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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : White Lightning (1973) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : White Lightning (1973) Quiz
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About the movie:
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
Cher
and
Michelle Pfeiffer
were considered for the role of Lilly Dillon.
b.
Computer systems coordinator
Andrew Eio
s name appears as an IMF agent on the "NOC list".
c.
Laura Dern
: This movie was Derns uncredited film debut. Dern was just six years old in this brief non-speaking walk on bit part. Dern plays the daughter of her real life mother
Diane Ladd
who appears in this movie as Maggie.
d.
The obituary that Bobby reads for John Sullivan says that he was killed in a traffic pile-up. This is also how he dies in the book, and the circumstances of his death are given in the short story, "Why Were in Vietnam."
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
One of the few major musical films of the 1950s which was never shown on one of the Big Three networks, ABC, NBC, or CBS. It was, instead, sold directly to local stations, as most films used to be prior to 1956.
b.
Based on a series of sketches written for the
Jack Benny
radio program.
c.
While many people think Harry does in fact fly off at the end, he actually just drives off the bridge and kills himself. An explosion is heard, but people mistake it for the sound effects of Harrys brother rolling down the hill into boxes.
d.
Some of composer
Charles Bernstein
s music score from this movie was re-used in two
Quentin Tarantino
movies:
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
and
Inglourious Basterds
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
Loretta Young
was pregnant with her son
Christopher Lewis
during shooting and was told by her doctor to take it easy because of all the horseback riding she had to do during filming.
b.
The original Broadway production of "The Philadelphia Story" by
Philip Barry Jr.
opened at the Shubert Theater on March 28, 1939, ran for 417 performances, closed on March 30, 1940 and starred
Katharine Hepburn
,
Shirley Booth
,
Joseph Cotten
and
Hayden Rorke
.
c.
Daily Variety reported in May 1955 that United Artists had acquired the filming rights to the novel Run Silent Run Deep by Commander
Edward L. Beach
. This apparently was the first time that the United Artists studio had acquired a property outright without a ready production schedule. Traditionally, United Artists, a studio of independents, had made movies in association with independent artists who already had their stories for their movies in development.
d.
This was originally slated to be
Steven Spielberg
s first theatrical feature and he spent months on pre-production.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
D.W. Griffith
used this movie as a means of commenting, obliquely, on contemporary politics of his time. He drew parallels between the anarchist mobs that overthrew the French aristocrats, and what he says in opening titles to the film are the present American dangers of succumbing to the kind of "anarchy and Bolshevism" he perceived in the recent Russian Revolution. It is a great historical irony that those Bolsheviks Griffith railed against were quite smitten with the directors incomparable ways of generating film tension in crosscutting as well as his cinematic means of conveying good and evil via sophisticated editing and framing techniques. As the father of film syntax Griffith was an enormous influence on the Soviet filmmakers
Sergei M. Eisenstein
and
Vsevolod Pudovkin
, who were inspired by many of his films including the anti-Bolshevik
Orphans of the Storm
.
b.
Although she is left-handed,
Bitty Schram
throws and bats right-handed in the film.
c.
Jeremy Howard
shaved off his eyebrows for the duration of production to help cut makeup time in half.
d.
This was the first of the car stunt movies set in the American South that
Burt Reynolds
made during the 1970s and involved some kind of battle with a sheriff or official. This group of movies includes the Smokey and the Bandit films and this movies sequel,
Gator
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
Lt. Col. Patterson owned the skins and skulls of the two Tsavo man-eaters. In 1924, Patterson sold them to the Field Museum in Chicago for $5,000.
b.
One of two movies that
Oliver Hardy
acted in during the 23 year period he made comedies with his partner
Stan Laurel
.
c.
Steve Zahn
read for the role of Tom.
d.
The meaning and relevance of this movies title
White Lightning
is that it is a slang colloquial expression for moonshine whiskey. Moonshine is the MacGuffin subject of this movie.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
Weather problems that complicated the first week of location shooting for this film accounted for about $38,000 worth of the films final cost.
b.
A sequel to this movie
Gator
named after the first name of
Burt Reynolds
s Gator McKlusky character in this movie was released about three years after this picture came out.
c.
According to a Time Out review, this movie was
Burt Reynolds
s "first serious attempt to be funny".
d.
Vitaphone production reels #3041-3047
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
The chase sequence that ends with Gators car sailing from a river bank onto a barge went seriously wrong. The plan was for the car (driven by stuntman Hal Needham) to land squarely on the mound of soft earth in the barge, on the take he fell short and landed on the rear of the barge with the rear of the car hanging into the water. Needham was hurt and stunned, Reynolds watching the scene from behind the camera dove into the water, swam to the barge and helped pull Needham out of the car. Needham recovered from his injuries.
b.
During its 1950 reissue it was double-billed with "Gilda."
c.
Robert Zemeckis
: [citation] When Marty walks along the railroad tracks and finally reaches the town, he comes to the railway station. Then he walks into the town, while the camera slowly rises up above the station and finally shows Marty at a large distance walking into the town. This scene is shot exactly the same way as the scene in
Cera una volta il West
, when Jill arrives at the station.
d.
Tommy Lee Jones
actually wrote his own monologue, unbeknownst to the Writers Guild, but accredited it to films director
Irvin Kershner
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
Surrealist filmmaker
David Lynch
has stated that this is one of his favorite films, and used the "howling wind" sound effect in his film
Eraserhead
.
b.
Roy Dotrice
was originally cast in the role of Chartwell.
c.
This movies original title was McKlusky which is the surname of the main character, Gator McKlusky, played by
Burt Reynolds
. Interestingly, the sequel to this movie was named after this characters first name,
Gator
.
d.
During the first crash, the 4 girls are listening to
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich
. In 1960,
Eddie Cochran
was killed in England when he was thrown through a windshield of a taxi which had hit a light pole. A young police cadet at the station responsible for the investigation taught himself to play guitar with Cochrans impounded Gretsch from the wrecked car. His name was David Harman, later to become
Dave Dee
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
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.
Both
Michael Madsen
and
Christopher McDonald
were initially in talks to play the part of Harlan, the rapist.
c.
Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996.
d.
Warner Brothers falsely marketed the movie as being based on a true medieval legend.
Edward Khmara
took the issue to the Writers Guild Association and was awarded a cash settlement from Warners, but the medieval legend claim wasnt dropped.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: White Lightning (1973)?
a.
According to Culture Vulture, this movie was "the earliest in the cycle of hick flicks that
Burt Reynolds
rode to superstardom" on.
b.
Barbara Eden
and
Andy Williams
tested for roles.
c.
Franks frontal shots in the office scenes were filmed 8 months after the scenes were first shot. Any lines he is seen saying are lip-synced.
d.
On the exterior wall of the womens nightclub "Its Raining Men", above the red entrance awning, there is a larger-than-life picture of a well-built naked man with a glowing, glittering star covering "the goods". The head on this cutout is that of director
Adam Rifkin
. This is his cameo in the film, as actually acting in front of the camera would have violated the terms of his work visa (the film was shot in Canada).
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