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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Big Knife (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Big Knife (1955) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955).
About the movie:
Charles Castle is a successful Hollywood actor who has opted for screen success over art. He must make critical decisions regarding his career...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Shot in 15 days.
b.
Howard landed on Earth on 8 September. It was on that date in 1966 that
Star Trek
premiered on NBC.
c.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
While referring to Micah, Olive opines what he might still be doing in high school at the age of 22. This is an in-joke as
Cam Gigandet
who plays Micah, was in his mid 20s when
Easy A
was shot. There were complaints on the Internet, when he was cast, about his being to old to play a high school student.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Some of the incidents that befell the troubled production included writer
Carl Gottlieb
and
Steven Spielberg
nearly getting killed in seafaring accidents.
b.
Two years later,
Robert Aldrich
s career looked all but over when he was fired from a Columbia movie called
The Garment Jungle
. Columbia head
Harry Cohn
happily handed him his marching papers when he realized halfway through filming that this was the same director who had made
The Big Knife
. Although he was never officially blacklisted, Aldrich had real difficulty securing other work and had to go to Europe where he made the Hammer film
Ten Seconds to Hell
and the Biblical epic
Sodom and Gomorrah
.
c.
When Swan (Paul Williams) is adjusting Winslows voice, the singer is not William Finley but Paul Williams. This makes it a little in-joke when Swan announces that the voice is "perfect".
d.
The phenomenal box office success of
Gone in 60 Seconds
allowed director/star
H.B. Halicki
to buy all of the property, vehicles and memorabilia seen in the film (as owned by character Harlan Hollis). Halicki owned the worlds largest toy and automobile collection, which continues to sit as-is today following his death in 1989.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
During the sequence where we are shown the "open source" developers that are monitored by NURV you can clearly see one of them wearing a red hat which looks exactly like the one that the company Red Hat uses as their logo. Red Hat is a GNU/Linux distribution.
b.
First Bond film in Dolby Digital EX 6.1 sound.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
d.
Shelley Winters
dedicated her performance to
John Garfield
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Richard Dreyfuss
based his character of Elliot Garfield on that of his friend,
Harlan Ellison
.
b.
When the family sings "Some of These Days," Pas voice is supplied by Cab Calloway.
c.
Before
Daniel Craig
was officially announced to play James Bond there were several other actors considered for the part. Producer
Michael G. Wilson
said that they looked over 200 actors searching for the right one. Some of them were
Julian McMahon
,
Hrithik Roshan
,
Dominic West
and
Gerard Butler
. Most of them were deemed not appropriate to fit the role, while some others were nothing but media speculation.
Goran Visnjic
,
Sam Worthington
,
Alex OLoughlin
and
Rupert Friend
were also considered, while
Henry Cavill
almost got the part but was considered too young to play it.
d.
Because of its vitriolic take on Tinseltown, this was unsurprisingly turned down by all the major studios in Hollywood. It eventually found a home at United Artists.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Lehi (named for a prophet described in the Book of Mormon) is the town where the Lehi Rollermills resides. The Lehi Rollermills is actually an old time grain house as depicted in the film and its still (2010) operating in Utah. The film is often considered Lehis claim to fame.
b.
Stanley Shriner Hoff was an amalgam of various studio heads and not - as many believed - a direct parody of Columbia head
Harry Cohn
. (Hoffs penchant for crying was borrowed from one of
Louis B. Mayer
s more idiosyncratic traits.) Nevertheless, Harry Cohn took personal offense at the characterization.
c.
Linda Darnell
was originally cast in the role of "Vivian." But her marriage to the much-older cinematographer
J. Peverell Marley
ran her afoul of studio head
Darryl F. Zanuck
, and she was put on suspension.
Sheila Ryan
replaced her in the role.
d.
The MPAA objected strongly to the scene where Molly is trying to insert her diaphragm but the scene was kept in.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Robert Aldrich
rather cattily laid the blame for the films box office failure at the door of
Jack Palance
, claiming that he didnt have leading man looks. This obviously didnt bother both parties too much as Palance worked with Aldrich several times later in his career, starting with
Attack
the following year.
b.
Billy Bob Thornton
gained around 50 pounds for his role in the movie.
c.
The first
Dolph Lundgren
movie to be released straight to video in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Japan.
d.
Background checks were conducted on every actor and technician who carried a weapon in the Parliament Square scenes. The bar-codes on each piece of weaponry were scanned, to track the individuals authorized to handle them.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Burt Lancaster
turned down the role of Charles Castle.
b.
The Ingrid Bergman house in the film was her first in Hollywood (1939). Her boss,
David O. Selznick
, rented it for her. Later she moved to a larger residence in Benedict Canyon.
c.
Frank Sinatra
wanted
Lucille Ball
for the role of Mrs. Iselin which was played by
Angela Lansbury
.
d.
The musical number Kate rehearses for the amateur show ("Any Way The Wind Blows," music by
Marilyn Hooven
and
Joseph Hooven
, lyrics by By Dunham) had been written for the previous years
Doris Day
movie,
Pillow Talk
. The song title was, for a while, even the working title of that film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Clifford Odets
wrote his original play in 1949.
b.
Originally, the film was to take place in Boston, Massachusetts before the director decided to have the film set in Columbia, South Carolina. The novel, completely different from the movie, took place in Chicago, Illinois.
c.
Director Chris Fisher did the dispatchers voice on the police radio.
d.
A lot of scenes shown in trailers were cut at the last minute due to objection from producer
Sherwood Schwartz
. These included a grunge band scene in the garage with Greg and Eric, and a seduction scene between Mrs. Dittmeyer and Peter.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Producer
Ray Stark
originally wanted the film to be a vehicle for actress
Raquel Welch
.
b.
Florence, Arizona is the site of a State Prison...and also the name of the mother of the quints in the movie.
c.
The scandalous cover-up depicted in the film is supposedly based on a real-life incident involving a young
John Huston
.
Louis B. Mayer
apparently paid gossip columnist
Louella Parsons
a large sum of money not to disclose the incident in her column.
d.
Gaylen Ross ("Francine", Dawn of the Dead-1978) is credited as "NYC Casting" in the end credits.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Big Knife (1955)?
a.
Producer
Debbie Allen
wanted
Steven Spielberg
to direct, but it wasnt until
Steven Zaillian
(
Schindlers List
) submitted a rewrite that he agreed to direct.
b.
Ashs last name is never mentioned throughout the entire Evil Dead trilogy, though
Sam Raimi
and
Bruce Campbell
did toy around with calling him "Ashley J Williams" and "Ash Holt," the latter revealing how Sam viewed the character...
c.
The part of Charles Castle was originally written for
John Garfield
. He was supposed to play the part in the film version but died in 1952 of a premature heart attack.
d.
The original script had Kelly Robinson as a basketball player, but due to
Eddie Murphy
s stature it was decided to change him to a boxer. The interchange about the Harlem Globetrotters remained, however.
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