Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : They Drive by Night (1940) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : They Drive by Night (1940) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: They Drive by Night (1940).

About the movie: Two brothers struggle as wildcat truck drivers; one comes to harm, the other is accused of his friend's murder.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Drive by Night (1940)?
a.		In the first mock preview, directed by Robert Rodriguez, Danny Trejo plays the title character, Machete. Machete was the name of Danny Trejos character in Rodriguezs "Spy Kids" movies. In both he is a character that is inventive with weapons.
b.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 2, 1941 with George Raft reprising his film role.
c.		In his research and preparation for playing Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood, Martin Landau watched this film three times stunned, saying that it was so bad "it made the Ed Wood films look like Gone with the Wind".
d.		Natalie Portmans directorial debut. However, her segment was cut before the theatrical release.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Drive by Night (1940)?
a.		Most movies contain 600 to 700 cuts. Requiem for a Dream contains over 2,000.
b.		The wife of producer Mark Hellinger, Gladys Glad, a former showgirl for Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., was responsible for getting this film made. Hellinger had brought home a large stack of scripts that he was to read for filming consideration. Hellinger had leafed through the script and read the summary, but felt that "nobody would pay money to see a bunch of truck drivers". His wife read this script, liked it, and pressured Hellinger to read it. Reluctantly, he did, the film eventually got made and became the sleeper hit of the year for Warners. It was made for an estimated $400,000 and grossed more than $4,000,000. (Source: Book "The Mark Hellinger Story" by Jim Bishop, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952)
c.		This is the only movie in the series in which Riggs and Murtaugh manage to make an arrest, not counting the suspects Riggs arrests in the first film before they became partners. Unfortunately the suspect they arrested, Billy, is still killed before he can make it to trial.
d.		Jeff Goldblum was originally considered to play Howard.

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