Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 08 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clayton Moore

Clayton Moore appeared in ten different serials, in addition to his work as The Lone Ranger. In "Radar Men from the Moon," he played a henchman of Retik, Ruler of the Moon. Back on Earth, Commando Cody fights one of Retik's agents named Krog and a gang of humans led by Graber (Clayton Moore).

There is a fight scene between Commando Cody (George Wallace) and Moore's character. Although the fight was choreographed, the men got their signals mixed, Moore hit Wallace in the face and broke his nose.

Answer: Frankenstein's Grave

"The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) is a British Hammer Films production starring Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as his creature. "Frankenstein 1970" (1958) features Boris Karloff as Baron Victor von Frankenstein. "Frankenstein's Daughter" (1958) was variously also released as "She Monster of the Night" (8 mm format) and "The Wild Witch of Frankenstein".

There is a stone grave marker in the West Lawn Cemetery in Canton, Ohio, with the family name "Frankenstein" engraved on it.

But there was no movie named "Frankenstein's Grave" that was produced in the 1950s.

Answer: He succumbed to differential air pressures.

These mutant creatures were bred by the humanoid residents of Metaluna as workers and servants. Exeter helps Cal and Ruth escape from the Monitor on Metaluna but is seriously injured by a mutant soldier played by Regis Parton in a rubber suit. Cal conks the mutant on the head with a fire extinguisher and all three people get on the flying saucer ... as does the mutant before the door closes. Cal, Ruth and Exeter get into glass tubes to undergo "conversion" so they can withstand the pressure differential between Metaluna and Earth.

The mutant attacks Ruth as she comes out of her tube but is killed by the pressure differential and disintegrates.

Answer: Anthony Perkins

American actor Anthony Perkins (1932-1992) had to master an Australian accent to play Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy in "On the Beach." In the film, he is seconded to the USS Sawfish as a liaison from the Australian Navy. Perkins' talents embraced acting, directing and singing.

His character in "Psycho" (1960) caused him to be typecast for part of his long career. He appeared on television, on Broadway and in films, European as well as American. Perkins' role in "On the Beach" was emotionally demanding in that he was moved by his love for his family to kill them rather than allow them to be sickened and die from radiation poisoning.

Answer: His world would be destroyed in 35 days.

According to the Alien himself, the world from which he comes orbits a sun which will go nova in 35 days. His people must relocate to another world within 35 days or they all will be killed. They are prohibited from killing intelligent life by their moral code.

He gives five humans capsules capable of killing all human life on Earth. If they use them, his people will colonize. If not, the capsules become powerless.

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson's novella

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a Gothic novella entitled "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" in 1886. This story has been made and remade for the stage, the radio, for television and for motion pictures. Many of the films either retell or modernize the basic story. "The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll," while wholly dependent upon Stevenson's story for its background, is more of a sequel, in the sense that it occurs in the 1910s and does not involve Stevenson's murderous criminal directly.

Answer: From Hell It Came

In the movie "Them" (1954), the monsters were giant ants. In "Tarantula" (1955), it was a tarantula. In "Beginning of the End" (1957), the monsters were giant grasshoppers. "From Hell It Came" (1957) is about a homicidal radioactive animated tree stump.

Answer: directing

Francis D. "Pete" Lyon (1905-1996) won the Academic Award for Best Film Editing for the motion picture "Body and Soul" (1947). But he is best known as a director in both film and television. Among the motion pictures he directed are "Cult of the Cobra" (1955), "Destination Inner Space" (1966), "Castle of Evil" (1966), and "The Destructors" (1968).

Answer: Brazil

This motion picture begins with a written forward: "This picture was filmed entirely in Brazil. The producers gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the Brazilian government, The Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, and the people of Brazil without whose help this picture could not have been made." In writer-director Curt Siodmak's autobiography, he wrote that shooting a motion picture with a crew that spoke Portuguese but not English was a particular challenge.

Answer: True

As Marty McFly leaves 1955 in the DeLorean, the marquee of the Hill Valley Town Theatre can be seen in the background. The date there is 12 November 1955, when "The Atomic Kid" might well have been showing. [Genre nerds love stuff like this!]