Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1. Which current hit follows the investigations of George Smiley?

1. Which current hit follows the investigations of George Smiley?

2. Who has, at various times, been played by Bernard Lee, Edward Fox and Judi Dench?

3. Name the glamorous star (photo)

4. Who has, at various points, been Oliver Barrett, Moses Pray and Barry Lyndon?

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5. Which Steven Spielberg movie was based on

Super Toys Last All Summer Long

?

6. What links Rocky’s girlfriend, Annie Wilkes’s captive and Neil McCauley’s nemesis?

7. Why might the director of

Coming Home

and the producer of Laurel and Hardy’s films make you think of a fictional computer?

8. John Woo directs an identity swap. Michael Moore takes on Bush. Ron Howard addresses a famous political interview. Which punctuation mark?

9. Humphrey Bogart did it in 1945. Jason Robards did it in 1961. What?

10. Why might you suspect James Dean’s dad in

Rebel Without a Cause

of having less than 20/20 vision?

1.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

2. M in the James Bond series

3. Barbra Stanwyck in

Lady of Burlesque

(1943)

4. Ryan O’Neal

5. AI

Artificial Intelligence

6. They were played by three of the children of Don Corleone (Talia Shire in

Rocky

, James Caan in

Misery

, Al Pacino in

Heat

)

7. The question refers to Hal Ashby and Hal Roach. HAL was the computer in

2001: A Space Odyssey

.

8. “/” (

Face/Off, Fahrenheit 9/11, Frost/Nixon

)

9. Married Lauren Bacall

10. Because he was played by Jim Backus, the voice of Mr Magoo