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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Godless Girl (1929) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Godless Girl (1929) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929).
About the movie:
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
A scene in which Jor-El explains to Superman why he must keep his secret identity was added for the Directors Cut.
b.
Film debut of
Gene Hackman
.
c.
Many extended scenes, which were lifted from the work print, appeared on the 1996 Anchor Bay Special Edition release.
Charles Bernstein
had not yet composed the iconic score for the film, so these scenes include preexisting temporary music taken from other sources. Some of the music heard is from
Final Exam
by composer
Gary S. Scott
. Scott later went on to score many episodes of the Elm Street spin-off TV series
Freddys Nightmares
.
d.
Tom Keene
could not be doubled for a scene where he is sprayed with a fire hose, and the sequence was exhausting to shoot. Co-star
Eddie Quillan
was also injured in that scene, when he was pushed into a pool of water. Electric cables had been left lying in the water, and Quillan received such a violent shock that it bounced him right back up out of the water.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
Silent film historian
Kevin Brownlow
has cited this film as "one of the few silent films with a built-in appeal for modern audiences," noting that its "exceptionally violent" content was one quality that would work in its favor.
b.
Mark Richt, the head football coach at the University of Georgia, has a cameo in the film.
c.
The siege in the village of Ramelle was filmed on a set created on a disused airfield in Hatfield, England. The bridge so valiantly defended actually crosses a three foot deep canal created for the movie. Earlier scenes in the village of Neuville-au-Plain used the same set carefully shot from different angles.
d.
Alan Arkin
got the role of Clouseau because
Peter Sellers
was busy doing
The Party
, directed by
Blake Edwards
, who was also the director of the previous Clouseau-films. He was replaced by Yorkin. Later, Sellers and Edwards would return to the series. With them, the original composer (
Henry Mancini
) also returned.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
The authentic-looking reform school set was built by
Mitchell Leisen
on a Culver City back lot. For the climactic fire scene, in which the whole set burned down, Leisen had the actors clothes sprayed with asbestos and even devised a way to fireproof their hair.
b.
At the end of the film real footage is shown of the present day USS Mason featuring Bill Clinton and Tommy Hilfiger. Hilfigers production company THEntertainment produced the film.
c.
Originally shot as a silent in 1928.
Louise Brooks
refused to return from Germany for the dubbing.
d.
Although he was dismissed from the production,
George Cukor
continued to privately coach both
Vivien Leigh
and
Olivia de Havilland
at their request on weekends.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
After premiering in the Texas Competition of the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, HOLD played a week later at the 2010 Kent International Film Festival in Connecticut, where it won The Sleeping Giant Award (feature), given to films "that people should be on the watch for".
b.
The airport near the beginning of the film, supposedly LaGuardia in New York, is actually Washington/Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia.
c.
For the fire scene, dozens of female extras playing inmates had to shimmy down the two-story exterior set of the reformatory. The set would be on fire and it was only a matter of time before the whole thing was consumed by flames. According to a cameraman, at least three young women did not leave the roof fast enough, and were badly burned.
d.
Among
Elizabeth Taylor
s demands were the requirement that the film be shot in the large format Todd-AO system. She owned the rights to the system as the widow of
Michael Todd
. This meant even more money being paid to Ms. Taylor.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
One of the fictional claims made my the films publicity department was that it was filmed on location in a real reformatory, using real inmates. This is false; the reform school sets (both indoors and out) were constructed sets, and the cast was comprised of Hollywood actors.
b.
One of the first films to feature an extensive use of squibs.
c.
The film was initially to star either
Dolph Lundgren
or
Christopher Reeve
, but it never got started.
Patrick Swayze
had also been considered.
d.
The zoo scenes take place at the old Los Angeles Zoo that closed in 1965. The remaining buildings are a tourist attraction in Griffith Park.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
The renovated house where Kevin sets up his traps is not actually in New York City. All the scenes of the house and the surrounding neighborhood were filmed at the Hollywood backlot, Brownstone Street.
b.
Production began in early 1927.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
During the filming of the fiery climax,
Lina Basquette
was actually burned rather badly. Her eyebrows, singed off by the heat, never grew back properly, according to her.
b.
After cutting his hand on the bottles (a miscue by Bob Wall) Bruce hit him in a subsequent scene with a "real" flying kick. Even though Wall knew this was coming, and tried to stonewall it, he was knocked into the man behind him so hard it broke both his arms.
c.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
d.
The company filmed at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye for five days. Though there are only at most 12,000 people on Skye at any one time, the Made of Honor production rolled in with a crew of 250, a cast of 25, and 300 extras.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
The third part (with
Suspiria
and
Inferno
) of a trilogy of films about the "Three Mothers."
b.
Benny the Cab drives across a bridge while being pursued by the Weasels. The bridge is the "Hyperion Bridge," which crosses a freeway near the OLD Disney Studio down in Hollywood; the one they had before they built the one in Burbank (around 1939).
c.
The film was in production during the time that sound films were becoming popular. Some footage with sync-sound dialog was shot after photography had been completed. The sound sequences were not directed by DeMille, who had already left the company, but by actor Fritz Feld.
d.
Prior to the scene where Elias half of the platoon is smoking dope, the actors actually did smoke marijuana. Unfortunately for them,
Willem Dafoe
reported, by the time the stage was set and they actually filmed, everyone had come off their high and felt awful.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
The character Adrienne is a reference to
Adrienne King
, who played Alice Hardy in
Friday the 13th
and
Friday the 13th Part 2
.
b.
Spocks time travel in this film pays homage to his other time-traveling adventures in the episodes "All Our Yesterdays" (where he gets stranded in an icy planet) and "Yesteryear" (where he encounters and converses with his past self).
c.
The film was such a huge flop on its initial release, and proved to be such a financial strain on
Cecil B. DeMille
s production company, that he was forced to accept a three-picture contract with MGM, where he made his next film,
Dynamite
, released later that same year.
d.
The role of Victor (played by Mike Haboush) was originally Victoria. Victoria was supposed to be the mother of Arthur.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Godless Girl (1929)?
a.
According to journalist Dorothy Donnell, director
Cecil B. DeMille
spent eight months and $200,000 on research before the production began. This included the enrolling of a young male informant into a boys reform school and a female informant into a girls school. Two large scrapbooks were kept in DeMilles archive, containing sworn testimonials by many former inmates, with graphic descriptions of the brutalities they endured. Donnell later said, "I have seen these books, and read in them things so revolting that they will probably never be printed."
b.
Kate Beckinsale
s character Selene is not seen speaking until roughly 12 minutes into the film, however her narration starts almost as soon as the movie does.
c.
In the film, Richelieu is depicted doting on his cat, Mistigris (the Joker in a pack of cards). By the 18C, his fondness for cats had become an established part of his legend. It has been claimed that he had at least 14 cats at the time of his death in 1642: Gazette, Rubis sur lOngle, Pyramus and Thisbe (inseparable), Serpolet (Wild Thyme), Felimare, Soumise, Lucifer, Ludovic le Cruel, Lodoïska, Mimi-Paillon (possibly previously Mademoiselle de Gournays cat), Mounard le Fougueux, Perruque and Racan (twins, allegedly born in the academician Racans wig), and Gavroche. The cat which figures in the posters for this film is black, and does not resemble the screen Mistigris, who appears to be a fluffy calico.
d.
Several dance moves that Le Ly uses in the first part of the film are replicated by Roxane in
Oliver Stone
s later film
Alexander
.
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