FunTrivia Movies Mix: Vol 14 Trivia Quiz

Answer: How Green Was My Valley

"How Green Was My Valley" beat nominees "Citizen Kane", "The Maltese Falcon", and "Sergeant York", and won five other Oscars too. It was set in the South Wales Valleys, at the end of the Victorian era, when Wales was the biggest exporter of coal in the world. Roddy McDowall played the youngest son of a coal mining family, the one who might be able to escape the hard life they lived and make a better life for himself.

Question by player Chavs

Answer: John

Sylvester Stallone was John Rambo, Donald Sutherland was John Klute, and Richard Roundtree was the original John Shaft, with Samuel L. Jackson playing the latter's nephew in the year 2000 sequel of the same name.

Question by player notaratface

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

In this 1937 movie, the voice of Snow White was sung by Adriana Caselotti. She sang "Whistle While You Work", a song composed specifically for the film by Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline.

Unvoiced characters in the movie include Snow White's animal friends, the Queen's raven, and the vultures who follow the Witch.

Question by player GWU_Boy

Answer: John Travolta

"Pulp Fiction", directed by Quentin Tarantino, can be described as a 'black' crime/comedy. Released in 1994 it won Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is noted for its non-linear use of time and tightly written screenplay. The film resurrected the film career of John Travolta.

Question by player redwaldo

Answer: Anatomy of a Murder

This movie is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Traver, the "nom de plume" of John D. Voelker, Michigan Supreme Court Justice. In this movie, the subject of rape was openly discussed for the first time on film. The lieutenant had "an irresistible impulse" twice. First, when he killed the man. Second, when, after being found "not guilty", he disappeared without paying his attorney.

It is a great movie.

Question by player Babilonia

Answer: Total Recall

"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" was first published in 1966. Philip Kindred Dick also wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the basis for the 1982 film "Blade Runner".

Question by player supersal1

Answer: Sean Connery

After playing Bond until 1967, Connery returned to the role in 1971's "Diamonds are Forever" after George Lazenby played Bond in 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Connery would return once again in 1983's "Never Say Never Again" although this film was not considered official canon.

Question by player rickbrandi7587

Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the daughter of a factory manager and a librarian. She studied the arts through graduate school, then moved into film. She has earned many awards and nominations, including the Prime Time Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for "Cartel Land" and the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Picture for "The Hurt Locker".

Question by player PootyPootwell

Answer: Kevin Kline

One of the jokes in the movie "Wild Wild West", which concerned spies in the late 1800s, is that one of the spies (Kevin Kline) looked like President U.S. Grant (Kevin Kline). Of course, Kevin Kline has appeared in various movies over the years, including "The Big Chill" and "A Fish Called Wanda".

Question by player zorlock7

Answer: Morning Glory

"Morning Glory" also stars Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton as Executive Producer and Co-host of "DayBreak".

Becky Fuller (McAdams) is a morning television show producer, driven to succeed despite falling ratings. She hires cynical investigative journalist Pomeroy (Ford), who eventually helps her turn the morning show fortunes around, re-discovering himself in the process.

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