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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

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About the movie: An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		Warren Oates copied Sam Peckinpah to play his part, right down to borrowing a pair of sunglasses from the director.
b.		Debut of Frank Lovejoy.
c.		The American ship used in this movie was a Destroyer Escort by the name USS Whitehurst (DE 634). My father was in the Navy at that time, and he helped paint over the 634 so the new number could be added. FYI, the USS Whitehurst was sunk as a target for a new torpedo on 28 April 1971.
d.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		One of the few critics to actually praise the film was Roger Ebert, who would win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism the following year.
b.		Production reports indicate the film was shot in 13 days.
c.		This caused a stir as it fairly explicitly showed an unmarried couple in a post-coital position and its suggestion that a young woman would actively seek out sex.
d.		Anupam Kher (Mr. Bhamra) is one of the superstars of Hindi cinema (aka "Bollywood") with a career that spans almost 20 years and nearly 150 feature films.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		The plot thread with Sen. Geary is a direct reference to The Godfather, when Vito laments that he wanted Michael to be a "big shot" who "pulled the strings." In particular, he had hoped Michael would become a Senator. Michael assures him, "well get there, Pop." At the opening of this film, we see Michael explicitly rebuffing the demands of a US Senator, turning the tables by making demands of his own.
b.		As sound is a major player in the film, Paul Thomas Anderson brought in Gary Rydstrom to do the sound mixing. Rydstrom, who is the chief sound editor for Pixar, is more noted for his work on big noisy special effects movies, notably through his longterm association with Steven Spielberg, for whom he worked on Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan.
c.		The original script called for Bennie to get away alive with both the money and head. But during shooting, Sam Peckinpah decided on his own that Oates had to die, and rewrote it as such.
d.		The bulletproof vest Darius puts on during the aircraft carrier scene is the same Interceptor body armor currently worn by the US military.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		Isela Vega received a Best Actress nomination at the 1975 Ariel Awards held by the Academia Mexicana de Artesy y Ciencias Cinematograpficas. She lost to Pilar Pellicer, who won the Ariel for her role in Emilio Fernándezs La choca.
b.		Steven Spielberg and Brian G. Hutton both declined offers to direct this movie.
c.		Robert Sacchi once said of looking like Humphrey Bogart during high-school when resemblances to him were first made: "I mean, I never thought Bogie was too terrific-looking. Like most kids at the time, I wanted to look like Gregory Peck."
d.		Chief Flythe, played by Joseph Butch Flythe, who can be seen in various scenes throughout the film, was one of the first five operating rescue swimmers in the Coast Guard, graduating from A school in 1984 and beginning his work at the Elizabeth City base in 1985.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		Gig Young appears in the film at the bar where Warren Oates is playing piano. When he and Robert Webber leave, Oates asks Young his name and Young responds, "Fred C. Dobbs," a reference to Humphrey Bogarts character in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
b.		David Newell is in studio records for a role in this film, but he does not appear.
c.		According to Carsen Gray, when shes speaking to Hook, what shes saying is Iroquois for "You are the life-stealer. You are evil. You smell bad. You smell of bear-poop. You are many moons old and ugly."
d.		In the "Pastoral Symphony" segment there was originally a scene showing stereotyped Black assistant centaurs shining the hooves of white centaurs. The chief of these was Sunflower, who had a very stereotypical look: big, red lips and wild messy hair. It was not until the 1969 re-release that this was thought to be objectionable, and all subsequent releases until 1980 had an abrupt cut at this point. Every subsequent release after 1990 includes the scene, but with the section blown up so that it only shows the faces of the white female centaurs.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		Upon release, it was banned in Sweden, Germany and Argentina.
b.		The tires of Lightning McQueen are Buzzard models manufactured by Lightyear, a reference both to the real Goodyear "Eagle" tires used in NASCAR and character Buzz Lightyear from John Lasseters Toy Story and Toy Story 2. A Lightyear Blimp, spoofing the real-life Goodyear Blimp, even appears at the race events.
c.		In the original version, the film opened with the benefit party by PETA on the hotel roof. Parts of the scene were kept from the original shooting but in the final cut, that scene is at about 50 minutes from the beginning. Mya replaced Mandy Moore in this scene.
d.		Francis Ford Coppola was assisting Roger Corman on the set of the movie in Ireland. Corman allowed Coppola to use the same set, crew and actors Luana Anders, William Campbell and Patrick Magee for the filming of Dementia 13 if he could shoot around the shooting schedule of Cormans film.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		Ione Skye once dated Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose song "Taste the Pain" opens the movie.
b.		The working title, "Tribute to a Bad Man", was later used as the title of an unrelated MGM feature (Tribute to a Bad Man). One reason for the title change was to add "beautiful", in consideration of the top-billed Lana Turner.
c.		Graeme Garden has, for many years, been making a pun of the title of this movie in an on-running joke on the BBC Radio series "Im Sorry I Havent a Clue".
d.		In the last scene the psychiatrists name is P. Sarossy, same as the cinematographer of this movie, Paul Sarossy.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		The first feature-length three-color film.
b.		The film playing in the theater near the end of the film is The Longest Yard. The film ran with the sound off, and the cast and crew were only allotted the length of the film to complete the long scene. The darker shots are that way because they were shot during the end credits.
c.		The convenience store sequence refers back to one of the first episodes of the television series, when Philip Gerard, under the influence of Mike, tells Cooper that the Black Lodge spirits lived above a convenience store when in the human world. According to Michael J. Anderson (Man From Another Place) the scene originally ran for twenty minutes; only about one minute actually appears in the film.
d.		One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		In the scene where the priest baptizes Alfredos son, we can hear (in Latin) the childs name: David Samuel. Sam Peckinpahs full name is David Samuel Peckinpah.
b.		Refers to the John Wayne film The Alamo by showing a painting of Wayne as Davy Crockett defending the Alamo. Normally there is a disclaimer that states "all characters depicted in this motion picture are fictitious," etc. In this film, the disclaimer reads "all characters depicted in this motion picture except John Wayne are fictitious..."
c.		This movie is one of only two remakes of The Front Page which do not use "The Front Page" title. The other is His Girl Friday.
d.		Judy Garland did not attend the 1955 Academy Awards, where she was nominated as Best Actress for her portrayal of Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born, because she was in hospital after giving birth to her third child and only son Joey Luft.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)?
a.		The only movie directed by Sam Peckinpah that he had final cut on - all the others were re-cut by the studios.
b.		Tony Russel said the film was held from US release for almost three years because of its controversial and what was claimed by some to be anti-American content. It was finally released in the US after Audie Murphy filmed a prologue explaining that the film told the story of one soldier and one platoon. The film won an "out of competition" award at Cannes in May of 1961.
c.		The opening Screen Gems logo reverses back to merge into the Rainforest Films logo.
d.		President Warren G. Harding and Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, with their respective spouses, attended private screenings of the film.

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