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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
About the movie:
Frank Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
In the opening scene, Pinky (
Ricky Jay
) is carrying a stack of books. The title of one of these books is "The Magic of Barcelona".
Ricky Jay
is widely considered the best slight of hand magician in the world today.
b.
Was the highest-grossing box office release of 1983 in France and Japan.
c.
The volcanic world of Mustafar was designed to look like
George Lucas
s vision of hell.
d.
It was novelist
B. Traven
who suggested that
John Huston
play the part of the American tourist.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
Film debut of
Margaret Dumont
.
b.
Shawn Levy
: the reporter who asks Tom for a quote.
c.
On seeing the depth of
Walter Huston
s performance,
Humphrey Bogart
famously said. "One Huston is bad enough, but two are murder."
d.
A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
Chapter titles: 1. The Phosgene Bullet 2. The Vacuum Room 3. The Air Terror 4. The Dungeon 5. unknown 6. The Wireless Detective 7. The Neragraph 8. The Silent Shot 9. The Camera Trap 10. The Moonshiners 11. The White Damp 12. The X-Ray Detective 13. The Ruse 14. unknown 15. unknown
b.
Several decades later,
Lee Fierro
, who plays Mrs. Kitner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kitner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than
Jeffrey Voorhees
, who had played her son. They hadnt seen each other since the original movie shoot.
c.
Humphrey Bogart
started losing his hair in 1947, round about the time he was making
Dark Passage
, partly because of hormone shots he was taking to improve his chances of having a child with wife
Lauren Bacall
(although his excessive drinking and lack of vitamin B were probably also factors in his hair loss). He was completely bald by the time he arrived in Mexico. Once on location, Bogart started taking vitamin B shots, and some of his hair grew back. But he did sport a wig throughout the entire shoot, albeit one that was artfully muddied and matted to cover up the joins.
d.
Just prior to start of filming this, his first movie,
Tex Ritter
went to a barber shop for a haircut. He fell asleep in the barbers chair and too much hair was cut off. This is why in most of this movie he keeps his hat clamped tightly on his head, and when he does remove it hes wearing a very obvious wig.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
Radha Mitchell
(Rose) never actually saw
Yvonne Ng
s face, as she was always in the "Grey Child" costume.
b.
Rose McGowan
is germaphobic, and had to have the stripper pole sanitized before doing her go-go dance routine.
c.
When
John Huston
first started working on the project in 1941, the studio had
George Raft
,
Edward G. Robinson
and
John Garfield
in mind for the three main roles. Then World War II intervened. By the time Huston came back from making several documentaries for the war effort,
Humphrey Bogart
had become Warner Brothers biggest star. This was entirely appropriate, for when Bogart first got wind of the fact that Huston might be making a film of the
B. Traven
novel, he immediately started badgering Huston for a part.
d.
Harrison Ford
: [nuclear] Ford pronounces "nuclear" as "nucular", much as Presidents
Dwight D. Eisenhower
and
George W. Bush
are famous for. See also
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
John Huston
wrote the part of Howard specifically for his father,
Walter Huston
. The character that appears in the original novel is much older. Indeed, author
B. Traven
had envisaged
Lewis Stone
in the part.
b.
The films setting is a town in Indiana, but was actually filmed in Cleveland, Ohio. The street the "Parkers" live in is called "Cleveland Street".
c.
The view of the trees through the windows of the Brides hospital room just before Elle, dressed as a nurse, enters is taken from Mandalay Pictures ID.
d.
The last third of
Martin Cruz Smith
s "Gorky Park" novel takes place in New York, USA but this was changed to Stockholm, Sweden for the movie as scriptwriter
Dennis Potter
didnt like it. Stockholm was more Cold War cinematic.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
An ending scene showing rescue boats surrounding the sinking ship was planned, but the budget ran out. The shot of the helicopter lifting off the hull was done on the studio lot, looking upward to avoid seeing the surrounding buildings.
b.
Robert Aldrich
was fired as director and replaced by
Vincent Sherman
with two weeks left before completion. Sherman received sole screen credit.
c.
Filmed in Mexico, though Warners studio head
Jack L. Warner
had the unit return to Hollywood when the budget started to exceed $3 million (Warner, however, did admit that he thought the film was one of the greatest ever made).
d.
The Character "Boyd" does not say a single word in the entire film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
During one particular scene, actress
Andrea Cohen
was portraying a junkie and had a real syringe in her hand. Director
James McDonald
gave very little direction to the actors involved because he shot most of the scene with one camera, hand held and wanted the actors to improvise the scene as it went along. During the scene, Andrea started freaking out and threatening the other actors with said syringe (as she was supposed to do) and at one point the elevator doors opened and people inside didnt know what was going on and called security. Armed security guards showed up and James had to explain that they were shooting a movie.
b.
Joan Hackett
s final film.
c.
John Huston
has a cameo as an American tourist. This scene was directed by
Humphrey Bogart
, who took malicious pleasure on his director by making him perform the scene over and over again.
d.
Make-up designer
Peter King
designed the final look of the main character at the first attempt - a rare occasion for makeup designers as they would design many make-ups before the selection.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
The film, made by MGM under the studios loanout deal with Universal for the teams services, is set on the MGM lot, but the studios major stars -
Clark Gable
,
Lana Turner
and
Judy Garland
- are only mentioned by name and not seen. The actual cameos were confined to second-tier stars
Rags Ragland
,
Preston Foster
,
Jackie Butch Jenkins
and
Lucille Ball
.
b.
Initially thrilled at
Walter Huston
s scene-stealing performance, as the shoot wore on producer
Henry Blanke
started to have second thoughts about Huston upstaging the films star,
Humphrey Bogart
, and so
John Huston
started to get notes from the studio telling him to tone down his fathers performance.
c.
Chapter Titles: 1. Shipwrecked 2. Captured by Cannibals 3. Stampeding Death 4. Terrors of the Jungle 5. Plumge of Peril 6. Thundering Waters 7. The Hidden Monster 8. Jungle Treachery 9. Avenging Firegod 10.Descending Doom 11.The Dragon Strikes 12.The Pit of Flame
d.
When Michael visits Bens office, the water that Ben gives Michael is VOSS sparkling artesian water from Norway.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
Producer
Henry Blanke
had originally wanted
John Garfield
in the
Tim Holt
role, but Garfield was unavailable.
Ronald Reagan
was then considered.
b.
Pat Morita
was initially turned-down for the role of Mr. Miyagi because there was a "no comedian" policy when looking for an actor. He was later given the role because he was best for it after reading.
c.
R30 trains were retired from passenger service in 1993, these trains along with the IRT sized R33 and R36 trains were among the last in the system to never have air conditioning. The R30 would have become too heavy if air conditioning was added.
d.
Was given a pre-rating advisory of restricted by the MPAA, disallowing any persons under the age of 18 from attending. This was pre-rating equivalent of an X (later NC-17) rating. By modern standards the film is so tame, when Shown on Turner Classic Movies, its rated TV-PG.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)?
a.
As production dragged on,
Humphrey Bogart
, who was an avid yachtsman, was starting to get increasingly anxious about missing the Honolulu Classic, the Catalina-to-Hawaii race in which he usually took part. Despite assurances from the studio that he would be wrapped on the picture by then, he started to constantly dog
John Huston
about whether he would be done in time. Eventually Huston had enough and grabbed Bogart by the nose and twisted hard. Bogart never asked him how long before the shooting was over again.
b.
On the day of the Strip Club shoot one of the actresses called in sick. Tina Krause the star of the film disguised as a dancer leaves the shot through one door and enters as Detective Barnett through another.
c.
Most of the nighttime scenes on the island (except the creation of fire scene) were shot during the daytime. The darkness and night sky effects were added in post-production.
d.
The entire movie was filmed in 15 days from February 20th to March 29th, 2010. Editing was completed April 20th, 2010. The film premieres May 1st at the 2010 Cape Fear Independent Film Festival making the entire turnaround time approximately 10 weeks from the first day of filming.
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