Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 175 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dorothy Provine

Actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Provine (1935-2010) was raised in Seattle, Washington, and died in Bremerton, Washington, just across the bay. Her film debut was in the title role in "The Bonnie Parker Story" (1958), followed by two successful television programmes: "The Alaskans" (1959-1960) and "The Roaring Twenties" (1960-1962).

In between, she played opposite Lou Costello in "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" (1959). She married prolific movie and television director Robert Day in 1969 and retired to their Bainbridge Island home in Puget Sound.

Answer: Bloodsucking Teenage Girls

The feature-length movies "Cat Girl" (1957), "Devil Girl from Mars" (1954), and "Daughter of Dr. Jekyll" (1957) are all actual, not-made-up, existent, and authentic motion pictures. In "Cat Girl", Barbara Shelley plays a beautiful young woman who turns into a leopard. In "Devil Girl from Mars", Patricia Laffan plays a Martian woman in a skin-tight bodysuit. In "Daughter of Dr Jekyll", Gloria Talbott plays a naif who learns that her father is Doctor Jekyll.

There was a film called "Bloodsucking Freaks" (1976). There was a film called "Bloodsucking Babes from Burbank" (2007). There was a film called "Girls Just Wanna Have Blood" (2019), which was originally titled "Teenage Bloodsuckin' Bimbos". There does not seem to have been any 1950s feature-length film called "Bloodsucking Teenage Girls".

Answer: thrown containers of poison gas

At first, soldiers fire automatic weapons and a flamethrower at the mantis without effect. Machine-gun bullets don't deter it. Fighter aircraft engage it, but their cannons are useless. Col. Joe Parkman crashes his aeroplane into the mantis and bails out to safety.

The collision seriously injures the creature, so it lands and crawls into "the Manhattan tunnel". The tunnel is sealed, and smoke grenades are used to obscure its vision of the assault team led by Col. Parkman. They discharge three poison-chemical bombs in its face, and it succumbs.

Answer: When Worlds Collide (1951)

In "When Worlds Collide", Richard Derr played pilot David Randall, Barbara Rush played Joyce Hendron, the daughter of astronomer Dr. Cole Hendron, Peter Hansen played medical doctor Tony Drake, and John Hoyt played ridiculously-rich financier Sydney Stanton.

Answer: Mexico

"The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy" was the last in a trilogy. The first two movies were "The Aztec Mummy" (1957), which was released as "Attack of the Mayan Mummy" in the US, and "The Curse of the Aztec Mummy" (1957). The third, called "La Momia Azteca Contro El Robot Humano" in Mexico, was not released in the US until 1959.

The Spanish-language releases in Mexico were distributed by Azteca Films Inc. All three of the films were shot consecutively in Mexico. The producer was Guillermo Calderon, the director was Rafael Portillo, the writers were Guillermo Calderon and Alfredo Salazar, the actors and the crew were the same people.

Answer: one of the Moon maidens

Lisa Simone (1935-2020) was born in Paris, died in Rome, and was an actress in the United States. A great beauty, she was named Miss France in 1973. This title brought her to the Miss Universe pageant in Long Beach, California. She was cast in several motion pictures including "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962).

She also played in "Missile to the Moon" (1958) and "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959). Her marriage to Hollywood actor Steve Barclay took her to Rome where she lived until her death.

Answer: a gang of robbers

A gang of mob-related mean-and-nasty sneaky criminals are trying to kidnap Meba in order to use the Venusian's powers of telekinesis and telepathy to rob banks. These evildoers are none too bright. They believe that, when they steal the sports trophies from the children's school, they will require a van to haul the gold and silver away.

In fact, there are so few cups, plates and other prizes that a cloth soft-sided duffel would be sufficient to the task. In a melodramatic moment, the ringleader of the crooks begins a chase scene by shouting to his minions, "We've got to stop those kids!"

Answer: acting

American actor Robert Clarke (1920-2005) appeared in a great many B pictures, many of them science fiction or horror movies. His films include "The Body Snatcher" (1945), "Zombies on Broadway" (1945), "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" (1947), "The Man from Planet X" (1951), "Captive Women" (1952), "The Astounding She-Monster" (1957), "The Hideous Sun Demon" (1958), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1958), "The Incredible Petrified World" (1959), "Beyond the Time Barrier" (1960), "Terror of the Bloodhunters" (1962), "Frankenstein Island" (1981), "Midnight Movie Massacre" (1988), "Alienator" (1990), and "The Naked Monster" (2005). Clarke's autobiography, "To 'B' or Not to 'B': A Film Actor's Odyssey", was published in 1996.

Answer: Penny accidentally buys it at auction.

Donald Drake inherits a farm in Sussex. He takes his city-girl bride, Penny, to live bucolically on the estate. Penny accompanies their farm hand Reuben, played brilliantly by Jon Pertwee, to the nearby village. She has never before seen a livestock auction and does not know how to deport herself at such an agrarian event. Quite by accident, she buys a waddling of five dozen ducks. All sales are final.

The real trouble begins when one of the sixty ducks in their flock lays radioactive eggs.

Answer: Richard Devon

Poor Richard Devon (1926-2010) was cast by Roger Corman as the dissolute, rapacious, duplicitous and generally not very nice Stark, a sort of king of the Grimault people. This brutal leader was dressed in a vaguely Turkish helmet with earflaps like those sported by Johnny Carson's character Floyd R Turbo.

His poncho was apparently made from the exterior wrapping of a Highland coo. During the shoot, Devon hurt his knee and nearly drowned. He declared "The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent" to be "a disastrous film to work on". Devon played literally hundreds of roles as an actor and voice actor on stage, radio, television and motion pictures.

His horror and science-fiction film credits include "The Undead" (1957), "Blood of Dracula" (1957), "War of the Satellites" (1958), "Planet of the Apes" (1974), and "The Seventh Sign" (1988).