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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dead End (1937) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dead End (1937) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937).
About the movie:
The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
One of the headstones in the film bears the name "Alex Murphy", a reference to
RoboCop
.
b.
The play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 28 October 1935 and closed 12 June 1937 after 687 performances. Those originating their movie performances in the play were
Gabriel Dell
,
Huntz Hall
,
Billy Halop
,
Bobby Jordan
,
Marjorie Main
and
Bernard Punsly
. Also in the cast were
Leo Gorcey
and
David Gorcey
(playing "Second Avenue Boys"),
Joe Downing
(Babyface Martin),
Dan Duryea
,
Martin Gabel
and
Sidney Lumet
.
c.
At 106 minutes long, this is the shortest James Bond movie in the EON Productions Official Series. This film is a direct sequel to
Casino Royale
which ironically is the longest film in the official series. This film is also the first Bond movie to run under two hours since
Tomorrow Never Dies
. The non-EON made-for-television
Casino Royale
tele-movie has the record for being the shortest Bond movie ever, running at 51 minutes.
d.
The pan after Ricks quiz was filmed from the fourth floor east viewing deck of Hollywood & Highland. Note the Montecito and Fontenoy buildings; also the mural with Elvis, Marilyn, Chaplin, and John Wayne on the back of the Wax Museum building.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Samuel Goldwyn
acquired the rights to
Sidney Kingsley
s play for $165,000 - an exorbitant amount of money at the time. The play had been a huge success on Broadway (which is why it commanded such a big fee) and Goldwyn purchased it with the intention of filming it largely uncut, knowing that he would have many run-ins with the Hays Office over the content.
b.
This is one of the first Disney films to list the voice credits for the animated characters, and the first to actually list Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as if they were actors in a live-action film.
c.
In an interview actor/stunt man
Timothy L. Raynor
(the killer) said there was a nearly disastrous mishap with actor
Ralph Brown
(Wildman). In the movie Wildman is killed when he is strangled by the wires of a weight machine. Raynor said during shooting one of the wires was wrapped tightly enough around Browns throat to put a choke hold on him. Raynor quickly saved Brown, who was choked into unconsciousness.
d.
Gregory Peck
and
David Niven
were both attached to this project.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Professor Z is a Zündapp Janus, a strange German microcar made by the Zündapp motorcycle company from 1957-1958. The name Janus came from the Roman god, based on the unusual design of having the doors at the front and rear - passengers in the rear faced backwards. It had a 250cc engine with an optimistic top speed of around 50MPH and, due to the unusual weight configuration, handled very poorly.
b.
Health and safety restrictions meant that helicopter blades were not allowed to be moving when the actors - in this case,
Rebecca Romijn
and
Ian McKellen
- were sitting inside the helicopter. The moving blades had to be added in digitally afterwards.
c.
The screenwriter,
Rivka Rappoport
was only sixteen when she was picked up by
Wes Tomasz Ciesla
to write screenplay for "The Ideal". She went on studying creative writing and film at Columbia University.
d.
Although she only appears for one scene that lasts a little under five minutes,
Claire Trevor
won an Oscar nomination for her performance as Francie, the prostitute.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Renny Harlin
edited this film and
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
at the same time because of the relatively short post-production period for both films. The films were then released one month apart.
b.
The note that Crash writes to Annie actually reads "Lets fuck" not "I want to make love to you". It can be seen over Crashs right shoulder when he writes the note in the dugout.
c.
The torso of The Interlocutor was built from an old water-heater found by Haynes and Bennett on the banks of the New River. The robots head is a medieval jousting helmet, which severely limited the visibility of
Clay Scheib
and his ability to hear direction from Haynes. The robot was rusty-brown in color, similar to how it appears on the poster.
d.
An early gangster role for
Humphrey Bogart
that built on the success of his performance in
The Petrified Forest
the year before, Bogarts name appeared below that of
Sylvia Sidney
s in the opening credits. This was reversed for any subsequent re-releases.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
William Wyler
originally wanted to film on location on the streets of New York, but producer
Samuel Goldwyn
insisted that it be made in the studio. Art director
Richard Day
was assigned to design the sets, and made one of the most convincing and elaborate sets in film history.
b.
Before the film was fully completed it was shown at the Festival Finale Plzen (2006) and was immediately granted a Special Award for "Originality and Support for Suppressed Minorities."
c.
Came fourth in the UKs Ultimate Film, in which films were placed in order of how many seats they sold at cinemas
d.
Eli Wallach
(Ben Harris) and
Anne Jackson
(Gloria Fiske) are husband and wife in real life.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Ann Doran
(Miss Smith) and
Franklin Pangborn
(Msieur) are in studio records/casting call lists for those roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
b.
Humphrey Bogart
got the role of "Baby Face" Martin after
George Raft
declined it.
c.
Universal Pictures originally wanted
Lee Remick
cast in the role of Evelyn, but director
Clint Eastwood
had been impressed with
Jessica Walter
s performance in
Sidney Lumet
s film
The Group
, and cast her instead.
d.
Originally released to the public in trailers and previews as The Wedding Party in early 2003, and yet was touted as a remake of
The In-Laws
. Eventually the film was renamed.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
The television commentator who calls the two Americas Cup matches and the International 14 Championships is Peter Montgomery, famous in the yachting world as the Voice of the Americas Cup. Montgomery is an actual yachting commentator for all major yachting events around the world, as well as a well known broadcaster in New Zealand who covers all the yachting events as well as a good deal of Rugby and Cricket.
b.
After shooting ended, the undeveloped film sat on the shelf for a few months while
Oscar Micheaux
made a second film,
Birthright
.
c.
Toward the beginning of the film, when Lilly Sloane pointed to the sky and asked Zephram Cochrane about the newly arrived Borg ship, Zephram replied that it was the constellation Leo. Leo is in fact visible from northern Montana during evenings in April, which was when and where the story takes place.
d.
When producer
Samuel Goldwyn
visited the huge set constructed for the film (a very detailed depiction of a New York City slum) he shouted, "Why do directors always want these slums to be so dirty? Clean it up!" He was eventually persuaded by director
William Wyler
that very few people lived in clean slums and that it would hurt the pictures credibility if a slum were depicted as a nice place to live.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
One of the only songs not included in the soundtrack album is "Starálfur" by
Sigur Rós
which was used in the underwater scene where Steve Zissou confronts the Jaguar Shark for the second time.
b.
According to
Steven Berkoff
(Maitland) in a UK newspaper interview,
Sylvester Stallone
quit the film because of disagreements about which kind of orange juice was to be put in his trailer.
c.
Declared one of the ten best films of 1937 by the Film Daily.
d.
Playing Gus Macalinski,
Karl Malden
was about seventy years of age when he appeared in this movie.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Director
Fred Gallo
didnt see the script until the first day of shooting.
b.
In order to get past the censors, all references to Franceys "profession" were veiled (although it was mentioned in the original play on which the film was based), even the fact that she was suffering from the late stages of syphilis, which was never mentioned by name.
c.
At one point in the movie, the plot mirrors that of
Bryan Adams
song "Summer of 69." In the song, he says "Me and some guys from school, we had a band and we tried real hard. Jimmy quit, Jody got married, shouldve known we never get far." In the movie, somebody says "Jimmy quit" and then there is a shot of Lenny getting married in Vegas.
d.
The colonel who ran the jump school (and who was seen shooting trap with
John Wayne
) was the real jump school commandant and a legendary commander of U.S. paratroopers.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead End (1937)?
a.
Each of the cast members was given a gift on their last day of shooting, usually a prop that was significant to their roles.
Miranda Otto
received one of Eowyns dresses and her sword,
Liv Tyler
received Arwens "dying dress",
Orlando Bloom
got one of Legolas bows.
b.
Based on the 1954 Indiana State champs, Milan Indians.
c.
Leslie Easterbrook
and
Bill Moseley
had played "mother and son" once before, in
The Devils Rejects
.
d.
This was the first appearance of the Dead End Kids who later evolved into the East Side Kids and later the Bowery Boys. Producer
Samuel Goldwyn
brought the boys - who had appeared in the original Broadway production of the play - to Hollywood to appear in the movie. He later regretted the decision, as the boys ran wild through the studio, destroying property and crashing a truck through the wall of a sound stage. Afterwards, Goldwyn decided not to use the boys again and sold their contract to Warner Brothers.
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