QuizAssess
Home
Popular Quiz Categories
Home
Hollywood Movies Famous Trivia Quizzes
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Prowler (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Prowler (1951) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Prowler (1951).
About the movie:
When Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Prowler (1951)?
a.
Erich von Stroheim
s excesses on the film also included ordering lavish evening gowns from Paris, silk stockings, and monogrammed silk underwear for his actors to wear so they could "feel more like aristocrats." He decorated his sets with real porcelain, tapestries and crystal chandeliers. At banquet scenes he insisted on using real champagne and caviar. When asked by a studio executive why he couldnt substitute ginger ale and blackberry jam as props for the champagne and caviar, von Stroheim replied, "Because my actors will know the difference, I will know the difference, and the camera will know the difference."
b.
Burt Reynolds
did research by hanging around real porn sets. He said all the porn actors asked him the same question: how to get a Screen Actors Guild card.
c.
Though much of the action takes place in two different canyons, all scenes for both were shot in the fabled Bronson Canyon; the famous cave was used in the "second" one.
d.
Novelist
James Ellroy
("L.A. Confidential", "The Black Dahlia") once called this his favorite film and described it as "a masterpiece of sexual creepiness, institutional corruption and suffocating, ugly passion."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Prowler (1951)?
a.
The title of the film is a reference to an Irish Ballad called "The Patriot Game" which is popular song within the nationalist movement.
b.
Producer
John Huston
was, at the time, married to lead actress
Evelyn Keyes
. The picture was originally conceived as a star vehicle for her.
c.
Director
John Sturges
replaced
Fred Zinnemann
.
d.
The film was shot in Spain during the regime of Gen.
Francisco Franco
. While the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme was being filmed (at 3:00 in the morning), police showed up at the set thinking that a real revolution was taking place and insisted on staying until the scene was finished. Apparently, people who lived near where filming was taking place had awoken to the sound of revolutionary singing and had mistakenly believed that Franco had been overthrown. As the extras sang the revolutionary Internationale for a protest scene, the secret police surveyed the crowd, making many of the extras pretend that they didnt know the words.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Prowler (1951)?
a.
Ryan Simpkins lost four teeth on the set of Sherrybaby.
b.
The radio announcer heard throughout the film is actually the voice of blacklisted screenwriter
Dalton Trumbo
, who wrote the film under the pseudonym, Hugo Butler.
c.
The film was shot in sequence in order to help
Russell Crowe
develop a consistently progressing manner of behavior.
d.
Biograph Company, which is where
Mary Pickford
started her film career in 1909 is the company that is producing Americas Sweetheart the docu-drama about Pickford.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Prowler (1951)?
a.
The most demanding scene for the actors involved the filming of the "human chain" employed by the Rangers to cross a treacherous river. The actors themselves had to do the shots without the benefit of stunt doubles. The sequence was begun at Payette Lake in Idaho but had to be completed in the studio tank because the lake was far too dangerous. For
Spencer Tracy
, who once complained that the physical labors required of actors "wouldnt tax an embryo," it was his most difficult shoot to that point, surpassing even the taxing ocean scenes of his Oscar-winning
Captains Courageous
.
b.
The producer credit is for S.P. Eagle, who is, in actuality, producer
Sam Spiegel
, who co-produced the film along with an uncredited
John Huston
, under their Horizon Pictures banner.
c.
Most of the US Marines in the Zurich consulate were actual Marine Security Guards assigned to embassies in Europe, at the request of producer
Frank Marshall
. They used their own uniforms, worked with the director on dialogue (eventually cut), and developed the tactics they use in clearing the embassy.
d.
Body count: 18
Year: 1951 related famous movies quizzes
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Enforcer (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Frogmen (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Strangers on a Train (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Two Tickets to Broadway (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Too Young to Kiss (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Vengeance Valley (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Imperium (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : A Place in the Sun (1951) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Mating Season (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Street Bandits (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Detective Story (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fort Worth (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Red Badge of Courage (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Sirocco (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : I Want You (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Angels in the Outfield (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Rogue River (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mr. Universe (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Elopement (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Teresa (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : An American in Paris (1951) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Lost Planet Airmen (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Half Angel (1951) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Quo Vadis (1951) - Part (3) Quiz
Related genere famous movies quizzes
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Big Combo (1955) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Key Largo (1948) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Kiss of Death (1947) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Window (1949) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Brute Force (1947) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Bribe (1949) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Possessed (1947) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Murder by Contract (1958) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Big Night (1951) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Price of Fear (1956) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Brute Force (1947) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Thieves' Highway (1949) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Among the Living (1941) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Second Chance (1953) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : Screaming Mimi (1958) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : They Drive by Night (1940) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Desperate Hours (1955) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Night of the Hunter (1955) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Big Combo (1955) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : City That Never Sleeps (1953) Quiz
Famous quotes from Hollywood movie : The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) Quiz