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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : On the Waterfront (1954) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : On the Waterfront (1954) - 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: On the Waterfront (1954).
About the movie:
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
Many real longshoremen from Hoboken, New Jersey were used as extras.
b.
Several jokes referring to _"Saved By The Bell" (1989)_ were cut per Dustin Diamonds request. Dustin famously played Screech on the long-running sitcom.
c.
When Republic Studios learned that Universal was producing their "Flash Gordon" serial, they rushed this serial, using similar plot elements, into production.
d.
For the scene where Deputy Curly (
Hank Worden
) has trouble pulling a mule about a train, director
John Ford
rigged the reins to pull backwards whenever Worden pulled forward.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
The reason the film has two credited directors is because
John Ford
began the film but
Mervyn LeRoy
had to finish it. Some reports claim Ford left the project due to an illness, others claim it was due to a disagreement with star
Henry Fonda
.
b.
Tony Galento
,
Tami Mauriello
and
Abe Simon
, who play Johnny Friendlys heavies, were all former professional boxers and opponents of
Joe Louis
for the heavyweight world title. Simon fought the Brown Bomber twice and was knocked out in Round 13 in the first fight and Round 6 in the second. Galento and Mauriello fought Louis once apiece and shared similar fates. Galento was kayoed in Round 4 and Mauriello in Round 1.
c.
Somewhat perversely,
Patton
was re-released in early 1971 following the announcement of Oscar nominations on a double bill with a very different war film, also from 20th Century Fox and a Oscar nominee for best picture:
MASH
.
d.
Director
Julie Taymor
purposely hired production designer
Dante Ferretti
for the film as she admired his work so much on
Fellini - Satyricon
, a similarly styled movie to Titus.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
David Hess
auditioned for one of the roles of the bounty hunters.
b.
The film was shot in sequence in order to help
Russell Crowe
develop a consistently progressing manner of behavior.
c.
In 1955, Anthony "Tony Mike" de Vincenzo filed a lawsuit against Columbia Pictures because Terry Malloy (the character played by
Marlon Brando
) seemed to have been based on him, who was known as a whistle-blower against the corrupt International Longshoremens Association union. He won a small out-of-court settlement.
d.
The food that hits
Nicolas Cage
throughout the film is thrown by director
Gore Verbinski
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
Shortly after the films debut in 1954, the AFL-CIO expelled the East Coast longshoremens union because it was still run by the mob.
b.
The tapestries in Marys room comprise a cycle known as "The Hunt for the Unicorn". In this cycle, the Unicorn is lured from the wild and into a new life by a young virgin, foreshadowing Marys role in the story.
c.
When producer
Richard Maibaum
first came on the set, director
John Farrow
who liked to intimidate people who worked with him, kept him at a distance by using a walking stick. Maibaum turned around, went to the props department and returned with a baseball bat. As if a spell were broken, the situation immediately improved and Maibaum and Farrow would go on to have an excellent working relationship.
d.
Shot in ten days.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
The car in Pink Cadillac was bought in 1989 by Peter Heron, who shipped the car to Belfast. The car is now available for hire.
b.
The last film for both
Rodney Dangerfield
and
Soupy Sales
.
c.
Marlon Brando
s Oscar for Best Actor was either lost or stolen. The award did show up later when Brando was contacted by a London auction house, intending to sell the item.
d.
When Don Birnam searches for a pawn shop to hock his typewriter, the Third Ave Elevated is in the background. The last train on the "el" ran May 12,1955 and the structure was torn down later that year.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
In 1955, screenwriter
Budd Schulberg
- who won an Oscar for his screenplay - published his novel "Waterfront", which focuses on the causes of waterfront corruption and elucidates the involvement of the shipping companies, the mayors office, police, and the church.
b.
A lengthy and complicated re-incarnation scene, so important to the plot, never made it into the film. This upset many people, including the films leading actress,
Zita Johann
, who was a firm believer in re-incarnation.
c.
This film was originally going to be entitled "Frankenstein 1960" but it didnt sound futuristic enough. It was also thought to be too far fetched that an independent researcher could obtain his own atomic reactor in 1960.
d.
The production designers, in an attempt to cut costs while still remaining creative, constructed several of the sets in such a way as to make them usable in more than one scene. A good example of this can be seen in the "Space Jockey" room (the room in which to away team discovers the skeletal remains in the alien ship) and the "egg chamber." The sets were designed so that the skeleton and the revolving disc on which it sits could be removed and the empty space then redressed with the "eggs," creating, combined with a matching matte painting, a vast cavern full of potential alien spawn.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
Many of the shots were composed and filmed in order to evoke certain eighteenth century paintings, especially those by Thomas Gainsborough.
b.
The script was originally turned down by
Darryl F. Zanuck
at Twentieth Century Fox on the grounds that the gritty drama didnt fit well with the policy at the time of creating lavish productions for the studios Cinemascope format.
c.
Wes Anderson
has stated the walking sequence in the final credits is an homage to
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
, also starring
Jeff Goldblum
.
d.
The name Carl Metushka comes from the brother-in-law of
Shirley MacLaine
s character in
The Apartment
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
In the comics, Emil Blonsky takes on a scaly reptilian appearance, becoming the Abomination.
Louis Leterrier
felt that while that was cool, it made no sense considering there was no reptile mix in his origin. So in this film Blonskys appearance is redefined substantially to have his skin/muscles/bones exaggerated and sticking out all over his body. Leterrier describes Blonsky as "an uber-human, just like the Hulk, but a human who was injected with something in the wrong places and these places are growing differently." The VFX artists think of Blonsky as "a guy who transforms but is not used to having these new properties; for instance, hes much heavier, so when he walks down the sidewalk, hes tripping because his weight is destroying the sidewalk."
b.
Lindsay Anderson
: as himself, casting O Lucky Man itself. He also appears in the opening and closing musical renditions of the title song, sitting in the recording studio, and embracing
Malcolm McDowell
in a scene at the end.
c.
Grace Kelly
turned down the role of Edie Doyle, deciding to make
Rear Window
instead.
d.
While this was the third feature film released in 3-strip Technicolor, it does not seem to survive in that form. Only incomplete 35mm negatives are known to exist, plus 16mm prints made in the 2-color Cinecolor process.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
A lot of the scenes were shot in Bulgaria. In particular, the school in the movie is the American College of Sofia.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 26, 1938 with many of the
Walt Disney
voice artists reprising their film roles.
c.
Filmed in 1982, not released until 1987.
d.
The real-life model for the films Johnny Friendly character (played by
Lee J. Cobb
) was International Longshoremens Association boss Michael Clemente (Johnny Friendly also has aspects of former Murder Inc. head
Albert Anastasia
, who was a top enforcer for the crime family that ran the Hoboken docks, the Luciano - later Genovese - family). In 1979 Clemente and other members of the Genovese family were indicted for corruption and racketeering on the New York waterfront.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: On the Waterfront (1954)?
a.
The film crew was also allowed to shoot sequences at the top of a real launch pad with an actual space shuttle docked to it. The only condition was that they not step into the shuttle itself.
Ben Affleck
admitted to stepping inside the orbiter for a brief moment before NASA technicians ordered him out of the spacecraft.
b.
The scene where
Eva Marie Saint
drops her glove and
Marlon Brando
picks it up and puts it on his hand was unplanned. Saint dropped her glove accidentally in rehearsal and Brando improvised the rest.
Elia Kazan
loved the new business and asked them to repeat it for the take.
c.
Unusually for such a graphic and violent film,
Arthur Penn
intended it to be partly comic, almost like a send-up of the 1930s era gangster films.
d.
According to
Jason Robards
,
Robert Ludlum
offered to rewrite the overly complex and confusing script for free, but differences between the producers and director
Sam Peckinpah
, whod expressed his concern from the beginning, prevented this from happening.
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