Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Part (2) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949).

About the movie: A hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber pilot unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		According to director Terry Zwigoff, Steve Buscemi was so uncomfortable playing the role of Seymour that whenever shooting was finished for the day, he would immediately change his clothes so he could look completely different.
b.		Director Jay Russell wanted a smooth haired fox terrier to play Skip, the same breed as the original Skip, but he wasnt able to find trained ones. Early in preproduction, he used a dog with no acting experience for a shoot of second unit type footage and quickly found difficulty in doing even basic things, like keeping the dog in the frame. He concluded they needed dogs trained in acting, so similar looking Jack Russell terriers were used (at 07:00 in the directors commentary).
c.		First choices for the part of the princess were Jean Simmons and Suzanne Cloutier. Elizabeth Taylor was also considered for the part. Both Taylor and Simmons had to be immediately ruled out as they were preoccupied with other projects at the time.
d.		As of July, 2008, Robert Arthur (Sgt. McIllhenny) was the only remaining/living cast member who received billing in the original film credits. He turned 83 in June, 2008.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		For the dream sequence during the bathtub scene, Director Christopher OBrien was trying to figure how to get a camera shot of "Jimmy" from underwater. It was Producer Scott LoCicero who suggested he use a mirror placed at the bottom of the tub with the camera pointed downward.
b.		Nancy Allen (Ofc. Ann Lewis), Robert DoQui (Sgt. Reed), Felton Perry (OCPs Johnson), Mario Machado (Newsanchor Casey Wong) and Angie Bolling (Murphys wife) are the only actors to appear in all three RoboCop movies.
c.		This movies opening prologue states: "The air battle scenes in this Motion Picture were photographed in actual combat by members of the United States Air Force and the German Luftwaffe."
d.		The claw machine in the bar contains, among other things, a box of Ex-Lax, a box of Gas-X, a liquor bottle filled with a dark brown liquid (bourbon maybe?), and a cell phone.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		After the film was made, Gregory Peck became great friends with the character he had played, Gen. Frank Armstrong, who clearly approved of Pecks portrayal of him.
b.		The main characters name, Chava, is the diminutive (nickname) for anyone named Salvador, which is also the name of the country the story takes place.
c.		Disney digitally re-recorded the soundtrack for the 1982 re-release because the original Leopold Stokowski soundtrack from 1940 sounded dated and very limited in fidelity. But for the 1990 50th Anniversary release, Disney reverted to the original soundtrack from 1940, which they cleaned up as best as possible (although the limited fidelity could not be corrected) and this is the soundtrack the film has today.
d.		In an interview in American Cinematographer, Michael Mann said that as far as he was aware, this was one of the first movies to attempt to make a "look" out of digital video rather than trying to make DV look like film. This approach meant the movie could be shot in the low-light scenes of urban desolation Mann wanted - because Digital reacts much better to low light than film. The approximately 20% of the picture that was shot on film was mostly, according to Mann, the portion set in the "Fever" nightclub - because this is the scene with the brightest lighting states, a condition in which DV does not perform as well.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		"Twelve OClock High" is an example of a pilots enemy position call. During World War II pilots would call-out the positions of enemy airplanes by referring to their bearings via the use of a pretend face of a clock. In this case, 12 OClock meant the enemy was directly ahead, whereas 6 OClock would mean directly behind. "High" or "Low" referred to whether the enemy was above or below the airplane respectively. "Even" meant that the enemy was level with the pilots plane.
b.		The last film that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis did together before breaking up as a comedy team.
c.		Wes Anderson said that part of his inspiration for The Darjeeling Limited was The River, and more specifically that he owes a debt of gratitude to Martin Scorsese for screening the film personally for him.
d.		The films story is inspired by two different head injuries that director Jill Sprecher endured.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		Final film of Dickie Jones.
b.		When Linnea Gold tosses the slug like creature into the air and blasts it with her pistol, she says "Thrill me", the catch phrase of Det. Ray Cameron (Tom Atkins) in Night of the Creeps, who was fighting almost identical alien slugs in that film.
c.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 7, 1950 with Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Millard Mitchell and John Kellogg reprising their film roles.
d.		Because of this film, makeup and industry technological contributions became recognized by the Academy Awards in 1981. Makeup artist Rick Baker was the first to receive an Oscar in the new category. William Tuttle was the first makeup effects artist to receive an Oscar (being an honorary one) for his work on 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		To get into the character of Marion, who is a dress designer, Jennifer Connelly started making clothes for herself, and ended up making most of her own wardrobe.
b.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 12, 1951 with Gregory Peck and Hugh Marlowe again reprising their film roles.
c.		Joeys artwork was done by comic book artist Neal Adams.
d.		The most successful of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, Marvels most commercially successful film and the highest grossing film for Sony Pictures Entertainment to date.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		In addition to Gen. Savage (inspired by Gen. Frank Armstrong), many characters in this film were based on real-life people. Maj. Gen. Pat Prichard (played by Millard Mitchell) is based on Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, first commander of the 8th Bomber Command. Col. Keith Davenport (Gary Merrill) is based on Col. Charles B. Overacker, first commander of the 306th Bomb Group. Lt. Jessie Bishop (Robert Patten) is based on Lt. John Morgan, a B-17 co-pilot who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for landing his plane after his pilot was severely wounded during a bombing run. Maj. Joe Cobb (John Kellogg) is based on Maj. (later Col.) Paul Tibbets, who later became famous as the pilot of the B-29 "Enola Gay" which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 (Tibbets himself served as a technical advisor for this movie). Sgt. McIlhenny (Robert Arthur) is based on Sgt. Donald Bevan, who was shot down over Germany in 1943 and became a POW. Bevan later co-wrote the play Stalag 17, with fellow POW Edmund Trzcinski, based on their prison camp experiences.
b.		Stuntman Cliff Lyons worked as a stuntman/chariot driver in both Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and the remake Ben-Hur.
c.		The original director of the film was Gore Verbinski. When the budget was upgraded, Brian De Palma started to show interest. Rewrites in the script were also done.
d.		Originally, real life boxer Kenny Norton was offered the role of Apollo Creed, but because he was 230 pounds, it was felt he would dwarf Stallone too much, and a smaller man was sought.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		Captain Howdy was the name of the ghost Linda Blair claimed to be talking to through the Ouija board in The Exorcist.
b.		The Robin Hood Toby mug prop can be spotted in the background in a scene from the 20th Century Fox movie Valley of the Dolls. Its sitting on a wire-frame shelving unit in one of the "Dolls" apartments.
c.		This film was originally made around late 1993, and was supposed to be released in theaters during the holiday season of 1994. However, some production problems in France caused the films release to be pushed back to 1995, while The Lion King was reissued to fill in for the films absence.
d.		Donnie Yen, a martial arts star who plays a member of the Bloodpack (Snowman,) was also the films fight choreographer.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		Richard Thorpe, the original director of the film, had shot around two weeks of footage before he was fired. Among the scenes he shot were Dorothys meeting of the Scarecrow on the Yellow Brick Road along with his song and dance, as well as all the scenes involving the Wicked Witchs castle. Thorpes footage had a remarkably different look from what was seen in the finished film. Most striking was the look of Judy Garlands Dorothy, who in Thorpes footage had a blonde tousled hairstyle with baby doll make-up. Ray Bolgers Scarecrow also had different make-up as well as trousers. Margaret Hamilton had different make-up as the Wicked Witch of the West. In addition, Buddy Ebsen was playing the Tin Man. In Thorpes footage the Yellow Brick Road also had a different look, as it was not curbed and made up of artificial looking oval bricks, instead of the curbed real rectangular ones in the finished film. Thorpes footage has not been seen since it was shot in 1938 but surviving home movies, taken by composer Harold Arlen, shows a few shots of a blonde Garland and Bolger rehearsing their Scarecrow meeting scene, giving the viewer a glimpse of what Thorpes Oz would have looked like.
b.		When the radio operator aboard the "Venture" receives a radiogram via Morse code, supposedly telling the captain that Carl Denham is wanted by the police back in New York, the Morse code message in the soundtrack actually says "Show me the monkey." (In Morse, this is ... .... --- .-- / -- . / - .... . / -- --- -. -.- . -.-- )
c.		The films dedication states: "This motion picture is dedicated to those Americans, both living and dead, whose gallant effort made possible daylight precision bombing. They were the only Americans fighting in Europe in the fall of 1942. They stood alone, against the enemy and against doubts from home and abroad. This is their story."
d.		Lou Costello always suspected that Universal wasnt giving him and Bud Abbott the agreed-upon share of the profits the studio made from their films (a suspicion later proven, as a result of legal action they took against Universal, to be true). Therefore, he developed a habit of picking out furniture he liked from the sets of their films and taking it home, considering it payback for what he believed to be Universals cheating. One day director Charles Lamont showed up on the set to shoot a scene at the ice skating rink only to discover that all the wrought-iron patio furniture that had been there the previous day had disappeared. Costello denied any knowledge of it, and Lamont said he would shoot no more scenes until the furniture was returned. A compromise was finally reached whereby Costello would bring back the furniture, the scene would be shot, and then he would be allowed to bring all of the furniture back home.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)?
a.		Gregory Peck reprised his Oscar nominated role as General Savage on the 7th of September 1950 in a radio show for the Screen Guild Players.
b.		All of the character names, with the exception of George, are all names of characters that appear in the five George A. Romero Dead Films.
c.		Producer Arch Hall Sr. also directed, under the name Nicholas Merriwether, and acted, under the name William Watters.
d.		According to Oliver Stone, he cast Joshua Gallegos as the immigration officer because of his resemblance to Erik Estrada on CHiPs

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