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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sherlock Jr. (1924) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sherlock Jr. (1924) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sherlock Jr. (1924)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924).

About the movie: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		The factory where Kelly Leak locates his father is located on Old Galveston Road south of Loop 610 west of Pasadena, Texas. In the film, the facility is the former location of Texas Pipe and Supply (now the Boccard Pipe and Supply company).
b.		Film itself bears 1962 copyright but earliest documented release dates (to date) are 1963.
c.		When Larry and Carol go to the theater, the play they are seeing is "Guys and Dolls". The original Broadway production of "Guys and Dolls" in 1950 starred Robert Alda, whose son Alan Alda is in this film.
d.		A title card in "Hearts and Pearls", the film within the film during which Buster Keaton falls asleep, informs us that it was produced by the "Veronal Film Company" - an appropriate name, since Veronal was the first barbiturate sleeping pill ever marketed.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		Shipped to theaters under the code name "Sharpie 79".
b.		Originally written and filmed as "Rest in Peace".
c.		In one scene at a train station, Buster Keaton was hanging off of a tube connected to a water basin. The water poured out and washed him on to the track, fracturing his neck nearly to the point of breaking it. This footage appears in the released film. Keaton suffered from blinding migraines for years after making this movie and was unaware of the reason, until a doctor diagnosed him in the 1930s.
d.		In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #77 Greatest Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the list.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		The powerful sidearm used by the Agents in all 3 Matrix films is the Magnum Research/Israeli Military Industries Desert Eagle .50 AE.
b.		Blake Edwards was originally signed to direct.
c.		For the sequence in which Buster Keatons "dream-self" enters the "movie within a movie," Keaton employed the power of suggestion. He shot an actual movie featuring Ward Crane and Kathryn McGuire in a living room setting. As the sequence begins, the movie is playing on the theater movie screen. The film cuts back and forth between Buster sleeping in the projection booth, and his "dream-self" climbing on stage as the movie is showing. In the scene where Busters "dream-self" steps through the movie screen and into the movie, the living room setting was re-created on the theater stage, and a large hole was cut in the movie screen for Keaton to step through. The actors were placed in the living room setting, creating the illusion that Buster stepped inside the movie screen to join them.
d.		The large map on the police office wall says, "Delaware - Chester Counties, Pennsylvania".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		Francis Ford Coppola showed a screening of this film to Paramount executives in order to convince them that Al Pacino was suitable for the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather.
b.		The battle car is the Hannibal Twin 8 from The Great Race.
c.		Sherlock Jr.s assistant, Gillette, is named after William Gillette, the first actor to play Sherlock Holmes on stage.
d.		The opening tracking shot of the flashlight lit archive was shot backwards, and then reversed in post.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		The shots where Luke uses his Jedi powers to retrieve his lightsaber from a distance were achieved by having Mark Hamill throw the lightsaber away and then running the film in reverse.
b.		Following his "entrance" into the "movie within a movie," the scenery changes around Buster Keaton very quickly, as if the movie is changing scenes with quick edits. (He suddenly finds himself on a crowded city street, in the jungle confronted by lions, on a rock in the middle of the ocean, etc.) Keaton later recalled that his cameraman, Byron Houck, had used surveying instruments to position him and the camera at the exact correct distances and positions to give the illusion of continuity as the scenes changed.
c.		Lary Crews, Robert Altmans personal assistant on the film, was injured in a hit and run accident in the parking lot of the Don CeSar Resort Hotel (the films location.) during production and spent two weeks in Palms of Pasadena hospital. Years later, Crews wrote a novel, "Extreme Close-Up", based on his experiences working on pre-production of the film.
d.		The first cut ran 50 minutes longer. It includes two major scenes shot but removed. The first subplot is a long roof chase where Northcott (Jason Butler Harner) eludes capture from the Mounties. Another major deleted sequence is where after Christine returns from the mental institution, Briegleb (John Malkovich) brings men to protect her as he believes that she was in danger from the LAPD.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		This was Hamilton Camps last film.
b.		Will Arnett and Amy Poehler (who play siblings in the film) are actually married.
c.		Jeni Le Gon with The Four Blackbirds are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
d.		A a 14" x 36" poster for Rex Ingrams Scaramouche is prominently displayed outside the theatre.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		Film debut of Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and Cherie Lunghi.
b.		Buster Keaton doubled for Ford West, the actor playing Gillette, in the scene where the motorcycle he is driving (with Keaton on the handlebars) hits a deep pothole and bucks him off flat on his behind.
c.		At the end of the film, we hear Eustaces mother announce that Jill Pole has come by for a visit. Jill becomes Eustaces companion on his two subsequent adventures in Narnia in the books The Silver Chair and The Last Battle.
d.		The sixty-fifth of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		Spike Jonze had his voice cast act out their characters on a soundstage, to ensure that the voices came from a performance of actors working together, instead of filming the movie and recording the voices later, or recording the actors individually. The actors wore radio microphones attached to their heads with headbands. Jonze and Catherine Keener would perform Max. Even before this soundstage shoot, Spike took the voice cast to Griffith Park to wage an actual dirt clod war.
b.		The name Jen Danzig is a reference to Glenn Danzig, the singer of the former Misfits leader whom wrote and sung the songs Halloween and Halloween II before the original movie was released. The two songs have little to do with the movies since their lyrics do not even touch the main plot.
c.		Many filmographies credit Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle as co-director of this film. Whether this is true or not is unclear. Buster Keaton did originally hope to have Arbuckle work as his co-director, but claims Arbuckle was still too depressed over the scandal that had nearly ended his career two years earlier and had become difficult to work with. Then Keaton went ahead as the sole director of the film. Doris Deane, Arbuckles second wife, later claimed Arbuckle directed the entire film. Historians disagree as to how much Arbuckle may have directed - which varies from none to as much as half.
d.		John Stockwell was originally slated to direct, but dropped out of the production in the summer of 2003.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		Robert Forster improvised the jokes in regard to his receding hairline, which a delighted John Sayles wrote into the script during shooting for the other characters.
b.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on Febraury 2, 1953 with Wanda Hendrix reprising her film role.
c.		This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1991.
d.		Although Elsie the Cow is billed 8th playing Buttercup as "Elsie - The Moo Girl of the New York Worlds Fair" in the opening credits, she is billed last (26th) in the end credits, simply as Elsie playing Buttercup. In 1939, she was quite famous, appearing in ads for the Borden Milk Co.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Sherlock Jr. (1924)?
a.		While only basic plot elements are shared with the original Gone in 60 Seconds, one is the location of the last car. Eleanor, a classic Mustang (a 1973 model in the original, a 1967 in the remake), was parked at the International Towers in Long Beach.
b.		One of the main reasons Johnny Depp was chosen was because the producers daughter thought he was "dreamy."
c.		For the scene where Sherlock Jr., escaping some gangsters, leaps headfirst through the body of his assistant, Gillette (who is disguised as an old lady selling neckties), and disappears, Buster Keaton used an old magicians trick. Prior to the trick, Gillette is seen standing with his back against a wooden fence. A section of the fence was sawed out and placed on hinges, so that it opened up and back like a garage door. Ford West (the actor playing Gillette) was then strapped to the underside of the cutaway section, so that when it was opened, Wests body was hanging parallel to the ground, but his head and arms stuck out through the upper part of the opening in the fence. The dress and open suitcase were then hung from Wests shoulders, so that they hung down in front of the fence, concealing the opening. Both the dress and the suitcase had holes cut in them. With the cameras rolling, Keaton leaped headfirst straight through the hole in the suitcase, the hole in the dress, and the opening in the fence. (He later recalled that he "landed face-first in the dirt" on the other side.) The cutaway fence section was then swung down to close the opening, so that Wests body landed perfectly inside the dress. Attendants on the other side of the fence cut the straps holding Wests torso and feet to the cutaway section, and West stepped away from the fence as if nothing had happened. In the film, you can see West reach behind his back to close the opening in the dress as he steps from the fence. If you look closely, you can also see the outline of the cutaway section in the fence.
d.		Dionne Warwick was under contract to a different record label than 20th so the theme on the soundtrack album was sung by Dory Previn, who also wrote the lyrics. Margaret Whiting dubbed Susan Hayward but she was also under contract to a different label, so veteran voice double Eileen Wilson sings "Ill Plant My Own Tree" on the soundtrack album.

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