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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Treasure Island (1950) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Treasure Island (1950) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950).
About the movie:
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Michelle Rodriguez
trained for two months before the 30-day shoot began. She was also chosen over 300 other women to be cast in the film. It was her first audition.
b.
Disneys first live action movie.
Walt Disney
started the project when postwar restrictions stopped him from transferring profits from his cartoons out of Great Britain. Rather than set up a new animation studio, he used the profits and existing facilities to produce a conventional film.
c.
The name on the Missing Persons report for
Brittany Murphy
s prostitute character reads "Krista Kutcher." Murphy dated actor
Ashton Kutcher
after they starred together in the movie
Just Married
.
d.
Pat Flaherty
and
Barlowe Borland
are in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but they did not appear or were not identifiable.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Champs line "I will take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again" is a reference to the comic book series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, where Dares nemesis, the Mekon, makes an identical threat against Dorothy Dare, Dans mother.
b.
At the beginning Taylor is standing in front of the Red Rabbit Pub. This is reference to the Red Rabbit matchbook found by Dr. Loomis in
Halloween
.
c.
Long John Silver claimed to have served with Hawke. Hawke was a naval officer best remembered for his victory over the French fleet at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.
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 Universal ever since.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was first telecast in January 1955, as part of the
Disneyland
television program. It was the first Disney live-action film to be shown complete on television, in two one-hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the 1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to "Walt Disneys Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to NBC.
b.
Steven Spielberg
: [music]
c.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 6, 1937 with
Alma Kruger
and
Marcia Mae Jones
reprising their film roles.
d.
According to contemporary newspaper advertisements, this film and
Ex-Bad Boy
played on a double in some theaters in early 1932.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Howard Douglas
replaced actor
Caven Watson
at short notice.
b.
This movie is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
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 MCA ever since.
d.
At the national team hockey tryouts, one of the main characters, Jack OCallahan greets another player Jim Craig, by saying, "Whats up, you sieve!" In ice hockey slang, a sieve is a goal tender who allows too many shots to go through into his/her net. Jim Craig was the goalie for the American team.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Early in the film, Polly runs around a corner. The wall of the building has graffiti which says "
Victor Fleming
".
b.
The treasure map that is integral to the movie was designed by puzzle columnist Dr. Crypton.
c.
A common misconception is that the film is missing a primary character, specifically Philadelphia Eagles veteran QB #7 Ron Jaworski. But Jaworski was still on the Los Angeles Rams during this time frame. Jaworski was not traded to the Eagles until March of 1977.
d.
John Howard Davies
, who had starred with
Robert Newton
in
Oliver Twist
, was sought to play Jim Hawkins.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
One of the first films to be re-released to theaters after being shown on television.
b.
Producer
Anthony Bregman
plays the driver who flips off Jane at the farmers market (it is not his voice though).
c.
Pain calls the potion that turns Hercules mortal Grecian Formula. Grecian Formula is an actual product used to color graying hair.
d.
Final film of
Hank Worden
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Mark Amin
, a producer, appears as a service station customer in the car while Dan is holding the pose.
b.
Francis Ford Coppola
had a background in theater, and used it to prepare to script. He wear take pages out of the book and paste them into a notebook, which gave him room enough to make detailed notes on the scenes he wanted to use, what he had to do to make them work, and what pitfalls to avoid. (One example: "Italians who-a talk-a like-a dis.")
c.
The use of black and white title cards to describe the action in the opening Cape Dorset sequences is a parody/tribute to Robert Flahertys documentary, "Nanook of the North".
d.
The featured performance of
Robert Newton
as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of todays stereotypical "Arrrrr"-laced pirate patois.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
When filming the meat truck scene with Scrimshaw and Jack, the director realized only that day that Scrimshaw had no lines prepared; the script only contained Tuck Pendletons voiceover. They hastily wrote a speech for
Kevin McCarthy
on a piece of paper, although in the film itself Tucks voiceover renders the monologue inaudible. In the DVD commentary,
Joe Dante
says the speech was wonderfully amusing, but the piece of paper was lost before the lines were copied elsewhere.
b.
There have been eight ships named Portland in the Royal navy. Silver is most likely referring to the third one, a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1744.
c.
This was the first appearance of a character known as Sheriff July Johnson, played by George Kennedy. Larry McMurtry would use this name later in Lonesome Dove, with the sheriff this time played by Chris Cooper.
d.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
wrote the two songs she performs in the movie.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names):
David Newell
(Bridegroom),
Minerva Urecal
(Fashion Editor),
Jack Mower
(Sergeant) and
Loia Cheaney
(Operator)
b.
Some of fake names used by the narrator in the self-help groups are taken from
Planet of the Apes
(Cornelius), as well as classic roles played by
Robert De Niro
(such as Rupert from
The King of Comedy
and Travis from
Taxi Driver
).
c.
Filmed in England, not in the West Indies.
d.
Based on the career and incarceration of birth control crusader
Margaret Sanger
, of whom director
Lois Weber
was an ardent admirer.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Treasure Island (1950)?
a.
David C. Hayes
was not present for any of the shoot. For his scenes, the other actors spoke to a stand-in. Hayes was then filmed separately delivering all of his lines and edited into the final film later as cut-aways.
b.
At his Bar Mitzvah, Danny reads a "Parshah" or portion of the Torah scroll known as "Behar" (Leviticus 25:1 - 26:2) which details the events of the Jubilee year, including the release of slaves and return of ancestral lands. Because the reading of Torah portions follow a set yearly cycle, this means that Dannys Bar Mitzvah occurred in early May of 1967.
c.
Bobby Driscoll only had a 3 month work permit in England so all his scenes were filmed first, a long way out of continuity, in order to complete his role in time.
d.
Screenwriter
Peter Briggs
wrote his original spec script for "Alien vs Predator" in 1991. The script sold overnight and made him the subject of numerous magazine and book "success story" articles. His version went adrift following studio politics in the wake of executive
Joe Roth
s departure from 20th Century Fox.
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