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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Murder in the Private Car (1934) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Murder in the Private Car (1934) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Murder in the Private Car (1934).
About the movie:
Ruth Raymond works on the switchboard and her boyfriend is John Blake. It has taken 14 years, but a detective named Murray has found her and confirmed that she is Ruth Carson...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Murder in the Private Car (1934)?
a.
Leonardo DiCaprio
s production company, Appian Way, expressed interest in investing in the film.
b.
A contemporary item listed the gorilla Naba for a role in the movie, but the Call Bureau Cast Service has
Ray Corrigan
in the role. However, all scenes with the gorilla appear to be an actor in a gorilla suit.
c.
Kevin Bacon
was offered the leading role, but turned it down.
d.
This was the last movie ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture which received no other Academy Award nominations.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Murder in the Private Car (1934)?
a.
The rights to
Hal G. Evarts
story were sold to Republic Pictures by his widow. Ironically, the serial isnt faithful whatsoever to Evarts original story: the writers substituted an entirely different story.
b.
The play opened in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 6 August 1922, but had no New York run.
c.
Various items from the video games appear, in at least name, throughout the film. These include Bob-ombs (A deceptively tiny wind-up bomb in the film), Thwomps (Thwomp Stompers are oversize footwear), Koopahari Desert (Most of the world is this desert), Yoshi (A small lizard child), The Koopa family (Who are humanized lizards) Goombas (who are just devolved citizens in the film) and Bullet Bills (a bullet with a face, seen when Mario inserts one into a Thomper Stomper to hit Koopa with)
d.
The movie was a production of two theatre owners in Des Moines, Iowa, Robert Fridley and Dick Davis. After the success of
Animal House
, there were some theatrical showings of this under the title "Here Come the Delts" with a new ad campaign. Weekly Variety reviewed "The Hazing" in their January 18, 1978 issue. It opened in December 1977 in the Omaha-Kansas City-Des Moines area.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Murder in the Private Car (1934)?
a.
Similar to Magnetos and Rogues background segments, scenes explaining Storms and Cyclops backgrounds were scripted and storyboarded, but never shot. Storms background segment involved her changing the weather drastically in her home country in Africa and causing vast damage; Cyclops story would show him manifesting his mutant power at school as a teenager, causing him to accidentally destroy a school bathroom. There was a brief talk of shooting these scenes while shooting
X2
in order to insert them into the X-Men Special Edition DVD, but the idea was later scrapped. However, the bathroom set (which had actually been built) was used for the scene in X2 where Mystique drugs Magnetos guard with a metal solution.
b.
This film was indirectly referenced in numerous episodes of
Mystery Science Theater 3000
. In the original television spots for the film,
Jimmy Smits
name was announced in an unusual way: "
Ellen Barkin
. Switch.
Jimmy Smits
. Starts Friday." The writers of MST3K found it amusing that Smits name was announced after the title and not announced as "also starring Jimmy Smits" or "with Jimmy Smits", only as "Jimmy Smits". In various episodes, a character would say "Jimmy Smits" whenever the word "switch" was uttered or sometimes for seemingly no reason at all.
c.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 21, 1950 with
Jane Wyman
reprising her film role.
d.
Both
Harry Semels
as "Evil Eye" and
Akim Tamiroff
as "Italian Man" are supposed to be in the movie, but neither one appears.
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