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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986).

About the movie: Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		Antonio Banderas and Laura Benanti, whom both star in this film together, were previously on Broadway together in the 2003 Revival of Nine the Musical. Banderas received a Tony Award nomination for his role in this production.
b.		Sylvester Stallone told People magazine that his original idea for this script was to make all the main characters African-American. He could not find the financing for the film until he starred in it himself and changed the other characters to Italian-Americans.
c.		This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
d.		In the German version of the movie Fidgets name is "Greifer," but in the end credits his name is misspelled. It reads "Griefer."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		The entire picture was shot on one set, which required months of planning and construction. The apartment-courtyard set measured 98 feet wide, 185 feet long and 40 feet high, and consisted of 31 apartments, eight of which were completely furnished. The courtyard was set 20 to 30 feet below stage level, and some of the buildings were the equivalent of five or six stories high. The film was shot quickly on the heels of Dial M for Murder, November 27 1953-February 26 1954.
b.		An LA Times print ad dated 9/5/1938 shows that this film had its world premiere at the Los Angeles Orpheum Theater on that date on a double bill with Ill Give a Million, with a personal appearance by Roy Rogers, "Acclaimed the Screens Greatest Find of the Year, Singing the Songs of the West ... The Songs You Love Best!"
c.		When Steve Nebraska is pitching in front of Baseball Scouts at Yankee Satdium, during filming Keith Hernandez walked out of the dugout wearing Tennis Shoes, and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner told Henandez to put on spiked Shoes so he doesnt mess up the grass.
d.		When this film was originally released its title was "The Great Mouse Detective." When Disney re-released it years later they gave it the title of "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective." When the film was released on video a few months later, the title on the box was back to "The Great Mouse Detective" but the title on the film itself read "The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective."

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		When Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall first met, they did not get along at all. Director John Hughes took them shopping at a music store and they discovered they had similar musical tastes and eventually got along.
b.		The same bears from Girdlers Grizzly were used along with several other animals as models for the characters in this film.
c.		Jonathan Demme had tried to adapt a film version of "American Splendor" in the 1980s, but the project never came to fruition as Demme wasnt an established director.
d.		At the end of the movie where Permian is trying to score right before the last play, director Peter Berg can be seen jumping up and down in the stands.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		Woody Allen stayed at the Hotel Le Bristol during filming - the same hotel where characters Inez and Gil stay (ref: Movie Lovers Paris).
b.		Gene Reynolds, who plays Frankie, would go on to a successful career as a TV producer and director, most notably of *MASH**.
c.		Two fictional western characters may have been derived from the name Butch Cassidy (1866-1908): Butch Cavendish, the arch rival of The Lone Ranger, and good guy Hopalong Cassidy, whose popularity exceeded many western heroes in the 1940s and 50s.
d.		Alan Young had performed a near-perfect Scottish accent as the voice Scrooge McDuck for the 1977 Disneyland Records adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (which he also developed and wrote). He repeated the role of McDuck in the 1983 film adaptation, and was a natural for the Scots brogue of Hiram Flaversham. He continued as the official voice of the tightwad McDuck in a series of Disney film and television projects.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		The film was delivered to theaters under the code name "Heart of the Desert".
b.		Sherlock Holmes speaks with the voice of Basil Rathbone. Although it is often erroneously claimed that the lines are taken from one of Rathbones 1940s performances as Sherlock Holmes on film or radio, this is not true. The cameo is edited from Rathbones reading of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" for Caedmon Records in 1966, just months before his death. This explains why Rathbones voice sounds older and less crisp than in his famous films, and more importantly, why the voice of Rathbones co-star Nigel Bruce was not used for Dr. Watsons brief cameo.
c.		This was Alice Fayes last screen appearance.
d.		Finnish visa # 31564, delivered on 28-3-1950, renewed on 27-2-1968 end 21-2-1972.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		One of the bands performing in the "BET Southern Classic" was Grambling State Universitys Tiger Marching Band in Grambling, Louisiana, home of the legendary Coach Eddie Robinson.
b.		Reese Witherspoon auditioned for the role of Danielle Bowden.
c.		Was originally going to be directed by John Huston, who did not want Kevin Costner as a lead. After Costner became a success with The Untouchables and Bull Durham, he was powerful enough to produce it himself.
d.		The clock tower scene is the first major use of computer animation (the clocks gears) in a feature-length animated film. The same scene was also the first time traditionally animated characters were put inside a computer-generated background.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		Released, originally, with the Mickey Mouse short Clock Cleaners.
b.		The American fighter-plane that attacks Kellys group, is actually an Yugoslav "Ikarus Type 522" trainer, that flew for the first time in 1955.
c.		After Columbia producer Harry Cohn saw the success of Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl, he promised this film to them. (Kelly had his big break by creating the role of Joey Evans on Broadway.) Sadly, the story took another 15 years to reach the screen and by that time, Kelly was under contract to MGM. Hayworth was cast as the older woman, with Kim Novak now playing the younger woman.
d.		The sweeping camera angles during "All I Ask of You" made it necessary to shoot multiple takes of the kiss between Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson. Emmy Rossum had to ice her lips between takes to prevent them from swelling.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		According to Laurel and Hardy biographer Randy Skretvedt, the films finale, in which Laurel drops a bomb on a Japanese spy submarine, got cheers from wartime audiences.
b.		Shaobo Qin made his motion picture debut in this film. He was rehearsing with the Peking Acrobats when he was spotted and asked to audition for the role of Yen.
c.		During the recording of Vincent Prices lines, animators sketched his exaggerated Shakespearean gestures and worked them into the animated poses for Ratigan.
d.		This movie represented a significant positive change in the way African-American characters were portrayed in movies. They were no longer cast in roles confined to being just servants, plantation workers, slaves, singers and hoofers.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		This was the first film to be granted the production seal of approval under new guidelines set forth by the Production Code Administration Office and the Motion Picture Producers and Directors of America. The modern US ratings system continued its numbering system, which granted certificates to over 40,000 titles by the mid-2000s.
b.		Basil of Baker Street is named after Basil Rathbone, who played Sherlock Holmes in several films.
c.		Junior Johnson is credited with inventing the "bootleg turn", in which a driver escapes a pursuer by sharply putting his speeding car into a 180-degree turn on the highway, then speeding off in the opposite direction before his pursuer can turn around. In the movie this is used to great effect twice on the same police officer: when he first encounters the officer he does a 180 and the chase begins and then uses the "bootleg turn" once more effectively causing the officer to embank his car on the road.
d.		Pal, the dog that played Sam, was the son of Lassie. In the movie, he is supposed to be vicious and ill-tempered, but the temperatures during filming were so hot, he simply panted instead of snarling when on camera. In order to overcome this, he was kept in a special air-conditioned crate while on set and was only brought out for his shots.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)?
a.		The film says Shane Falco quarterbacked Ohio State in a 1996 Sugar Bowl loss. In reality, Ohio State lost in the Citrus Bowl that year under quarterback Bobby Hoying. Florida State won the Sugar Bowl over Notre Dame.
b.		Gary Cooper tore his hamstring and wrenched his back during the famous fight scene, and was in severe pain for most of the rest of the filming.
c.		The box that Olivia sits down on to cry is "Gastons Liver Pills", a reference to the father of one of the artists.
d.		Movie debut (uncredited) of British actor John Alderson who plays a German corporal.