AFI's 100 Movies...10th Anniversary Quiz

Answer: The Searchers

"The Searchers" was initially number 96, but went all the way up to number 12 on the revised list. The movie starred John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Ward Bond, Vera Miles, and Natalie Wood. Set three years after the end of the Civil War, the movie centers around Ethan's (John Wayne) search for his captured niece Debbie (Natalie Wood).

While he is initially prejudiced against the Native American tribes that took his niece, he eventually overcomes this to welcome Debbie back into their family.

Answer: The Great Dictator

"City Lights" (1931) was very high, at number 11. "The Gold Rush" (1925) came in at number 58, and "Modern Times" was 78. However, "The Great Dictator" (1940) was not in the list. "City Lights" is the story of Chaplin's "tramp" who falls in love with a blind girl. "Modern Times" focuses on industry and a new way of life. "The Gold Rush" is about a man who goes to the Klondike lookin for gold. "The Great Dictator" is a comedy about a dictator similar to Adolf Hitler.

Answer: Lawrence of Arabia

"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) won seven Academy Awards for 1962; however, Gregory Peck ("To Kill a Mockingbird") beat Peter O'Toole for Best Actor. The movie is about T.E. Lawrence, an Englishman in Arabia. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), based on the novel by Harper Lee, stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the south defending a black man accused of raping a white girl. "Vertigo" (1958) is a Hitchcock classic starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.

Answer: Notorious

"Psycho" (1960) was number fourteen, "North by Northwest" (1959) was number fifty-five, and "Vertigo" (1958) made it into the top ten at number nine, although it was number sixty-one in the original list. "Notorious" (1946) stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as two American agents investigating Nazis in Rio de Janeiro.

Answer: Star Wars

"Star Wars" (1977), starring Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, and Carrie Fisher, was the only to make it from its series. Both its sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983), were nominated. The saga is about the timeless good/evil battle, with new special effects and interesting characters. "E.T." (1982) was number twenty-four, "2001: A Space Oddysey" (1968) was number fifteen, and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) didn't make it on the list this time around, although it was number sixty-four on the 1997 list.

Answer: On the Waterfront

"On the Waterfront" (1954) earned both Brando and Saint Oscars. The movie is famous for the line "I coulda been a contender" (which was number three on AFI's 100 Quotes list). Brando plays Terry Malloy, an ex-boxer who works for the mob on the local dock.

When he unknowingly takes part in a murder, he struggles with his conscience and his love for the victim's sister, Edie (Eva Marie Saint). "The Godfather" (1972), "Apocalypse Now" (1979), and "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) all starred Marlon Brando.

Answer: James Dean

"You're tearing me apart!" is from the movie "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). James Dean plays Jim Stark, a troubled teenager. Natalie Wood co-stars. This movie ranked at number fifty-nine in the original list. "Giant" (1956) was the other James Dean movie in the original list, at number eighty-two. "Giant" starred James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. George Stevens won Best Director for the movie about Texas. "East of Eden" (1955) was James Dean's first film, based on the novel by John Steinbeck about two generations of farmers in California.

Answer: Casablanca

"Casablanca" (1942) is certainly an honored film. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Paul Henreid, it won three Academy Awards in 1943, and since then has been on many lists of great films. A few famous quotes include "Here's looking at you, kid", "We'll always have Paris", "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", and "Play it, Sam".

The movie revolves around Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), an American in Casablanca, who owns a night club. When his old girlfriend Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) arrives with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), complications arise.

Answer: The Godfather

"The Godfather" (1972) won only three Oscars, but it has ranked number one on several movie lists. It starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan. Its sequel, "The Godfather Part 2", was also on the list, at number thirty-two. "The Godfather" is about the Corleone family, one of the leading Italian mafia families in New York. Youngest son Michael (Al Pacino), who at first wants nothing to do with the family business, soon becomes the new godfather after his father Vito (Marlon Brando) dies.

Answer: Citizen Kane

Orson Welles wrote, directed, and starred in "Citizen Kane" (1941). It lost Best Picture to "How Green was my Valley", which did not even make it into the list of 100 greatest movies. "Citizen Kane" shows us the life of character Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), a great newspaperman.

At the beginning of the film, he dies, saying only "rosebud". While people try to figure out what rosebud is, Kane's life is displayed.