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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007).

About the movie: A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		Before being put on suspension, Marilyn Monroe was 20th Century-Foxs original choice for the role of Evelyn Nesbit. She turned this film and a forthcoming adaptation of the then-current Broadway musical The Girl in Pink Tights (which was to co-star Dan Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor) and was put on suspension. Sheree North was then announced as her replacement for both films until Joan Collins was eventually cast as Nesbit. Girl in Pink Tights was eventually abandoned.
b.		The weekend before shooting was scheduled to wrap, a freak storm dumped nearly 2 feet of snow on the supposedly drought plagued town. Labourers shoveled the snow from the buildings balconies and roofs and distributed 89 dump trucks worth of dry soil on the ground. Backhoes created an 8 foot tall rampart of snow just beyond camera sight lines for the remaining 6 days of shooting.
c.		All the actors except Wallace Shawn and George Carlin voiced their parts in Los Angeles, California. Carlin voiced his roll in Las Vegas over the phone, and Shawn voiced his role from New York. For this reason, Andy Dick, whose character shares scenes with Shawns character throughout the film, would impersonate Shawns part while doing his.
d.		The Creature, using the name "Uncle Gilbert", appeared in an episode of the TV series The Munsters The episode is titled "Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights."

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		The military aircraft seen late in the movie were McDonnel Douglas AV-8B Harriers of the Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) which is nicknamed the "Bulldogs".
b.		The bird sketched by Russell Crowes character is an auger buzzard, native to Africa.
c.		Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) had a cameo in the earliest draft of the movies script. It was scrapped when Ryan got a part on Boston Public. The cameo was given to Kate Mulgrew (Captain/Admiral Janeway).
d.		Jacques Vanaire is in studio records/casting call lists in the role of "Waiter," but he did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		The film was originally conceived as a western version of William Shakespeares "Romeo and Juliet," to be called "Ramona and Julian". In the fall of 1967, while on a lecture tour in Tucson with Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey had mentioned to the press that their next film would be a western filmed on location in Tucson and would be called "The Unwanted Cowboy."
b.		Filmed in 1982, not released until 1987.
c.		The scene where Jones fires at the truck was a botched stunt. The truck was supposed to flip over by means of a telegraph pole being fired by explosives through the floor. The explosive wasnt powerful enough and it simply forced the truck to tip over at an angle as can be seen in the finished movie. Time did not permit any further attempts at getting it right.
d.		The movie was funded in conjunction with New Mexicos Film Investment Program.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		The pistol used by Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is an 1851 navy colt with a Richards-Mason conversion.
b.		Ashley Williams, who plays Ida Heinken in the flashback scenes, is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who plays Gwen.
c.		During the scene where Jack Jordan tries to hang himself, the over-weight prisoner who saves him has a large tattoo of the name "Maria Eladia" on his chest. This is Alejandro González Iñárritus wife, to whom the film is dedicated.
d.		The desert locations for the film were extremely rough on the crew. Not only was the rocky terrain difficult to walk, let alone run through, but the temperature would reach up to 120 degrees during the day. After sunset though it would drop to a cold 30 degrees in a matter of minutes.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		Taking from something from Cenas wrestling career, anytime a cast member messed up they had to do push-ups for whichever person they wronged, and say "I am (name of the person wronged)s bitch!" after each one.
b.		Bob Hoskins was also considered for the role of Slughorn. Jim Broadbent started work on this film after filming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
c.		Lana Turner and Van Heflin reprised their roles in a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast on September 19, 1949.
d.		Russell Crowe, director James Mangold, and producer Cathy Konrad unanimously preferred Christian Bale as the co-lead.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		The roof had to be shot twice due to a mishap the first time round when the police stopped filming due to tenants complaining about footsteps and water leaking in through the ceiling.
b.		Dan Evans uses a Spencer carbine chambered for .56-56, a Colt 1851 navy revolver with a Richards-Mason conversion to fire cartridges (identical to the revolver carried by William), and a Remington 1889 sawed off shotgun. Ben Wade uses a Colt 1873 single action Chambered for .45 Long Colt, with a gold crucifix inlaid in the ebony grips. Charlie Prince carries two 1869 Smith and Wesson Schofields, chambered in .45 S&W, with custom cross-draw holsters. Byron McElroy carries the same 1889 shotgun Evans later uses. The coach in the beginning of the movie is fitted with a Colt Gatling gun, and the two shooters inside have Winchester 1873 rifles chambered in .44-40 caliber.
c.		Delphine Chanéac only gets one line, right at the end of the film.
d.		Damien Colletti who plays Kevin, the male lead in the film, is also the only male actor in the film.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		Working titles were "Careless" and then "The Purity Girl".
b.		Heath Ledger directed both homemade videos that the Joker sends to GCN himself. The first video involving the fake Batman was done under Nolans supervision. Nolan thought Ledger had done so well with that sequence, he felt there was no need for him to be there when it came time to film the scene where reporter Mike Engel reads the Jokers statement. He put his trust in Ledger and let him do whatever he wanted, ultimately pleased with the result after hed seen the outcome.
c.		Thurl Ravenscrofts first project.
d.		Russell Crowe was director James Mangolds very first choice for the role of Ben Wade. After Tom Cruise dropped out of talks for the film, putting it into turnaround, it was the casting of Crowe that got the production back up and running.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		Ray Dennis Stecklers face is used for the bizarre transformation sequence in the opening credits.
b.		A building in the town of Contention reads "Bessers Parlor." The executive producer is Stuart M. Besser.
c.		Some of the camera crew would wear plastic sheeting during the filming of some of the more gorier scenes, due to the amount of fake blood flying around.
d.		Four members of the original Broadway cast repeated their roles in the film: Dan Duryea, Charles Dingle, Carl Benton Reid, and Patricia Collinge.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		The short story upon which the film is based was published in Dime Western Magazine in 1953. The action begins in the hotel room with a deputy sheriff guarding a 21-year-old robber.
b.		The first all digital feature length motion picture produced in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
c.		Director Ernst Lubitsch died early in production; Otto Preminger completed the film.
d.		Elvis Presley dyed his brown hair to black to celebrate his first color film.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)?
a.		ThinkFilm and Canadian distributor TVA Films bought the U.S. and Canadian rights, respectively, for the film at the 2007 Toronto Internation Film Festival.
b.		Eric Bana was in initial negotiations to star opposite Tom Cruise in this film.
c.		James Stewart was nervous about the phone scene kiss because it was his first screen kiss since his return to Hollywood after the war. Under Frank Capras watchful eye, Stewart filmed the scene in only one unrehearsed take, and it worked so well that part of the embrace was cut because it was too passionate to pass the censors.
d.		Director/screenwriter John Landis advised actor Griffin Dunne that the key to the character of Jack Goodman was that he was always to be encouraging, optimistic, and cheerful as a member of the undead, no matter what his stage of ghastly corporal decay, deterioration, and decomposition.

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