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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Family Plot (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Family Plot (1976) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976).
About the movie:
Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
Film debuts of
Vic Damone
and
Fernando Lamas
.
b.
Vincent Schiavelli
played the subway ghost in the scenes with
Patrick Swayze
s character. Both men subsequently died of cancer at the age of 57.
c.
Faye Dunaway
was offered the role of Fran for this movie. It ended up going to
Karen Black
.
d.
Released, originally, with the Mickey Mouse short
Clock Cleaners
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
To make the cemetery in this movie appear weedy with long grass, the cemetery was paid by the production to let the grass and weeds grow for a whole four months without weeding and maintenance.
b.
The part of Elizabeth Roffe was turned down by
Candice Bergen
,
Jacqueline Bisset
and
Diane Keaton
before
Audrey Hepburn
accepted, and the characters age was changed from 23 to 35.
c.
Colin Farrell
and the other cast members had to spend six weeks at a ranch, hanging out with cowboys and learning how to ride horses before filming began. Farrell rode a horse named Milagro while learning how to ride, and used that horse while shooting the film.
d.
All of
Christopher Plummer
s scenes as the Emperor were shot in a single day.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
Turk talks about creating a "Republic of Freedonia". While most people are aware that this is the name of a fictional country in the film
Duck Soup
, Freedonian was a term used in the USA after the American Revolution until it was replaced by American.
b.
A few shots of the lap dance scene from the missing reel of
Death Proof
can be seen in the
Grindhouse
trailer. The shots of
Vanessa Ferlito
crawling along the floor to a seated
Kurt Russell
do not appear in the theatrical film.
c.
Michael Bay
: a photographer.
d.
The screwball comedy nature of this movie evokes
Alfred Hitchcock
s earlier picture
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
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.
Author of the novel
Anne Rice
considers this to be a terrible disappointment for her and for many of the readers.
c.
This movie was completed with support from the IFP.
d.
First and only ever score of an
Alfred Hitchcock
film that was composed by composer
John Williams
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
After this movie was completed,
Alfred Hitchcock
worked on the film script for the spy thriller The Short Night. He never got to direct it due to his ailing health and it was not made. It would have been his fifty-fourth film. The Short Night still has never been filmed to this day.
b.
When
Sean Connery
appeared as James Bond in this movie, he returned to the role he made famous after an absence of twelve years.
c.
In the scene where
Uma Thurman
is being buried alive, the master shot has the pickups headlights illuminating the graveyard. On the right of the screen, the exhumed bodys gnarled hand casts a bunny-shaped shadow on its coffin.
d.
Voted #1 Must See Movie of all time by listeners of Capital FM in London.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
Alfred Hitchcock
was seriously in ill-health during the production of this movie. This lead to this picture being his final ever film. It was not intended to be his final picture as after-wards he worked on developing The Short Night for the screen.
b.
Paul Stader
: This movies stunt coordinator as one of McTeagues henchmen.
c.
The comment that
Spencer Tracy
makes about the "Rooney kid" is an ad-lib (watch
Jeanette MacDonald
s expression reacting to it). Tracy had worked with
Mickey Rooney
earlier that year in
Riffraff
and knew that director
W.S. Van Dyke
abhorred retakes, priding himself on bringing in productions fast and under budget - hence his nickname, "One-Take Woody".
d.
The line "You used to be quite a nice boy - fun occasionally" prompted a complaint letter to the Hays office from the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, the members of which heard "You used to be quite a nice boy - fornicationally."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
Much of the screenplay is not actually derived from
Henry James
s novella "The Turn of the Screw" but from
William Archibald
s 1950 Broadway adaptation "The Innocents".
b.
Phil Silvers
had to go without his trademark glasses for this film, as director
Richard Lester
did not want any historical anachronisms.
c.
Budgeted at about $20 million, this was Paramounts biggest flop of 1964. Its failure cost producer Samuel Bronston his Spanish production facility.
d.
Alfred Hitchcock
was seventy-five years of age when he made this film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
Two Scenes in the Theatrical trailer do not appear in the film
b.
This movies working titles were Missing Heir and Deceit, the latter of which was used right up until the final week of shooting.
c.
Renny Harlin
: [Finland] "Finlandia" by
Jean Sibelius
is used in some scenes.
d.
For playing as Clifford Anderson in the play "Deathtrap" on the New York stage, actor
Victor Garber
was nominated for the 1978 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor. In this movie version, Clifford Anderson was played by
Christopher Reeve
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
C. Ernst Harth
(The Great Child) has a cameo as Giant Baby (blind-date of Laurie (
Anna Paquin
)) in
Trick r Treat
. Both films are Warner Bros. releases.
b.
Alfred Hitchcock
once said of this film: Its ". . . a melodrama treated with a bit of levity and sophistication. I wanted the feeling of the famous director
Ernst Lubitsch
making a mystery thriller."
c.
Ridley Scott
was attached to the project years before production finally began.
Tim Burton
was also considered as director.
d.
In the scene where Madeline punches in the entrance code and enters the gate as Helen slips past her unseen, you get a brief glimpse of her license plate. It reads "2HYE305", not "ZHEMEKIS" as previously noted
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Family Plot (1976)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 25, 1943 with
Mary Astor
,
Humphrey Bogart
and
Sydney Greenstreet
reprising their film roles.
b.
The massive explosion seen early in the film caused by the botched cold fusion project was shot with miniatures with an old abandoned steel factory acting as both the interior and exterior for the shots.
c.
Madeleine Stowe
s character was originally a poet, but Stowe asked if the script could be changed to make her a musician. Stowe then learned how to play the violin for the role.
d.
Alfred Hitchcock
s films have become famous for a number of elements and iconography: vertigoginous heights, innocent men wrongfully accused, blonde bombshells dressed in white, voyeurism, long non-dialogue sequences etc. In this his final film, one last iconographic element was added to the canon: the woman in black.
Karen Black
plays a villainous character whose outfit is the anti-thesis of the blonde dressed in white. Her costume comprises black hat, black dress, large black sunglasses obscuring the face and a long blonde wig. This menacing character image was notable in this movie and its image dominated in the films printed promotional material and movie posters. The malevolent character-image has since been re-used in such famous movies as for character Bobbi in Brian de Palmas
Dressed to Kill
and Hannibal Lecters on-the-run end-of-movie disguise in
The Silence of the Lambs
.
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