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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Out of the Past (1947) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Out of the Past (1947) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Out of the Past (1947).
About the movie:
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of the Past (1947)?
a.
Humphrey Bogart
read the script and, seeing the similarities between this and
The Maltese Falcon
, wanted to play Jeff. However, Warner Bros. didnt buy the material and RKO produced this movie.
b.
During the animated sequence, when Roy is writing a letter, the picture on the envelopes stamp is a caricature of
Chuck Jones
.
c.
Tom Cruise
was offered the role Rusty James but turned it down to do
Risky Business
.
d.
David Letterman
appears as the "Old Salt in the Fishing Village", but the credits list him as "Earl Hofert". This is an inside joke for Letterman fans, as he also referred to himself as "Hofert" in some skits back at his old program
Late Night with David Letterman
on NBC. In real life, Hofert is an uncle of Lettermans on his mothers side.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of the Past (1947)?
a.
At the end of the movie when
J.M. Barrie
is showing the play to Sylvia at her house, Peter Pan asked them to clap their hands to save Tinkerbelle.
Julie Christie
s reaction to this was to immediately start clapping. This was unplanned, and the children had no idea how to respond to it. The look of shock on their faces is real.
b.
Deborah Harry
acted in the movie but was edited out in the final cut. She explained on a live television special that although she was cut, she still got paid.
c.
This movie teams a cop Jack Murphy (
Charles Bronson
with a thief Arabella McGee (
Kathleen Wilhoite
). This storyline of pairing a cop with a convict was popular in Hollywood during the 1980s after the success of
48 Hrs.
. This high-concept was encapsulated in one of this films movie poster tag-lines reading: "Hes a cop, Shes a thief, together theyre running for their lives". During the 1980s,
Midnight Run
also utilized this high-concept but replaced the cop with a bounty hunter. The convict-cop pairing was also earlier made famous in
The Defiant Ones
.
d.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1991.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of the Past (1947)?
a.
Chico and Harpo are not given character names. They are listed in the credits simply as "Chico" and "Harpo". Chicos name on the Broadway program was "Willy the Wop" which was considered too insensitive even for early movie audiences. Harpos character was called "Silent Sam"
b.
Joanne Rose is the only real-life vegan in Vegan 101. She has been a vegan since 1994.
c.
After
Humphrey Bogart
refused the lead it was offered to John Garfield and then Dick Powell.
Robert Mitchum
was fourth choice.
d.
When Faxx is attempting to upload the new commands into Robocop, the connections on either side of his helmet are BNC connectors. These are standard film equipment for connecting signal cables to monitors
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of the Past (1947)?
a.
The first black and white movie in VistaVision.
b.
When the DeLorean is struck by lightning at the end, it travels back to January 1, 1885 at 12:00am (as shown by the malfunctioning time circuits before the jump). At the beginning of the movie, they travel to October 21, 2015 at 4:29pm. This means that the total time the DeLorean has passed through during the entire series, counting all the on-screen jumps, is 130 years, 9 months, 20 days, 16 hours, and 29 minutes. This, however, doesnt include the off-screen jumps Doc Brown made before he returned to 1985 to pick up Marty and Jennifer (he does mention those jumps to Marty and even shows him a newspaper from a slightly more distant future).
c.
Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are ranked #14 and #37 respectively on the "Heroes" section of AFIs 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains, making
Star Wars
the only film to have more than one character on the list.
d.
Two lines from this film ("Do you wanna talk business or do you wanna play house" and "Im tired of gettin pushed around") were sampled in an early house music track entitled "Tired of Getting Pushed Around." It was the only song released by 2 Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet, which was comprised of 2 of the 3 members of the band
Fine Young Cannibals
(whose name comes from a 1960 film of the same name).
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