Questions from the blood simple to the die hard . . . by Donald Clarke
1. To which film was The Colour of Money a belated sequel?
2. Which utterly buttery Marlon Brando film makes a rare appearance in Irish cinemas this week?
3. In which current release might you catch sight of Roman Polanski?
4. Which role links Rod Steiger in 1970, Ian Holm in 1981 and Albert Dieudonné in 1927?
5. Whose last line was: "Never let go!"
6. David Warner in The Omen. Christopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow. Gerard Depardieu in Danton. In what savage fashion were all these actors inconvenienced?
7. Why do we see so little of Philip Marlowe in the 1947 version of Lady in the Lake?
8. What's missing from this list: The Lion in Winter, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Morning Glory?
9. How might Ridley Scott's second feature remind you of the source material for his first?
10. Who is the odd one out: Michael Caine, Gene Wilder, Basil Rathbone, George C Scott?
Answers:
1. The Hustler.
2. Last Tango in Paris
3. Rush Hour 3 (bizarrely).
4. Napoleon. The films are Waterloo, Time Bandits and Napoleon.
5. Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) in Titanic.
6. They were all decapitated.
7. The film is entirely shot from Marlowe's perspective. He is only seen in reflexion.
8. On Golden Pond. These are the four films for which Katharine Hepburn won Oscars.
9. Nostromo, the space ship in Alien, takes its name from a novel by Joseph Conrad who wrote the story on which The Duellists was based.
10. Basil Rathbone. He is the only one who actually played Sherlock Holmes. Caine played an actor hired to create a Homes figure in Without a Clue. Wilder had the title role in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. Scott played a man who thought he was Holmes in They Might be Giants.