Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 139 Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

Robinson played New Orleans police detective Rene Bressard in "Nightmare". His brother-in-law, clarinettist Stan Grayson, dreams that he committed a murder. Stan's neighbour, Harry Britton, is a hypnotist who induces Stan to commit the crime while under the influence of post-hypnotic suggestion. Edward G. Robinson does not play Britton in the film; the promotional materials prepared for it clearly imply that Robinson's highly recognisable eyes have the power to hypnotise.

Although Edward G. Robinson played many diverse roles in many motion pictures, he rarely appeared in a horror or science fiction film. In addition to "Nightmare", he played Pete Morgan in "The Red House" (1947). Rotten Tomatoes described the movie as a "thriller with some horror overtones" while "The New York Times" described it as "horror for adults". Edward G. Robinson's final motion picture role was as Solomon Roth, a dissident academic, in the science-fiction film "Soylent Green" (1973).

Answer: Twenty-One-Year-Old Vampire

"20 Million Miles to Earth" (1957) involves a Venusian reptilian who raises hell in Rome. "The 27th Day" (1957) involves five people to whom a space alien gives the means to wipe out human life on Earth. "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" (1953) is a dinosaur stirred to life by an atomic-bomb blast.

There is a solo role-playing game called "Thousand Year Old Vampire" by Tim Hutchings released in 2020. The Wigle Whiskey Distillery of Pennsylvania makes 4-Year-Old Vampire Bourbon Whiskey. The Chilean motion picture "El Conde" (2023) is about a 250-year-old vampire.

There does not seem to be any theatrical motion pictures called "Twenty-One-Year-Old Vampire".

Answer: exposure to bright light

The first alien to die was hit by a car. The military finds the flying saucer and, inadvertently, blows it up, but there were no aliens in it at the time. Art Burns takes a flash picture of an alien's severed hand and it disappears in a puff of smoke.

The kids thereby discover that the saucer men cannot stand bright light. They locate and surround the three remaining aliens with their cars. On a signal, the kids all turn on their high-beam headlights, which causes the aliens to disappear in a cloud of smoke.

Answer: Hugh O'Brian

Hugh O'Brian played Harry Chamberlain, an astronomer who served as the navigator of the spaceship in "Rocketship X-M". His character was injured in an attack by Martian mutants and was unconscious during the trip back to Earth. O'Brian and co-star Lloyd Bridges were cast together the next year in "Little Big Horn" (1951).

Answer: formerly married; parents of a son

Laura Greeling, played by Lyn Thomas, and Dr. Charles T. Pommer, played by Paul Frees, are the divorced parents of a son. Pommer, who has legal custody, has placed the boy in a private boarding school. Greeling has remarried a prosperous Honolulu businessman and wants to take her son to Hawai'i. Pommer doesn't want to discuss it; Greeling insists, barges into the home laboratory, is exposed to the "bloodrust" Martian fungus, and becomes an unwitting carrier.

Answer: False

"Creature from the Black Lagoon" spawned only two sequels: "Revenge of the Creature" (1955) and "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). Although Abbott and Costello managed to meet Frankenstein (1948), the Killer Boris Karloff (1949), the Invisible Man (1951), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1951), and the Mummy (1955), they never met the Creature from the Black Lagoon in a theatrical movie.

Tie-ins are commonplace in the promotion of contemporary motion pictures. A film's characters may show up on T-shirts, toothbrushes, fast-food drink cups, or in adverts for other products in print, television, or radio. Such tie-ins were less common in the 1950s. On Sunday, 21 February 1954, just before the initial theatrical release of "Creature From the Black Lagoon", the comedy duo Abbott and Costello made an appearance on "The Colgate Comedy Hour". In a sketch, Bud and Lou were in the Universal Studios' prop room. Frankenstein's monster appeared and fainted at the sight of Lou Costello. Then Ben Chapman, wearing the complete Gill Man costume from the movie, appeared and frightened the boys. The movie's producers believed that this appearance by the monster would be good publicity for their film.

Answer: The Colossus of New York

Film critics and commentators were quick to point out that "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" followed a formula set by "The Amazing Colossal Man" in 1957, by its sequel "War of the Colossal Beast" in 1958, and by "The Attack of the 50-foot Woman" in 1958. While all three of those movies purported to be "serious" horror and/or science fiction films, "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" (1959) was a farce, a parody, and a slapstick comedy.

"The Colossus of New York" (1958) was in no wise a human-grows-to-enormous-size movie. It involves a young scientist whose brain is transplanted into a cyborg -- ugly, frightening, and huge. The brain loses its humanity but gains the power to shoot death rays from its eyes. "Colossus" is not a film about gigantism (in which a normal human grows to great size). Such films include "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" (1992), "Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader" (2012), "Big Man Japan" (2007), and "Food of the Gods II" (1989).

Answer: directing

John Hollingsworth Morse (1910-1988) directed a remarkable variety of American television programmes: "McHale's Navy", "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir", "Adam-12", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "H.R. Pufnstuf", "Mystery Island" and "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger". He began work in motion pictures in the casting department at Paramount Pictures.

He directed a variety of motion pictures including "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger" (1954) and eight other Rocky Jones features in 1956, "Zorro" (1957), "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1957), "Daughters of Satan" (1972) and "Justin Morgan Had a Horse" (1972).

Answer: New York City

Dr. Vulcan, who is constantly attempting to steal weapons from Science Associates, obtains the Decimator built by Professor Millard. This sonic-ray device is capable of disintegrating rock and of causing earthquakes and floods. He threatens to destroy New York City if his demand for a billion dollars is not met.

The Mayor of New York baulks, and only the rocket man stands between the megalopolis and its utter ruination.

Answer: shot repeatedly by the police

The Gill Man kidnaps Helen Dobson while she is on a date with Prof. Clete Ferguson at a restaurant. The monster carries her into the sea while Clete, the Coast Guard, and local police search and pursue. Clete rescues her. The police open fire with small arms.

The Gill Man, apparently grievously wounded, crawls into the sea and sinks out of sight. Was he dead!? The monster apparently had a tough outer layer of scales over an inner layer of mammalian skin. This, coupled with an ability to heal rapidly, allowed him to survive and recover from his gunshot wounds in "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

He must have survived his further gunshot wounds inflicted in "Revenge of the Creature" because he is still alive at the beginning of the third film in the series: "The Creature Walks Among Us".