Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Istanbul (1957) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Istanbul (1957) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Istanbul (1957).

About the movie: A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Istanbul (1957)?
a.		The original adventures of Frank Merriwell took place in the 1890s, but for the serial, the writers set the story in the then present day.
b.		Claire Danes was originally cast in the lead role
c.		Errol Flynn was paid $13,500 per week (contractually paid weekly) for his performance.
d.		Sidney Lumet claimed that he wanted to cast Vanessa Redgrave in the film, but Paddy Chayefsky didnt want her. Lumet argued that he thought she was the greatest English-speaking actress in the world, while Chayefsky, a proud Jew and supporter of Israel, objected on the basis of her support of the PLO. Lumet, himself a Jew, said "Paddy, thats blacklisting!" to which Chayefsky replied, "Not when a Jew does it to a Gentile." The year after this film swept the Oscars, Redgrave won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Julia. The Jewish Defense League had protested her nomination and was picketing and burning her in effigy outside the Academy Awards ceremony. In her controversial acceptance speech, Redgrave decried intimidation by "Zionist hoodlums". Chayefsky was one of the scheduled presenters later in the evening, and he took a moment to express his contempt at Redgrave for "exploiting" the Academy Awards for "personal propaganda".

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Istanbul (1957)?
a.		The guitars that Bill and Ted play are a Gibson SG Standard and a Gibson 59 Flying V. Ted plays two different color schemes on the V, while Bills SG was the same throughout the movie
b.		The music cue where Luke gets the men to work faster on the road was used later for many years by many ABC television stations as their "Eyewitness News" theme.
c.		Renée Zellweger, upon receiving her Oscar for Cold Mountain, thanked Vincent DOnofrio for teaching her how to act, referring to her experiences in this movie.
d.		Peggy Knudsens last movie.

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