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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sharky's Machine (1981) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sharky's Machine (1981) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981).
About the movie:
Tom Sharky is a narcotics cop in Atlanta who's demoted to vice after a botched bust. In the depths of this lowly division...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
The film was shot in 17 days, during a heat wave where temps in New York hit 115 degrees.
b.
Executive Producer
Steven Spielberg
personally recommended
Sam Mendes
to direct this film.
c.
A remake of this movie,
Sharkys Machine
, was first announced in April 2006. Variety reported that it was not expected that the remake would be set in Atlanta.
Phil Joanou
was slated to direct with
Stephen Levinson
and Mark Wahlberg acting as executive producers with the latter possibly starring.
d.
Body Count: 48
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Crispin Glover
found
R. Lee Ermey
s yelling during the disciplinary scenes hilarious and would often be laughing quietly off camera.
b.
Same theme music is used in
The Lady Takes a Sailor
.
c.
The role of Dominoe was not cast when production started shooting.
d.
The lobby of the Caliban building is inspired by the lobby of the Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills, designed by renowned architect
I.M. Pei
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Anthony Perkins
had to bat and throw with his opposite hand to portray the right handed Jimmy Piersall.
b.
An incomplete print (missing reel 7) survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
When Bob takes Grace to see the spectacular panoramic view of Chicago at night, he does so on the roof of 333 Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago.
d.
This movie was once nicknamed as "Dirty Harry Goes To Atlanta" by
Burt Reynolds
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Robert Duncan McNeill
s film debut.
b.
At the time of its release
Jeepers Creepers
was the highest grossing film to ever be released during Labor Day weekend. The record would subsequently be broken by its own sequel,
Jeepers Creepers II
.
c.
Notable Hollywood and Los Angeles locations seen in this picture include a Manderville Canyon ranch once owned by actor
Robert Taylor
, the Pasadena mansion used for Wayne Manor in the TV series
Batman
, the Hollywood Wax Museum and La Esperanza, a forty-roomed Hollywood Hills manor house at the time belonging to actress
Greta Garbo
.
d.
One of the very few films made in the late 1970s to be shown with an intermission.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Film debut of
Jill St. John
.
b.
William Diehl
, the author of the "Sharkys Machine" book, has said that he had
Burt Reynolds
in mind when he wrote the novel.
c.
The Sim-Pal slogan is "A Sim-Pal thats fun to be with!", a derivation from "The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" series by
Douglas Adams
. There, the corporation that created robots with "Genuine People Personalities" had the slogan "Your plastic pal thats fun to be with!".
d.
The Whoville set was built mostly on the backlot of Universal Studios behind the still-standing Bates Motel. During a break in filming
Jim Carrey
surprised and scared tourists on the Universal Backlot Tour by running out of the hotel wearing a dress and brandishing a knife. Nobody recognized him, and the tour guide at Universal Studios will tell you the story when you pass by the hotel on the Backlot Tour.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Mary Badham
became the youngest girl to receive an Oscar nomination, ironically losing the award to another child actress,
Patty Duke
in
The Miracle Worker
.
b.
Some performers in the exterior Turkish Cafe in Munich Scene were stage-reading actual Arabic newspapers. The more-attentive among them were indeed reading from right to left (most noticeable when they turn a page).
c.
The characters and actors who are the members of "Sharkys Machine" include
Burt Reynolds
as Tom Sharky,
Brian Keith
as Papa,
Bernie Casey
as Arch, and
Richard Libertini
as Nosh. Sharkys boss, Friscoe, played by
Charles Durning
, is the character who pens the name "Sharkys Machine" and is arguably a member of the group as well.
d.
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
had seen
Philip Baker Hall
in
Robert Altman
s
Secret Honor
and had him in mind for the part of the Sydney from the start. He persuaded Hall to appear in his short film
Cigarettes & Coffee
. That short film played at the Sundance Film Festival where producer
Robert Jones
approached Anderson about expanding the short into a feature.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Michael Powell
helped with a major story problem in
Woody Allen
s segment.
b.
After
William Diehl
s "Sharkys Machine" novel was published, three people sent
Burt Reynolds
a copy of it. They were
Tom Culla
, novelist
Sidney Sheldon
and the author of the book himself,
William Diehl
c.
Jake Gyllenhaal
s film debut.
d.
The dress that actress
Kay Parker
wears to the party actually belonged to Taboo writer/producer
Helene Terrie
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
The studio believed only parents with small children would see a G-rated live-action movie, so the lines "Goddamn it!" (from Miss Hannigan) and "Come back here ya Goddamned kid!" (from Rooster) were included specifically to receive a PG rating.
b.
This movie was made and released about three years after
William Diehl
s novel "Sharkys Machine" was first published in 1978.
c.
Virginia Cherrill
said that when she renegotiated her contract to be brought back onto the film, she was given advise by
Marion Davies
.
d.
In the scene where Cindy Lou gets on the bus to go back to college, Busey was originally supposed to answer her question of "What am I gonna tell the kids at college?" with "Cindy Lou?...Kiss my ass!" But director Steve Rash didnt like that line and so they came up with "Boola, Boola." instead. (According to DVD commentary)
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
During the opening credits, the Pixar trademark lamp can be seen in the stars in the upper right side of the screen.
b.
Last cinema film of
Liz Smith
.
c.
Stunt man
Dar Robinson
, doubling for
Henry Silva
at the end of the film, dropped 220 feet, setting a record for the highest wireless free fall jump from a building in a film. However, only a brief part of the start of the jump is included in the final film as the next shot clearly shows a dummy falling.
d.
The sequence where Mark leaves a classroom and meets the Winklevoss twins in the hallway was filmed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The classroom he exits is in a different building (Taper Hall of Humanities) from the hallway in which he meets the twins (Grace Ford Salvatori Hall).
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sharky's Machine (1981)?
a.
Afternoon Delights shares a title card with
Prisoner of Pleasure
with some cast credits applying to the former, some to the latter and some applying to both films.
b.
At one point the search for a young actress capable of playing Regan was so trying that
William Friedkin
claims he even considered auditioning adult dwarf actors.
c.
Judy Garland
filmed this along side her other 1943 feature film
Girl Crazy
.
d.
Most successful movie at the international box-office from a film directed by
Burt Reynolds
.
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