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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : I Like Your Nerve (1931) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : I Like Your Nerve (1931) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931).
About the movie:
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
Over 130 sets were built across 52 different stages at the studios; spanning 183,000 square feet, the 52 different stages were the most ever deployed for a stop-motion animated feature.
b.
A 1931 news item in Film Daily indicated the story was to be dramatized for the stage, but no performance of it has been found. However, a 1932 play with the title "I Like Your Nerve" was written by Katharine Kavanaugh and published in Chicago by The Dramatic Publishing Company. It is not known if this play was based on this movie.
c.
Gary Cooper
was very ill during production, and was actually filming against the advice of his doctors.
d.
Dr. Evil calls one of his creations
The Alan Parsons Project
, spoofing the name of a band that enjoyed popularity during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1999,
Alan Parsons
released his album "The Time Machine", and a remix of the title track includes snippets of Dr. Evils dialogue from the movie.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
The Huttese language spoken by Jabba the Hutt was inspired by the Incan language Quechua.
b.
One of the indistinct words that Gandalf whispers to the moth when he is trapped by Saruman is "Gwaihir", the name of the eagle that later rescues him from the tower.
c.
The opening scene is missing in the TCM print, according to synopses reported in contemporary reviews. In that scene, the
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
character is a bookworm who goes to Central America when advised to do so by a fortune-teller. The missing scene may account for the TCM print being shorter than the reported running time.
d.
As part of the films promotion, the "Audrey II" plant was occasionally interviewed, in character, by the press. On at least one occasion, the interview concluded with Audrey II "eating" the interviewer.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
In a BBC radio interview,
Robert Stephens
said most of his part was deleted
b.
Vitaphone production reels #4924-4930.
c.
"Lt. Cmdr. Mike Hewitt" is the torpedo operator on the surface ship who calls out the range of the torpedo fired on the Red October, only for it to be remotely detonated by James Greer (
James Earl Jones
) just prior to impact (to fool the Red Octobers crew being rescued on the surface). He is not referred to by name in the movie, but his character and the actors name is listed in the credits. "Mike Hewitt" is a real person, although at the time of filming he was Captain error (now retired - he was Captain of the USS Fulton, a "sub-tender" ship stationed at the Naval Base in Groton, CT). He was a technical advisor on the film and they gave his name to the character as thank you.
d.
Quentin Tarantino
: [corpse view] After the last villain is shot and killed, the camera points up from his "head" and we see the heroes looking down at his body.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
Humphrey Bogart
was widely quoted as saying that co-star
James Cagney
looked like "a mushroom" in his costume.
b.
There are over 50 horror film references made throughout the movie.
c.
In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
d.
The name of the TV channel announcing the death of Charles Lee Ray at the beginning of the movie is W-DOL.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
Shot in sequence, taking advantage of the fact that the principals became dirtier and more tattered and suffered injuries - some real and some artificial - as they progressed.
b.
A number of exterior scenes were filmed on the grounds of the Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916) in San Diego. The buildings seen in the film still stand today in Balboa Park.
c.
This was RKOs biggest hit of 1940, earning $869,000 in profits.
d.
John Hay Whitney
, head of the motion picture section of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, convinced 20th Century Fox to spend $40,000 for re-shooting scenes that described native customs in an slightly unfavourable light.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: I Like Your Nerve (1931)?
a.
Director
Gary Sherman
claimed that this was the first movie to realistically display police work on the streets but
Fort Apache the Bronx
did this and preceded this picture by about a year.
b.
Hungarian-born, multi-lingual director Paul Fejos, working at MGM at the time, was assigned to direct both German- and French-language "parallel versions" of "The Big House," using different actors but the same costumes and sets at MGM.
c.
Wes Craven
later used the name "Krug" in
A Nightmare on Elm Street
for the films villain, "Freddy KRUEGer." In both films the name is used for teenage murderers.
d.
Ivan F. Simpson
(Butler) and
Paul Porcasi
(The patron) are in studio records/casting call lists with those roles, but they are not in the print shown on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel.
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