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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982).
About the movie:
Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Tom Skerritt
recalled that the dialogue was about 80% improvised. In order to create a different kind of atmosphere, Altman cast some of the parts from improvizational clubs who had no previous movie experience.
b.
Initially,
Steve Martin
s character was written to tell off
Humphrey Bogart
s "mentor" character as an old has-been. The scene in which Martin did this was restored for network-TV showings.
c.
Frank Sinatra
was seriously considered for the role of Nicky Arnstein but
Barbra Streisand
vetoed this as she didnt like him.
d.
Early in the film when Donnie is riding his bike home, he passes Franks car traveling in the opposite direction. This car later kills Gretchen, prompting Donnie to shoot Frank in the right eye (which Donnie had also stabbed through the water-mirror). Soon after, when time is "reset" and everybody wakes up to the Mad World song, Frank is wiping a tear from this eye.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Joe Maross
final film.
b.
The initial advertising campaign for Captivity featured a multi-paneled poster. The first panel was labeled "Abduction," featuring actress Elisha Cuthbert appearing petrified, her mouth covered by a black gloved hand. The second panel was labeled "Confinement" and showed Cuthbert behind a chain-link fence with a bloody thumb poking through. The third was labeled "Torture" and featured Cuthbert on her back, her face hidden within a white cast and red tubes going up her nose. The fourth panel was labeled "Termination" and featured what appeared to be a limp body hanging over a table. The poster was placed on several billboards across Los Angeles, causing a significant uproar and resulting in many complaints. Distributor Lionsgate - who were not involved in the films advertising campaign and claimed to know nothing of the poster in question before the posters were distributed - and producer After Dark Films ultimately decided to remove the controversial poster from the advertising campaign and took the billboards down.
c.
The car accident at the beginning of the movie (the killing of the scientist) is taken from
Keeper of the Flame
. That movie, however, is not listed in the credits as the source of the footage.
d.
The blue laser lights that were used in the alien ships egg chamber were borrowed from
The Who
. The band was testing out the lasers for their stage show in the soundstage next door.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
The quote, The young man leaned back in his chair. No bulls would die today ... is from the The Sun Also Rises by
Ernest Hemingway
.
b.
The police cars were modified Ford Tauruses. One of the main competitors of the Taurus at the time was the Pontiac 6000. The car the villains use is the 6000 SUX, a not-so-subtle jab at the Pontiac 6000.
c.
This was legendary Costume Designer
Edith Head
s final film. There is a tribute to her in the closing credits denoting this. Fittingly, the film features many of her earlier designs in cleverly edited clips from old movies.
d.
Roger Moore
celebrated his 57th birthday during filming, making him the oldest actor to play Bond.
Sean Connery
was 52 in
Never Say Never Again
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Michelle Pfeiffer
, who produced the film, wanted
Paul Newman
to play patriarch Larry Cook, but he turned down the role.
b.
A major reason
Gene Kelly
suggested
Leslie Caron
as the female lead was because he felt this movie needed a "real" French girl playing Lise, not just an American actress playing one.
c.
At the hotel dinner for the kids, after their trip to the Holocaust museum, all of the Holocaust survivor characters are played by actual Holocaust survivors.
d.
Steve Martin
suggested using footage of
William Hartnell
,
Red Skelton
,
Jerry Lewis
,
Jack Benny
,
Stan Laurel
and
Oliver Hardy
. But
Carl Reiner
refused, because he felt it would be funnier if they used footage of actors who spent their careers mostly away from comedies.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
The money was not available to pay to the two main stars and the director their normal fees. They decided to split a percentage of the gross profits between the three of them and ended up making more than they would have made taking their fees upfront because the film was such a hit.
b.
While
Steve Martin
s character is at the bar in Carlotta, a clip is used of
Charles Laughton
from
The Bribe
asking, "You know who I could be?" and Martin replies, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame?" Laughton played that role in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
.
c.
Alfred Hitchcock
: [bathroom] Thornhill hides in a bathroom three times.
d.
Though
Willis H. OBrien
gets top special-effects billing,
Ray Harryhausen
actually did 85%-90% of the stop-motion animation for this film, although the animation is based on OBriens designs and storyboards.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Military bases utilized for this movie included the West Point Military Academy, Fort MacArthur in San Pedro, the San Diego Naval Air Station and the Mojave Air Fore Base.
b.
Rigby Reardon tells
Lana Turner
he left her sitting at a counter at Schwabs. Turner is rumored to have been discovered sitting at the counter in a Schwabs drugstore.
c.
This was Louise Brooks final film. Contrary to popular rumor, this was not intended to be her "comeback" to Hollywood; she made it because she needed the money. She was paid $300 for the film. Not long after it was released, she was found working as a salesgirl at Saks Fifth Avenue at a salary of $40 a week.
d.
Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Princess Aouda travel east across the U.S. on the locomotive Jupiter. The Jupiter was the Central Pacific Railroads representative at the Golden Spike ceremony that created the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Filming in the jungle took place during the rainy season of August where it would rain at least three hours out of the day.
b.
When Rigby Reardon (the character played by
Steve Martin
) finds the "Top Secret" Nazi packet labeled "Final Instructions", the date on the packet is 14 August 1946. Steve Martins actual birth date is 14 August 1945.
c.
The warehouse set that the characters are in having a party after getting the device is modeled on the set of the warehouse party in
The Conversation
.
d.
Bill Pullman
was originally cast as Frankie Flannery. He wasnt working out and was replaced by Ed Harris.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Fox released the first trailer with strict instructions that it not be shown before a certain date. When a Canadian movie theatre accidentally showed it a day early, they lost the rights to show the movie.
b.
For the bank robbery sequences,
Tyler Hoechlin
had to learn to drive, something he was only too happy to do. Hoechlin mastered it all easily but, just to be on the safe side, a stunt driver was sitting in the back with his own set of driving controls.
c.
The reason that
Dan Dailey
sings "Friendly Island" in such an odd voice is that he is making fun of
Ezio Pinza
the basso profundo opera star who was starring in the then current stage show "South Pacific".
d.
Also the last film of legendary composer
Miklós Rózsa
. This was ironic since he was also asked to rescore music for original images that he had worked on in the 1940s and 50s.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
Performers who appear in this film in footage from earlier classic movies include:
Edward Arnold
,
Ingrid Bergman
,
Humphrey Bogart
,
Wally Brown
,
James Cagney
,
William Conrad
,
Jeff Corey
,
Joan Crawford
,
Bette Davis
,
Brian Donlevy
,
Kirk Douglas
,
Ava Gardner
,
Cary Grant
,
Alan Ladd
,
Veronica Lake
,
Charles Laughton
,
Fred MacMurray
,
Charles McGraw
,
Ray Milland
,
Edmond OBrien
,
Vincent Price
,
Barbara Stanwyck
and
Lana Turner
.
b.
Previously
Ron Howard
and
Shirley Jones
had played sister and brother in
The Music Man
while in this movie they probably become stepmother and stepson.
c.
Speedcubing champions
Tyson Mao
and Toby Mao and Lars Petrus were hired to coach
Will Smith
to solve a Rubiks Cube in under two minutes.
d.
Among one of the items in the envelope is Michaels ID card from Alcom Corporation. In an FBI office scene there is a close shot of the card with a UPC bar-code 071486036043. This code corresponds to Premiere Magazine published by Curtis Circulation Company.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)?
a.
The only Star Wars film that was not the top box-office earner the year of its release.
b.
The movie was initially planned by
Steve Martin
and
Carl Reiner
to be a 30s-era film titled "Depression". After Reiner incorporated some footage of a 30s star into the movie, he and Martin decided that the entire movie should be done that way, and re-wrote it into a mock-detective story.
c.
The "Girls Gymnastics Team Winter Roster" that Tiffany is looking at contains the names of actual members of the crew:
Christina Toy
(Production Manager),
Sheryl Rhodes
(Production Coordinator),
Sarah Rogers
(Second Assistant Director), Sarinah Haba (Art Assistant),
Valerie Halverson
(Set Supervisor),
Audrey Skalbania
(Canadian Casting), and Cindy Larsen (Assistant Hair Stylist).
d.
Pre-production took over a year before any animation occurred.
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