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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Yellow Submarine (1968) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Yellow Submarine (1968) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968).
About the movie:
The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
30 people are murdered in this film and 55 gallons of blood was spilled.
b.
The mysterious Rasheed is based on the Moroccan guide who accompanied the movie-staff while they were scouting locations.
c.
This film underwent restoration work in 1998 for release in 1999. Since it was the original British version that was restored, American audiences finally got to see the five minutes of footage that had been missing in the original 85-minute U.S. version, including the "Hey Bulldog" sequence, which was deleted for unknown reasons.
d.
Certain elements that were removed in earlier story treatments and cuts of the film were reintroduced in the final shot of Lewis workshop. One outstanding element is the anti-gravity boots, which can be seen to the right of the unfinished Carl the Robot, which Lewis used in a fight with Doris in an early storyboard.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
"Only a Northern Song" was originally written for the "Sergeant Pepper" album, and is a reference to Northern Songs Ltd.,
The Beatles
s music publishing company.
b.
Penny Pingletons dress in the "You Cant Stop the Beat" song was made from the curtains in her room.
c.
The films negative was tied up in legal limbo, so the Lions Gate DVD edition of the film was mastered from a Lightning Video VHS master.
d.
The song "Dreams to Dream" is based on a theme used in
An American Tail
. It is heard during Bridgets speech in the market, as well as at the end of the Orphan Alley sequence, as the camera pulls back on the orphaned mice sleeping in the rain.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
Vitaphone production reels #2671-2676; a Vitaphone musical score and sound effects were added to this otherwise silent production.
b.
Mary McCormack
was pregnant throughout filming, explaining why most shots of her are filmed above the waist.
c.
When the producers approached
The Beatles
about this film, the group, which hated the TV cartoon show of them (
The Beatles
, also produced by
Al Brodax
and
George Dunning
), agreed to it only as an easy way of completing their movie contract. As such, they contributed only a few old songs and four quickly produced numbers: "Only a Northern Song", "Hey Bulldog", "All Together Now" and "Its All Too Much". However, when they saw the finished film, they were so impressed by it that they decided to appear in a short live action epilogue to the film.
d.
This film was originally in pre-production in the early 1990s, with
Danny DeVito
and
Meryl Streep
set to play Boris and Natasha. Legal problems with copyrights prevented the film being made until several years later.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
David Arquette
plays younger brother to
Drew Barrymore
, although Barrymore is almost 5 years younger than him in real-life.
b.
The 1970 USTV premiere of this film was on CBS and hosted by the cast of the networks popular series "Family Affair": Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot, Anissa Jones, Johnnie Whitaker, and Cathy Garver. Presented in character, the wrap-arounds involved the fictional Davis family viewing and commenting on the film.
c.
Director
David Price
and actress
Lysette Anthony
met on the set of this film and later married.
d.
The scene in which the boxing dinosaur is smoking a Cigar (it has a band) is a parody of the long-running series of ad for Hamlet Cigars. "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" was a long-running campaign for Hamlet Cigars, lasting until tobacco advertising on television was banned in the UK in 1991. Radio and television commercials used an excerpt from
Johann Sebastian Bach
s Air on the G String, which is still frequently associated with the brand.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
The film was re-cut over 20 times, according to director
Stephen Hopkins
, because of more graphic shots of mutilated bodies and decapitations by the Predator.
b.
With the closing song "All Together Now", the phrase itself is shown twenty-seven times in sixteen languages. The sequence: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, English, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Farsi, Swahili, Sanskrit, French, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, German, Japanese, English.
c.
The scene in which Sloane and Ed Rooney are standing outside, waiting for Mr. Peterson, the school in the background was
John Hughes
s old high school.
d.
The film was shot on two days a week over the course of 4 months. It took 26 days total to shoot.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
Charles Chaplin
: a railroad worker. He is very easy to spot. He is carrying a huge box over his head, and he is alone.
b.
Because of a fire that destroyed costumes and props for the film, filming was pushed back two weeks.
c.
George comments "I know something about motors" when the submarines stops working. As a matter of fact,
George Harrison
s brother was a mechanic, and George himself had worked as an apprentice electrician in his teens and planned to go into business with his brother.
d.
Studio advisers warned
Ray Milland
that this would be the death of his career. Milland himself was initially reluctant to take the part, as it had been turned down by many other leading actors of the day. However, Paramount was convinced that the only way they could sell such a film was with a matinée idol in the lead.
Billy Wilder
acquiesced to this only when it became clear that his first choice,
José Ferrer
, would not land the part.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
The book Max Cherry is reading when Jackie comes out of jail is "Berlin Game" by Len Deighton
b.
This was the first film to receive 10 Academy Award nominations.
c.
The car Natalie and Kate drive on their road trip in the film, a white 1998 Chevy Malibu, belongs to writer-director Eileen Agosta. With well over 115,000 miles on her and the signs of aging already becoming apparent before shooting even began, the production was quite rough on Eileens poor car. In one of the films more climactic scenes, which called for actor Chris Borden to start the car and drive away, the Malibu stalled on every take.
d.
Blue Meanies have six fingers on each hand.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
The movies poster was listed as #20 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere magazine.
b.
Greta Garbo
turned down the role not because she refused to share the spotlight, but because she believed that at 27 she was too old to play a prima ballerina.
c.
The original ending was scrapped and a new one shot so that the film would pass the censor. The original ending had both
Tyrone Power
s and
Maureen OHara
s character jumping into the sea.
d.
Sound was recorded with an ordinary cassette recorder and mike. The sequence with the pit bull terrier was shot specifically so that
Robert Rodriguez
could synchronize the sound with the picture later.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
To this day, the film is still banned in Belarus.
b.
This film was completed in 1988 with the title Catacombs, but when its intended distributor went out of business, the film was not released. The film debuted on video and laser disc in 1993 with the title Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice in an attempt to capitalize on the mild success of the Curse films. This however, is illogical, as the film was made before both
Curse II: The Bite
and
Curse III: Blood Sacrifice
.
c.
When the film was being restored for DVD, the producers obtained
The Beatles
permission to remix the songs in order to produce a proper 5.1 music track. Engineer
Peter Cobbin
went back to The Beatles original four-track work tapes and assembled true multi-track masters for each of the 15 songs, enabling him to achieve stereo effects and adding clarity that had never previously been possible. Many Beatles fans objected to this, although the surviving Beatles themselves reportedly approved the new mixes.
d.
Mel Ferrer
also appears at the Eiffel Tower party as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Yellow Submarine (1968)?
a.
Robert Benton
advised cinematographer
Néstor Almendros
to base the look and color of the film on the paintings of Piero della Francesca. Almendros also used the work of
David Hockney
as an inspiration, and designed a realistic look, using source lighting in rooms with ceilings and available light in exteriors.
b.
The Scottish Castle used as MI6s secret headquarters is the same castle used in
Highlander
. Its called "Eilean Donan Castle" and is located near the Isle of Skye, West Scotland.
c.
The studio wanted
Vin Diesel
to play Hellboy.
d.
Peter Batten
was a deserter from the British army at the time of the creation of the film. In the final weeks of production he was arrested for desertion, and
Paul Angelis
had to finish voicing the part of George.
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