Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 164 Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

In the course of "Supersonic Saucer", Meba demonstrates the ability to reverse the flow of time, engage in mental telepathy, remotely ignite a flame, change an object into something else, and dial a telephone without using hands or fingers. Perhaps his most remarkable ability is to scrunch himself down and become a spaceship, capable of flying from Earth to Venus and vice versa.

Answer: Son of the Mummy

"Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" (1957) stars Gloria Talbott as the damsel in distress, John Agar as her love interest, and Arthur Shields as the evil antagonist. "Frankenstein's Daughter" (1958) stars Sandra Knight as the damsel in distress, John Ashley as her love interest, and Donald Murphy as the evil antagonist. "The Son of Dr. Jekyll" (1951) stars Jody Lawrance as the damsel in distress, Louis Hayward as her love interest, and Alexander Knox as the evil antagonist.

There is a comedy track on Bob McFadden and Dor's 2010 album "Songs our Mummy Taught Us" titled "Son of the Mummy". There is a children's book (number 6 of the 13 titles in "The Notebook of Doom" series by Troy Cummings called "Pop of the Bumpy Mummy" (2014). But there does not appear to have been a 1950s feature film titled "Son of the Mummy".

Answer: prehistoric dinosaurs

Several sorts of dinosaurs, none of them particularly authentic, were depicted at the planet's core in "Journey to the Center of the Earth". The giant Dimetrodon (a dinosaur with a huge "sail" arising from its back) was portrayed by several unfortunate Rhinoceros Iguanas (Cyclura cornuta) to whom large sail-like prosthetics had been glued.

The other dinosaur, seen in the ruins of Atlantis, was played by an Argentine black-and-white tegu lizard (Salvator merianae) which was painted for the role. The motion picture was filmed in colour by DeLuxe.

Answer: Boris Karloff

The director, Robert Day, and the make-up artist, Jim Hydes, discussed with Boris Karloff how to accomplish his transformation from a kindly novelist to a blood-thirsty monster. Karloff suggested that he could create such an effect by simply taking out his dentures.

This (among other things) is what he did to create the monster in the original "Frankenstein" (1931). Hydes was also the make-up artist on the films "Sea Devils" (1953) and "Fiend Without a Face" (1958).

Answer: Edward D. Wood Jr.

There is a single photograph on the wall of the East L.A. police station. It appears to be a circular seeking the arrest of someone for whom there is a warrant. A piece of paper reading "WANTED" was apparently pasted to the print. The picture is a publicity photograph of the director Edward D. Wood Jr.

Answer: The elder Berke died.

William Berke (1903-1958) wrote and/or directed and/or produced over 200 motion pictures between 1922 and 1958. He made pictures featuring Jungle Jim, Dick Tracy, Boston Blackie, and the Falcon. As the executive producer of "The Lost Missile", he hired himself to direct.

Unfortunately, on the first day of filming, the elder Berke suffered a heart attack on the set and died. His son, Lester William Burke took up the megaphone and directed the rest of the film. Lee Gordon, who started out as associate producer, took over as producer for the elder Berke.

Answer: residents of a local retirement home

A gang of pirates working for the evil Count Artigas kidnaps Professor Roch and his student/assistant Simon Hart. These same pirates seize passing merchant ships and steal their cargoes to finance the Count's schemes to rule the world. Count Artigas poses as an innocent benefactor of the professor's research but his design is to steal Roch's inventions.

In order to depict the scurvy rapacious pirate crew, Karel Zeman recruited his cast from among the seniors living in a nearby retirement home... a sort of aaargh-thritic aaargh-my, one supposes.

Answer: directing

Herbert L. Strock (1918-2005) produced and directed American television programmes and directed a number of B-movie horror films. He studied film and journalism at USC and made movies for the Army during WWII. Motion pictures which he directed include "Witches' Brew" (1980), "Monstroid" (1980), "The Crawling Hand" (1963), "The Devil's Messenger" (1962), "How to Make a Monster" (1958), "Blood of Dracula" (1957), "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein" (1957), "Gog" (1954), "Riders to the Stars" (1954), and "The Magnetic Monster" (1953).

His memoir, "Picture Perfect", was published in 2000.

Answer: the American Southwest desert

A single driver drives his pick-up truck on a dark and isolated road, somewhere in the American Southwest. A UFO causes his engine to falter and blinds him with its light. An alien presence takes over McCrary's (the driver's) mind and compels him to drive to Lab Central, a U.S. research facility in the nearby desert, where scientists have been tracking the flying object.

Answer: to search for and claim uranium deposits

There are rumours that the area of Mexico in which Bruce Barton was lost is an area rich in uranium deposits. Marty Melville's motivation is not at all beneficent; he's looking for uranium. On the flight into the mountains, he tells Russ Bradford, Susan Winter, and Lee Brand of his suspicions and hopes concerning uranium deposits.

He brings with him a device called a scintillator (similar to a Geiger counter) which reaches its upper limit when they fly over the site of Barton's plane's wreckage. Mellville declares this to be an incredibly rich deposit, worth millions if not billions of dollars.