Movies Trivial Pursuit Game

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) -- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Five Came Back (1939) --- Back from Eternity (1956)
It Happened One Night (1934) -- Can't Run Away from It (1956)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) -- High Society (1956)
My Favorite Wife (1940) ---- Move Over, Darling (1963)

The reverse remakes question is tougher. Offhand I can answer the Anna and King question with Anna and the King of Siam (1946) and the King and I (1956), but this is a giveaway!

Incidentally, some of the worst Hollywood movies are remakes of European films....

Need more time!

In the meantime another remake question: The comedy "Airplane" (1980) was based on another much more serious airplane drama. Which One?

spdspk wrote:
Airport.

Actually, it was Zero Hour! (1957) in which most passengers including the pilot and co-pilot developed food poisoning and only one war veteran pilot could fly the plane to safety with the help of his wife.

spdspk wrote:
If you say so, but it was definately a spoof of several airport type disaster movies, of which Airport would be one.

mattstan wrote:

Thanks Google. No wonder, why I have not seen most of them are remakes of European movies. Saw only A Fistful of Dollars and Breathless,

Which 1982 movie's main lead was fashioned after movie legend Errol Flynn but with a drinking problem ?

spdspk wrote:
No clue at all. I just looked through 1982 movies on the IMDb, but nothing jumped out at me. A clue please, easier than 'raisins' too.

From Wikipedia

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Deity wrote:

I love this movie..


In which Alfred Hitchcock movie, the heroine has no name (until she got married)?

Marilyn Monroe was also nameless in one of her movies. Which one?

spdspk wrote:
I'm not 100% sure in the Hitchcock question, but am going to guess Rebecca. Is that right?

Likewise for MM, but I don't think she has a name in The Asphalt Jungle, mainly because she has such a small part. Great movie.

mattstan wrote:

Rebeca is correct. A great movie (except for the over-dramatic theatrical performance by Lawrence Olivier).

MM's name in The Asphalt jungle was Angela Phinlay;t she was nameless in her very small part in O. Henry's Full House (1952) (very good movie of 5 tales).

But she was nameless in a major film of hers. Hint: toothpaste!

In that film, she goes to the movies. Do you know which horror-flick she saw?

spdspk wrote:
Thanks for the hint, she's a toothpaste model in The Seven Year Itch and I'd forgotten she had no name. I remember it was immediately after they went to the cinema that the iconic scene of MM having her skirt blown up by the air from the subway vent occurs, I don't remember what movie they saw though I'll guess Rebecca again (am I beginning to get to know you or is that just a stab in the dark?).

I love the bit when MM and Tom Ewell are sitting on the piano stool, the quotation isn't on the IMDb but TE, overwhelmed by her beauty, kisses her and they fall to the floor. He says something like 'I don't know what came over me, kissing a girl just like that.' MM replies 'oh, it happens to me all the time'.

By the way, is MM's character's name ever actually used in The Asphalt Jungle? I think not.

Ok, let's have an inter-tread mesh question.

The Guns of August (1964)



In which US political movie, is there a conversation about the book of The Guns Of August, that takes place in the Oval Office?

The Seven Year Itch (1955) is correct. The horror film MM and Tom Ewell saw was Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954). Several references were made to that movie; she felt sorry for the misunderstood monster and in one of Ewell's daydreams she resembled him to the creature.

Two classics!

I know the reference to the Guns of August is made in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile crisis, so I am going to guess and say:

13 Days (2000) (notice the number is not censored, the word thirteen would be).

Who is the most famous male character who has no name (in your opinion)?

spdspk wrote:
Yes, 13 Days it is, rather good despite the mandetory Costner over-sentimentality.

spdspk wrote:
Most famous, I'd say, is Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, in the 3 movies.

Next question:

A film star actress, who's film career was (temporarily) not doing well, wanted the film rights to the hit Broadway play she was starring in and they were bought for her as a gift. When MGM wanted to make a movie of the play, they had no choice but to cast her in the lead role as she owned the film rights. Bizarrely the original playright had based the lead role's character on the public image of this actress, with no idea that she might end up playing the role. Which play/film, and which actress?

My nameless character is Clint Eastwood in the Spaghetti Westerns he mad: Fistful of Dollars and company.


Could it be Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (1954)?