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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Village of the Giants (1965) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Village of the Giants (1965) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965).
About the movie:
Delinquent teens ingest a substance and grow to 30 ft tall, then proceed to take over a small town.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
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.
b.
The story and screenplay for "the forgotten ones" were written with actors (and real-life brother and sister)
Turrand Evans-Roskos
("Alex") and
Hunter Evans-Roskos
("Kelly") in mind to play the leads after the two performers had to drop out of
Peter Anthony Fields
previous film,
Breath of Courage
, due to scheduling conflicts.
c.
Robert Forster
improvised the jokes in regard to his receding hairline, which a delighted
John Sayles
wrote into the script during shooting for the other characters.
d.
Loosely based on the
H.G. Wells
story "The Food of the Gods", about a substance that causes giant mutations in growing organisms. Children fed the substance become giants (capable of producing giant offspring), who choose to fight when their existence is threatened by adult authorities.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
On Casanova Frankensteins release papers (which are stamped "CURED"), one entry reveals that the patient is "unpredictable in bed."
b.
All scenes were reportedly shot in sequence.
c.
The production was so huge and demanded so much lumber and raw material that building materials became scarce throughout the rest of Italy.
d.
The beer that the delinquent teens drink after crashing their car is the once popular Blatz Beer.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
In one scene one of the giants reads an issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" with another
Bert I. Gordon
film,
War of the Colossal Beast
, in the cover.
b.
Michael Moorcock
has said his original script was faithful to the book. But the last 20 minutes were changed by the producers to include the volcano and caveman attacks on the Tylers men and destruction of the submarine.
c.
Moments before the filming of the Chinatown scene a crew member was approached by a local Chinese person who pointed out to him that all the neon signs with Chinese characters were upside down. A frantic rigging crew proceeded to flip all the signs while the shooting crew shot in the direction of the newly flipped signs.
d.
The stripes on his coat proved to be a nightmare for the animators working on Shere Khan.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
Ron Howard
plays a boy genius who invents a super growth formula. He later played the same kind of role in
Genius at Work
b.
In September, 2009, "Moonlight Sonata" will play at the Varna Film Festival in Bulgaria.
c.
Has the distinction of being the last major Hollywood movie to be released in the VHS format.
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.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
Filmed in "Perceptovision".
b.
Teddy Hart, the very diminutive brother of the great lyricist Lorenz Hart (Rodgers & Hart), has a tiny role as the complaining solider in the early Army training base sequences. Teddy had the lead in the Broadway production of his brothers Musical "The Boys From Syracuse" but never ever equaled his brothers success.
c.
Nobody knew until the day of the shoot that the cheerleader costumes were labeled CUFK. At that point, it was too late to do anything about it, so the scenes were shot.
d.
Although
Lucille Ball
was dubbed by
Martha Mears
in the performance of the title song, she did her own singing for "Friendship"--a song she would reprise years later on
I Love Lucy
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
Elmer Bernstein
s original unused score was released as a limited edition CD along with Bernsteins unused scores for
The Journey of Natty Gann
and
The Scarlet Letter
in 2008.
b.
Catherine Bell
was
Isabella Rossellini
s nude body double.
c.
Hearing that people fly "Rosenbergs" and "Goldbaums" instead of driving cars, Single-O comments that someone got revenge on Henry Ford - a jab at the famed auto makers well-known rabid anti-Semitism (now all but forgotten).
d.
The brand of chicken that the giant teenagers eat is a tie-in to the once-famous restaurant chain called Chicken Delight. The chain was known for home delivery of chicken and ribs, as well as its catchy motto: "Dont cook tonight, call Chicken Delight." A banner for the restaurant chain can be seen on a wall behind the adults who turn in their rifles.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
The Elias-Clarke Publishing building was actually the McGraw-Hill Publishing offices at 49th and 6th in midtown Manhattan.
b.
The fountain that
Freddy Cannon
sings in front of is the same one seen in the opening of
Friends
.
c.
The name of
Marguerite Chapman
s character is derived from the Queen of Mars from the classic Soviet silent film
Aelita
.
d.
This was the first Death Wish movie to be made after the
Bernard Goetz
vigilante shootings in New York. After this,
Charles Bronson
publicly stated that he recommended that people not imitate his character Paul Kersey from the Death Wish movies.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
A little-known band in Manchester, UK have adopted the name of Eli and The Third Revelation in homage to the film.
b.
The "Teen Magazine" that Merrie (
Joy Harmon
) reads was an actual issue of the magazine published in July 1965.
c.
Co-writer/Director
Jason Reitman
stated that if
George Clooney
had passed on the role of Ryan Bingham, he would have rewritten the part for
Steve Martin
. Reitman claimed that the movie would have become "much more like
Lost in Translation
was for
Bill Murray
."
d.
Many of the cast sing songs in this film -
Matt Berry
,
Mary Birdsong
and writer/lead actor
Bob Hardison
- all sing in the film as part of the country singing contest. Birdsongs character Maxine sings an original song that Birdsong herself wrote, called "Last Call Lullabye (Barstool Babysitter)." Both Birdsong and Agee are also in Marys L.A.-based band "99 Cent Whore".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
Robert Mitchum feared in comparing his character of Max Cady to Robert De Niros portrayal in the film. He had never seen either movies.
b.
An alternate version of the theme music - "The Last Race" - was reused by
Quentin Tarantino
in
Death Proof
.
c.
John Cusack
was the original choice for the role of District Attorney Rick Cabot, which eventually went to
Brendan Fraser
.
d.
The character of Nails the Spider is borrowed from Bakshis own Christmas in Tattertown character Sidney the Spider. Charlie Adler provides the voices for both characters.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Village of the Giants (1965)?
a.
Third of four feature films that
Bob Hope
and
Lucille Ball
made together.
b.
Billie Burke
never really rated the film much despite taking a personal interest in the writing of the script. She went to great lengths to make sure that writer
William Anthony McGuire
never besmirched the good name of
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
, hence the playing down of his infidelities.
c.
The words which Rudyard Kipling pens in the opening scene are the opening lines to an actual Kipling poem, "The Ballad of Boh da Thone". The poem contains several elements which feature in the movie.
d.
Exteriors were shot on the Columbia Studios backlot (now part of the Warner Bros. Backlot), the same lot as the exteriors for the TV series
Bewitched
and
I Dream of Jeannie
. Many scenes were shot on Courthouse Square at Universal Studios, which doubled as Hill Valley in
Back to the Future
.
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