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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The French Connection (1971) - Part (5) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The French Connection (1971) - Part (5) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971).
About the movie:
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Eddie Egan
,
Sonny Grosso
: the real-life models of Doyle and Russo appear in the movie, Egan as the detectives supervisor and Grosso as Klein, the BNDD Special Agent, Mulderigs partner.
b.
The jail scenes were filmed in a closed wing of The Barnstable County Corrections Facility in Barnstable, MA. There was so much mold on the set, the crew had to bleach the entire area to decrease the possibility of infection.
c.
In November 2008, Entertainment Weekly magazine ranked
Out of Sight
as #1 in their list of sexiest movies ever.
d.
Part of the original SHOCK THEATER package of 52 Universal titles released to television in 1957, followed a year later with SON OF SHOCK, which added 21 more features one year later.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The Chiefs first name Thaddeus is never mentioned in this movie.
b.
The extremely large sniper rifle used to disable Wikuss armored suit is an actual weapon, the Denel NTW-20 20mm anti-materiel rifle. Appropriately, it is manufactured in South Africa.
c.
In the book Off Hollywood, of this film,
John Sayles
said: "I knew how much money I had and then started to make certain decisions. I also had in mind many of the actors, people I knew from having worked in summer stock as an actor and director . . . Because of the budgetary limits, I decided to make the film at a ski lodge, which was cheap to rent out-of-season. We were able to use it as our set, as well as lodging for the crew and actors. We didnt have money for any artwork, so we had to use to the maximum what locations we had. Thats why so many scenes take place in the lodge and in a local bar nearby. We shot different conversations from different angles."
d.
Danny Stiles
: heard in the background in one of the bars that Popeye visits.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The negative was destroyed in 1931 by MGM, after their takeover of Goldwyn Studios.
b.
The 4-door blue Ford LTD driven by the suspect has actual NY license plates 9620-WM (not a movie prop) complete with proper expiration and safety inspection stickers on the windshield. This car was registered in Westchester County just north of New York City. In the film, this car is under surveillance by detectives riding in the slightly older blue undercover Ford sedan with a straw hat on the back shelf.
c.
Originally a live play (with a different cast) presented on the "Philco Television Playhouse".
d.
Joanna Pettet
was first offered the role of "Etta Place" but was forced to turn down the role due to her pregnancy.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Frank Darabont
s "controversial" ending actually comes directly from
Stephen King
s source material. Written in first-person, David entertains this notion in his mind as a distant possibility, noting there are three bullets and four people (Dan Miller doesnt make it to the car in the novella), but he ends his journal and leaves it in a restaurant the survivors have sought refuge in before the car runs out of gas. Darabont felt this ending was too ambiguous and wrote the story to its finite climax, and ending that Darabont says in the DVD commentary was endorsed by King as the ending King wished he would have thought of.
b.
Wes Bentley
was scheduled to star as Clayton, but dropped out.
c.
At the end of the film a superimposed caption informs us that Popeye and Cloudy were transferred out of Narcotics and reassigned.
Eddie Egan
was always upset that the film thus implied that this happened to himself and
Sonny Grosso
after the French Connection; in reality the two cops were split up four years and two similarly large narcotic cases later.
d.
For this film,
Ali MacGraw
learned how to fire a gun and drive a car.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Director/star
H.B. Halicki
compacted ten vertebrae performing the "big jump" in the Mustang at the end of the movie. Fortunately the injury was not very serious, although according to director of photography
Jack Vacek
, Halicki never walked the same again.
b.
According to
William Friedkin
on his DVD commentary, the scene where Weinstocks chemist tests the heroins purity uses actual heroin, and not flour or cornstarch or some other commonly used substitute.
c.
The opening shot sweeping through the stadium was accomplished using a computerized system that held the camera on four wires. The system was invented by the inventor of the Steadicam stabilizing camera system,
Garrett Brown
.
d.
Kenneth Lonergan
did an uncredited rewrite on this script.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
Robert De Niro helped costume designer Rita Ryack chose Cadys clothing.
b.
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 7.6 seconds
c.
According to
William Friedkin
in the DVD commentary, a lot of police officers objected to the scene in which Doyle shoots Nicoli in the back to end the chase. However, the real "Popeye" Doyle,
Eddie Egan
, was on set and gave Friedkin his approval.
d.
The production was so overbudget after wrapping that they were unable to pay most of the extras who had participated in the film until almost a year later.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The French Connection (1971)?
a.
The ending was re-shot a few weeks before the film opened because the audience reactions at the test screening had been overwhelmingly negative.
b.
According to
Gary Foster
,
Avi Arad
and
Mark Steven Johnson
, the recently released Directors cut DVD of this feature was in fact the originally intended theatrical release until the very last minute, when they decided to make the changes necessary to please Twentieth Century-Fox to get the film a PG-13 rating.
c.
Irving Abrahams
, who plays Irv the police mechanic, was the real-life NYPD mechanic who helped Egan and Grosso crack the "French Connection" case. As depicted in the film, Abrahams helped Egan and Grosso tear apart the car that French smugglers were using to sneak heroin into the U.S. When the movie was made, Sonny Grosso arranged with
William Friedkin
for Abrahams to play himself in the garage scene.
d.
Director
Martin Ritt
was forever known after this movie as the man who tamed
Orson Welles
. During filming Ritt drove Welles into the middle of a swamp, kicked him out of the car and forced him to find his own way back.
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