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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Majestyk (1974) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Majestyk (1974) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974).
About the movie:
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
As a tie-in with the movie,
Walt Disney
comics released "Dick Tracy: The Tommy Guns and Truehearts Trilogy" which explained the back story leading up to the movie with the actual film plot used as the third installment.
b.
There are no opening credits save the title of the film.
c.
The Ford truck was not modified to do the stunts - it was pretty much box stock. Ford used clips from the film in TV commercials to demonstrate how tough their trucks are built.
d.
Harold Lloyd
was such a popular star at the time, the Coney Island scenes had to be filmed secretly, with the camera often hidden from view, to avoid attracting mobs of adoring fans.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
The haunting flashbacks that Ben Rolf has about the creepy chauffeur were based off of an actual childhood experience of
Dan Curtis
. Curtis recalled as a young child being at his mothers funeral and seeing a chauffeur laughing outside of the funeral parlor which disturbed him deeply. He wrote the memory into the film and the chauffeur became a most eerie character.
b.
After its initial run, "Mr. Majestyk" played as a supporting feature at New York cinemas showing the 1974 James Bond film
The Man with the Golden Gun
, after the latter film proved a weak performer at the box-office.
c.
Apparently, President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
mandated that this movie make no explicit reference to either military electronics or radar.
d.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
Disney released this film, its second to be rated "PG" by the MPAA (the first being
The Black Hole
), without any mention of its involvement, in hopes that teenage audiences might be more likely to see it if they didnt know that it was a Disney picture. (However, the cover art of the DVD release of the film in 2004 credits the film to Walt Disney Pictures.)
b.
A field full of melons is seen shot-up in this movie.
c.
Lindsay Felton was cast in the film after responding to a message on Twitter sent by writer/director Travis Legge.
d.
Shelved by its distributor, Paramount, for some two years after it was filmed.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
The rabbi at the funeral is played by actor
Jeremy Piven
s real life father,
Byrne Piven
.
b.
Kurt Russell
has starred with
J.T. Walsh
three times before, in
Tequila Sunrise
,
Backdraft
and
Executive Decision
.
c.
New scenes not in the original play were added to this version of "Gaslight", and the names of most of the characters were changed. The character that
Joseph Cotten
plays in this version was changed from a stout, humorously sardonic elderly man to a young, handsome one in order to serve as a potential love interest for
Ingrid Bergman
in the film, and in order to appeal more to the audience.
d.
A Turkish movie which was given an American bootleg title of Turkish Mr. Majestyk (aka Karpuzcu (1979)) was made and released about five years after this film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
This picture represents one of a handful of films starring
Charles Bronson
that deal with Mexico and/or specifically Chicano characters. The pictures are
Breakout
,
Mr. Majestyk
and
Borderline
.
b.
One of a small handful of films produced by 20th Century-Fox which does *not* use the fanfare of trumpets with the opening logo. (
All About Eve
,
Sounder
, and
The Sound of Music
are others.) The moody and lovely opening music is by the films composer,
Bernard Herrmann
.
c.
The winter scenes were filmed on a hot day in August 1966.
d.
One of the few Universal films that does not begin with the Universal logo.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
This is the only filmed adaptation of an
Elmore Leonard
crime novel that
Charles Bronson
ever appeared in.
b.
Before the role was handed to Fox, casting was about to hire a man working in Tiffanys in NYC named Chris Salales and wanted to make him the star role without knowing him or any prior experience.
c.
Best friends
Channing Tatum
and
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
star as Duke and Cobra Commander, who were arch-enemies in
G.I. Joe
.
d.
This is the first Resident Evil movie not to be released onto the VHS format, all the other movies were.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
Charles Bronson
was about fifty-three years of age when he appeared in this movie.
b.
The soundtrack contains the sounds an animal would hear inside a slaughterhouse.
c.
After he finished this film,
Martin Scorsese
screened the film for
John Cassavetes
. Cassavetes, after seeing this film, hugged Scorsese and said, "Marty, youve just spent a whole year of your life making a piece of shit. Its a good picture, but youre better than the people who make this kind of movie. Dont get hooked into the exploitation market, just try and do something different." Scorseses next film was
Mean Streets
.
d.
Director
Jim Wynorski
has two small roles in the movie; his voice can be heard as a radio announcer and he briefly appears as a police officer who gets shot at the climax of the film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
In researching this film, director
Ralph Bakshi
went into Harlem with a tape recorder and asked various people "Whats it like being black in America?"
b.
The meaning and relevance of this movies title is that it refers to the last name of the central character, Vince Majestyk, played by
Charles Bronson
.
c.
This is the second film to feature
Liev Schreiber
in drag. The first role was in his theatrical debut,
Mixed Nuts
.
d.
The MPAA would have granted this film a PG-13, if the scene at the hospital where the zombie is shot in half was toned down.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
The owner of the watermelon farm where exterior scenes were filmed was initially paid $1,000 for the use of his land. However, upon learning that this movie had "Hollywood stars" in it, he upped the price to $10,000.
b.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 4.5 seconds (2005 DVD Version). This is fast by most 1970s film standards, but quite slow for
Sam Peckinpah
. For example,
The Wild Bunch
has an A.S.L. of three seconds,
Junior Bonner
3.5 seconds,
The Killer Elite
four seconds.
c.
Donny Osmond
- who sings several songs on the soundtrack - noted that his children only ever really thought that he had made it in show business when he worked on a Disney film.
d.
The film was originally seen in workprint (unfinished) form by the BBFC who suggested minor edits to the killing of Vennor and to the second rape scene, which implied that Amy was sodomized. The edits were carried out and the completed film was passed uncut for cinema by the BBFC. Subsequent attempts to release the film on video however proved unsuccessful, as chief censor
James Ferman
suggested cuts to the rape scene (over 3 minutes) but found them difficult to carry out. Another attempt to release the film was prevented by concerns over the 1987 Hungerford massacre. After 5 attempts proved unsuccessful an edited version of the film (removing most of the second rape) was officially submitted in March 1999 but was rejected by the BBFC as it was felt that too much emphasis had been placed on the initial pleasure rape of Amy by Vennor, and the film was again rejected 3 months later (in its complete form) when submitted by a different distributor, as it was considered inappropriate to pass the uncut version after recently rejecting an edited one. It was finally passed fully uncut for DVD in September 2002.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mr. Majestyk (1974)?
a.
Harald Zwart
: [Fredrikstad] When Cody and Natalie are meeting in the café, the Norwegian ice-cream brand Diplom is is shown in the background on the wall behind Natalie. Also the Diplom-Is jenta is seen on the floor to the left behind Natalie.
Harald Zwart
always puts in a couple of items from Norway in his movies. He has also put in the scarf from his local soccer team, FFK (Fredrikstad Fotballklubb), which you can see hangs from the door to his room. There is even a pennant on the wall of his (Cody Banks) room from the same soccer team. The colors are red and white on both the scarf and the pennant.
b.
On the first day of production,
Charles Bronson
got angry about a delay caused by a late transport truck carrying cars necessary for the scene that was to be shot. Finally, he yelled to director
Richard Fleischer
within earshot of the entire crew, "You know what this company needs - it needs a European first assistant and a European crew!" The crew was so insulted by this remark that at the end of the day, they told Fleischer they would be leaving the production. They were persuaded to stay, but for the rest of the shoot they never spoke to Bronson unless they absolutely had to. Later in the shoot, Bronson commented to Fleischer, "I just dont understand it. Nobody calls me Charlie on this picture. They only call me Mr. Bronson."
c.
The original play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 1 March 1933 and had 110 performance.
Tallulah Bankhead
played Mary Clay and the cast included
Ilka Chase
,
Barbara ONeil
,
Cora Witherspoon
,
Fred Keating
,
Anderson Lawler
,
Harlan Briggs
and
George Lessey
.
d.
David Prowse
, the actor in the Darth Vader suit, was still disgruntled more than 20 years after the films release about the fact that his voice was replaced by
James Earl Jones
. In an interview with the Canadian press, Prowse claimed that he was a victim of "reverse racism". As there were no black members in the cast, the studio was worried that they would lose a significant size audience.
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