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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : King Rat (1965) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : King Rat (1965) Quiz
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When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Rat (1965)?
a.
On 12 September 1991 a day before the U.S. release of the movie, Los Angeles declared it Freddy Krueger Day.
b.
The Navy Department allowed filming on the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier at sea for only three days.
c.
A high percentage of The Dudes vocabulary and dialogue is taken from other characters in other scenes.
d.
In the scene where King (
George Segal
) and his inner circle of fellow prisoners are cooking the dog, the actors (other than Segal) were not told what they were supposed to be eating in the scene. Their reactions are authentic and ad libbed.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Rat (1965)?
a.
Michelle Pfeiffer
sang all her songs, no vocal double was used.
b.
The movie was made possible by the efforts of fans the refused to see the project die. A campaign on KickStarter was started after a September 16th blog post by
Donald Miller
that the project was dead due to the lack of backers. By the end of the funding period on October 25th, Save Blue Like Jazz had raised $345,992 (of the $125,000 goal or 276%) from 4495 backers. The earns the project a Hall of Fame ranking on KickStarter as the highest funded project ever.
c.
In Interviews
Bryan Forbes
has said he had to fight the Screen Actors Guild over the most of the 15 British Equity members he wanted to cast. The Screen Actors Guild wanted British SAG members most who were fairly elderly most not suitable for the film.
d.
The new weapons the Power Rangers would use changed a bit from what was in the original shooting script. The Pink Rangers Pterodactyl Thunder Whip was originally called Raptor Ribbon, while the Stega Stinger was supposed to be the weapon for the Black Ranger. In the film, the Stega Stinger is the Blue Rangers weapon.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Rat (1965)?
a.
Berlyns costume for the interiors pays homage to
Yul Brynner
in
The Magnificent Seven
and
Joan Crawford
in
Johnny Guitar
. The interior staircase alludes to a similar one in
All About Eve
.
b.
Dirk Bogarde
was offered the extended cameo of Smedley-Taylor.
c.
The film was made in 1972 and was initially unreleased until 1977 because one of its actresses sued over the use of hardcore loops Watkins shot of her. Watkins did not even know the film ever made its way to the big screen until late 1979, when someone on the street recognized him as "the guy from that movie that was throwing animal guts around".
d.
The watch featured in the movie is a Timex Mens Watch #T56371 - Ironman Triathlon 42 Lap Combo Dual Tech, though in the film, the watches LCD display is CG enhanced to present clearer graphics. The actual watch is a simple 9 segment per character LCD alphanumeric mode display with three lines and some special-indicators.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Rat (1965)?
a.
Gibb (
Katharine Isabelle
) is always shown wearing a red baseball hat. This is an reference from
Carrie
, where
P.J. Soles
character always wore a red baseball cap. Isabelle co-starred in the TV remake of
Carrie
.
b.
Both
Paul Newman
and
Steve McQueen
were offered the chance to star in the film. They both turned it down and the role went to
George Segal
.
c.
Eleanor Powell
reportedly knocked herself out cold during rehearsals for the lariat dance.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1947 with
Katharine Hepburn
and
Robert Taylor
reprising their film roles
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: King Rat (1965)?
a.
Some of the actors had been POWS in the Second World War.
Denholm Elliott
, while serving in the RAF, had been shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis.
b.
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.
c.
When producer
Irving Thalberg
saw the initial print of the film, he berated director
Viktor Tourjansky
for making what he called a western satire instead of the straight western it was supposed to be. Tourjansky replied that the original script was "idiotic" and told Thalberg that he had originally told Tourjansky it should be a comedy anyway, so he (Tourjansky) turned it into a spoof of Hollywod westerns. The two got into a heated argument, Tourjansky got angry and walked off the picture. Thalberg brought in director
W.S. Van Dyke
to replace him. Van Dyke wound up reshooting almost all of the film.
d.
Actress
Catherine Baranov
was a waitress at the hotel the cast/crew were staying in.
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