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1. I don't really recall Cher singing, "What's it all about...?" over the closing credits of this 1966 movie, but it was the first time I had ever heard anyone call a girl a "bird", like Michael Caine did in this film. In the movie, Caine's womanizing character finds out just what the "Swinging '60s" lifestyle is all about, to his chagrin. Jude Law stars in the 2004 American remake of this British classic. Can you name the movie?
2. I actually took a date to a drive-in in my Corvair to see this next film about a plane that crashed in a desert of southwest Africa. But while the survivors' lips were cracking on the movie screen, it was raining at the drive-in, and so my left arm was getting soaked as I reached out the window trying to move the wipers as water was running down the windshield. Meanwhile, in the desert, killer baboons were closing in, and Stuart Whitman's character must face them. Can you name this British adventure film from 1965?
3. Another British film, this time from 1964, features a title villain and his "enforcer", a lethal hat-throwing manservant named Oddjob. This was my first, and favorite, James Bond film, and I loved Shirley Bassey's rendition of the title song. Which film was this, in which we heard Bond order "a martini, shaken, not stirred"?
4. I enjoyed this next movie so much, that I was still showing it 45 years later in my world history classes in 2010. Set in the Russian Revolution, it was very romantic, but did violate traditional marriage norms. Yeah, it won five Academy Awards, but my favorite parts were when the Czar's cavalry rode down demonstrators, and then the vast winter scenes in the Russian countryside. And who couldn't help but feel sorry for poor "Strelnikov"? Name this 1965 three-hour-long blockbuster.
5. For my next film, we go clear back to 1963 and a movie featuring the stop motion animation magic of Ray Harryhausen. The coolest scene was when King Aeëtes scatters the teeth of the Hydra, killed by the title hero, into a field to produce an army of skeletons, who then attack the hero and his men. Based in Greek myth, can you name this quest film?
6. A film I still get a chuckle out of is yet another British film, one in which Peter Sellers plays three roles, including the title character as well as the President of the United States. This cold war spoof also features George C. Scott and veteran cowboy actor Slim Pickens as Major T.J. "King" Kong in a hilarious scene with him waving his cowboy hat. Can you identify this Stanley Kubrick black comedy from 1964 with a long subtitle?
7. I also really enjoyed another cold war spoof, but this one was more of a romantic comedy than a black comedy. Alan Arkin was hilarious in his first major role, but Jonathan Winters and Brian Keith also added greatly to my enjoyment. One of the charms of this "invasion" film was in showing America's cold war enemies in the light of being regular folks, just like us. Which 1966 Norman Jewison film is this from 1966, set in New England?
8. High school guys were always fans of Westerns in my day, and one of my favorites was a gritty revenge film starring Steve McQueen. McQueen played teen Max Sand who "comes of age" hunting down the killers of his white father and native mother. Karl Malden, Martin Landau, and George Kennedy played the killers. It's not really a "fun" film, but the characters and the action made it memorable. Which 1966 film was it, the title of which was an alias of McQueen's character?
9. My pals and I always enjoyed John Wayne's horse operas, but one from 1963 was actually more of a comedy, a Western take on "The Taming of the Shrew". Some of Wayne's scenes with co-star Maureen O'Hara were reminiscent of their roles in 1952's "The Quiet Man". The best scene was a mudslide brawl begun by Wayne, speaking as "G.W." to the Gordon Jones character, "...somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't, I won't. The hell I won't!" Recognize this flick?
10. What better way to wrap up a high school kid's flicks pics than with a rousing war movie? Starring none other than Frank Sinatra, this 1965 offering tells the story of an American pilot downed in Italy and placed in an Italian POW camp containing mostly British soldiers. After Italy signs an armistice it is up to Sinatra's character to lead released POWs to avoid recapture by German forces and flee north to freedom. It's not "The Great Escape", but it did have lots of action. Name it.
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