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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Invisible Man Returns (1940).
About the movie:
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Invisible Man Returns (1940)?
a.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
was the filmmakers first and only choice for the role of Shang Tsung. He came to the audition in a costume, and read his lines while standing on a chair. Shang Tsung was depicted as relatively younger in the film in order to avoid the excessive makeup that would have been required to duplicate his aged appearance in the game.
b.
The original Broadway production included
Sydney Greenstreet
,
Bob Hope
,
Fred MacMurray
,
George Murphy
and
Fay Templeton
. In the film,
Fred Astaire
s role is a combination of Hopes and Murphys roles, and Greenstreets role is played by
Ferdinand Munier
.
c.
Val Kilmer
s cameo was filmed while on break from the
Mindhunters
shoot.
d.
Vincent Price
s first horror film, 13 years before
House of Wax
typecast him in the genre. He also provided the voice of the Invisble Man in
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Invisible Man Returns (1940)?
a.
Shooting lasted from Oct. -Dec. , 1939, released Jan. 15, 1940. Vincent Price made this film right after James Whales "Green Hell, " which saw release one day before, on Jan. 14.
b.
The poem "El Dorado" has four verses.
James Caan
s character recites three, omitting the second, which laments the aging knights failure to locate El Dorado. He recites the first verse and part of the fourth riding with
John Wayne
after they meet for the first time, the third when Wayne is about to ride out for the final gunfight, and the complete fourth when he himself takes up the second wagons reins.
c.
The state of the war in World War II was an ever-changing dynamic and two thirds of the way through production, the American invasion of the Philippines took place. As such, script changes and re-writes needed to be made to keep up to date with the current status of the war.
d.
Djimon Hounsou
turned down the role of Attar because he was filming
The Four Feathers
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Invisible Man Returns (1940)?
a.
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.
b.
In an infamous incident, author
Philip K. Dick
publicly denounced the film after reading an early
Hampton Fancher
script. In the February 15, 1981 edition of Select TV Guide, Dick mocked the script (calling it "Phillip Marlowe meets
The Stepford Wives
") and Ridley Scotts previous film,
Alien
. He then mailed a copy of the article to the Blade Runner production offices. Ultimately, Dick would change his opinion about the project, largely due to the involvement of
Jeffrey Walker
, a publicist for the Ladd Company, who convinced Warner Bros. that Dick needed to be involved in the project (the original production company, Filmways Inc, had basically ignored Dick and kept him out of the loop). Walker kept Dick abreast of all major developments behind the scenes, and Dick eventually became a supporter of the film, even though
Ridley Scott
and he did not meet until after principal photography had wrapped.
c.
Judith Malina
, who plays Sonnys mother, portrayed Grandma in
The Addams Family
.
Carol Kane
, who plays Jenny, replaced Malina for the sequel,
Addams Family Values
.
d.
Originally planned and scheduled for a Christmas release, the film was rushed into production shortly after Warner Bros. found out that it had no major competition against Paramounts
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
or Columbias
Ghost Busters
for the summer movie season.
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