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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Terror Train (1980) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Terror Train (1980) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980).
About the movie:
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong years earlier and whom are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 9, 1949 with
John Wayne
and
Claire Trevor
reprising their film roles.
b.
Shot in four to five months
c.
Filmed on a 26,000-square-foot set at Kaufman-Astoria studios, it holds the distinction of being the biggest set ever built in New York.
d.
Jackie Chan
makes one of his first US film appearances. Inspired by
Hal Needham
s notion of including bloopers during the closing credits, Chan begins a tradition of doing the same in most of his movies from this point onward.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
The films German title is Monster im Nacht-Express, which translates to Monster on the Night Express Train.
b.
After a poorly received test screening, Disney held back the release of the movie for a year to re-edit it, film additional and replacement scenes (including special effects sequences), add an opening narration, and hire
James Horner
to rewrite a completely new score, all of which added millions to the budget. Its quite obvious when watching the film which scenes, such as the spider attack and the mirror maze climax, were filmed a year after production had initially wrapped. Reportedly Bradbury and the film makers were not pleased with the studios intervention nor the effects it had on the picture, which ended up being a flop when it was finally released in 1983 despite Disneys attempts to make it more audience friendly.
c.
A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
d.
The plot summary on the back of the play Joe has written reads: "Daniel Dan, a young electrician traveling in North Dakota, has his shoes shined by a veteran of World War II, also named Daniel Dan. The two strike up a quick friendship and decide that fate has brought them together. Tragically, Daniel (the veteran) is electrocuted when Daniel (the electrician) asks him to be his helper on a small residential rewiring. The guilt that Daniel feels over his mistake haunts him for the rest of his life. Adding insult to injury, the rewiring customer never made his final payment due to financial difficulties totally unrelated."
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
Dennis Price
was only required for one day.
b.
After the underground station fight, the tunnels where Selene kills a Lycan are a champagne cellar.
c.
Jamie Lee Curtis
shot this film back to back with the similarly themed slasher film
Prom Night
in late 1979. Both films were shot in Canada;
Prom Night
in Toronto and
Terror Train
in Montreal.
d.
Baby Silent Bob is played by
Harley Quinn Smith
, daughter of director
Kevin Smith
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
The debut film of director
Roger Spottiswoode
.
b.
This movie was extensively filmed on the US Navy air-craft carrier the USS Princeton whose hull number, CV-37 (later CVA-37, CVS-37 & LPH-5) can be clearly seen identifying the vessel. The USS Princeton was a 27,100 ton Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier which was commissioned in November 1945 and decommissioned in June 1949 due to US Defense Department budget cuts but she later made a comeback to military service for the Korean War and after in the Vietnam War having been re-designated and converted and she existed until May 1971 when she was scuttled and sold for scrap. The USS Princeton was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania and during the Second World War sailed mostly in the Atlantic Ocean until June 1946 when she was deployed to the Pacific Theatre of War.
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 14, 1944 with
Maureen OHara
and
Walter Slezak
reprising their film roles.
d.
The extras for the scene in which the family dance around a bonfire covering each other in blood and having sex were actually strippers and prostitutes from a small Cincinatti town.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
Filmed aboard actual train cars that were converted to allow space for large camera equipment for the production.
b.
Craig Bierko
was cast as Wolverine, he appears in the poster and in the cast credits, but hes scenes were finally cut. In the final cut, only
Richard Tillman
appears as Wolverine.
c.
The classroom used in the opening scene where Chris Ostreicher (
Chris Klein
} and Steve Stifler (
Seann William Scott
) are getting ready to take a final exam is the same one used in
Old School
when Frank Ricard (
Will Ferrell
) is getting beaten up by Dean "Cheese" Gordon Pritchard (
Jeremy Piven
).
d.
Victor Salva
originally wrote the role of the Creeper for
Lance Henriksen
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
The observation type passenger car used in the film called the Denehotso is being restored and is now located at the Arizona Railway Musuem in Chandler AZ.
b.
Although the movie is based in Texas, it was filmed in California.
c.
Visible in Ludas room is a can of something called "Smeat" - a takeoff on Spam. Smeat had previously appeared in
Waterworld
. The Smeat can here is circular, however - in Waterworld, the cans were rectangular, like Spam cans.
d.
Produced in order for Miramax to retain the rights to Modesty Blaise. Produced as a prequel to the popular spy comic strip, plans call for this film to be followed by more Blaise movies taking place during the timeframe of the comic strip.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
Alaska Presley and Robert Bradley made the movie possible by providing all of the operational funds for the entire production. They both decided they wanted to give back a unique opportunity to Maggie Valley.
b.
According to the book "
David O. Selznick
s Hollywood" by
Ron Haver
, costume designer
Walter Plunkett
(later noteworthy for
Gone with the Wind
) worked uncredited on this film. Specifically, he designed the "Beauty and the Beast" costume that Ann Darrow wears while Carl Denham is filming her screen test.
c.
Along with
Halloween
and
Prom Night
, this film would give actress
Jamie Lee Curtis
the title of Scream Queen because of her frequent appearances in horror films early in her career.
d.
A newspaper in the latter part of the movie shows a date of 7 June 1939.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
Spencer Gillis, who plays the lead role of Mason, was originally brought on as the production Sound Mixer. When Director JT Haines was struggling to find the right fit for the role, Gillis offered to read for the part and was immediately cast.
b.
The idea for
Terror Train
came from a dream that
Daniel Grodnik
had. One weekend night after seeing the films
Halloween
and
Silver Streak
, Dan woke up and said to his wife, "What do you think about putting Halloween on a train? His wife answered, "Thats terrible. He jotted down "Terrible Train" on a piece of paper on his nightstand. In the morning he changed the title to TERROR TRAIN, wrote up 22 pages, and made a deal on it with
Sandy Howard
s company at 3 in the afternoon.
c.
According to Laurel and Hardy biographer Randy Skretvedt, the films finale, in which Laurel drops a bomb on a Japanese spy submarine, got cheers from wartime audiences.
d.
There are a total of fourteen major characters seen during the film. This includes the two hookers, the escort, the nosey neighbor, Victor, Michael and Victors old friends, which account for eight.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Terror Train (1980)?
a.
This so-called live-action version of a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon was not production of the Warner Brothers studio but one of the Columbia Pictures studio.
b.
Derek MacKinnon who played Kenny also played ten other characters, making it eleven in total.
c.
The ending scene was filmed at a California State Prison in the desert, and during filming, the prison guards had a situation with the inmates and had to go into lockdown, with half the film crew inside the front gates and half of them outside. Three hours later when the lockdown ended, filming resumed.
d.
Since the rights were optioned in 2002 several directors have been attached to direct including
M. Night Shyamalan
,
Alfonso Cuarón
and
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
.
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