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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Paths of Glory (1957) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Paths of Glory (1957)

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About the movie: When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		This picture is the only ever theatrical feature film directed by David Waddington.
b.		Was banned in France for its negative portrayal of the French army. Switzerland also banned the film (until 1978), accusing it of being "subversive propaganda directed at France." Belgium required that a foreword be added stating that the story represented an isolated case that did not reflect upon the "gallantry of the French soldiers."
c.		The family scene was nearly cut out of the final film due to lack of relevance with the films plot.
d.		The weapon used by Billy Zane in this movie is not an H&K PSG-1, an expensive precision semi-automatic rifle commonly used by special forces snipers. It is an H&K SR-9 TC , a similar but cheaper version of the PSG-1 that was designed for civilian sales.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The company mentioned in the film is named Benthic Petroleum. In oceanographic terms, the word "benthic" means on or in the ocean bottom.
b.		Some of Jacques Henri Lartigues photographs, including the picture that inspired the mock of Max in a go-cart, are featured on the wall behind Maxs desk in the opening scene. The title of the photo is Zissous bobsled with wheels, after the bend by the gate, Rouzat, August 1908. Bill Murrays character in Wes Andersons The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is Steve Zissou.
c.		Co-producer Douglas Greshams voice is heard early in the film, as a radio announcer giving news of the German bombings in London. Gresham is C.S. Lewiss stepson, and the executor of Lewiss estate, who manages the rights to the "Narnia" books. He is the son of the American poet Joy Gresham, Lewiss wife. (See Shadowlands).
d.		Director Stanley Kubrick met Christiane Kubrick (then Christiane Harlan) during filming; she performs the singing at the end of the film. He divorced his second wife the following year to marry her, and they remained married until his death in 1999.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		Richard Burton and James Mason were considered for the part of Colonel Dax.
b.		The home improvement store scene was mostly shot in an actual store. They were only allowed to film after the store was closed and had to leave the store the exact way they found it. While different parts of the scene were being filmed, other crew members were often putting objects back on the shelves. In addition, they had to turn objects around to hide brand names, bring in other brand names, and put things in the way to block names from appearing due to the store not wanting their name or products being associated with a "teen death movie".
c.		The role of the "Jaded Piano Player," the ballet rehearsal pianist who, most memorably, tells Nina that she has been working too hard and she should take a break, is played by John Epperson, a performer who is perhaps better known for his drag persona, Lypsinka. Epperson really did work as a rehearsal pianist for the American Ballet Theatre during the late 1970s and early 1980s, accompanying the rehearsals of such ballet luminaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, and Gelsey Kirkland.
d.		Voted #3 on AFIs 100 Greatest Movies.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		Two of the prominent action scenes in the film were based on real events. The rail station shootout in which gangsters free Danny Leggett,was based upon the famous "Kansas City Massacre" in which gunmen attacked FBI agents and local police as they were transporting federal prisoner Frank "Jelly" Nash on June 17th, 1933. In that incident one FBI agent--who was unarmed, as were all agents at that time--three policemen and Nash himself were killed. As shown in the film, this was the incident that increased the power of the FBI and turned into the agency it is currently. The other incident was the shootout at the lodge. That was based on a battle between FBI agents and a gang that included John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson on April 22, 1934.
b.		Luis Buñuel, who was Assistant Director, quit the picture after clashing with producer/director Jean Epstein over Epsteins decision to basically ignore Edgar Allan Poes story.
c.		To replicate an erection in one scene, the crew cooked a sausage, stuck it on a pencil, and wrapped it in aluminum foil. It was still warm when it was placed between Jason Biggs legs.
d.		In an early attempt to sell the project to a studio, Stanley Kubrick and producer James B. Harris rented military uniforms and gathered several male friends to pose for a photograph that would capture the essence of their story. They affixed the photo to the cover of each screenplay copy.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The title is a quotation from Thomas Grays Elegy written in a country churchyard: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave".
b.		Filmed entirely with a non-professional cast. The two leads, Forrest James and Helen Mundy, were from Alabama and Knoxville, Tennessee, respectively, but the rest were authentic mountain people from Virginia. Despite their involvement as actors, these people had no interest in films, and never saw the movie after it was finished.
c.		Fifty ideas for the dwarfs names and personalities were listed in the films proposal; the list included all of the names finally included except Dopey and Doc (Dopey being the last to be developed). Some of the dwarfs were: Awful ("He steals and drinks and is very dirty"), Biggy-Wiggy or Biggo-Ego, Blabby, Deefy, Dirty, Gabby, Gaspy, Gloomy, Hoppy-Jumpy, Hotsy, Jaunty, Nifty, and Shifty. Sneezy was a last-minute replacement for Deefy.
d.		This was Doris Days final big screen appearance, following a 20 year career in the movies.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The distributor, Lot 47, appealed against the NC-17 rating at the same time as launching a publicity campaign about how arbitrary the rating system was. Both failed.
b.		Composer Gerald Fried actually created two main title themes for the movie. While most prints of the film features his arrangement of the French national anthem, "Marseillaise," another version opened with an original composition by Fried. The latter version was created for select European markets that might have taken offense at the anthems use in a film so critical of Frances military leadership.
c.		This was intended to be the last film in the series.
d.		The film grew out of a massive attempt by Twentieth Century-Fox to duplicate its earlier, unprecedented success with The Sound of Music by producing three expensive, large-scale musicals over a period of three years, Doctor Dolittle and Star! being the others. Unfortunately, film attendance as a whole was down and all three films box-office performance reflected this. All were released amid massive pre-release publicity and all lost equally massive amounts of money for the studio (though "Dolly" was in the box office top 5 for the year of its release). The result was that several top studio executives lost their jobs, and the studio itself went into such dire financial straits that it only produced one picture for the entire calendar year of 1970. In truth, Fox would never recoup its losses until a highly successful theatrical reissue of "The Sound of Music" in early 1973.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		With the Principals knowledge, 24-year-old Kevin Bacon attended the Payson Utah High School as "Ren McCormack", a transfer student from Philadelphia to get into his role. With his narrow tie and new-wave haircut, he was treated pretty much like in the film. Bacon gratefully left with the location scouts on the afternoon of the first day.
b.		When the characters eat the dead, they were actually eating turkey jerky.
c.		The actor playing the younger version of William has different colored eyes but Brian Helgeland didnt feel it would be fair to make the young actor wear contact lenses.
d.		Stanley Kubrick, widely known as a perfectionist, shot 68 takes of the doomed mens "last meal" scene. Because the details of the scene required that the actors appear to be engaged in the act of eating, a new roast duck had to be prepared for almost every take.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The Professors car is a simplified version of the Studebaker Avanti, which was produced in 1962 and 1963.
b.		Shot in high definition on Sony HDCAM.
c.		When Kirk Douglas was first approached for the role, he was committed to a Broadway play. Stanley Kubrick then met Gregory Peck in connection with How to Steal a Million; Peck was interested but was also unavailable. Douglas play was postponed and then Peck also became available; Douglas got in first and got the part.
d.		Center Spread Girls was actress Tara Aires first adult film role.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The horse which was the stand-in for Slyvester was The Gray Goose who competed several times at the Horse Park at the Advanced level.
b.		Rita Hayworths father, Eduardo Cansino, worked as a choreographer on the film.
c.		Charles Halton is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Prosecutor," but that role was played by Marc Lawrence.
d.		For box office reasons, Stanley Kubrick intended to impose a happy ending. After several draft scripts he changed his mind and restored the novels original ending. Producer James B. Harris then had to inform studio executive Max E. Youngstein and risk rejection of the change. Harris managed by simply having the entire final script delivered without a memo of the changes, on the assumption that nobody in the studio would actually read it.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Paths of Glory (1957)?
a.		The dark purple velvet and silk gown Harriet Walter (Fanny Dashwood) wears to dinner at Norland Park is the same costume worn by the theatre guest seated next to deSades wife in Quills, and by Jane How (Lady Holland) at the London party in Byron.
b.		Although the story takes place on Frances western front, Stanley Kubrick chose to shoot the film in and around Munich, Germany. Most interior scenes were filmed at Bavarias Geiselgasteig Studios, and the court-martial scenes were shot in nearby Schleissheim Castle, an 18th-century structure then serving as a national museum. Just beyond this location is the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial.
c.		The film was dedicated to Rebecca Annitto, the 14-year-old niece of producer Peter Saraf, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2005. She appeared as an extra in scenes at Panns Restaurant and the convenience store.
d.		Vehicles featured included several Kenworth W900B tanker trucks; a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II; a Lincoln Continental Mark VII LSC, James Bonds hire car in Key West; Sanchez silver metallic Maserati Biturbo; a 4-seat high-wing single-engine Cessna 172 Skyhawk airplane, a Cessna 185 seaplane and a 2-seat tricycle Cessna 150 airplane; a Piper PA-18-150 "Super Cub" crop-duster float-plane and Piper J-3 "Cub" airplane; Aerospatiale 350B A-star and US Coast Guard Aerospatiale HH-65A Dauphin helicopters; a Harbour Pilots boat; a black and yellow two-seater Shark Hunter submersible (mini wet submarine) as seen before in The Spy Who Loved Me; a Wavekrest remote-control Sentinel underwater exploratory submersible; Sharkeys fishing boat Pa Ja Ma; a Cigarette 1 Cafe Racer; the WaveKrest marine research vessel; and an electric golf-car at the Olimpatec Meditation Institute.

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