Q 01/05
A) Steven Spielberg
B) Peter Bogdanovich
C) George Lucas
D) Francis Ford Coppola
Answer · why
It was Lucas's second feature after THX 1138 and the first film produced under the Lucasfilm banner.
Q 02/05
A) Fresno
B) Modesto
C) Bakersfield
D) Stockton
Answer · why
It was Lucas's home town, but he thought it had changed too much in ten years and shot elsewhere.
Q 03/05
A) 1959
B) 1957
C) 1960
D) 1962
Answer · why
The night is Sunday, September 2, the last day of summer vacation, two months before the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Q 04/05
A) Bob's Big Boy
B) Arnold's
C) The Frostie Freeze
D) Mel's Drive-In
Answer · why
The scenes were shot at the real Mel's in San Francisco, which was demolished soon after filming.
Q 05/05
A) Ron Howard
B) Richard Dreyfuss
C) Paul Le Mat
D) Charles Martin Smith
Answer · why
More than 100 unknowns auditioned; Lucas was so taken with Dreyfuss's reading of the part that he offered him his pick of Curt or Toad.
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