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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wicked, Wicked (1973) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wicked, Wicked (1973) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Wicked, Wicked (1973) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973).

About the movie: A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Once editing had begun on the film, Richard L. Bare realized he hadnt shot enough coverage to edit a full-length split-screen movie, so he had to shoot an additional 3,000 feet of film.
b.		Included on the Action Film Challenges 2010 "Best Of" DVD.
c.		For the most part, there is no English dialogue heard in this movie. The language heard is grunt like Cavespeak. Technically, the language (other than the small amount of English) that is heard in this movie could be described as Gibberish just like the grunt language was so described for the classic French cult movie Themroc.
d.		The Halloween sequence on the street outside of the Smith home was primarily filmed from low angles, so that the movie audience would experience the Halloween night as though they were seeing it through the eyes of a child. When Tootie (Margaret OBrien) embarks on her adventure to the Braukoff home, the houses appear to be large and looming.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Some of Emily Blunts dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress face being digitally placed on the dancers body.
b.		Projected at a unique aspect ratio of 2.65:1.
c.		Technicolor cinematographer William V. Skall was relegated to the position of photographic advisor when he broke his ankle in a fall.
d.		Screened for multiple veteran groups: Military Writers Society of America, 101st Airborne, NYU and John Jay College of Criminal Justice Veterans Groups, Gulf War Veterans Reunion. The reaction was off the charts.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		The total budget was $1,500,000.
b.		The recovery ship for the return from Mars was specified at the USS Oriskany (CV-34) which was decommissioned in 1975. The short shot we see of the Oriskany was footage from The Bridges at Toko-Ri, with the Korean War era straight-winged F9F Panthers in place on the deck catapults. Main characters in both films, William Holdens character in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" and James Brolins character in "Capricorn One," are both named Brubaker.
c.		The subplot of the Secretary of Defense trying to assume control of the White House over the Vice President, was inspired by former Secretary of State Alexander Haig. After Ronald Reagan was shot, Haig incorrectly insisted that he was in control of the White House, because then-Vice President George Bush was in Texas. The Secretary of State is actually fourth in the presidential line of succession, behind the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate.
d.		Vehicles featured in the film include the new DBR9 Aston Le Mans racer based casino ice 2007 Aston Martin DBS; a silver birch Aston Martin DB5; a 2007 Mk IV Ford Mondeo car; a Fiat Ferroviaria / Alstom Pendolino CD 680 tilting train; a DeHavilland Canada Twin Otter seaplane; a "Spirit 54" Spirit Yacht; Sunseeker boats including an XS 2000, a Sportsfish 37 and Le Chiffres Predator 108 yacht; a bendy articulated bus; a Texron fuel truck oil tanker; Miami Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor cars; cranes; a Fiat W190 bulldozer; a Notar MD-600N helicopter; Range Rover and Land Rover Defender; Jaguars, Lincolns & Volvos; a Skyfleet S570 prototype airplane and a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		The casting of Edd Byrnes was easy. Executive producer William T. Orr originally cast Byrnes on 77 Sunset Strip, and Richard L. Bare directed numerous episodes of the show.
b.		This is the only Jerry Lewis solo film that mentions Dean Martin by name. Ed Sullivan includes Martin & Lewis in a list of famous acts that made their debuts on his show.
c.		The character of Joey Zasa was based on two mob kingpins of the 1960s and early 1970s. One was Joe Columbo, who organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, which was supposedly a civil rights organization but was actually intended to stop FBI investigations into mob activities. Colombo embarrassed others in the Cosa Nostra by keeping a high public profile and enraged Mafia bigwigs when they discovered he was making a fortune from the organization and not sharing any of the money with them. He was shot in New Yorks Columbus Circle (though he didnt die until several years later) during a rally by his organization. The hitman, a black gangster, was immediately shot and killed "person or persons unknown", according to police reports. The other is Joe Gallo, who organized the hit on Colombo, was known (and reviled by other mobsters) for recruiting blacks and Hispanics into his crew and hung out with several Hollywood and Broadway celebrities, including actor Jerry Orbach.
d.		Series of 12 two-reel comedies released from 1 March 1926 to 1 August 1926: #1: Roll Your Own; #2: Its a Buoy; #3: Plane Jane; #4: Sock Me to Sleep; #5: Smouldering Tires; #6: Whiskering Chorus; #7: The Lightning Slider; #8: The Big Charade; #9: Up and Wooing; #10: When Sallys Irish Rose; #11: Twelve Smiles Out; #12: Alls Swell That Ends Swell. Many of the titles are word plays on popular feature films of the era.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Carroll Baker was married to director Jack Garfein at the time they made this film (they divorced in 1969).
b.		48 hours after Richard L. Bare and William T. Orr pitched the script to MGM executives, they received the green-light.
c.		Shot in twenty days.
d.		The movie is based on two actual people who used to rob banks the same way Joe and Terry did.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		While filming on the sky lift in Rüdesheim, director of photography Loyal Griggs fell out of a tram car, plunging thirty feet to the vineyards below, but was not seriously injured.
b.		The film is dedicated to Sam Phillips, the man who discovered Elvis Presley and founded Sun Records. Philliips do-it-yourself aesthetic inspired Craig Brewer to write the film.
c.		When asked about the films tone, writer-director Richard L. Bare described the movie as "high camp... We call it half Grand Hotel and and half Grand Guignol."
d.		Many people claim that a face appears in the snow just before the final scene fades out.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Michael Schumacher recorded his lines in 4 different languages - English, German, French and Italian.
b.		Edited on a double-headed Moviola.
c.		Richard Donner was talked into directing the film by Joel Silver, who really wanted him on the project.
d.		Filmed in 1982, not released until 1987.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Willards mother tells him she should have given him a better name. The meaning of Willard is "Will Brave", the opposite of Willards skittish demeanor. The name she tries to give him, Clark (i.e. Clerk) is Willards occupation at Martin-Stiles.
b.		A body double was used for Kevin Costners nude scene under the waterfall.
c.		Dedicated to Robert De Niros father, Robert De Niro Sr., who died in 1993.
d.		Writer/director Richard L. Bare and producer William T. Orr planned to follow-up "Wicked, Wicked" with another Duo-Vision thriller called "October Incident," which dealt with an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. The Duo-Vision gimmick, however, wasnt well received, so the film was never made.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		The first film to be nominated for every major Academy Award, including Best Picture.
b.		Two aircraft were used for the background flying sequences. They were painted and modified to look like USN Douglas Dauntless dive bombers, but were in fact a Harvard and a Wirraway. Unfortunately little footage of the aircraft managed to make the final cut. You get a glimpse of the Wirraway running along the invasion beaches piloted by Doug Haywood and Owen OMalley. Two of the movie pilots actually flew in World War 2, Jack Curtis and Owen OMalley. Sadly, The Wirraway crashed at an Airshow in Nowra, Australia in 2000. Piloted by Owen, both him and his passenger perished.
c.		The role of Alex was initially offered to Iyari Limon but declined the role to spend time with her child.
d.		"I got the idea for Duo-Vision one day when I was driving down the highway from Newport to Los Angeles, looking at the white line," Richard L. Bare revealed in a 1973 with The Oakland Tribune. "As I glanced from one side of the freeway to the other, I noticed how my mind was taking a picture over here, then another over there." The idea stayed in Bares head for two years before he decided to rewrite and reformat his unsold screenplay "The Squirrel," which ultimately became "Wicked, Wicked."

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Wicked, Wicked (1973)?
a.		Tiffany Bolling eventually removed the film from her professional résumé "because no one ever saw it."
b.		The name of "Elura" is actually the stuff that the Elvira wig is made of.
c.		Debut of Susanna Foster.
d.		Otto Torwarth, Secretariats jockey, is a real jockey who was born in Arkansas, but spent his early life in Canada and picked up the accent. He had to work to lose it for the film. (The other jockeys are also real jockeys, there was much riding to be done and everyone knew actors couldnt get the horses to perform as required, gauging the distances needed for the various wins, places, and shows. The director says the distances are accurate to within 1/2 length in each recreation.

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