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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Noah's Ark (1928) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Noah's Ark (1928) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928).
About the movie:
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
was originally cast as Samantha.
b.
Dolores Costello
came down with pneumonia while working on this film.
c.
In the scene where Sharpay arrives at East High School (making her first appearance in the film) the instrumental music from the song "Fabulous" from the second movie is heard.
d.
Brendan Fraser
: Placebo test subject and running out of the laboratory with an animal cage.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
One of the extras who survived the flood scene was
John Wayne
.
b.
Warner Brothers rejected
Gabriel Yared
s score for the movie for being too old-fashioned.
c.
Body count: 122
d.
With a 16 million Euro budget this film was the most expensive Dutch production ever. Its theatrical run lasted for just a week.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
Through the entire shooting of eight months the police were called on the production three times.
b.
The film was shot in an abandoned Catholic school in downtown Detroit. Minimal set dressing was used to give the film its apocalyptic look.
c.
The song "Danke Schoen" is heard four times in the movie; When Ferris sings it in the shower, when Ed Rooney sings it after ringing the Buellers doorbell, when Ferris lip syncs the Wayne Newton version during the parade, and when Jeanie sings it while walking down the stairs at the police station.
d.
This film has been preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in conjunction with the project American Moviemakers: The Dawn of Sound.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
This film - the first movie adaptation of an
Edgar Rice Burroughs
story - is believed lost.
b.
John Wayne
and
Andy Devine
were swimmers in the temple collapse sequence, but they are not recognizable among the hundreds of other swimmers.
c.
Although Spider-Man is an iconic figure for New York, the majority of the film was actually made in Los Angeles. Only two weeks worth of location filming was done in the Big Apple.
d.
Robert Duvall
does not act / appear in this movie (not even a cameo) but is its writer, producer and director.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
The seating of the two leads was crucial to certain scenes. For their more intimate exchanges, Cruise would sit directly behind Foxx, out of his peripheral vision and therefore making him more vulnerable and uncertain of his opponent.
b.
In exasperation after several attempts to have
Groucho Marx
read one of his lines in the manner director
Sam Wood
had requested, Wood exclaimed, "I guess you just cant make an actor out of clay."
Groucho Marx
instantly responded, "Nor a director out of Wood."
c.
When cameraman
Hal Mohr
was shown how the climactic flood scene was to be shot, he objected on the grounds that it would place many of the extras in jeopardy. Mohr told the executives that while the trained stuntmen knew what to expect and could prepare for it, the ordinary extras would have no idea what was coming, and many would be hurt. When his objections were overruled, he quit the picture, and was replaced by
Barney McGill
. During filming of the scene, the huge torrents of water overwhelmed the actors; three were drowned, one was so severely injured his leg had to be amputated and almost a dozen had broken limbs and other serious injuries.
d.
Tom Savini once stated that the makeup effects that he created for Grandpa is his most proud accomplishment, which he compares to the makeup for the aged Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
In the scenes where the Dude interacts with the police,
Ned Sparks
whistles The Prisoners Song", a popular recording by Vernon Dalhart in the 1920s.
b.
The "premiere" version, running 135 minutes, ran only at the opening engagement in Hollywood. By the time of the New York premiere some weeks later, the film had been trimmed by over 30 minutes. At least some of the cuts were of Vitaphone talking sequences that didnt work well. In particular,
Paul McAllister
(Noah/Minister) fared poorly, as all his talking scenes were removed.
c.
This was Bob Hopes last film for Paramount Pictures.
d.
Working on this movie, a 20th Century Fox studio camera operator for the flying sequences of this film,
Otto Kanturek
and his uncredited assistant, aerial photographer
Jack Parry
, were both killed in a military plane crash when a Hurricane fighter collided with their Avro Anson camera plane over Cawston, Norfolk, England on 26 June 1941 and this happened after filming for this picture. Other reports state that according to 20th Century-Fox studio publicity, these events involved the two flying to England to shoot airplane fight sequences and after this they, in a dogfight with the R.A.F., German aircraft shot them down and they were killed.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
Three extras drowned during the filming of the flood scene.
b.
An actual out-of-use Boeing 747 was bought to be used as the crashed plane.
c.
Emma Thompson
accepted the role of Professor Trelawney to impress her four-year-old daughter,
Gaia Wise
.
Tilda Swinton
was originally offered the role but declined.
d.
Mr. Hanson, the science teacher, originally died with dozens of hypodermic needles stuck in his face. But, by request from
Steven Spielberg
, this scene was re-shot it with just a single needle in the buttocks.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Noah's Ark (1928)?
a.
Gallo began shooting this highly conceptual film without following any traditional program of production or pre-production, and instead began filming without any preparation or a traditional script, never allowing anyone from his cast or crew in on the films ultimate vision.
b.
Vitaphone production reels #2821-2836
c.
Filmed in just five days, using the same set and much of the same cast as
Smoke
. The premise of the film came to directors
Wayne Wang
and
Paul Auster
while watching an improvisation session between
Harvey Keitel
et. al. to help them get into character for filming
Smoke
. They decided that the improvisations were so funny that they would spend a few days after shooting Smoke just filming film is almost entirely improvised. Auster and Wang claim to have "borrowed" the idea of shooting another movie on the back of an existing one from
Roger Corman
who often used to shoot movies very quickly on leftover sets from other productions.
d.
The "450 Nami" bikes, ridden by K.C and Rowdy, are in fact just dressed up Honda 450s.
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