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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dressed to Kill (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dressed to Kill (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980).
About the movie:
A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
Several of the characters in this movie also appear in Walker Texas Ranger.
b.
The film was converted to 3D in post production.
c.
Richard Price
grew a mustache and cut his hair so he could play one of the bowling bankrollers in the movie.
d.
In the late 1970s, Brian De Palma wrote a screenplay based on Gerald Walkers article "Cruising", but was unable to obtain the rights to the material. Cruising, the story of a series of brutal murders in the gay New York underworld, was subsequently adapted and directed by William Friedkin, while De Palma fashioned some of the elements from his own Cruising screenplay into Dressed to Kill. Both films were released, to great controversy (and after numerous battles with the MPAA to avoid X ratings), in 1980.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
The jewelry store owner who gets robbed by Nickys boys is an actual Las Vegas jeweler. His line "I just got a shipment of diamonds from Israel" was not in the script.
b.
Director
Tim Burton
included scenes in homage to Disneys animated version of the Sleepy Hollow tale (featured in
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
). These include the scene in which Ichabod Crane crosses the covered bridge and hears the frogs underneath croaking "Ichabod" and "Headless Horseman," the following chase sequence where Ichabod is run down and unhorsed, apparently by the Horseman, and the moment in the climactic chase scene in which Ichabod runs into a tree limb, and, thrown through the air, ends up landing on the Horsemans horse backwards.
c.
The producers wanted
Joan Crawford
for the role of Ma Kent. Unfortunately, Crawford was too ill to take the part and died shortly before production began.
d.
Michael Caines psychiatric office is located at 162 East 70th Street on Manhattans Upper East Side.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
The sound of R2-D2 moving was produced by recording the sound of a car window motor in operation.
b.
Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and Hathi the elephant are named after the words in Hindi for their species. Shere Khan means Tiger King.
c.
Final film of
Leila Hyams
.
d.
In 1982 "Dressed To Kill" had its television broadcast premier on NBC. During this broadcast, the following dialog slipped past the censors and was aired to millions: Dr. Elliot: "When was the last time you had sexual intercourse with your wife, Lieutenant?" Det. Marino: "What the fuck business is it of yours?"
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
Pete Docter
, the director, provided most of Kevins vocalizations.
b.
The title is an appropriation of 1 Corinthians 13:12, which reads, in part: "For now we see through a glass darkly; but then, face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known."
c.
As a young man, De Palma, at his mothers urging, actually followed his father and used recording equipment to try and catch him with another woman. That incident inspired this film.
d.
The film contains several references to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
s short story The Red-Headed League, including the plot to break into a bank through the basement of an adjacent storefront and Frenchys attempt memorize the contents of the dictionary.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
The Antarctic setting on Bouvet Island is based on the unexplained "Vela Incident" where on September 22, 1979, a satellite recorded a flash of light near Bouvet Island. It was first speculated to have been a man made nuclear explosion or a natural event such as a meteor strike but this has never been resolved.
b.
Director Joe Sarnos first feature. Sarno was originally hired only to write script but wound up co-directing with producer/director Philip Melillo. Working title: "Naked Terror".
c.
Many of the puppies found happy homes with many of the trainers. Most were returned to the breeders once they were too old to use for filming, and the breeders sold them off with special papers, noting that the puppy took a part in the filming of this movie.
d.
Angie Dickinson
said the scene where her character gets seduced in the back of a cab was filmed on location in New York, where several gawkers observed the scene and shouted, "Right on, Police Woman!" (referring to her previous TV role).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
Not screened in advance for critics.
b.
Sean Connery
was offered the role of Robert Elliott by
Brian De Palma
, and was enthusiastic about it, but declined on account of previously acquired commitments.
c.
The line quoted by Doc at the end of the fight at the OK Corral is historically true and was reported in the Tombstone papers reporting the fight. When confronted by one of the Cowboys at point blank range, the Cowboy reportedly said, "I got you now Doc, you son of a bitch," to which Doc gleefully retorted, "Youre a daisy if you do!"
d.
On the region-1 DVD commentary of the film,
Jeff Lieberman
says that the old farmhouse used for Mr. Beardsleys home during the shoot is known as one of the most infamous haunted houses in Georgia.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
The blood and entrails used in the disemboweling of Capt. Rhodes were real. Pig intestines and blood were procured form a nearby slaughterhouse and used to make the scene. During filming the refrigerator housing intestines and blood was unplugged by custodial staff, and the entrails started to spoil causing most of those involved to become physically sick.
b.
Average Shot Length = ~6.5 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.9 seconds.
c.
Glad Bags and DeLaurentiis Entertainment co-sponsored a real-life million-dollar "treasure hunt" to coincide with this films release. At the end of the movie, the cash is still missing, and moviegoers were invited to find the location of the hidden stash, using clues provided in the film (the sponsors also emphasized that the money wasnt PHYSICALLY hidden anywhere, lest anyone injure themselves or damage property while searching for the loot; the audience just had to GUESS where the money was hidden). Ticket buyers were even given game cards shaped like American currency - with a big photo of
Dino De Laurentiis
where the President should be. In the end, it was a big disaster for the studio. The film was one of the major flops of the 1980s, barely grossing a million dollars at the box office, which the studio wound up forking over to the contest winner, a woman in Bakersfield, California. (Incidentally, the money was hidden in the bridge of the Statue of Libertys nose).
d.
Bill Condon
scheduled "And Im Telling You Im Not Going" as the last scene to give
Jennifer Hudson
the most time possible to grow into her character.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
Dennis Hopper
provided dubbed voices for a few of the smaller characters in the movie.
b.
The exteriors of the museum scene were shot in New York. The interiors however, were shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (note the griffin logo on the map Angie Dickinson checks, its their logo). The large gorilla painting that she views (called Reclining Nude) now resides in the office of the wholesale and retail operations manager of the museum.
c.
Sergeant Russell Schalk,who played the Army recruiter, is a real-life recruiter and combat veteran of the 1st Cavalry Division. Jennifer Lawrence asked him questions in character, and he responded as if he were talking to an actual recruit.
d.
The meaning and relevance of this movies The Villain and Cactus Jack titles are that they both refer to the name of the films central antagonist character of Cactus Jack Slade played by
Kirk Douglas
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
In the
Angie Dickinson
shower scene, a body double is used.
b.
Final film of
Sylvia Breamer
.
c.
This was 1954s most successful film. The second most successful was
The Caine Mutiny
, which featured
Rosemary Clooney
s husband,
José Ferrer
.
d.
Scripted, but never filmed, was a segment meant to have followed the deleted monkey-cat scene: A homeless lady screams after interrupting Brundlefly as he feeds out of an open dumpster. Brundlefly seizes the bag lady and disintegrates her face with his vomit drop. Before he finishes feeding on the womans corpse, Brundleflys humanity emerges for a moment; just long enough to contemplate the horror of his sub-human existence.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dressed to Kill (1980)?
a.
An early draft of the screenplay featured supporting characters Adrienne Shaw and Brigitte Douglas to be played by
Cindy Morgan
and
Ryan Starr
respectively. The script was later rewritten eliminating these characters altogether.
b.
Brian De Palma
originally wanted
Liv Ullmann
to play Kate Miller, but she declined.
c.
In 1940, when this film was released,
Jean Arthur
was forty years old and her "love Interest",
William Holden
was only twenty-two.
d.
This was the first major picture to film on location at Alcatraz Island after the closure of the federal prison in 1963.
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