Great Older Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cleopatra

This movie is a historical drama starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as well as Rex Harrison and Martin Landau. The all-star cast helped this movie win four Academy Awards. It was one of the most expensive movies made in the 1960s.

Answer: Rosemary's Baby

This was a 1968 horror film that starred Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. The film tells the story of a pregnant woman who learns that she is being used by an evil cult. She is to bear the spawn of the devil in an effort to bring about Satan's reign on Earth. It was one of the most frightening movies of the 1960s.

Answer: El Dorado

This was a 1966 film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne as well as Robert Mitchum and James Caan. It deals with a gunfighter, an aging Indian fighter, and young gambler who are trying to help a drunken sheriff fight of a local rancher.

Answer: Psycho

"Psycho" is a Alfred Hitchcock film that was filmed in 1960. It dealt with a crazy man played by Anthony Perkins and a criminal female played by Janet Leigh. This psychological horror film became one of the most popular horror fims of all time.

Answer: Cool Hand Luke

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a southern chain gang in Florida. While refusing to buckle under to authority, he keeps escaping and being recaptured. George Kennedy is the prisoner in charge.

Answer: The Parent Trap

This film features identical twins who were separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents. They later discover each other and try to get their divorced parents back together. Haley Mills plays both twins and the mother is played by Maureen O'Hara.

Answer: The Manchurian Candidate

This 1962 movie features Frank Sinatra in a cold-war drama. Sinatra is brainwashed to speak highly of an assassin. A surprise ending gives this movie a mixture of topics and themes.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

This is a wonderful movie based on the novel by Harper Lee. It stars Gregory Peck as the lead character Atticus Finch and Robert Duvall as the mysterious Boo Radley. It is about discrimination, both by color and by character. Peck won an Academy Award for his role and many consider this to be his finest film.

Answer: Goldfinger

This was the third of the "James Bond" movies and the first to win an Academy Award. In this film Sean Connery investigates a gold magnate's, Goldfinger, smuggling. It deals with his plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

Answer: The Sound of Music

This is a 1965 film that is a remake of the Rogers and Hammersteins Broadway musical of the same name. The film tells the story of a woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. It is one of the most successful movies of the 1960s.