Popcorn Crunchers, Reel 70 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hans puts Frankenstein's brain in a new body.

The patients in the paupers hospital attack Victor and nearly kill him. His medical assistant, Hans Kleve, intervenes but Frankenstein (known as Doctor Stein) dies. Hans rushes his body to their lab and transplants the baron's brain into a waiting body.

When the police come to arrest Frankenstein, Hans shows them his battered and mutilated body (which no longer has a brain in it). Victor recovers. Doctor Stein changes his name to Doctor Franck, whereupon he and Hans open a new medical practice on Harley Street in London.

Answer: They Lived on Brains

"The Brain that Wouldn't Die" was shot in 1959 with the working title "The Black Door" but was released in 1962 with the newer title. It involves a doctor who saves his girlfriend's head when she is decapitated in an automobile accident. "Creature with the Atom Brain" is a 1955 movie about a mad Nazi scientist who creates radio-controlled zombies to conquer the Earth. "Donovan's Brain" (1953) is about a millionaire whose brain is kept alive after an airplane crash; it stars Nancy Davis, who later became Nancy Reagan! Other 1950s brain movies include "The Brain Eaters" (1958) and "The Brain from Planet Arous" (1957) but not "They Lived on Brains".

Answer: a Martian reptilian humanoid vampire

The stowaway monster on board the spaceship looks like a man in a rubber reptile suit, which effect was done better in "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954). This creature is supposed to have descended from an earlier Martian civilisation. It lives by absorbing the body fluids of other living things. An autopsy conducted on the body of the first crewman to die, Joe Kienholz, found his body without blood or lymph and even his marrow turned to dust.

Answer: Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff played Dr. Henry Jekyll as a less-kindly, more-sinister character than in most adaptations of Stevenson's novella. He is credited in the film as both Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde but this is incorrect. He played only the doctor and, once the onscreen transformation to the monster was completed, a stuntman named Eddie Parker did all of the monster's scenes.

Answer: a curse for desecrating Indian burial grounds

The residents of Pine Ridge think that the gruesome murder of their neighbour Harold Banks is of supernatural causes. A thoroughly inebriated Indian Joe, played by Billy Dix, says there is an Indian curse which condemns those who disturb the Indian burial ground at Devil's Crag.

When he says "All white men die," the sheriff runs him out of town. On his way he says, "People who walk on Indian grave die." Later, Joe's bloody body is found hanging from a rafter in his cabin, a victim of the Giant.

Answer: Yes

An Australian production of "On the Beach" was made by Southern Star Pictures in 2000. Whereas the story in Nevil Shute's novel and in the first production of "On the Beach" was set in 1964, the later version was set in 2005. Russell Mulcahy directed; Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward starred. Americans saw the film on Showtime.

Answer: melting the polar ice cap causing flooding

The aliens use a weapon capable of lifting giant objects as the opening salvo of their attack upon the Earth. In addition to the railroad train, the ship and the space station, they destroy parts of Venice, Italy, by flooding.

Answer: producing

Ken Curtis (1916-1991) was, at one time, a singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. He was also the lead singer of the Sons of the Pioneers from 1949 to 1952. As an actor, he was probably best known for playing Festus Haggen on television's "Gunsmoke" (1959-1975).

He is best known in the world of horror and science fiction film as the producer of two motion pictures: "The Killer Shrews" (1959) and "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959). These two low-budget movies were filmed back to back.

Answer: the wilds of Florida

The spaceship X-100 is launched from somewhere in Florida and returns to Earth nearby because of a mishap in the flight. The motion picture was shot at the Charlie Chaplin Studios (now Jim Henson Studios) in Hollywood, at a television station on Mount Lee outside of Los Angeles (near the Hollywood sign), and in the caves of Bronson Canyon at Griffith Park, also in Los Angeles.

Answer: the consequences of nuclear war

Following the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans were concerned about the consequences of nuclear warfare. In "Rocketship X-M", the crew discovers signs of an advanced civilisation on Mars -- sculpture, buildings -- and detects intense radiation which they determine to be the effects of atomic war.

They are then attacked by a band of surviving humanoid Martians -- mutated, savage, barbaric, like cavemen -- who kill two of their party and wound a third by throwing rocks and stone axes.