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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968).
About the movie:
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented adults after their father's death.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
The directorial debut for
Jack Hill
.
b.
Chosen to participant in the 2009 Narrative Independent Filmmaker Lab & Independent Film Week in New York City. The Tested is one of only ten narrative rough cuts chosen by the Lab for its artistic vision and outstanding promise.
c.
The scene where Jack (
Martin Short
)s character is tortured with propane is thought to be
Robert Picardo
s character of The Cowboy with
Rob Bottin
s make up effects. In reality, it is Picardo and it is his real voice during the scene as it played out. They had tried to dub Short as Picardos voice of The Cowboy but it did not work and had Picuardo just do the lines himself, according to Director
Joe Dante
.
d.
Bolaji Badejo
beat
Peter Mayhew
to the part of the alien.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
This is the second film in
Kevin Smith
s intricately interconnected View Askewniverse series (the others being
Clerks.
,
Chasing Amy
,
Dogma
,
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
and
Clerks II
). The movies are all linked by characters, themes and events and each contains numerous references to the others.
b.
The movie was
Hayley Mills
last for
Walt Disney
in the 1960s; the remake (
That Darn Cat
) was likewise
Christina Ricci
s last Disney role.
c.
The film was adapted as a stage musical in 2004.
d.
The literal English translation of the original Chinese title "Wu Ji" (in Mandarin Chinese) is "completely devoid of worries, thought, or desires" (Wenlin dict.)
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
Producer
Sol Lesser
paid the Stage Door Canteen $50,000 for the use of its name; they and Allied Charities received the net profits from the film. Because it was too difficult to film at the actual Stage Door Canteen on 44th Street in New York City, it was duplicated at both filming locations (Fox News NY Studios and RKO-Pathé Studios, Culver City).
b.
Christina Applegate
also had a gag in which she wore cucumbers over her eyes in 1991s
Dont Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead
.
c.
Quinn K. Redeker
would sometimes sit in
Lon Chaney Jr.
s trailer while Chaney told him stories and anecdotes about his films. Chaney would often be making his specialty - homemade mustard - while doing so.
d.
The scene where
Tippi Hedren
is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to her clothes by long nylon threads so they could not get away.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
Shot in seven days between August and September of 1964.
b.
The Bletchley Park mansion in this film is not *the* actual Bletchley Park mansion, but another property. According to the tour guides at the real thing, the real Bletchley Park did not look enough like Bletchley Park to the production company to have been used in the film.
c.
Initial casting proposals had
Betty Grable
playing the mother (a role which Betty turned down) and
Tuesday Weld
portraying the daughter.
d.
The scene where Hooch dies was the final scene filmed between
Tom Hanks
and
Beasley the Dog
, Hanks did a great deal of bonding with Beasley and used the fact that hell never see Beasley again to get himself to cry.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
All the color blue was sucked out of the exterior shots to convey how grim the world of the Matrix actually is.
b.
Star
Lon Chaney Jr.
sings the films quirky theme song.
c.
Norman Maclean often recounted the story of how his semi-autobiographical story collection was rejected by every large commercial publisher he sent it to, including one that rejected it on the basis that it contained "too many trees." It was eventually published instead by the University of Chicago Press (in 1976) and went on to sell extraordinarily well for them.
d.
The NYPD precinct where Max works is the "55th", also the name given to the fictional NYPD precinct and fire station used in TV series
Third Watch
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
For all the violent action in the plot there is only one actual death depicted in the movie: director Damien Cockburn.
b.
According to
Robert D. San Souci
, who retold and researched the original story, Disney didnt like the idea of putting in a dragon as a companion for Mulan; they feared it would be too big and menacing. San Souci explained to them that in Chinese lore, dragons can be any size, so a small dragon was approved. Thus, Mushu was born. This change is acknowledged when Mulan calls him "tiny" and Mushu replies, "Of course! Im travel size for you convenience! If I was my REAL size your cow (Khan) here would die of fright!"
c.
The films original title "Cannibal Orgy or, The Maddest Story Ever Told" was incorporated into the theme song, which culminates with a line that states "This cannibal orgy is strange to behold and the maddest story ever told."
d.
Body count: 18 (including the horse).
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
The Smith Estate of Los Angeles, California was used for the exteriors of the Merrye house. The house still stands today.
b.
Producer
John Huston
was, at the time, married to lead actress
Evelyn Keyes
. The picture was originally conceived as a star vehicle for her.
c.
Bono
wears a hat with the word YES written across it in reference to John Lennon and Yoko Onos first meeting in her art studio, where he found a ladder propped against a white wall. After climbing the ladder at the top he found the word "yes". When he asked Yoko why she smiled and said "would you rather it tell you no?"
d.
The reptilian henchman Saurods throat was made to expand and contract by having the performer,
Pons Maar
blowing into a tube that ran from his mouth to the throat of his costume.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
Released to drive-ins simultaneously under two different titles beginning in 1968 as the latter half of a double-feature. When paired with
Hells Chosen Few
the print was titled "Spider Baby;" when paired with
Dr. Terrors House of Horrors
(aka "The Blood Suckers") it was titled "The Liver Eaters."
b.
Ranked at #2 on Entertainment Weeklys 50 Best High School Movies (2006)
c.
Clues to the twist ending can be found by the request to turn off pagers at the beginning of the movie and the fact that New York has not used the Liberty license plate (seen on the coroners van) in more than 10 years.
d.
Liam Neeson
, who was attached to play the role of Abraham Lincoln since the projects beginning development decided to step down from the role after the several years of waiting on the project to be finally green lighted. According to Neeson, he felt he was too old to play part after waiting so many years for the project to get the go-ahead. Neesons leaving would lead to Spielberg re-casting the role of Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis
was cast as the replacement.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
The film was shot in August and September of 1964 with the title "Cannibal Orgy, or The Maddest Story Ever Told", but its release was held up for years because the producers went bankrupt, which tied up the film in legal limbo. Independent producer
David L. Hewitt
acquired it for distribution in 1968 and changed the title to "Spider Baby" and "The Liver Eaters."
b.
Even though Camera appeared as an avatar during the character select prologue, it was the only character to not visually appear in the movie.
c.
Final cinema feature of
Anthony Newley
.
d.
The DVD includes two deleted scenes: a dance scene showing Vicky in a club an alternate ending in which Charly goes to play Poker with Russian gangsters and gets beaten up for cheating and saving Vicky (who was searching for Charly)
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1968)?
a.
The Smith estate house was originally occupied by Judge David Patterson Hatch, where he wrote occult books as well as metaphysical writings after he retired from the bench.
b.
Episode titles: 1. False Faces 2. The Superman 3. Yellow Shadows 4. Stained Hands 5. House of Fear 6. Room Above 7. The Bargain 8. The Phantom Melody 9. The Lure 10. The Swoop 11. One Fatal Step 12. Tides That Tell 13. Face to Face 14. The Substitute 15. The Showdown
c.
The military aircraft seen late in the movie were McDonnel Douglas AV-8B Harriers of the Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) which is nicknamed the "Bulldogs".
d.
On Artie Langes stand-up comedy DVD,
Its the Whiskey Talkin: Artie Lange
an audience member asks him to sign his DVD copy of the film. He does so and then gives the fan ten dollars, saying "you dont see
Ben Affleck
doing that for
Gigli
!" Lange then mentions that the review in his home town paper, The Star Ledger, said that he "had all the charm of a date rapist," to which MacDonald replied (in a sincere attempt to cheer him up) "thats a lot better than saying you look like a regular rapist!"
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