Movie Quiz 109

[caffeinated]

Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment and amusement, I present you with Movie Quiz number 109.

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The thread will run its course for a week or so, and I'll bump it with hints and whatnot as needed. Answers will be posted when the time feels right.

There are eight screenshots below. Most of them should be fairly recognizable if you've seen the films. So, which of these movies can you identify?

Please answer with movie numbers only, not titles..

Good luck!

 

[justincase]

Woo-hoo!
All time record for me.
1, 2, 5, 6, 7 & 8

 

[TheWestPole]

Bingo. Got 'em. Almost all are very famous/popular fare though, so I'd better. Except #1, which is one I just happen to like very much. @caffeinated's taking it easy on us this round.

 

[justincase]

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And here I thought I done good.....

 

[TheWestPole]

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And here I thought I done good.....

We posted simultaneously. I didn't mean to be a killjoy. (See: Memes thread)

 

[FantWriter]

#1 -- no idea
#2 -- just rewatched it
#3 -- absolute classic! Love it. When it was released, it was banned in Kansas.
#4 -- yeah
#5 -- easy to figure out although I haven't seen the movie
#6 -- no idea
#7 -- yeah. Classic story, but I don't think it was his best performance.
#8 -- unfortunately, I had to sit through the whole thing.

 

[TheWestPole]

When it was released, it was banned in Kansas.

No s**t? Oh well, nobody's perfect.

 

[FantWriter]

No s**t? Oh well, nobody's perfect.

The general nature of the disguises used wasn't considered good family fare.

The last line of the movie might have put the nail in the coffin because it suggested something good prairie folk didn't abide.

 

[caffeinated]

#8 -- unfortunately, I had to sit through the whole thing.

I've always thought it was an OK flick, and I watched this with my kids a couple of weeks ago. They'd never seen it, and they both absolutely hated it! I expected that they wouldn't be crazy about it, but I never thought they'd hate it. As best as I can recall, they've never said that about any other movies I've shown them!

 

[FantWriter]

There's just something about that spate of retro-50s movies which didn't flip my switches.

Show your kids some real classics, like Topper Returns (1941), Larceny, Inc. (1942), or Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and see how they like them.

 

[TheWestPole]

I've always thought it was an OK flick, and I watched this with my kids a couple of weeks ago. They'd never seen it, and they both absolutely hated it! I expected that they wouldn't be crazy about it, but I never thought they'd hate it. As best as I can recall, they've never said that about any other movies I've shown them!

I'm with your kids. Never been able to take more than ten minutes of it. Honestly, couldn't get through #7 either. Musicals philistine, I admit.

 

[caffeinated]

Well, as I've mentioned before in another movie quiz thread, I don't generally care for musicals, myself. In fact, I probably wouldn't even put #8 into the category of musicals that I like, and I have no desire to own a copy of it. Nonetheless, I still think it's a notch or two above mediocre.

On the other hand, I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed #7. Though that might have something to do with having fairly low expectations when I first saw it.

 

[TheWestPole]

On the other hand, I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed #7. Though that might have something to do with having fairly low expectations when I first saw it.

I'll give that one another try when I get a chance. It's unlike me not to give a visual genius like TB the benefit of the doubt

 

[anavidfan]

great line up, I know Ive seen #1, but cant come up with the name.

Nope, cant say anymore, might give it away, but I remember I do like the film

 

[Jman8]

1 = not sure, don't think hints would help
3 = Maybe, likely could get it with a hint
4 = Probably, likely will get with a hint
7 = Haven't seen it, but pretty sure I know this one

2, 5, 6 and 8 are ones I know for sure. Surprisingly, 5 took me a few moments and 6 took me about 30 seconds to recall which movie those two actors were in together.

2 and 8 took me less than a nanosecond to get.

So, out of the 8, I really only don't know #1, but let's see how well I fare after hints.

 

[Jman8]

Isn't #2 a musical? (LOL, would be funny if it was).

 

[caffeinated]

I had intended to get a set of hints posted tonight, but the evening sort of got away from me. Just popping in here now to bump the thread, and to mention that hints will be posted tomorrow night.

 

[caffeinated]

Hints!

#1: A big-city reporter (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh), travels to the small town in Maine where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. In the course of working out the details of what has happened, as well as some shady questions from the past and the daughter's troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their family's domestic strife.

#2: In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest, technologically-superior sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

#3: Two struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job that will pay their way is an all girl band so the two dress up as women, but further complications set in.

#4: At the end of the summer of 1962 in a small southern California town, it's the evening before best friends and recent high school graduates, Curt (played by Richard Dreyfuss), and Steve (Ron Howard), are scheduled to leave town to head off to college. Curt is having second thoughts about leaving, while Steve basically sees their hometown as a dead end. Curt's beliefs are strengthened when he spots an unknown beautiful blonde in a T-bird who mouths the words "I love you" to him.

Hope these helped!

 

[Jman8]

Still don't know #1
Clue for #3 didn't help, but fairly sure I'd recognize the title
Clue for #4 made it easy.

 

[FantWriter]

Googled #1 because I knew I'd never get it. I was right -- totally outside anything I watch. Any guesses I might have made would have been totally off the mark because I thought the actor on the right was Michael J. Fox in drag.