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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Cannonball Run (1981) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Cannonball Run (1981) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981).
About the movie:
A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
When the film was released, the theatres darkened all their lights "to the legal limit" during the last twelve minutes of the film, each light going out as
Audrey Hepburn
smashed each light bulb. The one remaining light in the theatres would be switched off as the last light source in the film went out.
b.
Uncredited actor
Eddie Quillan
is seen watching a clip from
Hollywood Party
, in which he himself had a featured role 21 years earlier.
c.
Roger Moore
has a different girlfriend every time we see him in this movie and they are all voiced by
June Foray
(uncredited).
d.
Considerable problems arose with the censors, mostly about the suggestive lines in some of the songs. The song "Nobody Loves Me Like a Dallas Man" was originally "Nobody Does It Like a Dallas Man". After the songs were toned down, the Hays office approved the film, and it was passed by the National Board of Review.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
The first highway patrolman that pulls over
Adrienne Barbeau
and
Tara Buckman
was
Burt Reynolds
stand-in (note the resemblance).
b.
After the crew was thrown out of East Prairie, Missouri by the chief of police (for allegedly being "communists"), Roger Corman realized that he needed one more wide shot of the high school. He and an assistant went back into the town, and hurriedly filmed the shot. The chief must have gotten wind of his being there, as he was seen by Corman arriving in the distance. Corman and his assistant quickly threw the camera and equipment into their car, and sped away in the opposite direction, unscathed.
c.
All of
Jim Nabors
dialog was dubbed over by another actors voice.
d.
Although based on the longest book in the seven book series, this is the shortest movie in the Harry Potter film series.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
According to veteran TV writer and producer
Steven Bochco
, this film served as one of the inspirations for his ground breaking series
Hill Street Blues
.
b.
Producer
Steven Spielberg
hired
Jurassic Park
and
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
collaborator
David Koepp
to do an uncredited rewrite.
c.
Jackie Chan
, who played a small role in this movie, was very upset when he learned his character was Japanese since he himself is Chinese.
d.
Rendered for an aspect ratio of 1.66:1, and it was supposed to be matted in theatres to 1.85:1 (the aspect ratio for which the team tried to compose). For reasons too complex to go into here, they aimed for 1.85:1 and missed, but only by a little. After careful consideration and consultation with director
John Lasseter
, they nudged the window open a tiny bit to 1.78:1.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
This movie was based on a series of real races started by
Brock Yates
of "Car & Driver" magazine. The fifth and final race was in 1978. Yates and
Hal Needham
actually entered the ambulance seen in the film. They had a doctor on board and Yates wife Pamela as a patient. It blew its transmission in Palm Springs, California, and arrived in Long Beach on the back of a flatbed truck. A lot of the other vehicles were actual entries in that race.
b.
Dr. Kathy Waylund (played by
Jane Lynch
) was considered as a love interest for Richard Kimble during production. However, their relation remained platonic, as it would have looked bad for Dr. Kimble to take a new lover while avenging the death of his wife. In addition, it was thought the love scenes would have added considerable length to the film and may have ruined the pacing and tension of the story at that juncture.
c.
First full length cinema film of
Lee Evans
d.
Two nitrate prints of this film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and neither of them is listed For Preservation.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
Stanley Kramer
removed
Carl Foreman
s credit as producer. They never spoke to each other again.
b.
In one of the earlier scenes in the movie,
Burt Reynolds
s character says "Could get a black Trans Am", and then answers himself, "Naw, thats been done." This is a reference to
Smokey and the Bandit
which starred Reynolds, and was directed by
Hal Needham
, who directed this film. DeLuise co-starred with Reynolds in the 1980 sequel,
Smokey and the Bandit II
.
c.
Assistant director
John Kerrison
was killed in a car crash on the way to one of the locations. A make-up man was badly injured in the same accident.
d.
By February 2002 this was the second highest grossing film worldwide after
Titanic
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first film to use the word "damn". The expletive was used in numerous silent intertitles and in several talkies, including
Cavalcade
and
Pygmalion
.
b.
Don Rickles
was originally cast as Fenderbaum before the part went to
Sammy Davis Jr.
.
c.
Robert Mitchum
was very eager for the part of the preacher. When he auditioned, a moment that particularly impressed
Charles Laughton
was when Laughton described the character as "a diabolical shit." Mitchum promptly answered, "Present!"
d.
The satanic ritual scene took two long, exhausting days to film, in the dead of Winter. The scene was filmed in an unheated garage and the temperature never climbed above 40 degrees. During most of this time, actor David Snyder was completely naked and covered in syrup-based fake blood. Actor Robert Kersey was nearly naked, as well. Six months later, the cast and crew went back to the garage to re-shoot some footage.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
The off-camera voice you can hear during the interview scenes is that of director
Bob Fosse
.
b.
Names thrown out who were considered to play The Penguin include
Marlon Brando
,
John Candy
,
Dustin Hoffman
,
Bob Hoskins
and
Christopher Lloyd
.
c.
The apartment that was used in the film is the real apartment
Harvey Milk
lived in on the Lower Haight in San Francisco.
d.
The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director
Hal Needham
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
Burt Lancaster
turned down the lead role because he strongly disagreed with the violent, right-wing morals of the story.
b.
The ambulance used in the movie is the actual ambulance that
Hal Needham
and
Brock Yates
souped up and raced in the real Cannonball Run. It had been modified with a HEMI engine that made it go up to 145 mph and was equipped with four gas filler holes so that the required 90 gallons could be pumped quickly. Needham and Yates didnt actually win the race (the transmission blew in Palm Springs) so Needham kept it in storage for several years until the time came to make this film. After the movie, he gave it to a church charity which raised a good deal of money auctioning it off.
c.
The make-up used for all of the villains was based directly on how they were drawn by
Chester Gould
in the original comic strip. The only exception was Big Boy Caprice, whose make-up was designed by
Al Pacino
himself.
d.
Korova Milk Bar is named after the Russian word for cow. Moloko (written on the wall) means milk. The bars sculptures were based on the work of sculptor Allen Jones.
Stanley Kubrick
had the milk dispensers were emptied, washed and refilled every hour, as the milk curdled under the studio lights. A painting on the wall reappears in Kubricks
The Shining
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
The Devil mentions that on November 16, shell have been doing her job for 6,000 years. This is a reference to Archbishop James Ussher, who in the seventeenth century calculated that the birth of the world was on Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC. According to his calculations, Adam and Eve were thrown out of Paradise on Monday, 10 November.
b.
The scene of the farmer shooting the cow in front of the school bus full of children is a true anecdote from the directors childhood.
c.
On the Anniversary edition of this picture on DVD, it is revealed on the documentary of the making of the film,
The Making of Steven Spielbergs Jaws
, that
Lee Marvin
was
Steven Spielberg
s first choice for Quint. When he refused,
Sterling Hayden
was his next choice.
d.
The producers asked the governor of Georgia if the crew could shut down the center of a small town so that a plane could land in the middle of it. The police blocked off the section that the plane was to land in and a barrier can be seen in the background.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Cannonball Run (1981)?
a.
This movie had two working titles: Submarine School and SS 111.
b.
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
c.
The screenplay for the film was written in a mere three weeks worth of "spare time".
d.
Bert Convy
s final feature film.
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