"Eddie and The Cruisers" For Diehards 3 Quiz

Answer: Drug overdose

After Frank talked with Maggie at the El Marko Room, Frank decided to go talk to Kenny, who was a blackjack dealer in Atlantic City. Kenny and Frank walk on the boardwalk and discuss Eddie and how Frank was treated by Eddie.

The discussion goes onto Wendell, whom Frank always believed died of a heart attack, but Kenny tells Frank the truth...that Wendell died of a drug overdose.

In Kenny's flashback, he goes to the Ebb Tide Motel and knocks for Wendell. When no one answers the door, Kenny climbs in through a window. He sees alcohol and drugs on the bureau and begins to get worried about Wendell. He calls for Wendell several times, and finally finds him in the bathroom, dressed in a t-shirt and underwear, slumped against the wall with his right hand dangling over the tub. Kenny knew that Wendell was dead.

Trivia tidbit: The Ebb Tide Motel is a real motel in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Answer: Joann

The day after Wendell was buried, Eddie was so distraught that he couldn't perform at Tony Marts; he walked off-stage before the first song, "Tender Years," was sung. The Cruisers stood still, as they didn't know what to do. Sal came to the rescue when he made Joann go to the microphone and sing. They changed the music to fit her voice, and she sang the song beautifully.

Answer: False

After talking with Kenny in Atlantic City, Frank decided to go to Wildwood and talk to Joann, who was a choreographer at a big hotel. They sat at a table and discussed the missing tapes and how they felt for each other. Joann then told Frank that she's been receiving phone calls and each time she answers the phone the song "Tender Years" plays, and then the caller hangs up.

She also said that a car that looked just like Eddie's had parked in her driveway, and flashed the headlights high, then low, then high again, just like Eddie. Joann was positive that it was Eddie.

Answer: ever playing music again

During the flashback at Satin Records, which is located in Manhattan, Lew Elson, the record buyer, was listening to "A Season In Hell" in the recording area, while the Cruisers were in the reception area. Doc Robbins, the Cruisers' manager, was also in the recording area when Elson stopped the music abruptly.

Out in the reception area, every head of the Cruisers snapped to attention when they heard the music stop. Eddie burst through the door to the recording area and began yelling at Elson, who in turn told Eddie that he wasn't going to buy the record and that he hated it.

Doc tried to calm Eddie down, but it didn't work as Eddie was so fired up. Sal had a go at it and asked Eddie what he was trying to accomplish with the record, because the fans wanted songs that were like "On The Darkside." Sal and Eddie exchanged words:
Eddie: "I want something great. I want something no one's ever done before!"
Sal: "Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey."
Eddie: "If we can't be great, then there's no sense in ever playing music again, Sal!"
Eddie then stormed out the door with Joann following. They got into Eddie's car and drove off.

Answer: Lincoln Tunnel

After Eddie stormed out of Satin Records, with Joann following behind. They got into his car and drove off, with Eddie not speaking the entire time. Eddie drove through the Lincoln Tunnel at a high speed until he reached Vineland, New Jersey.

Trivia tidbit: The Lincoln Tunnel links midtown Manhattan and central New Jersey, and is part of New Jersey Route 495. It is also the only three tube tunnel in the world.

Answer: Palace Depression

After reaching Vineland, New Jersey, Eddie takes Joann to Palace Depression, the junkyard he used to visit and hang out at when he was a kid. Joann is mystified as to why Eddie brought her there, and then when Eddie told her that the man who owned the place thought he could actually build a palace out of junk.

After hearing Eddie's sad dialogue, Joann realizes how deeply hurt Eddie had been that Lew Elson didn't like the new album.

After leaving Palace Depression, Eddie drove Joann home. However, Joann knew then and there that she would never see Eddie again.

After Frank questioned Joann about the missing tapes, Joann tells him that she knows where the tapes are. She said that the day after Eddie's car went off the bridge, she went to Satin Records, got the tapes, and hid them at Palace Depression. Frank demands that she show him where it's at.

When Frank and Joann get to Palace Depression, Joann has some trouble remembering exactly where she hid the tapes, but eventually they find them.

As they leave Palace Depression, we see the bottom half of a person watching and then getting into a car and following Frank and Joann.

Trivia tidbit: Palace Depression was created by George Daynor in 1932. Daynor built the Palace on South Mill Road in Vineland, New Jersey. Daynor created his masterpiece from clay, concrete, and auto parts, which he found on the site and in nearby junkyards. The Palace, considered to be the "Strangest House in The World," was Daynor's antidote for the Great Depression. It consisted of "secret passageways, elaborate cellars, gables, minarets and spires. There was one room which contained a wishing well where you could have a 10 pound bowling ball lowered onto your head to 'wipe out bad memories'." The Palace became a major tourist attraction because it was so close to Atlantic City.

"The Palace's downfall began when Daynor got an idea for an ill-fated publicity stunt. There had been a kidnapping in 1957, the Weinberger case, and for publicity, George claimed he had been contacted by the kidnappers and asked to hide the victim, an infant, at the Palace. He contacted newspapers and even sent a telegram to famed columnist Walter Winchell. But his scheme went sour when the FBI was called in to investigate the claim. They prosecuted him for fraud. He was found guilty and jailed for one year. This left his Palace unattended and open for theives and vandals. They damaged and burned the building."

When Daynor died on October 24, 1964, he was buried in Potter's field, as he was penniless. Shortly after his death, a fire gutted the Palace, and in 1969, the city of Vineland destroyed almost all of the Palace, except for the ticket booth.

When "Eddie and The Cruisers" began filming in 1983, they used the ticket booth from the original Palace. However, because the original Palace was no longer, the studio created an exact replica in a junkyard in Atco, New Jersey.

Answer: Tender Years

After getting the tapes, Frank and Joann go to her house, unaware that they are being followed. We see a car, a light blue 1957 Chevy Bel Air, pulling into a gas station not far from Joann's house.

Inside, Frank looks at all the pictures on Joann's wall of the Cruisers, and as he's looking the phone rings. Joann picks the phone up and hears "Tender Years." Frank grabs the phone from her and demands that the unknown caller tell him who he is, but the caller hangs up.

The phone then rings again, twice...then stops...then rings two more times. After hearing this, Joann begins to flip, and as she loses her mind she tells Frank that it's Eddie telling her to get ready. She races upstairs leaving Frank alone downstairs.

Frank gets a funny feeling and goes outside. He's about to leave, but then thinks about it. He then decides to hide his car in the barn across the way, out of site of the arriving "Eddie."

Answer: Doc

After hiding his car in the barn across the way, Frank hides behind a tree. He watches as a light blue 1957 Chevy Bel Air pulls up to Joann's house, and listens in amazement as the voice in the car, which sounds exactly like Eddie, tells Joann to hurry up.

As Joann comes out of her house and goes to the car, which is completely dark inside, Frank runs to the driver's side and pulls the door open, dragging the person out. To his and Joann's amazement, it's Doc!

Answer: Doc

Toward the end of the movie, it is revealed that Doc broke into Frank's house to try to find the missing tapes. Doc also trashed his own apartment to make it look like he had been targeted, too. It was also revealed that Doc was the one who had been making the harassing phone calls to Joann, and the one who parked in her driveway in a car that looked like Eddie's.

His reason for doing so was because he had figured that Joann knew where the tapes were, and he knew that she would never give him the tapes, but he knew that she would give them to Frank.

After discovering that it was Doc, Joann and Frank discuss the tapes and what to do. They decide to give the tapes to Doc so his dream of making it big would come true.

Answer: Full beard and mustache

At the end of the movie, we see a group of people standing around a department store window that has several televisions on display. The televisions are all showing a documentary by Maggie, in which she tells the world that Eddie Wilson was ahead of his time and that we haven't caught up to him yet. The documentary ends with the Cruisers singing "On The Darkside," and the crowd disperses.

But, as the crowd leaves the department store, one lone man stays behind, and to our surprise it's Eddie Wilson, who didn't die after all! It seems that Maggie was right when she said that he pulled a Rimbaud. Eddie doesn't look the same as he's looked during all the flashbacks of the movie...he has a full beard and a mustache. He then leaves the store window and walks down the street and turns the corner.

The street and the city in which this scene takes place is never mentioned.

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