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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Red Dust (1932) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Red Dust (1932) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932).
About the movie:
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
Part of the "Cannon Movie Tales" series, nine feature films based on classic fairy tales that were produced by
Menahem Golan
and
Yoram Globus
for the Cannon Group in the late 80s. All of the films featured well-known actors from the U.S. and U.K. and were shot on-location in Israel. Although the series was originally conceived as sixteen films, production stopped at nine when
Rumpelstiltskin
flopped at the box-office and the remaining films were sent directly to video. Despite their commercial failure, the Movie Tales gained a cult following in the 90s after airing as "Storybook Cinema" on the Disney Channel.
b.
On a promotional talk show appearance by
Christopher Meloni
, he explained that when writers
Jon Hurwitz
and
Hayden Schlossberg
approached him with the script, they said of the part "You were the first person we thought of." After reading the introduction of his character, which simply describes him as "the ugliest man on Earth," he got the joke.
c.
Jean Harlow
s husband of two months, producer
Paul Bern
, committed suicide during the Labor Day break in the production. Although she was absent for 10 days following his death, scenes were shot around her and the movie was completed on schedule.
d.
The Baruna Bridge location was the strikingly beautiful Soca river in the Slovenian mountains. After 9 months of negotiating red tape, the production were allowed to temporarily divert the flow of the river whilst they built the bridge. The authorities had already been considering this themselves due a landslide the previous year, which had harmed the flow. Once it had been completed the river was rerouted back to its original flow. 100 trees had been specially planted to tie in with the description of the location in the book.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
For a while, the film set the record for the highest grossing film in history. Within two weeks, over 200,000 visitors had seen the film and the gross was $113,571.32 dollars. The previous record holder was
Robin Hood
, with a total gross of $109,750.88.
b.
Many of the establishing shots of the Upper West Side, Lincoln Center and Broadway/Columbus Avenue were shot from a condominium called One Lincoln Plaza. Some of these shots were test footage the director shot in the winter of 2009.
c.
Jean Harlow
s famous rain-barrel bath is recreated in her film
Bombshell
.
d.
Michael Matsuda broke his wrist while filming his fight scenes involving wires.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
This film marks the third time that director
Alexandre Aja
has directed a horror film remake. He previously directed
The Hills Have Eyes
and
Mirrors
, also remakes of earlier horror films.
b.
Barry Levinson
specifically instructed composer
Hans Zimmer
to avoid strings in his score as he felt it would make the film too sentimental.
c.
Greta Garbo
was originally cast as Vantine. But when the script underwent drastic re-writes, the role was recast with
Jean Harlow
.
d.
The space station above earth is called Gateway, a possible reference to
Frederik Pohl
s "Gateway" novel, a sci-fi classic.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
During filming of the famous rainbarrel sequence, Jean Harlow reportedly stood up - topless - and called out something along the lines of "one for the boys in the lab!" Director
Victor Fleming
quickly removed the film from the camera to prevent any footage from reaching the black market.
b.
During the television sequence, there are two characters in front of a record store being interviewed. Their lines are made up of
Van Halen
song titles.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 3, 1954 with
Barry Fitzgerald
reprising his film role.
d.
The song had been written in 1974 by
Bill Fries
(aka CW McCall) for a series of bread commercials, and the result was a popular trend with CB radios and trucker lingo. By the time the movie went into production in 1977, the trend had already faded, but that didnt stop it from being a box office hit.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
The original play first opened in New York on 2 January 1928.
b.
Rock plays Contra on the NES, released by Konami in 1987, the same year as Capcoms release of the original Mega Man.
c.
Many of the details and sequence of events in the movie differ from
Alice Sebold
s novel. In the novel, George Harvey dismembers Susies body and disposes of it by dropping the safe in the sinkhole immediately after the murder (instead of much later, as in the movie). But George accidentally drops her elbow, which once found by the police, forces the Salmon family to acknowledge her death earlier than in the movie.
d.
Director
Nick Grinde
was fired a week into production and replaced by
Edward Dmytryk
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
Director
John Boorman
bought the horse that Percival rides to champion Guinevere.
b.
There is a brief shot of Worldwide Plaza (49th-50th Streets & 8th Ave, NYC), the office complex on the site of the second (1925-1966) Madison Square Garden, where, in the original movie, the assassination takes place (the inside and outside of the old Garden are shown in the original movie).
c.
When Father Malone first discovers the journal he glances at the title page, and then flips to an open page of text (only seen for a split second) which reads "...to work writing dumb s--t in this f--ing movie prop. F--ing a--. Its time to bring in the the word guide and the big t--s tattoos and shaved b---s..."
d.
Clark Gable
also starred in the 1953 remake
Mogambo
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
Val Kilmer
noted one of the reasons he wanted to work with
Denzel Washington
was that his kids once went to the same Los Angeles school as his own two children.
b.
The actual K-19 was a Hotel-class ballistic missile submarine. The sub used in the movie is a modified Juliet-class guided missile submarine. The rescue sub in the film appears to be the SSK 73 RCN Onondaga, which was a Royal Canadian Navy submarine of the Ojibwa class (Improved British Oberon Class, or Super Os) which was launched on September 25, 1965 (four years after the K-19 incident).
c.
Second of five movie pairings of
Clark Gable
and
Jean Harlow
.
d.
Lester Dorr
(Attendant),
Earl Eby
(Entertainer) and
Robert McKenzie
are in studio records/casting call lists as actors in this movie but they never appeared. Eby may have been the pianist at Dubins, but he is never shown.
Bert Roach
is listed as "The Host" in the onscreen credits and may possibly be seen in long-shot in one of the party scenes, but for all practical purposes he was deleted from the final print. Some of the other actors can be briefly seen but have no lines. There may have been extensive editing, since it is listed in studio records as an 8-reel production, but only runs 70 minutes.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
The film was banned in a number of American cities because of the implied homosexuality of Phillip (
Farley Granger
) and Brandon (
John Dall
).
b.
Originally intended as a direct-to-DVD sequel.
c.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1940 with
Clark Gable
reprising his film role.
d.
David O. Russell
: The "Hollywood actor"
George Clooney
strangles in the epilogue sequence. He also provides the singing voice of the helicopter pilot near the beginning.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Red Dust (1932)?
a.
After the suicide of her husband
Paul Bern
, which occurred during filming, most of
Jean Harlow
s scenes were re-shot, with higher neck-lines on her dresses.
b.
Hal Needham
, on the first films commentary, talked about how
Frank Sinatra
showed up very early on the set of this film to get his parts shoot, and then left before the other actors even showed up. If you watch closely during the office scene, Sinatra is never on film with the other actors. A few times his back is shown with the other characters facing him, but this is a double.
c.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 17, 1950 with
Kirk Douglas
reprising his film role.
d.
The club where Lupino stores the Valkyr drug is called Rag Na Rock. In Scandinavian mythology, which is referenced a few times throughout the film, the word Ragnarök indicates the end of the world.
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