The weekly movie quiz

Questions from the blood simple to the die hard... by Donald Clarke

Questions from the blood simple to the die hard . . . by Donald Clarke

1Who, in three separate decades, lugged Fay Wray, Jessica Lange and Naomi Watts about New York?

2Which three directors came together to hand Martin Scorsese his Oscar this year?

3Who played the dead body seen in the credit sequence of The Big Chill?

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4"What are you rebelling against?" Response?

5Who is Hayden Christensen not playing in the photograph left?

Which writer links these otherwise disparate films: Ten Things I Hate about You, Ran, Forbidden Planet?

7Why might we list the following films together: The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914), The Jazz Singer (1927), Bwana Devil (1952), Toy Story (1995, right)?

8Which suave hero was - sometime before coming to film - played on, television and radio by, respectively, Barry Nelson and Bob Holness (of Blockbusters fame)?

9Phil Daniels drives over a cliff. Adam Sandler mourns his late family. Chesney Hawkes has a hit. Who? (The clue is, of course, in the question.)

10Why might The Great Escape, Some Like it Hot and Ice Cold in Alex have made you thirsty in the late 1980s?