Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948).

About the movie: Boy is away at school in England. The high priest is trying to force a young girl to marry an evil pearl trader posing as the god Balu...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)?
a.		In the sequence showing Mike, Reggie, and Jody playing guitar and sitting on the hood of a car, the same actors A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, and Bill Thornbury are actually the ones playing the part. No younger actors were used at all.
b.		Alice Cooper first tried to impersonate John Lennons vocals for the song "Because," but for subsequent takes George Martin encouraged him "to do it like Alice Cooper would do it."
c.		The last appearance of Johnny Wiessmueller as Tarzan.
d.		Both writer/director Brian Neuls and writer/producer Paul Neuls have cameos in the film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)?
a.		Facts and numbers about the trilogy: Over 6 million feet of film shot during production; 48,000 swords, axes, shields, and makeup prosthetics; 20,602 background actors cast; 19,000 costumes made by the wardrobe department; 10,000 crowd participants at New Zealand cricket game who made orc army grunts; 2,400 behind-the-scenes crew members at height of production; 1,600 pairs or prosthetic hobbit feet created; 250 horses used in one scene; 180 computer special-effects artists employed; 114 total speaking roles; 100 real locations in New Zealand used for backdrops; 50 tailors, cobblers, designers and others in wardrobe department; 30 actors trained to speak fictional dialects and languages; 7 total years of development for all three movies.
b.		When Rabbi Sendak opens the Hebrew book in his office, he thumbs through it in the wrong direction. Hebrew is written in the opposite direction to English; a real rabbi would have opened the book and read it from right to left.
c.		In the first chapter, one of the shots establishing the headquarters of Captain Video, is stock footage of the Alabama Hills, California.
d.		Johnny Weissmullers stunt double Ángel García allegedly was killed while performing the famous cliff dive into the ocean at Acapulco, Mexico. Local authorities rejected this claim as Hollywood publicity. Another source said Garcia survived the fall but died when the surf slammed him into the rocks. John Laurenz, who played the singing postman Benji, never made mention of any such incident in his popular radio program or in his article on the filming of this movie. No newspaper articles (Mexico, Hollywood or otherwise) from that time have been revealed noting the event.

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