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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Runaway Train (1985) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Runaway Train (1985) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985).
About the movie:
Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
Replicas of all four locomotives were constructed Hollywoods Pan Pacific Auditorium to film some scenes, which were superimposed onto second unit footage from Alaska. The replicas were complete right down to all interior details and rivets. The couplings could be coupled and uncoupled, and even the speedometers worked.
b.
The Cloak & Dagger game screens are mostly from the arcade version, and not the Atari 5200 game console as it would appear in the film. Although an 5200 version of the game was planned, it never was released due to the video game crash of 1983 and eventual sale of Atari. The arcade version of Cloak & Dagger appeared in 1983 prior to the release of the film. Next to the Cloak & Dagger games are boxes for the 5200 version of Tempest. Like the 5200 version of Cloak & Dagger, this game was never released.
c.
According to
Sam Peckinpah
biographer
Marshall Fine
, there was concern on the set over the bridge explosion.
Bud Hulburd
, the head of the special-effects crew, was not particularly experienced, having ascended the ranks after Peckinpah fired his predecessors. Stuntman
Joe Canutt
appealed to both Hulburd and Peckinpah to no avail, so finally, out of concern for the other stuntmen, Canutt enlisted the help of screenwriter
Gordon T. Dawson
, who was instructed to stand behind Hulburd with a club. If the stuntmen began to fall before the final charge was set off, something that wouldve resulted in death, Dawson was to club Hulburd unconscious before he detonated the last charge. Luckily, the stunt went off without a hitch.
d.
Production of this film cost roughly $60,000.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.
The 3 pairs of jeans that
Marilyn Monroe
wore in the movie were among a collection of her personal items that were sold for $42,550 at auction at Christies Auction House to designer
Tommy Hilfiger
.
c.
Helicopter pilot
Richard Holley
was killed in a helicopter crash during filming, and the film is dedicated to his memory.
d.
This was the first film in which
Judy Garland
had her name billed before the title, which showed her growing importance and stature at MGM.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
Matthew Perry
was originally offered the role of Captain Jimmy "Raven" Wilder but pulled out at the last minute. His father
John Bennett Perry
plays a secret serviceman in the movie.
b.
Obie Weeks
was an employee of the Alaska Railroad at the time of filming. He got a part in the film because he was also an aspiring actor and already a member of Actors Equity.
c.
The set of the NSEA Protector was built on an articulated platform so that it could move a few feet in any direction, for a touch of realism (instead of actors leaning in unison). When it was first used the set dropped two feet and shifted to the side, causing several cast members to fall out of their chairs and two lights to fall down.
d.
Russ Meyer
was reportedly so disappointed about the size of
Anouska Hempel
s chest that he edited footage of larger breasts into her nude scenes.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
The quote before the end credits: "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore I am no beast." is from Richard III. Screenwriter
Edward Bunker
also used "No Beast So Fierce" for the title of his first novel.
b.
The official US entry at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival.
c.
This is
Andy Serkis
s third collaboration with
Peter Jackson
, as well as his third motion-capture role (he had earlier played the creatures Gollum and King Kong in features directed by Jackson). Sometime after being cast, Serkis joked that he was worried
Peter Jackson
would cast him as Tintins dog Snowy.
d.
WILHELM SCREAM: When Cpt. Mack puts the plane into a steep dive and the passengers freak out.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
The note on the photocopy of the hand attached to the sign "All Gates" says "FREE THE GOAT".
b.
Eric Roberts
worked out for several months prior to filming to put on 30 pounds of muscle.
c.
William Finley
came up with the bird motif of the Phantom costume, a collaboration with costume designer
Rosanna Norton
.
d.
The Assistant Producer intentionally switched his watch from hand to hand at the end of filming to goof with continuity. While he did this about every thirty minutes, you can only notice about seven times.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
As the film was being finished up, producer
Roger Corman
felt that the picture needed more sex, and ordered scenes shot that showed the "humanoids" attacking - and, of course, ripping the clothes off of - nubile young women. Director
Barbara Peeters
refused to shoot the scenes, protesting that they were inserted purely to show gratuitous nudity. Corman fired her and hired another director to shoot the additional footage.
b.
The music played during the shuttle launch is from the Nova of Madagon sequence in
Battlestar Galactica
. The navigator is played by Kent McCord who played Captain Troy on
Galactica 1980
.
c.
In preparing for the role of Manny,
Jon Voight
spent time with prisoners in San Quentin prison. He remained in contact with some of them for years afterwards.
d.
Alfred Hitchcock
received several letters from ophthalmologists who noted that
Janet Leigh
s eyes were still contracted during the extreme closeups after her characters death. The pupils of a true corpse dilate after death. They told Hitchcock he could achieve a proper dead-eye effect by using belladonna drops. Hitchcock did so in all his later films.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
Mannys mustache was suggested by
Jon Voight
after he watched the prison documentary
Scared Straight!
b.
This films narrator,
Orson Welles
, would later narrate a portion of another Biblical work,
The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis
. Before narrating this Biblical epic about the King of kings, Welles had earlier portrayed a king himself in another Biblical epic,
David e Golia
. Welles would even portray a director directing a Biblical epic in
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
, when he ironically had earlier directed himself in his own scenes in "David e Golia".
c.
A sandstorm raged while shooting the exterior of Marias Cantina in Palmdale. Winds reached 40 miles per hour shutting down the shoot.
d.
Kevin Sennett, the editor of the film, proposed to his now-fiancé at the premiere of the film (December 7, 2010-- Pearl Harbor Day.)
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
John Ireland, who plays Billy Clanton in My Darling Clementine, played Johnny Ringo in Gunfight At The OK Corral.
b.
Doris Day
recorded the song "My Secret Love" in only one take.
c.
Attempts to send
Robert Wise
to Brazil so that he could work alongside Welles were prevented due to wartime travel restrictions.
d.
Akira Kurosawa
originally planned to cast.
Henry Fonda
as the Railwayman and
Peter Falk
as the Escaped Convict.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
The older woman who accuses
David Spade
of playing "pocket pool" is
Gypsy Spheeris
, mother of director
Penelope Spheeris
.
b.
Groucho Marx
was fond of recounting how the original owner of the "gorilla skin" used in he film was so incensed when the stunt man wearing it poked ventilation holes in it with an ice pick that he took his suit and walked off the picture, forcing the producers to hastily rent an orangutan skin as a replacement. For this reason, Groucho claimed, the gorilla gets bigger and smaller from shot to shot. The man in the gorilla suit is in fact
Charles Gemora
, well know movie sculptor and gorilla artist, wearing his own custom made suit.
c.
There were plans to do a sequel which never materialized.
d.
The Alaska Railroad placed some tight restrictions on the making of the film. For example, the companys name and logo could not be shown on any piece of equipment.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Runaway Train (1985)?
a.
The scene with Emily and Caleb in the kitchen was actually filmed at night. The "sunlight" coming through the window is completely fabricated.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 26, 1948 with
Ingrid Bergman
reprising her film role.
c.
Akira Kurosawa
co-wrote the original script and planned to direct it in upstate New York. The project was cancelled because the snowstorms were so bad, his crew could not work. Originally, the character played by
Jon Voight
was a convicted killer, but writer and ex-con
Edward Bunker
changed him to a safe cracker because he felt the other prisoners would not respect a killer.
d.
The Hutchinson Co. quarry where the final shootout takes place was located just south of the Larkspur exit off highway 101. It was demolished in the mid 1980s.
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