Donald Clarke's weekly movie quiz
We normally gloss over our mistakes here, but we feel compelled to acknowledge a particularly moronic boob last week. As many, many correspondents noted, seven is the square root of 49 and not, as we suggested, 21. Oops.
Questions
1What film ends with Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains chatting at the airport?
2Which film dynasty includes (working down the generations) Carmine, Francis and Sofia?
3Which picture features episodes entitled The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dance of the Hoursand Night on Bald Mountain?
4Which 1971 film concerning a lunatic who thinks himself Sherlock Holmes provided a Brooklyn comic rock group with their name?
5Who began with Who's That Knocking at My Doorand Boxcar Bertha?
6Bertolucci directs De Niro and Depardieu. Spielberg directs Belushi. Emmerich directs global catastrophe (again). What's the connection?
7Which journalist helped write the script for the Russ Meyer shocker Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?
8Which director had one of his films adapted by Scott Walker and another by Stephen Sondheim?
9Gunfight at the OK Corral. Bank employee Whoopi Goldberg gets drawn into espionage. River Phoenix finds a body. Pacino and Pfeiffer fall in love over the lunch counter. What's the connection?
10The upcoming gene-manipulation horror film Splicefeatures key characters called Clive and Elsa. What is being referenced?
Answers
1.
Casablanca
2.The Coppolas
3.
Fantasia
4. They Might Be Giants
5. Martin Scorsese (his first two films).
6. Films with years as their titles (1900, 1941, 2012)
7. Roger Ebert
8. Ingmar Bergman (
The Seventh Sealbecame a Walker song of the same name.
Smiles of a Summer Nightbecame
A Little Night Music)
9.Films that take their titles from Songs (
My Darling Clementine, Jumping Jack Flash, Stand by Me, Frankie and Johnny)
10.
Bride of Frankenstein. (The reference is to Elsa Lanchester and Colin Clive, stars of the film.)
