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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939).

About the movie: A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		Claude Rains at first turned down the part, feeling he would be miscast and look ridiculous as a tough New York City cop. Only after being threatened by the studio with suspension did he reluctantly accept it, but he always considered this one of his least favorite pictures.
b.		The original play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA at the Playhouse Theater on 30 January 1935 and closed on 9 January 1937 after 835 performances. Teddy Hart and Sam Levene originated their movie roles in the play, and the cast also included Shirley Booth as Mabel, and Millard Mitchell as Charlie. The popular play had Broadway revivals in 1942, 1970 and 1993.
c.		The studio thought that this films original title, "Heavens Gate," sounded too much like a cemetery and changed it to "Our Little Girl."
d.		When Juan gets dropped off in the low rider, its actually director Patrick Sayre who is driving the vehicle.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		The events in this film run concurrent to the entire Head Case series (Head Case, The Ritual, Post-Mortem).
b.		The fourth of seven movies featuring The Dead End Kids. In the original film, The Life of Jimmy Dolan, the kids are played by Mickey Rooney and several cast members of the our "Our Gang" comedy shorts - a much younger crowd.
c.		The scene in which a sailor falls from a ship and is left in the water as the fleet steams toward Iwo Jima actually happened. The incident is described in "Iwo" by Richard Wheeler, himself a veteran of the fighting. Quote: "According to Coast Guardsman Chet Hack of LST 763: We got the man-overboard signal from the ship ahead of us. We turned to port to avoid hitting him and threw him a life preserver, but had orders not to stop. We could not hold up 24 ships for one man. Looking back, we could see him waving his arms, and it broke our hearts that we couldnt help him. We hoped that one of our destroyers or other small men-of-war that were cruising around to protect us would pick him up, but we never heard that they did. "
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. In the television prints, the original 2-strip Technicolor sequences were printed in black and white.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		Justin Kirk replaced Charlie Hunnam.
b.		Ernst Lubitsch directed additional scenes after Joseph L. Mankiewicz left the picture.
c.		Desert location shooting was so hot at times that the film melted in the camera.
d.		John Patrick Shanley offered the role of Sister James to Natalie Portman, but she declined.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		Adrienne Barbeau was still married to John Carpenter when Creepshow was released. Carpenter would make the film version of Stephen Kings Christine the following year. King wrote and makes an appearance in Creepshow. Additionally, Hal Holbrook and Tom Atkins, who starred in this film, co-starred in The Fog with Adrienne, and which Carpenter directed.
b.		The filmmakers used a loft in SoHo New York City, NY for Bens apartment.
c.		This was a remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan. To conform with the "Hayes" Production Code, first imposed in 1934, the reporter in this film is killed by the fighters manager. In 1933, the prizefighter, Jimmy Dolan, the central character and hero, was the killer.
d.		The French chateau that appears in the film was constructed especially for the production by art director William Hutchinson and his crew of 85. One of the largest sets ever built, it stood 240 feet across and 50 feet high. Gardeners surrounded the building with 5400 square yards of heather, 400 ferns, 450 shrubs, 30 spruce trees and 6 full-grown weeping willows.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		Robin Wright was first suggested for the role of Claire Lewicki but was unavailable.
b.		Tim Curry was considered for the voice of the Brain Gremlin.
c.		The John Garfield character (Johnny Bradfield/Jack Dorney) is obsessed with not being made a sucker. The word "sucker" is used 19 times in the film.
d.		The movie double billed with The Alligator People.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)?
a.		This is the film that Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly watched just a few days before assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
b.		The Amtrack train had to be brought to Victor, Idaho on abandon tracks where the scene was shot. The small town had no train service either commercial or freight for years.
c.		The framed photograph of a younger Lisa playing sports (in the first scene, when the father puts his wallet down next to it) is actually a still from Mean Girls, the movie in which Rachel McAdams starred with Lindsay Lohan.
d.		The play opened off-broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 4 April 1933.

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