The Shadowplay Impossible Film Quiz for Autumn

1) DEATH IN HIGH HEELS

What sartorial choices, combined with what deaths by misadventure, connect the following films –

[a] THE PYX, LOOKER, LETHAL WEAPON

[b] RABID, SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT

[c] FLASH GORDON, HELLBOY

[d] MACBETH, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

[e] FLASH GORDON, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE WIZARD OF OZ

2) THE URGES OF STURGES

Which of these porno remakes of John Sturges movies is genuine?

[a] THE MAGNIFICENT 7″

[b] LAST TRAIN FROM BUNG HOLE

[c] BAD DAY AT BLACK COCK

[d] ICE STATION NO-BRA

(3) BODY TALK

What do the following people have in common, physically?

[a] Ryan Dorin; Anthony Hopkins; Christopher Guest

[b] Margot Kidder; Marshall Bell; Kevin Van Hentenryck

[c] Ray Milland; Sam Rockwell; Richard E. Grant

[d] Sam Worthington; Rebecca Romjin; Katy Perry

(4) “What fucker said that?”

Which movies do the following lines come from? (Clue: they’re all British)

[a] “What fucker said that?”

[b] “We can’t enjoy ourselves ad infinitum.”

[c] “I have never forgiven them for my arm.”

[d] “Does it break because it is faulty, or because it is glass?”

[e] “Block of ice to beef bourguignon in eight seconds.”

(5) THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

What beasties connect the following auteurs?

[a] Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, Val Guest, Karel Zeman

[b] Charlie Chaplin, Jack Cardiff, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Victor Sjostrom (as Victor Seastrom)

[c] Robert Aldrich, Vincent Gallo, William Wellman

[d] William Dieterle, Michael Winner, Robert Flaherty, David Lynch

(6) THEY ALSO SERVE

What non-filmic activity connects –

[a] CT Dreyer, William Wellman, Tay Garnett, Preston Sturges

[b] Lee Marvin, George C. Scott, Tyrone Power, Ben Chapman

[c] Basil Rathbone, Herbert Marshall, Claude Rains, Ronald Colman

[d] Ylmaz Guney, Ivor Novello, Koji Wakamatsu, Roger Avary

(7) CINEMA DU LOOK

Identify the following movies from these single images –

[a]

[b]

[c]

[d]

(8) SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER

Answer the following movie titles.

[a] WHY DOES HERR R RUN AMOK?

[b] WHERE’S THAT FIRE?

[c] WHAT’S UP, FATLIP?

[d] WHO?

(9) A VERSION THERAPY

What connects the following actors?

[a] Gustav Frohlich, Fritz Leiber, Henry Daniell, Dirk Bogarde

[b] Merle Oberon, Lucia Bosé, Judy Davis, Juliette Binoche

[c] Florence Lawrence, Theda Bara, Alla Nazimova, Rita Hayworth

[d] Gavin Gordon, Richard Chamberlain, Gabriel Byrne, Jason Patric

And a bonus point for then connecting all the answers!

10) THE ARRESTING IMAGE

What films do the following images originate from?

[a] An alligator in a piano

[b] A dog firing a machine gun loaded with sausages

[c] A flock of sheep in a church

[d] A barber shop full of cows

Brigitte Bardot’s 26 Bathrooms

1) CETTE SACREE GAMINE.

2) With matching red towel in LE MEPRIS.

3) L’OURS ET LA POUPEE

4) Not sure which film, but it’s softer focus so it must be later. DON JUAN WAS A WOMAN?

5) UNE PARISIENNE.

6) LES FEMMES

7) JOIE DE COEUR, in which Brigitte and Laurent Terzieff holiday in Scotland!

8) LES BIJOUTIERS DE CLAIR DE LUNE.

9) EN CAS DE MALHEUR

10) AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

11) LES BIJOUTIERS DE CLAIR DE LUNE

12) LA BRIDE SUR LE COU

13) DOCTOR AT SEA

Boy oh boy Brigitte spends a lot of time in the tub. No wonder she’s so wrinkly.

To be continued whenever I find another 13 bathrooms. I will find those bathrooms!

Rambeau: First Blood

Marjory Rambeau emotes in HER MAN, a sizzling pre-code under consideration today over at The Daily Notebook in this week’s The Forgotten. This is part of a new series — Forgotten Pre-codes, which shall run for… shall we say six weeks?

So you may not only ask about HER MAN (here or over at Mubi), but suggest interesting movies for me to look at in the coming weeks.