# Test Your Movie Knowledge!: Part VII **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661 "2003-09-15T01:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/81 "2003-09-17T00:59:01Z")
God/Deborah Winger: _Made in Heaven._ Everything I ever learned about spiral staircases, I learned from Marlene Dietrich. _Der Blaue Engel/The Blue Angel_ (I posted this before Chefguy posted his, so I’m assuming he just didn’t see it) Everything I ever learned about zippers, I learned from Kevin Costner. _The Big Chill_ Lis\_8 I learned everything I know about Boris Karloff from Raymond Massey _Arsenic and Old Lace_ Lis\_10 I learned everything I know about smoking marijuana from Robert Powell. My bad; WILLIAM Powell. I’ll leave this one lie for a few more rounds. Lis\_13 I learned everything I know about coffee Gloria Graham. _The Big Heat_ . . . and the more obscure Shelley Winters/swimming reference. _A Place in the Sun_ ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/82 "2003-09-17T03:24:48Z")
Last call for the Governor Quinn films. Last call… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/83 "2003-09-17T03:46:11Z")
GQ 1- All I need to know about political corruption, I learned from Martin Mull. No clue. GQ 2- All I need to know about rock music, I learned from Gena Rowlands. It’s not one of her Cassavetes films; I own all of those. GQ 3- All I need to know about surviving car wrecks, I learned from Glenn Ford. GQ 4- All I need to know about film history, I learned from Donald O’Connor. GQ 5- All I need to know about mutiny, I learned from Orson Welles. GQ 6- All I need to know about beheading, I learned from Orson Welles. Not a clue; Othello? duh–Samson and Delilah! Man for All Seasons? GQ 10- All I need to know about civil war, I learned from Richard Burton. No clue; he wasn’t in Red Badge of Courage. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/84 "2003-09-17T03:51:17Z")
oops, missed 3-4-5! hold on Donald O’Connor has to be one of the That’s Entertainment documentaries. Mutiny, treasure island? Did Welles do a version of Caine? I know he didn’t do Bounty; I have all the versions of that. Glenn Ford doesn’t get in an accident in Big Heat or Gilda or Courtship of Eddie’s Father, and then I’m dry on Glenn Ford. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/85 "2003-09-17T03:53:19Z")
Yes, GQ 6 is “Man For All Seasons” My other films: GQ1- Clue GQ2- Light of Day (I don’t blame you for not seeing it, it’s only good in a “Who brought that cast together?” sense.) GQ3-Already answered GQ4-SInging in the Rain GQ5-Treasure Island GQ10-Cleopatra ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/86 "2003-09-17T03:53:29Z")
Oh, and “baloney/Ingrid Bergman” was _From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler._ ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/87 "2003-09-17T03:54:23Z")
And I now see that you got GQ5, and I forgot about “That’s Entertainment”. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/88 "2003-09-17T04:10:47Z")
TOO tricky. OK: Lis\_what, 18? Let’s go with 18. Everything I know about toast I learned from Jack Nicholson. Lis\_19 Everything I know about water, I learned from Malcolm McDowell Lis\_20 Everything I know about gardenias, I learned from Peter Lorre. Lis\_21 Everything I know about real estate values, I learned from Lawrence Fishburne. Lis\_22 Everything I know about the how to take aspirin I learned from Kyle McLachlan. Lis\_23 Everything I know about oysters I learned from Lawrence Olivier. Lis\_24 Everything I know about washing dishes I learned from Jimmy Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/89 "2003-09-17T04:36:49Z")
**GQ 4- All I need to know about film history, I learned from Donald O’Connor.** Singin’ in the Rain **GQ 6- All I need to know about beheading, I learned from Orson Welles.** MacBeth **Lis\_18 Everything I know about toast I learned from Jack Nicholson** Five Easy Pieces **Lis\_23 Everything I know about oysters I learned from Lawrence Olivier.** Spartacus ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/90 "2003-09-17T04:38:14Z")
and Googling constitutes cheating… ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/91 "2003-09-17T04:42:14Z")
**Lis\_20 Everything I know about gardenias, I learned from Peter Lorre.** The Maltese Falcon ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/92 "2003-09-17T04:47:31Z")
MM 1: Everything I know about peace on earth, I learned from Peter Sellers. MM 2 : Everything I know about doing things for hate’s sake, I learned from Greg Peck. MM 3: Everything I know about the pharoahs, I learned from Charlie Smith. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/93 "2003-09-17T04:54:07Z")
MM2: Gentlemen’s Agreement? Or To Kill a Mockingbird? Charles Martin Smith? And Peter Sellers is either Dr. Strangelove or Being There; no, that would be peace in the garden. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/94 "2003-09-17T05:25:28Z")
Dr. S., of course. Purity of Essence, Peace on Earth… ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/95 "2003-09-17T05:27:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*MM2: Gentlemen’s Agreement? Or To Kill a Mockingbird? > \*\* Nope. Nope. > [@](#): > > \*\*Charles Martin Smith? \*\* Yah, sure, betcha, that’s him… ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/96 "2003-09-17T06:25:57Z")
Lis\_19 = Tank Girl? A Clockwork Orange? Caligula? Water was the main plot of Tank Girl. In A Clockwork Orange he was nearly drowned by his ex-droogs. Caligula had a swimming pool scene and John Gielgud slashing his wrists in a bath. Answers to my hangers: HF\_4: “Everything I needed to know about things that are “finger-lickin’ good”, I learned from Bill Paxton.” HF\_4: “Everything I needed to know about preferring my victims clean shaven, I learned from Bill Paxton.” _Near Dark_ HF\_6: “Everything I needed to know about adopting a gay teenager, I learned from Harvey Fierstein.” HF\_6: “Everything I needed to know about wearing fuzzy pink bunny slippers, I learned from Harvey Fierstein.” _Torch Song Trilogy_ And now some fresh ones: HF\_8: “Everything I needed to know about waking up naked in a zoo, I learned from David Naughton.” HF\_9: “Everything I needed to know about winning the lottery, I learned from Ian Bannen.” HF\_10: “Everything I needed to know about detonating a bomb, I learned from Gary Sinise.” ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/97 "2003-09-17T07:00:56Z")
**HF\_8: "Everything I needed to know about waking up naked in a zoo, I learned from David Naughton."** I get a boner thinking about Jenny Agutter \*An American Werewolf in London ---
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/98 "2003-09-17T07:08:00Z")
Hope I do this right - 1 - Everything I needed to know about giant clouds of shit, I learned from Woody Harrelson. 2 - Everything I needed to know about dead people laughing, I learned from Jim Carrey 3 - Everything I needed to know about playing synth drums while trapped in an elevator I learned from Madeleine Kahn. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/99 "2003-09-17T12:34:30Z")
Oh, man. I was going to guess a place in the sun for shelley winters, but I didn’t want to look more a fool than I do. Monkey Mensch! Purity of Essence and Peace on Earth were Gen. Jack D. Ripper, not Dr. S. I\_L\_10 “Everything I needed to know about Weinerschnitzel, I learned from Madeleine Kahn” I\_L\_11 “Everything I needed to know about Marlon Brando’s dry white season, I learned from Robert DeNiro” ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661/100 "2003-09-17T14:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gossamer \* > \*\*The Replacements \*\* Right! DC-2: Everything I learned about mutations I learned from Edmund Gwenn. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-knowledge-part-vii/201661.md?page=6)