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Q&As

Q1: Which adventurous actor in real life has survived a plane crash in Venezuela, is the oldest man in history to reach the magnetic North Pole on foot and has tried to climb Mount Everest three times?
A: Brian Blessed

Q2: The Neon Boot is the name of a bar in which crime thriller?
A: Blood Simple

Q3: Tim Curry; Jack Nicholson; Viggo Mortensen; Al Pacino; Peter Cook and Elizabeth Hurley. What's the character connection?
A: The Devil

Q4: This 2008 movie was a remake of a 1951 Cold War-era classic. However, this time it carries an ecological theme. Title please.
A: The Day the Earth Stood Still

Q5: Who directed a film that featured the "Yellow Man"?
A: David Wark Griffith

Q6: Which US war movie, being filmed in Czechoslovakia was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of August 1968?
A: The Bridge at Remagen
During the filming in 1968, the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia to reinstall a hard-line Communist government, forcing the film cast and crew to flee to the West in taxis.

Q7: This director adapted a Shakespeare play for the screen with a distinguished classical cast that included John Gielgud and James Mason. But totally against type he cast a "mumbling" American actor in the lead role. Name the director.
A: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Q8: This Humphrey Bogart movie has been claimed as the inspiration for the classic 1960s TV series The Fugitive. Title please.
A: Dark Passage 1; 2
Writer David Goodis claimed that the series was inspired by his 1946 novel "Dark Passage", about a man who escapes from prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

Q9: Who plays the hapless nerd who desperately desires to be "cool" in American Graffiti (1973)?
A: Charles Martin Smith

Q10: Which 1973 creepy movie features five men trapped together in a basement who begin sharing details of nightmares that have disrupted their sleep?
A: The Vault of Horror