*Puzzle *(1974 film)
Italian. Directed by Duccio Tessari
*Puzzle *(2006 film)
Korean. Heist gone wrong. Bombed.
*Puzzle *(2014 film)
Japanese horror by Eisuke Naito
Yes, I just wiki’d “puzzle”, BUT I do semi-remember the korean one…in that it existed.
Next:
Movies with “VS” or “Versus” in the title or tagline.
Joe Versus the Volcano
Tom Hanks as human sacrifice.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott vs. girlfriend’s evil exes.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Father wants custody of son.
Next: movies about college life (grad school counts) made before 1980.
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Bluto shouts, drinks, eats, reigns
Love Story
Unlikely romance: preppy and snarker
The Paper Chase
Law school ain’t easy, friend
Next: Non-courtroom dramas about or featuring lawyers
*Under Suspicion *
Murder suspect lawyer possibly framed.
*Crazy Ex-Girlfriend *
Woman quits firm for excitement.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Lawyer hires disguised ex-husband nanny.
Next: non-medical dramas featuring doctors. (Can show him practicing incidentally, but can’t be focus of film.)
All That Jazz
Sheider (Fosse) has heart surgery.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. Watson’s game is afoot.
Doctor Doolittle
He could talk to animals.
Next: Movies where a vacation goes awry.
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Road trip not that fun.
Along Came Polly
Honeymoon disaster when wife cheats.
The Vanishing
Couple takes vacation: woman abducted.
Next: movies prominently featuring an insect or arachnid.
Alice In Wonderland (2010)
Alan Rickman’s Caterpillar steals show.
Charlotte’s Web
Some Pig? That’s Some Spider!
Flash Gordon
No, Father! Not bore worms!
Next: Movies with a prominent character named Peter or Pete.
Peter Pan (1924, live action)
Like stage, played by woman.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great, German biopic.
Spiderman
Radioactive spider bites Peter Parker.
Next: movies where a criminal is the POV character, either for the whole movie, or a significant portion of it.
The Ladykillers
Inept murderers are the focus.
Bonnie & Clyde
Classic Hollywood romanticism of pair.
Evil Roy Slade
John Astin in western farce.
Next: The Cinematic Oeuvre of Jack Elam
The Usual Suspects
Verbal has lots to say!
Ocean’s Eleven
Ultracool thieves triumph in Vegas
Valkyrie
Heroes now, but in 1944…
Next: The Cinematic Oeuvre of Jack Elam
The Cannonball Run
Questionable claim to “All-star” cast.
The Aurora Encounter
Progeria-affected child plays an alien.
High Noon
Uncredited: drunk in jail, “Charlie.”
Next: movies that took advantage of a real-life disability or oddity instead of using FX.
BZZZZZZZZZT! Sorry Prof! Bore Worms aren’t insects or arachnids. And to continue with my double secret annoying nitpickery, she didn’t say “father”. Just “No! Not the bore worms!”
However, thanks for mentioning Flash Gordon. It’s one of my favs!
Next: movies that took advantage of a real-life disability or oddity instead of using FX.
Fellini’s Casanova
The world’s tallest woman, nude.
Mad Max: Fury Road
Corpus Colossus has osteogenesis imperfecta.
The Wizard of Oz
The Singer Midgets as Munchkins.
**Next: ** Films with talking animals
Bambi
Was hunters’ least favorite movie
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Aslan is big, noble, Christlike
Guardians of the Galaxy
Badass raccoon gets best lines
Next: Films with ugly animals
Turner & Hooch
Tom Hanks with drooly dog.
Star Wars
Banthas interesting, but IMHO ugly.
The Island of Lost Souls
Humanoid creatures definitely not beautiful.
Next: movies of Fay Wray.
King Kong
'Twas beauty killed the beast.
The Most Dangerous Game
Or, Turnabout is fair play
The Vampire Bat
Or, Fay Wray Screams Again.
Next: Movies about childhood.
Stand by Me
Fifties Maine kids’ adventure afoot
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Narnia discovered by English kids
Lord of the Flies
Castaway island kids savagely regress
Next: Movies about old age
The Whales of August
Last film of Lillian Gish.
Going in Style
Old men organize bank heist.
On Golden Pond
She’s old and he’s ancient.
Next: films with “wax” in the title.
House of Wax
Vincent Price is hammily scary.
American Hot Wax
So-so bio of Alan Freed.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Hohum mystery, no longer PC.
Next: Movies with excessively long titles
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies.
Don’t tease gypsy fortune tellers.
The Persecution and Assassination of the Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Asylum patients put on show.
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from G-d…Be Back by Five.
Friends search for missing third.
Next: more movies with excessively long titles.
