Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 155 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jonathan Haze

Jonathan Haze (1929-2024) was a favourite of producer-director Roger Corman. His performance as Seymour Krelborn in "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960) was as the "cultivator" of Audrey II, the carnivorous plant from outer space. His role in "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" was as Ottar, a young Viking with self-actualisation issues. Ottar is small for his age.

He strives to prove his manhood but doesn't make a good show of that. Thyra discovers that he has stowed away on their ship to "protect" the women. Ottar exhibits defiance to the Grimaults, and Zarko knocks him out with one punch.

However, when the Vikings escape, Ottar holds off and kills Zarko before swimming to his countrymen's boat.

Answer: The Monster from Black Bayou

In "The Black Scorpion" (1957), volcanic and seismic activity frees a giant scorpion with a taste for Mexican people. "The Black Sleep" (1956) stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson. "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (1954) is the first in the three-film arc of Gill Man movies.

There is a 2021 short story by Cheryl Edwards called "The Black Bayou Monster." There is a 2020 novel by Jeffrey LeBlanc called "The Devil of Black Bayou." There is a downloadable physical game by Michael Mars called "Creature from the Black Bayou." Apparently, no one made a movie called "The Monster from Black Bayou."

Answer: burns, surgical wounds, and gunshots

The man-beast's bandages were set afire by Walter Perrera, Dr. Girard's assistant, when it attempted to escape resulting in burns. The creature was still recovering from surgery and was stitched together like a baseball. When it abducts Frances Girard, Dr. Girard's wife, played by Greta Thyssen, William Fitzgerald pursues him with a gun.

The monster sets Frances down atop a huge cliff and throws Dr. Girard, who was also pursuing him, off the cliff. Fitzgerald shoots the panther-man who tumbles to the beach below.

A young boy named Tiago assists the seriously-wounded creature into the dinghy in which Fitzgerald originally arrived on Isla de Sangre (Blood Island), presumably to drift off and succumb to his injuries.

Answer: Victor Sen Yung

Victor Sen Yung played a great many roles in motion pictures depicting Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Hawaiian characters. These roles frequently required stereotypical portrayals: pidgin English in a sing-song voice, kowtowing to Occidental characters. In "She Demons," he plays Sammy Ching, a member of the crew stranded on an uncharted island. He speaks standard English, in keeping with Ching being a college graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Answer: It is the source of a narcotic.

The endocrinological mechanism whereby the glands of the okongo convert the mandro leaf into a potent narcotic is murky in this script. The criminal Ronald Cameron goes to Africa to find the legendary okongo because he is intent on marketing a narcotic drug they produce. Apparently, when they eat the legendary mandro leaf, their glands turn it into a potent narcotic drug which can be extracted. Jungle Jim tries to protect the herd.

Answer: a 1932 novel by Wylie and Balmer

Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer co-authored the novel "When Worlds Collide" in 1932. The rights to make a motion picture out of it were promptly purchased by Paramount Pictures. Their thought was that it would be a good use of the talents and efforts of Cecil B. DeMille.

The story languished at Paramount until George Pal was looking for a film with which to follow his highly-successful "Destination Moon" (1950). Pal commissioned screenwriter Rip Van Ronkel to turn the novel into a film. Because there was a sequel written in 1934, "After Worlds Collide," a sequel to the motion picture was planned but never made.

Answer: American

Although all of the other scientists working on the space project at the Deanfield research facility are British, Doctor Mitchell, played by Howard Duff, is an American. It appears that the government of the United States has assigned Mitchell to the task group as a sort of long-term loan.

Answer: acting

Richard Devon (1926-2010) was an actor with many credits on the stage, in radio, on television, and in motion pictures. On the radio, he was the voice of Batman in "The Adventures of Superman." On television, he appeared in many series, e.g. "Colt .45," "Richard Diamond, Private Detective," "The Rifleman," "Tales of Wells Fargo," "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," "Space Patrol," "Bonanza," "The Twilight Zone," "Perry Mason," and "Mission: Impossible." He had over two dozen film credits including "The Undead" (1957), "Blood of Dracula" (1957), "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" (1957), "War of the Satellites" (1958), "Planet of the Apes" (1974), and "The Seventh Sign" (1988).

Answer: on Long Island

Louie Dumbrowsky's Sweet Shop, the windows of which are too often broken by kids playing baseball in the street, is located in the Bowery, which is a neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan. Bowery Boys Slip and Sach decide to rent a nearby vacant lot on which the kids may safely play baseball.

The owners of the lot, the Gravesend Family, invite them to visit Gravesend Manor on Long Island, to discuss a lease. "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters" ostensibly takes place in that creepy mansion on Long Island but all of the action occurs in three rooms and a busy hallway.

These scenes were filmed at Monogram/Allied Artists Studios in Los Angeles.

Answer: Craig Stevens

Craig Stevens (1918-2000), who played Colonel Joe Parkman in "The Deadly Mantis," served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. The Army Air Corps was the forerunner of the US Air Force. Stevens had a lengthy career as an actor and singer, on stage, screen and television. He and his wife of 49 years, Alexis Smith, often appeared on Broadway or toured in Broadway plays, as a couple. His most popular role was as private eye Peter Gunn on two American networks. He then played Michael Strait, the lead in "Man of the World" (1962-1963) on British television. Stevens co-starred with David McCallum in NBC-TVs "The Invisible Man" (1975-1976).

Most of his work in movies was as either a handsome romantic leading man or a military officer. There is very little to his science-fiction and horror filmography: "Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1953)(a romantic part); "The Deadly Mantis" (1957)(a military officer); and "Killer Bees" (1974).