Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949).

About the movie: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)?
a.		Producer Irving Allen was the original director, but after only three days of shooting, Charles Laughton threatened to quit if Burgess Meredith did not take over. Laughton directed the scenes in which Meredith appeared.
b.		The real-life John Scopes upon whom the Bertram Cates was based had an unusual epilogue of his own. After the famous trial, he was approached by a representative of the University of Chicago, which offered him a scholarship for graduate study in geology. Scopes then did geological field work in Venezuela for Gulf Oil of South America, and went on to make a name for himself in the field of geology.
c.		Clayton is the first Disney villain to die by hanging. Originally, the Disney animators set the climactic fight of the film on the freighter ship, with Tarzan sending Clayton to his doom via a river boat explosion. But when animation began on the sequence, the animators discovered that Tarzan had "lost his edge" on the freighter ship (as seen in the scene were Tarzan tries to escape from Claytons henchmen on the ship). The animators moved the final fight with Clayton back to the jungle, where Tarzans character had the advantage.
d.		Uses same music and sets as The Vampire Bat.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)?
a.		The Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) animators studied skydivers performing in a vertical wind tunnel to create Iron Mans aerial movements. Iron Man was also animated to take off slowly and land quickly to make those movements more realistic.
b.		There were various production problems on this picture, including Charles Laughtons threatening to walk off the picture if the original director, Irving Allen (who was also one of the films producers) wasnt replaced (star Burgess Meredith eventually replaced him as director). Allen himself was very dissatisfied with the final results. After its initial run, he bought the film rights back from RKO and kept the prints out of circulation for a long time. Many believed that the film was lost, even Meredith. However, it has been released on VHS and DVD and can be relatively easily found at rental stores.
c.		One minor complaint about this film version, according to many fans of the play, would be that Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer were physically too old to portray teenage lovers. At the time of this films release, Howard was 43 years old; Shearer was 34 years old.
d.		Muzzins nickname is "The Cannibal". "The Cannibal" was also the nickname of the real life five-time Tour De France champion Eddie Merckx who also appears in the film.

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