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Old 15-01-2008, 17:30   #19
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Re: Quiz Round 7 - 50s & 60s Films

UPDATE ON CORRECT ANSWERS

1 - In which film does Alec Guinness's character plan & carry out a theft of gold bullion?
yerself - The Lavender Hill Mob

2 - A Night To Remember, of 1958, was about which disaster?
beechy - The Titanic

3 - Which Ealing film of 1955 sees a gang of criminals defeated by their little old landlady?
yerself - The Ladykillers

4 - Which Hitchcock film has James Stewart's character confined to his room from which he spies on his neighbours?
WillowTheWhisp - Rear Window

5 - Which 'post World War III' film starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner & Anthony Perkins, is based on a novel by Neville Shute?
grannyclaret - On The Beach

6 - Which 1956 film, starring Yul Brynner & Deborah Kerr was a remake of Anna and the King of Siam?
flashytart - The King and I

7 - Which 1957 British film, starring Alastair Sim and Joyce Grenfell, sees a group of unruly schoolgirls going off on a UNESCO prize trip to Rome?
shillelagh - Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

8 - Gregory Peck starred in which film of 1956 based on a Herman Melville novel?
rishton blue - Moby Dick

9 - Who wrote the music for West Side Story?
rishton blue - Leonard Bernstein

10 - Which was the first James Bond Film?
david1 - Dr. No

11 - In which black comedy film did Peter Sellers play an RAF officer, a mad scientist and a US President?

12 - Who were the two main stars in Midnight Cowboy?
cashman - Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight

13 - The Sentinel, a short story by Arthur C Clarke, was the basis for which film?
beechy - 2001 (A Space Odyssey)

14 - What was the title of the 1962 epic about the D-Day landings?
Lilly - The Longest Day

15 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a typical example of which film sub-genre?
cashman - Spaghetti Western

16 - Which 1965 film is based on a novel by Boris Pasterak?
garinda - Dr. Zhivago

ONLY Q11 LEFT TO ANSWER!
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