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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Anxiety (1977) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Anxiety (1977) - 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: High Anxiety (1977).
About the movie:
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
A sequel was announced by Platinum Dunes after the theatrical release of the movie, but after a year of no news where production stood on the sequel, producer
Bradley Fuller
confirmed via his Twitter account the sequel had gone out of production.
b.
Belgium (which, according to the original radio series, is the most unspeakably rude word there is) can be heard in the movie three or so times.
c.
One of
Mel Brooks
favorite routines was doing musical impressions of
Frank Sinatra
, and in this film he performs the song "High Anxiety" in an exaggerated version of Sinatras singing style. Brooks wrote the song and lyrics.
d.
Bruce Kirby
s film debut.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
Shot with a 16mm handheld camera on the streets of New York. Most of the dialog was improvised, while all the crew were fellow class members of
John Cassavetes
or volunteers.
b.
The meaning and relevance of this movies title "The Deep Six" is that it is a marine term or American nautical slang. From the 1940s, it referred to the act to toss overboard as in jettisoning cargo. Alternatively, dating from the early 1900s, it could mean a burial at sea, referring to the usual six-foot depth of graves as in six feet under. It initially was a sailors vocal calling to the ships command on the bridge that the depth of water was more than six fathoms (11 meters) but not as many as seven fathoms, six fathoms being the minimum legal distance for a burial at sea. Often its use in an expression will be to give or get the deep six or to deep-six.
c.
The scenes in which Enzo comes to visit Vito Corleone in the hospital were shot in reverse with the outside scene shot first.
Gabriele Torrei
, the actor who plays Enzo, had never acted in front of a camera before and his nervous shaking after the car drives away was real.
d.
First speaking lead role for
Mel Brooks
. His first lead role had been in
Silent Movie
where there was no dialogue.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
Joan Crawford said that she agreed to the film because she found the subject of the story "interesting".
b.
Three of the films writers appear in comic supporting roles.
c.
Several references to
Robert A. Heinlein
s novel, "Starship Troopers": the prominent use of the military; during the orientation when Hudson asks if this is a "bug hunt."
d.
Orville Turkey Jackson said he was born in 1913. In reality,
Bob Hope
was born in 1903, making him ten years older than his character at the time.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
Most of
Anna Kendrick
s dialog when Jessica and Bella leave the movie theater was improvised.
b.
This films
High Anxiety
title is a phrase that actually means vertigo.
c.
In the reverse shots of Mike Sullivan, Jr., when hes being driven through the snowy town by his father, an angel can be seen in the frost on the rear window over his left shoulder.
d.
Chaney would play the Monster a number of times later: footage from this film appears as stock shots in
House of Dracula
; he doubled
Glenn Strange
for three shots in
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
when Strange twisted his ankle; he played the role in a half-hour version of "Frankenstein" on TVs
Tales of Tomorrow
; and he appeared (masked) in two comedy sketches with
Bud Abbott
and
Lou Costello
on a 1952
The Colgate Comedy Hour
show.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
Jim Cunningham depicts drugs, alcohol, and premarital sex as "instruments of fear." In the movie, Donnie smokes a cigarette, drinks alcohol, and engages in premarital sex. The climax of the movie occurs after he surrenders to all three temptations.
b.
The sets in Old Tucson are built to 7/8th scale, so the performers look larger than life.
c.
Mel Brooks
hired the actual bird handler from
Alfred Hitchcock
s
The Birds
for work on this picture.
d.
Originally,
Anthony Hopkins
refused the part of Don Diego de la Vega because he had too much pain in his back. A laser operation made an end on the pain and made it possible for him to accept the part.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
First film as a producer for
Mel Brooks
.
b.
The original unproduced play, "Everybody Comes to Ricks", was found by Irene Lee, who headed the story department at Warner Bros., on a trip to office of Jack Wilk, story editor for Warner East Coast operations in New York, where the typed script had sat for a year. It arrived at Warner Bros. Studios to be read as a potential film project on the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
c.
According to
Jon Favreau
, it was difficult to find a proper opponent for Iron Man to face, since he wanted the film to remain grounded in reality as much as possible. It was decided to have a foe in the film who would serve as a parallel of Stark (i.e. an armored opponent). Well-known enemies like the Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo were considered, but finally the lesser-known Iron Monger, Obadiah Stane, was chosen as Iron Mans adversary (Stane, as well as possessing his own armor, is also a business contemporary of Stark).
d.
Neither
Lia Beldam
(young woman in bath) nor
Billie Gibson
(old woman in bath) appeared in another movie before or after this one.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Anxiety (1977)?
a.
This picture was dedicated to
Alfred Hitchcock
.
b.
Aces car is a 1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
c.
Adam Shankman
: [Singing] Jamie sings at the high school production.
d.
All of the graffiti backgrounds in the movie were spray-painted by underground artist David Choe.
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