This week's answers

1.King Kong

2.Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas

3.Kevin Costner

4."What have you got?" Dialogue from The Wild One

5.Bob Dylan. In the recent Factory Girl Christensen plays someone very clearly modelled on Dylan, but, for legal reasons, the character is named Billy Quinn.

6.William Shakespeare. Those films were inspired by, respectively, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear and The Tempest.

7.They are all mark technical advances in cinema. The films are, respectively, the first colour feature, the first feature with synchronised dialogue, the first feature in 3-D and the first digitally animated feature.

8.James Bond

9. The Who. Phil Daniels was in Quadrophenia, which was based on an album by the band. Sandler recently appeared in Reign Over Me, the title of which references the song Love, Reign O'er Me. Chesney Hawkes's one big hit I am the One and Only came from Buddy's Song, which co-starred
Roger Daltrey.

10.Excerpts from all these films appeared in the classic series of Holsten Pils commercials. (Ice Cold in Alex was, cheekily, also referenced in a Carlsberg advertisement.)