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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : North by Northwest (1959) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : North by Northwest (1959) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959).
About the movie:
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
A scene where Bruce Willis kissed Monica Belluci was shot, but deleted after a test screening.
b.
An incomplete nitrate print of this film (Missing Reel 1)Survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.
c.
Film debut of
Hattie McDaniel
.
d.
The train station scene was shot in New York Citys Grand Central Terminal. Among the onlookers watching the scene being filmed were future directors
George A. Romero
and
Larry Cohen
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
Director
Norman Jewison
can be heard as the voice of the third man at Peters Denial ("But I saw you too / He looked just like you").
b.
This film is the only one directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
that was released by MGM. However, MGM is now owned by Turner Entertainment - since 1996 a division of Warner Bros. - which owns the pre-1986 MGM library.
c.
The opening scenes of the film are set in Cumberland, Rhode Island. This is an actual town in Rhode Island where the Farrelly Brothers grew up.
d.
The film was chosen to be screened at the New York Film Festival in October of 1971.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
This movies lead actor,
Robert Sacchi
, is a
Humphrey Bogart
look-alike actor whose chief career is working as a Bogart impersonator on TV series, on the stage and in television commercials.
b.
Many of the autos used in the early scenes (the NY taxi, the Glen Cove police car and the county detectives car) are 1958 Ford sedans.
c.
Tony Scott
first heard about
Domino Harvey
when his business manager
Neville Shulman
sent him an article about her from the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday.
d.
James Cameron
had several designers come up with ideas for the drop ship that took the Marines from the Sulaco to the planet. Design after design, he finally gave up on them to come up with on he liked and constructed his own drop ship out of a model of an apache helicopter and other spare model pieces.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
June 2008 Ranked #5 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation".
b.
The director decided to make this film after meeting a Zen Master in Mt. Baldy who related several folk tales on the nature of revenge and justice.
c.
Rupert Murdoch
announced in early February 2007 that
Sacha Baron Cohen
had signed on to do another Borat film with FOX. This was contradicted, however, by an interview with Cohen himself stating that Borat was to be discontinued, as he was now too well known to avoid detection as he did in the film and on
Da Ali G Show
. A spokesman for FOX later stated that it was too early to begin planning such a film, although they still remain open to the idea. Cohen subsequently announced that he was "killing off" the characters of Borat and Ali G because they were now so famous he could no longer trick people.
d.
Less than eight feet of film was cut from the final release. Eight feet is about 5 seconds.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
Rove McManus
: the Crab threatened by Dory. Rove was the biggest late night talk show host in Australia at the time, with his show
Rove Live
.
b.
Lead actress
Tura Satana
, legally owns her likeness and image. So, whenever
Russ Meyer
wanted to change the artwork or re-release the project, he had to get her permission and sometimes pay her all over again.
c.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #55 Greatest Movie of All Time.
d.
In the script, Snow was originally named Snowball and did not say a single word until the end when he gave a small statement about how they should fight the Rogues to avenge their fallen friends.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
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.
b.
In the DVD documentary,
Eva Marie Saint
recounts how
Alfred Hitchcock
, dissatisfied with the costumes the studio had designed for her, marched her to Bergdorf Goodman and personally picked out clothes for her to wear.
c.
The first time that
Michelle Trachtenberg
did her bikini scene, she shook out her hair so much that she got dizzy and fell over.
d.
The novelty rap song "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" is not actually heard in the movie but it does feature on this movies soundtrack. The song was a music video tie-in for the movie and was also release as a 45 single on vinyl. The song peaked at the No #12 spot on the American Billboard charts during February 1984 and in the same year at No #3 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report). The song was banned from being broadcast on television and radio in Germany making it a highly controversial and politically sensitive single in that country. This was due to is treatment of Nazi involvement in World War II.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
The New York Central 20th Century Limited railcar featured (number 10006) was built by Pullman-Standard in 1939 and was scrapped in 1968. It was named "Imperial State" and featured four double bedrooms, four single compartments and two drawing rooms. The interior of the car seen in the film is actually a set built by MGM studios. When
Cary Grant
shuts the door, the wall can clearly be seen to move since the whole thing was manufactured out of plywood panels and painted to simulate the look of metal (including small fake rivets).
b.
In scenes where Jane imitates Blanches voice, the voice heard is actually
Joan Crawford
s voice, and not
Bette Davis
, as Bette could not master Joans voice properly.
c.
Officials from Britains Westminster Abbey refused to allow filming to take place in the Abbey, claiming that the book is "theologically unsound". Instead, the filming took place at Lincoln Cathedral in eastern England.
d.
After the crew have stolen the gold in Venice and are discussing their shopping lists, Handsome Rob says he is going to buy an Aston Martin Vanquish. Although Steve has a Vanquish (The Green car in the courtyard of his house when Stella goes to repair the TV) Handsome Rob actually drives an Aston Martin DB7 Volante at the end of the movie, an older and totally different car to the Vanquish.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
Nastassja Kinski
is extensively seen naked during the second half of this movie. Once labeled as a "sex-kitten", Kinski lived up to that reputation by literally playing one in this movie.
b.
Famous for his use of innovative camera angles, director
John Frankenheimer
was widely acclaimed for a shot that is slightly out of focus.
John Frankenheimer
said that rather than the shot being evidence of inspiration, it was an accident and merely the best take for actor
Frank Sinatra
.
c.
One day,
Martin Landau
noticed that
Alfred Hitchcock
was giving instructions to
Cary Grant
,
James Mason
and
Eva Marie Saint
. When he asked Hitchcock about this, the director basically said if he didnt talk to actors, they were doing fine; when he talked to them, it was because they did something wrong.
d.
One of several Selznick pictures sold to ABC Television as a film "package".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
Claire and Normans sailboat is called "Good Genes".
b.
Ranked #7 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Mystery" in June 2008.
c.
The character of Ludmilla is a possible reference to another famous Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who had over 300 kills, even more than that of Vassili Zaitsev, who had around 257 kills.
d.
Boris Karloff
was the first actor considered for the role of the opium-addicted John Jasper.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: North by Northwest (1959)?
a.
The film got considerable coverage throughout Spokane, Washington including news coverage, numerous newspaper articles and widespread premiere promotion/coverage.
b.
In the video release version of the film,
Eva Marie Saint
says that
Cary Grant
s opening scene abduction from his hotel business lunch date was shot on a Hollywood sound stage. Actually it was shot on location in the famed Oak Room of New Yorks Plaza Hotel, where Grant retained a room during production there.
c.
No less than nine writers worked on the script. Besides the credited writers Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and David S. Goyer, work with also done by James Bonny, Richard Finney, Michael Engelberg, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and the films director, Stuart Orme. The final version mainly uses ideas from the Goyer and Orme rewrites.
d.
The previous Paradorian National Anthem, "O Parador" is sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree." This is a reference to the mostly unknown and unnoticed fact that in some Latin American countries, the Knights of Columbus Anthem is sung to the tune of "O Christmas Tree."
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