# Pointless movie trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2000, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933 "2000-03-16T14:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/1 "2000-03-16T14:25:00Z")
In the classic movie “Frankenstein,” with Boris Karloff, who is credited in the closing credits with playing the Monster? No cheating. (Hint: I’ve already given you the answer!) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/2 "2000-03-16T14:27:00Z")
Question Mark. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/3 "2000-03-16T14:29:00Z")
Boris Karloff? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/4 "2000-03-16T14:30:00Z")
Would know Uke or Eve would spoil the fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/5 "2000-03-16T14:33:00Z")
Well, I too was gonna say Boris, but that seems too obvious. So I’ll Say: Florence Henderson! ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/6 "2000-03-16T14:36:00Z")
Lou Reed’s father? * * * “It’s only common sense, There are no accidents 'round here.” ---
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/7 "2000-03-16T15:00:00Z")
Keith Richards? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/8 "2000-03-16T15:00:00Z")
Waitaminnit. Trick question. “The Monster” was credited with a question mark in the OPENING CREDITS. At the end of the flick, under “A Good Cast is Worth Repeating,” Boris Karloff IS credited…he comes in, I think, as number four, under Colin Clive, Mae Clark, and John Boles. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/9 "2000-03-16T15:35:00Z")
Tim Curry? ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/10 "2000-03-16T15:40:00Z")
Actually, Ike, it was Quotation Mark. Question Mark was under contract to MGM, and Mr. Mayers wouldn’t lend him out to another studio. * * * Voted **Best Sport** And narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/11 "2000-03-16T15:40:00Z")
You’re all wrong. I know this one. Oprah Winfrey ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/12 "2000-03-16T15:45:00Z")
Fred Gwynne? * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/13 "2000-03-16T15:46:00Z")
Again I must go off topic to address **Uke Ike** : 1. Just how many frickin’ reference books to you have at your fingertips arrayed about your workstation? and 2. What kind of suped-up, V-8 search engine are you usin’, hoss? * * * Voted **Best Sport** And narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/14 "2000-03-16T16:47:00Z")
[blushing prettily] Nahhhhh… **Mjollnir** said not to cheat, so I didn’t. Looking things up constitutes cheating, doesn’t it? Most of my old-movie knowledge resides right here, in between my ears. I’m particularly good at Frankenstein movies and Marx Bros. movies, having drummed them into my brain-pan at age 12. I remember whole chunks of dialogue and complete _mise-en-scenes,_ while forgetting to pick up my daughter after school. Girlie movies, almost anything starring Bette Davis, I’m hopeless with, but that’s why we have Eve, right? * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/15 "2000-03-16T17:34:00Z")
Oh, is THAT why we have Eve? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/16 "2000-03-17T06:11:00Z")
Okay, since that one’s been answered, here’s another: _Gone With the Wind_ is well known for being the first major American film to use the word “damn”. What was the second American film to use it? ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/17 "2000-03-17T06:19:00Z")
Damn Yankees? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/18 "2000-03-17T06:20:00Z")
Well, actually, a good number of silent films and early talkies used “damn” before censorship was enforced in 1934 . . . NEVER use “first” when it comes to film history! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/19 "2000-03-17T06:24:00Z")
I’ll give it a shot. How about High Noon? * * * I understand all the words, they just don’t make sense together like that. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933/20 "2000-03-17T06:25:00Z")
I remember “The damn little cuss! 'Rassled with my fangers” in some story, possibly “Outcasts of Poker Flats.” Don’t know if that was made into a movie, but it was quite controversial in 11th grade English Lit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-movie-trivia/14933.md?page=2)