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by smilergrogan » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:45 am
Game #145: It’s the Right Time For a Movie Game
Identify the 125 movies in the clues below. (Every other clue is a quotation.) Then, match them into 56 triples and 2 quadruples according to a Tangredi, or principle you must discover for yourself. There will be 37 movies used twice and seven used three times. No movie will be used in exactly the same way more than once.
1. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
2. BREAKER MORANT
3. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
4. ELMER GANTRY
5. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
6. A lot of us wouldn’t be here if we faced the same penalty for getting a trivia question wrong that Steve received early in this film. Poor Steve.
SCREAM? THE RUNNING MAN?
7. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
8. ROMAN HOLIDAY
9. STALAG 17
10. IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER
11. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
12. The three leading ladies of this family comedy had all previously appeared on television as love interests of the Fresh Prince.
13. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
14. JOHNNY GUITAR
15. AIRPORT
16. SEPARATE TABLES
17. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
18. GROWN UPS
19. BORN YESTERDAY
20. This 1945 noir classic was the first ‘B’ movie included in the National Film Registry.
LAURA? GUN CRAZY?
21. ROSEMARY'S BABY
22. YOU'VE GOT MAIL
23. “Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to drag you from your desserts. There are just one or two little things I feel I should say, as best man. This is only the second time I've been a best man. I hope I did okay that time. The couple in question are at least still talking to me. Unfortunately, they're not actually talking to each other. The divorce came through a couple of months ago. But I'm assured it had absolutely nothing to do with me. Paula knew Piers had slept with her sister before I mentioned it in the speech. The fact that he'd slept with her mother came as a surprise, but I think was incidental to the nightmare of recrimination and violence that became their two-day marriage. Anyway, enough of that.”
24. FRENZY
25. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
26. This classic movie reunited the three male stars of the previous year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture.
27. “I can get you out of Kenya. it's one of the few things we still do well. Drop it now, and it's over. I'll make sure word gets to the right people. Go home. and live.”
“But I don't have a home, Tim. Tessa was my home.”
28. MY FAIR LADY
29. THE MIRACLE WORKER
30. This movie was a stopover on a journey that went from Lillian Gish to Cicely Tyson.
31. KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
32. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
33. ROOM SERVICE
34. SUNRISE
35. THE READER
36. THE WIZ
37. SCENT OF A WOMAN
38. THE STEEL HELMET
39. UNFORGIVEN
40. FREQUENCY
41. “I'm the baddest man in the world!”
“You don't look so bad to me.”
“What did you say, Paper Champion? I'll beat you like a dog, a dog, you fool!”
ROCKY III?
42. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
43. THE GOODBYE GIRL
44. COME AND GET IT
45. MISERY
46. THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA
47. NETWORK
48. SUSPICION
49. THE PIANO
50. HIGH NOON
51. HUD
52. This cast of this comedy included one former Catwoman, one future Catwoman, one former Bond girl, and one future Bond girl – making a total of three actresses in all.
A HALLE BERRY MOVIE
53. BEGINNERS
54. THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
55. COOL HAND LUKE
56. The star of the movie in Clue #52 received his only Oscar nomination for this musical.
57. JEZEBEL
58. MALCOLM X
59..ON GOLDEN POND
60. MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
61. ERIN BROCKOVICH
62. CATS AND DOGS
63. MRS. MINIVER
64. THE VIPS
65. “I'm watching these people up on the screen and I started getting hooked on the film. I started to feel, how can you even think of killing yourself, I mean isn't it so stupid. Look at all the people up there on the screen, they're real funny, and what if the worst is true. What if there is no God and you only go around once and that's it. Well, you know, don't you wanna be part of the experience? You know, what the hell it's not all a drag. And I'm thinking to myself, Jeez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. And after who knows, I mean maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have. And then I started to sit back, and I actually began to enjoy myself.”
66. This 1966 psycho-horror-thriller asked the burning question: Did Don Ameche set the fire that killed Zsa Zsa Gabor? (A surprising number of people didn’t care.)
67. HARVEY
68. JULIA
69. AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
70. TESS
71. REDS
72. DR. T AND THE WOMEN
73. NORMA RAE
74. GOING MY WAY
75. “You have no reason to be mad at me, I mean, you know, you broke my heart. I should be royally ticked off at you. I should be really cheesed off, I shouldn't want to talk to you anymore.”
“What? Cause I got bored and had sex with you and I didn't want to like marry you?”
“Like I'd marry you! You'd be the meanest wife ever, okay? And I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a lot of stuff on TV, and then The Blair Witch Project was coming on Starz and you were like 'I haven't seen this since it came out and if so we should watch it' and then 'But oh, no, we should just make out instead la la la!'”
76. This movie marked the second time one of its two leading men had appeared in a film adaptation of a Clifford Odets play.
77. “Everything happens to me. Now I'm shot by a child.”
78. BEN-HUR
79. MILLION DOLLAR BABY
80. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
81. “Six weeks ago, I spoke harshly to a patient and she committed suicide. Right in front of me. Perhaps she would have done this anyway. That's what my colleagues say. But I don't know.”
82. The fourth of sixteen films in a classic series, it was also the second of nine films to pair a classic screen duo.
83. GOOD WILL HUNTING
84. BOYS TOWN
85. ROXANNE
86. It was the last of five feature films in an eight-year period adapted from the works of the same English novelist, and the third by the same director.
87. “The historical facts are known by everyone. All of Lawford, all of New Hampshire, some of Massachusetts. Facts do not make history. Our stories, Wade's and mine, describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years: boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was crippled almost at birth, men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life were over. It's how we keep from destroying in turn our own children and terrorizing the women who have the misfortune to love us; how we absent ourselves from the tradition of male violence; how we decline the seduction of revenge.”
88. BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA
89. BARTON FINK
90. VIVA ZAPATA!
91. WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
92. Reportedly, scenes from this comedy – which was released the same year as the attack on Pearl Harbor – were used by the Japanese to show how stupid American soldiers were
93. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
94. DARLING
95. ORDINARY PEOPLE
96. THE ARTIST
97. BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE
98. LITTLE WOMEN (original)
99. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
100. I WANT TO LIVE
101. “Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes.”
ONE OF THE NAKED GUN MOVIES
102. SHAMPOO
103. THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
104. ALIEN
105. PLANET OF THE APES (original)
106. THE THREE FACES OF EVE
107. “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
108. WOMEN IN LOVE
109. ED WOOD
110. STAGECOACH
111. ALL THE KING'S MEN
112. ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
113. FORREST GUMP
114. This film was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that took its title from the working title of an earlier novel central to its plot.
115. COMING HOME
116. In a climactic moment of a 1981 television biopic, Glenda Jackson recreated the shooting of a scene from this movie.
117. “I don’t trust happiness. Never did, never will.
118.FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (Elvis version)
119. “Haven't you noticed how nothing in this house seems to move until you look away and then you just... catch something out of the corner of your eye?”
120. The subject of this biopic was able to attend a screening of the first edit, but died of liver failure four months before it was released.
121. THE KING'S SPEECH
122. The most expensive movie ever made in Hollywood up to that time, this biopic was a labor of love for Darryl Zanuck, and he never got over the fact that it bombed at the box office and lost the Oscar to a film in one of the preceding clues.
123. MARY POPPINS
124. A classic of the Angry Young Man school, it was the second film and first starring role for one of my favorite actors – and, according to him, the first English film to show a man in bed with another man’s wife.
125. GONE WITH THE WIND