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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Untouchables (1987) - Part (3) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Untouchables (1987) - Part (3)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987).

About the movie: Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		Popular MMA trainer Pat Militech served as a consultant on this film.
b.		The film was shown to Stephen King and it was his glowing endorsement (which was later used on the films ads and posters) of the film which really sold the film to the public and was bought by New Line Cinema soon after.
c.		When Capones men are trying to smuggle the book keeper (Jack Kehoe) out of town, they are going to put him on board a train to Miami. In real life, Al Capone owned a luxurious mansion in Miami. Presumably, in the film, the mob was going to have the book keeper hide in Capones mansion.
d.		The 1990 reference book "Uranian Worlds: A Guide to Alternative Sexuality in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" by Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo lists "Children Shouldnt Play with Dead Things" as one of the first horror movies to show positive (though stereotyped) gay male characters, who also have an important role in the story. With the help of these two gay men (actors Roy Engleman and Robert Philip) made-up as corpses, Alan play a practical joke on the other characters that frightens them so badly that one of the wets his pants.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		An edited down television version of this film runs three minutes less than the theatrical version.
b.		William Hurt was considered for the role of Eliot Ness but was too busy with other projects.
c.		Possibly the first American film to use a "Squib hit" on an actor (using an explosive under clothing with a blood pack to simulate a bullet hit).
d.		The title character played by Sessue Hayakawa is depicted in this film committing hara-kiri. Hayakawa also tried when he was disgracefully discharged from the Japanese navy.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		Every single member of the cast and crew, including extras, is listed in the end credits.
b.		Jack Nicholson was also offered the role of Eliot Ness but declined.
c.		Grandma gives Pete a cross-stitched sampler on which is stitched a line of music to a nonsense song: "Honors flysis/Income beezis/Onches nobis/Inob keesis".
d.		The interior of Ethan Hunts house was based on JJ Abramss familys home.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until the 1970s when rights were cleared.
b.		Matthew Gray Gubler (Intern #1) sprained his ankle while filming a scene where the interns are exercising (the take where he falls made it into the final cut of the film). Gubler always wears mismatched socks and contributes his bad luck to having worn matching socks that particular day for the first time in several years.
c.		Paramount Pictures made this film because they still held the filming rights to Eliot Ness autobiography which they used to produce the TV series "The Untouchables". Originally, Paramount intended to make this, like so many other films since, as a big screen adaption of a TV series. However, director Brian De Palma, producer Art Linson, and writer David Mamet all felt that they didnt want to remake the series so they took their own dramatic license with the story, and the true events that inspired it, in order to make what they felt would be a good big screen epic. (This according to De Palma and Linson in the DVD "making of" documentary)
d.		The two fighter planes escorting the space plane are Lockheed Martin F-35s. At the time of the release the F-35 was still in production. The first real F-35 would not fly until December 2006, nearly six months after the release of the film.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		The first liquor raid was shot on LaSalle Street with period cars and extras. Ness and his men exit the Rookery Building (between Adams and Quincy) and enter the City National Bank and Trust at 208 S. LaSalle. The building in the background (with the clock) is the Chicago Board of Trade, located at LaSalle and Jackson.
b.		The ending sequence with the Beech-18 aircraft was filmed in Utah, using an old rocket launch catapult. When the plane went over the edge, it was supposed to fly straight down, but instead, whilst full of explosives, turned right and flew in a circle unaided over a busy freeway, before crashing harmlessly. The actual crash into the ground was re-filmed with a model.
c.		The role played by Faye Dunaway was first offered to Diane Ladd: Dunaway and Ladd had both appeared in the film Chinatown in which Ladds character impersonates Dunaways. Dunaway was given the role as she was agreeable to a lesser fee than that asked by Ladd and also did not wish the star billing which Ladd did.
d.		Last cinema film of George Furth.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		Joel Schumacher proposed "movie marriage" to Susan Sarandon in the middle of a crowded New York City restaurant during the summer of 1993 in order to convince her to do the movie. She agreed to make the film a few days later.
b.		Valentino Cimo, who plays Capones bodyguard Frank Rio (The one Ness punches in the nose and shoots at the beginning of the rail station shoot out) later went on to reprise the role of Rio in the syndicated series The Untouchables.
c.		Walter ODim who held the alias of Randall Flagg, was also the antagonist in the novel "The Eyes Of The Dragon" by Steven King.
d.		A made-for-television documentary about the making of this movie was made forty-four years after this movie was made, entitled The Making of Sands of Iwo Jima. It featured interviews with still living cast members.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		Throughout the movie, Natalie Wood wears a bracelet on her left wrist, not for any aesthetic reason, but because she had injured her wrist on in the scene of The Green Promise when she fell on the bridge that collapsed during the severe rainstorm, causing an unsightly bone protrusion on her wrist. She wore the bracelet to hide the injury. It became her trademark in all of her movies.
b.		When Agent George Stone is introduced, Malone founds out that his real name is Giuseppe Petri and he was born in Italy. In Italian, Giuseppe Petri can be literally translated as "Joseph Peter."
c.		Banned in Vietnam because of its depiction of the Vietnamese.
d.		Oogways Chinese name, as shown in the end credits, means "Tortoise" ("Wu-gui" in Pinyin transliteration). Oogway is a tortoise, and often wears a cassock with the markings of a stylized tai-ji/ tai-chi fish diagram on his back.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		During his time as a teacher at the Center for Arts and Technology Director Mark A. Lewis used parts of his screenplay for The Thaw in his Directing the Actor class.
b.		In 2007, actor-writer Corey Reynolds sent Warner Bros. a treatment, "Green Lantern: Birth of a Hero", with him writing and starring as John Stewart (his favourite superhero). Reynolds intended the film to be the first in a trilogy, and was going to introduce Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern Corps and the Justice League in the consecutive sequels. While his pitch was favourably received by the studio, it was abandoned in favour of a story about Hal Jordan.
c.		Director Brian De Palma met with both Tom Berenger and Nick Nolte to find out if they were interested in playing Eliot Ness.
d.		Born in 1919 in the small town of Nome, Alaska, Balto spent the first two years of his existence to carry food for the minors. He was considered rather slow and very little suited for this work.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		This was the first occasion that Robert Altman worked with Meryl Streep. He remarked that she was "25% above anyone else".
b.		When Doc sees the future newspaper headline change to tell him that he was "commended" instead of "committed", a headline at the bottom of the page changes from "Nixon seeks fifth term" to "Reagan seeks second term". (Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan).
c.		Sylvester Stallone originally toyed with the idea of killing Rocky off at the end of the film. The plan was that Rocky would die in an ambulance on its way to the hospital with Adrian by his side. At the hospital, she would have announced to the world of his passing and his spirit would live on with a final flashback of the famous scene of him running up the steps. Stallone ultimately abandoned this concept and rewrote the ending.
d.		Patricia Clarksons film debut.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Untouchables (1987)?
a.		Jim Carreys appearance on "The Late Show with Jay Leno" on 2/15/2007 to promote The Number 23, Carrey explains the premise of the movie at 12:11 AM EST. 12+11=23.
b.		Fashion icon Giorgio Armani, who provided the costumes for the film, told Brian De Palma that he should cast Don Johnson as Eliot Ness. Johnson wore Armani on TV every week on Miami Vice, and Armani called Johnson his male muse.
c.		The play "The Great White Hope" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1969.
d.		This is the third movie starring Tiffany Shepis and Parry Shen.