Movies from 1978 in Other Words Quiz

Answer: Grease

"Grease" is a musical about a greaser named Danny (John Travolta) who meets a
girl named Sandy (Olivia Newton John) on a beach during the summer break and they spend a nice day together. Danny finds out that Sandy has enrolled at the school that he goes to and he tries to win her affections while still trying to look cool in front of his friends.

Answer: Every Which Way But Loose

"Every Which Way But Loose" is action comedy about a man named Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) and his pet orangutan named Clyde. Philo is a part time mechanic and truck driver who earns extra money engaging in illegal prize fighting. While trying to locate a girl he met in a bar, Philo and Clyde have a few funny run-ins with a not so tough motorcycle gang and a sheriff who is chasing them.

Answer: Coma

"Coma" is a suspense film about a doctor at a hospital who is purposely putting people into comas during minor surgery and then shipping them to a special institute for care. At the institute, the comatose patients have certain organs removed so that they can be sold to the highest bidders on the black market.

Answer: Halloween

"Halloween" is a horror film about a homicidal maniac (Michael Myers) who escapes from a mental institution and goes back to his home town to wreak havoc. Michael dons a mechanics cover-all, strange mask, and, though he kills people in various manners, uses a machete as his weapon of choice.

Answer: Heaven Can Wait

'Heaven Can Wait" is a comedy about Los Angeles quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) who, after getting into a car accident, is perceived dead by an angel (Buck Henry) that is near the accident. The angel prematurely takes Joe's soul to heaven only to find out that Joe actually survived the accident. Because of his body being cremated, the head angel Mr. Jordan (James Mason) must find a suitable body for Joe to take over. Joe insists that the body be physically fit enough so that his true destiny of becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback is fulfilled.

Answer: Midnight Express

"Midnight Express" is a prison drama about an American student who gets caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is stopped at the airport, tried, and ends up being sentenced to 30-years-to-life in a Turkish prison. Billy escapes the prison by killing a guard and wearing the guard's clothes in order to trick the other guards into opening the prison gate for him.

Answer: Blue Collar

"Blue Collar" is a crime drama about three auto workers in Detroit who, in order to make some extra cash, decide to break into the plant credit union safe. They don't find much money but they do find books proving that the union is illegally using union funds in a loan sharking operation.

Answer: The Swarm

"The Swarm" is a disaster-horror film directed by Irwin Allen. It is a movie about swarms of African killer bees that invade and kill people in cities of Texas. Like most disaster film of the '70s it has many big named and well known stars such as Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Richard Chamberlain, Patty Duke, and many more.

Answer: Up in Smoke

'Up in Smoke" is a comedy about two stoners (Cheech & Chong) who are trying to form a rock band so that they can get into a Battle of the Bands contest. While visiting Mexico, they unknowingly agree to drive a van constructed entirely from marijuana into the U.S. Through the entire movie, they are constantly being pursued by a bumbling narcotics detective named Sergeant Stedenko (Stacy Keach).

Answer: Capricorn One

"Capricorn One" is a sci-fi thriller about three astronauts who are forced to fake a Mars mission in order for NASA to keep government funding coming in for future programs. Afraid that the astronauts may spill the beans about the fake mission, an accident is staged by a chief NASA official so that the astronauts appear to have been killed and burned up during re-entry.

The astronauts figure out that for the hoax to be sure to work, they can never be seen again. Knowing that their lives are now in jeopardy, they try to escape their captors in order to expose the hoax.