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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Young Winston (1972) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Young Winston (1972) Quiz
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About the movie:
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill (Simon Ward)...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
This was
Burt Reynolds
s first big theatrical movie since about 1989-1990, a gap of about three or four years. He had done a small part in
The Player
. During the intervening years, Reynolds had been appearing in television, in the series
Out of This World
and
B.L. Stryker
. This film however was not considered his "comeback" movie, that film would be
Striptease
made about three years later. That movie gained more public attention, because of the type of movie it was and Reynolds character whereas this movie was a childrens film, a parody of the cop buddy movie.
b.
It took 8 days to shoot the film but 8 months to edit it.
c.
This was
Bob Hope
s first feature film in Technicolor.
d.
Robert Shaw
was 3rd choice for Lord Churchill.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
Shooting the early scenes, director
Michael Curtiz
accused
Joan Crawford
of needlessly glamorizing her working mother role. She insisted she was buying her characters clothes off the rack, but didnt mention that her own dressmaker was fitting the waists and padding out the shoulders.
b.
Before
Elliot Goldenthal
was brought in to compose the score, the film was temp-tracked from
James Horner
s score for
Titanic
. Cues from the piece A Promise Kept were borrowed for the original opening sequence and can be found on the Special Edition DVD.
c.
This was the first of five films that
Richard Attenborough
and
Anthony Hopkins
worked together on. They later worked together on
Magic
,
A Bridge Too Far
,
Chaplin
, and
Shadowlands
.
d.
Maggie Q
had to learn how to drive for the movie, she didnt know how to before. It is revealed in the DVD extras that while driving during the shoot, the heel of her shoe got stuck on the accelerator, leading her car to crash (lightly) into another parked car.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
Robert Hardy
who plays the Headmaster later went on to portray Winston Churchill in five separate films; "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" (1981), "The Woman He Loved" (1988), "War and Remembrance" (1988), "Bomber Harris" (1989) and "Agatha Christie Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (2006) (TV)".
b.
A sequel titled "Robinson Crusoe in the Invisible Galaxy" was planned but it was scrapped due to the films lackluster box office.
c.
The pizza joint fight scene was shot and used for an earlier
Edward D. Wood Jr.
film,
Night of the Ghouls
.
d.
This movie was a box-office hit for Universal Studios and its record was apparently not broken until
Jaws
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
The name of the winning play that Marshall used against Xavier was "213 Bootleg Screen".
b.
Director
Sam Taylor
caught the flu in mid-February 1935; assistant director
Edmond F. Bernoudy
filled in for him during his illness.
c.
Edward A. Lynch filed a suit in a U.S. Federal Court against Warner Bros/First National Pictures in 1940. Lynch asked for $100,000, claiming that his book, "When Homer Comes Marching Home," was plagiarized by the Warner production, "Son of a Sailor," which starred Joe E. Brown. Trial opened on Thursday, February 15, with Federal Judge Clraence G. Galston presiding.
d.
The locomotive featured in the railway scenes was artist David Shepards BR Standard Class 9 Black Prince
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
In January, 1957,
Herb Stempel
and
Charles Van Doren
actually had a series of three scripted ties and
Charles Van Doren
finally won on the fourth game. While
Charles Van Doren
did lose to Vivienne Nearing, he actually played against her three times to a tie before losing. He had beat her husband, Victor Nearing, earlier in the year. He signed a 3-year contract for $150,000 ($50,000 a year in the movie, pretty much got it right) in April, 1957, to guest on
Steve Allen
s show, guest host the
Today
show, and be a panelist on NBCs radio show, "Conversations."
b.
Simon Ward
was 2rd choice for Winston Churchill.
c.
The swimming scene (Billy and Wyatt go swimming with two commune girls) was shot at two different times. When they shot the scene
Peter Fonda
was in the hospital. You cant see him together with
Dennis Hopper
or one of the girls in the entire scene. The legs you see are from a stand-in. The images of Fonda were shot separately, weeks later.
d.
Neither
Olivia Wilde
(Quorra) nor
Garrett Hedlund
(Sam Flynn) were born when the original
TRON
was first released.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
Joseph Olita
, who plays Idi Amin, also played him in
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
.
b.
At one point Donald OConnor commiserates with Bing Crosby, "Youve got yourself a case of moonburn, huh?" "Moonburn" is the title of a
Hoagy Carmichael
song added to the 1936 film version of
Anything Goes
also starring Bing Crosby.
c.
The sheer dotted muslin gown
Kate Winslet
, (Marianne Dashwood), wears during the lawn bowling scene at Barton Park is the same costume
Charity Wakefield
(Marianne Dashwood) wears at Norland Park in
Sense & Sensibility
. The costume is also worn by Amelia Warner (Fanny Price, age 17) in
Mansfield Park
and by
Jennifer Higham
(Louisa Musgrove) at Uppercross in
Persuasion
.
d.
In the scene at the Windsor racetrack, you can see part of
Michael Caine
s backyard and the roof of the house he owned over
Robert Shaw
s shoulder.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Young Winston (1972)?
a.
In one scene, Master Roshi wears shades. In the anime, Roshi always wore shades.
b.
The first film of
Nigel Hawthorne
.
c.
First
Walt Disney
film of
Dean Jones
, who would become a perennial favorite of the studio throughout the balance of the 1960s and 70s.
d.
This movie was conceived over a decade before it was made when
Tippi Hedren
worked in Africa on films during the 1960s / 1970s such as
Satans Harvest
. She once said of its conception in Africa: "Exploring a game reserve, we came across a pride of lions that was living in an abandoned game wardens house. We thought it was wonderful, and my husband
Noel Marshall
wrote a script around the idea." Hedren says on The ROAR official site: "We were delighted with the way they adapted themselves to living there. And they were so funny we knew we had an idea for a picture." The site goes on to say that the idea for this movie "grew from a father and mothers passion for cats."
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