Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Secret Invasion (1964) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Secret Invasion (1964) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964).

About the movie: The Nazis imprison an Italian general who was planning to switch sides and turn over his army to the Allied side...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		Originally, the paintings that Jamie created were supposed to come to life at the end of the film but, it was too costly to fabricate and the idea was scrapped.
b.		The same locomotive is used in the opening and closing scenes to carry Virgil in and out of town - Gulf Mobile and Ohio locomotive #103.
c.		Lori Loughlin was offered the lead role but turned it down.
d.		Roger Corman came up with the idea for the film during a visit to the dentist, when he read a magazine article about Dubrovnik. To take his mind off the pain while the dentist was working, he tried to create a story which could be filmed there. After leaving the dentist, he returned to his office and wrote the first treatment for the script.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		The production shoot for this movie went for six weeks, a total of 36 days.
b.		The play, "Burlesque," opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 1 September 1927 and closed in July 1928 after 372 performances. The opening night cast included Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Levant and Charles D. Brown. It was revived in 1946 and ran for 2 seasons with Bert Lahr and Jean Parker.
c.		Vladimir Nabokovs original screenplay diverged greatly from the novel, but only a portion of it was used by Stanley Kubrick, even though Nabokov gets screen credit. Nabokov later published it as "Lolita: A Screenplay". The unused screenplay featured an Alfred Hitchcock-like cameo for Nabokov, who is referred to as "that nut with a butterfly net" (Nabokov was well known as an amateur lepidopterist). Although he generally admired the movie adaptation of his book, Nabokov regretted the waste of his time in writing a screenplay which was altered so drastically during filming.
d.		Andy Serkis was not the film-makers first choice to play the real Smeagol at the beginning of the film. However, once they started considering other actors, they realized that Serkis was the natural choice.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		Jim Carreys ex-wife Melissa Womer has a small part as a Comedy Store waitress in the film. She is credited as Melissa Carrey.
b.		This movie in film history is considered to have beaten The Dirty Dozen in having the first film story about Second World War military prisoners recruited to go on an impossible suicide mission in exchange for pardons. This was the first World War II war movie to utilize such a story-line, pre-dating the enormously successful The Dirty Dozen by about three years.
c.		As Earl is driving through town, one of the ads on the side of his car is for the "Old Custom House", an actual restaurant in Avila Beach.
d.		Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor shot 300 hours of footage in 30 days of filming.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		Director Roger Corman has commented on the script changes of this movie: "Initially, the prisoner being held was an atomic scientist, the only man knowing the missing key ingredient in the equations to make an atomic bomb. So by freeing him, the five criminals help unleash atomic warfare. And UA studio United Artists said they liked the idea but not that man. So I changed him to an Italian general who would lead the resistance against the Nazis and thereby facilitate an Allied invasion of Italy. UA wanted them to be full-out heroes with less subtlety than I might have sought. I had wanted them to unwittingly and ironically do something bad on their way to being heroes. But this was the majors and with a half-million of their dollars at stake, I had a feeling these characters might lack nuance. I knew this was one of the drawbacks to working with the studios - story by committee."
b.		This film was shot in fifteen days.
c.		Super macho director Victor Fleming wanted Scarlett, for at least once in the film, to look like his hunting buddy Clark Gables type of woman. So, when wearing the stunning low-cut burgundy velvet dress with rhinestones that Scarlett wears to Ashley Wilkes birthday party in the second half of the film, to achieve the desired cleavage for Fleming, Walter Plunkett had to tape Vivien Leighs breasts together.
d.		Stanley Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive (as they do in the book) was unworkable due to restrictions in special effects, so he opted for a hedge maze instead.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		The last film of Vic Tayback.
b.		The producers claimed that 90 per cent of the cast were under 23 years of age.
c.		The production did not obtain all the props and extras that had been scheduled due to an earthquake in Yugoslavia. As such, extra soldiers and army equipment were absent from the shoot as the earthquake relief superseded the production of the movie.
d.		This is the only "Star Wars" film to be released during the same year as a "Star Trek" film: Star Trek: Nemesis.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		Eugene ONeills play opened on Broadway, New York City, New York, USA at the Neighborhood Playhouse on 1 November 1920 and ran for 204 performances. Black actor Charles Gilpin played the title role, the first time an important black role was not played by a white man in black-face. There were 3 New York revivals; Paul Robeson played the title character in the 1925 production.
b.		The woman who steps out of the limo at the end of the movie, almost walking into the distracted Pierre, is played by Katja Schuurman. She played Katya in the original 2003 Dutch version of the movie by Theo van Gogh.
c.		Director Roger Corman once said of this film in an interview: "The odd thing about this movie is that it had a very similar plot to an old western of mine, Five Guns West. It also came out before The Dirty Dozen. Ive heard stories that the producers of The Dirty Dozen actually postponed production of their film an entire year because they realized that our story-lines were so similar."
d.		Dennis Hopper was considered for the role of Frank.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		The scene on the railroad tracks is a reference to the final adventure in Mexico of beatnik figure Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouacs inspiration for Dean Moriarty in "On the Road". Author Robert Stone had traveled with Cassady and Ken Keseys Merry Pranksters. Furthermore, Nick Nolte was in the midst of extensive research on Cassady for his portrayal in the film Heart Beat.
b.		This movies development was as so described by director Roger Corman; ". . . Bob Campbell R. Wright Campbell, who had just done Racers The Young Racers for me, had finished a script titled The Dubious Patriots. Once again, the theme was one I liked very much: bad men sent to do good as a way to redeem themselves and win their freedom. In New York - on the way back from Racers - I gave Picker David V. Picker the script on a Friday and he said, Well look at it. But were backed up with scripts and it might be a few weeks before I can get to it." Picker rang Corman on the Monday and the picture was given the go-ahead. Corman was surprised because his experience with the major studios was slow and not always positive. Corman added: "It went that fast. Right place at the right time. The title was changed to The Secret Invasion, which was believed to be more commercial. UA budgeted the production at $600,000, which was double my bigger Edgar Allan Poe pictures. The film was shot in the summer of 1963."
c.		This was Arthur Freed and Vincente Minnellis last musical for MGM.
d.		According to production designer Bo Welch, the MiB headquarters was designed to resemble a 1960s airport (the examination room of the MIB was particularly based on the TWA terminal at JFK International Airport). He used the 1960s theme because that was when MiB started up (as well as the decade of the space craze), and the airport design was because MiBs extraterrestrial affairs include their arrival and settlement to Earth, which airports assist in.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		This was Stewart Granger first low-budget independent film after several years of major starring roles, and he had concerns about allowing his character to be less than central to the story. During the filming of the scenes on the Adriatic, the production crew had already created the smoke for the scene when Granger told Roger Corman that he wouldnt do the scene as written due to Edd Byrnes having too much of the dialogue, with his own character having lesser importance. Corman quickly wrote some new dialogue for Granger to satisfy his concerns (though he has declined to state how much of that dialogue made it into the finished film), and filming proceeded before the smoke dissipated.
b.		The movie playing at the drive-in that young Sam and young Pilar attend is Black Mama, White Mama, an in-joke reference to Pilars mixed parentage.
c.		During the battle of the bands sequence, Marc Jackson launched into a windmill spin and accidentally punched Pia Zadoras stand-in in the eye.
d.		In a recent Channel 4 (UK) survey of the top 100 war movies Steven Spielberg voted this as his favorite, mainly due to its sheer "boys own" factor of unreality. He even went so far as to repeat the "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" line.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		Roger Corman directed this movie in between making Poe films (i.e. filmed adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe horror stories) The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia, the latter of which was the last of his Poe adaptions.
b.		Director Gabriele Muccino was attracted to the story because it tells of a mysterious personal journey that is, in fact, a true declaration of love. He feels it tells the story of a man consumed by remorse and the pain of having lost a loved one, who finds himself face-to-face with the one thing he expected the least, the opportunity to start again, to live a new life, and that the story is thought-provoking, bold, touching and full of emotion. As such he believes only Will Smith could have been capable of giving the film so much strength.
c.		The first teaser trailer debuted at the 2010 Spike TV Scream Awards.
d.		Two episodes of "Daniel Boone", i.e. The High Cumberland, Parts I & II, edited into a feature film version for European theatrical release.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Secret Invasion (1964)?
a.		This movie was filmed on location in Yugoslavia and specifically Dubrovnik, now part of Croatia.
b.		The casino never closed for filming and so most of the scenes inside were shot late in the evening when few patrons were around.
c.		According to Robert Lewis, "It was easy to define the position held by Charlie Chaplin in the making of "Monsieur Verdoux." He was everything - writer, star, director, producer, and casting director, as well as supervisor of all other departments: costumes, scenery, make-up, lighting, shooting schedules, camera set-ups, and the musical score. He also crawled around on the floor with a knife, scraping up bits of old chewing gum stuck to the floor. For good measure hed entertain the troops between shots with hilarious imitations, such as William Gillettes inanimate playing in "Sherlock Holmes," a Kabuki actor pounding his feet on the floor, and crossing his eyes with pain, or Maurice Schwartz, the Yiddish actor, intoning a speech while twirling an imaginary beard that went clear to the floor."
d.		The "basketball dance scene" is a parody of a Nike commercial that was popular around the time of the movies release.

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