STACK Quiz - December - Win $250 JB Hi-Fi Voucher - answer questions

[helga22]

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STACK Quiz - December

Complete & submit the following for your chance to win!
   
1.    Glenn Ford personally regretted making two films during his long career. One was The Loves of Carmen (1948), in which he was hopelessly miscast as a Spaniard. But what was the other, and why did he dislike the role so much?*

Answer: The Fastest Gun Alive

Correct Answer: The Man from Colorado (1948) in which he played a mentally ill psychopath. Ford felt the character he played put his career on hold for some five years until The Big Heat (1953).


2.    Which film director died, having only partly completed an animated version of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest?*

Answer: George Dunning

Correct Answer: George Dunning who directed the Beatles Yellow Submarine (1968).
   
   
3.    Burt Lancaster played a trapezist in Carol Reed’s Trapeze (1956), but for what other aerialist role was he seriously considered?*

Answer: The Greatest Show on Earth

Correct Answer: The role of The Great Sebastian in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

   
4.    Scary Hillbillies; an invisible people and a Blitz family that don’t trust German jam. What’s the cinematic link?*

Answer: Three movies (Deliverance, The Emerald Forest and Hope and Glory) where the director is John Boorman and his actor son Charlie Boorman plays a part in it.

Correct Answer: Deliverance (1972): The Emerald Forest (1985); Hope and Glory (1987) all directed by John Boorman.      
   
   
5.    Which actor-director directed a film about a director directing an actor that was based on the movie that had won an Academy Award for that actor?*

Answer: David Hinton

Correct Answer: Clint Eastwood: he starred and directed in White Hunter; Black Heart (1990) based on John Huston filming The African Queen (1951) that won Best Actor Oscar for Humphrey Bogart.
   
   
6.    Who was the first Oscar winner to cry when picking up the statuette?*
   
Answer: Janet Gaynor

Correct Answer: Mary Pickford - 1929 Best Actress Oscar for Coquette.

   
7.    Which illiterate hero in a 1934 film uses potatoes to demonstrate military strategy?*
   
Answer: Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev

Correct Answer: Chapayev directed by Sergei & Georgi Vasilyev.

   
8.     “This war sure ain’t nothing like I thought it’d be. I don’t understand it, we’re fighting for the South. They invaded us. What they got to fight about?” “Well whatever it is they’re sold on it.” From what 1968 western cum war movie do the conversation quotes come from?*
   
Answer: Villa Rides

Correct Answer: Journey to Shiloh
   
   
9.    Which Hollywood actor practically gave up acting in movies after his father, who also featured in a number of his films, was killed in an automobile accident?*
   
Answer: Leo Gorcey

Correct Answer: Leo Gorcey
   
   
10.    The Final Scene: A lone soldier is digging a grave alongside a row of others, the grave marker states his name-Sgt-31st Infantry-USA . He becomes aware that figures are moving towards him through the mist. He begins firing the machine-gun positioned on top of the now completed grave. The camera moves slowly forward to a close-up of the gun barrel, which suddenly stops firing. Slow Fade Out. Name the movie:*

Answer: Saving Private Ryan

Correct Answer: Bataan (1943)


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[helga22]

Answer 1: The Fastest Gun Alive

The Fastest Gun Alive - Ford begins to regret his exhibition of shooting skills.

"The Fastest Gun Alive" stars Glenn Ford as a mild mannered store keeper who harbors a dark secret. He happens to be very fast with a gun. When he imbibes of whiskey a tad too freely, he demonstrates his prowess with some pretty tasty shooting. There are even notches on his gun to prove he has killed. I hate show offs with notches in their gun! It is not long before a merciless gunman in the ample shape of Broderick Crawford turns up to find out if he really is "the fastest gun alive". Ford begins to regret his exhibition of shooting skills. A confrontation between the two protagonists appears inevitable, but there are some surprises in the story!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fastest-Gun-Alive-VHS/dp/B00004CVNE

Answer 2: George Dunning
   
In 1979, animator George Dunning, director of Yellow Submarine, planned an animated version of The Tempest; but died while working on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest

Answer 3 :    The Greatest Show on Earth

The Greatest Show on Earth - For his leading man, DeMille had originally thought of Kirk Douglas or Burt Lancaster, but settled on Charlton Heston after seeing him in a film version of Julius Caesar (1950).

http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=153083

Answer 7: Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev

Chapaev (Russian: Чапаев) is a 1934 Soviet film. It was directed by the Vasilyev brothers on Lenfilm. It is a story about Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919), a legendary Red Army commander who became a hero of the Russian Civil War. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitri Furmanov, a Russian writer and Bolshevik commissar who fought together with Chapayev.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapayev_%28film%29

Chapayev (1935) More at IMDbPro »Chapaev (original title)
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This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024966/plotsummary

[helga22]

I could really need some help with this one? Where are all the little helpers this time?

[deejay]

I've been working on Q 9 - all I have come up with so far is Leo Gorcey - but I'm not sure.

In the Bowery Boys movies, Leo's father, Bernard Gorcey, played Louie Dumbrowski ........ In 1955, after his father was killed in an automobile accident, Leo turned to the bottle for solace and lost a great deal of weight. When he trashed a movie set in an intoxicated rage, the studio refused to give him the pay raise he demanded, so he quit the Bowery Boys and was replaced in the last seven movies by Stanley Clements. Leo's brother David remained with the series until it ended in early 1958.

During the 1960s, Leo did very little acting. He did appear in the epic 1963 comedy, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, sharing the screen with Sid Caesar and Edie Adams in a bit part as their cab driver. Gorcey then made two final appearances on film with Huntz Hall in a pair of low budget productions: "Second Fiddle To A Steel Guitar" (1966) and The Phynx (released 1970).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gorcey

[sooz17]

Boy are these obscure questions!

Question 4 I have figured out, only there is 2 potential answers.

It refers to 3 movies:

Deliverance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliverance

The Emerald Forest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emerald_Forest_%28film%29

and Hope and Glory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_and_Glory_%28film%29

All three were directed by John Boorman, but also all three had his son Charlie Boorman appearing in them. So I guess the correct answer would be both of them?

[helga22]

I give up. It is just too hard. I don't think we will solve the quiz this time. 

[Ausblonde]

Hi, working on Q5, I think the answer is Mr. David Hinton the actor / Director who Directed "The making of a Legend:Gone with the Wind" which is (in part) about Victor Fleming directing Miss Vivien Leigh in the movie "Gone with the Wind" in which Vivien Leigh wins and Acadamy award.  Anyone got any others, this may not be the answer although it does seem to fit the criteria.

[compsez]

Hi, working on Q5, I think the answer is Mr. David Hinton the actor / Director who Directed "The making of a Legend:Gone with the Wind" which is (in part) about Victor Fleming directing Miss Vivien Leigh in the movie "Gone with the Wind" in which Vivien Leigh wins and Acadamy award.  Anyone got any others, this may not be the answer although it does seem to fit the criteria.

5.    Which actor-director directed a film about a director directing an actor that was based on the movie that had won an Academy Award for that actor?*

I thought so to Ausblonde.
It's a very confusing question.

[Wolfmother]

Number 6 is Janet Gaynor

Number 8 is Villa Rides

[Ausblonde]

Regarding the answer of Janet Gayor (do you mean Janet Gaynor) being the first person to cry in her acceptance speech.  The year that she won they ran for 5 minutes and the Academy awards had been given out approximately 3 months prior.  Can you advise me where you found this information as I have been woriking (unsuccesfully) so far to find out who the first actor was. Thanks in advance for putting me out of my misery.