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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rolling Thunder (1977) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rolling Thunder (1977)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977).

About the movie: Major Charles Rane comes back from the war and is given a number of gifts from his hometown because he is a war hero...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		The film was banned in Germany when it was released.
b.		Tracy was not initially pleased with the studios choice of director, hoping to have George Cukor or Vincente Minnelli assigned the position.
c.		The Disney animators actually hired a professor of anatomy to consult with them over Tarzans musculature. He would superimpose the correct type of muscles over their drawings to help show them how to depict a man at the peak of his physical prowess.
d.		This was on film critic Gene Siskels Top Ten list of 1977.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		Kris Kristofferson was set to star, but dropped out and the role was recast with William Devane.
b.		Theodore Dreiser, upon whose 1911 novel the movie is based, was so pleased with the adaptation after seeing a preview that he sent a telegram to Paramount boss B.P. Schulberg, saying, "Jennie moving improvisation upon my theme, excellently cast, beautifully interpreted."
c.		The infamous "Daisy" campaign ad aired for the first and only time during the September 7, 1964 telecast of this film on NBC.
d.		The third of four Alien movies starring Sigourney Weaver.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		Both the book and the movie mention that Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston had hit four triples in a baseball game. In fact, the Major League record is three.
b.		Marc Forsters image (as seen in production stills) was used with consent for the video game tie-in. In the train mission of the game, Vesper hands Bond a photograph of the an enemy that resembles Forster.
c.		Quentin Tarantino named his distributing company, Rolling Thunder Pictures, after this film. Rolling Thunder Pictures released B-movies, cult classics, independent films, exploitation movies, and foreign films. The company went under due to poor sales.
d.		The film rights of L. Frank Baums book were initially sold to Samuel Goldwyn in 1933. Goldwyn hoped to have Eddie Cantor star as the Scarecrow with Ed Wynn supporting as the Wizard. Cantor was busy filming Roman Scandals and Wynn wouldnt accept a mere "cameo role", so the property was sold to MGM the following year, where producer Irving Thalberg hoped to get W.C. Fields to play the Wizard (he was about to begin filming The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger) and Charlotte Henry for Dorothy. But neither were available and the project was shelved until 1937, when Edens and Arthur Freed began crafting Oz as a project for Judy Garland.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		At the films world premiere, the first reel of the 1926 silent version of "Beau Geste" was shown just before the entire 1939 sound version, in an effort to demonstrate how far films had advanced in thirteen years. This almost backfired because the 1939 film apparently followed the 1926 one extremely closely, and some of the first-night critics were annoyed rather than pleased at this, feeling that the 1939 version should have been more imaginative. However, this did not keep the 1939 version from becoming a smash hit and a film classic.
b.		The film was originally produced and scheduled for release by Twentieth Century-Fox; it was prominently featured in their 1977 exhibitors guide. However, the studio brass were greatly disturbed by the violence in the finished film, and the decision was made to sell it off to American International Pictures.
c.		In the scene where Clank is going crazy with the rifle in the woods he yells another goddamn bug!, ironically moments after a small fly can be seen landing on the upper corner of the camera lens.
d.		Angelina Jolies Jane and Brad Pitts John ranked #3 on Moviefones The Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples. May 2008

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		After firing Rouben Mamoulian as director, Walter Wanger and Darryl F. Zanuck approached Alfred Hitchcock to take over the project. Hitchcock refused and chose to make The Birds instead.
b.		In his 1982 book Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman called an advance screening of this movie "the most violent sneak reaction of recent years... the audience actually got up and tried to physically abuse the studio personnel present among them."
c.		The name of the villain, Maxwell Dent, is a combination of two names that were used as "house pseudonyms" by Street & Smith Publishing for its 1930s pulp fiction magazines: Maxwell Grant (aka Walter Gibson), author of "The Shadow", and Lester Dent (aka Kenneth Robeson), author of "Doc Savage".
d.		Jody Hill wrote the role of Ronnie with Seth Rogen in mind, after Rogen was sent the script, he became an active driving force in getting the film green lit and produced at Warner Bros.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Rolling Thunder (1977)?
a.		In the scene where the Germans discover Hatchs escape, the German guard reporting speaks Hungarian instead of German. Most likely, the actor was a Hungarian extra. He says "jelentem, a létszám 93 fo", which roughly translates as "(I report) 93 persons are present". Also, one of the French Resistance men speaks English (to Hatch) with noticeable Hungarian accent.
b.		During filming in 1989, the USS Houston, which was used as the USS Dallas in the movie, snagged the tow cable between the commercial tugboat Barcona and a barge sinking the tugboat, 10 miles off Long Beach, California. One crewman drowned and two more were rescued.
c.		Among those who auditioned for the role of Liu Kang were Jason Scott Lee, Russell Wong, and Phillip Rhee.
d.		Luke Askew contracted food poisoning during the shooting of the movie and was seriously ill on the day the famous scene in which William Devane rips into Askews crotch with his hook hand was shot.