Movies2003Round2 by Ray Luo
tossups 51-100 of 160+3 total

51). The folder holding the insurance policy in Double Indemnity, the coveted copper bird in The Maltese Falcon, the word "rosebud" spoken by Citizen Kane are all examples of this, which, by definition, is "an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."  Better associated with the song whistled in The Lady Vanishes and the uranium found in the wine cellar in Notorious, it is the fictitious fool's gold.  Also known as "weenie," FTP give the name Alfred Hitchcock uses to refer to an artificial device that motivates the actions of a detective film, and not a muffin from McDonald's.
	Answer: Macguffin

52). On the jouney home, the main character is taken for a stowaway while posing for a photograher.  He knocked out Jack Cameron by striking a pole, which knocked off a clock from the shelf.  Imagining him to be a chicken, Big Jim McKay can't settle for the shoe of a lone prospector being stuck in a cabin during a snow storm.  FTP name this silent adventure in the icy Yukon by Charlie Chaplin.
	Answer: The Gold Rush

53). With the laser-disc version of this film, you can discover flash-frames of Satan's face peering out of the character played by Linda Blair.  The titular character, played by an actor eerily revisiting a role much earlier in a 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, is summoned to do his thing on Reagan MacNeil.  Based on a book by William Peter Blatty, FTP name this 1973 horror classic about the titular practice.
	Answer: The Exorcist

54). He played an evil mad man in The Return of Doctor X, and a gangster along side Edward G. Robinson in Bullets or Ballots.  His breakthrough supporting role came in 1935 with Bette Davis in Petrified Forest, but his best performance is personifying greed as treasure hunter Fred C. Dobbs.  Appearing in Across the Pacific and Passage to Marseille, his career received a boost playing Bellinger in High Sierra.  FTP name this actor who won the Oscar for The African Queen.
	Answer: Humphrey Bogart

55). The protagonist waited his whole life to say: "If that plane leaves the ground without you, you'll regret it, may be not today and may be not tomorrow, but soon and the rest of your life."  Realizing that he's "the fall guy," Allan Felix decides to petrify his relationship with his best friend's "uncommonly unusually beautiful" wife.  Humphrey Bogart says to him: "Here's looking at you, kid."  FTP name this first film to star both Diane Keaton and Woody Allen, a reenactment of Casablanca.
	Answer: Play it Again, Sam

56). A gang hired by an equal opportunity employer is off to destroy a replica of Rock Ridge.  Bart the sheriff is backed by Jim the Waco Kid.  Hedley Lamaar is driven off the picture in a taxi cab working for Mel Brooks.  Lili von Shtupp does a Marlene Dietrich impersonation.  FTP name this Mel Brooks comedy of the Wild West.
	Answer: Blazing Saddles

57). He stands for the courageous, tough-minded realist of the West that is being replaced by idealistic educators.  After performing the titular action, and despite the interference of his sidekick Pompey, he burns down the shack he built for Miss Hallie, to whom he had once given a cactus flower.  Once having saved a man he calls "Pilgrim," his funeral prompts Senator Ransom Stoddard to revisit Shinbone and tell his story.  Played by John Wayne, FTP identify the titular character named Tom Doniphon in a western by John Ford.
	Answer: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; accept Tom Doniphon before it is mentioned

58). Named after the actor who played The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, he studied in California's College of Arts and Crafts.  He crossed barriers, making both independent and mainstream films.  His most critically acclaimed film is subtitled "A little bit of heart," a phrase that summarizes his culturally aware films like Eat a Bowl of Tea, Smoke, and the Orson Welles-like detective feature about searching for American roots called Chan Is Missing.  FTP name this director of Dim Sum and The Joy Luck Club.
	Answer: Wayne Wang

59). John Adams leads this exploration of the unconscious mind of a collective group of people, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest.  Anne Francis is the tiger-loving Altaira, the daughter of the Walter Pidgeon character, Dr. Edward Morbius, the only survivors on constellation Aquilae's Altair-4.  Robby the Robot makes a appearance collecting alcohol while Leslie Nielsen stars as the Captain.  FTP name this 1956 science fiction classic about a restricted habitat.
	Answer: Forbidden Planet

60). It features an all star cast of over 200 of the most important people in the country.  The music of Wagner accompanies the declaration of peace, courage, and "the banner that we lifted out of nothingness," delivered to an army of youths.  Half of this film consists of marches and the other half of speeches, mostly about "the state that commands us" and "we who command the state."  A record of the 6th party congress at Nuremberg, FTP name this 1934 Leni Riefenstahl documentary.
	Answer: Triumph des Willens; or Triumph of the Will

61). The titular character is enticed by all women as one woman: Mary and her sisters.  Although his friends did their part, there was no sacrifice, and the order to kill him is nullified.  With a score by Peter Gabriel, this film is a reevaluation of Judas and the man who's not the Messiah.  Based on a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, FTP name this 1988 Martin Scorsese film.
	Answer: The Last Temptation of Christ

62). The wife, a waitress, plays anonymity with her husband, then sleeps with the impressario to get her husband's career going.  Lena will wear a cap if she starts to hate Charlie Koller, whose past life as Edouard Saroyan brought him fame, though he settled down to play at a local cafe.  Chased by random mobsters after his brothers' money, the protagonist of this film is reminiscent of Jules from Jules et Jim, by the same director.  FTP name this Francois Truffaut film, and you've murdered the guy pounding at the keyboard.
	Answer: Shoot the Piano Player; or Tirez sur le pianiste

63). Neither Gregg Toland's cinematography nor Alfred Newman's score, including "Red River Valley," were nominated, but Jane Darwell did win best supporting actress, the same year this film lost to Hitchcock's Rebecca for best picture.  John Carradine plays the preacher with holy spirit - Casy, while Henry Fonda plays the man who avenges his death in a California migrant camp - Tom Joad.  FTP name this 1940 John Ford film adapted from a Steinbeck novel.
	Answer: The Grapes of Wrath

64). The camera was their last witness, whereas the reporter Wayne Gale has to die bravely.  Beginning with a family sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield, they fight off Indian voodoo, ransack a drug store for antidotes for snake poison, and when captured, pull off the greatest prison riot escape in recent history.  Their names are Mickey and Mallory Knox, FTP name these star murderers in a reality TV show played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, an Oliver Stone film.
	Answer: Natural Born Killers

65). Rise Stevens of the Met plays an opera singer, the old flame of a St. Louis Browns fan, who takes the entire church choir to baseball games.  Although the titular song was good, the publishers preferred "Swinging on a star; I'd rather be a muel."  But the money couldn't save old Saint Dominic from fire, the reconstruction of which followed Father Fitzgibbon's reunion.  FTP name this 1944 best picture starring Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley, who ends up moving on on his own.
	Answer: Going My Way

66). A.k.a. Chicken, or Shortcut Suzie, she looked for "poils" every Friday night at Joe's Place along with two of her friends.  Singing "Poor John", her grandmother Maribelle Hicks ran away from her wedding when a piano reminded her of her lover.  Her dream was not denied her when the "loaded" magic pearl sent her back to Danny McGuire, the other Genius of a Brooklyn nightclub.  FTP name this female of Vanity Magazine's Golden Wedding issue, the title of a Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth musical, not to be confused with a brand of makeup.
	Answer: Cover Girl

67). This 1937 film is about paying the price of a dream with heartbreak.  A man whose real name is Alfred Henckle stars in The Enchanted Hour, but the real star isn't him.  Assistant director Danny McGuire presides over the wedding in a jail of two lovers played by Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.  Receiving an Oscar while being slapped in the face, Vicki Lester proclaims herself at the end of this film.  FTP name this William Wellman film famously remade in 1954 as a George Cukor musical starring Judy Garland as Mrs. Norman Maine.
	Answer: A Star Is Born

68). Suspicion breeds confidence.  The truth shall make you free.  Happiness: we are all in it together.  Mellow fields: top security holiday camp: liberty without fear, fun without suspicion, relax in a panic-free atmosphere.  Department of records.  Information transit.  Information retrieval.  Central Services.  The offices of DZ-015 and of Mr. Helpmann.  These are some of the landmarks in, FTP, what Terry Gilliam science fiction classic starring Johnathon Pryce and Robert De Niro imitating the title locale.
	Answer: Brazil

69). Maria Poole, owner of an inn in Belden, tells the past of a country girl whose son died without a father.  On a visit to aunt Tremont, Anna Moore falls in love with the wealthy playboy Lennox Sanderson, who tricks her into a false marriage that is kept a secret.  Anna's pregnancy forces her departure to Belden where she is taken up by the Bartletts.  When her secret is exposed, Squire Bartlett asks her to leave, but David Bartlett rescues her from the ice after Lennox is implicated.  FTP name this silent rescue of Lilian Gish on ice directed by D. W. Griffith.
	Answer: Way Down East

70). His pet project was the 1977 rendition of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.  Expelled from Carnegie Tech for riding his motorcycle through the fine arts building, this husband of Ali MacGraw's most famous roles were as Virgil Hilts and Frank Bullitt.  A Chino reform school graduate, FTP name this King of Cool who appeared in hits like The Magnificient Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Papillon.
	Answer: Steve McQueen

71). The ambiguous ending of this movie contains a shot of the grave stones and the lovers eating ice cream and looking up at the sky in the hopes of the future "being alright."  After Sonny commits suicide, his white racist father Hank quits his job and buys a gas station, naming it after his new love, the black woman Leticia, the widow of a man executed in a Georgia pennitentiary where Hank and Sonny work as prison guards.  FTP name this independent film starring Heath Ledger and Billy Bob Thornton for which Halle Berry won an oscar.
	Answer: Monster's Ball

72). Last name is the same.  Sam, the Charles Bickford character, in Duel in the Sun.  One of the names taken by the master criminal played by Sean Connery in The First Great Train Robbery.  Amanda, the ordinary girl played by Monica Potter with four supermodel roommates in 2001's Head Over Heels.  The last name of Bert, Kay, and her spoilt sister Veda in the Michael Curtiz film about a mother's love that leads to murder, winning Joan Crawford an Oscar.  FTP give the last name of the servant of Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady and Joan Crawford as Mildred.
	Answer: Pierce

73). One of the two brothers is a coward who becomes a widely admired soldier by being lucky, but his wife has to make a living as a whore.  The other brother, a potter, is summoned to the mansion of a lady who tries to tempt him, and claims him as her own.  Tobei wants to become a samurai, abandoning wife Ohama; while Genjuro escapes the curse of Lady Wasaka to return to his village, only to find his wife Miyagi's ghost.  The greatest film of Kenji Mizoguchi, FTP name this ghostly tale of 16th century Japan.
	Answer: Ugetsu monogatari; or Tales of Ugetsu

74). Although the star called them drunks, they reportedly saved Margaret Hamilton from the fire.  Ruth Robinson Duccini played a sleepyhead in a nest, Margaret Pelligrini played a townswoman with a flower pot on her head, and Jerry Maren was one of the Lollipop Guild trio.  The shortest is the 3-foot-4 Olga Nardone, a cutie of the Lullabye League.  FTP name this group of midgets who led Dorothy to the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz.
	Answer: Munchkins

75). If an Academy award existed for best title credits, then Stephen Frankfurt would surely have won it for this picture, for his innovative stroll through the contents of a box.  A girl is heard humming until two marbles collide, beginning the Elmer Bernstein score that stood as his signature work.  Robert Duvall dyed his hair shiny white to make his film debut playing a gleaming white six foot neighbor.  Mary Bedham and Philip Alford play the children, whose neighbor was modeled after the real-life Truman Capote.  FTP name this Alan Pakula, Robert Mulligan film which garnered an Oscar for Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch.
	Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

76). This film's main character ends up in Mount Lavinia Hospital enjoying the perks of the officer as a "simulated" major.  He makes his return to the camp, where earlier, a band of British soldiers had appealed to article 27 of the Geneva Convention.  Colonel Nicholson would not back down from the exemption of officers from manual labor, finally convincing Colonel Seito of the best way to erect the titular landmark.  Based on a Pierre Boulle novel, FTP name this 1957 best picture by David Lean.
	Answer: The Bridge on the River Kwai

77). He believes that film is a battleground for emotion.  After serving in the first infantry division, he worked as a reporter and wrote pulp fiction.  His directorial debut is I Shot Jesse James, but is better known for The Naked Kiss and The Crimson Kimono, about reverse discrimination.  His famous 1961 film deals with Tolly Devlin avenging his father's death by destroying the four crime bosses.  FTP name this filmmaker of inexpensive genre films including Pickup on South Street and Underworld USA.
	Answer: Samuel Fuller

78). It is banned by the government, along with Sophocles, Tolstoy, and Russian toast.  Causing CROC, the antibodies in the fight against infection, to stamp out ideological mildew, it is painted by demonstrators protesting against Vago and Yago's drive-by assassination of a humanist doctor running for office.  Meaning "he's alive" in Greek, FTP name the 1969 Costa-Gavras film of a titular letter of the alphabet.
	Answer: Z

79). Finding the understudy completely resistable, they performed the Scottish tune "My one and only fling," and got together one last time for Ezra Millar's benefit concert.  Played by a replacement for Judy Garland, the wife decides to become a real actress, reciting the Marseilles as young Sarah Bernhardt.  Their final "Manhattan tempo" was reminiscent of their first dance ever in Flying Down to Rio, as this film is reminiscent of its two stars' offscreen ordeal.  The shoes with wings dance is performed by Fred Astaire in, FTP this last film to pair up Astaire and Rogers, a biography of two people in showbiz.
	Answer: The Barkleys of Broadway; prompt on Astaire and Rogers early

80). Although Thomas Jordan filed a law suit against him and his wife, his step son ended up marrying Jordan's daughter Josie.  Insistent on giving an exact number of 57 Communist in the army, he is shot after being nominated for the vice presidency.  His step son Raymond Shaw shoots his own wife after playing a game of solitaire, but is finally free to shoot him before committing suicide wearing the medal of honor.  FTP name this McCarthy era thriller starring Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra.
	Answer: The Manchurian Candidate; or Johnny Islin before it is mentioned

81). Maxwell Anderson and George Abbott wrote the dialogue for this film starring Arnold Lucy, John Wray, and Louis Wolheim.  The main character lives in the trenches and fights, trying not to be killed, and finally succumbs to death while grasping for a butterfly.  Kemmerick's boots pass around from one soldier to the next as they die fighting against the French.  Lew Ayres plays the disillusioned protagonist who carried Katczinsky back to camp before being informed of his death.  FTP name this 1930 Lewis Milestone best picture based on a book by Erich Maria Remarque.
	Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front

82). "Ghettos are the same all over the world," exclaims the character played by Jim Kelly.  Taking the prop for its most famous scene from The Lady From Shanghai, it's noted for cerebral quotes like "there's a point I won't go beyond," "don't concentrate on that finger or you'll miss all that heavenly glory," and "boards don't hit back."  Roper beats up Bolo in a tournament sponsored by Han, the leader of an island of covert operations off the coast of Hong Kong.  FTP name this most famous Bruce Lee film.
	Answer: Enter the Dragon

83). Claiming that "television is the retina of the eye," Professor O'Blivion became its first victim.  Its destruction began the New Flesh, but the viewer is now dead.  James Woods plays TV producer Max Renn, who starts tuning in to a real-life torture show, which began changing his body into a receptacle for video tape.  FTP name this wierd tituar TV show in a film by David Cronenberg.
	Answer: Videodrome

84). Proving that "the limb is mightier than the thumb," the future writer of a book on hitch-hiking loses out to the future wife of King Westley.  Based on a Samuel Hopkins Adams short story, this film proves that as a matter of principle, $39.60 was well worth the trip and the publicity generated by the deserting daughter of a millionaire.  Peter Warner is after the story of Ellie Andrews on a bus trip to New York, after which the walls of Jericho come crumbling down.  FTP name this Frank Capra film starring Colbert and Gable.
	Answer: It Happened One Night

85). The film in which this song appears was based on a book about a chain of restaurants by Samuel Hopkins Adams.  Written by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, this 8 minute 15 seconds of nonstop music was cut down for a 1945 Bing Crosby recording.  Although "the roads back East are mighty swell, the Chesapeake, Ohio and the ASL," John Henry bets that engine #49 is "the only one that'll sound that way."  "All aboard for Californiay," this 1946 best song Oscar.  FTP name this famous song sung by Judy Garland et al in The Harvey Girls that refers to a railway line connecting a town near the Missouri border with the capitals of Kansas and New Mexico.
	Answer: "On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe"; prompt on The Harvey Girls before it is mentioned

86). Reminded that the Stardust ball room is loaded with tomatoes, he goes out looking for girls every Saturday night of his life.  A followup on the performance of Rod Steiger, the actor wins his only Oscar for portraying this butcher living with his mom, who falls for a high school chemistry teacher.  Directed by Delbert Mann, FTP name this 1955 best picture starring Ernest Borgnine.
	Answer: Marty

87). The Raymond Burr character in Rear Window was a portrait of this man, who followed up on two documentaries in 1923 with the 1924 feature Roulette.  Although Louis B. Mayer lurned him back to MGM, he chose to stay at RKO, turning out What Price Hollywood? and Little Women.  After uniting Gregory Peck with wife Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun, he began loaning out his stars to pay for gambling debts, but it was his earlier marriage to Irene Mayer that resulted in his most significant production.  FTP name this producer of Gone With the Wind.
	Answer: David O. Selznick

88). Lena Horne was the only African American and Liza Minnelli was the youngest to appear as a presenter.  Lubitsch's Versaille ball from The Merry Widow and Bobby Van jumping around like a rabbit in Small Town Girl were both considered musical selections.  Esther Williams appeared in all 3 installments along side swimming mermaids.  Taking its name from a Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire number choreographed for part 2, "The world is a stage, the stage is the world of," FTP name this set of 3 documentaries opening the vaults of the MGM musical.
	Answer: That's Entertainment

89). The only way to escape in this film was to hitch a ride to Alaska because everything is so dirty and full of crap, leaving girlfriend Rayette Dipesto at a gas station.  Susan Anspach plays a sophisticated woman who studies piano with Carl, the neck-crippled violinist brother of Robert Dupea, a pianist turned construction worker who "rode the fast lane on the road to nowhere," played by Jack Nicholson.  FTP name this Bob Rafelson film named for things you could practice at the piano.
	Answer: Five Easy Pieces

90). He believes that his son Kajal caused his wife's death, and refuses to visit him except disguised as his uncle.  His mother passed away without seeing him because she didn't want to interfere with his final exam in the big city; his father was a preacher who died in Banaras.  Going to his friend Pulu's cousin's wedding, he ends up bringing home the bride Aparna.  FTP name this main character born in a Bangladesh village in a trilogy by Satyajit Ray.
	Answer: Apu

91). The message of this film is "without the heart there can be no understanding between the hands and the mind."  First modeled after the creator's lover Hel, then after Maria, the witch was burnt at Yoshiwara's house of sin.  It ends with a fight atop the cathedral, in which Freder knocks off the creator Rotwang.  Workers below ground destroy the power station and floods the titular city in, FTP this Fritz Lang film.
	Answer: Metropolis

92). Flat Nose Curry knew this man as a loner going his own way, but he is more famously paired with a thinking man whose crazy ideas include another stint at Australia.  Born in New Jersey, he fears only one law man with the white straw hat, Joe Laforce.  He's better when he's moving but you'd be surprised that this tough guy can't swim to save his life.  A lover of Etta Place, he moved to Bolivia with his partner to escape the changing times.  FTP name this sidekick of Butch Cassidy who gives his name to a film festival.
	Answer: Sundance Kid; or Harry Longbaugh

93). George C. Scott plays gambler Bert Gordon, who causes the suicide of the girlfriend of this man from Oakland.  The legendary Minnesota Fats beats the up-and-comer Fast Eddie Felson at high-stakes pool, but he comes back for more and walks out with the money, never to play again.  Taking on a role similar to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hud and Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman plays the titular pool shark in, FTP a 1961 Robert Rossen film.
	Answer: The Hustler

94). The play within this film features children who play soldiers and soldiers who play like children, as cross-dressers.  Leaving the German woman Elsa, Rosenthal and his colleague crosses the border to Switzerland at the very end.  "For ordinary man it's terrible to die in war," but for Boeldieu and Rauffenstein, "it's a solution."  Though separated from Marechal by social standing, Boeldieu helps him escape, prompting the German officer to shoot down his friend.  The titular subject is the end of war, FTP name this film by Jean Renoir.
	Answer: La grande illusion

95). Tomasso has insomnia, so he's trying to sleep it off.  Ricardo's agent Fiorello signs a contract with Otis B. Driftwood containing a sanity clause, in which the party of the second part will be known as the party of the second part.  The three inserts "Take me out to the ball game" into the score of Il Trovatore, abducts Rodolfo, and wins the admiration of the crowd for the duet of Rosa and Ricardo.  FTP name this comedy where Chico plays the piano, Harpo plays the harp, and Groucho Marx advises the music drama company.
	Answer: A Night at the Opera

96). It ends with the declaration by Marta: "This dream is short, this dream is happy."  In the propaganda movie, Leni refuses to betray Werner, her German Nazi lover, but gets shot by the French resistance.  Similarly, Luis Molina refuses to surrender the phone number of Valentin's resistance, and dies wearing a red scarf.  William Hurt plays a gay prison mate who falls in love with a resistance leader in, FTP, this film by Hector Babenco after a book by Manuel Puig.
	Answer: Kiss of the Spiderwoman

97). Along with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, he starred in Gaslight.  He was the coroner in Touch of Evil and Congressman Glenn Morley in The Farmer's Daughter.  The quiet wife-killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, his most famous roles were all associated with his friend in the Mercury Theatre.  The American writer in The Third Man, FTP name this actor who appeared in The Magnificient Ambersons and played drama critic Jed Leland in Citizen Kane.
	Answer: Joseph Cotten

98). If you had the thought of murder, then you've committed the murder.  Raymond Burr prosecutes the supposed murderer, who may have drowned the Shelley Winters character, only he really didn't, or so he thinks.  Wooing the beautiful and rich Angela Vickers, the young George Eastman, played by Montgomery Clift, sits by as his wife drowns.  FTP name this George Stevens film based on Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
	Answer: A Place in the Sun

99). The eclipse at the end of this film symbolizes the downfall of the ruthless invaders, and provides the color that dominates throughout.  The heroine, known to her servants as "Nine," is shot while bringing food to the labormen, who planted a bomb to blow up Japanese soldiers on trucks to avenge the death of Luohan, who was flayed by the butcher's servant, a man of his own race, under Japanese orders.  The narrator's grandma and grandpa are owners of a Qingshakuo winery in, FTP this 1987 Zhang Yimou film that began the Chinese New Wave named after a tall tropical grass turned bloody.
	Answer: Hong gao liang; or Red Sorghum

100). The only line worth remembering is found in a brothel and not even original: "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him."  Wyatt and Billie are arrested parading without a license, only to be rescued in jail by an alcoholic ACLU lawyer played by Jack Nicholson.  Representing "freedom" and "born to be wild," Captain America uses money he made in a LA drug deal to finance his trip to Mardi Gras.  FTP name this cult favorite starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda.
	Answer: Easy Rider