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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959).
About the movie:
HILARIOUS MIXTURE OF MISSILES AND MIRTH! (original ad - all caps)
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959)?
a.
Called "Deadly Pursuit" in the UK. Because of the recent massacre in Hungerford, where Micheal Ryan had gone on a shooting rampage killing around dozen people and injuring a number of others, it was thought to be in bad taste to release a film with "shoot" in the title.
b.
This is the only film to debut at the two largest theaters in New York, the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall, simultaneously. The total searing capacity was about 10,000, and it sold out every performance at both theaters.
c.
When initially release, the movie was often on a double bill with
The Legend of Tom Dooley
.
d.
Was accepted into both the Toronto International Film Festival and The Sundance Film Festival.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Have Rocket -- Will Travel (1959)?
a.
The strange, menacing-looking engine in the railroad crossing scene very strongly resembles Pennsylvania T-1 4-4-4-4, an experimental engine built in 1942 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and used exclusively by the Pennsylvania Railroad. All of the real T-1s were sold for scrap by the early 1950s.
b.
The opening battle scenes are taken from
Raintree County
and are printed as a mirror image of the original footage. (The same scenes can also be seen in, among other films,
How the West Was Won
.)
c.
The only feature film with
Joe DeRita
that contains a Stooge eye-poke. The boys later deleted the gag from their routine, as angry mothers began to protest that children were poking their eyes out.
d.
Because shooting was not done in sequence, a "make believe" scale of 1 to 10 was used so
Josh Hutcherson
could gauge how much computer generated imagery Jess would be seeing. They rated Jess view of Terabithia from the treetops as level 10. Similarly, the five stages of grief emphasized in the book (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) were used so Josh could appropriately focus his performances in the later scenes of the film.