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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Night of the Following Day (1968) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Night of the Following Day (1968) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968).
About the movie:
Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
This films opening prologue states: "After the bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy steamed south, unleashing their fire on Darwin, a city in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Territory was a land of crocodiles, cattle barons and warrior chiefs where adventure and romance was a way of life. It was also a place where Aboriginal children of mixed-race were taken by force from their families and trained for service in white society. These children became known as the Stolen Generations."
b.
The movies line "A boys best friend is his mother." was voted as the #56 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
c.
Nitrate prints of this film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives, and none of them is listed for preservation.
d.
Stanley Kubrick
was originally interested in adapting
Lionel White
s "The Snatchers", upon which this movie was based. However, due to a ban on the subject of kidnapping in the 1950s, Kubrick opted to do
The Killing
, which was also based upon a Lionel White story.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
On set,
Alfred Hitchcock
would always refer to
Anthony Perkins
as "Master Bates".
b.
In an interview, director
Paul W.S. Anderson
said that
Arnold Schwarzenegger
offered to reprise his role as Dutch Schaeffer (from
Predator
) at the end of this movie as a cameo, but only if he lost the election for California governor.
c.
Story was inspired by true events.
d.
The original intention was to have
Richard Boone
play
Marlon Brando
s role. However, co-producer
Elliott Kastner
came back to director/co-writer
Hubert Cornfield
and told him there was a possibility they could get
Marlon Brando
for the part. Cornfield jumped at the chance.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
Producers werent set on casting
Kristopher Higgins
until they watched his audition tape again. They immediately called him offering him the part of Mark.
b.
The scene in which Diane opens the bedroom door and is met with a fearsome scream was the first to be filmed.
c.
The final shot, with
Marlon Brando
smiling in a close-up, was particularly difficult to film for director
Hubert Cornfield
. Brando kept on making silly faces and refused to smile because he was upset that the ending he preferred was not filmed. In the editing room, Cornfield picked out one frame in which Brando smiled before making another face.
d.
The development of the best method to show Superman flying was a long period of experimentation. The methods attempted included simply catapulting a dummy into the air, a remote control model airplane painted as the character and simply animating the flying sequences. The producers settled for a combination of forward projection and specially designed zoom lenses that could create the illusion of movement by zooming in on
Christopher Reeve
while making the forward projection appear to recede. For scenes where Superman has to interact with other people or objects while in flight, Reeve and fellow actors were put in a variety of rigging equipment with careful lighting and photography to hide the equipment.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
As Vito Corleone picks oranges prior to the assassination attempt, theres a poster in the store window advertising a boxing match involving
Jake LaMotta
.
Robert De Niro
plays the young Vito in
The Godfather: Part II
and also went on to play LaMotta in
Raging Bull
b.
To stage an action scene at White Sands, the buildings built on the sand had explosives inside of them, and six F-16s were flown over the area.
c.
In the scene in which
Rita Moreno
is in the tub zonked out on heroin,
Marlon Brando
entered the set completely drunk and played the scene in that condition. In the editing room director
Hubert Cornfield
had to delete the parts in which his drunkenness was apparent.
d.
Eddie Dunn
and
Constantine Romanoff
are in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but they did not appear or were not identifiable.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
At
Marlon Brando
s insistence, the last scenes of the shooting schedule were directed by
Richard Boone
, as Brando could no longer stand for what he considered the incompetence of director
Hubert Cornfield
.
b.
The fake blood dropped on
Sissy Spacek
kept drying and adhering to her skin because of the hot lights. The only solution was to hose her down when the substance got gluey.
c.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
was pregnant of her daughter Carys during the shooting of the movie, which was filmed immediately after
Chicago
, Zeta-Jones Oscar vehicle.
d.
The producers were only able to locate four of the many Sherman tanks seen on the screen. The rest were plastic molds set on top of 88" Land Rovers. VW Beetle chassis were used for German Kubelwagens. The tank treads didnt reach the ground, but the film is edited so that this isnt noticeable (except in the section after
Elliott Gould
cries "Roll the fuckers / Roll em, fellas" there are shots of the tanks rolling over the bridge. One tank is seen silhouetted against the background and its tracks are clearly not moving as fast as they should be if the tank were real).
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Night of the Following Day (1968)?
a.
Some of the stock actual war footage was shot by future director
Russ Meyer
, who was a combat cameraman in the U.S. Armys Signal Corps during World War II.
b.
Hubert Cornfield
, on the Universal DVD commentary, claims that
Marlon Brando
in an attempt to humiliate him, tried to seduce Cornfields wife and, after being turned down, went to tell Cornfield about his efforts. Cornfield told him that he was flattered.
c.
Director
Stanley Donen
has two uncredited cameo roles in the film. In "Dynamite Hands" he plays the nightclub emcee who introduces Troubles Moran. In "Baxters Beauties" he is the cab driver who is surprised by a large tip from George C. Scott playing musical producer Spats Baxter.
d.
This movie was heavily inspired by fairy tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Rumplestiltskin.
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