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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)

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About the movie: A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		In the climactic prison uprising, actress Barbara Rhoades is last seen wearing a corset (with amply jiggling cleavage), a decorative hat and one elbow-length glove. But interviews with Rhoades, and an actress whod turned down the role, reveal that the scene went further and Rhoades was filmed virtually nude. At least one still photo (apparently from the movie) shows Rhoades nude from the waist up, wearing the same hat and elbow-length glove mentioned above. (She turned down a proposed Playboy pictorial.) In a pre-release interview, Rhoades told interviewer Dan Lewis that she didnt realize her scene would be so "explicit" until the day of shooting. Her character reportedly flees "after her clothes are torn off in a prison scene and she races across the desert in her birthday suit." Actress Eileen ONeill was offered the role but turned it down. "When I read the script, my character is ravaged by the revolting prisoners and they tear her clothes off. She then had to run nude from the prison to an outside area lit with floodlights." Even costar Michael Blodgett "excitedly" told Hollywood gossip columnist Marilyn Beck, "Its a prison story, wild and new...man, such nudity!" Why the explicit nudity was deleted is unexplained, and the footage is presumed lost. By todays standards, what remains is fairly tame: a couple glimpses of the bare backside of star Kirk Douglas, a glimpse of a bare breast here and there, and some mildly risque drawings. Promoted as a "cynical western," "There Was a Crooked Man" was released on Christmas Day 1970. It did poorly at the holiday box office.
b.		Some of the headlines from the newspaper that says "The Dead Walk" appear to be: "Vice President Declares State of Emergency," "Whereabouts of President Unknown," "Food Supply Dwindles" and "Man Bites Man."
c.		Christian Slater (as Peter), Stephen Dorff (as Simon Cable), and Jennifer Love Hewitt (as Anna Cable) were originally set to star.
d.		Filming did not take place in Arlington Heights, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) because the weather was too cold.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		A realistic 1880s territorial prison replica was constructed on four acres in the high-desert country of the Joshua Tree National Monument. Designed by Edward Carrere, Oscar-winning designer of such movies as The Wild Bunch, it was one of the most massive location sets ever built. The prisons twenty-foot high, four-feet-thick walls enclosed fourteen buildings, including a guards barracks, wardens quarters, mess hall, kitchen, hospital, blacksmith shop, a mule shed, corral, seven guard towers, a solitary confinement cell and a gallows. Unlike a typical movie set, the buildings had to be roofed because aerial footage of the location would be filmed. Some eighty loads of rocks were trucked in (and later removed) to create the enormous hard-labor rock pile in the movie. Since no indigenous plants could be harmed, thousands of desert plants also had to be trucked to the location.
b.		Final credited theatrically released feature for Michael Crichton as a director. Uncredited, Crichton however did direct re-shoots for The 13th Warrior.
c.		Elvis Presley didnt film in Acapulco and a stunt double was used.
d.		Nicolas Cage and David Caruso share the same birthday (January 7th).

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		Last film of Byron Foulger.
b.		The name of Arnold Schwarzeneggers Terminator is the Terminator Series 800 (shiny metal endoskeleton) model 101 (Arnolds actual skin on that skeleton).
c.		Body Count: 5
d.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 14, 1954 with Geraldine Fitzgerald reprising her film role.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		The "enormous" dressing trailer for star Kirk Douglas stood just outside the locations prison set. Reportedly, it had a white picket fence, a mail box, two flower boxes, and a green lawn planted in front with a water fountain and lounge chairs.
b.		The short scene in which Anna is taken through the streets of Bangkok to the Kings palace by the royal entourage required 25 sets on a three-acre area on the Fox backlot, not counting the stables for the elephants used in the sequence.
c.		This film was shot in one continuous take without any cuts whatsoever.
d.		Barry Switzer: former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys as a television commentator for the game between the Miami Sharks and the Dallas Knights (supposedly set in Texas Stadium, where Switzer once coached).

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		Twelve rattlesnakes were used for a key scene but failed to hiss on cue. The hissing had to be dubbed in during post-production.
b.		Delphine Chanéac only gets one line, right at the end of the film.
c.		According to his book, "Kiss Me Like A Stranger", Gene Wilder was the original choice for Lt. Milo Minderbinder, but he turned the role down, citing creative differences, and instead accepted the dual role he plays in Start the Revolution Without Me.
d.		This movie turned out to be such a stinker that MGM waited to release it until after Ezio Pinzas second film, Strictly Dishonorable.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		The poem recited by the schoolteacher at the dedication is "Invictus" written in 1875 by William Ernest Henley.
b.		Producer Ray Stark originally wanted the film to be a vehicle for actress Raquel Welch.
c.		During the three-day filming of Spocks death sequence, no visitors were allowed on the set.
d.		The movie features much of the main cast of The Sopranos.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		Said to be loosely based on John Barrymores much publicized affair with Elaine Barrie, a college student 34 years his junior who would become his fourth (and last) wife.
b.		The tag number for the blue coupe (a Chevrolet Monte Carlo) was J3S 762
c.		The only characters to appear in all 6 Rocky films in footage unique to each film are Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone(, Paulie (Burt Young) and Tony "Duke" Evers (Tony Burton). While Adrian (Talia Shire) appears in the 5 earlier films, she only appears here in flashbacks, the character having died prior to the films events.
d.		Much of the filming was done in the Joshua Tree National Monument, 50 miles northeast of Indio, California. This was the first time a movie was allowed to be filmed in the 500,000 acre National Park. The location was so remote that a wagon-rutted road had to be bulldozed and widened for a distance of three miles to provide vehicular access.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)?
a.		Tony Twist is a former NHL hockey player, best known as "The toughest guy in the NHL while playing for the St.Louis Blues.
b.		Alice Faye was set to play the role of Glenda, but she fell ill with appendicitis and was replaced by Betty Grable. Although Miss Grable was making films for 10 years, this was the role that made her a star. Cesar Romero contracted para-typhoid and was replaced by Leonid Kinskey.
c.		The prison set took seven weeks to build. When construction began, it was snowing. When it ended, the temperature was 100 degrees. Upon completion of filming, the entire set had to be removed and the area it occupied restored to its original pristine state, so that no trace would be left.
d.		To publicize the movie, AIP had Vincent Price appear on the televised The Dating Game to choose a date for Miss X (Janit Baldwin).

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