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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Desert Rats (1953) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Desert Rats (1953) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953).
About the movie:
Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953)?
a.
Robert Prosky
s final film.
b.
Legendary Australian actor
Chips Rafferty
appears in this movie as Sergeant Blue Smith. About a decade earlier, Rafferty appeared playing Milo Trent in another movie featuring "The Desert Rats" entitled
The Rats of Tobruk
.
c.
This was the first of five films that
Richard Attenborough
and
Anthony Hopkins
worked together on. They later worked together on
Magic
,
A Bridge Too Far
,
Chaplin
, and
Shadowlands
.
d.
The Dude meets a lot of new people throughout the story, outside his "tribe". But only three, Brandt, Jackie Treehorn and The Cowboy show enough "respect" for him to call him "Dude".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953)?
a.
Peter Jackson
can be glimpsed outside the Prancing Pony holding a carrot. Originally it was supposed to be a pipe, but after a couple of puffs, he felt sick and went for the carrot instead.
b.
Author Patrick Riley concluded from this film that
Loni Sanders
used the alias "Terry Galko" in the films credits. A viewing of the film
Half the Action
reveals that Riley was wrong. There it becomes clear that
Terry Galko
is a separate actress. The credits in "Sexboat" really dont help identify who Galko is. It turns out she plays the hard-to-see sex partner of
Randy West
in the womens dorm. It isnt obvious but this character later reappears, now with the name "Nancy", as the girl who bets with
Pamela Jennings
that
Turk Lyon
(in drag) is really a man.
c.
The woman whose picture was used as Barbara Wilson/Batgirls mother is
Titanic
star
Gloria Stuart
.
d.
James Mason
played the same role of German Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
two years earlier in
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
, also by 20th Century-Fox studio also being set in World War II North Africa.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953)?
a.
Principal photography took place over 77 days.
b.
The screenplay was originally purchased by Columbia as a vehicle for
Ralph Bellamy
, with
Harold Wilson
slated to produce. Once
Frank Capra
became the director, the project, planned as a sequel to
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
, was entitled "Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington", and was to star
Gary Cooper
, reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Cooper was unavailable for the role, however, and
James Stewart
was borrowed from MGM. "I knew he would make a hell of a Mr. Smith," Capra said. "He looked like the country kid, the idealist. It was very close to him."
c.
Paddy Chayefsky
: The character of Leo, who appears in the back of the car when Marty is approached by his friends to make up the pair for the "odd squirrel" they have with them. According to
Delbert Mann
, Chayefsky (who was once a moderately renowned stage actor) was recruited for the very visually obscured part solely to save the time and money of hiring an extra. According to Chayefsky, for his three lines he was required to rejoin the actors union, which required dues of $140. He recalled the role as paying about $67.
d.
This films title actually refers to the British 7th Armoured Division who were "The Desert Rats" in North Africa and not the Australian 9th Division who were part of the siege at Tobruk and were known as "The Rats of Tobruk", not the Desert Rats.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953)?
a.
Though the creature is referred to as the Ymir in reviews and websites, the name is never mentioned in the movie.
Ray Harryhausen
was concerned that audiences would mistake it for the Arabic title "Emir".
b.
The picture of Tammy MacRoberts wife is actually a photo of actress Sybil Williams, Richard Burtons then wife.
c.
The play opened off-Broadway in New York City, New York, USA in 1909.
d.
The cameo part of the British Padre was first offered to
Dirk Bogarde
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desert Rats (1953)?
a.
Part of the film was shot at
William Randolph Hearst
s castle, San Simeon, where the horsemen ride up the marble stairs. Several scenes from
The Godfather
were also filmed there.
b.
The ending of this film was photographed at the same location that director
Matthew Charles Hall
used for his vampire film
In the Land of Phantoms
.
c.
Victor Ray gives Clark Kellogg an Italian passport with the name "Rodolfo Lassparri", the name of a character from
A Night at the Opera
.
d.
In light of postwar revelations that Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel
had been complicit in the attempt to kill
Adolf Hitler
, there emerged a reassessment of him as a dashing and gallant officer, and this is how
James Mason
played him in "The Desert Fox"--in contrast to the portrayal of Rommel by
Erich von Stroheim
in Paramounts
Five Graves to Cairo
, which was
Billy Wilder
s first film as a director. After "The Desert Fox" came out, criticism came from veterans who had strong opinions about Rommel based on their experience of his actions during the war. In making "The Desert Rats" two years later, in reaction to this criticism, Fox brought back Mason in a cameo, and he plays Rommel more villainously than he has in "The Desert Fox", though not as much as von Stroheim.
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