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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Punk Rock (1977) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Punk Rock (1977) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977).
About the movie:
A private eye goes on the trail of the kidnapers of a rich man's daughter.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
The R-rated alternate version of this film with additional footage is part of Grindhouse Double Feature: Punk Rock! Plus Pleasure Palace (2009) DVD from Secret Key Motion Pictures.
b.
Ryan Fleming
broke his left wrist a week before production and performed the role of Hucklebilly wearing a removable cast hidden under the sleeve of his shirt except for the skinny dipping scene where he removed the cast for each take.
c.
After the purchase of the novel in December 1952
Victor Mature
,
Robert Wagner
and
Debra Paget
were tentatively set for the leads and that
Frank P. Rosenberg
was going to produce for 20th Century Fox.
d.
The snakes used in the movie were palm pit vipers and green tree boas with appliances glued on their heads.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
The quote by
Simone De Beauvoir
LN recites, but cannot remember which book it is from ("One is not born, but rather becomes a woman") is from "The Second Sex".
b.
In the R-rated version,
Crystal Sync
is credited as Eden Whitefield,
Clea Carson
is Jenny Wexler,
Anna Livia Plurabella
is Ann Jackson and
Albert Jaccoma
is Al Jacoma.
c.
The Dalai Lama
reportedly gave his blessing to this project and took on an advisory role with the development of the script.
d.
Macherie Doerfler was cast the day before shooting started.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
Woody Harrelson
wanted to play Jake Brigance, but author
John Grisham
objected to his casting.
b.
Filmed at the University of Rhode Island Kingston campus.
c.
Ben Nunziata plays the medical examiner and Jasmyn plays the other massage parlor girl. They both appear in the original film but are only credited in the later version.
d.
The movie had been out of circulation for decades because the negative went missing, sparking an international search. After a ten-year quest veteran Australian producer
Anthony Buckley
finally tracked it down in mid-2004 in a Pittsburgh warehouse, inside a shipping container marked "For Destruction".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
Janet Leigh
broke her left arm before filming commenced, but appeared nonetheless. The arm was in a cast, hidden from the camera, for many scenes. In the more revealing motel scenes, the cast was removed for filming, and re-applied afterwards.
b.
After the exhausting filming of
Das Boot
German pop star
Herbert Grönemeyer
swore hed never act in a movie again. He made an exception for his good friend
Anton Corbijn
and appeared in this movie, though.
c.
Director
Carter Stevens
had originally hoped to cast
Deborah Harry
in the role of "Vanessa Garbo", but by the time the film was produced, Harrys group
Blondie
was well on its way to international success and Harry was not interested in the role. Stevens instead cast Elda Gentile, a former performance partner of Harrys in the group The Stillettos in the early 1970s.
d.
Dubbed "Cohns Folly" because many thought the novel was too long and too adult to be filmed.
Harry Cohn
paid $82,000 for the rights.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
Mort looking head on into the mirror and seeing the reflection of the back of his head is a reference to the paintings of Belgian surrealist painter
René Magritte
, such as "La Reproduction Interdite" (English: "Reproduction Prohibited"). He often depicted a mysterious man in a bowler hat not unlike the hat that Shooter wears.
b.
Film was reportedly shot in three days.
c.
Sean Penn
took the role of David Kleinfeld just for the money so he could use it to fund his second film
The Crossing Guard
.
d.
Al Burke
was dressed in character as the Cop, and during a break in shooting, he was actually approached by a woman asking for police assistance (not an emergency, just general) and the director had to explain that there was a movie being made and that he wasnt a real cop.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
The Dutch audience awarded it with the TV Krant Filmposter Award of 2006.
b.
The play opened in London, England on 22 January 1930. It opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 1 November 1930 and had 98 performances, with
Leslie Banks
and
Isabel Jeans
as the leads.
c.
In the scene where Mohawk drinks a potion which enables him to change into a centauroid spider, the pulsating sound effect from
Tarantula
can be heard. The effect was originally recorded for the Martian war machines in
The War of the Worlds
.
d.
Judy Sky is credited only in the R-rated version of the film as being the creator of the large mural in the massage parlor which is seen in the X-rated version too.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
To prepare for his role as Tim Corentino, Trey Moore spent five days a week weight training under supervision of an Ex-Marine. He also studied the mental disease of Schizophrenia in order to portray Tim Corentino.
b.
Despite the fact that her name is advertised on the theatrical one-sheet for the X-rated version of Punk Rock, Seventies adult film actress
Nancy Dare
does not appear in the film.
c.
Cameron Diaz
has said that Princess Fionas romantic/practical nature was more like her sister rather than herself.
d.
The reason this film is shown more often than any of the others is because its in the public domain, and no longer under the legal control of 20th Century-Fox.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
Martin Scorsese
: The director appears a further two times in addition to his credited appearance as Jimmy Shorts: first, he is visible in a "portrait" with
Harvey Keitel
(for one frame) in the opening home movies/main title sequence. Second, his voice appears as narration: "Father Im not worthy of your flesh."
b.
The Republic Pictures VHS (R02995) went on moratorium August 15, 1996.
c.
This film is part of Cult 70s Porno Director: Carter Stevens - XXX Triple Feature 5 (2005) DVD from Alpha Blue Archives.
d.
All of Kyle Wygants scenes needed to be filmed first and quickly due to the fact that he enlisted in the U.S. Navy several months prior and was due to ship out by May of 2009. This explains his shaved head towards the end of the film which was worked into the story thanks to the lice reference.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
As of 2007, only a six-minute fragment of this film is known to survive.
b.
Carter Stevens
states that a bearded extra (sitting next to
Albert Jaccoma
who plays "Ralphie") in the night club featuring
Elda and the Stilletto
was "the science fiction editor for Dell" at that period in time. This is heard on the alternate audio track for the R-rated version of Punk Rock.
c.
During the scene in the airport near the end of the film, the fussy child drops his book in front of Joe (
Campbell Scott
). The book is "The Giving Tree" by the late
Shel Silverstein
. Silverstein was a close friend of Mamets and the two co-wrote the film
Things Change
.
d.
The studio received permission to film inside the Lockheed Aircraft Co. in Burbank, California, but each member of the crew was required to carry a birth certificate to enter the plant.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Punk Rock (1977)?
a.
Contrary to some claims, none of the original film was shot at Maxs Kansas City. The alternate soft core version of Punk Rock has new scenes that were shot at Maxs and features the bands The Fast, The Squirrels, and Spicy Bits. These bands, however, do not appear in the original X-rated film.
b.
Jennifer gets her last name from the screenwriters favorite author,
Ayn Rand
.
c.
This was intended to be the last film in the series.
d.
A complete 10-chapter copy of the silent version of this serial is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archives.