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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983).
About the movie:
Maggie Foley is a reporter who's interviewing the surviving members of a band who's music is being revived...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
This is the only film in the trilogy that features no Matrix agents. (Smith should not be counted, as he is no longer an agent of the system.)
b.
An Unfinished version of the film was shown at the Washington Independent Film Festival as work in progress and it went on to win the Audience award for best picture.
c.
Quotations from the book Ridgeway reads are attributed to poet Arthur Rimbaud.
d.
The cavalry sequences were shot with members of the Wyoming National Guard. Two guardsmen were badly hurt during filming of a charge scene.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
The band that actually plays the music is John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
Michael Tunes Antunes
is a real sax player in the band.
b.
Private eye Bill Harlow was inspired by Raymond Chandlers Phillip Marlow. This was the first appearance in a Markman script of Harlow, who would often return, either played by Rick Savage or, later, Randy Spears.
c.
ADV Films announced the production of the live action movie at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
d.
Body Count: 5
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
Forrest Taft asks the question, "What does it take to change the essence of a man?" to an oil worker. This question is posed and answered in an aftershave commercial by
Kelly LeBrock
.
Steven Seagal
and LeBrock were married at that time.
b.
Lou Martini Jr. is the only actor to appear in both in the movie The Godfather and HBO Series The Sopranos.
c.
Tony Marts was an actual place in New Jersey from the 1950s to the early 1980s. The building was demolished in the early 1980s, and a new building now stands on a different area of the property.
d.
Screenwriters
Marcus Dunstan
and
Patrick Melton
appear briefly on the elevator where Hoffman first meets Jigsaw.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
Used soldiers from the armys 2nd Infantry Division stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, as extras. The same division was used for Rough Riders.
b.
Agent Sue Mengers once said of the post-movie break-up with client
Barbra Streisand
: This picture ". . . caused a lot of strain between Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters. Because it was the first thing Barbra had done where Jon wasnt involved. He liked to get producer credit. And this one announced to the industry that shes a free agent. Producers didnt feel, Omigod, if I bring that script to Streisand, Ill have to bring in Jon Peters."
c.
Referenced in Reno 911! (2003) episode where an aspiring novelists apartment is burning he asks the Sheriffs and Firefighters to save his only copy. They find out it is basically the same story as Frequency and give the novelist the bad news.
d.
The interiors for the radio station at which Doc Robbins (
Joe Pantoliano
) works were done in the main studio of what was then WMID-AM, Atlantic City (1340 kHz).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
The highland backdrops were over 600 feet long, and 60 feet high, and cost $382,280.
b.
As Frank pulls into his schools parking lot of, he hears the end of one of The Cruisers songs and the DJ announcing their music is becoming popular. The announcer is New York DJ Scott Muni. He also announces the call letters for WNEW-FM, the station where he was a broadcaster for almost 20 years.
c.
Luther Adler
s last film.
d.
The first of ten movies starring
Ann Sothern
as the heroine Maisie Ravier.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
When Michael was chasing Tommy, Kara, Danny and baby Stephen down the hallway, Michael was played by
A. Michael Lerner
. The Smiths Grove Doctor running from Michael also was A. Michael Lerners real life father.
b.
Shavuot, mentioned by Masha, is a Jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan (usually sometime in late May or early June).
c.
The first feature-length three-color film.
d.
The fraternity house is actually the home of the Haverford College president. Haverford, where the college scenes were shot, has no fraternities or sororities.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
Wendell Newton never speaks.
b.
In the course of filming in Japan, the producers discovered the location of a lost Frank Lloyd Wright hotel in the city of Odawara.
c.
During the end credits, when the cast members names appear on the screen, the only ones not to be shot/blown up are the only ones which survive in the movie.
d.
Although it is unverified, some of the animation sequences used for the wolf mother and pups appear to be reused from
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
, just colored differently. The motions of the wolf pups leaning on the tree log, for example, compared to three of the dalmatians on the arm of the chair in Cruella Devilles mansion.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
Fifty native Yukon Siberian sled dogs were used for this movie.
b.
The major contribution made to the American International version by
Jim Danforth
and
Wah Chang
was the giant cyclopean rodent monster. The monsters roar was actually Rodans roar taken from
Sora no daikaijû Radon
(US title: "Rodan").
c.
Frank says he became a high school teacher in Vineland. However, the exterior shots are from the Vineland Developmental Center, East Campus. This is a NJ State School for the mentally challenged, still in operation today.
d.
As real Waffen-SS reversible camouflage smocks were unavailable, smocks used in the movie were tailored from post-war German shelter halves in the Amoeba camouflage pattern.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
The spaceship is inscribed with the acronym ANSA rather than NASA. The meaning of this in-joke is uncertain. The ship itself has been named by fans as the USS Icarus, after Greek mythologys ill-fated flight pioneer.
b.
Jean Harlow
was living in the house shown in the movie when she died in 1937. She had moved here the year before.
c.
America Ferrera
was originally cast as Mona Gray, but dropped out and
Jessica Alba
replaced her.
d.
The Palace of Depression was a real place in Vineland, New Jersey. A homeless drifter built it out of junk, sand, and clay, then charged admission for visitors. Vandals destroyed the Palace after his death, but the original ticket booth still stands. Vineland is currently trying to rebuild the Palace of Depression.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)?
a.
The character of Tommy Johnson is based on famed blues guitarist of the same name who, according to folk legend, sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads in exchange for his prodigious talent.
Robert Johnson
, another bluesman and a contemporary of Tommys (but no relation), borrowed the legend and wrote a song about it (and so the soul-selling legend was subsequently, wrongly, attributed to Robert Johnson).
b.
The film, initially a box-office flop, became a cult classic after airing on cable. The featured single, "On The Dark Side," was Top 10 hit in 1984.
c.
Angiers double mumbles a few lines from a speech while rehearsing on stage before his first performance. What hes saying is actually the words of Harry Percy (Hotspur) from
William Shakespeare
s Henry IV, when called to appear before the king and explain his failure to turn over prisoners after a recent battle in Scotland. Apparently
Hugh Jackman
has used this speech in previous auditions. Presumably it was believed that having the double deliver a few lines from Shakespeare would lend him an actorly air, as his character is in fact a dissolute stage actor.
d.
Robin Williams
was originally cast in the film, but pulled out of the project.
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