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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Island of Lost Souls (1932) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Island of Lost Souls (1932) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932).
About the movie:
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Bugss house, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall, is modeled on Frank Lloyd Wrights "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.
b.
Due to its positive portrayal of Asperger Syndrome and other autism spectrum conditions, this movie has been frequently screened at autistic conferences and support group meetings for those on the spectrum.
c.
The humans are not Homo-Sapiens, but Neanderthals. They never speak in the film.
d.
Charles Laughton
claimed that he based his Dr. Moreau appearance on that of his dentist.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Midway during shooting, the captains chair from the bridge set disappeared, apparently stolen. While the film crew scrambled to find a way to work around the problem, the
Enterprise
cast and crew shooting in the soundstages next door decided to have a little fun at their franchise-mates expense:
Scott Bakula
visited
Patrick Stewart
s trailer to present him with a makeshift wooden "replacement" chair with the letters K-A-P-T-I-N painted on it.
b.
The party scene toward the end of the movie was filmed at Asbury College, where both the writer and director graduated.
c.
A photo of one of the F/A-37 Talon mock-ups, snapped on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln during filming was published in an Australian aviation magazine, claiming that the Talon was an actual prototype aircraft being tested by the US Navy.
d.
The shooting location for Moreaus mysterious uncharted island was actually Catalina.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
The release date was set without a script or a cast.
b.
Anthony Hopkins
described his voice for Hannibal Lecter as, "a combination of
Truman Capote
and
Katharine Hepburn
."
c.
One of the films uncredited actors,
Joe Bonomo
, nearly drowned during filming. He fell into a water tank and the foam rubber in his costume soaked up water, causing him to sink.
d.
Frank Sinatra
was originally considered for the role of Terry Malloy.
Elia Kazan
approached Sinatra about the part but producer
Sam Spiegel
favored
Marlon Brando
for his greater pulling power at the box office.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Charles Laughton
already knew how to use a whip. He learned to use one for a previous stage role. His teacher was a London street performer.
b.
Average Shot Length = ~8.7 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.1 seconds.
c.
When all hell breaks loose in the final fight in the courtyard, if you watch the right-hand side of the screen you can catch a glimpse of
Bruce Lee
running around frantically choreographing the fight.
d.
Louis Gossett Jr.
was considered for the role of Viper. Gossett, however, did play the older, mentor-type role in another 80s fighter jet film,
Iron Eagle
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Joe Bonomo
, who starred as one of the man-beasts, was also
Lon Chaney
s stunt double in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
.
Charles Laughton
also made a version of this classic story in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
.
b.
At the Governors Press conference, the television stations attending are real Seattle TV stations: KING-TV, KCPQ-TV, and KOMO-TV. KOMO even went as far a actually being on location and loaning equipment for the shoot. They have done this before and since:
Harry and the Hendersons
and
Life or Something Like It
c.
Al Shean
(born Adolph Schoenberg), who plays the Professor in the film was once half of one of the most popular teams in vaudeville - Gallagher and Shean. He was also the younger brother of
Minnie Marx
, the matriarch of
The Marx Brothers
clan, and was instrumental in writing many of the first sketches that his madcap nephews first performed on the vaudeville circuit before their enormous success on Broadway and in Hollywood.
d.
Paramount didnt officially greenlight the film until 10 weeks before production was due to begin. This meant that the production design was unnecessarily rushed and was the reason why many leading production designers turned the film down.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Color screen tests of
Mary Pickford
as Alice were made for a proposed live-action/animation version of the story.
b.
The participation of
Buster Crabbe
,
Randolph Scott
, and
Alan Ladd
in uncredited roles as "beasts" comes from the pages of Motion Picture Guide, and is otherwise undocumented and highly questionable.
c.
Frank Whaley
has referred to this movie as "semi-autobiographical."
d.
The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" has become a popular phrase among sci-fi fans over the years and has been featured in other movies, such as
Army of Darkness
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
The dance scenes were filmed at the Rivera CC Pacific Palisades. As with the house used in the opening sequences, considerable damage was done by the extras and movie watchers during the filming.
b.
This was
Charles Laughton
s first starring role in a U.S. film.
c.
From first draft of the screenplay to final cut took four years.
d.
Ryan Gosling
operated the camera when he turns to look at the people staring at him in the scene where his head starts to bleed while he is in front of the jewelry store.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Nehemiah Persoff
, who portrays Capones boss, Johnny Torrio, had a recurring role on the TV series,
The Untouchables
playing, among other roles, Capones book keeper, Jake "Greasy Thumbs" Guzik.
b.
The identity of the actor who played "Owl Man" is unknown.
c.
Another cost-saving measure on this film is that many of the "computer" consoles and other high-tech set dressings were rented from a Hollywood company called Modern Props. The more common approach would have been to have set designers create these by hand, for limited use, at a much higher cost.
d.
The aliens costumes are loosely modeled after those worn by the flying monkeys in
The Wizard of Oz
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Director
Garry Marshall
shares a fear of heights with
Richard Gere
s character, Edward Lewis.
b.
After doing this film,
Charles Laughton
claimed that he could not go to a zoo for the rest of his life.
c.
This is the only Halloween film to show the morning after the 31st, every other movie ends on Halloween night.
d.
The courtroom scenes (filmed in St. Cloud, Minnesota) were "dressed up" to give it a more "hockey feel" this included adding small black circles that looked like hockey pucks near the ceiling architecture. Instead of taking them down, the "hockey pucks" still remain today.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Island of Lost Souls (1932)?
a.
Owen Wilson
s feature film debut.
b.
In response to British censors, who claimed the film was "against nature",
Elsa Lanchester
(Mrs. Charles Laughton) is said to have stated: "Of course its against nature. Sos Micky Mouse!"
c.
Yvette Mimieux
was actually underage when shooting began (she turned 18 during the shoot) and was not legally supposed to work a full shooting schedule, but did. She was inexperienced - as she worked on this film she kept getting better and better so that by the end of the shoot they wound up going back and re-shooting some of her earliest scenes.
d.
Michael Curtiz
, Presleys favorite director, had previously directed the original
Kid Galahad
.
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