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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Dark Avenger (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Dark Avenger (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 Dark Avenger (1955).
About the movie:
Flaming With the Barbaric Cruelties And Infamous Conquests of the Dark Age of Terror!
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
Yvonne Furneaux
worked 4 days on this.
b.
Stephen Lang
, who played Gen. George Pickett, was thrown from his horse while filming the Picketts Charge sequence. This was included in the film.
c.
Most movies contain 600 to 700 cuts. Requiem for a Dream contains over 2,000.
d.
The part of Nigel Bigelow was written specifically for
Michael Caine
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
Actor
Reginald Denny
is seen as a photograph of Jimmy on a nightstand, but in the film itself,
Reginald Owen
plays the role.
b.
Ronald Colman
and
Vincent Price
previously appeared together in
Champagne for Caesar
.
c.
Christopher Lee
sustained a permanent injury to his hand whilst filming a fight scene with
Errol Flynn
.
d.
The films co-writers,
Nedrick Young
and
Harold Jacob Smith
, were cast as the prison truck drivers, with the writing credits below their faces, because Young was blacklisted and writing under a pseudonym at the time and producer
Stanley Kramer
wanted to identify them truthfully.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
The director,
Raja Gosnell
wanted a real life couple to play Daphne and Fred. His first choice was
Sarah Michelle Gellar
and
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Prinze Jr. didnt originally want to do the movie because he felt it wouldnt live up to the Scooby cartoon, but Gellar talked him into it.
b.
Patty MacCormicks film debut.
c.
The "Zombie Kill of the Week" was leftover from the scripts origin as a TV pilot. Every weekly episode would have a Zombie Kill of the Week performed by characters on the show.
d.
Michael Hordern
who plays
Errol Flynn
s father, was over two years younger than Flynn.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
Within five days of the arrival of the serum, the diphtheria epidemic was halted. It was the last major outbreak of the disease in North America. And so, out of the Great Race of Mercy to Nome, was born the modern sled race we call the Iditarod.
b.
John Phillips
was also working on
Richard III
at the same time.
c.
Reshuffles at the studio resulted in director
Tom Holland
having a different ending imposed on him, largely at the behest (it was rumored at the time) of
Faye Dunaway
who didnt want to be seen in a bad light.
d.
Don Keith Opper
film debut.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
Johnny Cash
and
June Carter Cash
s actual home, in Hendersonville TN, appears in the movie. It burned to the ground on April 10, 2007 while under renovation by its new owner,
Barry Gibb
, of the Bee Gees.
b.
Christopher Lee
was working on
That Lady
at the same time.
c.
The film runs for 113 minutes. In that time, the word "fuck" is used 145 times.
d.
To get the role of Michael Myers, Dick Warlock revealed that as he passed by a room, the Michael Myers mask was on a table. He put the mask on and walked into Rick Rosenthals office and stood there. After Rosenthal continuously asked him who he was and he didnt reply, he took off the mask and asked if he could play Michael Myers.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
Robert Brown
working on
Passage Home
at the same time.
b.
Oliver Stone
regards this film as his
The Godfather
.
c.
The Beaver character was effectively recycled as the Gopher in
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
, right down to his whistling speech pattern. This voice was originally created by
Stan Freberg
who had a background in comedy voices. The demands of voicing the character proved too much, however, so Freberg eventually resorted to using a real whistle to capture the whistling effect.
d.
Towards the end of the film, as Holmes notices the tobacco urn is empty, the wolfs head cane from
The Wolf Man
can be seen leaning against the back wall.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
In a movie in which the plot revolves around the owner of a baseball team passing away, in this case
Jason Robards
as Minnesota Twins owner Thomas Heywood, its ironic that the film unintentionally features a reference to a real owner who had passed away. During the Twins games against the Texas Rangers (when Billy argues with the umpire), if you look on the sleeve of the Rangers gray jerseys, there is a black "HEC" stenciled into the uniform. Its a reference to H. Eddie Chiles who passed away shortly after selling the Texas Rangers franchise to an investment group led by Dallas businessman Rusty Rose and future President of the United States,
George W. Bush
.
b.
Michael Hordern
was working on
The Night My Number Came Up
at the same time.
c.
The beginning of the film features a false-start opening sequence called "The Littlest Elf". The sequence was created in CGI, but designed to resemble the stop-motion animated childrens specials common in the 1960s and 70s, most famously by Rankin-Bass.
d.
Shot in 11 days, with a budget of $11,000 dollars.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Dark Avenger (1955)?
a.
In a 2005 interview,
Arthur Hiller
confirmed that
Robert Shaw
asked that his name be put back on the film after he saw the finished movie. However, by that time, all prints had been made and it was too late to include his name in the titles. Alternatively, according to the DVD, another reason cited was because
Robert Shaw
had died.
b.
To keep the realism present in the film, when an actor was not appearing in a scene, they were not allowed to be on or neat the set.
c.
The films original title was Bloody Pompoms.
d.
Niall MacGinnis
was offered a role in this project.
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