Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 169 Trivia Quiz

Answer: 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. Melville declares this to be an incredibly rich deposit, worth millions if not billions of dollars.

Answer: Earth Is No More

Roger Corman produced and directed "Not of This Earth" (1957) about an alien from the planet Davanna seeking human blood to treat a hematologic disease killing everyone in his world. Herman Cohen produced and Sherman A. Rose directed "Target Earth" (1954) about a group of people left behind when the city was evacuated because of an alien robot invasion. Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue and Rex Reason starred in the classic film "This Island Earth" (1955). About a scheme to enlist humans in a deadly war on the planet Metaluna, the movie introduced the word "interocitor" colloquially to the English language.

Revelations 21:1 says, "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more" (New Revised Standard Version). Radar Group proposed, promised and promoted a first-person shooter video game called "Earth No More" but cancelled its release in 2009. "Earth Is No More" is a song on the band Depressor's 2022 album "Battlestar Lemon II." Paul Awad and Kathryn O'Sullivan wrote the science-fiction novel "When Earth Shall Be No More (2022). There does not appear to have been a 50s movie titled "Earth Is No More."

Answer: Fire and decontamination

When Professor Pommer realises that the "blood rust" in his home laboratory is growing out of control and is about to kill him, he calls the project security chief John Hand and directs him to burn the house to the ground. Uncertain that this was sufficient to kill the fungus, the Army quarantines and decontaminates the whole property.

The train on which Laura rode to Los Angeles is found to contain blood rust; the conductor was consumed by it. Rattigan goes aboard in a hazmat suit with a flamethrower, burns the train car and has her suitcase decontaminated. Rattigan uses a CO2 fire extinguisher to slow the spread of Blood Rust in the passenger cabin of the plane but cold retards rather than kills it. At Oxnard, the plane is decontaminated as are the passengers and crew. At no point is the method of "decontamination" explained in "Space Master X-7", but it is presumably with something a bit stronger than Lysol or Dettol.

Answer: True

In his earliest motion picture appearance, Clint Eastwood played a laboratory technician named Jennings in "Revenge of the Creature." In talking with Professor Ferguson, he explains the absence of one of four laboratory rats from a cage by saying the cat ate it. He subsequently finds the rat snuggled in his lab coat pocket. Staying within the genre, he again appeared uncredited as a jet squadron leader dispatched to destroy the giant arachnid in "Tarantula" (1955).

Answer: Distant Early Warning

The motion picture begins with a voice-over describing the Distant Early Warning Line operated in the Arctic by the United States Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force. The shortest air route from the USSR to North America was "over the top." The radars of the DEW Line were designed to detect Soviet bombers in time for the Strategic Air Command to deploy its bombers to Russia and to launch American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

When one of the farthest-north stations (Weather Four) fails to respond to radio calls from Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada, the plot of the movie begins.

Answer: H.G. Wells, "The Island of Doctor Moreau"

Paul Harber wrote the screenplay for "Terror Is a Man." The story has many similarities to "The Island of Doctor Moreau" but H.G. Wells is not acknowledged in the credits as the source. James O'Neill, in his book "Terror on Tape" (1994) says "The first and best Filipino horror film, this grim variation on "The Island of Doctor Moreau" is better than you'd imagine." In his book "H.G. Wells on Film: the Utopian Nightmare" (2010), Don G. Smith identifies "The Island of Dr.

Moreau" (1896) as the inspiration for "Terror is a Man" albeit "greatly altered or misfocused."

Answer: No ones; it contained a juvenile mannequin

An anonymous caller says that three-year-old Marge Barrett has been kidnapped, buried alive, and is in "the company of the dead." Thinking that she may have been buried in a recently-opened grave, a search of the graveyard is made. The child's coffin stolen from Ed Quigley's mortuary is located. When it is opened, it appears to contain the decayed corpse of little Marge. Her grandfather, Jode Weatherby, who has a heart condition, drops dead from the sight. Mortician Ed Quigley examines the corpse and declares it to be a gruesome mannequin.

Answer: Acting

Tod Andrews (1914-1972) acted on the live stage, in motion pictures, and on television. He was a graduate of Washington State College (later Washington State University) in Pullman, Washington. He acted on Broadway and in the road company of "Mister Roberts" in the lead role.

His television work included the lead in "The Gray Ghost" (1957-1958) about Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby. Andrews' film work in horror and science fiction movies included "Voodoo Man" (1944), "Return of the Ape Man" (1944), "From Hell It Came" (1957), and "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" (1970).

Answer: West Coast of Mexico

When it appears that the flying object will crash into the Earth, the US military launches three nuclear missiles to intercept and destroy it. That result is not achieved and the object dives into the Pacific Ocean somewhere off the coast of Mexico. Thinking that the "asteroid" demonstrated signs of intelligence, scientists from Lab Central rush to Mexico to search for it. They discover a hundred-foot-tall metal monster emerging from the water.

The robot matches up to the Navros electrical power plant, absorbs all of the energy in it, and then destroys the plant. Four Mexican Air Force P-51 Mustang aircraft attacked the monster but were themselves destroyed. The giant alien machine then continues its pursuit of energy to collect.

Answer: Jungle Jim

Johnny Weissmuller made a dozen Tarzan movies (1932-1948) before putting more clothes on and making sixteen Jungle Jim movies (1948-1955). Columbia made feature-length Jungle Jim movies based on Alex Raymond's "Jungle Jim" comic strip. "The Phantom" is a theatrical serial of 15 chapters made in 1943 based on Lee Falk's comic strip "The Phantom." There was an effort to follow this with a second serial but it failed to gain traction. "Ramar of the Jungle" began as a television series (1952-1954). Four feature-length films were cobbled together from three of the TV episodes apiece (1953, 1953, 1955, 1955). Seven for-television movies were similarly created in 1964.