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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saratoga Trunk (1945) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saratoga Trunk (1945) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945).
About the movie:
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
Heather ORourke
s last film.
b.
The security guards at Lucas Ranch dress in the security uniforms from
THX 1138
, one of
George Lucas
early directorial efforts.
c.
One of the lunchboxes reads, "Greeting from Asbury Park, New Jersey", a reference to
Danny DeVito
s hometown. "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey" is also the name of
Bruce Springsteen
s first album.
d.
Due to wartime rationing shortages, most of the vegetables in the New Orleans market scene were fake.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
During a scene in which Dr. McDhui is performing surgery, he asks his assistant for the "Spencer Wells". This is a type of forceps, named for Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, physician to Queen Victoria and a pioneer in abdominal surgery.
b.
When the film was cut from 134 minutes to 90 minutes, the producers considered using the deleted footage as the groundwork for a fifth film.
c.
Real-life husband and wife
John McIntire
and
Jeanette Nolan
both voice characters in the film; Rufus the cat (McIntire) and Ellie Mae the muskrat (Nolan).
d.
The word "Trunk" refers to a branch railroad line - a trunk line - in this case, to Binghamton, New York on the Delaware and Hudson.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
Zander The Great opened at the Empire Theater on April 9, 1923 and ran for 80 performances.
b.
Most of the small walk-on parts in this movie were played by German people.
c.
When Zeus Carter picks up the gold bar at the Federal Reserve, he says "Damn, this is heavy" A standard gold bar kept at the Federal Reserve weighs approximately 25 lbs.
d.
For the climactic train wreck scene, director
Sam Wood
used two complete trains, including 2 locomotives and 12 cars. Six cameras were used to film the scene where the trains meet in a head-on collision.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
It was shot in late February 1943 to late June 1943 but because of the overload of war related films they held the release to 1945.
b.
Director
William Malone
said the first sale for the picture was to Malaysia for $90,000. They were already making a profit since the film only cost $74,000 to make.
c.
Official Selection - Bermuda International Film Festival.
d.
Nikko, the name of the head winged monkey, is the name of the Japanese town which houses the shrine featuring the famous Hear No Evil/See No Evil/Speak No Evil monkeys.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
While the story is an adaptation of the book by
Bernard Malamud
the plot has been changed for movie to be more "uplifting". Several characters and symbols are heavily influenced by the writings of Homer and Greek mythology: - the line, "Have you ever read Homer?" - Roy Hobbs = Odysseus (trying to "find his way" home) - Max Mercy = Vulcan, God of Fire and Forging (he can "make or break you" and always seen in Red/Brown clothing) - Pop Fisher = Zeus, King of the Gods (his uniform is #1 and both the oak tree and lightning bolt a la the Wonderboy bat are his symbols) - The Judge = Hades, God of the Underworld (always in the dark a.k.a. death, and the dead were "judged" in the underworld) - Memo Paris = Kalypso, a sea nymph (she held and distracted Odysseus from returning home; Odysseus had an affair with her). Kalypso means "I will conceal" in Greek - Iris Gaines = Penelope, wife of Odysseus (his true love from whom he was separated for 20 years while she raised their son)
b.
The real-life Carla Morans teenage son described a particularly vicious attack in which Carla was thrown by the malevolent force and hit her head. He tried to intervene, but he was also thrown, breaking his arm. In the filming of the movie, the actor playing the son broke his arm in that scene, and the curtains tore from top to bottom without explanation.
c.
Two songs were published based on themes from the Max Steiner (I) (qv) score: "As Long As I Live" and "Goin Home", both with lyrics by Charles Tobias (qv).
d.
During the "Terminator 2" parody scene that has
Robert Patrick
reprising his role as the evil T-1000 Terminator, the song "Time Machine" can be heard in the background. This song comes from the 1992 Black Sabbath album called "Dehumanizer" which featured a painted image of a Terminator Endoskeleton disguised in a grim reaper costume.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
All the actors were encouraged to ad lib perplexed reactions to
Benicio Del Toro
s oddball vocal stylings.
b.
The film portrays the last day of the Internet phenomenon "30daystodeath", which served as a prequel to document the films central character "Clint Wanzong" as he kept an online journal of his last 30 days leading up to his suicide. In Death Perception, "Clint" reaches the 30th day and deals with the results of his decision.
c.
Frank Morgan, who would later go on to play the Wizard of Oz six years later, says the line, "Theres no place like home" in the film. However, he has a different take on the sentiment, continuing, "Theres no place so lonely."
d.
Warners had hoped to possibly borrow
Lena Horne
from MGM for the role of Clio, but the studio refused to loan her out.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saratoga Trunk (1945)?
a.
Jack L. Warner
purchased the rights to the novel with the hopes to star
Bette Davis
and
Errol Flynn
. But scheduling conflicts with both performers caused them to turn down the project.
b.
One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by
Harry Medved
and
Randy Lowell
.
c.
Eighteen months before
Clark Gable
in
Gone with the Wind
,
Katharine Hepburn
says "damned" in a Production Code-approved Hollywood movie. The occurrence isnt gratuitous: Shes recounting her experience in amateur theatrics and, in camp style, performs a fragment of Lady MacBeths "Out damned spot" sleepwalking line from Shakespeare.
d.
Stan Lee
: An elderly blind man that a young Matt Murdock stops from walking in the streets by holding out his walking stick in front of him. Lees character is based around the elderly blind man from the comics which Matt saved, but also resulted in the accident that gave him his powers.
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