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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).

About the movie: The sole surviving Texas Ranger of an ambush arranged by Butch Cavandish returns to fight back as a masked hero.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		Mary Lambert said Fred Gwynne was her first and only choice for the role of Judd Crandall.
b.		To increase the light available in interior shots, candles were cast with 4 wicks each.
c.		John Hart, who cameos as Lucas Striker in the film, spent a season behind the mask in the The Lone Ranger.
d.		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.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		At the time of production, a rather older, yet still iconic Clayton Moore was making personal appearances as the "masked man". The Wrather Company, owner of The Lone Ranger character took the actor to court banning him from wearing the mask, citing that an elderly man didnt represent the character the way he should. Though stripped of the mask, Mr. Moore continued making personal appearances in costume, but wearing over-sized sunglasses instead of the mask. After the extremely poor box office performance of the film, Clayton Moore was allowed to make appearances as The Lone Ranger, mask and all.
b.		Dwight H. Little did extensive research on the history of Halloween and many of its harvest images were put in the creepy opening sequence.
c.		Production was stopped at one point following the death of studio second unit director John Barry. Harley Cokeliss took over Barrys duties.
d.		During Pauls acceptance speech, in a close-up of Matthew Broderick, over his right shoulder (camera left) is a portion of a poster that reads "ill man".

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		This sequel was made and released about three years after the first Smokey and the Bandit movie.
b.		The role eventually played by Boris Karloff was originally a female character named Madame Switzer in the final shooting script which was then titled, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killers. Five days before shooting, Karloff was hired and the character was changed to a swami.
c.		Klinton Spilsburys voice was dubbed by James Keach.
d.		The poem about Evangeline and her lover that everyone refers to is "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		Some of the mutants William Stryker has captured and encaged are recognizable: the tongued boy is Mortimer Toynbee (Toad, who was seen in X-Men); the teenager with the tornado is Sofia Mantega (Wind Dancer), who can summon winds; the boy vibrating in his cage is Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver, son of Magneto), whose power is super-speed; and the boy with the tape over his mouth is Sean Cassidy (Banshee, who appears in X-Men: First Class), whose power is sonic-level screaming.
b.		Melanie Griffith was offered the role of Princess Leia.
c.		1930s movie actress Bonita Granville makes her final film appearance in this movie, in a cameo role. Following her film career, Bonita Granville married Jack Wrather, the longtime producer of the "Lone Ranger" TV series, and this movie. They were married for 37 years, until Wrathers death in 1984. Bonita Granville also appeared in the previous movie of The Lone Ranger.
d.		The house under the rollercoaster where Alvy grew up is actually the Kensington Hotel in Coney Island, Brooklyn which was located underneath the Thunderbolt rollercoaster. Allen discovered it while searching locations during filming. The hotel and rollercoaster were demolished in 2000.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 29, 1947 with Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson reprising their film roles.
b.		When the foreign dignitary is first in President Grants train car he is introduced to "Buffalo Bill" Cody, "Wild Bill" Hickok and Brigadier George Armstrong Custer, who was sitting across the booth from Grant. Grant jokingly "threatens" Custer to get up and let the man take his seat, or he will have Custer transferred to Montana. Custer is perhaps best known for his biggest failure, the "Battle of the Little Big Horn" - or "Custers Last Stand". It was here that G.A. Custer died - in Eastern Montana.
c.		The Last film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without a Best Film Editing nomination.
d.		The airplane stunt-flying sequence was released by Castle Films in 8mm as "Hollywood and Bust".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		Peter Sarsgaard loved his look as Hector Hammond so much he declared himself the "king of the prostheses!"
b.		The movie was sent to cinemas under the name "Spray Paint" to try and avoid the attention of pirates.
c.		John Waters: The voice of the perv on the phone with Christina Ricci telling her he wants her to put her vagina against the phone is John Waters.
d.		This movie was such a huge box-office bomb that American investors had to salvage Lew Grades ITC by purchasing its remaining stock and then reorganizing the company as part of the newly-formed Tri-Star Pictures.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)?
a.		in the second scene before Goofy walks in, Max has a Mickey Mouse phone on his dresser.
b.		Stuntman Terry Leonard, was badly injured while duplicating the famous horse to stagecoach transfer, that was originated and perfected by Yakima Canutt. Seen first in John Fords Stagecoach and the Republic serial Zorros Fighting Legion, the stunt went bad when Leonards leg was caught under one of the wheels of the stagecoach.
c.		Maureen Stapleton plays a supporting role, as Lauren Bacalls secretary in this movie. Stapleton won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for another film released in the same 1981 year as this film, for Reds. Bacall, this movies star actress, would not receive an Academy Award until 2009 (twenty-eight years later) when she was awarded an Honorary Oscar statuette by the Academy.
d.		Reels 1 and 2 of this 5 reel film survive in the Library of congress, the rest of the film is presumed to be lost.

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