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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The End (1978) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The End (1978) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The End (1978)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The End (1978).

About the movie: Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		The Director quit his job as a banker and took out a second mortgage on his house to make this film.
b.		The films workings title included "People Like Us", "At Risk" and "Probable Cause".
c.		Robby Benson plays the supporting role of Father Dave Benson in this picture. Star Burt Reynolds would later star in Bensons movie Modern Love.
d.		The cast of the English language version can be glimpsed in uncredited cameo appearances in the German version, and vice versa.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		Above the picture of the girls on one of the magazine covers the headline says that Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu were cast to play the band in an upcoming movie. Peter Teschner, the editor of Josie and the Pussycats was also the editor of Charlies Angels, featuring these three actresses.
b.		Shot back-to-back with Mutant Hunt.
c.		This movie represented the reuniting of old Hollywood stars Pat OBrien and Myrna Loy. The two, who play Burt Reynolds parents, had previously starred together in Consolation Marriage 47 years earlier.
d.		According to Lou Diamond Phillips in the VH1 documentary "Behind The Music: The Day The Music Died" (1990), Ritchie Valens sister was on the set the day they filmed the "coin toss" scene where Ritchie wins (or rather, loses) the chance to fly on the plane with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. As the scenes were being shot, Ritchies sister began to weep uncontrollably and when Phillips tried to console her, she hugged him and sobbed, "Why Ritchie? Why did you get on the plane?"

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		This movie held the box office record for the highest opening weekend with $135,634,554 earned. The former record holder was Spider-Man 2. The record was then broken by Spider-Man 3.
b.		According to an interview with Jerry Belson, he wrote the screenplay for this movie six years before it was finally filmed.
c.		The book in which this film is based, was helped into publication by author Stephen King, who first wrote about the book in his column for Entertainment Weekly in 2003.
d.		This was David Spades first film role.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		When the project was in its first stages, Joe Pesci was the first and main choice for Nicky. But after the release of Goodfellas, the idea gradually faded.
b.		In this film, Manchester-born George Zucco, the slimy mad doctor or smooth-talking villain of so many horror and mystery films - Prof. Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Charlie Chan in Charlie Chan in Honolulu; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; The Mummys Hand; The Mummys Tomb; The Mad Ghoul; Voodoo Man; etc. - has one of his few sympathetic roles as the kindly Dr. Fortescue.
c.		As Sonny is going to look in the ICU, the hospital speaker says "Dr. Cambern, please call intensive care" and "Dr. Cambern, never mind." Donn Cambern was the films editor.
d.		Original cinematographer Lucien Ballard was fired and replaced by J. Peverell Marley.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		The two other scenes, which are the swamps of Dagobah; and the asteroids creature (which has the Millenium Falcon) was done on the same sound stage used for the interior backgrounds of the Echo base in Hoth
b.		This movie is one of a handful of pictures that Burt Reynolds made with his 1970s girlfriend Sally Field. In every movie they made together, Field played Reynolds girlfriend. The four movies are: Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, Smokey and the Bandit II and The End.
c.		Amy Irvings feature film debut.
d.		The film was rejected for a UK cinema certificate in 1954 and 1955 by the BBFC and was finally granted an X rating in November 1967 after a 13 year ban.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		Halle Berry accepted the Golden Raspberry Award (Razzie) as "Worst Actress of 2004" she won for this film herself.
b.		This script was originally written for Woody Allen
c.		Character actor Lloyd Corrigan, an inexperienced director, had replaced Sidney Salkow, who had replaced Arthur Lubin, who had replaced Ralph Murphy.
d.		Travis Aaron Wade was considered and read for the role of Troy.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		Jessica Tandy played Hume Cronyns daughter in the film, although she was, in reality, two years older than him.
b.		The house that the plane crashes into was built at one end of the only runway at Lincoln Park Airport, a very small airstrip in Lincoln Park, NJ USA (about 35 miles NW of New York City). The wrecked house was not removed for several weeks. While no planes have hit houses in the vicinity, one did bounce off the roof of a passing car several years earlier.
c.		Lead actress Jennifer Clay was discovered by writer/director Penelope Spheeris waiting on line at a Public Image Ltd. concert.
d.		In this movie, the surname of Robby Bensons character, Father Dave Benson, is the same as his real last name.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		In the scene where the cast are near the bridge after the car race, the water on the ground was stagnant and dangerous. Some cast members became ill from filming as the setting was a derelict place full of dirt and rubbish.
b.		Michael Manns direction to Brian Cox about playing Hannibal Lecktor was to play him like a British public schoolboy. Cox based his performance on his then 15-year-old son who was attending public school at the time.
c.		During the "Big Bottom" sequence, all three front men are playing bass. When listened to on speakers with good low-frequency response, the name "Big Bottom" is appropriate on several levels.
d.		Sally Fields one and only feature film appearance with step-father Jock Mahoney

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		The serial debuted in March of 1938, just seven months before the infamous Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" Halloween broadcast. To cash in on the controversy caused by the radio show, the studio edited the serial into a feature film, Mars Attacks the World, and released it to theaters in November of that year.
b.		First major teaming of comedy duo Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise. The two had appeared in Silent Movie but were not "teamed" as such. They would make a number of other pictures together, including Smokey and the Bandit II, The Cannonball Run, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Cannonball Run II.
c.		This was not the first Korean War-based movie to carry the title "MASH." In 1953, Humphrey Bogart starred in a film also about a MASH unit by the same title. But the studio thought the title might make audiences think it was about potatoes, so the title was changed to Battle Circus.
d.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 19, 1939 with William Powell reprising his film role.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The End (1978)?
a.		With this film coming out in 2012 and _Tree of Life (2011)_ being released in 2011, this will be the shortest time gap between movies for director Terrence Malick, the gap being only a year. Malick is famous for waiting years between projects. His shortest time gap between films previously was five years, between Badlands and Days of Heaven. His longest was 20 years, between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.
b.		Synthetic Cinema originally hoped to shoot this movie a year earlier using a stop motion creature, but make Werewolf: The Devils Hound (2007) instead when the special effects were deemed too challenging.
c.		Lon Chaney has no spoken lines in this movie following the opening scene in his prison cell. Copyright 1955.
d.		Norman Fell plays Burt Reynolds doctor, Dr. Samuel Krugman. Fell also played Reynolds doctor, Larry, in Paternity.

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