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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Poseidon Adventure (1972) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
About the movie:
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
The whole idea of the "cheese sandwiches" is from a sketch on _"Tom Green Show, The" (1997)_, when he met an old couple in the park and acted really nice to them and asked them for a cheese sandwich that they were eating. After he walked away from them, he started talking to the camera saying "Who the hell eats cheese sandwiches?, I mean theres salads and meat? Cheese sandwiches!"
b.
Before this movie was seriously considered, director
Paul Greengrass
jokingly suggested to make a fourth Bourne movie called "The Bourne Redundancy".
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.
The closing narration states that
Gordon Cooper
was "the last American ever to go into space alone". While true when the film was made,
Mike Melvill
in June and September 2004 and
Brian Binnie
in October 2004 went into space alone in Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne (Not a NASA spaceship or spaceflight). Binnies flight was the day
Gordon Cooper
died.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
An interview with writer
Neil Simon
in a DVD extra
Murder by Death: A Conversation with Neil Simon
has him reveal that he and director
Robert Moore
at one time wished to replace
Truman Capote
with a real actor in the part of Lionel Twain but ultimately this never eventuated.
b.
125 stunt people were used during the filming. No one was killed or injured.
c.
Sir Larry Wildman, the British takeover artist played by
Terence Stamp
, is widely believed to be modeled after Sir Gordon White of Hanson PLC. Hanson is a company that does nothing but acquisitions, liquidations, and wholesale deconstruction of companies.
d.
The story of Lt. Ito strapping mines to himself and lying among corpses to attack a tank is based on the real-life story of Satoru Omagiri, as told in "The Rising Sun" by
John Toland
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
appear among the musicians in Janes photo gallery too.
b.
The film received 8 competitive nominations and was awarded a non-competitive Special Achievement Oscar (Visual Effects).
c.
Exteriors of the Maroon Cartoon studios were shot at Ren-Mar Studios in Hollywood, California, formerly the home of Desilu Productions.
d.
Vitaphone production reels #2721-2729
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
Ryan Bingham
, who plays Tony (the musician Bad talks to at the bowling alley) is a real-life rising country-rock star. Bingham co-wrote "The Weary Kind" with
T-Bone Burnett
and Binghams recording of "The Weary Kind" won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Original Song. So, the real Ryan Bingham won an Oscar while a fictional Ryan Bingham, played by
George Clooney
in
Up in the Air
, who was nominated the same year, did not.
b.
The sequence where Nonnie (
Carol Lynley
) rehearses "The Morning After" with her band mates was the first scene to be filmed. Originally
Waddy Wachtel
(the guitarist) was to be cast as her brother Teddy, but as Wachtel had brown eyes and Lynley was blue-eyed, drummer
Stuart Perry
was cast as Nonnies brother.
c.
People on set commented that
Jemaine Clement
and director
Jared Hess
bore a striking resemblance, which Clement explained by joking, "Ive found directors often hire people who look like them."
d.
One of the hardest characters for the make-up artists to create was "Littleface" Finney, one of the hoodlums killed in the garage shootout at the beginning of the film. The character, as created in the comics, has a normal sized head with a face no bigger the average adult nose. In order to create this effect, a child was cast as Finney and then fitted into an over-sized body and made-up head as shown by behind the scenes photos. His voice is overdubbed in the film and cut-away shots where you only see his back were done with an adult actor.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
Bertila Damas
, who plays Renalda Squiriniszu, is a popular Spanish-language singer. She sang "La Chanka".
b.
Contains five Academy Award winning actors -
Gene Hackman
,
Ernest Borgnine
,
Shelley Winters
,
Jack Albertson
and
Red Buttons
.
c.
William Tregoe
, who plays Jack Kirkpatrick, the TV anchorman ("I say, let em crash"), plays an almost identical character in the "Count/Pointercount" segment of
The Kentucky Fried Movie
. His character name is the similar-sounding John Fitzsimmons, and he is arguing for "count." Both roles parody
James J. Kilpatrick
on
60 Minutes
.
d.
Jessica Lange
s screen test consisted of three scenes: Dwans discovery in the life raft by the Petrox crew Dwan convincing Fred Wilson to let her join the crew on the island Dwan throwing her fit and hitting Kong in the nose, which was a pillow positioned above the camera at the time.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
The boots and pendant that
Carol Lynley
wears in the film actually came from her own private collection.
b.
Ariana Richards
was upset by the fact that an action figure of her character was not produced. (Kenner only made dolls of Grant, Sattler, Muldoon, Nedry, Tim, and eventually Malcolm.)
c.
The scene depicting Lorelis breakdown was shot over the course of 12 hours.
d.
Lucille Ball
, who has a supporting role in this film, would later buy the studio that made this film, RKO Studios. She and
Desi Arnaz
purchased it during the height of their success on
I Love Lucy
and renamed it Desilu Studios.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
In her autobiography
Esther Williams
claims she was offered the role of Belle Rosen by producer
Irwin Allen
because of her former swimming roles (though this remains open to debate, as the character of Belle Rosen called for a large woman).
b.
At the time that the electric chair scene was filmed, the death penalty had been banned in the State of Maryland. The day before
John Waters
had his "sneak world premiere" at a prison, Maryland reinstated the death penalty.
c.
Broke the record at the time for the largest second weekend drop in box-office, with an 81.9% drop. This record was later taken over by
Undiscovered
.
d.
Orson Welles
was just 25 years old when he directed this, his first feature.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?
a.
At one point MacNamara, played by
James Cagney
, threatens Otto with half a grapfruit so that the scene resembles the famous one in
The Public Enemy
, Cagney pushed into
Mae Clarke
s face.
b.
During the montage sequence after the courthouse scene, when the Ghostbusters sign is being put up, the sign-makers phone number, (516) 374-2340, is visible. This was and still is the phone number for Five Town Neon Service Inc., also known as "Johnnys Signs".
c.
The song "The Morning After" is credited on screen as "The Song From The Poseidon Adventure".
d.
A TV spot was banned because it had too much gore and it also revealed the ending to the movie.
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