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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Enemy Below (1957) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Enemy Below (1957) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957).

About the movie: During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are good ones, and the engagement lasts for a considerable time.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		Though Nanette is portrayed as being a young girl/woman in dress, manner, and other characters references to her (example: her uncle refers to her as his "little niece" on the phone), Anna Neagle, who plays Nanette, was somewhere around 36 years old during the making of this film.
b.		Originally, Matt Damon (who Trey Parker and Matt Stone have admitted is really a "pretty cool guy") was going to be portrayed as intelligent and articulate, but when they saw the puppet, they noted that it made him "look retarded" and decided to portray him as such.
c.		American movie debut for German actor Curd Jürgens.
d.		In the flying lesson the whistle Madame Hooch is wearing is called a Boatswains Call and was originally used in the early Navy (before PA systems) to signal an order, because the whistle could be heard from one end of the ship to the other. It is now used in the Navy as a ceremonial whistle.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		In an interview in July 1977 with The New York Times, German actor Curd Jürgens who played the German submarine commander Captain Von Stolberg in this movie said: "This was an important picture for me because it was the first film after the war in which a German officer was not interpreted as a freak."
b.		The gas station where the four boys go to hang out was built for this movie and never was a working gas station. They left it up for an attraction when people drive into Fort Davis, it just recently collapsed (2006).
c.		Producer Hal B. Wallis originally auditioned Edward G. Robinson for the supporting role of Otero (played in the film by George E. Stone) before deciding he was perfect as Rico.
d.		Lyle Talbot is listed in a modern source for the role of "Geoffrey Waring," but he did not appear.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		The finale rescue was shot on location in the sea at Long Beach, California and on the ship the USS Alfred E. Cunningham (DD-752), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer. Other location filming sites included the Pacific Ocean near Oahu, Hawaii for scenes on the USS Whitehurst portraying the USS Haynes.
b.		The Misleading Lady opened at the Fulton Theater on November 25, 1913 and ran for 183 performances.
c.		The Napoleon book Amelia buys at Borders is Napoléon Bonaparte by Alan Schom.
d.		Some sources say Jean Anderson is in the film but she is not in this project

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		The film was re-edited several times. Premiering at 181 minutes, the studio (Warner Bros.) cut the film by 30 minutes despite the objections of director George Cukor and producer Sidney Luft (Judy Garlands husband). In 1983, all but 5 minutes of the cut footage was found and re-instated, but some footage had to be reconstructed using production stills.
b.		This movie represents one of a select group of a few World War II submarine movies which have won the one single Academy Award in a technical category, thats just only the one Oscar in either special effects or sound editing. These movies include Crash Dive; The Enemy Below; Torpedo Run and U-571. The non-WW II sub-movie, The Hunt for Red October also won just the one Oscar as did the WW 2 part sub-movie 49th Parallel, but for Best Original Story.
c.		Colin Farrell was originally cast as Robbie Clark. He dropped out of the film to admit himself into rehab for a dependency on back pain medication. Heath Ledger replaced him. Farrell would later take over for Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus after Ledgers death.
d.		Completed in 1944, but not released until 1946.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		This movies closing epilogue states: "Twentieth Century-Fox wishes to thank the Department of Defense and the United States Navy for their assistance in the production of this motion picture."
b.		When Rocky is training for the fight, he is sparring with a smaller quicker fighter. The sparring partner is played by real life Champion Roberto Durán.
c.		Many of the actors played themselves and wore their own clothes.
d.		The first feature film in which Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton appeared onscreen together. This is often wrongly cited as their first onscreen meeting, but both appeared in a short publicity film in the 1920s entitled Seeing Stars.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		Of all the films hes made, this is M. Night Shyamalans personal favorite.
b.		Many of the bit roles in this film were played by real FBI agents, and this was their only film.
c.		In addition to a basset hound which sounded like Humphrey Bogart, the other animal shelter scene features dogs whose "additional voice characterizations" were impressions of James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Peter Lorre and Mae West.
d.		One of the technical consultants working on this movie was Albert Beck, a former German U-Boat submarine sailor, who advised on the submarine scenes.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		One of the books Stanley is reading at the library is about scientist Charles Fort, who is noted for his work expanding the boundaries of scientific research to include strange phenomena such as those featured in the film.
b.		The red gown with three jeweled buttons Asia Argento (Comtesse du Barry) wears, the red satin bejeweled gauntlets Kirsten Dunst wears, and the black and pink cloak Dunst wears in the coach returning from Paris, were all worn by Hilary Swank (Jeanne St. Remy de Valois) in The Affair of the Necklace. The birdcage hat Rose Byrne (Duchesse de Polignac) wears is the same one Joely Richardson (Marie-Antoinette) wears in that film.
c.		Chapter titles: 1. Vow of Vengeance 2. Plunge of Doom 3. Perils of the Jungle 4. Fires of Hate 5. Tide of Destiny 6. The Colossal Game 7. An Amazing Ultimatum 8. In Merciless Clutches 9. A Race with Rogues 10. The Betrayal 11. In Tortures Grip 12. The Kidnapping 13. Weird Walls 14. The Plunge 15. The Decoy 16. The Dip of Death 17. The Hand of Fate 18. The Hour of Reckoning.
d.		Though set in the South Atlantic Ocean of World War II, this movies ocean scenes were filmed in the Pacific Ocean.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		The makers originally wanted Bill Murray and Harold Ramis to voice RJ and Verne, respectively.
b.		(Goofy Holler): Heard during Captain Hooks fight with the crocodile inside the cave at Skull Rock, when Smee accidentally hits Hook on the head with his rowboat oar. The "Goofy holler" is partially obscured by gargling noises as Hook goes underwater after taking the hit.
c.		The vessel the USS Whitehurst was used in this movie and its captain, Lieutenant Commander Walter R. Smith USN acted as a technical advisor to the film production. Twentieth Century-Fox studio publicity stated that Smith played a role as this ships Chief Engineer in the movie. Smith is not credited as such nor for any role and CBCS Credits state that Robert Boon portrayed a Chief Engineer in this movie. Apparently, Smith is the character who can be seen in the movie reading the comic Little Orphan Annie.
d.		One of the lumberjacks expresses a wish to be a Pet Shop Owner, instead. This is a reference to a famous Monty Python sketch where the reverse situation is the case.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		Gus Trikonis wife at the time Goldie Hawn appears as an uncredited extra spectator at the end of the race in the beginning of the film. She had auditioned earlier for the role of Paisely.
b.		Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the role of Johnny Cage to do Street Fighter.
c.		When Mel Brooks and the rest of the filmmakers gathered together for the first time to discuss the making of the movie, one of the early questions was should the picture be made in black-and-white, mainly because Brooks earlier film Young Frankenstein was made in black and white in order to give the movie the feeling of the old Universal Frankenstein films. This idea was dropped, mainly because, as Steve Haberman said in the audio commentary of the film in DVD, a lot of the great Dracula movies were in color, specifically the Hammer pictures starring Christopher Lee and Francis Ford Coppolas Dracula.
d.		This picture marks the feature film movie debuts for David Hedison (as Al Hedison); Dan Tana and Ted Perritt, the latter of whom was a former messenger boy at the 20th century-Fox studio, playing a messenger.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Enemy Below (1957)?
a.		The gun used to shoot the Sean Connery character is a Walther PPK, the same model as Connerys James Bond gun.
b.		This movie as based on the novel by D.A. Rayner and the book and its dust-jacket can be seen at the beginning of one of this movies trailers.
c.		Diane Lane refused to dye her hair for the several changes of hair color throughout the movie. They used a series of different wigs with different lengths to simulate hair growth/roots instead.
d.		The film debut of Jon Hall, under his real name Charles Locher.