"Karma Chameleon" Movies - Red, Gold and Green Quiz

Answer: Red

"Red Dawn" (1984) was the first movie released in the US under the new PG-13 rating. Directed and co-written by John Milius (who wrote the first two "Dirty Harry" films), it's the story of a group of high school students in Colorado who fight off a Soviet invasion. The movie stars Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, and Lea Thompson. Jennifer Grey also appears in the film, three years before she and Swayze co-starred in "Dirty Dancing".

The movie was remade in 2012 starring Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck. Keeping with the geopolitical changes over the previous 30 years, the attacking country is North Korea rather than the USSR.

Answer: Red

"Red Zone Cuba" (1966) is about a band of criminals who search for a tungsten mine and become involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Directed, written by, and starring Coleman Francis, the movie gained new notoriety when it was riffed in a 6th season episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Kevin Murphy, who wrote for "MST3K" and performed Tom Servo on the show, has called "Red Zone Cuba" his most hated movie from his years on the show (and if you've seen "MST3K" you know that's saying something).

Answer: Red

"The Man with One Red Shoe" (1985) is a remake of a French movie titles "The Tall Blonde Man with One Red Shoe" (1972). It stars Tom Hanks, who plays a violinist who, thanks to a prank played upon him by a colleague, has to fly home from a concert wearing one business shoe and one red sneaker.

The mis-matched shoes make him the target of a disgraced CIA agent, who needs someone to blame for a smuggling operation.

Answer: Red

"Red River" (1948) is a western directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne. Based on the story "Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail", Wayne plays a rancher driving his cattle from his ranch to market and battling his adopted son (played by Montgomery Clift) for control. "Red River" was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Writing - Motion Picture Story and Best Film Editing - and was named for preservation by the Library of Congress in 1990.

Shelly Winters and Richard Farnsworth make small, uncredited appearances in the film.

Answer: Gold

"Ulee's Gold" (1997) stars Peter Fonda as a beekeeper (the "gold" in the title is the honey he produces) who finds himself raising his granddaughters when his son is in prison and is daughter-in-law abandons the girls. Over the course of the movie, Ulee learns that his son has hidden stolen money among Ulee's hives and his daughter-in-law nearly dies from an overdose before being treated for her addictions and reassuming responsibility for her children.

Fonda was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor and Jessica Biel won a Young Artist Award as one of Ulee's granddaughters.

Answer: Gold

"Goldfinger" (1964) is the third "James Bond" movie and the first one to be partially filmed in the United States. MI6 tasks Bond (Sean Connery) with breaking Auric Goldfinger's (Gert Frobe) smuggling ring. After encounters in England and Switzerland, Bond finds himself a prisoner at Goldfinger's Kentucky horse farm where he learns that the plot isn't to rob Fort Knox but to make the US gold supply radioactive. It's a "Bond" movie, so of course he foils the plot, this time with the help of pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman).

"Goldfinger" was the first "Bond" movie to receive an Academy Award nomination (for Best Sound Editing) and the first of three (the others are "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) and "Moonraker" (1979)) to have theme songs sung by Shirley Bassey.

Answer: Gold

"The Solid Gold Cadillac" (1956) is the film adaptation of the same-named 1953 Broadway play. When Laura Partridge (Judy Holiday), who owns 10 shares of the company International Products, asks multiple questions during a shareholder meeting, the company's new Chairman of the Board, John T. Blessington (John Williams), hires her for the meaningless position of Director of Shareholder Relations, in an attempt to distract her from meddling in the business. She, of course, takes the job seriously and in the end has gained control of the company through a proxy fight and has married the former head of the company.

"The Solid Gold Cadillac" was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Art Direction - Black and White, and Best Costume Design - Black and White, winning the latter.

Answer: Green

"How Green Was My Valley" (1941) was adapted from Richard Lewellyn's 1939 novel and tells the story of life in a Victorian era Welsh mining town. Roddy McDowell stars as the family's youngest child, Huw, through whose eyes the movie is told.

The movie was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning five: Best Picture, Best Director (John Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Art Direction - Black and White, and Best Cinematography - Black and White. It was added to the National Film Registry in 1990.

Answer: Green

"Green Book" (2018) takes its title from "The Negro Motorist Green Book", which was a guide to places (restaurants, hotels, etc.) in the American South that were safe for African Americans during segregation, and places, such as "sundown towns" (towns where African Americans risked their lives if there were there after dark) which weren't safe. The movie is a biopic based on a 1962 tour by pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) during which he was driven by Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen).

"Green Book" was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, Best Supporting Actor (Ali), Best Editing, and Best Picture. The Best Picture win was controversial because it's an African American story told through the eyes of Don Shirley's white chauffeur, in a year where there were two other African American centered movies ("Black Panther" and "Black KkKlansman") nominated for the award.

Answer: Green

"The Green Hornet" (2011) stars Seth Rogan as Britt Reid (the Green Hornet) and Jay Chou as Kato. In the original radio serial and subsequent adaptations Brit is a reporter but in this version, he's a newspaper publisher's son who inherits the paper when his father dies and, along with martial-arts expert and chauffeur Kato, becomes a vigilante.

The movie was not successful and a planned sequel was cancelled.