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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Voyage Home (1940) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Long Voyage Home (1940) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940).
About the movie:
Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.
Jason George
(Kevin) originally auditioned for the role of Ricky.
b.
This is technically both the the first World War 2 film and first war film directed by
John Ford
as the film is set during WW II and it interfaces with the Second World Wars Second Battle of the Atlantic as the steamer sails through the battle-zone and even goes under attack from enemy aircraft during the film. Fords later
They Were Expendable
is Fords first major war feature film and first major World War II movie feature.
c.
William Holden
and
Richard Widmark
became good friends during the production of the film. When Widmark became ill with the flu and was confined to his room, Holden bought him a snare drum because he knew Widmark played the drums. Widmark later remarked, "That four months of being constantly together on a film location was the equivalent of ten or fifteen years of friendship."
d.
According to
Ray Liotta
, both
Robert De Niro
and
Nancy Sinatra
pranked his make-up room with a (fake) severed horse head, as an homage to
The Godfather
and an initiation into Mafioso films.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.
Cinematographer
Gregg Toland
s photographing of this movie utilized high contrast lighting.
b.
When Tyler and the Narrator are on the bus, the long-haired guy pushes past Tyler without a word, then says "excuse me" as he pushes past the Narrator.
c.
Roller skater
Jim Bray
had won about 275 trophies at the time he appeared in this movie.
d.
Cel animation was produced and shot for this film, but was cut out at the last minute. Only a few brief segments of the film were drawn from scratch, with much of the film rotoscoped, and some sequences combining non-rotoscoped live-action footage with animation.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.
According to
John Ford
s biography The Unquiet Man by
Dan Ford
,
Darryl F. Zanuck
dropped
John Ford
s proposed remake of his silent film Four Sons. Zanuck cancelled after some preliminary script work had been done and when he learnt of the similarly themed
The Mortal Storm
had gotten the green light at MGM. As such,
John Ford
, "Still upset over Zanucks cancellation of Four Sons decided not to present The Long Voyage Home to him." Ford instead offered it to producer
Walter Wanger
who was a producer "who might appreciate a work of this caliber." Wanger soon after gave Ford the green light to make the film.
b.
"Theater Guild on the Air" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 6, 1946 with
Walter Huston
reprising his film role.
c.
The finished film was primarily centered around Dennis Hoppers character, but due to Wesley Snipess popularity at the time, Warner Bros. who bought the film in the US, decided to shorten most of his scenes, to strengthen Snipess role. Other cuts were made to beef up the pacing. The cuts included the loss of several scenes between Mortensen and his girlfriend. In an interview director James B. Harris stated that he did not have final cut and that Warner Bros. removed ten minutes from the pic in attempt to make it more commercial. He noted that they also changed the title from Money Men, to Boiling Point, in a bid to sell it as an action picture, similar to Passenger 57. Dennis Hopper, who felt he delivered his best performance, did not like the version that was ultimately released.
d.
This was the first occasion that
Robert Altman
worked with
Meryl Streep
. He remarked that she was "25% above anyone else".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.
John Wayne
once told biographer
Maurice Zolotow
: "Usually it would be Mr. Ford
John Ford
who helped the cinematographer get his compositions for maximum effect . . . but in this case it was
Gregg Toland
who helped Mr. Ford. Long Voyage is about as beautifully photographed a movie as there ever has been."
b.
Rita Tushingham
filmed her part in two weeks.
c.
Filmmakers were trying to come up with alternative/fictitious titles to reference in lieu of "Gridiron Gang" and its adult, gay film parody, "Gridiron Gang-Bang" but after reading the script both
Lee Stanley
and
Dwayne Johnson
encouraged them to keep the titles for authenticity.
d.
Quentin Tarantino
: [corpse view] After Marsellus is hit by Butchs car we see the camera from Marsellus "corpse" of the pedestrians looking down at him.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Long Voyage Home (1940)?
a.
Adam Goldberg
claims that he knew he had to do this movie as soon as he read the line "Shabbat shalom, motherfuckers!"
b.
This films closing epilogue states: "So men like Ole Olsen come and go. And the Driscolls live and die, And the Yanks and Smittys leave their memories - but for the others, the Long Voyage never ends."
c.
Partly filmed on location in the UKs Newcastle-upon-Tyne, birthplace of co-star
Sting
.
d.
After consuming a hearty lunch of Marlin, the cast and crew were stricken with "scrombroid poisoning" landing 22 people in the hospital, including an Executive Producer, the Director and the lead actress. The films plot includes poisoned fish.
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