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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Phenix City Story (1955) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Phenix City Story (1955) Quiz
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About the movie:
In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Phenix City Story (1955)?
a.
Such was director
Phil Karlson
s attention to detail, he had some of his actors wear the actual clothes of their screen counterparts.
b.
Two waterfalls are used in the climax of the movie, both near Palenque in Mexico. The first is Misol Ha, just outside the village (beginning and end of the sequence), and the other is Agua Azul about an hours drive away (the middle part of the sequence).
c.
When Jenna confronts Matt as he is dressing for the wedding, a book with the title "Times Arrow" can be seen on the shelf beside her. The book is a novel by
Martin Amis
, about a man who experiences his life in reverse: the book opens as he becomes conscious as a very old man near death, and proceeds backwards through his life, ending when he is a small child.
d.
Olivia de Havilland
always meticulously researched her roles. As she had not yet had a baby in real life, she visited a maternity hospital to study how various women coped with the stresses of childbirth for the scene where Melanie has her baby. Off-camera, the scenes director,
George Cukor
, would occasionally pinch her toes to make her feel pain.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Phenix City Story (1955)?
a.
This became one of the last features to use Todd-AO for principle photography.
b.
In the film, John Patterson (
Richard Kiley
) is depicted as supportive of African-American Zeke Ward (
James Edwards
) and his family. In real life, following his term as Alabama attorney general (1954-1958), he ran for governor in 1958, ran an openly racist campaign and won. One of his opponents,
George Wallace
, had run as a racial moderate and told his friends after the election, "John Patterson out-niggered me, and Im never gonna be out-niggered again." Four years later, in 1962, Wallace won the governorship of Alabama as an avowed segregationist.
c.
Director Clint Gaiges car was towed away during filming due to a parking violation. The towing company agreed to return his car free of charge in return for promotion in the film. The tow truck can be seen driving under an overpass in the background during the riverside confrontation between the guys and Vittorio.
d.
Chapter titles: 1. The Hurricane 2. The Lions Fangs 3. The Flaming Jungle 4. The Treasure Cave 5. Saved by the Sun 6. The Jungle Trail 7. Pirate Peril 8. Winds of Fate 9. Rock of Revenge 10. The Rescue 11. The Stolen Wedding 12. Marooned 13. Prisoners of the Sea 14. The Leopards Lair 15. In the Nick of Time
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Phenix City Story (1955)?
a.
The film was in production so quickly, some of the criminals it was portraying were standing trial while filming was taking place.
b.
In a recent interview, producer
Earle Lyon
commented that this picture was made for $27,000.
c.
1 tells 9 that he led the others to their current hideout, which he refers to as "sanctuary". The building happens to be the Notre Dame church, famously referred to as "sanctuary" in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
d.
With a film with a title like
Raggedy Man
, it actually doesnt reference raggedy dolls in anyway. Raggedy dolls had become well-known in films such as
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
and
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Phenix City Story (1955)?
a.
Two of the creature characters have names which resemble the Russian words for the animals that they resemble. Chewbacca sounds like sobaka (dog) and Jabba sounds like zhaba (toad).
b.
George Arliss
and
Ivan F. Simpson
played the same roles ten years earlier in the 1922 silent version.
c.
First of eight films in which
Marjorie Main
and
Percy Kilbride
portrayed Ma and Pa Kettle.
d.
This is one of
Martin Scorsese
s personal favorite films.
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