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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Gunfighter (1950) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Gunfighter (1950) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Gunfighter (1950)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950).

About the movie: Notorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		Tara Reid and Carson Daly started dating after meeting on set during his cameo in this film. They eventually became engaged before ending their relationship in June 2001.
b.		Chapter Titles: 1. Death Marks the Trail 2. Menacing Herd 3. Plungle of Peril 4. Flaming Fury 5. Avalanche of Doom 6. Blood and Gold 7. Death Rides the Storm 8. Descending Doom 9. Death Holds the Reins 10. Devouring Flames 11. Fatal Blast 12. Thundering Doom 13. The Bridge of Disaster 14. A Fight to the Death 15. The Harvest of Hate
c.		Bob Dylans 1986 song "Brownsville Girl," co-written with Sam Shepard, alludes to watching Gregory Peck in this film. Peck himself thanked Dylan publicly when he delivered the speech when Dylan was given his Kennedy Center award in 1997.
d.		The character "Kane" was named after Kane Hodder, the man who played Jason in several Friday The 13th films.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		Greydon Clark: as a movie director in the sequence involving the stunt motorcyclist.
b.		In the script, Marcies death scene was originally meant to show an arrow hitting her chest in the archery area. Depsite popular belief, this was never filmed.
c.		Contrary to the character in the movie, the real Adrian Cronauer did not use comedy in his radio broadcast, nor was he kicked out of the military. He left Vietnam because his tour of duty was over.
d.		Large painting on wall behind Gregory Pecks chair in bar room is "Custers Last Fight", painted in 1884 by Cassily Adams and reproduced as a lithographic print by Otto Becker from Adamss original painting. These prints were distributed in 1896 to bars and taverns all over America by the Anheuser Busch Company.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		Of the nine movies she made with Spencer Tracy, this was Katharine Hepburns favorite.
b.		Many of the films prison scenes were filmed at the old Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Jail, also known as the "Cincinnati Workhouse", had been permanently closed prior to the location filming of the movie. It had been built during the Civil War to house enemy troops and was still in use by Hamilton county and Cincinnati area police agencies as a jail as late as the 1970s. It was closed due to being "inhumane, cruel and unusual" by modern jail standards.
c.		Jim Lovells line "I vonder vere Guenter vent" was made popular by the crew of Apollo 7. Guenter Wendt was NASAs "pad leader" during the Apollo program and was the last man seen by crews before liftoff. After Wendt closed Apollo 7s hatch and his face disappeared from the window, CSM pilot Donn Eisele said, "I wonder where Guenter went." Commander Wally Schirra claims to have stolen the line and made it famous among astronaut crews.
d.		The western street in this film is the same one used in The Ox-Bow Incident.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 19, 1955 with Ginger Rogers reprising her film role.
b.		On 11 September 1992, Hurricane Iniki hit the island of Kauai, delaying production of the film. Much of the crew helped in the clean up.
c.		Several hundred actresses tested for the lead female. Sanaa Lathan was selected one week before filming began, and had to fly to Prague immediately.
d.		The studio hated Gregory Pecks authentic period mustache. In fact, the head of production at Fox, Spyros P. Skouras, was out of town when production began. By the time he got back, so much of the film had been shot that it was too late to order Peck to shave it off and re-shoot. After the film did not do well at the box office, Skouras ran into Peck and he reportedly said, "That mustache cost us millions".

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		With a gross of $72.5 mio., it had the biggest three day opening ever for a Universal Pictures beating The Lost World: Jurassic Parks $72.1 mil.
b.		In 1996, veteran character actor Richard Jaeckel, who played "Eddie", was diagnosed with cancer at the same time his wife had Alzheimers disease. The Jaeckels had lost their Brentwood (CA) home, were over $1 million in debt and Jaeckel was basically homeless. His family tried unsuccessfully to place him into the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. Peck lobbied for Jaeckels admittance, and three days later Jaeckel was placed in the facility. He stayed in the hospital until his death in June 1997.
c.		The R-142 and R-142A subway cars portrayed in this film are permanently linked into 5-car sets and cannot operate as single units. R-62A 2079, a single car capable of operating alone, was cosmetically modified to resemble a modern car for this film and restored to its original appearance after filming was completed.
d.		In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL tells Dave that his teacher was Mr. Langley. In this film, we are told that Dr. Chandra (Bob Balaban) was his teacher. This is actually not a continuity error. The novelization of 2001 identifies Dr. Chandra as HALs teacher, but Stanley Kubrick changed that name for the film. Peter Hyams may not have known this, as he didnt make the corresponding change for this film. Mr. Langley and Dr. Chandra are really meant to be the same character.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		Rick Yune originally wanted Vic Armstrong to direct, but it couldnt be done due to scheduling conflicts.
b.		When Neal and O.W. Grant are approaching interstate 60, O.W. says, "Theres a signpost up ahead." This is a famous line from the beginning of every episode of The Twilight Zone.
c.		In the original ending Hunt Bromley was arrested by the sheriff, but studio chief Darryl Zanuck was so enraged at this resolution, so director King and writer Johnson concocted the ending where Bromley is beat up by the sheriff and let go. That satisfied Zanuck more.
d.		The Region 1 DVD release was a flip sided disc that contained the movie split into two parts. You had to eject the disc and turn it over to continue watching. When the Blu-ray disc was released on February 10th, 2009 it was the first time since its VHS release that somebody could watch the movie straight through without stopping it.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		The USS Wake Island LHA-7 is fictional and not an actual US Navy ship. The ship seen in the movie is actually the USS Tarawa LHA-1.
b.		Oliver Reed was originally cast as Mordechai Fingers, but he was fired after getting in a bar fight and mooning at Geena Davis.
c.		The original story was written by John Bowers and Andre de Toth with John Wayne in mind. Wayne loved it and offered Bowers $10,000 for it. The writer thought it was worth more and told Wayne how he felt. The actor reportedly said, Well, you wrote it for me. Dont you have any artistic integrity?" Bowers later got $70,000 for it at Fox, and Wayne harbored ill-feelings about the incident, accusing Bowers of selling it out from under him.
d.		"The Delsea Cool Guy" used in the drive-in sequence was the host of a national radio show that aired on XM Satellite Radio. It was called "The Cool Guy Show" and Director Christopher OBrien co-created the program with Rob Vanore who played both characters.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		Barlow, Vig, and Elgin are wearing the patch of the U.S. Civil Affairs/Psychological Operations Command, and indeed, Barlow identifies himself as being a Civil Affairs Soldier. Barlow also makes reference to being a reservist, which rings true given that two of the three Army Civil Affairs groups are Reserve Component.
b.		The first person to be killed in the movie is screenplay writer Dick Beebe.
c.		A nitrate print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and is not listed for preservation.
d.		This film was the subject of the classic Bob Dylan song "Brownsville Girl". It starts: "There was this movie I seen one time, about a man riding cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck. He was shot down by a hungry kid, trying to make a name for himself, the townspeople wanted to track that kid down and string him up by his neck. Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square. I want him to feel what its like to every moment face his death" Then Dylan goes on to compare his own position in pop music to the gunfighter.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		The staircase in the Wallace home do not lead to the upstairs part of the house, the stairs actually lead to nowhere.
b.		Based on the life and exploits of an actual western gunslinger named John Ringo, a distant cousin of the outlaw Younger family. The real Ringo was a ruthless murderer and survivor of the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral, against (Dr.) John Holliday, Wyatt Earp and the Earp brothers. Also unlike the movies account, the actual John Ringo--his real name--suffered a severe bout of melancholy following a visit to his family in California in July of 1882 and went on a monumental ten-day alcoholic binge, which climaxed when he sat down under an oak tree, drew his gun and used it to commit suicide.
c.		When Ang Lee won the Academy Award for Best Director, the Peoples Republic of Chinas news media made no mention of the fact that he was Taiwanese. He was described as being Chinese or Chinese-American. The news coverage also blocked out Angs shout-out "Thank you, Taiwan" in his acceptance speech.
d.		The ninth of fourteen films based on Arthur Conan Doyles fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Gunfighter (1950)?
a.		A National Airlines DC-6 was repainted with fictional "Trans States" titles and insignia for a majority of the ground and aerial scenes, with the exception of a few scenes where models were used instead of the real aircraft.
b.		Bela Lugosis performance in this film is considered by many to be his greatest.
c.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 7, 1951 with Gregory Peck reprising his film role.
d.		A YMCA in North Carolina was used as the Serenity Glen rehab. The YMCA continued to operate during the shooting of the film.

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