Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 133 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nancy drops a ceiling beam on her.

Honey Parker, played by Yvette Vickers, is drinking at Tony's with Harry Archer when Nancy awakens, breaks her bonds, and comes looking for her husband. Nancy rips the roof off of the bar exposing Honey and Harry. Nancy dispatches her rival by dropping a ceiling beam on her, crushing her to death.

Vickers said she was almost killed or significantly injured in filming the final cafe scene. "There's that scene where all the lumber from the cafe roof falls down," she recalled, "and one of the wooden beams crushes the table I'm supposed to be hiding under. And afterwards, there's a shot where I'm lying there with all the debris around me. Well, after we filmed that scene, I looked up and noticed there was a nail on a board that was about two inches from my head. It could have gone right into my skull!"

Answer: The Frozen Horror

"The Abominable Snowman" (1957) is a British motion picture based upon the screenwriter's own BBC television production. "Monster Snowman" (1955) is a Japanese production, originally called "Half Human" in Japanese. It was highly edited with new scenes and additional characters for US distribution. "Snow Creature" (1954) is an American abominable-snowman movie set partially in the Himalayas and partly in Los Angeles. "Frozen" is a 2010 American horror film about skiers stranded on a chairlift. "The Frozen Horror" is an expansion of the tabletop board game "HeroQuest" released in 2022.

There does not appear to have been a theatrical film made in the 1950s called "The Frozen Horror".

Answer: part spider / part human

Doctor Aranya says he has created tarantula spiders the size of humans by injecting them with human pituitary hormones. These spiders can kill with a single bite and injection of spider venom. The spiders also develop the power to reason and are controlled by Dr. Aranya's will. The mad doctor hopes to breed a spider army with which to rule the world.

Answer: Arthur Lucan

"Mother Riley Meets the Vampire" was the last in the series of Mother Riley films, all starring Arthur Lucan in drag. Another was planned but Lucan died before it could be made. He also appeared on stage as Mother Riley.

Answer: Venus

The National Space Foundation rocket was preprogrammed to fly to Venus. This was necessitated by the intended "pilot" being a monkey. When the spaceship accidentally launched, it followed its course to Venus. No one ever successfully accused the Three Stooges of dramatic consistency much less scientific veracity. Venus is not habitable by spiders, talking unicorns nor anybody else.

There is no water. The surface temperature is about 462 °C/863 °F -- over the melting point of lead. The atmospheric pressure is roughly 92 times that on Earth.

The wind blows at 360 km/h or 220 mph. The clouds are composed of sulphuric acid.

Answer: plastic egg cartons with holes in them

Harry Thomas (1909-1996) was a highly-successful Hollywood make-artist who rose from humble beginnings. He worked for Roger Corman, Ed Wood, and Tor Johnson. His work can be seen in "Frankenstein's Daughter" (1958), "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953), "The Neanderthal Man" (1953), and "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960). For "Killers from Space," he was asked to inexpensively create google-eyes for the aliens. Contact lenses were prohibitively costly.

He took a plastic egg carton from his home refrigerator, cut out an indentation and melted a hole in the end of it with a heated screwdriver, so the actor could see.

Answer: Baptist leaders funded and acted in the picture.

The Rev. Lynn Lemon played the minister who presided over Clay's funeral. Lemon was an actual Southern Baptist minister. J. Edward Reynolds, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention in Beverly Hills, California, played one of the grave diggers and was credited as executive producer of the movie. One of his church associates, Hugh Thomas, played the other gravedigger. Gregory Walcott, who played Jeff Trent, attended the same Baptist church as did producer J. Edward Reynolds. Pauline Reynolds, his wife, plays the woman in the phone booth when the flying saucers appear over Los Angeles.

Much of the funding for making the film came from Baptist sources. Several of the cast members were baptized during shooting.

Answer: acting

Guy Williams played swashbuckling television roles such as the lead in Walt Disney's "Zorro" (1957-1959, 1960-1961) and Professor John Robinson in "Lost in Space" (1965-1968). Born Armando Joseph Catalano (1924-1989) to a Sicilian family, he often played Latin roles.

He retired to Argentina because he was very popular there. His filmography of science fiction and horror films includes "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" (1957).

Answer: central Africa

The resource-rich and densely-populated Congo has endured, in diverse parts and times, colonization by the French and Belgians. Following independence in 1960, bloodshed and two separate nations resulted: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, and the Republic of Congo. The Equator passes through both.

Answer: a duck

When Icelander Hans Bjelke frees Professor Lindenbrook's party, they hire him to assist them in their descent into the center of the Earth. He agrees but will not leave his pet duck Gertrud behind. She provides comic relief from time to time in the movie. Gertrud the duck won a PATSY Award for her performance.

There were actually four ducks "doubled" in the shooting. Arlene Dahl became so attached to one of them that they spent off-camera time together. Sadly, the evil Count Saknussemm is overcome with hunger, catches Gertrud and eats her.

When Hans learns what has happened, he goes after Saknussemm, who accidentally backs into a column of stones which falls on him and crushes him to death.