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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Desperate Hours (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Desperate Hours (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 Desperate Hours (1955).
About the movie:
Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
Body Count: 95.
b.
The original Broadway production of "The Desperate Hours" by Joseph Hayes opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York on February 10, 1955, ran for 212 performances and won the 1955 Tony Award for the Best Play.
c.
The controls to M. Bisons floating "desk" are identical to the controls of the Street Fighter video game.
d.
"Peter Thorkelson", a characters name in this film, is the real name of Monkee
Peter Tork
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
The first black and white movie in VistaVision.
b.
Cinematographer
Burnett Guffey
was dismissed during this production due to artistic clashes with director
Arthur Penn
(Guffey wanted more light - Penn wanted a more subdued tone). In the meantime, veteran cinematographer
Ellsworth Fredericks
replaced Guffey, but only for a brief period. Penn, realizing that hed misjudged Guffey, ultimately reinstated him and Guffey went on to win a second Oscar for Best Cinematography for his efforts.
c.
Despite problems with
Boris Karloff
, who steadfastly insisted that the studio comply with the union-mandated eight-hour day (a rule largely ignored, except when a major star demanded compliance), director
Arthur Lubin
was able to bring the picture in on schedule and $5,000 under budget.
d.
In the film, the main cast sings along to Aimee Manns "Wise Up", which was used in the film
Jerry Maguire
, also starring
Tom Cruise
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
This movie and the play on which it was based, are loosely based on the experience of the Hill family in 1952. An article published by Life magazine about the play is the subject of the Supreme Court case Time Inc. v. Hill, in which the family sued the magazine for stating that play depicted what really happened.
b.
The producers have stated that this film is really just the middle part of a planned trilogy. The next chapter would be a prequel to the events shown in this film and is tentatively titled "Repo!: The Beginning". No time frame has been given for when production could start on the next movie.
c.
Timothy Hutton
accepted his Academy Award for
Ordinary People
immediately after shooting on
Taps
begin.
d.
The famous Flower Girl theme was written by
José Padilla
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
At 38 minutes, Larry Clarks contribution "Impaled" is the longest short included here.
b.
The TV shows are known for using the action scenes from the Super Sentai series in Japan, but MMPR:The Movie was the first Power Rangers feature to use 100% new and original material.
c.
Stephen King
, being a former cocaine addict, later admitted that he was "coked out of my mind" the entire time he was making this picture and often didnt know what he was doing. He remarked that hed like to try directing again someday, this time sober.
d.
Bogart to director Wyler after the preview: "I think Im too old to play gangsters"
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
Sound discs 6 and 8 are preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, where other sound discs are at this time is unknown. The film itself survives in the Mary Pickford Archives.
b.
When entering Lous Tavern, the Narrator enters first and the guy out the front only acknowledges the Narrator, as though Tyler doesnt even exist.
c.
Chucks car was a Nash Healy.
d.
The opening abstract segment, set to
Ludwig van Beethoven
s Fifth, directly mirrors the opening of
Fantasia
which also began with an abstract section, set to
Johann Sebastian Bach
s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
Hugh OBrian
played the
Fredric March
role on the stage of the Arlington Park Theater in Arlington Heights, IL, in the early 1970s.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 14, 1942 with
Tyrone Power
reprising his film role.
c.
The church that Dick follows a henchman into is named "Our Lady Who Never Had the Pickle." This was originally going to be the name of the hospital where Det. Nordberg (
O.J. Simpson
) was being kept in
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
.
d.
This was one of two films
Sophia Loren
and
Cary Grant
starred in together. Cary was totally in love with Loren and the two had an affair. However, Cary was too much in love with Sophia to the point of obsession. This frightened her and sent her straight into the arms of
Carlo Ponti
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
The Character of Glenn Griffin was made older so Humphrey Bogart could play the role. The stage version starred
Karl Malden
and a young
Paul Newman
in the Bogart role
b.
Lykke Li
saw a rough cut of the movie, before she wrote the song Possibility for it.
c.
The film shows the death of the naval commander due to battle wounds with the defense being commanded by marine officers but the factual real life scenario was that Commander Winfield S. Cunningham survived the battle and the war.
d.
Kevin Smith
wrote the script inspired by his experience with then-girlfriend
Joey Lauren Adams
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
Fredric March
s part was intended for
Spencer Tracy
, a good friend of
Humphrey Bogart
s, but neither Tracy nor Bogart was willing to concede top billing to the other.
b.
To create the effect of the sandstorms, in the narrated desert sequence, as Moses left Egypt and headed to Midian, (unknown, to him),
Cecil B. DeMille
used the engine blast from tied-down Egyptian air force planes.
c.
For the Vogue fashion shoot, the real Vogue team were used. They are- -Photographer- Patrick Demarchelier -Hairstylist- Serge Normant -Makeup artist- Gucci Westman -Prop stylist- Mary Howard -West Coast editor- Lauren Howell -Contributing editor- Plum Sykes -Editor at large- André Leon Talley (also coached
Sarah Jessica Parker
on how to pose authentically).
d.
Kiefer Sutherlands mother, Shirley Douglas is in this film.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
The film was initially supposed to go to the British Royal Family for a private screening before general release in the U.K.
b.
Bette Davis
saw "The Man Who Came to Dinner" on Broadway and immediately wanted to play the role of Maggie, the antithesis of her usual roles. She wanted the role desperately because she wanted to act opposite
John Barrymore
who was to play Sheridan Whiteside. At her insistence, Warner Bros. tested Barrymore for the role but his failing health and inability to remember his lines cost him the job.
c.
Humphrey Bogart
s last tough-guy role.
d.
Jane Wyman
s daughter refused to speak to her for two weeks after she saw the film.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Desperate Hours (1955)?
a.
The pinball machine that Richard Linklater plays at the end of the movie is the same one that Kevin Pickford plays at the Emporium in
Dazed and Confused
, another of Linklaters films.
b.
The clock behind
Christopher Lloyd
in the 13th floor office reads 10:04, the same time frozen on the clock tower in Back to the Future.
c.
The exterior of the house used in the film is the same set used as the Cleaver home in the TV series
Leave It to Beaver
.
d.
In the DVD commentary,
Mary Harron
says that during the first shower scene with Patrick Bateman, all of the women on set gathered around to watch
Christian Bale
wash himself.
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