Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Taxi (1953) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Taxi (1953) Quiz

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

About the movie: A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant girl with a baby, locate her missing husband.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taxi (1953)?
a.		During the final act of the film, the play preformed by Count Olaf, "The Marvelous Marriage" is written by a man named Al Funcoot. Al Funcoot is an anagram of Count Olaf.
b.		Warren Beatty was originally offered the role of Bill. After turning it down, he suggested to Quentin Tarantino that he use David Carradine.
c.		John Garfield intended for this to be his comeback film following his blacklist. However, he died before the film went into production.
d.		Steven Spielberg named the shark "Bruce" after his lawyer.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Taxi (1953)?
a.		The scene where Doyle and Russo chase down the dealer near the beginning and Gene Hackman shouts out his famous question "Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?" is based on actual "good cop/bad cop" interrogations by the real "French Connection" detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso according to William Friedkin in the DVD commentary. Grosso would gingerly ask a suspect direct questions about his crimes, then Egan would always butt in and yell unusual questions like the Poughkeepsie one. The suspect would get so rattled by Egans offbeat questioning that he felt more comfortable answering Grossos, thus, tending to eventually incriminate himself.
b.		Film debut of Sessue Hayakawa.
c.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 19, 1953 with Dan Dailey reprising his film role.
d.		John Landis had a budget of only $2.5 million, so to cut costs the movie was shot almost entirely on the U of O campus, including the court scene and scenes in the deans office (the exceptions being the road trip and the parade, which were filmed near Cottage Grove, Oregon).

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