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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).
About the movie:
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
Annette Benings Film Debut
b.
Many of the scenes in this film, interestingly enough, were NOT remade in the more popular 1959 version of the story. Among these are the three Wise Mens journey through the desert, Mary and Joseph seeking refuge in the manger, and the scene in which Messala enlists the help of Iris to discover the identity of his chariot-racing opponent.
c.
The dramatic explosion at the start of the film was captured using 135 synchronized still cameras.
d.
The film has around 500 visual effect shots.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
Steven Spielberg
: [music]
b.
In
Bill Murray
s mansion,
Woody Harrelson
s character mentions that he is a big fan of all his movies. Harrelson starred in
Kingpin
with Murray.
c.
After an extra fell sick,
Jeremy Bulloch
(Boba Fett) was called in as a replacement to the Imperial Guard who escorts Princess Leia and pulls her into the elevator after she screams "Luke! Its a trap!". Hes the same Imperial Guard who is captured by Lando Calrissians men.
d.
According to The Guinness Book of World Records (2002), the movie contains the most edited scene in cinema history. Editor
Lloyd Nosler
compressed 200,000 feet (60,960 meters) of film into a mere 750 feet (228.6 meters) for the chariot race scene - a ratio of 267:1 (film shot to film shown).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
b.
Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
and his wife
Zelda Sayre
became friendly with many of the cast and crew while in Rome revising his book "The Great Gatsby". They attended a cast/crew dinner on Christmas Eve, honoring director
Fred Niblo
and his wife
Enid Bennett
. Zelda, among others, signed one of the dinner menus, which became the possession of
Carmel Myers
, who played Iras in the film. The menu is now in the archives of the University of South Carolina library.
c.
On 3rd July, 2003 a public screening from an imported DVD was shown at the Balmain Town Hall (New South Wales, Australia) but shut down after a raid by the Police. No arrests were made.
d.
Spotas supermarket is a reference to director
Peter Hyams
s wifes family name.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
The last American feature released in Cinecolor.
b.
The film begins with actual home video of some of the cast members when they were children. Anton Yelchin (Zack Mazursky) is the last child shown.
c.
This film is in the Library of Congress collection.
d.
All the religious scenes are in Technicolor, but the chariot race is not - an intense amount of lighting was required to shoot Technicolor, making it extremely difficult.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
This film is actually a remake of the comedy
Bedtime Story
.
b.
To create the stop-motion puppets of the nomes,
Nicol Williamson
and
Pons Maar
were photographed against a background grid.
Will Vinton
then watched the footage frame by frame and manipulated the puppets based on the movements and expressions of the actors.
c.
The budget skyrocketed due to all sorts of accidents, recastings and a change of director halfway through production.
d.
This movie has been described as a cross between
The Birds
and
Born Free
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
The Man asks the Little Girl if she speaks Swahili, Sesotha, or Zulu. She responds that she speaks Venda - a Bantu language common to northern South Africa and southern Zimbabwe.
b.
Contrary to reference books on the subject, the film did not have Technicolor inserts according to Technicolors records.
c.
Both
Rudolph Valentino
and
Buck Jones
were considered for the role of Judah Ben-Hur.
d.
Director
David Lean
said filming on location in Italy was expensive because he had to pay local merchants whose customers were scared off by the camera equipment and crew.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
Besides
Sean Connery
, only one other performer was involved in both this film and the original
Thunderball
:
Robert Rietty
(Italian Minister) voiced the character of Largo in the original.
b.
William Hurt
was under consideration for the role of Gen. Robert E. Lee in
Gettysburg
. Another role, that of Gen. John Buford, ended up being played by
Sam Elliot
, who played Gen. Ross in
Hulk
.
c.
Second-unit director
B. Reeves Eason
had 62 assistants when working on the chariot race.
d.
When filming the Operation Firestorm scene where Leo rescues Simmons from Devastators vortex
Ramon Rodriguez
endured artificially-generated 100-mph winds, which clogged his eyes with sand and dislocated his shoulder. It took him 45 minutes to clear his eyes.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
When filming first began at a luxury house in Lions Bay,
Harrison Ford
decided it would be quicker and more fun to fly up by floatplane instead of endure the traffic due to Olympic preparations on the Sea to Sky highway. This was fine except that the underwriters for the movie insisted that he have a copilot who would be registered as the pilot in charge.
b.
Jean Arthur was born Gladys Georgianna Greene and the title of the movie adopts the spelling of Green that matches her name: "Greene"
c.
Advertised as "The Picture Every Christian Ought to See!"
d.
Some of the filming was done in Lenox, Iowa. Lenox is the opposing team in the baseball scene early in the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
Telly Savalas
shaved his head bald for his role as Pontius Pilate. He kept his head shaved for the rest of his life.
b.
Penelope Spheeris
was offered the chance to direct.
c.
Abraham L. Erlanger
was the producer of a very successful stage production that had been running for 25 years. In 1922, two years after the plays last tour, the Goldwyn Company purchased the film rights, though Erlanger insisted on a generous profit participation deal and total approval over every detail of the production.
d.
The characters of "Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Wadsworth" are fictionalized versions of the real-life Mr. and Mrs. W. Averall Harriman, Marjorie Duchins uncle and aunt.
Averell Harriman
was the heir to his fathers,
E.H. Harriman
, railroad fortune, and devoted most of his life to public service, including stints as US ambassador to the Soviet Union and to the Paris Peace talks during the Vietnam War. At the time "The Eddy Duchin Story" was released (1956), Harriman was in the midst of his term (1955-1959) as Governor of New York, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination that year.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.
In a 1975 magazine interview with Rona Barrett, producer Ross Hunter acknowledged the failure of his film. "When we hired Bacharach and David to write the songs, we didnt know they were on the verge of dissolving their partnership. When they finally delivered the music, we were already deep into preproduction. We knew it was a bum score, but we couldnt do anything about it."
b.
Although the film grossed $9 million on its initial run, its huge cost overruns and the deal with rights-holder
Abraham L. Erlanger
meant that MGM was unable to make good on its initial $4-million investment.
c.
This remake has been made and released practically exactly thirty years after the original
Arthur
.
d.
On July 31, 1944,
Deanna Durbin
,
Fredric March
and
June Lockhart
acted in a 30-minute radio adaptation of the film, presented on the "Screen Guild Theatre" by CBS. Two-and-one-half years later, Miss Durbin starred in a musical remake of this picture, entitled
Ill Be Yours
, which opened on February 2.
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