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1. "Young Frankenstein" (1974) is a Mel Brooks directed satire on the many films based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Great comic actor Gene Wilder stars as Frederick Frankenstein and is abetted by a strong supporting cast. Which of these actors is incorrectly paired with their role in the film?
2. In 1977 the stars aligned for Woody Allen and he had a great year of accomplishment and honor. The film tells the story of Alvy, a neurotic Jewish comedian and Annie, based on the real actress who portrayed her, with the same mannerisms and self-deprecating sense of humor. Who was the female lead actress in "Annie Hall"?
3. When a television show runs over 250 episodes, it might be hard to remember that it was based on a 1970 film. In the film "M.A.S.H." (1970), who created the role of Hawkeye Pierce later played by Alan Alda for 11 years on television?
4. Robert Redford and Paul Newman were both box office magic in the 1970s and combining them was a coup de grâce. "The Sting" (1973) was by any measure the top film of the year as it had ease of performance and a special nostalgia of the depression era. Marvin Hamlisch was the music director and he based much of the score on a nearly forgotten composer of the ragtime era. What was his name?
5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote "The Idiot" (1868). What wild and crazy guy was co-writer of the screenplay "The Jerk" (1979)?
6. Mel Brooks had a genius for making satiric films in various genres. 1974's "Blazing Saddles" was his poke at the classic western. Cleavon Little is appointed as the black sheriff of a western town where everyone is white and has the last name of Johnson. Toward the end of the film, the leading characters leave the movie set and ride their horses to see a movie. What movie is it?
7. "Harold and Maude" (1971) told the story of a teenager (Bud Cort) and his relationship with a 79 and three quarter year old woman (Ruth Gordon). They shared a common interest in funerals and death in general. Harold liked to play tricks on his mother. What did he do?
8. In "The Last Detail", Jack Nicholson and Otis Young play Navy career non-commissioned officers awaiting orders when they are given the assignment of escorting an 18 year old naive sailor to military prison. What actor played the sailor?
9. Paul Newman stars as player/coach in "Slap Shot" (1977) with the hapless Charlestown Chiefs, a minor league hockey team. The team's fortunes are at a low ebb when he is sent three new players. They don't look like hockey players so Newman is reluctant to play them but when he does they become a winning team. What is the name of the brothers?
10. A gross-out movie is one that is willfully "tasteless" and usually involves gratuitous nudity, unrealistic aggressiveness, toilet humor, and bodily functions. They are generally aimed at a younger male audiences. In this film a college administrator has a vendetta against a fraternity, the slovenly Delta Tau Chi, for their disgusting and disruptive behavior. Although there were minor films that preceded it, what 1978 film is arguably the first commercially successful such film?
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