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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Sky Dragon (1949) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Sky Dragon (1949) Quiz
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About the movie:
All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up, it is discovered that a quarter-million dollars is missing...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Sky Dragon (1949)?
a.
Originally rated "R" by the MPAA for strong language, it was lowered to "PG" upon appeal.
b.
This film is a remake of
Four Daughters
in which the character played by
John Garfield
dies.
Frank Sinatra
plays the character in this film, but Sinatra refused to accept the role unless the film was rewritten so that the character lives.
Doris Day
wrote that Sinatra put it on a take-me-or-leave-me basis. After many hectic conferences, the producers caved in and changed the ending to satisfy Sinatra.
c.
The extras in the soccer game scene were local kids from Brazil. In fact, many Brazilian locals were cast as extras in the movie.
d.
This would be the final film in the Charlie Chan series of 17 lower-budgeted features at Monogram (
Sidney Toler
in the first 11,
Roland Winters
in the last 6).
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Sky Dragon (1949)?
a.
The last of 47 Charlie Chan movies, though the character was revived in a 1957 TV series starring
J. Carrol Naish
(
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
; a total of 39 episodes), and in a couple of unrelated movies.
George Kuwa
and
SĂ´jin
, both Japanese, each played the role once in lost silents,
E.L. Park
, a British actor who made no other films, put in a tiny cameo as Chan in
Behind That Curtain
. The Swedish
Warner Oland
started the series proper in 1931 with
Charlie Chan Carries On
, doing a total of 16 entries, Missouri-born
Sidney Toler
replaced him for 22 more, and Massachusetts-born
Roland Winters
ended it with the last six. Polish-born
Ross Martin
completed a 1970 TV movie reviving the character, a failed attempt at a new teleseries, while London-born
Peter Ustinov
starred in a final theatrical release,
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
, scripted as a satire/spoof, which was not a success. In 1976
Peter Sellers
sent up the character (called Sidney Wang) in
Murder by Death
.
b.
This movie is novelist
Erich Maria Remarque
s only ever on-screen performance.
c.
In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
d.
Graffiti on a wall in a sewer at the end of the film reads "Harry Lime Lives," a reference to the character from
The Third Man
who is chased through the sewer system of Vienna in that film.
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