Midnight Run Trivia

1. When Eddie first approaches Jack about finding The Duke, why does Eddie tell Jack he put up a bail bond for someone as likely to run as Johnathan Mardukas?

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Answer: He didn't know who he was.

Just after Walsh gets paid by Eddie for the job shown in the opening of the field, Eddie nervously tells Jack over lunch that he messed up in putting up Mardukas' bond because he didn't know who he was.

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Answer: Jimmy Serrano

DeNiro played a down on his luck bounty hunter named Jack Walsh who must find and bring back mafia accountant Jonathan Mardukas - played by Charles Grodin. Jimmy Serrano, the main villain, had ten million dollars embezzled from him by the do-gooder accountant, Jonathan Mardukas, also known as The Duke. While in the boxcar, The Duke deduced that Serrano was the drug dealer who cost Jack his job as a Chicago cop. Ironically, Dennis Farina, who played Serrano, was once a Chicago police officer in real life.

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Answer: friends

Robert DeNiro's, Jack Walsh says this while the credits are still rolling in the first scene. John Ashton played Sgt. John Taggart in the first two of three "Beverly Hills Cop" films.

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Answer: Open a coffee shop

Jack wants to open a coffee shop despite Mardukas' advice that more than half of all new restaurants go under. They discuss this on the train while Mardukas starts trying to open a dialogue with Jack.

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Answer: French Fries

When Eddie, the bail bondsman called on Marvin Dorfler, the rival bounty hunter, to join in the search for The Duke, Dorfler's prisoner asked "Can I at least have some French Fries?" John Ashton played the character of Marvin Dorfler. You may have also recognized him from another Martin Brest movie, "Beverly Hills Cop". He played Sergeant Taggert.

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Answer: In the shower

This happens just after Jack taps Mardukas' sister's phone and tricks her into calling Mardukas. Jack breaks into the house and is hiding in the shower to avoid Mardukas' dog, which has him pinned.

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Answer: Carmine

Carmine was chained to the radiator in Marvin's Pittsburgh motel room when Eddie called to get Marvin to go after The Duke. Marvin, upon hearing the news, told Carmine "It's your lucky day." We can only assume Marvin let him go. Carmine was played by Frank Pesce, another "Beverly Hills Cop" cast member. Pesce reprised the same role in "Beverly Hills Cop 2".

From Quiz It's A "Midnight Run" For Crying Out Loud

Answer: embezzlers

Sitting in first class, Walsh laughs when he says this. One of DeNiro's legitimate comedy role, ten years before his onslaught of comic roles, including "Meet The Parents" and "Analyze This".

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Answer: It's written on the towels in the picture.

Dorfler has Mardukas cuffed in the hotel bathroom holding that day's newspaper for proof he really is in Dorfler's custody. The towels with the hotel name can be seen in the background.

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Answer: Agent Foster Grant

The FBI agent in charge of finding The Duke was Alonzo Mosley played by Yaphet Kotto. The inside joke began when the FBI agent first confronted Jack with the fact that he might be looking for The Duke. Jack remarked about all the agents wearing the same sunglasses and put on his own to mock the group. Mosley became upset and Jack couldn't pass up the opportunity to keep the heat on the ongoing gag; even going so far as to place a pair of sunglasses in an FBI car he stole to make a getaway.

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Answer: appropriate

Mardukas admits to being a pilot to Walsh, who is hanging on the plane Mardukas is trying to get away in. "Come here so I can appropriate your face!" Walsh yells in reply.

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Answer: He was forced out by a drug dealer.

The fact that the "drug dealer" he references early in the film is Jimmy Serrano does not come out until about midway through. When Jack and Mardukas are on the train they hide on, Jack tells him who ran him out of Chicago years before.

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Answer: It was short for Redwood

In this scene, Jack and The Duke had no money and ran a scam on the owner of a local bar. After "confiscating" some of the "bad" bills, The Duke went to thank the bar owner, who identified himself as "Red," but had brown hair. "Do you dye your hair?" The Duke asked with a puzzled look. "It's short for Redwood," Red replied.

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Answer: jerk

Having just heard from Walsh, Moscone shouts at Jerry (Jack Kehoe) to get Marvin Dorfler on the phone.

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Answer: On the empty passenger plane

Mosely knew Walsh was on the plane, but didn't know about being asked to leave when Mardukas freaked out about flying. The captain of the plane makes a comment about there being two FBI Agents named Mosely.

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Answer: An airline ticket agent

Brest appeared as an airline agent at the airport in Las Vegas. He had a great exchange with Marvin Dorfler. Dorfler was smoking a cigarette when the ticket agent asked him "Will that be smoking or non?" To which Dorfler replied "Take a wild guess." Brest also appeared in the first "Beverly Hills Cop" movie as a hotel desk clerk.

From Quiz It's A "Midnight Run" For Crying Out Loud

Answer: moron

This is Jimmy Serrano's (Dennis Farina) question to Joey (Robert Miranda), who answered the phone, before quickly passing it off to Tony like a hot potato.

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Answer: Kill Mardukas' wife

This is a very chilling scene in the back of Serrano's limo. It ends with a sudden, sharp slap across Mardukas' face.

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Answer: A pencil

Dennis Farina gave a great performance as Jimmy Serrano, the mobster from whom The Duke ripped off millions. Serrano quipped this legendary line about the pencil after Joey and Tony had repeatedly lost Jack and The Duke. The fork was from another all time underrated favorite of mine, "Grosse Pointe Blank". John Cusak sublimely remarked "I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?"

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Answer: identification & ID

Agent Mosely (Yaphet Kotto from TV's "Homicide: Life On The Street") turns and scowls at Agent Tuttle (Jimmie Ray Weeks) before walking off.

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Answer: A hidden money belt

The big reveal is that he'd had this money belt with approximately $300,000 the whole time. He gives it to Jack to open his coffee shop with.

From Quiz Serrano Took The Disks - "Midnight Run"

Answer: Have a sandwich and a glass of milk.

"Send someone with a cash offer." Sidney advised Serrano on how to deal with his negotiations, but Serrano wanted to do it his way. "Relax Sidney. Have a sandwich. Have a glass of milk." Serrano told him. Milk was not exactly what you would think a mobster would prefer, but in the end, Sidney was right to be concerned. Sidney was played by veteran character actor, Philip Baker Hall, who also appeared in "The Rock", "Air Force One" and "Boogie Nights", just to name a few of his movies.

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Answer: a swamp

Walsh says this on the phone to Moscone, then shakes his head at Mardukas to indicate he won't really do that.

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Answer: Money

She tries to give Jack her babysitting money, but he doesn't accept it. Instead, Jack's ex wife gives him the keys to her car and lets him drive off in it to get back to Los Angeles.

From Quiz Serrano Took The Disks - "Midnight Run"

Answer: A rubber hose

"This guy's not gonna shoot at you. Just put him in a bag. Hit him with a rubber hose and bring him back." Eddie told Jack to try to assure him "It's an easy gig; a midnight run." - hence, the title of the film. A popular urban myth is that police sometimes beat confessions out of a suspect with a phone book because it won't leave any marks. Unfortunately that's just not true.

From Quiz It's A "Midnight Run" For Crying Out Loud

Answer: blowtorch & blow torch

Serrano, losing his patience, says this to Tony on the phone.

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Answer: Computer disks

Walsh bluffs Serrano about the existence of the disks to get him to incriminate himself in front of the FBI at the Las Vegas airport. It works until Marvin shows up and gets in the middle, leading to a tense finale.

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Answer: Moscone

Played by the ever talented, Joe Pantoliano, Eddie Moscone was an intriguing character who kept thousands of dollars rolled up in his cute, striped tube socks. We saw this when he paid Jack for his latest capture at the beginning of the film. Pantoliano, a veteran character actor was also known to close friends on the set of the Sopranos as "Joey Pants".

From Quiz It's A "Midnight Run" For Crying Out Loud

Answer: sea of filth & sea of pus

Walsh lays into Moscone while on the phone in the FBI office, before Moscone reveals that he doesn't have the Duke or know where he is.

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