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Post by erik on Feb 15, 2020 18:30:02 GMT -5
FITZCARRALDO, with Klaus Kinski replacing Robards.
Name the 1970 western that featured Lee Marvin and Jack Palance, normally both known for playing heavies and tough guys, as two aging cowboys trying to settle down in a changing West.
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Post by egoodstein on Feb 22, 2020 23:05:21 GMT -5
Monte Walsh
Tom Neal and Ann Savage are the principal stars of what well-regarded 1945 low budget 'noir' film?
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Post by erik on Feb 23, 2020 0:31:15 GMT -5
DETOUR
Name the novelist who wrote as Richard Stark, and whose novels formed the basis for such films as POINT BLANK, THE OUTFIT, THE SPLIT, and THE HOT ROCK.
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 1, 2020 22:35:40 GMT -5
Donald E. Westlake
What other actress (amazingly!) besides Bette Davis was originally considered for the role of Margot Channing in All About Eve?
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Post by erik on Mar 7, 2020 12:18:20 GMT -5
Joan Crawford (and even she wasn't the only one)
Which young English actor was very much sought after for the role of Billy in PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID before Kris Kristofferson was chosen? (you probably won't believe it)
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 13, 2020 7:06:32 GMT -5
I think Malcolm McDowell
What 1936 famous screwball comedy film is the only one to receive Oscar nominations for writing, directing and the four major acting awards, but not Best Director? (HInt: the film didn't win any of those awards)
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Post by erik on Mar 14, 2020 12:16:35 GMT -5
I'm taking a shot in the dark here: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (??)
What 1977 black comedy took on the sport of ice hockey, and put a swearing Paul Newman in there just for good measure?
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 22, 2020 18:56:52 GMT -5
Slap Shot. The '36 comedy classic that struck out at the Oscars was My Man Godfrey (the directornot nominated by the way was Gregory LaCava).
Reaching for the Moon is a film 'biopic' concerning what major American poet?
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Post by erik on Mar 23, 2020 8:56:27 GMT -5
I think it was Elizabeth Bishop.
Name the Mexican actor who tells Bogey and Tim Holt in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, "I don't got to show you no stinkin' badges!"
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 4, 2020 11:44:23 GMT -5
Alfonso Bedoya
What was the first Jim Jarmusch film that featured Tom Waits (as an actor I mean)?
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Post by erik on Apr 4, 2020 17:22:18 GMT -5
I think it was DOWN BY LAW, released in 1986.
What 1973 film featured three hugely prominent Hollywood liberal actors (Burt Lancaster; Robert Ryan; Will Geer) portraying hard-right businessmen plotting the assassination of JFK?
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 19, 2020 19:20:57 GMT -5
Executive Action
Who plays the role of Ann 'Anytime Annie' Lowell in 1933's 42nd Street?
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Post by erik on Apr 20, 2020 19:18:43 GMT -5
Ginger Rogers
In what 1955 contemporary Western does Spencer Tracy play a one-armed WW II veteran looking for the Japanese soldier who saved his life in a California desert town full of racial bigots?
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Post by egoodstein on Apr 28, 2020 23:31:25 GMT -5
Bad Day at Black Rock.
Because of what turned out to be a fatal illness, Charles Laughton was replaced by Wilfred Hyde-White in what 1962 film?
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Post by erik on May 2, 2020 17:35:16 GMT -5
I think it was IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS.
Both Fredric March and Robert Ryan made their last film appearances in what 1973 Eugene O'Neill adaption? (Bonus: name the director of said film).
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Post by egoodstein on May 4, 2020 18:27:11 GMT -5
The Iceman Cometh. John Frankenheimer directed it.
Though a talented singer in her own right, who dubbed Ann Blyth's voice on songs in The Helen Morgan Story?
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Post by erik on May 4, 2020 19:16:42 GMT -5
Gogi Grant
Name the brothers who made the infamous 1970 Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter, which showed the horrific murder of Meredith Hunter at Altamont in December 1969.
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Post by egoodstein on May 17, 2020 17:16:28 GMT -5
Albert and David Maysles
Also a sometime director, who was the first writer to receive two Academy Awards (1931 and 1932). Bonus-- name the films.
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Post by erik on May 17, 2020 19:34:48 GMT -5
Frances Marion, for THE CHAMP (1931), and THE PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE LADY (1932)
Which three "Bobs" headlined the classic 1947 film-noir film CROSSFIRE? (Bonus: Name the director of said film, who would find himself blacklisted in a few short years)
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Post by egoodstein on May 25, 2020 14:33:06 GMT -5
Robert Ryan, Robert Young & Robert Mitchum. Edward Dmitryk directed it.
Who directed and wrote the screenplay for the film version of How To Succeed in Business Without Even Trying?
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Post by erik on May 25, 2020 19:04:27 GMT -5
David Swift, I believe.
Hoffman Birney's novel The Dice Of God, a Custer-inspired Western story, became the basis for what 1965 film? (Bonus: name the soon-to-be-notorious director who wrote the screenplay adaptation, but did not direct it)
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Post by egoodstein on Jun 13, 2020 14:12:46 GMT -5
The Glory Guys. Sam Peckinpah did screenplay.
What now very un-p.c. Bing Crosby film is a loose biopic of songwriter Daniel Decatur Emmett & the American 'minstrel show' tradition.
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Post by erik on Jun 13, 2020 15:06:08 GMT -5
DIXIE (rather portentous a title in retrospect)
In which of John Ford's cavalry films was John Wayne the rational soldier and Henry Fonda a rather irrational commander?
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Post by egoodstein on Jun 21, 2020 13:58:34 GMT -5
Fort Apache
Though nominated an incredible 16 times, for what films did Isabelle Huppert actually win a César Award (French Oscar)?
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Post by erik on Jun 23, 2020 8:58:10 GMT -5
LA CEREMONIE (in 1996)
ELLE (in 2017)
Name the 2011 Steven Soderbergh-directed film that (unintentionally) foresaw the COVID-19 pandemic we're living through now.
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