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1. In the 1950s, World War II movies where allied personnel were trapped in prison camps with no prospect of escape, were very popular. "Stalag 17" (1953) with William Holden was a classic movie that fits the bill. No one had escaped from Stalag 17. One of the prisoners was tipping off the guards of escape plans. Who was the culprit?
2. "The Great Escape" (1963) was an excellent movie, where eventually three inmates did escape, despite Colonel von Luger, the commandant, telling the senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey, "There will be no escapes from this camp." In a spectacular chase scene, which actor tried to escape by jumping a high barbed wire fence on a motorbike?
3. "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71) was a comedy television series that was, in some ways a parody of the "No Escape" war movies. Who was the actor that portrayed Colonel Hogan?
(Note: This actor suffered an untimely death when he was murdered in 1978.)
4. "Stepford Wives" (1975) was based on a 1972 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. In the movie, the town of Stepford had wives and mothers that were placid and submissive to their husbands. This scared the protagonist who tried to escape but could not. In 1975 this role was played by Katharine Ross. Who portrayed the same role, Joanna Eberhart in the 2004 version?
5. Disaster movies were all the rage in the '70s. Irwin Allen (The Master of Disaster) produced both "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "The Towering Inferno (1974). From the latter movie which two actors both wanted top billing?
6. "Midnight Express" is a 1978 movie based on the true story of Billy Hayes, an American who tried to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. Billy is sentenced to thirty years in an inescapable Turkish prison. Billy eventually escapes (he catches the Midnight Express) to write the book on which the film was made. Who portrayed Billy in the movie?
7. Sometimes there does not need to be cells and barred windows to show there is no escape. In a television series (1999-2007), a minor character wants to escape from his "organisation" in New Jersey and move to Florida, and despite bribing the boss, Tony, handsomely, is told by Silvio, he made a life-long commitment and cannot leave the organisation. Knowing there was no escape despite the pressing needs of his family, his only "solution" was to take his own life. What is the name of the TV series?
8. "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" was a 1975 movie based on the Ken Kesey novel of the same name. Randle McMurphy is horrified that the inmates of a mental institution are mainly volunteers yet there is no escape from Nurse Ratched and the barred windows and locked doors of Oregon State Hospital, in which they are "imprisoned". One person does finally escape at the end of the movie. Which inmate is it?
9. Nearly every James Bond movie is predicated on a villain getting Bond into an inescapable situation. In which Sean Connery Bond movie do we hear Emilio Largo (the villain of course) tell Bond, "Now there is no escape for you"?
10. "Alien" (1979), was a movie that paradoxically was set in space, yet there was no escape from an alien on a claustrophobic space craft. From which actor did the alien emerge in the "chest-burster" scene?
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