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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945).
About the movie:
Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter dreams he's Athanael...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
The original Scooby-Doo episode dealing with the pterodactyl ghost featured a villain and motive that were quite different. The pterodactyl/hang glider costume was used to smuggle pirated music, with the small-town mayor behind the whole scheme.
b.
Charles Bronson
was about sixty-four years of age when he appeared in this movie.
c.
Pat Buttrams last on-screen role, as a patron in the saloon. All of the roles he performed afterwards were voice actor roles.
d.
Jack Benny
s last starring role.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
Jonas Almqvist
gave
Jonas Åkerlund
permission to use Leather Nuns song "506" for free if he made a music video for him. As of 2010, Åkerlund has still not returned the favor.
b.
The people on the planet are Playmobil figures.
c.
The film was initially refused a UK cinema certificate in February 1948 but was passed uncut 4 months later.
d.
The scenes with the nurse had to be re shot because the producers thought the sets were not up to standard. The original actress who played the nurse was unable to make the new dates for the re-shoot, so the role was recast.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
Ironically, given the antisemitism that pervades almost all of the students attitudes, "Smokey Joes Cafe," the song that the classmates enjoy (and which Mr. Cleary dismisses as being from the "jungle") was written by a pair of Jewish songwriters,
Jerry Leiber
and
Mike Stoller
, who wrote many of the biggest radio hits of the 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the other songs heard in the movie and on the soundtrack were also written or co-written by Jewish songwriters, including "Rock Around the Clock," "Three Coins In The Fountain," "That Old Black Magic," "Isnt It Romantic," and "When I Take My Sugar To Tea."
b.
Adapted as a one-hour radio play for "The Ford Theater".
c.
This film was the opening film of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
d.
Rachael Leigh Cooks character, Jenny, smokes in the film. Cook is a non-smoker in real life and smoked prop cigarettes for the film.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
Emma Dunn
is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Mrs. Smith" in this movie, but she did not appear or was not identifiable.
b.
When the film tanked on its opening weekend, writer
Joe Eszterhas
took the unprecedented step of taking out an ad in Variety, urging female movie-goers to go see the movie, not because it was semi-pornographic but because it highlighted the exploitations that lap dancers are subjected to. Needless to say, this tactic didnt help the film any.
c.
The VFXperts developed a program that would realistically portray what an explosion in space would look like (short blasts sucking inward, leaving debris floating). For shots of an imploding planet, the same program was used on a greater level, but the animators had to manually composite multiple layers of rocks and wind sucking into the planet.
d.
Jesse Eisenberg
was sick during the filming of most of the nightclub scene, and can be seen sweating in different parts of the scene from his illness.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
Stellan Skarsgård
was cast in the film, but when
Michael Winterbottom
left the project, so did Skarsgård. He stated that: "The only reason I wanted to do the movie was to work with Winterbottom."
b.
Christian Slaters film debut.
c.
Several references erroneously credit
John Garfield
with a cameo appearance as a flutist in the heavenly orchestra sequence. The flutist in question bears a minor resemblance to Garfield, but is not he.
d.
In part based on the events surrounding The St. Louis pension fund scandal of the mid to late 1980s.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
b.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
c.
In 1949 Jack Benny reprised his role as Athanael on radio for The Ford Theaters production of THBAM. Claude Rains also appeared in the program.
d.
Mr. Oranges apartment was actually the upstairs to the warehouse where most of the movie takes place. The filmmakers redecorated it to look like an apartment in order to save money on finding a real apartment.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
The Breakheart Pass is a location in the Rocky Mountains of Nevada through which a steam locomotive passes through. The destination of the train journey is Fort Humboldt, also in Nevada mountain territory.
b.
Harry Warren
and
Al Dubin
wrote two songs that were not used in the final print: "Stars Over Broadway" and "The Song of the Gigolo".
c.
Robson Green
was considered for a role.
d.
The sequence toward the end, where the cast is at the side of the building and Benny battles the Paradise Coffee moving ad, was scored by Warmers composer
Carl W. Stalling
, using his trademark violin string up-slide twang sound and his paraphrasing of the work of
Raymond Scott
. Stalling was used to give the scene a Warner Brothers cartoon feel.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)?
a.
To prepare for his role in this movie, actor
Ben Foster
asked one of his friends who was an ex-crystal meth addict for guidance. The friend introduced him to a group of people who gave Foster an all-access pass into the lifestyle.
b.
For the rest of his career
Jack Benny
used the failure of this movie as one of his best jokes.
c.
The short story based on a remark by author
Mark Twain
. Twain famously remarked that the best part of life was from the beginning and the worst part was the end.
d.
Jim Carrey uses the same voice and mannerisms for his "In Living Color" sketch character, Overly Confident Gay Man, as he did for Ace Ventura. In one of the sketches, he even uses the "Alrighty Then" phrase.
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