The September Shadowplay Impossible Film Quiz

Without any adequate warning at all! As always, amusing answers are just as welcome as correct ones.

Hand-painted movie posters from Ghana are the way forward.

Round [One] Who said that? And where?

a) “Oh no, not for me, three men on a horse!”

b) “Well, I was dreaming I was awake, and then all of a sudden I woke up and found myself asleep!”

c) “Don’t you want to live in this beautiful nest? Have a personal maid? Wear diaphanous gowns? And eat regularly?”

d) “Some of the wildest men make the best pets.”

Round [Two] Role ‘em! (AKA The Bull Montana Round) What roles connect the following –

a) Gustav Von Seyffertitz; Laurence Olivier; Anthony Higgins.

b) Jeremy Swift; Harry Secombe; Francis L Sullivan.

c) Michael Caine; Warner Baxter; Dan O’Herlihy.

d) Colin Clive; William Hurt; Orson Welles.

Round [Three] Who played –

(a) a cop in 1973, a playwright in 1982, a salesman in 1992?

(b) a princess in 1931, a thief in 1932, a schoolteacher in1936?

(c) an interior designer in 1967, a priest in 1971, a pornographer/blackmailer in 1978?

(d) a detective in 1996, a media consultant in 1998, secretary of state in 2008?

Round [Four] “A guy comes in the door, you got nothing. He comes in the window, you got a situation.”

(a) A man is hosting a party but his sink is blocked. He calls a plumber, but the first person to arrive is an indigent writer looking for a hand-out. The second is a woman. What’s the film?

(b) A woman is murdering her neighbours and converting them into soap. Most of them are played by men in drag. What’s the film?

(c) A con artist tries to make money with an invention which supposedly converts sewage into rubber.

(d) A clown tries to prevent the forced marriage of the girl he loves by unleashing a circus lion.

Round [Five] Directors. What links ~

(a) Bob Swaim; GW Pabst; Jacques Feyder; John Brahm; Edgar Ulmer.

(b) William Wellman; Sergio Leone.

(c) Raoul Walsh; Allan Dwan; WS Van Dyke; Christy Cabanne.

(d) Ronald Neame; Charles Laughton; George Stevens.

Round [Six] Murdered by Dario Argento. Which films contain the following outrageous homicides?

(a) Elevator shaft plunge?

(b) Face dunted off sharp cornered furnishings after being frightened/charmed by laughing automaton?

(c) Savaged by own seeing-eye dog?

(d) Shot through spyhole?

Round [Seven] The non-diegetic sound round.

(a) What’s strange about Dan O’Herlihy’s barking dog?

(b) Where is Gene Wilder baffled by the sound of a sea gull?

(c) Why does the sound of an air hostess’s announcement spell death by spear?

(d) If Steve McQueen is playing with matchsticks, how come we hear the sound of the machine shop?

Round [Eight] Answer the following film titles –

a) WHO’S CARRY CRUMB?

b) HOW MUCH WOOD CAN A WOODCHUCK CHUCK?

c) WHO?

d) WHAT?

Round [Nine] Casting capers

a) What film finds room for the children of Vic Morrow, George C Scott, John Carradine, Keith Carradine, Jason Robards and Robert Benchley?

b) Where can you find Chris Isaak, Todd Solondz and Joan Cusack?

c) What movie embraces Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson and Cris Campion ?

d) And, looking very closely, where will you find Jeff Goldblum, Sigourney Weaver and Beverley D’Angelo?

Bonus question:

Who? Where? What? Why?