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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968).
About the movie:
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
According to the
George A. Romero
commentary track on the Elite laserdisc and DVD version of the film, the original working print and working elements and materials for the film no longer exist - they were destroyed as a result of a flood that filled the basement where the materials were stored (which was the same basement used in the movie).
b.
The backpack Andrew wears when going around looking for surviving robots like him is made by Swedish company Boblbee.
c.
Don Opper based his performance of Maxs peculiar, C-3PO-like walk on
Charles Chaplin
and
Buster Keaton
.
d.
Gurinder Chadha
: At the party the night before the wedding she is in the circle of relatives clapping, wearing a blue suit.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
Before Quinn looks in his rear view mirror at the green car following him, three blind men walk in front of his car. This is a homage to
Dr. No
in which there are three "blind men" called the three blind mice, who murder Captain Strangways a friend of James Bond. Both movies were put out by MGM.
b.
As
George A. Romero
explains it on "The Directors: The Films of George A. Romero", the day the final editing and voice-over dubbing was complete (4/4/1968), he and
John A. Russo
literally "threw" the film into the trunk of their car and drove to New York to see if anyone wanted to show it. While driving through New York on the night of April 4th, 1968, Romero and Russo heard news on the radio that
Martin Luther King
had been assassinated.
c.
The North American meaning of "ringer" means: Fraudulent entry, somebody who is fraudulently substituted in a competition.
d.
B.B. King
: CIA agent at the drive-in.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
First cinema film of
Gina McKee
.
b.
Screenwriter
John A. Russo
appears as the ghoul who gets his forehead smashed by Ben with a tire iron. He also allowed himself to be set on fire for real when nobody else wanted to do the stunt.
c.
A Jewel Production. Universal, lacking a theater chain of its own, devised a 3-tiered branding system for its product: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions designed to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). This system would fade away in late 1929.
d.
William Diehl
, the author of the "Sharkys Machine" book, has said that he had
Burt Reynolds
in mind when he wrote the novel.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
Ranked #9 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Western" in June 2008.
b.
Fox released the first trailer with strict instructions that it not be shown before a certain date. When a Canadian movie theatre accidentally showed it a day early, they lost the rights to show the movie.
c.
At between 51 and 52 minutes into the film, going by the Elite laserdisc/DVD release, there is a very visible jump cut. The distributors wanted some of the "talky" bits trimmed down, so, about 6 minutes was cut from a basement scene involving the Coopers. The jump is quite clearly visible because at one point Harry is facing one direction and then immediately in the next frame, he is facing another.
d.
When they appeared together in the box-office hit movie
The Dirty Dozen
,
Lee Marvin
was the top-billed star whilst
Charles Bronson
was among the ensemble cast credited alphabetically and after Marvin. By 1981, Bronson received top billing for
Death Hunt
whilst Marvin received second billing. However, some theatrical posters have Marvins name elevated in height above Bronsons even though Bronsons appears first on the left and Marvins second on the right.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
During filming of
Undeclared
,
Greg Mottola
had a table read for the script with
Seth Rogen
reading for Seth and
Jason Segel
reading for Evan.
b.
The premiere in New York on 30 September 1932 was a benefit for the "Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc.". The price of a ticket was $10.00.
c.
The stock music that accompanies Barbaras initial flight from the cemetery zombie was taken from the score for
The Hideous Sun Demon
, and had been used a year earlier, in the final episode of televisions
The Fugitive
.
d.
Lana Turner
later recalled in a
Gary Cooper
biography that her "fancy black oriental wig" had been glued around her face with spirit gum, while she felt extremely uncomfortable in her costumes, and worse yet, had her eyebrows shaved off, at the insistence of
Samuel Goldwyn
himself, and replaced them with false slanting black ones.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
Tyrone Power
s flying stunt double in this movie, R.A.F. pilot Lieutenant Harold Barlow, was shot down by German aircraft and taken as a prisoner-of-war, according to a 20th Century Fox studio press release of 24 January 1942.
b.
At the time of the films release, any work that did not include a copyright notice was assumed to be public domain. Since the film makers forgot to include this notice, the film slipped into the public domain. In was not until 1 March 1989 that a copyright notice was no longer required.
c.
Kel ONeill
was originally cast in the role of Eli Sunday but was replaced by
Paul Dano
after shooting had begun.
d.
Cornelia Funke
visited the films British set several times, to the great joy of director/producer
Iain Softley
, who was proud of seeing Funkes pleasure at seeing her words come to life.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
When Carmen Ibanez is taking the starship out of dock the first time, she flicks a switch to release the hoses attached to the docking platform. That switch is the power switch from a 1982 era IBM PC, the very first PC to see widespread use in home and office.
b.
The Cooper family are partly played by a real family.
Karl Hardman
(husband Harry Cooper) is the real life father of
Kyra Schon
(daughter Karen Cooper). However contrary to what is elsewhere reported (and was previously reported here on IMDb)
Marilyn Eastman
(wife Helen Cooper is not in any way related to either Karl or Kyra.
c.
J.K. Rowling
had been a schoolteacher before writing the Potter books, and this film features some references to the British educational system. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, students at age 16 were given Ordinary Level (O-Level) exams in all their major subjects, for which they can receive their General Certificate of Education. This corresponds to the Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L.) exams given at Hogwarts. Students who planned to go on to university stayed on two more years to take their Advanced (A-Level) Exams, which roughly correspond to N.E.W.T. (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test) Exams.
d.
Herbie The Love Bug was a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle deluxe ragtop sedan painted in Volkswagen L87 pearl white. Under normal circumstances, the interior would be a matching white. However, Herbies interior was painted a special non-reflective grey color so the camera and studio lights would not reflect.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
Denzel Whitaker
, who appears in this film with
Eva Mendes
, acted alongside Mendes in his first film,
Training Day
.
b.
The character of Samir was supposed to be a 50 year-old Indian, but no actor was available.
c.
This was one of the first films added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of naïve business practices that allowed the copyright of the film to slip into the public domain.
d.
The film was initially rejected for a UK cinema certificate by the BBFC in March 1955. It was resubmitted again in August where it was then by around 6 minutes to remove uses of threatening dialogue and the entire climactic switchblade scene between Dadier and Artie. It would later be passed completely uncut for video and DVD with a 12 certificate.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
The film was originally developed as a remake of
M
.
b.
The filmmakers were accused of being "Satanically-inspired" by Christian fundamentalist groups for their portrayal of the undead feeding on flesh and of the Coopers zombie child (
Kyra Schon
) attacking her mother (
Marilyn Eastman
).
c.
The closing of the film was not scripted when filming began, so the director (
Mel Stuart
) had to call
David Seltzer
and ask him to think of something. Seltzer came up with the "happily ever after" bit in five minutes.
d.
In this movie, the home of Sidney and Myra Bruhl is in Long Island but in the original
Ira Levin
Deathtrap stage-play it was set in Connecticut.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
a.
One of the original ideas for the script before its many revisions called for Barbara to be a very strong, charismatic character. Instead,
George A. Romero
and the producers loved
Judith ODea
s portrayal as a catatonic and terrified young girl much better, and edited the script to accommodate the part. Eventually, the idea of Barbara being a strong, central character would be revisited in
Tom Savini
s 1990 remake.
b.
Original cinematographer
Hal Mohr
was let go and replaced by
Gilbert Warrenton
.
c.
A total of 3 different ships were used in this film: Seaborn Legend (actual cruise liner; used for most exterior shots of the ship) "Bridge Ship" (Sturgeon Atlanic frighter ship built with a false hull and bridge; used for bridge scenes and the boat crashes in the marina) "Rail Ship" (false hull built on an underwater rail; used for the island crash finale scene). All other shots of the ship were complete computer graphic effects.
d.
When the crew had to go back to Marthas Vineyard for re-shoots in the Fall of 1977, many of the trees had already lost their leaves. The crew actually put fake leaves on the trees to make it look like it was still Summer.
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