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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Risk (1981) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Risk (1981) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : High Risk (1981)

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About the movie: Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		Jordan DeNoce was able to get the ambulance for the crash scene by telling the local paramedics he was making an anti-drug P.S.A for a local school district. There is a special feature on the DVD where Jordan DeNoce actually made a gag P.S.A from the footage he shot.
b.		Actors Bruce Davison and James Brolin actually crossed the very narrow and wobbly rope footbridge (with safety harnesses) that is suspended across a two hundred foot deep gorge that is seen in one of the movies action sequences. However, stunt doubles took over for when the two fall off the bridge when it collapses.
c.		During various unused takes, local residents Jerry Seinfeld, Joel Coen, and Frances McDormand happened to wander through the frame.
d.		Bobby Farrelly is one of the brothers in goalie pads during the hockey scene.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		McGruff kicked a 65 yard field goal to win one of the games. The NFL record for longest field goal is 63 yards and has been done twice, so McGruffs kick would have set a league record.
b.		Actor Cleavon Little is seen in drag in this movie.
c.		Tyrone Power turned down the Burt Lancaster role because he was committed to a play at the time.
d.		Glenn Close and Sigourney Weaver were considered for the female lead role.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		The silent (synchronised sound, non-dialogue) version premiered 73 years after the films release (in the UK, that is) at the Watershed in Bristol on Sunday 23 November 2003.
b.		Mahlon Hamilton made an uncredited appearance as a doorman. He had been making movies for years, way back in 1919 starring as Jarvis Pendelton in Daddy-Long-Legs. Six years after this film Fred Astaire went on to play the same role
c.		The movie was inspired by an actual series of games in Kiev, during the German occupation of the city. Several members of Dynamo Kiev, the top soccer team in Ukraine, found work in a bakery. There they formed a soccer team with other bakery employees. They began playing in a new league against teams supported by the Ukranian puppet government and German military. After they beat a team from a local German Air Force base, the league was disbanded and several of the team members arrested by the Gestapo and four were executed.
d.		This movies director Stewart Raffill once said of this picture: "Theres a lot of fun and light moments in High Risk. I see the film being in the Butch Cassidy mold. Theres humor, but the dangers, and the bullets, are real. Our heroes are not really competent enough to do what they do. Theyre working class guys who gamble their all on a chance to make it rich, and as such, I feel that they will be that much more easily identifiable to out audiences. They are simply doing what we would all like to do - have an adventure that would make our dreams become reality."

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		Erville Aldersons first film.
b.		In the skinny-dipping scene, the water Bruce Dern is swimming in was actually ice cold. The production saved money by not providing a water heater.
c.		Most of this movie was set in Columbia, but filmed in Mexico.
d.		To avoid an R rating, a controversial swear word had to be eliminated from the scene in which Harold and Maude sit under the sunset.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		Director Stewart Raffill spoke of how this movie came about: "A producer came to me and said I like your movie The Adventures of the Wilderness Family. He said, I have the money to make a movie, but we have to get started in three weeks."
b.		When Martin Scorsese agreed to direct, he brought Robert De Niro on board with him, much to the delight of Julia Phillips. Much less delightful was that De Niro was committed to making Bernardo Bertoluccis Novecento and when he left for Italy, Scorsese committed to Alice Doesnt Live Here Anymore.
c.		In the first scene with Bad and Buddy, Bad is teaching him how to "kick" a paper football, a popular table top game played mostly by grade school boys for many decades.
d.		To prepare for her role, Jessica Alba took violin lessons for 6 months, which she started while filming 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. She also learned basic Braille.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
b.		The character of Pastor and his three love-interests were based on what was, at the time, the real love-life of actor, Anfer Kayso. In fact, the role of Charlie is played by the woman, whom in reality was the actors "Bambi" at the time of production and was actually his girlfriend at the time of release.
c.		Director Stewart Raffill once said of working with actor James Coburn on this movie that Coburn was "one of the most interesting people Ive ever met. He was terribly beat up with arthritis at the time and had to be lifted onto a horse for the movie. But he was interested in all sorts of esoteric philosophies and things."
d.		The films distributor offered theatres a promotional poster that listed several points about octopuses - including the fact that they can reach sizes of over 38 feet from arm to arm.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		This film was originally developed as a Laurel and Hardy vehicle, but was re-scripted after Stan Laurel, whose contract with Hal Roach had run out, declined to resign with the producer. Hardys contract was still in force, and the team believed that if they waited until it expired, they could resign as a team and be in a stronger bargaining position. Ultimately that is what happened.
b.		The final soccer game was filmed in the Nemesio Diez Stadium, home of Toluca, a Mexican 1st soccer division team,
c.		The vodka used in the film is Sobieski Vodka from Poland. The amber liquid, although not identified in the film, is believed to be Scotch by many fans.
d.		This movie was not the first time that James Coburn and Anthony Quinn had appeared in the same movie. They both starred in A High Wind in Jamaica about sixteen years earlier. Though they both acted together in that movie, they appear in the same sequence at the end of this movie but dont actually act together in the same shot.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		The second chapter of Neil Simons semi-autobiographical "Brighton Beach Trilogy", which followed "Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)" and is followed by "Broadway Bound (1992)".
b.		This movie is based on articles in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine.
c.		Stan Lee: Although Lee has made cameos in many Marvel movies, this is the first time he has played a character from the comics: Willy Lumpkin, the Fantastic Fours kindly old mailman. His line was supposed to be, "Welcome home, Dr. Richards," but he changed it to, "Welcome back to the Baxter Building, Doctor Richards!"
d.		During the films original release, "cheatsheets" explaining much of the movies setting and its more obscure vocabulary were handed out to moviegoers at some theatres.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: High Risk (1981)?
a.		Ernest Borgnine: As arms-dealer Clint.
b.		The first feature-length film in either the Ju-On or Grudge series not to star Takako Fuji as Kayako.
c.		This film is listed as one of several lost Universal serials in Kinnards "Sci-fi Serials". Although at least some of the film does survive.
d.		Filmed in 1955.

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