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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

About the movie: After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Chuck Norris subsequently starred in Walker, Texas Ranger and the producers of this movie sued CBS for copyright infringement. CBS was later on issued a retro-active license by Orion.
b.		Actor George Walsh, the original choice for Ben-Hur, agreed to take a $400 cut in salary, and was sent second-class on a ship to Italy, only to shoot one reel of film, a test with an unidentified Italian actor that was not intended for use in the finished film. He then heard, several months later, that he was being replaced with Ramon Novarro when co-star Francis X. Bushman told him he had read about it in the morning papers.
c.		Fred Zinnemann was another choice to direct; Sam Spiegel very much wanted him to take the job, due to his box-office clout, but Zinneman didnt understand the novel and declined. Orson Welles was reportedly approached to co-star and direct, but Welles, too, dropped out after reading the script. William Wyler was considered but never formally approached. Ultimately, Spiegel explained the decision to hire David Lean as being "In absence of anybody else."
d.		When Marc and Reggie go out to see a movie, they see The Jet Benny Show. This was director Roger Evanss previous film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Acting debut of Clea DuVall.
b.		It was Percy Herbert who suggested the idea of using Kenneth Alfords "Colonel Bogey March" to David Lean.
c.		This film preceded the similarly themed Jack Nicholson film The Border by about two years.
d.		Director Drake Doremus revealed that in order to get a PG-13 rating some slight changes had to be made to the original cut - mainly the R-Rated language - that premiered at Sundance in 2011.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Keep watching after the end credits.
b.		The scene where Thorn and Roth share a meal of fresh food was not originally in the script, but was ad-libbed by Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson at director Richard Fleischers request.
c.		In a making-of feature in which Richard Gere was preparing for the first rescue of Gweneviere (Julia Ormond), Gere stated that this would be the last film in which he performed an action oriented role.
d.		Alec Guinness was always the first choice to play Colonel Nicholson, although he actually turned the part down when first offered it as he disliked the character and thought Pierre Boulles original novel to be anti-British. Charles Laughton, James Mason, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward and Anthony Quayle were all approached. It was only after Jack Hawkins had been cast in the part of Major Warden that Guinness reconsidered his position, largely at Hawkins instigation.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Some of Emily Blunts dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress face being digitally placed on the dancers body.
b.		Helena Bonham Carter stated on a February 17, 2010 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson show that two weeks before its premiere, Tim Burton was still working on the movie.
c.		Robert Fuest rewrote most of the original screenplay. Trout consulting the rabbi was one of the few sequences left from the original script.
d.		The actual Major Saito, unlike the character portrayed in the film by Sessue Hayakawa, was said by some to be one of the most reasonable and humane of all of the Japanese officers, usually willing to negotiate with the POWs in return for their labor. Such was the respect between Saito and the real-life Lieutenant-Colonel Toosey that Toosey spoke up on Saitos behalf at the war-crimes tribunal after the war, saving him from the gallows. Ten years after Tooseys 1975 death, Saito made a pilgrimage to England to visit his grave.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		The UCLA Film and Television Archives hold seven of the original eight sound discs for the film.
b.		Stacy Suttons villa mansion, Whitewood House, was played by Oakland Californias Dunsmuir House.
c.		The screen test that characters keep watching are not in the James Ellroy novel. They were a plot device created by screenwriter Josh Friedman. The real Elizabeth Short claimed to have screen tested at major studios but no such footage has ever been found.
d.		John Ford, like Howard Hawks, was considered as a director before David Lean was chosen.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Last film of Dan Duryea.
b.		The prop knife used by Anna (Christina Ricci) is the same one used by Alex (Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction.
c.		John Gielgud was the first choice to play Major Warden (played by Jack Hawkins in the film) but rejected the role, saying it was "anybodys part".
d.		The scene in the restaurant where Tom foils the robbery was cut to some extent. The original cut had the younger shooter being shot over seven times and having the older shooter being shot in the head twice. It was cut, not because of the MPAA, but because of David Cronenberg himself. Cronenberg thought the scene was way too much and thought it glorified violence, which he was against.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		"Theater Guild on the Air" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 1, 1947 with Sam Levene again reprising his film role.
b.		The movies title screen is a scan of the brain (as shown from the front). The left and right lateral ventricles of the corpus callosum (the middle of the brain) in this picture are displaced. Such is the case with many schizophrenic patients. The displaced ventricles in the middle of the brain are sometimes referred to as looking like a butterfly. In the movie, Evan is not schizophrenic, but in the next to last universe he "jumps" to (after he accidentally kills Kayleigh as a child), he is treated as if he is; the doctors tell him that everything that happened to him throughout the course of the movie was made-up.
c.		The real life construction of the bridge over the River Kwai used about 100,000 conscripted Asian laborers. 12,000 prisoners of war died on the project.
d.		Orson Welles was offered the role of General Ursus, which he turned down. Burt Reynolds was considered for the lead role of John Brent before James Franciscus was cast due to his resemblance to Charlton Heston. Don Medford agreed to direct the movie, but walked out after the budget was halved.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		The title of the English translation of the French novel "Le pont de la rivière Kwai" was "The Bridge Over the River Kwai".
b.		The song Miyagi drunkenly sings during the "celebration" of his anniversary is actually fragments of an authentic Japanese folk song that Pat Morita often heard as a child.
c.		Much of the film was shot in 1967 at Ft. Benning, Georgia, hence the large pine forests in the background rather than tropical jungle trees.
d.		The films soundtrack went platinum in less than two weeks.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		The release of the almost complete version on DVD allows viewers to compare it with the edited 1949 re-release, occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies. Eliminated in the shorter version is an early shot of Karloff with a book of poetry about the desert, Hansons reminiscing about Kerrigans and Hales earlier days in the service, and McLaglen and Ford sharing cigarettes and recalling their wives and sweethearts. Apparently, a boxing match between Hale and Stein immediately following the death of Bevan, before they all draw lots, is still missing.
b.		During location filming, the crew wore printed t-shirts that read "We love Brother John" on the front and "...and Sister Kate, too!" on the back. John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn were, reportedly, very much amused by this.
c.		For his final scenes, Sam Neill could come to the studio at 3am so that he could spend 7-8 hours in make-up, having a full prosthetic suit fitted.
d.		The films story was loosely based on a true World War II incident, and the real-life character of Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey. One of a number of Allied POWs, Toosey was in charge of his men from late 1942 through May 1943 when they were ordered to build two Kwai River bridges in Burma (one of steel, one of wood), to help move Japanese supplies and troops from Bangkok to Rangoon. In reality, the actual bridge took 8 months to build (rather than two months), and they were actually used for two years, and were only destroyed two years after their construction - in late June 1945. The memoirs of the real Colonel Nicholson were compiled into a 1991 book by Peter Davies entitled The Man Behind the Bridge.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)?
a.		Shot in 18 days.
b.		In the last ten minutes of the film, a few moments before Willie is shot, Willie is about to go speak to the press, accompanied by Sugar. They get in the elevator and as the elevator goes down (and the film temporarily turns black and white), the camera passes over a seal on the wall between floors. The seal is of Huey P. Long.
c.		According to TCM, John Wayne won the well-trained dog Sam from his owner/trainer in a poker game after the movie wrapped.
d.		William Holden, then a major star, was brought into the project to provide "box office appeal" after Cary Grant turned down the role. He received $300,000 up front, and was guaranteed a 10% share of the profits, to be paid at the rate of $50,000 a year. This is one reason why Holden sued to stop the first American TV showing of the film in 1966, claiming it would hurt future box office receipts, on which he was dependent (The lawsuit was unsuccessful). Because the film made so much money, his shares eventually accumulated to the point where the studio was making more off the interest on the unpaid balance than Holden was paid per year. A settlement was reached where Holden was paid a lump sum, and any future payments were willed to a motion picture relief fund.

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