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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Executioner (1978) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Executioner (1978) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978).
About the movie:
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1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
Joy Bang
auditioned for the role of Tooley by reading for
Katharine Hepburn
but lost the part when Hepburn left the project.
Cybill Shepherd
also read for the role but was told by director
George Cukor
that she couldnt play comedy after the audition.
b.
In order to get extras for the wedding scene, Mitchell sent out real wedding invitations. Most of the people there thought they were going to a real wedding. He sold the wedding presents brought by the guest in order to have more funding for the film.
c.
Katrina has a snake tattoo on her back. Snake Plissken had a similar tattoo on his chest, the character from John Carpenters
Escape from New York
and
Escape from L.A.
.
d.
On account of this film, which
George Lucas
found to be better than its predecessor, he hired
Irvin Kershner
to direct
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
In this film,
Steven Spielberg
directs the man who beat him to the Best Director Oscar in 1983 (
Richard Attenborough
, whose film
Gandhi
also beat Spielbergs
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
as Best Picture).
b.
Duke Mitchell sold his lease on a supper club to raise funding for the film.
c.
In real life,
Joey Coyle
and the mobster did not force the car into water, but simply drove to New Jersey and abandoned it. Also, in real life, three people saw Coyle find and take the money, unlike in the movie where the movie Coyle does stop to check to see if anyone was around when he found the money and sees nobody (in fact in the movie a homeless boy saw him, but was hidden from view).
d.
Jean van de Velde
declined the offer to direct this film.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
To give this movie its gritty, documentary-style appearance, director
Paul Greengrass
used mostly handheld cameras, and a muted color palette. Greengrass also made sure to avoid computer graphics at all costs, and all of the stunts shown in the movie were achieved practically.
b.
Everyone wore their own clothes.
c.
Director Jason Hunt and composer David Luxton have never met. All discussions about the films score have been conducted via phone and e-mail.
d.
Duke Mitchell
made a follow up film called Gone with the Pope. He died before it was edited. Recently, the rights were purchased by
Sage Stallone
and
Bob Murawski
of Grindhouse Releasing. They are finishing the film for Duke Mitchell.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
The filmmakers needed several shots of the planes taking off and landing. They assembled a squadron of 17 vintage WW1 aircraft, most of them Nieuports. Flying them proved just as hazardous as in WW1. By the time filming ended, stunt flyers had crashed 15 of them.
b.
The audio disks from this movie are not known to survive, but since the film was recorded on Movietone, sound on film, this is not a problem.
c.
Made in response to
The Godfather
,
Duke Mitchell
took many of the events in this film from real life stories he heard from mob buddies while performing stage shows.
d.
Lee Remick
was nominated for the 1966 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "Wait Until Dark".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
In Feb. 1958, this film was being shown (with its alternate title "She Shoulda Said No!") at many drive-in theaters on a double bill with a reissue of
Mom and Dad
.
b.
The Ducks that appeared in the first film but did not return for this sequel are; Dave Karp (Aaron Schwartz), Peter Mark (J.D. Daniels), Terry Hall (Jussie Smollett}, Tammy Duncan (Jane Plank), and Tommy Duncan (Danny Tamberelli).
c.
Prior to making the film,
Amanda Wyss
had never seen a horror movie and
Heather Langenkamp
had only ever seen
Burnt Offerings
.
d.
According to the documentary
Like Father, Like Son
,
Duke Mitchell
actually plugged crippled stage manager Maurice Dukes wheel chair into an outlet and put his foot in a urinal because he was mad at him. This inspired the opening scene.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
The names of the victims in the cast of characters are fictional and not the names of the actual victims of Ted Bundy.
b.
In the original treatments for the film, Jolly Rizzo was written as a black character (meant to be played by Mitchells friend George Jacobs).
c.
Director
Irving Rapper
wanted
Tyrone Power
to play George Gershwin, but he was serving in the U.S. military during World War II and was therefore unavailable.
d.
Delmer Daves
replaced
Joshua Logan
as director.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
The play version written by
Harry Wagstaff Gribble
and
Gertrude Purcell
had no Broadway, New York run.
b.
Was distributed under multiple names including "The Executioner", "Massacre Mafia Style", and "Like Father, like Son". "Massacre Mafia style" was Mitchells preference.
c.
In every shot in which Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange appear together, she always moves so that she stands on his right, traditionally the position of the most loyal and trusted follower.
d.
A scene appears in a TV spot for the film, but does not appear in the movie, of an extended talk between Scott Summers (
James Marsden
) and Professor Xavier (
Patrick Stewart
) regarding Logans stay at the mansion. Scott tells the Professor "Hes not one of us. Theres no way hes going to take orders." Xavier politely replies, "Give him an order worth following. Hell take it." More of this extended scene appears in the official movie adaptation novels and books, but it was cut out of the final film to meet the allowed running time.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
The meaning and relevance of this movies title is that it refers to a new deadly tainted type of PCP-laced crack cocaine called "Fatal Beauty". There is also a suggestion from the films main movie posters that Goldbergs central cop character is a fatal beauty i.e. a cop that can be fatal. Moreover, this film represents an instance where a pictures title is also its movie MacGuffin.
b.
The hotel scenes were filmed at the Avenida Palace hotel in Barcelona. Incidentally, the Beatles stayed there in the Master Suite, Rooms 109-110-111, while giving their only concert in Barcelona 3 July 1965 at the Plaza de Toros Monumental.
c.
Developed a cult following upon its release to VHS. This revived its theatrical run in Grindhouse theaters during the 80s.
d.
The scene where Wild Bill Kelso slips and tumbles off of the wing of his airplane as he is about to take off was a real accident.
John Belushi
slipped as he was climbing into the plane. It was kept in the movie because it fit his character.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
During his time as a teacher at the Center for Arts and Technology Director
Mark A. Lewis
used parts of his screenplay for The Thaw in his Directing the Actor class.
b.
John Cleese
s first line, "Whats all this then?", is a Monty Python in-joke, as that line was often uttered by policemen upon entering the scene of a crime on
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
.
c.
The pimp crucified on Easter was based on a real incident that happened in Las Vegas in the late 1960s.
d.
Russell, referred to into the rack track scene, is
Russell Baze
, the most successful jockey in the history of Thoroughbred horse racing, and a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Executioner (1978)?
a.
The first line of the
Ian Fleming
James Bond "From a View to a Kill" short-story read: "The eyes behind the wide black rubber goggles were as cold as flint." The last line read: "Bond took the girl by the arm. He said: Come over here. I want to show you a birds nest. Is that an order? Yes."
b.
The fourth room,
Quentin Tarantino
s "Man From Hollywood" is based on a short story by
Roald Dahl
called "Man from the south."
c.
The plane that Wade delivers to Bond (borrowed from a friend in the DEA) is a reference to
Licence to Kill
. Franz Sanchez attempts to escape in a plane of the same make, model, and series (but with a different registration) before his capture by the DEA. The plane is a Cessna 172 and its registration number is N96816.
d.
Frank Sinatra was offered a role in the film. His response was "Duke, I love you but I get paid real money to do real movies."
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