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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Virginian (1929) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Virginian (1929) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929).
About the movie:
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 2, 1936 with
Gary Cooper
reprising his film role.
b.
The backpack Andrew wears when going around looking for surviving robots like him is made by Swedish company Boblbee.
c.
After viewing a rough cut,
Francis Ford Coppola
insisted on cutting the first half hour of the film. When director
Kenneth Branagh
refused, Coppola publicly denounced the film.
d.
It was rumored - and even written in
Alfred Hitchcock
s script notes - that
Kim Novak
dubbed the last line of the film, which was delivered by the nun. However, she denied this in an interview.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
The films title is based on the hymn "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?" (originally titled "Will There Be Any Stars"); music by John R. Sweney, lyrics by Eliza E. Hewitt, circa 1897.
b.
According to
James Cameron
,
Linda Hamilton
suffered a permanent hearing loss in one of her ears during the elevator shootout because she had not installed her ear plugs after removing them during a trip to the restroom between takes.
c.
Gene Hackman
once commented to newspaper columnist
Marilyn Beck
about
Lisa Eichhorn
s replacing: "Shes got enough problems, and Ive been fired myself. I know how it hurts."
d.
As in the novel and the play that the movie is based on, the Virginians name is never mentioned.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
Joe Dante
told Cahiers du Cinéma in 1990, that Warner Bros. opened this movie directly opposite
Dick Tracy
in an attempt to keep the box-office record set by
Batman
from being broken.
b.
Clamps automatic office doors open and sound the same as the doors of the Enterprise from
Star Trek
.
c.
The original play by
Owen Wister
and
Kirk La Shelle
opened in New York on 5 January 1904.
d.
A copy of this film was recently rediscovered in a French archive, so happily it is no longer lost, although it is not available to the public as of yet.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
Final feature film of
Lyndon Brook
.
b.
An image of a man shooting a cop was removed from the films UK poster in the wake of a backlash against screen violence. The film itself was uncut by the British Board of Film Classification.
c.
The second part a trilogy,
Flesh
,
Trash
, and
Heat
, that was conceived as a reference to the expression "sex, drugs and rock n roll", then a popular sum-up of the 1960s generation.
d.
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 MCA ever since.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
Production in India was temporarily delayed due to a strike by the Federation of Western India Cine Employees that was staged by more than 100,000 Indian film industry workers in Mumbai protesting low wages, late payments and the employment of nonunion members in Bollywood.
b.
The iconic shot of Rocky running up the steps of Philadelphia Art Museum came about because of Steadicam inventor
Garrett Brown
. Brown, who was from Philadelphia, was getting ready to fly to LA to try to sell his newly invented Steadicam device. He had shot some test footage following people around corridors and from room to room, but he wanted to be able to shoot something that even the most experienced filmmakers would look at and wonder how he did it. He came up with the idea for his girlfriend to run up and down the museum steps, whilst he followed close behind her. Using this footage, Brown sold the camera on his first day in LA, and several months later,
John G. Avildsen
, who was prepping Rocky, saw the footage and felt that a similar type of shot would be perfect for the film. As such, Avildsen hired Brown and the Steadicam, and as Brown explains, several months after he had run up the steps filming his girlfriend, he was running back up the steps filming
Sylvester Stallone
.
c.
Future western movie icon
Randolph Scott
, from Virginia, was hired as a dialect coach to teach
Gary Cooper
a Virginia accent, and also has a small non-speaking part in the film.
d.
This film has never been released in USA.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Virginian (1929)?
a.
Gary Cooper
s first all-talking film. He felt that sound would ruin him, believing his voice wasnt adequate to the task. Yet, it was "The Virginian" that turned him from a promising young leading man into a full-fledged star.
b.
The entire shootout scene at the creek was filmed in two days due to restrictions. There were over 120 shots during this sequence.
c.
First Three Stooges film written and produced by
Norman Maurer
, who was the son-in-law of
Moe Howard
. Maurer had written and drawn the Three Stooges comic book for many years before branching into films.
d.
In class, Darby and Callahan discuss the Bowers v. Hardwick case. This was a real Supreme Court case that ultimately vindicated a states right to make homosexual activity illegal. Darby passionately argues that the Supreme Court was wrong. Ten years after this film was released, the case was reversed in Lawrence (& Garner) v. Texas, which found such laws to be Unconstitutional.
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