Game #218 – Sub Titles
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:24 am
Game #218 – Sub Titles
Identify the 80 movies in List A and the 50 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Match the movies into 40 pairs, then match each pair with two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. 18 actors will be used twice and 6 actors will be used three times. No movie will be used twice.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Bengt Ekerot (who?) earned a lasting place in cinematic history (really!) with his iconic (and I don’t use the word ‘iconic’ lightly) role in this film.
A-2. “You know what I say? I say one down, a couple hundred thousand to go. I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling you, I do not like the deer. I'm sick of it; they're taking over. They're like rats. They're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road and I think, ‘That's a start.’"
A-3. This movie version of a Broadway musical featured actors who also appeared in the movie versions of Les Miserables, Cats, Mamma Mia! and Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
A-4. “He said no one's gonna fancy a girl with thighs the size of big tree trunks. Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.”
“Ah! You know, um, being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered.”
“Thank you, sir. I'll think about it.”
“Do. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.”
A-5. This movie was based on something that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers did on June 11, 1962.
A-6. “It's bizarre. Eight years with the national theatre, two Pinter plays, nine Shakespeare, three Shaw, and I finally get nominated for a nauseating little comedy.”
A-7. Pauline Kael loved it, Tuesday Weld hated it, and audiences pretty well ignored it, but it’s now considered a cult classic.
A-8. “It's pink!”
“Oh, lovely shade, isn't it?”
“But I wanted it blue.”
“Now, dear, we decided pink was her color!”
“You decided!”
A-9. This movie gave Mr. Gower his most divine role, bar none.
A-10. “You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.”
A-11. This documentary was filmed in the jungles of Peru at the same time the film the making of which it documented was filmed. Got that?
A-12. “My love. I just want you to know that I'm not that monster, you know. Everything you hear in the trial it's just . . . it's twisted. It wasn't like that.”
A-13. This 1918 flick was the first to feature a character who has since been played by more than 80 actors on the big and small screen – most notably in a series of 12 films from 1932 to 1948.
A-14. “Remember the little girl in the bank? She is ready to swear that you weren't the ones in the woodpecker suits when the bank was held up.”
A-15. A Jewish actor from New York received an Oscar nomination for playing a real-life Apache military leader in this western.
A-16. “This city here is like an open sewer, you know, it's full of filth and scum. Sometimes I can hardly take it. Whatever ever becomes the President should just - really clean it up, know what I mean? Sometimes I go out and I smell it. I get headaches, it's so bad, you know. It's like - they just never go away, you know. It's like I think that the President should clean up this whole mess here. He should flush it down the f**kin' toilet.”
A-17. This 1962 Disney film did for the Willard family what a later film did for the Griswold family.
A-18. “So Alexander walked out in the big arena and standing in the middle of the arena was Bucephalus. He was big and he was strong - and he was pawing the ground. And there was fire in his eyes. And there was smoke comin' out of his nose. And he went: Mmmmbbbbbb. And Alexander walked up and quick-as-a-cat he jumped up on his back, and he grabbed hold of that long black mane - and away they went! Just like lightening! And they jumped right over the crowd, right over the stands, and went ridin' out over the hill."
A-19. This wartime movie about Soviet resistance to the Nazis was neither a critical nor a box office success, but it did mark the debut of one of Hollywood’s most respected leading men – whom you will find in List B.
A-20. “This is a game. All of this is for you. You're not investigating anything. You're a f**king rat in a maze.”
A-21. This was Hitchcock’s last British film before he came to America.
A-22. “That rug really tied the room together, did it not?”
A-23. A joint Brazilian-French-Italian production based on a Greek legend, this film has a notable score by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
A-24. “His face hurts! And where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Put on his glasses! He was gonna be an acrobat!”
A-25. The cast of this Shakespearean film includes George III, Gandhi, and the son of my favorite actress.
A-26. “When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”
A-27. This movie marked the auspicious debut – not counting a brief appearance as an infant in one of her father’s movies – of an eleven year-old actress who immediately went on to star in six films for Walt Disney.
A-28. “Sure, you're a little bit scrawny and a bit unpopular and you can't tie your shoelaces even though you're ten years old. But you're still the bestest, most loyal little Nazi I've ever met.”
A-29. Whatever you do, don’t tell Buzz Aldrin that you believe the bats**t conspiracy theory that forms the basis for this 1977 thriller.
A-30. “It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.”
A-31. If you want to see Burns and Allen, Bela Lugosi, and Cab Calloway in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
A-32. “They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.”
“Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.”
“Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.”
A-33. This movie bagged its star an Oscar on his fifth of seven (so far) nominations.
A-34. “On Wednesdays we wear pink!”
A-35. This 1973 thriller has the most graphic sex scene of any movie adapted from the work of the author of Rebecca.
A-36. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
A-37. This Western was directed by Andy Warhol. Seriously.
A-38. “Although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.”
A-39. This movie featured Shirley MacLaine in a role that had won a Tony for Anne Bancroft.
A-40. “The chickens are revolting!”
“Finally, something we agree on.”
A-41. Perhaps the finest film produced in France between World War II and the New Wave, some French critics condemned it as a "vicious and unfair picture of the peasantry of France."
A-42. “Now, I know how life is in these parts, working a trade sunup to sundown. No time for reading newspapers. Am I correct? Let me do that work for you. And maybe, just for tonight, we can escape our troubles, and hear the great changes that are happening out there.”
A-43. When this Oscar-winning film was first shown in Japan, a sequence depicting the Rape of Nanjing was edited out – then was quickly edited back in when the outraged director protested that he had not given permission for any cuts.
A-44. “Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”
“So what do we do?.”
“Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.”
“How?”
“I don't know. It's a mystery.”
A-45. An ill-advised reference to this movie sparked a memorable incident at the 2022 Academy Award ceremony.
A-46. “I'm gonna write a show for us and put it on right here in Seaport. Why, it'll be the most up-to-date things these hicks around here have ever seen. Opening night we'll have Max Gordon, Sam Harris, Lee Schubert, down to give us the once-over. How about it, kids?”
A-47. This movie pitted Woodrow Wilson against Dr. Paul Ehrlich.
A-48. “I'm going to do something now they used to do in Vietnam. It's called making a head on a stick.”
A-49. Following the release of this 1993 comedy, its 13-year-old star was invited to throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field.
A-50. “I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do. You're gonna get a little job. Some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria. Or cleaning out toilets. And you're gonna hold onto that job like gold. Because it is gold. Let me tell you, Jack, that is gold. You listenin' to me? And when that man walks in at the end of the day. And he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes. You gonna look at the floor. Because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up and grab his face, and slam him to the floor, and make him scream and cry for his life.”
A-51. According to a wonderful – but distorted – anecdote, one of the stars of this movie famously asked the other, "My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
A-52. “It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does it do to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. Extremely competent! I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto.”
A-53. After seeing John Wayne in this Howard Hawks movie, John Ford reportedly said, "I never knew the big son of a bitch could act."
A-54. “I hate shoes, Mr. Dawes. I wear them to dance and to show myself. But I feel afraid in shoes. And I feel safe with my feet in the dirt.”
A-55. The 14-year-old star of this movie testified before Congress that a body double did all of her nude scenes and that her long hair was glued to her breasts.
A-56. “We're alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn't swim the Channel.”
A-57. Ranked by Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest movies ever made, this 1945 horror movie was inspired by an undead creature from Greek folklore known as a vrykolakas.
A-58. “The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.”
A-59. Fictional Tait College provides the setting for this musical.
A-60. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
A-61. If you want to see the man who asked “Is it bigger than a breadbox” investigating the sexual habits of teenagers, this will surely be your only chance.
A-62. “Cut out the Mex lingo around the kid, will ya, Pete? First thing you know, he'll be talkin' it. We gotta raise him with good ol' American habla, like his mom.”
A-63. If you want to see Banjo Eyes in a toga, this will surely be your only chance.
A-64. “God made countries; God makes kings, and the rules by which they govern. And those rules say that the Sabbath is His. And I, for one, intend to keep it that way.”
A-65. This musical was a loose remake of an earlier film starring Claude Rains and the Lane sisters.
A-66. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-67. How much did the star of this superhero movie hate it? He hoped it would bomb so he wouldn’t have to make any sequels and, in a later film, went back in time to prevent himself from making it.
A-68. “Klopstokia. A far away country. Chief exports – goats and nuts. Chief imports – goats and nuts. Chief inhabitants – goats and nuts.”
A-69. Among the patients treated by the eponymous subject of this 1946 biopic was a nephew of the actress who played her.
A-70. “Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or are you out?”
A-71. Ralph Ellison called this filmization of a Faulkner novel “the only film that could be shown in Harlem without arousing unintended laughter.”
A-72. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
“You got, uh, Low Tide?”
“No.”
“How about Wet Dog?”
“Yep. Stink it up.
A-73. I can’t swear that this is the only movie in which a Dame of the British Empire played an elderly Sioux woman, but I can’t think of another.
A-74. “Goodbye to clocks ticking, my butternut tree, and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee, and new-ironed dresses and hot baths. And sleeping and waking up! Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you! Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every minute?”
A-75. This acclaimed 1978 documentary focuses on a very special kind of cemetery in Los Angeles.
A-76. “I was crazy that day. We were going to our son's funeral and you were worried about what I wore on my feet. I'm sure it sounds like nothing to you, but it stuck with me and I just wanted to tell you about it.”
A-77. This 1935 swashbuckler marked the first teaming of an actor and actress who would go on to appear in seven other films together.
A-78. “You can't fool me anymore with your hoof, hoof, hoof, or your insomnia, or your publisher. You're a pretty poor sample of a husband. Oh, and you're ten times worse than he is. At least he had some excuse for kicking me around. He was in love with another woman. But you double-crossed me for the sake of a newspaper. Well, marry the paper and be the proud father of a lot of headlines.”
A-79. Oscar-wise, this movie completes a list that includes the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the 1946 version of Henry V, the 1948 version of Hamlet, and the 1936 and 1968 versions of Romeo and Juliet.
A-80. “Easy now, easy now. This a courtin', not a donnybrook. Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband and entitled to hit you back.”
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. My favorite actress. That is all.
B-2. “Look at what happened because of what you did. What it led to. There are riots out there, two policemen are in critical condition - you're laughing, you're laughing. Someone was killed today because of what you did.”
B-3. When he received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, former co-star Don Rickles announced that he was a lousy actor and that his “idea of a good time is sitting on a pickup truck watching his dog bark.”
B-4. “Lord save little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.”
B-5. He may be the only actor to have appeared on screen with the actress in the preceding clue, the actress in the following clue, and Elvis Presley.
B-6. “Is there some reason that my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?”
B-7. His screen roles have included a drag queen, a drug lord, and a Marvel superhero.
B-8. “This is my great opportunity, Judah, and yours too. If I can bring order into Judea, I can have any post I want. And you'll rise with me, I promise. And do you know where it can end? Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side of Caesar himself! I mean it, I mean it!”
B-9. He and his father were each honored with an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.
B-10. “I gave everything for this family. Everything! And what did you do? You threw it all away like it was nothing. For what? To a f**king kid! You didn't think I'd know? I wouldn't feel it? I knew it from the very first day! Because I know you, Connie. I know you, and I f**king hate you! I didn't want to kill him, I wanted to kill you!”
B-11. He completes a list that also includes Cate Blanchett, Paul Newman, Peter O’Toole, Al Pacino, and Sylvester Stallone.
B-12. I may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can't seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny's sh*t.”
B-13. This actress has worked under the direction of – among others – Woody Allen, Lasse Hallström, Ron Howard, Jonathan Sayles and Oliver Stone, but it was her work with Jonathan Demme that earned her an Oscar.
B-14. “The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of this world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. ’Course he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might make it justifiable homicide.”
B-15. This actor worked under the direction of Frank Capra, John Cassavetes, Blake Edwards, Rob Reiner, Wim Wenders – and, of course, Stanley Kramer.
B-16. “I'm not gonna take those drugs anymore, because they have left me completely f**king numb. I have felt so f**king numb to everything I have experienced in my life, OK? And for that . . . for that I'm here to forgive you. You've always said that all you wanted was for us to have whatever it is we wanted, right? Well, maybe, what Mom wanted more than anything is for it to all be over, and for me, what I want more than anything in the world, is for it to be OK with you for me to feel something again, even if it's pain.”
B-17. In real life, he was the first Irishman to land at Normandy on D-Day; on film, he portrayed an English major who led a glider assault on D-Day.
B-18. “You see, Vincent, you're the missing part of my life. And I'm the missing part of your life. And when we find Mama, we can be the missing part of her life. We won't be alone anymore. We can be a family.”
B-19. She was the subject of Paul Anka’s big hit song “Puppy Love” – but he was certainly not the subject of her biggest hit song.
B-20. “I looked the wrong way and I lost my hand. He could make you look the wrong way and you could lose your whole head!”
B-21. When she made her film debut at the age of 14, she was supported by Lord Olivier.
B-22. “I did not mind killing those men. I was glad to do it. But now I know that the soldiers hate me like they hate no other. Because I killed soldiers, men of my own race, they think I am a traitor.
B-23. Four years after being named “Sexiest Man Alive,” he starred in one of the movies referenced in Clue B-7.
B-24. “Every month, hundreds of claims come to this desk. Some of them are phonies, and I know which ones. How do I know? Because my little man tells me.”
B-25. He wanted to appear in the screen version of his biggest stage hit, but the Broadway producers wouldn’t let him go, so the role went to Raymond Massey instead.
B-26. “I don't think I'm gonna say 'What the f**k' anymore. This thing has gotten WAY out of control!”
B-27. He played the husband of the same actress in seven different films, including both of the films for which he received Oscar nominations.
B-28. “It's 'Your Majesty' the first time. After that, it's 'ma'am', as in 'ham'. Not 'ma'am', as in 'palm'.”
B-29. This actor and Anne Baxter were the only villains to go up against both Batman in the 1960s and Lieutenant Columbo in the 1970s.
B-30. “The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke”
B-31. His filmography included adaptations of works by Thomas Hardy, Bernard Malamud, Harold Pinter, John Osborne, and Shakespeare.
B-32. “We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed . . . forever."
B-33. During a 2023 BBC interview, he confirmed his retirement from acting, stating that the “only parts I'm liable to get now are old men, 90-year-old men.”
B-34. “Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!”
B-35. This French actress made her much-heralded American debut in the unforgettable Girls’ Dormitory. (What, you mean you’ve forgotten it already?)
B-36. “Ohhhh, if you must go woof-woof, kindly go woof-woof not to windward, but to leeward.”
B-37. He was the second of two actors to win a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for one of the films referenced in Clue A-19.
B-38. “In the final analysis it doesn't matter a damn what we think. The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other. And if it's half of what we felt- that's everything.”
B-39. His leading ladies have included Yvette Mimieux, Luana Patten, and a woman who is now a nun.
B-40. “Gee, Sadie was a good skirt. I shouldn't have slipped her that ant poison. I should have just battered her in the jaw a few times.”
B-41. Despite what Quentin Tarantino might want you to believe, this Oscar-winning actor did not die until 1950.
B-42. “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!”
B-43. Inextricably linked, these two actors appeared together in seven films and an eponymous reality series.
B-44. “What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' n****rs, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.”
B-45. On screen, she was romantically involved with –among others – Jeff Bridges, Daniel Day Lewis, John Malkovich, Matthew Modine, and Jack Nicholson.
B-46. “What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?”
B-47. On screen, he was romantically involved with –among others – Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Greer Garson, and Susan Hayward.
B-48. “You always were a problem for me, Joey. When mom brought you home from the hospital, I tried to strangle you in your crib. I guess all kids try to do that. She caught me, whacked the daylights out of me.”
B-49. In 1932, she played a role that had previously been played by Gloria Swanson and would later be played by Rita Hayworth.
B-50. “This rabble you're talking about . . . they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!”
Identify the 80 movies in List A and the 50 actors in List B. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Match the movies into 40 pairs, then match each pair with two actors, according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. 18 actors will be used twice and 6 actors will be used three times. No movie will be used twice.
LIST A: MOVIES
A-1. Bengt Ekerot (who?) earned a lasting place in cinematic history (really!) with his iconic (and I don’t use the word ‘iconic’ lightly) role in this film.
A-2. “You know what I say? I say one down, a couple hundred thousand to go. I don't mean to get on my high horse, but I'm telling you, I do not like the deer. I'm sick of it; they're taking over. They're like rats. They're destroying the ecosystem. I see a dead deer on the side of the road and I think, ‘That's a start.’"
A-3. This movie version of a Broadway musical featured actors who also appeared in the movie versions of Les Miserables, Cats, Mamma Mia! and Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
A-4. “He said no one's gonna fancy a girl with thighs the size of big tree trunks. Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.”
“Ah! You know, um, being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered.”
“Thank you, sir. I'll think about it.”
“Do. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.”
A-5. This movie was based on something that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers did on June 11, 1962.
A-6. “It's bizarre. Eight years with the national theatre, two Pinter plays, nine Shakespeare, three Shaw, and I finally get nominated for a nauseating little comedy.”
A-7. Pauline Kael loved it, Tuesday Weld hated it, and audiences pretty well ignored it, but it’s now considered a cult classic.
A-8. “It's pink!”
“Oh, lovely shade, isn't it?”
“But I wanted it blue.”
“Now, dear, we decided pink was her color!”
“You decided!”
A-9. This movie gave Mr. Gower his most divine role, bar none.
A-10. “You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.”
A-11. This documentary was filmed in the jungles of Peru at the same time the film the making of which it documented was filmed. Got that?
A-12. “My love. I just want you to know that I'm not that monster, you know. Everything you hear in the trial it's just . . . it's twisted. It wasn't like that.”
A-13. This 1918 flick was the first to feature a character who has since been played by more than 80 actors on the big and small screen – most notably in a series of 12 films from 1932 to 1948.
A-14. “Remember the little girl in the bank? She is ready to swear that you weren't the ones in the woodpecker suits when the bank was held up.”
A-15. A Jewish actor from New York received an Oscar nomination for playing a real-life Apache military leader in this western.
A-16. “This city here is like an open sewer, you know, it's full of filth and scum. Sometimes I can hardly take it. Whatever ever becomes the President should just - really clean it up, know what I mean? Sometimes I go out and I smell it. I get headaches, it's so bad, you know. It's like - they just never go away, you know. It's like I think that the President should clean up this whole mess here. He should flush it down the f**kin' toilet.”
A-17. This 1962 Disney film did for the Willard family what a later film did for the Griswold family.
A-18. “So Alexander walked out in the big arena and standing in the middle of the arena was Bucephalus. He was big and he was strong - and he was pawing the ground. And there was fire in his eyes. And there was smoke comin' out of his nose. And he went: Mmmmbbbbbb. And Alexander walked up and quick-as-a-cat he jumped up on his back, and he grabbed hold of that long black mane - and away they went! Just like lightening! And they jumped right over the crowd, right over the stands, and went ridin' out over the hill."
A-19. This wartime movie about Soviet resistance to the Nazis was neither a critical nor a box office success, but it did mark the debut of one of Hollywood’s most respected leading men – whom you will find in List B.
A-20. “This is a game. All of this is for you. You're not investigating anything. You're a f**king rat in a maze.”
A-21. This was Hitchcock’s last British film before he came to America.
A-22. “That rug really tied the room together, did it not?”
A-23. A joint Brazilian-French-Italian production based on a Greek legend, this film has a notable score by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
A-24. “His face hurts! And where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses! Put his glasses on! Put on his glasses! He was gonna be an acrobat!”
A-25. The cast of this Shakespearean film includes George III, Gandhi, and the son of my favorite actress.
A-26. “When a naked man is chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.”
A-27. This movie marked the auspicious debut – not counting a brief appearance as an infant in one of her father’s movies – of an eleven year-old actress who immediately went on to star in six films for Walt Disney.
A-28. “Sure, you're a little bit scrawny and a bit unpopular and you can't tie your shoelaces even though you're ten years old. But you're still the bestest, most loyal little Nazi I've ever met.”
A-29. Whatever you do, don’t tell Buzz Aldrin that you believe the bats**t conspiracy theory that forms the basis for this 1977 thriller.
A-30. “It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.”
A-31. If you want to see Burns and Allen, Bela Lugosi, and Cab Calloway in the same movie, this will surely be your only chance.
A-32. “They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.”
“Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.”
“Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.”
A-33. This movie bagged its star an Oscar on his fifth of seven (so far) nominations.
A-34. “On Wednesdays we wear pink!”
A-35. This 1973 thriller has the most graphic sex scene of any movie adapted from the work of the author of Rebecca.
A-36. “You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
A-37. This Western was directed by Andy Warhol. Seriously.
A-38. “Although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.”
A-39. This movie featured Shirley MacLaine in a role that had won a Tony for Anne Bancroft.
A-40. “The chickens are revolting!”
“Finally, something we agree on.”
A-41. Perhaps the finest film produced in France between World War II and the New Wave, some French critics condemned it as a "vicious and unfair picture of the peasantry of France."
A-42. “Now, I know how life is in these parts, working a trade sunup to sundown. No time for reading newspapers. Am I correct? Let me do that work for you. And maybe, just for tonight, we can escape our troubles, and hear the great changes that are happening out there.”
A-43. When this Oscar-winning film was first shown in Japan, a sequence depicting the Rape of Nanjing was edited out – then was quickly edited back in when the outraged director protested that he had not given permission for any cuts.
A-44. “Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.”
“So what do we do?.”
“Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.”
“How?”
“I don't know. It's a mystery.”
A-45. An ill-advised reference to this movie sparked a memorable incident at the 2022 Academy Award ceremony.
A-46. “I'm gonna write a show for us and put it on right here in Seaport. Why, it'll be the most up-to-date things these hicks around here have ever seen. Opening night we'll have Max Gordon, Sam Harris, Lee Schubert, down to give us the once-over. How about it, kids?”
A-47. This movie pitted Woodrow Wilson against Dr. Paul Ehrlich.
A-48. “I'm going to do something now they used to do in Vietnam. It's called making a head on a stick.”
A-49. Following the release of this 1993 comedy, its 13-year-old star was invited to throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field.
A-50. “I'll tell you what you gonna do. You gonna get a job. That's what you gonna do. You're gonna get a little job. Some job a convict can get, like scraping off trays in a cafeteria. Or cleaning out toilets. And you're gonna hold onto that job like gold. Because it is gold. Let me tell you, Jack, that is gold. You listenin' to me? And when that man walks in at the end of the day. And he comes to see how you done, you ain't gonna look in his eyes. You gonna look at the floor. Because you don't want to see that fear in his eyes when you jump up and grab his face, and slam him to the floor, and make him scream and cry for his life.”
A-51. According to a wonderful – but distorted – anecdote, one of the stars of this movie famously asked the other, "My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?"
A-52. “It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does it do to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. Extremely competent! I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto.”
A-53. After seeing John Wayne in this Howard Hawks movie, John Ford reportedly said, "I never knew the big son of a bitch could act."
A-54. “I hate shoes, Mr. Dawes. I wear them to dance and to show myself. But I feel afraid in shoes. And I feel safe with my feet in the dirt.”
A-55. The 14-year-old star of this movie testified before Congress that a body double did all of her nude scenes and that her long hair was glued to her breasts.
A-56. “We're alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn't swim the Channel.”
A-57. Ranked by Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest movies ever made, this 1945 horror movie was inspired by an undead creature from Greek folklore known as a vrykolakas.
A-58. “The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.”
A-59. Fictional Tait College provides the setting for this musical.
A-60. “What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? What did you say, Stanley? You said no hookers! You said no hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers! No hookers!”
A-61. If you want to see the man who asked “Is it bigger than a breadbox” investigating the sexual habits of teenagers, this will surely be your only chance.
A-62. “Cut out the Mex lingo around the kid, will ya, Pete? First thing you know, he'll be talkin' it. We gotta raise him with good ol' American habla, like his mom.”
A-63. If you want to see Banjo Eyes in a toga, this will surely be your only chance.
A-64. “God made countries; God makes kings, and the rules by which they govern. And those rules say that the Sabbath is His. And I, for one, intend to keep it that way.”
A-65. This musical was a loose remake of an earlier film starring Claude Rains and the Lane sisters.
A-66. “In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.”
A-67. How much did the star of this superhero movie hate it? He hoped it would bomb so he wouldn’t have to make any sequels and, in a later film, went back in time to prevent himself from making it.
A-68. “Klopstokia. A far away country. Chief exports – goats and nuts. Chief imports – goats and nuts. Chief inhabitants – goats and nuts.”
A-69. Among the patients treated by the eponymous subject of this 1946 biopic was a nephew of the actress who played her.
A-70. “Can you keep a secret? I'm trying to organize a prison break. I'm looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or are you out?”
A-71. Ralph Ellison called this filmization of a Faulkner novel “the only film that could be shown in Harlem without arousing unintended laughter.”
A-72. “Can I borrow your odorant?”
“Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.”
“You got, uh, Low Tide?”
“No.”
“How about Wet Dog?”
“Yep. Stink it up.
A-73. I can’t swear that this is the only movie in which a Dame of the British Empire played an elderly Sioux woman, but I can’t think of another.
A-74. “Goodbye to clocks ticking, my butternut tree, and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee, and new-ironed dresses and hot baths. And sleeping and waking up! Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you! Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every minute?”
A-75. This acclaimed 1978 documentary focuses on a very special kind of cemetery in Los Angeles.
A-76. “I was crazy that day. We were going to our son's funeral and you were worried about what I wore on my feet. I'm sure it sounds like nothing to you, but it stuck with me and I just wanted to tell you about it.”
A-77. This 1935 swashbuckler marked the first teaming of an actor and actress who would go on to appear in seven other films together.
A-78. “You can't fool me anymore with your hoof, hoof, hoof, or your insomnia, or your publisher. You're a pretty poor sample of a husband. Oh, and you're ten times worse than he is. At least he had some excuse for kicking me around. He was in love with another woman. But you double-crossed me for the sake of a newspaper. Well, marry the paper and be the proud father of a lot of headlines.”
A-79. Oscar-wise, this movie completes a list that includes the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the 1946 version of Henry V, the 1948 version of Hamlet, and the 1936 and 1968 versions of Romeo and Juliet.
A-80. “Easy now, easy now. This a courtin', not a donnybrook. Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband and entitled to hit you back.”
LIST B: ACTORS
B-1. My favorite actress. That is all.
B-2. “Look at what happened because of what you did. What it led to. There are riots out there, two policemen are in critical condition - you're laughing, you're laughing. Someone was killed today because of what you did.”
B-3. When he received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, former co-star Don Rickles announced that he was a lousy actor and that his “idea of a good time is sitting on a pickup truck watching his dog bark.”
B-4. “Lord save little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.”
B-5. He may be the only actor to have appeared on screen with the actress in the preceding clue, the actress in the following clue, and Elvis Presley.
B-6. “Is there some reason that my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?”
B-7. His screen roles have included a drag queen, a drug lord, and a Marvel superhero.
B-8. “This is my great opportunity, Judah, and yours too. If I can bring order into Judea, I can have any post I want. And you'll rise with me, I promise. And do you know where it can end? Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side of Caesar himself! I mean it, I mean it!”
B-9. He and his father were each honored with an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.
B-10. “I gave everything for this family. Everything! And what did you do? You threw it all away like it was nothing. For what? To a f**king kid! You didn't think I'd know? I wouldn't feel it? I knew it from the very first day! Because I know you, Connie. I know you, and I f**king hate you! I didn't want to kill him, I wanted to kill you!”
B-11. He completes a list that also includes Cate Blanchett, Paul Newman, Peter O’Toole, Al Pacino, and Sylvester Stallone.
B-12. I may have trouble remembering my own name, or what country I live in, but there are two things I can't seem to forget: that my own daughter threw me into a nursing home, and that she ate Minny's sh*t.”
B-13. This actress has worked under the direction of – among others – Woody Allen, Lasse Hallström, Ron Howard, Jonathan Sayles and Oliver Stone, but it was her work with Jonathan Demme that earned her an Oscar.
B-14. “The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of this world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. ’Course he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might make it justifiable homicide.”
B-15. This actor worked under the direction of Frank Capra, John Cassavetes, Blake Edwards, Rob Reiner, Wim Wenders – and, of course, Stanley Kramer.
B-16. “I'm not gonna take those drugs anymore, because they have left me completely f**king numb. I have felt so f**king numb to everything I have experienced in my life, OK? And for that . . . for that I'm here to forgive you. You've always said that all you wanted was for us to have whatever it is we wanted, right? Well, maybe, what Mom wanted more than anything is for it to all be over, and for me, what I want more than anything in the world, is for it to be OK with you for me to feel something again, even if it's pain.”
B-17. In real life, he was the first Irishman to land at Normandy on D-Day; on film, he portrayed an English major who led a glider assault on D-Day.
B-18. “You see, Vincent, you're the missing part of my life. And I'm the missing part of your life. And when we find Mama, we can be the missing part of her life. We won't be alone anymore. We can be a family.”
B-19. She was the subject of Paul Anka’s big hit song “Puppy Love” – but he was certainly not the subject of her biggest hit song.
B-20. “I looked the wrong way and I lost my hand. He could make you look the wrong way and you could lose your whole head!”
B-21. When she made her film debut at the age of 14, she was supported by Lord Olivier.
B-22. “I did not mind killing those men. I was glad to do it. But now I know that the soldiers hate me like they hate no other. Because I killed soldiers, men of my own race, they think I am a traitor.
B-23. Four years after being named “Sexiest Man Alive,” he starred in one of the movies referenced in Clue B-7.
B-24. “Every month, hundreds of claims come to this desk. Some of them are phonies, and I know which ones. How do I know? Because my little man tells me.”
B-25. He wanted to appear in the screen version of his biggest stage hit, but the Broadway producers wouldn’t let him go, so the role went to Raymond Massey instead.
B-26. “I don't think I'm gonna say 'What the f**k' anymore. This thing has gotten WAY out of control!”
B-27. He played the husband of the same actress in seven different films, including both of the films for which he received Oscar nominations.
B-28. “It's 'Your Majesty' the first time. After that, it's 'ma'am', as in 'ham'. Not 'ma'am', as in 'palm'.”
B-29. This actor and Anne Baxter were the only villains to go up against both Batman in the 1960s and Lieutenant Columbo in the 1970s.
B-30. “The Duchess dove at the Duke just when the Duke dove at the Doge. Now the Duke ducked, the Doge dodged, and the Duchess didn't. So the Duke got the Duchess, the Duchess got the Doge, and the Doge got the Duke”
B-31. His filmography included adaptations of works by Thomas Hardy, Bernard Malamud, Harold Pinter, John Osborne, and Shakespeare.
B-32. “We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed . . . forever."
B-33. During a 2023 BBC interview, he confirmed his retirement from acting, stating that the “only parts I'm liable to get now are old men, 90-year-old men.”
B-34. “Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid!”
B-35. This French actress made her much-heralded American debut in the unforgettable Girls’ Dormitory. (What, you mean you’ve forgotten it already?)
B-36. “Ohhhh, if you must go woof-woof, kindly go woof-woof not to windward, but to leeward.”
B-37. He was the second of two actors to win a Worst Supporting Actor Razzie for one of the films referenced in Clue A-19.
B-38. “In the final analysis it doesn't matter a damn what we think. The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other. And if it's half of what we felt- that's everything.”
B-39. His leading ladies have included Yvette Mimieux, Luana Patten, and a woman who is now a nun.
B-40. “Gee, Sadie was a good skirt. I shouldn't have slipped her that ant poison. I should have just battered her in the jaw a few times.”
B-41. Despite what Quentin Tarantino might want you to believe, this Oscar-winning actor did not die until 1950.
B-42. “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!”
B-43. Inextricably linked, these two actors appeared together in seven films and an eponymous reality series.
B-44. “What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' n****rs, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.”
B-45. On screen, she was romantically involved with –among others – Jeff Bridges, Daniel Day Lewis, John Malkovich, Matthew Modine, and Jack Nicholson.
B-46. “What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?”
B-47. On screen, he was romantically involved with –among others – Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Greer Garson, and Susan Hayward.
B-48. “You always were a problem for me, Joey. When mom brought you home from the hospital, I tried to strangle you in your crib. I guess all kids try to do that. She caught me, whacked the daylights out of me.”
B-49. In 1932, she played a role that had previously been played by Gloria Swanson and would later be played by Rita Hayworth.
B-50. “This rabble you're talking about . . . they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!”
