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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) Quiz
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About the movie:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
John Diehl
plays
G. Gordon Liddy
. The real Liddy appeared twice on
Miami Vice
, where Diehl played Det. Larry Zito in the first three seasons.
b.
The LAPD shield that
Jamie McBride
holds during the chase in the building is his actual shield as a police officer.
c.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
d.
Unhappy with
Edward Anhalt
s adaptation of his play to the screen, playwright
Robert Shaw
had his name removed from the credits.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
Prior to being a film, The Man in the Glass Booth existed as both a novel and a play, both written by
Robert Shaw
.
b.
When Harry Angel visits Margaret Krusemark for the first time, Margaret orders her maid to bring them tea; she and the maid speak briefly in French, which Angel obviously doesnt understand. The maid is asking "Should I bring out the best cups?" and Margaret responds "No."
c.
Dennis Hopper
had the original cut of the film at an estimated three hours in length. Upon reviewing it with some of the other key members of the production staff the length was cut down to its current length.
d.
In the scene where "The Dreams" stand in front of a huge replica of their first album entitled "Meet The Dreams", the cover art is an almost identical replica of The Supremes 1965 album called "More Hits by the Supremes". On the other hand, the photos of "The Dreams" on that cover are near identical poses from another Supremes album from 1966 called "The Supremes A Go-Go".
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
"The Man in the Glass Booth" was the first play that playwright
Harold Pinter
directed on the stage that wasnt one of his own written works. Pinter directed the original stage version of "The Man in the Glass Booth" on Broadway.
b.
In the first scene at the college, Sara Moyer (
Bianca Kajlich
) is shown twirling her hair, much like Laurie Strode (
Jamie Lee Curtis
) does in the class room scene in the original Halloween.
c.
In 2004,
Hayden Christensen
was attached to play Gibson with his brother,
Tove Christensen
, producing.
d.
Darren McGavin
s film debut.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
When
Orson Welles
first met with
Dennis Weaver
, he asked Weaver what he thought was the most important characteristic of "Chester," the role Weaver played on the hit TV show
Gunsmoke
, Weaver said that Chester was very deferential and always hung behind the other characters. Welles then told Weaver that for "Touch of Evil" he wanted Weaver to be just the opposite - very pushy and in-your-face.
b.
The Bert & I stories were a late addition to the film. Actor-writer
William Cully Allen
had grown up listening to these folk stories in album form. He himself tells them (in dialect) in the films opening and closing.
c.
In the scene where Rev. Frank Scott is giving his sermon on the deck, actress
Pamela Sue Martin
is wearing a white and yellow poncho that was actually made for actress
Rosemary Forsyth
who wore it in
City Beneath the Sea
, the TV-film that Irwin Allen produced the year before.
d.
Robert Shaw
originally wrote the source play as a novel.
Harold Pinter
encouraged him to adapt the novel as a play. Apparently, Shaw once said in an interview that Pinter virtually had done the adaption to a play himself.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
Richard Pryor
claimed to have seen the film 40 times. He eventually married
Jennifer Lee
who plays Laura Shavelson.
b.
Credits on pressbook are different from screen credits in several respects. Credits noted by AFI follow pressbook credits, not actual screen credits.
c.
The "filing cabinet" apartment block that the Narrator lives in is called "Pierson Towers", and the motto is "a place to be somebody" which is the city motto for Wilmington, Delaware (which is where the novel is set, and where the film was going to be set until the production ran into trouble with legal clearances).
d.
A musical number featuring
Groucho Marx
and
Margaret Dumont
, "A Little Bungalow" was deleted after the previews. In the stage play, it was originally sung by the characters Polly Potter and Robert Adams (the romantic leads). Instead,
Bert Kalmar
and
Harry Ruby
wrote "When My Dreams Come True" especially for this film as a love theme.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
The Broadway production of "The Man in the Glass Booth" by
Robert Shaw
opened on Sep 26, 1968 at the Royale Theater and ran for 264 performances.
b.
In the originally planned version Nana traveled with the children to Neverland. It also had a much darker ending.
c.
Ralph Waite
s film debut.
d.
In the last few scenes of the film (at 1:33:51) just as the sun shield floats away, you can see an image gleaming in design of the shield. The image is in fact Icarus, the boy from Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
A long strip of red Dymo tape runs across the transfer control box. At one point late in the film, the camera gets close enough that part of it is legible. It says: "...LASSES,RINGS,WATCHES,BRACELETS, ETC USE MAT..." This apparently refers to the compartment box in the transfer station in which all metal objects must be placed.
b.
First film directed by
Mel Ferrer
.
c.
The play The Man in the Glass Booth aroused a lot of controversy when it was originally staged in New York in 1968. When revived on the stage there during the mid-1990s, it still aroused some further controversy.
d.
This movies French Intervention Delta title translates literally into English as The Delta Intervention. A hang-glider is also known as a Delta Plane.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
The operating scenes were almost cut out due to their graphic nature. However, two women who were visiting the set told the producers that the operating scenes were what made the movie, and should be kept in.
b.
In a 2005 interview,
Arthur Hiller
confirmed that
Robert Shaw
asked that his name be put back on the film after he saw the finished movie. However, by that time, all prints had been made and it was too late to include his name in the titles. Alternatively, according to the DVD, another reason cited was because
Robert Shaw
had died.
c.
The original play "The Broken Wing" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard opened on Broadway at the 48th Street Theater on 29 November 1920. It closed in April 1921 after 171 performances.
d.
One of the numbers listed at the top of the ransom note is 814-949-9207, the fax number for Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
Lawrence Pressman
in this film reprized his role as Charlie Cohn from the Broadway stage production of "The Man in the Glass Booth".
b.
This was
Thuy Trang
s final movie.
c.
This film is listed among the Top Ten Best Bad Films ever made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilsons book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE.
d.
Over 60 people worked on the costumes for the movie.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)?
a.
During the Christmas presents scene at Lanes house we see a large toy robot. It is Twiki from the TV show
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
.
b.
It was shipped to theatres under the name "Sugar and Spice".
c.
Bugss house, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall, is modeled on Frank Lloyd Wrights "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.
d.
The source play and subsequently also this filmed adaptation were inspired by the kidnapping and war-crimes trial of
Adolf Eichmann
, the events themselves later becoming the subject of their own movie,
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
.
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