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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Killer Shrews (1959) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Killer Shrews (1959) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959).
About the movie:
On an isolated island, a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a hurricane.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
One of the sound bites when Caine is pounding the residence is music from Led Zeppelins "Immigrant Song".
b.
Close-ups of the giant shrews were filmed using hand puppets. The wider shots used dogs made up as the shrews.
c.
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier. This was also one of the 12 Columbia titles, the other 61 all being Universals.
d.
During the opening credits, there are clips of Get Smart villains from the series, including Mr. Big (
Michael Dunn
s picture) and the Claw.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
One of many projects that were delayed by the 1980 strike by the Screen Actors Guild, which was finally settled late that year. Taps immediately started filming in January 1981.
b.
The huge success of the film made a popular icon of its signature logo, a black-and-white image of a highway receding towards a glowing horizon at night. In 1978, an enterprising group of students from the College of Architecture at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, manufactured and sold a small production run of black T-shirts emulating the logo and typeface of the original, but reading "MUNCIE INDIANA: A Gross Encounter of the Worst Kind." Sales were going well until stories about the shirts appeared in local media, prompting complaints from Columbia Pictures, which was offended about the logo, and the Muncie City Council, which was offended about the slogan.
c.
Filmed on location at a YMCA youth camp in Waco, Georgia.
d.
This was one of two features produced by an independent company in Texas and intended to be distributed as a double feature. The other feature was
The Giant Gila Monster
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
It took three takes to properly capture the helicopter crashing on the freeway.
b.
Star Arch Hall Jr. was a sharpshooter and when some of the tactics to fire fake bullets from his gun failed, Hall Jr. suggested allowing him to fire live ammunition above the heads of the other actors. They agreed and a number of the gunshots in the film are quite authentic.
c.
The man playing Dr. Baines is
Gordon McLendon
. He was the uncredited executive producer and financier of this and its companion feature
The Giant Gila Monster
. He owned radio stations and a chain of theaters in Texas.
d.
The original name for this film, which pops up for about a frame, is "
Quentin Tarantino
s Thunder Bolt".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
During the opening montage showing the development of the surrogates, there is a shot of an Asian man with an android twin. This is actually footage of Dr.
Hiroshi Ishiguro
of Osaka University and his creation - Geminoid, a prototype android double of himself.
b.
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c.
For its Germany release the film was titled Die Nacht der unheimlichen Bestien, which means "The Night of the Uncanny Beast."
d.
When
Olivia de Havilland
agreed to make the film,
Robert Aldrich
called
Bette Davis
to give her the good news. He also requested she keep the news a secret until he returned in two days, when he would legally inform
Joan Crawford
and her lawyer by letter. However, Bette didnt listen, she called her press agent Rupert Allen, who immediately leaked the story to the press.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
This film and its companion piece,
The Giant Gila Monster
, marked the directorial debut of veteran special effects man
Ray Kellogg
.
b.
Breckin Meyer
drafted some of the rewrites of the script.
c.
Among the actors initially considered for the role of David Sumner were
Donald Sutherland
,
Jack Nicholson
and
Sidney Poitier
. Actresses originally considered and/or auditioned for the role of Amy were
Diana Rigg
,
Charlotte Rampling
and
Helen Mirren
.
d.
Paul Thomas Anderson
:
Tom Cruise
s director in
Magnolia
as a man on the train. It is reported that he is so hard to find that Anderson himself does not know where he appears.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
The film was intended to be released in November 1999 or May 2000 by Universal Pictures and producer
Brian Grazer
, then it was delayed for several more years in the US. Universal tired of the film, sold its distribution rights to DEJ in the USA and finally was released theatrically three years after its completion.
b.
Coon dogs were used to play the killer shrews.
c.
The final score of the Dodger game played on June 4, 1968 was Dodgers 5, Pirates 0.
d.
The movie, which cost around $90 million to make, did less well than expected, taking around $60 million at the US box office.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killer Shrews (1959)?
a.
When Hal is talking to the press at the press junket his microphone shorts. As he says the line "...this is the most honest movie I have ever made" after the word "made" you hear a click and can see the flash in the microphone headpiece as it shorts.
b.
Some of the names that are tagged on the walls are the names of WB studio tour guides.
c.
Jeff Conaway
(6 1½" (1.87 m)) had to walk slightly stooped so that
John Travolta
(6 2" (1.88 m)) would appear taller.
d.
This low budget feature is still regarded as one of the most successful "regional films." Unlike other regional films, it not only received national distribution, it also had some foreign sales.
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