Movie Remake Contrasts Trivia Quiz

Answer: His father's name is John Fredrick

Elwood's father is still John Fredrick, as said right after telling the story of how he met Harvey. I don't remember who James Stewart's Elwood said his childhood playmate's name was, but Harry Anderson's Elwood said Verne Mackelhaney. Veta says "You're staying right here" in the 1950 version, but it's Omar, the family lawyer, who says it in the 1996 version. And in this version, Dr. Chumley wants him to take that formula so he can have Harvey all to himself.

Answer: 6'8.5"

I was surprised that in the 1996 version, Harvey was said to be 6'8.5" in this, but I guess it was to compensate for the fact that Harry Anderson is 6'4" in real life, a height difference that trumps not only James Stewart, but also "Doctor Who" actors Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker if Harry were ever asked to play an incarnation on "Doctor Who".

Answer: Say goodbye to their daughters before they leave for their honeymoon

I ought to Gibbs-slap Diane Keaton and the woman who played Stanley's wife for making their respective husbands too busy to let them say goodbye to their daughter in person before she went on her honeymoon. The only thing is, at least Kay and George have a do-over with Megan.

Answer: Kay and Buckley were fighting over where to honeymoon

They thought it would be a lot more sensible if they changed the argument to the fiancee buying her a blender.

Answer: It started falling apart

At the beginning Mr. Blandings builds his dream house. The Blandingses, a married couple with two daughters, buy a beautiful house that turns out to be a broken-down shack. In "The Money Pit", Walter and Anna, a poor couple in need of a house, buy it off an unknown con artist who sells it to them for $200,000.

As it turns out, the house was made to look great, but it was in deep need of repairs.

Answer: Mr. Blandings was a middle-class advertising exec and Walter was a bankrupt talent lawyer

Walter's father ran a talent law firm with him, but then he embezzled from all of his and Walter's clients, moved to Rio and married a beautiful young woman who he later bought a house with-from the same woman who sold Walter and Anna the other house to.

The problem with Mr. Blandings was he just landed a deal with the biggest producer in imitation ham in the nation, and had to come up with a better slogan. In the end, his maid comes up with it and that pays him a big commission.

Answer: True

They were co-workers up until the end of the movie because their boss, played by S.C. Sekall, blindly fired Van Johnson's character since the other character broke his beloved Stradivarius. At the end, though, it's as true as the end of the original. The female finds out what the man's known for most of the movie and falls in love with him as he has for her over time.

Answer: Location

The original movie is set overall in Berlin while "In the Good Old Summertime" took place in Chicago.

Answer: True

Though the diversity changed in this remake, the discussion at the jury room remained the same: Is the kid innocent or guilty?

Answer: He didn't like the concept of a son wanting to kill his father

In both versions, Juror #3 didn't have any compressed issues with his son, but he was still mad at his son for cutting all ties with him in the 1997 version, and when the boy said that he wanted to kill his father, that sent Juror #3 over the edge of anger and made him decide he wanted the kid to go to jail. Being forced to let that reason out made him rage out and rip the picture of his son up, resulting in everyone holding him back and one of the jurors telling him to let the kid live, which subliminally read as advice to let his son go as well.