General movie trivia

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  1. In The Caine Mutiny, what obstacle (not his Navy duties) interfered with Ensign Keith’s love life?
  2. True or false: in It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey jumps off the bridge to commit suicide.
  3. What urban legend was commemorated in Smokey and the Bandit?
  4. What Hal Roach actor appeared in a Marx Brothers movie?
  5. What was the name of the young Eloi woman Wells fell in love with in The Time Machine?
  6. In A Streetcar Named Desire (with Marlon Brando), what disappoints Blache DuBois about her sister’s home?
  7. What did Buster Keaton never do in the movies?
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Let me take a…crack, at it.

  1. Impotence.
  2. True- I think. But he gets stopped by that scary angel guy.
  3. The one with the car in the side of the cliff?
  4. Impotence.
  5. Leena, or something…
  6. It has only two rooms? It’s kind of shabby in comparision with Belle Reve? (I haven’t seen the movie but i have read the play so this should be right.)
  7. (What, you’re afraid of 7?) Talk?

I haven’t seen any of these movies, btw, so if I do well, heh…all the better. :stuck_out_tongue:

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  1. Nope. It’s his mother.
  2. Gotcha! No, he doesn’t commit suicide! That’s why Clarence was there. Clarence jumped off, and hollered for help. George took off his coat and dived into the icy water to pull Clarence out. (You’re not the first to fall nto this trap!) :):smiley:
  3. It was the one with the hapless trucker (Jerry Reed, I believe), and a bunch of bikers who rough him up and steal his lunch in a roadside diner. He pays and leaves–and runs his rig over six motorcycles! (See The Baby Train by Jan Harold Brunvand for details.)
  4. Impotence? No! Edgar Kennedy, who played a lemonade vendor bested by Harpo and Chico in Duck Soup. :smiley:
  5. Weena.
  6. He never smiled. (He spoke in Around the World in 80 Days, for one.)

That’s about it, Zoggie. I read the play too–in a college course. And the professor had us watch the movie.
Here’s question 7:
7. What actor appeared in It’s a Wonderful Life, Mighty Joe Young (1949), and the TV series Petticoat Junction?

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Hey well…one out of seven ain’t bad. Is it?

Considering I haven’t seen any of those movies. (I saw the Wishbone version of Time Machine…that’s how I sort of remembered Weena…except that I remembered it Leena. Heh.)

Can I come up with some movie trivia, too? Please please please? i bet mine will be really really good!

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Hey, I didn’t say you couldn’t!! that’s why I posted this thread. :slight_smile: Go ahead–you and any others of the Teeming Millions. [:slight_smile: to the nth power]

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  1. Who directed Stage Door?
  2. In My Man Godfrey, what was Godfrey accused of stealing?
  3. Which Star Wars actor once played 8 different roles in one movie? What was the movie?
  4. What TV show explains where Sylvester Stallone got his “Rocky trains by beating up beef cuts” idea?
  5. Which team wins the big game in Hoosiers?
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#11 : Alec Guiness in Kind Hearts and Coronets

#13 is (I think) the Hickory Huskies.

[Edited by Eutychus55 on 04-15-2001 at 06:45 PM]

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  1. In Miracle on 34th Street, what future TV star is shown “facing” outgoing mail in the post office?
  2. What TV star played a goon in the last Marx Brothers movie?
  3. Who played Babe Ruth in the 1990s movie? (bonus question: what problem did Ruth, as a child, have with cutting fabric?)
  4. In Invaders from Mars, what did it mean when the mastermind in the glass globe looked to the side?
  5. True or false: in Forrest Gump, Lieutenant Dan was (originally) happy not to have lost his life in the battle that killed Bubba and got Forrest shot in the seater.
  6. What city was The Sting shot in?
  7. In The Love Bug, what was Herbie’s license plate number?
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#20 : California plates OFP857

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#14----JACK ALBERTSON

#19----CHICAGO

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#9 Gregory La Cava
#10 a pearl necklace
#12 The Straight Dope TV show???
#15 Raymond Burr
#16 John Goodman
#18 False
#19 Mostly Pasadena, Caifornia

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Correction: Buster Keaton DID smile and laugh in a couple of his movies (notably “Fatty in Coney Island”).

  1. In “The Bank Dick,” W.C. Fields co-starred with what member of a famous comedy team?
  2. In Woody Allen’s “Bananas,” what actor, later to be a major star, had a bit part as a punk in the subway?
  3. Name the only actor who appeared in five films in his lifetime, every one of which was nominated for a best picture Academy Award.
  4. Name the studio excutive of whom it was said, “the whole world was wired into his ass.”
  5. What was “Rosebud” in “Citizen Kane” named for.
  6. What was the only non-honorary Oscar won by Charlie Chaplin?
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Just coming in to do some sweeping up in the OP . . .

  1. What Hal Roach actor appeared in a Marx Brothers movie?
    Edgar Kennedy, perhaps, but also Thelma Todd. Several times.

  2. What did Buster Keaton never do in the movies?
    Sorry. Buster not only smiled, but actually laughed, in one of his first movies, “Fatty at Coney Island” (1917).

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23 - I think his name is John Cassals or something … he played Fredo in Godfather 1 and 2. And he was Al Pacino’s exitable partner in Dog Day Afternoon, as well as Bob DeNiro’s hunting buddy in The Deer Hunter. What was the fifth film?

  1. A sled.

Those are the only ones for which I have even the slightest clue.

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Just stepping in here, Rosebud was the sled. I think he wants to know what the sled was named after.

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Oh, silly me.

In that case, I don’t think I remember - was it his sister, possibly?

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He was left handed and couldn’t hold scissors?

Marion Davies’ clit.

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#22. Sylvester Stallone played a mugger in “Bananas.”

#26. Chaplin won an oscar for best music score for “Limelight.”

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#21. Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges.

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ThisYearsGirl, you’re right. :slight_smile:
24. I think that was Harry Cohn, of Columbia. (I once read that when he died in 1958, thousands of people came to his funeral–ostensibly to make sure he was dead. (Red Skelton was quoted as commenting, “Give the people what they want and they’ll come to see it, every time.”)
About The Sting–Oops, I’m sorry. I meant, where the movie was set, not necessarily where it was made. :o
27. What supporting actor from the Three Stooges shorts was a judge in the court-martial scene in The Caine Mutiny? (You have to look close to see him.)
28. In War of the Worlds (c. 1953), what kind of vehicle was the hero’s girlfriend driving when people were fleeing Los Angeles because of the Martin attack?
29. Why did Bette Davis turn down the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind?
30. In Witness for the Prosecution, Charles Laughton’s last movie, what special mechanical device did his character have installed in his home?
31. In Time Bandits (1982), what 60s movie idol played the Devil?
32. In the animated feature Lady and the Tramp (about 1958, I think), how does Tramp redeem himself to Jim Dear and Darling?