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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Killers (1946) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Killers (1946)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946).

About the movie: Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		Tommy Lee Jones did most of his own stunts.
b.		When Heather is watching Nick speak to the press on the TV (after the Washington Probe article), the name Theresa Greene is seen on a placard on one of the cubicles in the office. Theresa Greene was the art department coordinator for the movie.
c.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" did a radio adaptation of the story in 1949 with Burt Lancaster reprising his role as Swede. It was introduced by director Robert Siodmak and featured Shelley Winters as Kitty.
d.		It took director James Gray two years to get the financing in place to make the film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		The actors had to be continually hosed down while filming the scene after they had fallen out of the boat, in order to remain dripping wet.
b.		The film opened in New York at the Winter Garden Theatre on August 28, 1946. The first day, $10,341 was taken in at the box office, beating a previous house record by $3000.
c.		Hadley V. Baxendale, given as a cast member, is actually a hallmark legal decision for liability in shipping matters.
d.		J.T. Petty wrote the first draft of the script, originally titled 10,000 Little Indians, around 2002.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		Kevin Beattie stood in as an action double for Michael Caine during the football scenes whilst Paul Cooper did the same for Sylvester Stallone.
b.		Lucas Beauchamp and his wife appeared in an earlier Faulkner story in the collection "Go Down, Moses"
c.		Rock Hudson was considered for Gregory Pecks role. Cary Grant was also briefly considered, but was rejected as being too old at 56.
d.		The musical theme by Miklós Rózsa, heard whenever the killers appear, was later used in expanded form as the theme music for the TV series Dragnet and its revival Dragnet 1967.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		This film recreates the famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima scene as known famously from an historic photograph which was taken on the 23rd February, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. The three surviving flag raisers make a cameo appearance during this scene in the film. These three men who were part of the flag raising (made famous by the photograph Joe Rosenthal had taken) and survived the battle for Iwo Jima, appear in this scene only. Rene A. Gagnon, Ira H. Hayes and John H. Bradley are seen with with John Wayne as he instructs them to hoist the flag (Wayne gives the folded flag to Gagnon). The flag used to recreate the incident is the actual flag that was raised on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. It was loaned to the movie by the US Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia. (Other films which would later depict the flag-raising on Iwo Jima include The Outsider and Flags of Our Fathers.)
b.		According to the audio commentary by star Leo Fong on the Region 1 DVD (released under the title Revenge of the Bushido Blade), the film was shot in 1976, but did not get released stateside until 1980.
c.		Producer Mark Hellinger purchased the rights to Ernest Hemingways short story for $36,700, although publicity releases announced the figure at $50,000. (Source: "The Mark Hellinger Story" by Jim Bishop)
d.		Principal photography took place over 77 days.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		The actual Art Deco apartment building used in the film (located at 1360 Montgomery St in San Francisco) is still standing as of December, 2008. The actual apartment is marked by a cardboard cut-out of Humphrey Bogart, which can be seen from the street. The site is visited frequently by fans of vintage film noir.
b.		From concept to completion, The Penitent Man took only five months to produce. That is four months from beginning the script, to financing, to production, to post-production.
c.		One of the earliest of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
d.		The boxing match in the third flashback was filmed in a boxing arena for an audience of 2000 spectators. Burt Lancaster trained for two months with a boxing champion and played the part of the Swede with realism, against a real boxer, until his 2nd KD and TKO.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		Former Warner Bros. producer Mark Hellinger, who had started his own independent production unit at Universal-International, wanted Wayne Morris to star in this, his first picture. Warners wouldnt loan him out, so Hellinger cast the unknown Burt Lancaster in his first movie. It made Lancaster a star.
b.		The stage version opened at the Martin Beck Theater on May 18, 1939 and ran for six performances.
c.		The Jack Graham airliner bombing piece is basically correct, and Grahams real name is used.
d.		Nearly every military uniform has WW2 German military and SS paramilitary uniform references.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.		According to the book Bill Collins presents The Golden Years of Hollywood by Bill Collins, "Some filming was done in America. The RAF Harvard trainer and the Hudson bomber were made in the United States for British contracts, so it was possible to get some fine footage at Lockheeds Burbank facility. As there were not Mk.1A Spitfires or German BF-109Es in America, Twentieth Century-Fox had one of each constructed at the studio in Los Angeles. In England, Ronald Neame and his team worked at the RAFs No. 602 Squadron (City of Glasgow) to capture authentic shots of take-offs, aerial formations and so forth . . . the marvelous five-minute sequence at Dunkirk was actually achieved on the Californian coast at a cost of $100,000."
c.		After leaving Warner Brothers for Universal with The Killers, producer Mark Hellinger initially wanted to borrow Warner director Don Siegel, but the loanout fee proved prohibitively high for a director of his limited reputation at that time, so Hellinger used Universals Robert Siodmak. Ironically, almost 20 years later Siegel did go on to direct the remake, The Killers.
d.		Prior to the finale, the shows billboard is shown. There is a partially visible billboard to the right. It advertises the movie Personal Property which stars Robert Taylor who plays Stephan Raleigh in this movie.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		Patrick Dempseys film debut.
b.		All of the drifting in the movie was performed by professional drivers, not created by CGI. As reported in a recent Sport Compact Car, Rhys Millen, his father Rod, and a handful of other famous rally and drift racers consistently performed amazing drift sequences for the movie.
c.		Author of the original short story Ernest Hemingway liked the film. Prior to its release, producer Mark Hellinger sent publicity man Al Horwits to Sun Valley, Idaho, to give Hemingway a private screening. Hemingway had a pint of gin in one pocket of his overcoat and a pint of water in the other so that he could sip from them if the film got bad. After the screening, Hemingway held up the full bottles, grinned and said "Didnt need em".
d.		Director Lewis Teague was recommended by Stephen King himself after seeing Teagues previous film Alligator.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		During a production lunch break, screenwriter Stephen J. Friedman spotted a hippie vagrant mooching from the food line, and threw him out. That hippie, Tobe Hooper, then wandered to Austin where he filmed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and completed it before "Lovin Molly" was even released.
b.		Olivia de Havilland always meticulously researched her roles. As she had not yet had a baby in real life, she visited a maternity hospital to study how various women coped with the stresses of childbirth for the scene where Melanie has her baby. Off-camera, the scenes director, George Cukor, would occasionally pinch her toes to make her feel pain.
c.		This was Burt Lancasters first important movie role. He was the third choice for the part of The Swede, and was signed only after actors Wayne Morris and Sonny Tufts proved unavailable. Lancaster was an ex-circus acrobat from Union City, New Jersey. When producer Mark Hellinger saw the first rushes of Lancasters performance in a private screening room, he was so pleased that he yelled "So help me, may all my actors be acrobats!"
d.		In the closing credits montage, there is a painting of Clint Eastwood, which originally appeared on the movie poster (as well as VHS/DVD covers) from Pale Rider, which was shown in theaters the same year as this movie.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Killers (1946)?
a.		In-joke: In the scene towards the end of the film where Edmond OBrien arranges to meet Ava Gardner outside a nightclub, OBrien stands on the street in front of the club, waiting for Gardner to drive up. On the wall behind him is a poster, beginning with "Sir Arthur Hilton presents..." Arthur Hilton, an Englishman, was the films editor.
b.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.		This movie marks the film debut of Zachary Quinto, whos best known as Sylar on the hit TV series Heroes, which has included several references to "Star Trek", and featured George Takei (Sulu) in the recurring role of Kaito Nakamura.
d.		Originally Toms death was never explained. It wasnt until re-shoots that Toms death was finally revealed: he committed suicide.