Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 162 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Oliver P. Barnstaple

Oliver P. Barnstaple, played by Earl Lee, is an elderly bank officer whose mind cannot accept the enormity of the extinction event which envelopes the principals in this motion picture. Charles, a teller in the bank, is looking out for him. They two were accidentally locked in the bank vault together which saved them from the radiation which killed most of the rest of humanity.

Answer: The Creature from Beneath the Sea

In "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956), the Gill-man was played by two different people: Don Megowan on land and Ricou Browning underwater. "Revenge of the Creature" (1955) was the only 3-D motion picture released in 1955. "Snow Creature" (1954) was directed by William Lee Wilder (1904-1982). He was the brother of movie director Billy Wilder and father of television comedy writer and producer Myles Wilder, who wrote the script for "Snow Creature.

Mister Cyclops is a singer-songwriter whose 1993 album "Clouded by the Mind's Eye" contained a track called "Strange Creatures from Beneath the Sea." Clay and Susan Griffith met in a bookstore, married, and have written novels, short stories, and comics including "It Came from Beneath the Sea ... Again" (2011). Axie Oh is a New York born author with a master's degree in Writing for Young People from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her YA novel "The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea" was published in 2022. There doesn't seem to be a theatrical motion picture called "The Creature from Beneath the Sea."

Answer: It was not killed but rather departed

The alien has increased in size continuously throughout the film. After the children destroy the nuclear warhead in the missile, the military heads for the alien's cave to destroy it. The entrance is blocked by the seven children standing side-by-side to create a human shield and block the army's line of fire. The alien then glides unhurriedly out of the cave and ascends on a beam of light.

Answer: Mari Blanchard

Abbot and Costello discover that the planet Venus is run entirely by a race of extremely good looking women. These women wear skimpy costumes with low-cut decolletage and fully expose their legs. Their queen, Allura, caught her husband, the king, kissing a maid and banished all men from the planet.

She is played by Mari Blanchard (1923-1970) who looks exceptionally good in her royal costume. She takes a shine to Orville, played by Lou Costello. In order not to be betrayed again, she attaches three balloons to him which will pop any time he thinks about a woman other than her.

They all explode within minutes.

Answer: Searching for Prof. Durham for Cairo University

Biochemistry professor Dunham, of the University of Cairo, went to the jungle to search for the beast called okongo. He went missing because he was kidnapped by a criminal narcotics gang and forced to extract a narcotic drug from the animals. Cameron is secretly the leader of the criminal enterprise and lies to Jungle Jim about his purpose.

Answer: It was original to the motion picture

The story and script for "Tobor the Great" (1954) was written by Carl Dudley and Philip MacDonald. It was original to the picture. The motion picture then inspired a two-issue DC Comic series in 1954. A pilot was made for a 1956-1957 television series written by Arnold Belgard called "Here Comes Tobor" but it was not picked up. Dudley Pictures announced a sequel called "Tobor Returns" in the trades in 1954 but it was never produced.

Answer: He is shipwrecked there

William Fitzgerald is an American petroleum engineer. He is a passenger on the freighter Pedro Queen when the ship explodes without explanation, killing everyone aboard save him. He escapes in a small boat which eventually washes up on the beach of Isla de Sangre (Blood Island). Surgeon Dr. Charles Girard and his creepy assistant Walter Pererra discover Fitzgerald and take him to their compound.

Answer: Directing

Reginald Le Borg (1902-1989) was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1931. He directed 68 motion pictures between 1936 and 1974, many of them B-movie horror films for Universal Studios. His filmography includes "Calling Dr. Death" (1943), "Dead Man's Eyes" (1944), "Jungle Woman" (1944), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "Weird Woman" (1944), "The Black Sleep" (1956), "Voodoo Island" (1957), "The Flight that Disappeared (1961), and "Diary of a Madman" (1963). An interesting read is "The Films of Reginald Le Borg" by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Scarecrow Press, 1992).

Answer: Castle in the Scottish highlands

Although the movie "The Maze" was filmed entirely in the United States, its setting was in Scotland, in a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Although Craven Castle is fictional, it is inspired by Glamis Castle in Angus, Scotland. Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is also set there, the title character being identified as the Thane of Glamis.

Answer: William Hopper

Dr. Nedrick 'Ned' Jackson was played by William Hopper (1915-1970), an American actor on stage, in motion pictures and on television. He was the only child of actress and Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. He served in the US Navy during World War II as a member of an underwater demolition team, for which he earned a Bronze Star. Hopper's best-known role was as a private detective named Paul Drake whose offices were in the same building as Perry Mason's. He was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in a Continuing Role in a Dramatic Series in 1959 for his work on "Perry Mason." Dennis Weaver won for "Gunsmoke."

Hopper played in over eighty motion pictures; his first was as a baby in a silent picture starring his father, "Sunshine Dad" (1916). Very few of his films were science-fiction or horror movies, except "The Return of Doctor X" (1939), "Conquest of Space" (1955), "The Bad Seed" (1956), "The Deadly Mantis" (1957), and "20 Million Miles to Earth" (1957).