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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Thunder (1929) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Thunder (1929) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929).
About the movie:
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Early in the film, Crawl sings about the Hungry Man TV dinner he is about to eat.
Mason Adams
, who plays the grandfather, was a voice over announcer at the time the film was released.
b.
Will Sheldon
the script supervisor of the movie, directed some of the insert shots on the picture which took two days.
c.
By the end of production, it only took half an hour to apply
Tom Berenger
s facial scarring. Berenger would only wear it when necessary as it ended up hurting his face.
d.
Tim Jo
(Omar) found the announcement for the audition himself and to audition, videotaped himself playing a borrowed electric guitar since he didnt even own one.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Producer
Don Simpson
unsuccessfully demanded that the ballad "Up Where We Belong" be cut from the film, saying, "The song is no good. It isnt a hit." The song later became the #1 song on the Billboard chart and won the Academy Award for Best Song. He wanted a similar song called "On The Wings Of Love" by Jeffrey Osborne. The song was released a few months later. It peaked at #29 on the Billboard charts.
b.
Filming in Green Bay took 15 days.
c.
Most of the movie was filmed in 1967 but due to a lack of financing it wasnt completed until 1972 when the producers had acquired enough money to complete the film, but without any of the original cast members.
d.
When some scenes were re-shot,
Claire Bloom
was unavailable, so
Charles Chaplin
s wife,
Oona Chaplin
, stood in for her. She can be seen lying in the bed through the doorway after the housemaid has told Chaplins character that his "wife" isnt eating.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Lindsay Anderson
had previously attempted to make a documentary about musician
Alan Price
and his band touring around England. However, the project had had to be abandoned due to the prohibitive cost of licensing the cover songs that the band performed. So, when Anderson and writer
David Sherwin
were developing the screenplay to "O Lucky Man", they decided that Price should write the score. They sent him the script, indicating where all the songs should appear. Consequently, nearly all the songs had already been written in advance of filming.
b.
Retakes were filmed on May 28 and June 3, 1929.
c.
The Italian servant in the Sardinia scene is actually the onsite painter with work clothes on, not a costume. The painter was working on adding cement to the fountain in the courtyard and had the half sheet on to keep cement off her clothes. When Director
Ridley Scott
came through to do the phone call scene... they added her as the servant because she looked like authentic. Lines were given but due to painters southern accent, the decision was made to have no verbal from her. Also most of crew ended up being used all over the film, for example, the tattooed fish market girl is also the set dresser.
d.
Quentin Tarantino
: [long take] When Jules and Vincent step out of the elevator for their "foot massage" debate, we follow them all the way through the labyrinthine hallways to Bretts door, past Bretts to a window and finally, back to Bretts door again, all in a single take.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
In the original script, when Tank is discussing the U-571s condition he reports that the submarine has only six tonnes of fuel, which is insufficient to return them to the United States. That is why Lt. Tyler sets a course for England.
b.
Al Pacino
was originally offered the role played by
Gene Hackman
.
Warren Beatty
was also interested in the movie and producers
Don Simpson
and
Jerry Bruckheimer
went through a long period trying to convince him to sign on, before all parties moved on.
c.
This movie was shot on the Lake Shore Division of the Chicago & North Western Railroad.
d.
This film is a partial remake/re-edit of the Australian animated feature
Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon
; footage from the original film was combined with new animation to create the final result.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Only a few minutes of this film have survived and the film is presumed lost.
b.
Steven Spielberg
and
Brian G. Hutton
both declined offers to direct this movie.
c.
This is the only RKO film where
Richard Martin
did not play Chito Jose Gonzales Bustamante Rafferty. Martin played the character more than 30 times in RKO westerns and in one WW 2 film.
d.
Francis Ford Coppola
spent days reading
Joseph Conrad
s source novel "Heart of Darkness" out loud to
Marlon Brando
on the set.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
An Aero Vodochody L-39 (registered as N39DF) jet airplane, nicknamed "Wild Child", crashed while filming, killing Terrance Henry "Terry" Fregly and Lt. Col. Skip "Hoss" Robertson.
b.
The Crew worked on the picture 16 and half hours a day including night filming in San Bernardino.
c.
The unreal plants in the grain fields in the end look like a recently discovered astrophysical phenomenon, solar penumbral filaments.
d.
Martin Ritt
: as a disgruntled factory worker.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Lons continuing illness forced the production to shut down for 17 days in end April-May 1929. But even after the rest his health was bad.
b.
Despite the fact that this was filmed in Super 35, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credits.
c.
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 Universal ever since.
d.
The production had a product placement plan with Coca-Cola, but it fell through. The Coke products were taken out or blurred. There is a huge hanging picture/advertisement in the diner that was blurred out. Photos on the inside flaps of the soundtrack album have Pepsi products.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
To build the cars, the animators used computer platforms very similar to the ones that real car manufacturers use.
b.
At the beginning of filming,
Heather Menzies-Urich
(Louisa) was about three inches taller than
Nicholas Hammond
(Friedrich). He had to wear heel lifts to make him look taller. By the end of the shoot, Nicolas Hammond had grown six inches (53" to 59"). He often filmed in no shoes and
Charmian Carr
had to stand on a box to make her taller. All of the Von Trapp children grew a lot during filming, so heel lifts and various camera tricks were used to keep their heights steady.
c.
After repeated takes of drinking Dr. Pepper and eating popcorn,
Ann Sothern
claimed she never wanted to see either product again.
d.
Lon begin filming on this on March 4th, 1929.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Filming in Chicago took from 14 March to 20 March. After that the cast and crew started the three day train trip back to Los Angeles.
b.
In the scene where Pike is attacking Meyer at Irwin and Rays Garage,
Jonathan Winters
actually injured
Phil Silvers
at least twice, visibly seen due to Phil Silvers reactions to getting hit. Once when Pike rams the back of Meyers head into a gas pump a little too hard, and again at least once during when he is hitting Meyer with a pair of spare tires.
c.
The DVD version of the movie actually offers the viewer a "CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE" ability, which allows you to pick which route the main character, Sara would like to take, leading her to ten different endings.
d.
In April 1957, this film was distributed on a double bill at many drive-in theaters with
Omar Khayyam
starring
Cornel Wilde
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Thunder (1929)?
a.
Luke Flynn
is
Errol Flynn
s grandson, and bears an uncanny resemblance to his grandfather.
b.
Time Out said that this movie had "a number of obvious plagiarisms (
Chinatown
,
Charley Varrick
,
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
)".
c.
The dream sequence was designed by
Salvador Dalí
, and was originally supposed to run slightly longer. It included a scene in a ballroom with hanging pianos and still figures pretending to dance, folled with J.B. dancing with Dr. Peterson who turns into a statue. It was cut from the final film due to lack of time to appropriately build the set to scale (little people were used in the background to give the illusion of perception, which did not satisfy
Alfred Hitchcock
or Dali). Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in the release version.
d.
This was the last silent film made by
Lon Chaney
.
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