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1. What country is Yul Brynner the King of in the 1956 movie 'The King and I'?
2. Where does Ensign Willie Keith (Robert Francis), the narrator of 'The Caine Mutiny' report for duty at the beginning of the film?
3. The original story on which Lerner and Loewe based their movie 'Brigadoon' was the mythical German village of Germelshausen. To what part of the British Isles was this village transplanted both in the musical and in the film version with Gene Kelly?
4. D.W. Griffith's 'Broken Blossoms' (1919) tells the story of Yellow Man, an ex-Buddhist monk and now a drug-addicted storekeeper, and Lucy, the illegitimate daughter of Battling Burrows who brutalises her. Where do Yellow Man and Lucy meet?
5. In what country did William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins have to build a bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors?
6. What world-famous Carnival town is the background for 'Orfeu Negro'?
7. In 'Arsenic and Old Lace' Mortimer Brewster's (=Cary Grant) aunts Abby and Martha mercifully kill off elderly people. Where do they send the corpses down to?
8. In 'Anna Karenina' (1930) Greta Garbo falls in love with Count Vronsky, an officer of the Russian army. She leaves her husband Karenin (Basil Rathbone) and follows her soldier to Italy. Which town exactly?
9. In a story based on a book by Ira Levin, Gregory Peck (as Dr Mengele) has to shoot Sir Laurence Olivier (as Ezra Liebermann). What is the title of the film (1978)?
10. What country were Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona originally on their way to (to rejuvenate their seven-year old marriage) in Polanski's 'Bitter Moon' when they met their corruptor Oscar?
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