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1. When I was little I would lie awake at night, covers pulled up around my neck, so my parents, should they turn out to be vampires, couldn't bite me. I was equally worried, though, that a dog would crash through my bedroom window and bite me. "Old Yeller" was responsible for the latter fear. What about the movie "Old Yeller" would scare an innocent, impressionable child?
2. We lived eleven miles from downtown San Francisco in the early 50s. In our fifth grade class we were told that we had a good chance of surviving a nuclear attack, as long as the bomb dropped on San Francisco was fewer than 50 megatons. Then we were shown how to hide under our desks. The movie "On the Beach" helped me keep my mind off vampires and rabid dogs. In what remote location did earth's survivors plan their suicide?
3. The Cold War is over, and we can laugh about it now. "Ha, ha!" Wasn't it funny when Jack and Nikita almost fried the planet in their little face off? "Blast From the Past" did make me laugh - a lot. (A line in a Joni Mitchell song says, "Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.") With what type of social activity does this movie begin?
4. "The Americanization of Emily" is a film not a movie. I know that it's a film because it is in black and white. James Garner plays a cowardly American who works as a procurement officer for a general. Julie Andrews portrays a young British widow who is, somehow, both prim and promiscuous. At the end of the film, does Julie Andrews' character approve of James Garner's character's cowardice?
5. In college I took a film class, marveling at the phenomenon of being able to obtain college credit for watching movies. Most of these movies did not entertain me. Our instructor felt that "The Seven Samurai" was the greatest film ever made. It was four hours long and had subtitles. Although I am here confessing my lack of appreciation for a true masterpiece, I found it crushingly boring. What were these seven samurai trying to do?
6. We also watched "Citizen Kane" in my film class. (Relax, I don't even remember the name of the stupid sled.) Is it true that the use of lighting and the camera work in this film were felt to be ground breaking?
7. I remember the name of the robot in "Forbidden Planet", do you? What was the robot's name?
8. This is where anyone getting a ten on this quiz will earn it. "Come September" was a romantic comedy set in Italy. Stars included Rock Hudson, Bobby Darin, Sandra Dee and Gina Lollobrigida. In the film Bobby Darin sings a song. This song was a "b-side" for a somewhat popular single, "Irresistible You". What is the name of the song Bobby Darin sang in "Come September"?
9. Barbra Streisand movies were generally unpopular with movie critics in the 1970s. Even highly popular costars seemed unable to influence the critics. In the movie "What's Up, Doc", who played "Doc"?
10. In a close race with "The Seven Samurai" for the movie that most bored me was "Ben-Hur". (Yes I know, I'm the problem not the movie.) What feature did the two movies share that might account for their soporific effect, in my particular case?
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