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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midway (1976) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Midway (1976) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976).
About the movie:
A dramatization of the battle that turned out to be the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Jack Smight
replaced
John Guillermin
as director.
b.
Directly after the scene in the garage where Callahan is threatened by the motorcycle cops, the cycles drove out and every single one of them crashed.
Clint Eastwood
said, "Ive been threatened by the Keystone Kops."
c.
Reportedly, stars
Burt Reynolds
and
Clint Eastwood
had been talking about doing a movie together for a number of years before this film project finally came to fruition.
d.
Mystic Pizza is a real pizza parlor, located at 55 West Main St. in Mystic, Connecticut. Writer Amy Jones was vacationing in Mystic one summer, saw the pizza parlor and was inspired to write the story. After the movie came out, the real Mystic Pizza shop became so popular, lines would stretch to the sidewalk and patrons would regularly steal mementos from the restaurant.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Edmund Mortimer
was first chosen for the role of Senator Agnew, and studio records/casting call lists reflected this. However, Mortimer dropped out of the finished film entirely, and the role went to
H.B. Warner
.
b.
Almost all the on-board scenes were filmed on the USS Lexington. Lexington was an Essex-class "fast carrier" commissioned in February, 1943. Even some of the "Japanese carriers" shown in birds-eye views were actually Lexington (with the film reversed to put the island superstructure on the port side whereas all US carriers had them on the starboard side) Lexington, decommissioned in 1991, was the longest serving carrier in history. Lexington is now a museum ship at Corpus Christi, Texas.
c.
The actual events of this story took place between 7 October 1961 and 24 February 1962.
d.
In 1949
Ronald Reagan
complained to Warners about some of the films he was assigned to and asked to do a western. The studio agreed if he would bring them a good story. Reagan brought them "Ghost Mountain" by
Alan Le May
, author of "The Searchers". Despite their promise to him, they cast
Errol Flynn
in the lead.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Terry
, better known as Toto from
The Wizard of Oz
, appears in this film as the dog that
Spencer Tracy
takes in from the rain at the beginning of the movie, becoming his traveling companion into the netherworld of small-town America.
b.
Billy Crystal
had written the part of Eddie for himself years ago, but director Joe Roth persuaded Crystal to take on the role of Lee the publicist, as he felt Crystal was too old to play the part by then.
c.
Filming was frequently halted on the streets of New York City because teenage girl fans of
John Travolta
would scream when they saw him due to his popularity from the ABC show
Welcome Back, Kotter
.
d.
Toshirô Mifune
s voice is dubbed by American actor
Paul Frees
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Ronald Bass
s handwritten final rewrites were submitted on the very day that the writers strike started.
b.
Scenes of Lieutenant Colonel James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittles Tokyo raid at the beginning of the movie are from
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
.
c.
The only people to appear completely nude in the film are the three male producers.
d.
Ashlynn Brooke
,
Gianna Michaels
: The porn actresses appear as partygoers who are killed during the attack scene.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
This is the first
Woody Allen
film to go through a digital intermediate, instead of being color timed in the traditional photochemical way. According to Allen, its use here is a test to see if he likes it enough to use on his future films.
b.
The credits at the end of the movie play over a loop of film. The sailor on the flight deck railing repeats the same movements several times over.
c.
The date on the Opera Night ticket reads "16 January 2009". This is the actual release date of the film.
d.
Karen Black
was originally set to play the therapist, but pulled out days before shooting was to begin.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Although this film is widely regarded as the best film version of the story, it is the only one which omits Scrooges famous line: "If I had my way, every fool who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart".
b.
This was the second film to be presented in "Sensurround", a special low-frequency bass speaker setup consisting of four huge speakers loaned by distributors to select theatres showing the film. This system was employed only during certain sequences of the film, and was so powerful that it actually cracked plaster at some movie theaters. "Sensurround" was employed in only three other films released by Universal:
Earthquake
,
Rollercoaster
, and the theatrical release of
Pilot
.
c.
Paige Conner
had trouble saying harsh profanity to
Glenn Ford
in her big confrontation scene with him.
d.
Amanda Finch, the woman who picks up Hawk at the nightclub, is played by
Shannon Tweed
, partner of
Gene Simmons
, the bass player with KISS.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Filmed in
Buster Keaton
s own house.
b.
Before filming began,
Sam Peckinpah
insisted that he use actors that he usually worked with previously, such as
James Coburn
. Producers
Peter S. Davis
and
William N. Panzer
balked at the idea and Peckinpah finally agreed to the cast that was chosen.
c.
Most dogfight sequences come from 1942 newsreels, with considerable cropping due to the need to adapt the image to the Panavision framing.
d.
Eli Roth
s severed head can be seen amongst others. However,
Quentin Tarantino
s head is not in any scenes (Roth notes in the commentary on the DVD that the person he used is often confused as Tarantino, but it is not him).
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
Most of the voices heard over the radios are provided by technical advisor
Dale Dye
.
b.
Several action scenes, including the one were a Zero slams into the Yorktowns bridge, were taken from
Away All Boats
.
c.
Film debut of
Mike Mazurki
.
d.
Tony Curtis
does not appear until one hour into the film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
The clip showing "Tom Garths" plane crashing and breaking in two is one of the most used crash sequences from WWII. In the actual crash, the pilot was hardly even shaken up and immediately climbed out on his own.
b.
The game scenes were shot in LSUs Tiger Stadium during the halftimes of actual LSU games. The goalposts were altered to resemble the vintage "H" posts as needed during filming. Vertical posts will moved in place for the bottom portion of the H, and a multi-colored fabric covering was used to conceal the center upright. Upon completion of filming, the vertical posts and fabric were retracted so as not to interfere with the LSU games.
c.
Alun Armstrong
was offered the role of Russian Genrael Vostov.
d.
The final fight between McClane and Simon takes place at a truck stop in Quebec. The scenes were filmed at a truck stop off of I-95 in Jessup, Maryland.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Midway (1976)?
a.
The Hess family hides in the basement, which Graham Hess says was once used for coal storage. In
H.G. Wells
s "The War of the Worlds", the main character hides from the aliens in a coal shed.
b.
Most sequences of the Japanese air raids on Midway are stock shots from 20th Century Foxs
Tora! Tora! Tora!
(for instance, the jeep thrown into a wall by a bomb blast).
c.
A reference was made to the inclusion of Vasquez Rock to the Vulcan landscape, however, it was not mentioned that in the cave when Kirk is first carrying on a conversation with the original Spock, a scene pans past a miniature model of Vasquez Rock inside the cave to Spocks left in the scene frame.
d.
The older / younger dynamic (deskbound older commander taking the reins of what was to be the younger commanders first ship, yet keeping the younger officer on as the Exec) was featured prominently in another
Robert Wise
film some 20 years later:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
.
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