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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hell's Angels (1930) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Hell's Angels (1930) Quiz
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About the movie:
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Susan Justin
: The films composer can be seen on screen as the character of Annie, albeit only in a picture.
b.
The casts own homes were used as sets.
c.
More than 70 pilots were used in the film. Three of them died during shooting.
d.
Albert Brooks
was under a great deal of pressure to finish the film on-budget, because he would have been personally responsible for any extra costs. During one particularly difficult filming day, he sat feeling totally dejected.
Charles Grodin
walked up to him and said, "I have to leave at 4." This totally ridiculous request was sufficient to cheer Brooks up.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Many scenes had to be reshot because of the unprofessional behavior of
Veronica Lake
.
Fredric March
, her co-star, found her annoying and started to call the movie "I Married a Bitch". Other Lake co-stars held her in the same low esteem.
b.
Joss Whedon
wrote the lyrics to one of the songs performed in the film.
c.
Stunt pilot
Clement K. Phillips
was killed in a crash in Hayward, California, while delivering one of the airplanes to the Oakland location.
d.
The "Brazilian Video" was shot with a household camcorder by
M. Night Shyamalan
himself.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
The Spanish well-known TV host
Anne Igartiburu
was invited to participate in the movie in a brief role like a beautiful alien in the Bakus village, but it was deleted in the final montage.
b.
Because RKO re-cut
Val Lewton
s original version and eliminated several scenes, many cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
Margaret Landry
(Hysterical Girl),
Joan Blair
(Mrs. Loring),
Molly Lamont
(Mrs. Webster),
Dorothy Malone
(Girl in Booth),
Daun Kennedy
(Girl in Booth),
Mike Road
(Boy with Toddy),
Donald Kerr
(Member of Horse Act),
Les Clark
(Member of Horse Act),
Gordon Jones
(Truck Driver),
Harry Harvey
(Watchman),
Jack Gargan
(Man at Shooting Gallery) and
Don Dillaway
(Drunk). Some other more obscure cast members may also have been cut.
c.
The two fighter planes escorting the space plane are Lockheed Martin F-35s. At the time of the release the F-35 was still in production. The first real F-35 would not fly until December 2006, nearly six months after the release of the film.
d.
Stunt pilots refused to perform an aerial sequence that director
Howard Hughes
wanted. Hughes, a noted aviator himself, did his own flying. He got the shot, but he also crashed the plane.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Pat Finley
and
Sandy Duncan
made a screen test for the role of Minnie.
b.
This film cost $3.8 million, so expensive that it made no profit on its first release.
c.
Frank Sinatra
had to campaign especially hard to get this part as his career had hit a low point by this time.
d.
Donald OConnor
s last Francis movie.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
In 1975, this film was distributed as "Truckin Man" on a double bill with
Hot Summer in Barefoot County
.
b.
Louis Jourdan
s last film
c.
Howard Hughes
hired WWI aces to fly the planes but also flew one himself; he crashed shortly after his first takeoff and broke several bones.
d.
The cast and crew slept on the floor of the warehouse where the Saigon Russian roulette sequences were shot.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Jim Jarmusch
usually took no more than two to three takes for each scene in this film, in which most actors improvised parts of the conversation.
b.
Michael Bay
: [360 Shot] When Lincoln and Jordan finally escape.
c.
Entire story had been filmed as a silent, minus a soundtrack, by
Howard Hughes
in 1928.
Greta Nissen
had the role played later by
Jean Harlow
. When sound equipment became available Hughes decided to re-shoot the whole film as a talkie.
d.
This movie is not based on a
David Gregory
novel.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
This serial is probably based on an unofficial Flash Gordon story in which Flash Gordon travels to Saturn; this story was not and has never been part of the original Flash Gordon universe (it was illegally published in 1936).
b.
According to his autobiography,
Christopher Lee
turned down the role of Dr Rumack.
c.
During the shoot,
Nicolas Cage
was the guest of Ferrari at the Australian Grand Prix race.
d.
Howard Hughes
had all the prints tinted and hand-colored before releasing them for general distribution.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Was the most expensive movie ever made at the time of its release.
b.
The laptops used in the film are Silicon Graphics Indy Presenter LCD screens (not real laptops) that have been modified to look like functional laptops when in fact the screen image is generated by a computer off-screen.
c.
Won the Audience Award at the Landlocked Film Festival.
d.
A cookie was named after the film within months of its first festival screening.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
The schools each character is going to, and their major: Troy: Berkeley, Theatre (basketball scholarship) Gabriella: Stanford, Pre-law Chad: University Of Albuquerque, Undecided (basketball scholarship) Taylor: Yale, Political Science Sharpay: University of Albuquerque, Theatre Ryan: Juilliard, Choreography Kelsi: Juilliard, Music/Songwriting
b.
Jim says he used to work "for the Johnstown Company" - likely a reference to
Bruce Springsteen
s song, "The River" which itself is quoted moments later by Ray. Johnstown, PA, is most famous for an 1889 flood, caused, like the flood in this film, by a dam failure.
c.
249 feet of film were shot for every foot used in the final cut.
d.
Penny Marshall
s film debut.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Hell's Angels (1930)?
a.
Thirty percent of the film was re-shot when
Brian Helgeland
was replaced as director.
b.
The blue door was auctioned at Christies Film and Entertainment sale in London. Soon after, graffiti appeared on a wall close by saying something along the lines of "R.I.P. blue door" next to the new door. The original blue door is now on a property in Hope Cove, Devon.
c.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Allen Drury
, who was a congressional correspondent for The New York Times during the 1950s, while he was writing the book. Nearly every character is based on a real person (Lafe Smith is based on
John F. Kennedy
; Orrin Knox is based on
Robert A. Taft
, Fred Van Ackerman is based on
Joseph McCarthy
and the president is modeled on
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
). Even the blackmailing pf Brig Anderson, and how its resolved, is based on a real incident. And the Leffingwell nomination is based on the House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of
Alger Hiss
.
d.
An eight-minute two-strip Technicolor sequence remains the only surviving color footage of its star,
Jean Harlow
.
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