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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stalag 17 (1953) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stalag 17 (1953) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953).

About the movie: When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		Myrna Loy wrote in her autobiography that she was wearing a flesh-tinted body suit in the supposed nude scene.
b.		The Broadway play "Stalag 17" by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski opened at the 48th Street Theater on May 8, 1951 and ran for 472 performances. Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Robert Shawley and William Pierson reprise their roles in the movie.
c.		One of only two James Cameron films not to be scored by James Horner or Brad Fiedel. Stelvio Cipriani (as Steve Powder) did the score for this film.
d.		One version of the script contained a few scenes following the final confrontation between the detectives and John Doe. In one, Somerset is recovering in the hospital after being shot by Mills, and the captain delivers a letter to him from Mills which reads, "You were right. You were right about everything."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		Kari Nissena, who plays Tammy Young, won the Best Actress Award at the 2009 Oceanside International Film Festival.
b.		A surviving script of the film has some scenes of an electric chair, but all are Xd out, suggesting that they were not used.
c.		The film is based on a play of the same name which is based on the experiences and reminisces of its authors Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski both of whom were prisoners of war in Stalag 17B in Austria during World War II. Bevan, a B-17 tail gunner who was shot down over Germany in 1943, was the inspiration for the character Sergeant McIlhenny in Twelve OClock High.
d.		Because of the nightmarish budget troubles, Jim VanBebber openly stated on set that he would not even think about trying to start another project unless he had all the funds properly secured.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		This film has been heavily sampled in Evanescences earlier albums and EPs, such as "Understanding" on the "Evanescence EP" and most notably on "Origin" on the album "Origin".
b.		Of all the time and money spent by Akira Kurosawa, less than one minute of the film he shot is in the final release version.
c.		Kirk Douglas claimed he was offered the William Holden role, but turned it down because he had not been impressed by the stage play on which the film was based.
d.		At the start of the film, when the bar is shown, a painting can be seen on the wall which features the faces of the women in "Cell block tango".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		The single-edit, "time bomb in the car trunk" sequence is an homage to Orson Welles famous opening for Touch of Evil.
b.		According to the Virgin Film Guide, Otto Premingers POW Camp Commandant character Colonel Oberst von Scherbach in this film is a play on Erich von Stroheims similar character Captain von Rauffenstein in Jean Renoirs, La grande illusion. Although Preminger played a Nazi officer, in real life, he was Jewish.
c.		David Patrick Kelly improvised Luthers "come out to play-ay" taunt, basing it on an intimidating neighbor of his.
d.		The roofs of the "Chicken Walkers" bear an uncanny resemblance to the roofs of the gun turrets on WWII German Tiger tanks-especially the small railings that these tanks had.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		Steve Carell, the actor who played the "40 Year Old Virgin", was actually 43 years old and a father of two children when the movie was released in 2005.
b.		The story takes place during the time of the "Battle of the Bulge" in December, 1944. The men learn about it on their secret radio before the Germans take it away.
c.		The organism seen in the opening sequence is known as the Paramecium, being a unicellular pond water protozoan that is a eukaryote, shown complete with cilia, oral groove, macro nucleus and central vacuole.
d.		At the age of 20, Shelton Jerome Holloway had an IQ of 30.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		The crew is almost entirely the same crew who made Hatchet 1, one of Greens stipulations for whether or not he would return at the helm for Hatchet 2.
b.		This film was made three years after Sunset Blvd. and represents the re-teaming of director Billy Wilder and leading actor William Holden who worked together on Sunset Blvd..
c.		The tennis shoes young Jimmy Morris is wearing when he first moves to Texas and visits the old ball field by the oil derrick are Converse "Jack Purcells," named after a popular Canadian badminton player from the late 20s and early 30s. It was perhaps the first popular rubber and canvas American "tennis" shoe. They preceded the iconic "Chuck Taylors," which came later.
d.		Eddie Valiants initial 30 second stroll through Maroon Cartoon Studios, was so complex that it involved over 180 individual elements, that when assembled with the film pieces, created stacks 8 feet in height.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		The original script featured a bitter rivalry between Bruce Wayne and Knox over Vicki.
b.		Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Jay Cocks had written an early draft of this film in the 1990s with the intention of Sorsese directing it this after Gangs of New York. But, the filmmaker instead decided to film The Departed.
c.		Burt Lancaster turned down the role of Charles Castle.
d.		The true name of Robert Strauss character Animal is spoken in the mail call, but its spelling is confusing. Though frequently referred to in reviews as Stanislaus Kasava or Stanislas Coosava, it is revealed in the official scripts as Stanislaus Kuzawa. Kuzawa is a Polish town 67 km south of Bialystok., and it is important to remember that Polish w is ALWAYS pronounced as v.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		The castle in the story is called "Castillo Maldito". It means "Castle of the Damned", or "Evil Castle".
b.		Everything in the film revolves around a swirl, the same as in the original drawings of the book. This includes the clouds. If you look closely at in several scenes, several times the initials "C.H.", "J.C.," and "R.H." briefly form as the clouds move. This stands for actor Clint Howard (Whobris), actor Jim Carrey (The Grinch), and director Ron Howard.
c.		The original ending was scrapped and a new one shot so that the film would pass the censor. The original ending had both Tyrone Powers and Maureen OHaras character jumping into the sea.
d.		Both of Billy Wilders two only war films, Five Graves to Cairo and Stalag 17 received the same number of Academy Award nominations: three. Five Graves to Cairo received Oscar nominations in technical categories (Editing, b/w Interior Design, b/w Cinematography) whereas Stalag 17 received Oscar nominations in performance-related categories (Director, Actor, Supporting Actor), the latter winning Best Actor. Five Graves to Cairo and Stalag 17 were both released in years where another black-and-white World War II movie dominated at the Oscars: Casablanca winning three and From Here to Eternity winning eight.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		There were roughly 600 costumes created for the film, all from scratch.
b.		Although this film marked Betty Grables debut in perfected, three-strip Technicolor, she already had appeared once in early Technicolor. Thirteen-year-old Betty, as one of The Goldwyn Girls, led off the Busby Berkeley-staged production number, "Cowboys" (music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Gus Kahn) in Whoopee!. That same year, Miss Grable had a chorus bit in the New Movietone Follies of 1930, which contained sequences shot in the Multicolor process.
c.		George Thomason is played by Tom Georgeson.
d.		Stanislas Kasava supposedly has been a POW for some time, yet when he looks through the telescope to see Sefton at the Russian compound, its clear that he took off his wedding band for the movie because you can see the tan line on his ring finger.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stalag 17 (1953)?
a.		The pie that was thrown into Angela Lansburys face near the end was actually thrown by Emma Thompson.
b.		The film was shot in 33 days, often with six scenes being shot a day.
c.		According to the Virgin Film Guide, this film provided the template and inspiration for the television sitcom series Hogans Heroes. Moreover, this is particularly also the case for one of its chief characters, Sgt. Johann Schulz (played by Sig Ruman) who is said to have provided the basis for the character of Sgt. Hans Georg Schultz in Hogans Heroes (played by John Banner). However, this assertion as been disputed legally and lost though many people still believe it.
d.		First film of Kent Smith.

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