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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Prince Valiant (1954) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Prince Valiant (1954) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954).
About the movie:
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
Last American studio film of
Rod Steiger
.
b.
The average shot length of this film is about 7 seconds. This is fast for an early CinemaScope film, and is low given the 8 - 11 second average of most Hollywood films made between 1930 and 1960.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 7, 1952 with
William Holden
reprising his film role.
d.
Ridley Scott
s first cut of the film was 2 hours and 40 minutes long.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
Alnwick Castle in Northumberland served as Camelot in all of the master shots while Warwick Castle was used for the main gate and courtyard. Although Alnwick is brown sandstone and Warwick is pale grey stone, carefully placed cameras and lighting masked the difference in shadows.
b.
Writer
Mitch Markowitz
was originally also hired as director but was replaced by
Tony Bill
after three weeks of shooting.
c.
In the celebratory scene in the tent back at base camp, several soldiers are seen to be drinking what appears to be mouthwash. During the Gulf War, Saudi Arabias Islamic-based ban on alcohol forced many soldiers to become more ingenious in obtaining their favorite vices. In this case, they asked loved ones to send them vodka with added blue food coloring in mouthwash bottles.
d.
In the short story, George Staubs car was a Ford Mustang. The filmmakers decided to go with a red and white Plymouth as a nod to
Stephen King
s Christine. However Christine was a 1958 Plymouth Fury and Georges car was a 1960 Plymouth Fury.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
While filming this picture, the spirit gum holding
Bing Crosby
s ears back failed; he insisted on completing the film with his ears out, and never used the gum again.
b.
There is a rumor that the this film was not passed for release because it was claimed that
Janet Leigh
s nipple was visible during the shower scene. The nipple wasnt in the film at all, but the cinematography and score are so well performed here, it caused the release board originally to think that there was a nipple visible and send the film back for re-editing. The production team went through the shower sequence cut by cut to illustrate that there was not.
Alfred Hitchcock
made no changes (none were needed), but merely sent it back, assuming that they either wouldnt bother to watch it, or would realize their mistake.
c.
None of the locations were "stock footage" since this was one of the first CinemaScope movies. The locations were shot by a second unit in Britain during the spring and summer of 1953 specifically for this film. Stand-ins doubled for the principal cast in long shots which were then matched at 20th Century-Fox studios and ranch in California during the autumn of 1953. The English stand-in for
Janet Leigh
s Aleta character was a teenage
Shirley Eaton
(later to become the James Bond
Goldfinger
girl).
d.
Producer
Darryl F. Zanuck
paid the original author
Cornelius Ryan
$175,000 for the screen rights to his book.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
Primo Carnera
, who played Sligon, had such a thick Italian accent that his voice was dubbed.
b.
Peter Hyams
: [character] One of the characters is called Spota.
c.
When producer
Irving Thalberg
cast his wife,
Norma Shearer
, in the role of Elizabeth Barrett,
William Randolph Hearst
was enraged that his protégé,
Marion Davies
, was not given the role. So Hearst pulled Davies out of MGM and placed her with Warner Brothers for the remainder of her career, and for over a year the name "Norma Shearer" did not appear in any Hearst newspapers.
d.
It took
Dolph Lundgren
about six months to win the part and was first turned down by the casting directors for being too tall. Later, he got the chance to send photos and meet
Sylvester Stallone
who told him he had a good chance to get the part, but advised him to gain twenty pounds of muscle.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
The original story on which the movie is based does not include the artifice of the protagonist framing the Duke for murder. The protagonist gets away with a serious crime and yet is made to seem justified in this film.
b.
The film was shot almost completely with hand-held cameras.
c.
Richard Webb
also played Sir Galahad in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
.
d.
When "Lucky" Luciano and the others bring in "Mad Dog" Coll to offer him a chance to move to California, they get into a discussion about Colls style of killing, to which Coll slaps "Bugsy" Siegel on the knee and laughs out "Theres nothing so pretty as the back of a mans head!" Ironically, when
Bugsy Siegel
was murdered in 1947, he was shot through the back of the head.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
The censors werent too happy about the line in the song "Lonesome Polecat" where the brothers lament "A man cant sleep when he sleeps with sheep". By not showing any sheep in the same shot as the brothers, the film-makers were able to get away with it.
b.
First Best Picture Oscar winner to have been based on a TV program (
Marty
)
c.
Wes Anderson
s first film co-written with
Noah Baumbach
. Andersons usual writing partner was
Owen Wilson
but he was becoming more popular as an actor and was unavailable.
d.
Since Prince Valiants storyline in the comics was so sprawling and complex, the property is said to have languished at MGM where no one could get a handle on it. When MGM eventually passed, Fox picked it up. There, Oscar-winning screenwriter,
Dudley Nichols
, devised a script by selecting panels from the comic strip to create a much more concise storyboard from which to work.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Prince Valiant (1954)?
a.
The sequence of events portrayed near the end of the movie, where some of the US Rangers were forced to run, unprotected, behind the rescue convoy did, indeed, happen. This unfortunate turn of events was named by the soldiers after the battle as "The Mogadishu Mile".
b.
Charles Boyer
s last film.
c.
Gene Wilder
is seen in drag in this movie.
d.
Robert Wagner
writes in his memoirs that he was miscast in this film.
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