Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 42 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Detective Raby

Naolia gives Walter Paisley a vial of heroin as an expression of her appreciation of his artwork. This is observed by Det. Lou Raby, an undercover police officer, who follows him home to arrest him for possession. Walter freaks out and hits the detective with a frying pan, killing him.

He repeats the "sculpting" procedure which worked so well on the dead cat and calls the newly-encased figure "Murdered Man".

Answer: Moon Men Attack!

The lunar residents in "Cat-Women of the Moon" (1953) are able to control the mind of the one female member of the spaceship crew but not the men's. Noted science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay for George Pal's "Destination Moon" (1950). "Flight to the Moon" (1953) (first known as "Polyot na Lunu") is a Russian animated film about a boy who accidentally travels with a rescue mission to the Moon.

There does not appear to have been a 1950s film by the name of "Moon Men Attack!".

Answer: thrown out a high window

Lisa Moya, played by Faith Domergue, has the ability to change into a cobra. She uses this power to kill off six American servicemen who violated the secrecy of a Lamian cult in Asia. In the final scene, Tom, played by Marshall Thompson, breaks a high theatre window and uses a coat rack to toss the cobra outside.

As the snake falls many stories to its death, it transforms back into Lisa, who is found dead on the pavement below.

Answer: Hans Conried

Kerry West was Hans Conried's first leading role in a motion picture after playing smaller parts for many years. He played a college philosophy professor whose wife gives him a television set to keep him company while she goes to attend her sister in childbirth. When the television turns out to be sentient and to possess all manner of powers, the adventure begins.

Answer: Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) was an American composer and conductor responsible for over 150 scores for motion pictures. He wrote the music for "Cat-Women of the Moon" which is not what made him famous. A further impediment to fame was the misspelling of his name in that film's credits as "Elmer Bernstien".

His other scores include "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955), "The Ten Commandments" (1956), "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967), "Animal House" (1978), "Meatballs" (1979), "Airplane!" (1980), "The Blues Brothers" (1980), "Stripes" (1981), and "Ghostbusters" (1984).

He is not related to Leonard Bernstein.

Answer: True

"Radar Men from the Moon" introduced George Wallace as Commando Cody. The film was made as a twelve-chapter serial with chapter titles such as "Moon Rocket", "Bridge of Death", "Flight to Destruction", "The Enemy Planet", "Battle in the Stratosphere", "Mass Execution", and "Death of the Moon Man".

These were edited into a 100-minute theatrical movie which was released to television, as well. This all occurred near the end of Republic Pictures' twenty-year dominance of the Hollywood serial market.

Answer: antennae sticking out of their roofs

All of the vehicles driven by the communications commission agents (including a really cool woody wagon) have antennae sprouting out of their roofs. These are used to triangulate the source of electronic signals and interference. It is unclear which communications commission may be involved: the Federal Communications Commission or the Los Angeles Communications Commission.

When "the commission" receives consumer complaints about radio and television interference, it dispatches these units to investigate.

Answer: acting

Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karlof and Bela Lugosi were the top horror box-office draws for several decades. Lon Chaney Jr's acting credits (out of many more) include: "One Million B.C." (1940), "Man-Made Monster" (1941), "The Wolf Man" (1941), "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942), "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943), "Son of Dracula" (1943), "Cobra Woman" (1944), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "House of Frankenstein" (1944), "The Mummy's Curse" (1944), "House of Dracula" (1945), "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948), "Bride of the Gorilla" (1951), "The Black Castle" (1952), "Indestructible Man" (1956), "The Black Sleep" (1956), "The Cyclops" (1957), "The Alligator People" (1959), and "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" (1971).

Answer: a small town in Pennsylvania

"The Blob" was shot in several small communities around Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Chester Springs, Downingtown, Phoenixville, and Royersford. The idea was to represent a small town in 1950s Pennsylvania. The local grocery, the local cafe (Chef's Diner) and the local movie theatre (the Colonial Theater) where a midnight showing of "Daughter of Horror" was playing, all contributed to the small-town atmosphere.

Answer: a man made of parts of other men's bodies

Rather like the monster in the Frankenstein stories, the poor soul locked in the closet is the result of a series of previous failed experiments. The use of prior transplant drugs caused mutations in the stitched-together gentleman. He is seven feet tall, has one eye higher up his face than it ought be, lumbers about, and has great strength.

He was played by circus performer Eddie Carmel who was known professionally as "the Jewish giant". He kills Kurt with one hand. He takes a bite out of Bill's neck and kills him, before accidentally setting fire to the laboratory.