- In Spaceballs, what power does Mel Brooks’ character seek/use?
- What 1990s movie told the story of the game-show scandals of the 50s?
- Ref. #75: What was the name of the real-life contestant who blew the whistle, and what game show was he on?
- In Moby Dick, what is unusual about the pulpit in Father Mapple’s church?
- In Man of a Thousand Faces, what final thing does Lon Chaney (James Cagney) do on his deathbed, with his family around him? (Very sentimental act.)
- In the last game shown in Kid from Left Field (with Dan Dailey, about 1953), where does the ace pitcher go while Dailey’s other pitcher pitches to one batter?
- True or false: Joe E. Brown played a train conductor in Around the World in 80 Days.
- In The Incredible Shrinking Woman, starring Lily Tomlin, when the family thinks Tomlin was ground up in the garbage disposal, what do they put in a matchbox as a memorial to her?
- In The Guns of Navarone, what mechanism is shown in the suspenseful final scene (apparently when the Nazis’ guns were about to be blown up)?
75. What 1990s movie told the story of the game-show scandals of the 50s?
Quiz Show
76. Ref. #75: What was the name of the real-life contestant who blew the whistle, and what game show was he on?
Last name was Stempel, the show was “21”
80. True or false: Joe E. Brown played a train conductor in Around the World in 80 Days.
False (I think)
#74 : The Schwartz
#77 : It was built as the prow of a ship with a rope ladder that he climbed and then pulled up after him.
The power of the Schwartz. #74A. How many characters did Mel play in that movie?
It’s the bow of a whaling ship.
Great minds think alike!
To Crunchy Frog: You’re right. He was a stationmaster. Buster Keaton played the conductor.
To Eutychus: According to Mad–I don’t know whether this was in Melville’s book or not–Father Mapple was a sea captain who turned preacher when his ship rammed through the wall of a church. (When I saw this movie in the theater, I didn’t listen to Mapple’s lines, and I thought the bow-sprit was there because he was talking only to seafaring people. Hey, I was only eight!)
A few more:
81. In Pollyana, what happens when the minister’s speech, during his sermons, gets really agitated?
82. In The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills in a dual role), what embarrassing trick does one twin sister pull on the other?
83. In The Fall of the House of Usher, how many characters are there in the story besides Madeleine Usher, her brother Roderick, and her fiancé Philip Winthrop?
84. In Mighty Joe Young (1949), what happens to Joe in the nightclub to make him run amok?
#78 - He writes the word “Junior” next to his name on his make-up kit.
#82 - In “The Parent Trap” one twin cuts off the back of the other twin’s skirt.
Thanks, Kawliga. 
I was beginning to wonder whether anyone other than me had ever seen that movie–anyone I could still comment to about it. I only saw it the one time–and it really made me cry… 
Is that what you saw? I didn’t get to see the movie, but in a TV ad for it it looked to me like one cut the other’s panties off–ummmmmmm! :eek:
#82 (Navarone version) It’s the bottom roller guide of the elevator, repeatedly almost reaching the detonator wires.
In the “I Can Stump You!” thread (here), we’ve gone through 100 posts but still have no answer to the movie question I dropped, so I’m providing a link here for those interested in an extra-hard challenge…
- In Pollyanna (corrected sp), what happens when the minister’s speech, during his sermons, gets really agitated?
–The chandelier quivers.
dougie, aren’t you supposed to be asking questions about movies you HAVE seen, questions whose answers you already know? Aren’t you supposed to be testing us for our knowledge? This isn’t GQ, you know.
Besides, do you think a movie produced by Walt Disney (and I mean the man himself, not the company that bears his name) would even show someone wearing panties, let alone a scene where they get cut off? While Walt was alive, every Disney movie made after the rating system was implemented received a “G” rating. Every single one.
Which inspires me to ask the next questions: "What was the first Disney movie to be rated “PG”?
“What was the first Disney movie to show adult nudity?” (It was NOT Splash.)
"What was the first Disney movie to be rated “R”? (Touchstone Pictures is owned by Disney.)
What number are we up to?
To make this a little plainer, Jab1…well, you are correct, for the most part. However, there are instances, such as the question about a Jerry Lewis movie, above, in which I did not know this information (the movie’s title); so, what’s wrong with me asking a question now and then in this thread, for knowledge I don’t have at all? I think that’s the general spirit of the SDMB, anyway…
As for Walt Disney and the ratings, I was a high school senior when he died in December 1966. Wasn’t the rating system–then with G, M, R, and X–implemented around early 1969? (I have not seen very many Disney movies at all; wwhether that is good or bad depends on the opinion of my putative audience.)
The Jerry Lewis question was #63, above.
As for Walt Disney and panties–well, perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me after 40 years, especially since I didn’t get to see the actual movie. It’s possible the TV ad was misleading–maybe on purpose. To be totally honest, however, I did get a comic-book version of the movie (showing, among other things, Maureen O’Hara giving a mighty slap to Brian Keith’s face), in which one twin does indeed cut the back of the other’s skirt off, up to the waist. You can guess the rest.
IIRC, a bunch of drunks gave Joe some liquor and got HIM drunk.
(85)The Black Hole, 1979, for language (“hell” and “damn” were said a few times).
(86)Dragonslayer, 1981, which was a Paramount-Disney co-production. In one scene, Galen and Valerian go swimming in the nude. Up to this point, Galen (and the audience) believed Valerian was a boy. An underwater shot proved otherwise. (Valerian was seen from behind and to her left, but it was enough.)
(87)Ruthless People, 1986.
As for the ratings awarded to movies pproduced personally by Walt Disney himself, it’s true that he died in 1966 before the MPAA rating system was instituted in 1968. However, many of Walt’s films were rated when they were re-released. Every one of Walt’s films got a “G”, though Treasure Island, 1950, had one scene shortened to get the “G”, a scene where Jim Hawkins shoots a menacing pirate in the face.
As long as I’m here:
#88: What was the first feature-length movie to use computer-generated imagery? (It wasn’t Tron. It wasn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey; all the computer graphics seen in 2001 were cel animation.)
#8 I believe Buster Keaton never threw a custard/cream pie.
I think the same is true of Charlie Chaplin.
However, I confess to being fallible on occasion.
#61 - Trick question. The first time Fox’s character (Marty McFly) is confronted by the Libyan terrorists it is at Twin Pines Mall. The second time he is at the mall is upon returning from the future a little early. He watches himself in the previous confrontation from a distance. And the name of the mall is now Lone Pine Mall - presumably because he ran over one of the pine trees in an escape from the farmer in the past.
Whew!
Gotti
That’s not all. When Joe pleaded with them for more booze, the fat bald drunk leaned forward and touched the lighted tip of his cigarette to Joe’s bare skin. (In the court proceedings following the rampage, the court ruled Joe would have to be shot. I think the judge should have order that the fat bald drunk be shot, too–especially if any people were killed or maimed in Joe’s runken rampage.) :mad:
#89. What was the name of the actress in Psycho who found Mrs. Bates’ dressed-up skeleton in the basement?
#90. In Son of Frankenstein, what was unusual about the right arm of a policeman who fights the monster at the end?
#91. What real-life ocean liner was used in The Last Voyage?
#92. What legitimate occupation was Al Pacino in, in the first Godfather movie?
#93. What old western song did Laurel & Hardy sing in Way Out West? (bonus sub-question: What happenes to Stan [and his voice] while he sings?)
#94. What menace does the hero fight in the climactic scene in The Andromeda Strain?
#95. How does the heroic pig (in Babe) make his point to the uncooperative sheep in the competition (where he competes with sheepdogs)?
#94 : Laser beams set to knock out escaped lab animals who get into the central access tube.