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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Young Savages (1961) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Young Savages (1961) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Young Savages (1961).
About the movie:
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three Italian teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Young Savages (1961)?
a.
The math professor portrayed in the movie is played by Dr. Martin Gundersen, who is actually a physics professor at the University of Southern California.
b.
9th entry in Universals Crime Club Productions series
c.
Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters, who played former lovers in the film, were actually former lovers in real life.
d.
Explaining why he took the Frankenstein role,
David Carradine
says, "I started that picture two weeks after I walked off the Kung Fu set, and that was essentially my image, the Kung Fu character, and a lot of people still believe Im that guy. The idea actually was: No. 1, if you walk off a television series, you better do a movie right away or you might never get to do one. And the second thing was to do something right away that would create the image of a monster to get rid of the image of that little Chinese guy that Id been playing for four years. And, you know, it did kick-start my movie career."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Young Savages (1961)?
a.
It was originally intended for the Brooklyn Bridge to be destroyed by one of the monsters hands, but it was decided that this seemed too deliberate. It was changed to the monsters tail destroying the bridge, which seemed more accidental.
b.
Loving Annabelle
was inspired by the 1931 German classic
Mädchen in Uniform
.
c.
Although some people may be confused at the sight of
Burt Lancaster
playing a native American, in fact, Thorpe himself was not a full-blooded Native American, being part Irish on his mothers side.
d.
When Burt Lancaster walked onto the set the first day of shooting, he was startled and dismayed to see the camera on the floor, aiming upward. Lancaster had never before worked with a director who used such innovative camera angles. He grew to trust Frankenhiemer, and they made four more films together.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Young Savages (1961)?
a.
Screenwriter
Robert Pirosh
based this story on his experiences as an infantryman during the Battle of the Bulge. Pirosh did not serve with the 101st Airborne and wanted to create a script that was faithful to their experiences. He used his fist hand knowledge of the battle of write the script. This was done with the blessing of General McAuliffe, who was commanding the 101st during Bastogne. Consequently many of the incidents in the film - such as Pvt. Kipptons habit of always losing his false teeth, or the Mexican soldier from Los Angeles who had never seen snow until he got to Belgium - that have always been derided as "typical Hollywood phony baloney" actually happened.
b.
During the commentary she did for the DVD of
What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1
Dina Merrill
said that the treatment she received from director
John Frankenheimer
on this picture nearly drove her out of the business. He literally told her at the end of a days filming that she was the worst actress hed ever worked with. She said she went home in tears. It got so bad that her co-star
Burt Lancaster
came to her defense one morning by ridiculing the directors "good mood" as evidenced by the fact that he hadnt insulted Dina yet.
c.
While writing the script,
Rob Reiner
once said, "You know how women have a base of makeup, I have a base of depression. Sometimes I sink below it. Sometimes I rise above it." Since the Harry Burns is based on the depressing Rob,
Nora Ephron
threw the line into the script, which Rob cut somewhere along the line.
d.
The bottle of chili sauce falling in the opening cartoon had to be reanimated several times as British animators used the UK spelling "chilli".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Young Savages (1961)?
a.
Partly based on the original, much longer script for
Day of the Dead
.
b.
Burt Lancaster
was forced by United Artists to make four films for $150,000 a picture in the 1960s:
The Young Savages
,
Birdman of Alcatraz
,
The Train
and
The Hallelujah Trail
rather than his normal fee of $750,000, because of cost overruns at his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, for which he was personally responsible.
c.
In the mid-80s,
Dino De Laurentiis
considered a sequel to
King Kong
that would have had him going head-to-head with an Orca.
d.
In February 1955
Gregory Peck
was set to star.
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