Pose a question about a movie & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google..Part 2

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1) Who gave Mel Brooks the idea for "Young Frankenstein"?

2) What famous actor turned down the role of "Big Joe" in "Kelley's Heroes"? (answered)

3) Name one of the three SNL cast members who turned down the chance to be in Animal House (Two left)

4) What was the name of the motel in Psycho? (answered)

5) What was the name of the hotel in Barton Fink?

6) What was the original title of American Graffiti?

7) Who was Mel Brooks' original choice to play Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles? (answered)

8) What was the name of the other band that played the roller rink in "The Commitments"?

9) What was the name of the hooker who got cut in Unforgiven? (answered)

10) What movie was Robert De Niro's first major role? (answered)

11) What was the most expensive movie ever made?

12) What was Harold Ramis' last movie? (He was director, producer, writer & star)

13) What was the name of the character in "Never Grow Old" whose tongue had been cut out?

14) What horror movie was produced for only $15,000 but eventually had six sequels?

15) Who directed "The Hunt for Red October"?

16) Who was the original director of "Tombstone"?






More movie questions from Part 1
https://democraticunderground.com/10181544521

[Peregrine Took]

1. How did Hitchcock get Janet Leigh to scream like that in Psycho?

[Harker]

6. Cold water?

[Beartracks]

2. Confused: See if anyone knows what movie it is -- when the movie's right there in the question?

[red dog 1]

12. Thanks for pointing that mistake out...(I changed the title of the thread)

[Beartracks]

3. #7...

Richard Pryor!

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[red dog 1]

11. You got it!

[rsdsharp]

4. #4

Bates Motel.

[red dog 1]

13. Yep

[Harker]

5. 10... Bang the Drum Slowly?

14. Night of the Living Dead?

[red dog 1]

16. Two good guesses, but no on both

[Mister Ed]

7. In what two (unrelated) movies did Susan Sarandon play the mother of Brooke Shields' character?

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. I know one of them...

Pretty Baby. Do I get half credit?

[Mister Ed]

21. Yes! And the other one, released later the same year, was...

..."King of the Gypsies."

[Mister Ed]

20. Yes! And the other one, released later the same year, was...

..."King of the Gypsies".

[Bayard]

8. #12

Ghostbusters?

[red dog 1]

14. Nope, good guess though

[Bayard]

9. What parting gift

Did Kevin Costner's lieutenant character give the mule team driver?

[Walleye]

10. 10.

Mean Streets?

[red dog 1]

17. No, good guess though

[Beartracks]

18. #14

Halloween.

I seem to recall reading once that John Carpenter even saved money on scoring the film since "no one worked as cheap as" himself.

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[red dog 1]

24. Nope

[miyazaki]

22. 11) Waterworld? 14) Blair Witch?

guessing.

[red dog 1]

25. Nope and Nope

[DeeNice]

23. #2 Peter Boyle?

[red dog 1]

26. Nope

[red dog 1]

27. What actor played guitar with the mountain-boy (on banjo) in "Deliverance"?

[First Speaker]

30. Ronnie Cox

[red dog 1]

31. That's the guy!

He was also great in "Bound For Glory" (about Woody Guthrie)

[Paladin]

137. Remember when they find Ronnie Cox's "Deliverance" character in the water?

Where his arm is wrenched around his head? That was no fake limb, that was Cox's actual arm. He suffered a dislocation accident when he was young which allowed him to stretch that arm out and about. I only found out that bit of gruesome trivia recently.

[red dog 1]

28. Who did Quentin Tarantino originally choose to play Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds"?

(Tarantino's spelling of the movie)

[red dog 1]

29. Who was originally cast to play Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli in "My Blue Heaven"?

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[red dog 1]

32. Besides the actor in # 29, what other actor turned down the role of "Vinnie" in My Blue Heaven?

[red dog 1]

33. What actor was Robert Altman's 1st choice to play Haven Hamilton, the country superstar, in

"Nashville"?

(Henry Gibson ended up playing the role instead)

[red dog 1]

34. In "Bullitt" what real person did Steve McQueen base his character, Frank Bullitt, on?

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(Hint: he was a cop)

[Harker]

41. Dave Toschi.

[red dog 1]

52. You got it, Hark

Have you seen "Zodiac"?

(Toschi was the lead detective on the Zodiac case at SFPD)

[red dog 1]

53. You got it, Hark

Have you seen "Zodiac"?

(Toschi was the lead detective on the Zodiac case at SFPD)

[red dog 1]

35. What actress turned down the role of Cathy, (Steve McQueen's girlfriend) in "Bullitt"?

[red dog 1]

36. What actor and actress were originally cast to play the lead roles in "Benny & Joon"?

[ruet]

111. Before I Take a Stab at This.

Is that the Johnny Depp and ,IIRC, Mary Stewart Masterson movie ? ...or some other 3-name celeb?

[red dog 1]

125. Yep, the Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson movie

[ruet]

131. Molly Ringwald or Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson.

Guesses all...

[red dog 1]

138. Good guesses, but nope on all of them

[red dog 1]

37. What actor turned down the lead role in "Ghost" & later called himself a knucklehead for doing so?

[ruet]

112. 1st Guess - Bruce Willis?

2nd guess - Tom Cruise?

[red dog 1]

124. Ding!

Bruce Willis is correct.

[Mr.Bill]

38. In Cool Hand Luke,

what state was Luke from?

[Harker]

43. Florida, I think.

[Mr.Bill]

44. To be honest, I kind of asked that one off-the-cuff.

I had heard that Paul Newman spent some time in West Virginia among the locals to get the accent down. The context was that that's where he thought the Luke character came from. The author of the book, which was somewhat autobiographical, Donn Pearce, was born in a suburb of Philadelphia, but did time on a chain gang in Florida. Thanks for your answer.

[Harker]

45. I read the book many years ago.

That's probably where that answer came from.

I haven't seen the film in probably ten years, so can't recall a license plate or other definitive cue.

[red dog 1]

39. Name one of the two famous women who auditioned for the role of Oda Mae Brown in "Ghost"?

(Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress)

[red dog 1]

40. What famous actor was originally slated to star in "The Magnificent Seven"?

(The role Yul Brynner ended up playing)

[Harker]

42. Guess... Robert Ryan?

[red dog 1]

47. Nope, good guess though

[Harker]

48. My other is John Wayne.

[red dog 1]

51. Nope, sorry

[Harker]

57. William Holden?

Something Pike-ish about it.

[red dog 1]

67. No

[ruet]

113. Charles Bronson

Total guess.

[red dog 1]

121. Nope, good guess though

[skypilot]

46. #10 Robert DeNiro first role

"Hi, Mom" ???

On edit: Or it might be "Greetings". I know that it's an early Brian DePalma movie.

[red dog 1]

50. Yeah, it was "Greetings"

[red dog 1]

49. "The Replacements" (2000) was loosely based on the 1987 NFL strike

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That year, the regular players walked out after week three, and replacement players were hired by the owners to play for the next 3 weeks until the strike was settled by week seven.
The Washington Redskins replacement players won all three games they played in
(weeks 4,5 & 6)

Name one of the three NFL teams they defeated during that 3-week period.
The last game they played as replacements was on Monday Night Football (ABC)

[Harker]

56. No idea, but I still remember Broncos RB Joe Dudek.

That strike pissed off my store manager enough that I was able to purchase his two season tickets to Mile High Stadium for two years, thus being witness to the coming of John Elway.

[red dog 1]

54. In what California city was "American Graffiti" set in?

[Brother Buzz]

66. Filmed in SF, Mill Valley, San Rafael, and Petaluma, but....

the story was supposed to set in the central valley town Lucas grew up in. Modesto would be my guess without jumping into Wiki.

Pat Paulsen played basketball in the same gymnasium when they held the sock hop.



Pat scored 36 points that year, second highest on the team. They passed the ball around a lot.

[red dog 1]

68. Ding!

Which one is Pat Paulsen?

[Brother Buzz]

71. I assume bottom row, third from the right.

It's a photo he posted on one of presidential campaign web pages years ago. It's definitely from Tamalpais High school because I recognize the coach, George Gustafson, my freshman gym teacher. Kinda off topic, but George Gustafson mentored Jack LaLanne way, way back in the day.

[red dog 1]

74. Very interesting!

(I wish I'd grown up in Marin County, instead of S.F.)

[red dog 1]

55. There were some wild pranks played by some of the actors during the filming of American Graffiti,

Can you name one?

[ruet]

58. Guesses...

#11 Heavens Gate?
#14 A Nightmare on Elm Street?
#3 Bill Murray?



#9 (don't have to guess this) is Delila.

[red dog 1]

70. Ding! Ding!

You got #3 and #9

[ruet]

59. What co-star screamed, "Everyone hates you, you are tolerated", at Richard Dreyfuss" while on set?

[Harker]

60. Can we rule out Robert Shaw? n/t

[skypilot]

61. Bill Murray

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[ruet]

62. Nailed It!

I'm surprised anyone got this so quickly. I don't think it's indexed on Google.

[skypilot]

64. I actually read about it somewhere...

...a couple months ago. It was either on Cracked.com or some gossipy kind of site.

[red dog 1]

72. Thanks for posting that

(I hadn't heard about Bill Murray throwing a glass ashtray at Dreyfuss)

Great little video!

[old as dirt]

63. Who said,

“Come the revolution, I’ll buy you a new hat”? And in what movie?

[old as dirt]

65. The late Fr Dan Berrigan had a cameo...

… in a movie in which he uttered a single word.

What was the movie, and what was the word?

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

197. Was he in "The Mission"?

We saw that film a long time ago, and I think it had to do somehow with South American Jesuit Settlements
and Fr. Berrigan was a Jesuit, so that's my guess.

((I can't remember what he said)

[old as dirt]

198. Yup.

He says, "no".

[A HERETIC I AM]

73. In the Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie"

There is only one spoken word.

What was it and who spoke it?

[Harker]

81. Marcel Marceau said, "Non!"

[A HERETIC I AM]

83. Precisely

[Harker]

84. Merci, Mon Ami!

[Harker]

85. Which made his role a "non"-speaking role.

Hadn't thought of that until now.

[red dog 1]

75. What actress did Billy Wilder originally have in mind to star in "Some Like It Hot"?

[VGNonly]

96. Mitzi Gaynor

MM was considered "difficult".

[red dog 1]

100. Ding!

[red dog 1]

76. Name one of the three actors who turned down the role of Chili Palmer in "Get Shorty"?

[ruet]

110. A "Six Degrees of Separation" Guess

George Clooney?

[red dog 1]

122. Nope, sorry

[red dog 1]

77. Gene Wilder agreed to star in "Young Frankenstein" on one condition, what was it?

[red dog 1]

78. During the filming of "Twilight Zone:The Movie" something went terribly wrong, what was it?

[Harker]

80. Helicopter crash killed two young children and Vic Morrow.

[red dog 1]

82. You got it, Hark

[red dog 1]

79. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was a Warner Brothers project, but Jack L. Warner was not

happy with one aspect of it....What was his objection? What didn't he like about it?

[VGNonly]

132. Was it the cost?

I've heard that Jack Warner was a notorious cheapskate.

[red dog 1]

136. Ding!

He thought it was costing too much.

[red dog 1]

86. What actor turned down the role of Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver"?

[red dog 1]

87. What well-known actor played the waiter dressed like Buddy Holly in "Pulp Fiction"?

[VGNonly]

95. Steve Buscemi

[red dog 1]

101. You got another one!

[red dog 1]

88. What well-known film director co-starred in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?

[Harker]

90. Francois Truffault. n/t

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Can't make a ç in the reply title block.

[red dog 1]

91. Ding!

[red dog 1]

89. Who was originally supposed to play the lead character (Jonas Nightengale) in "Leap of Faith"?

(The role went to Steve Martin)

[red dog 1]

92. What rock musician played a role in "Leap of Faith"?

[VGNonly]

97. Meat Loaf

[red dog 1]

98. That's the guy!

[red dog 1]

93. Who was originally supposed to direct "Poltergeist"?

[red dog 1]

94. What was director Woody Allen's first feature-length movie?

[Harker]

105. What's Up, Tiger Lily?

[red dog 1]

117. You got it, Hark

[red dog 1]

99. What was the name of Cheech & Chong's band in "Up In Smoke"?

[Harker]

107. Well...

The Doobie Brothers was already taken...

[red dog 1]

109. It wasn't a "dope" name

[jmowreader]

145. They didn't have a name at the start of the movie

By the time of the Rock Fight, they had named themselves Alice Bowie.

[red dog 1]

157. Ding!

[red dog 1]

102. What was the original title of "Star Wars"?

[red dog 1]

103. Which cast member of "The Dirty Dozen" was asked to play the fake general, but decided not to?

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(Donald Sutherland ended up playing the general)

[Harker]

106. Franko volunteered, but it was decided that Breed got too good a look at him.

I think.

[red dog 1]

108. No, not as part of the script, one of the actors was asked to be the one to impersonate the

general, and he declined.

[Harker]

114. That's interesting.

Jim Brown?

[Harker]

118. Richard Jaeckel?

[red dog 1]

119. Ha!

No, (good guess though)

[red dog 1]

120. I was wrong, Hark..It was one of the "Dozen"

[Harker]

123. Ah. Bet I could get it in ten guesses!

[red dog 1]

126. I bet you could too

[Harker]

127. Clint Walker.

[red dog 1]

135. Ding!

(Very good guess)

[Harker]

139. I was hoping not.to go the full ten!

[jmowreader]

149. Breed did get too good a look at him, but not there

That happened at the Dozen’s camp, when Breed had broken in to try to find out what the mission was. Breed first started in on Pinkley. After Franko told Pinkley not to tell Breed anything, Breed turned his attention on Franko.

[Harker]

151. That's it. n/t

[jmowreader]

148. It was Pinkley, Donald Sutherland's character

Reisman asked him if he wanted to be a general. He said, “I’d rather be a civilian.” Reisman made him do it anyway.

[red dog 1]

156. The cast member who refused to do that (in real life) was Clint Walker

he thought that since his character was a Native American, it would be inappropriate for him to impersonate a general.

[red dog 1]

104. What well-known actor turned down the part of "Big Joe" in Kelly's Heroes?

(Telly Savalas ended up with the role)

[VGNonly]

129. George Kennedy

[red dog 1]

133. Yep

[red dog 1]

116. Who was director Billy Wilder's first choice to play the role of Jerry in "Some Like it Hot"?

(Jerry ended up being played by Jack Lemmon)

[VGNonly]

128. Frank Sinatra

Good thing it was changed, I can't see Frank dressing in drag.

[Harker]

130. Not quite as scary a thought as Humphrey Bogart.

Close, though.

[red dog 1]

134. "Ol Blue Eyes" is correct

[red dog 1]

140. Who was Warner Brothers' original choice to play the lead character in "Dirty Harry"?

[First Speaker]

179. Frank Sinatra?

[red dog 1]

180. Correctamundo!

(It was also offered to John Wayne)

[red dog 1]

141. What playwright was the character "Barton Fink" was based upon?

[First Speaker]

181. Clifford Odets?

[red dog 1]

182. WinnerWinnerChicken Dinner!

[red dog 1]

142. What was the name of the 4-person Irish family band who all appeared in The Commitments?

[red dog 1]

143. In what John Wayne-produced movie did the star walk off the set on the 3rd day, after he

tore apart a studio office, and reportedly threw the film's transportation manager into
San Francisco Bay when they didn't have a car waiting for him?

[Harker]

144. Sounds like "McQ."

[red dog 1]

152. I know, I was thinking the same thing.

(I think McQueen threw some movie person into the SF bay too)

[Harker]

161. Ah! I meant the film title... n/t

[jmowreader]

146. In Up in Smoke, how did the duo get out of their drug bust?

[red dog 1]

154. Wasn't it because the judge was caught drinking vodka in court?

[jmowreader]

158. That's it

Caught by Chong.

[red dog 1]

160. Yeah, Chong was coughing & asked for a drink of water, which was up where the lady judge was

[jmowreader]

147. In Inglourious Basterds, why did every German soldier know about Hugo Stiglitz?

[red dog 1]

153. That he killed something like 15 or 16 Nazi officers?

[jmowreader]

159. Thirteen, but that's what he did

[jmowreader]

150. In Pink Floyd The Wall, what song is not from the album?

Hint: it comes in two parts.

[Harker]

163. I can't let having never heard the album or seen the movie stop a guess.

"Shine On, You Crazy Diamond"?

[jmowreader]

164. That was from Wish You Were Here

The song is “When The Tigers Broke Free.” It’s how Roger’s father died. The rest of the band didn’t want it on the record because it was too personal. It got in the movie to explain why Pink was the way he was.

[Harker]

165. "Wish You Were Here" is a favorite.

I thought maybe they snuck in an "oldie."

Thanks!

[red dog 1]

155. What was Robert Mitchum's last film appearance?

(Not the last movie he starred in)

[Harker]

162. I think it might've been Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man."

Which, coincidentally, is the answer to one of the character name posts I put up on the "name the movie" board.

[red dog 1]

166. Nope, sorry Hark

[Harker]

168. Ah. That must've been next to last. n/t

[red dog 1]

167. What well-known actor was originally set to star in the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven?

(Denzel Washington ended up starring in it)

[Harker]

169. How about Liev Schreiber?

Shot in the dark.

[red dog 1]

170. Nope, sorry again, Hark

[Harker]

172. I'm getting used to it.

[red dog 1]

173. That's OK...Guesses are fun.

(I guess all the time & usually I'm wrong)

[Harker]

175. Sure enough...

I'll go out on a limb!

[red dog 1]

171. In "Nashville" name one or both of the two well-known actresses who were considered for the role

of Opal, The British woman who claimed to be from the BBC....(Jennifer Jason Leigh got the part)

[red dog 1]

174. Two actors were offered the lead role in the movie about Woody Guthrie, "Bound for Glory" (1976)

and turned it down..Can you name one of them?

[red dog 1]

176. Who directed "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)?

[Harker]

177. John Sturges.

[red dog 1]

178. Ding!

[red dog 1]

183. Besides Frank Sinatra & John Wayne, who else turned down the lead role in "Dirty Harry"?

[red dog 1]

184. Who directed "The Odd Couple" (1968)?

[red dog 1]

185. Name one of the well-known actors who turned down the role of Jack Ryan in

"The Hunt for Red October"

[red dog 1]

186. Who played Jerry Lee Lewis in "Great Balls of Fire"?

[MatthewHatesTrump2]

196. Dennis Quaid?

[red dog 1]

187. Re: "The Graduate" what actress turned down both the role of Mrs. Robinson & the role of Elaine?

(She turned down both roles)

[red dog 1]

188. What well-known actor turned down the role of the teacher in "Pay it Forward"?

(To do another film)

[Dunsterville]

189. #14

Night of the Living Dead?

[red dog 1]

191. Nope, good guess though

Welcome to DU!

[red dog 1]

190. In "Bad Santa" what was the name of the street the "kid" lived on?

[red dog 1]

192. Who was director David Lean's first choice to play the lead role in "The Bridge on the River Kwai"?

[red dog 1]

193. Who was producer Hal B. Wallis' first choice to play Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon?

[red dog 1]

194. Who was initially sought to play Haven Hamilton, the country superstar in "Nashville"?

(Henry Gibson's role)

[red dog 1]

195. What was John Belushi's final film?