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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sahara (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sahara (2005) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005).
About the movie:
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a UN doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005)?
a.
Released on May 17, 1946 as part of a double bill with
The Cat Creeps
. Universal Pictures, unlike most major studios, lacked a proprietary theater chain and often sold its B-picture horror/mystery pictures as double bills, making weak pictures more attractive and economical for independent theaters to advertise.
b.
Mike Binder
wrote the script specifically to give
Joan Allen
a juicy starring role.
c.
The wrap party was held before the filming was actually "wrapped".
d.
When Dirk and Al talk about an incident in the past where they rode camels in Morocco, actors
Matthew McConaughey
and
Steve Zahn
are actually in the Moroccan desert (depicting Mali).
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005)?
a.
Walter Burns idea for Hildy Johnson to surreptitiously snap a death photo of Earl Williams execution by strapping a camera to his ankle with the shutter release in his pocket actually happened. On January 12, 1928 (over 18 months before the
Ben Hecht
-
Charles MacArthur
play iThe Front Page/i opened), murderers Ruth Brown Snyder and her lover, Henry Judd Gray, were executed in Sing Sings electric chair for the murder of the Ruths husband, Albert Snyder, the previous year. At the moment of Ruth Snyders electrocution, Tom Howard, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune using a one-use camera strapped to his leg to snap a notorious picture of Ruth in the chair. The camera used is now part of the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. In another film irony, the story of Snyder and Gray case was also used as the basis for the James M. Cain novel later made into the classic
Double Indemnity
, also directed by
Billy Wilder
.
b.
Made by two American missionary school teachers.
c.
The dictators antique car is a fiberglass replica of a 1936 C28 Avions Voisin built by D Tessier in Tours, France. Tessier is a well known restorer of Avions Voisin automobiles.
Clive Cussler
has a genuine 1936 Avions-Voisin, similar to the C28 that inspired the replica, in his Colorado museum. The chassis is 4WD with a 4.2 Jaguar engine and Rover gear box. It was designed by
Steve Lamonby
. The replica was completed in four months.
d.
The Wreckers take the alternate modes of NASCAR Chevrolet Impala automobiles, resembling those of
Juan Pablo Montoya
(#42 Target),
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
(#88 AMP Energy/National Guard) and
Jimmie Johnson
(#48 Lowes/Kobalt).
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005)?
a.
Chuck Jones
: as a customer in the seen in the supermarket queue eating carrots. He utters the line regarding buying the aspirin, "At eight hundred dollars a bottle, whod want to?"
b.
Admiral Sandeckers power boat the Calliope is a Hunton RS43 that was modified with jet drives to operate in the shallow Niger River.
c.
Lela Rochon
, who was
Adolfo Quinones
wife at the time once again has a small role in this film in which she plays one of Brendas friends. Just as she did in her role prior to the last film, she has no dialogue.
d.
Castle Rock bought the rights to
Stephen King
s novel for $1.5 million.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005)?
a.
As the film was initially banned in Finland for grounds of violence and that it could harm Finlands foreign relations, this meant severe financial hardship to producer
Markus Selin
as the distribution deals were drawn out so that the Finnish co-producers would get their income only from the Finnish sales.
b.
Dayna Cussler
was cast for the role of "Kitty Mannock," but her scenes were cut before release.
c.
Both
Gerard Butler
and
Patrick Wilson
hated filming the water scenes.
d.
Beverly Bonner
plays "Casey", a character that appears in
Basket Case
,
Brain Damage
, and
Basket Case 2
, all also directed by
Frank Henenlotter
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sahara (2005)?
a.
Oskar Werner
was considered for a major supporting role.
b.
A sequel was planned but was canceled due to poor box office sales.
c.
This project took over 10 years to get produced. It had been optioned by three studios and had been re-written at least five times to cater to the whims of either a studio or a star. Originally set in New York, it was later changed to Los Angeles then to Prague and finally Spokane, Washington. The final "change" was the elimination of any and all references to Israel and the removal of the Hasidim from the script of a movie about diamonds and centered in the diamond district of a major American city. The producer (an Israeli) said he could not sell the film to "certain territories" if these elements remained in the film.
d.
In March 1958, this film was being shown on a double bill with
Cell 2455 Death Row
.
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