
d.		David Rothrocks character shares a last name with Incubus lead singer, Brandon Boyd.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Beach Red (1967)?
a.		When Jonah Jameson offers the scruffy man $50 for the Spider-Man costume he found, he replies, "I could get more for it on eBay." In 2001, four Spider-Man costumes were stolen from the set of the first movie. They were eventually recovered after an 18 month investigation and the arrest of a former movie studio security guard and an accomplice. While Columbia Pictures offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to their return, movie memorabilia experts estimated the value of the costumes as about $50,000 each.
b.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 13, 1950 with Betty Grable again reprising her film role.
c.		The U.S. Marine Corps could only provide color stock footage from the Pacific Island campaigns for this movie due to a lack of resources available due to the Vietnam War. This stock footage had deteriorated and as such a considerable amount of resources from this movies budget had to be directed towards its film restoration i.e. towards making the stock footage adequately match the film.
d.		Mary Kay Places first movie.

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